| Tourney Name: | UEFA Cup |
| Year: | 1986–87 |
| Dates: | 16 September 1986 – 20 May 1987 |
| Num Teams: | 64 |
| Champion Other: | IFK Göteborg |
| Count: | 2 |
| Second Other: | Dundee United |
| Matches: | 126 |
| Goals: | 291 |
| Attendance: | 2502655 |
| Top Scorer: | Peter Houtman (Groningen) Paulinho Cascavel (Vitória Guimarães) Jari Rantanen (IFK Göteborg) Wim Kieft (Torino) 5 goals each |
| Prevseason: | 1985–86 |
| Nextseason: | 1987–88 |
The 1986–87 UEFA Cup was the 16th season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The final was played over two legs at the Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden, and at Tannadice Park, Dundee, Scotland. The competition was won by IFK Göteborg of Sweden, who defeated Dundee United of Scotland by an aggregate result of 2–1 to claim their second title.
This is the second and last European tournament won by a Swedish team, five years after Göteborg's first UEFA Cup conquest in 1982, as well as the last European final played by a Swedish team, while Dundee United became the last team from Scotland to reach a European final until 2003. This was the second season in which all English clubs were banned from European football competitions.[1] [2]
A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1986–87 UEFA Cup, all entering from the first round over six knock-out rounds. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
Due to the ongoing English ban, their four births were allocated to associations 9–12, each gaining a third birth.
For the 1986–87 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1985 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1980–81 to 1984–85.
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The labels in parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:
The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches exceptionally took place on Tuesdays or Thursdays. The semi-finals reverted to being played in the same days, and the two-legged final again had a two week interval.
| First round | 16–18 September 1986 | 30 September – 2 October 1986 | |
| Second round | 22–23 October 1986 | 4–5 November 1986 | |
| Third round | 26 November 1986 | 10–17 December 1986 | |
| Quarter-finals | 4 March 1987 | 18 March 1987 | |
| Semi-finals | 8 April 1987 | 22 April 1987 | |
| Final | 6 May 1987 | 20 May 1987 |
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Beveren won 1–0 on aggregate.----Swarovski Tirol won 3–2 on aggregate.----Universitatea Craiova won 3–2 on aggregate.----Trakia Plovdiv won 10–0 on aggregate.----Stahl Brandenburg won 2–1 on aggregate.----Borussia Mönchengladbach won 4–1 on aggregate.----Vitória de Guimarães won 3–2 on aggregate.----Győri ETO won 4–3 on aggregate.----Groningen won 8–2 on aggregate.----3–3 on aggregate; Dukla Prague won on away goals.----Widzew Łódź won 2–1 on aggregate.----Legia Warsaw won 1–0 on aggregate.----Hajduk Split won 4–1 on aggregate.----Rangers won 4–2 on aggregate.----Neuchâtel Xamax won 5–1 on aggregate.----IFK Göteborg won 5–1 on aggregate.----Bayer Leverkusen won 7–1 on aggregate.----Athletic Bilbao won 2–1 on aggregate.----Atlético Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.----Gent won 3–2 on aggregate.----Bayer 05 Uerdingen won 7–0 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; Toulouse won 4–3 on penalties.----Standard Liège won 2–1 on aggregate.----Feyenoord won 2–1 on aggregate.----Spartak Moscow won 1–0 on aggregate.----Torino won 5–1 on aggregate.----Dundee United won 2–1 on aggregate.----Sportul Studențesc won 2–1 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; Barcelona won on away goals.----Sporting CP won 15–0 on aggregate.----Internazionale won 3–0 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; Boavista won 3–1 on penalties.
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1–1 on aggregate; Dukla Prague won on away goals.----Rangers won 3–1 on aggregate.----Dundee United won 3–1 on aggregate.----IFK Göteborg won 3–1 on aggregate.----Hajduk Split won 5–3 on aggregate.----Torino won 5–1 on aggregate.----3–3 on aggregate; Internazionale won on away goals.----Spartak Moscow won 6–4 on aggregate.----Borussia Mönchengladbach won 7–1 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; Groningen won on away goals.----4–4 on aggregate; Swarovski Tirol won on away goals.----Gent won 4–1 on aggregate.----Bayer 05 Uerdingen won 2–0 on aggregate.----Beveren won 4–3 on aggregate.----Vitória de Guimarães won 2–1 on aggregate.----2–2 on aggregate; Barcelona won on away goals.
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Vitória de Guimarães won 3–1 on aggregate.----Dundee United won 2–0 on aggregate.----Torino won 3–1 on aggregate.----IFK Göteborg won 5–0 on aggregate.----Swarovski Tirol won 2–1 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; Borussia Mönchengladbach won on away goals.----Barcelona won 4–0 on aggregate.----The game was abandoned in the 70th minute because of the dense fog and replayed a week later.
Internazionale won 1–0 on aggregate.
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Borussia Mönchengladbach won 5–2 on aggregate.----Swarovski Tirol won 2–1 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; IFK Göteborg won on away goals.----Dundee United won 3–1 on aggregate.
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IFK Göteborg won 5–1 on aggregate.----Dundee United won 2–0 on aggregate.
See main article: 1987 UEFA Cup final.
IFK Göteborg won 2–1 on aggregate.