1989–90 UEFA Cup explained

Tourney Name:UEFA Cup
Year:1989–90
Dates:9 August 1989  - 16 May 1990
Num Teams:65
Champion Other: Juventus
Count:2
Second Other: Fiorentina
Matches:128
Goals:329
Attendance:2464303
Top Scorer:Falko Götz (Köln)
Karl-Heinz Riedle (Werder Bremen)
6 goals each
Prevseason:1988–89
Nextseason:1990–91

The 1989–90 UEFA Cup was the 19th season of the UEFA Cup, the secondary club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The final was played over two legs at the Stadio Comunale Vittorio Pozzo, Turin, Italy, and at the Stadio Partenio, Avellino, Italy. The competition was won by Juventus, who defeated fellow Italian team Fiorentina by an aggregate result of 3–1 to claim their second UEFA Cup title.

This was the first final between two Italian sides in the UEFA competitions history and the third between two clubs of the same country. This was the fifth and final season in which all English clubs were banned from European football competitions

Association team allocation

A total of 65 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1988–89 UEFA Cup. 63 teams entered from the first round, competing over six knock-out rounds, while two other teams competed in a preliminary round.

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 first birth was allocated to association 9, gaining a third birth. As two associations were tied for 10th place in the UEFA rankings, both of them qualified a third team for a preliminary round, whose winner would take the remaining English birth in the first round.

Association ranking

For the 1989–90 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1988 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1983–84 to 1987–88.

Association ranking for 1989–90 UEFA Cup
RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes
1 Italy41.0824
2 Soviet Union37.550
3 West Germany36.165
4 Spain34.7993
5 Belgium31.800
6 Portugal28.183
7 Scotland27.700
8 Netherlands26.633
9 Austria26.500
=10 France23.200
=10 Yugoslavia23.200
12 England22.0940
13 Sweden21.5002
14 Czechoslovakia21.300
15 Romania20.466
16 East Germany18.750
17 Greece17.916
RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes
18 Hungary17.5002
19 Switzerland15.000
20 Finland13.664
- Wales13.0000
21 Poland12.7502
22 Bulgaria11.9161
23 Denmark10.916
24 Albania9.666
25 Turkey7.999
26 Norway6.666
27 Cyprus6.332
28 Northern Ireland4.999
29 Iceland3.999
30 Republic of Ireland2.665
31 Malta1.666
32 Luxembourg1.665

Teams

The labels in parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:

Notes

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with each legs of both semifinals now being held over consecutive days. Matches for the first and second round were held on Tuesdays, while other rounds were held on Wednesdays, except for the Antwerp vs Stuttgart match-up in the third round.

Schedule for 1989–90 UEFA Cup!Round!First leg!Second leg
Preliminary round9 August 198923 August 1989
First round12 September 198926 September 1989
Second round17 October 198931 October 1989
Third round21–22 November 19895–6 December 1989
Quarter-finals7 March 199021 March 1990
Semi-finals3–4 April 199017–18 April 1990
Final2 May 199016 May 1990

Preliminary round

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Second leg

Auxerre won 3–2 on aggregate.

First round

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First leg

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Second leg

The match was abandoned in the 104th minute with the score at 1–1 after Austria Wien's goalkeeper Franz Wohlfahrt was struck by an iron rod thrown from the home stand. As a result, Ajax had to concede the match by default and were excluded from competing in European football for a year. Austria Wien won 4–0 on aggregate.----Antwerp won 4–3 on aggregate.----Zaragoza won 4–1 on aggregate.----2–2 on aggregate; Rapid Wien won on away goals.----Hibernian won 4–0 on aggregate.---- 1–1 on aggregate; Fiorentina won 3–1 on penalties.----Valencia won 4–2 on aggregate.----Paris Saint-Germain won 3–2 on aggregate.----RoPS won 2–1 on aggregate.----Auxerre won 8–0 on aggregate.----Sochaux won 12–0 on aggregate.----Sion won 2–1 on aggregate.----Dundee United won 5–1 on aggregate.----RFC Liège won 6–1 on aggregate.----Spartak Moscow won 2–0 on aggregate.----First Vienna won 7–1 on aggregate.----Werder Bremen won 5–1 on aggregate.----Club Brugge won 4–1 on aggregate.----Juventus won 5–2 on aggregate.----0–0 on aggregate; Napoli won 4–3 on penalties.----Porto won 4–1 on aggregate.----Köln won 5–1 on aggregate.----Stuttgart won 3–2 on aggregate.----Hamburg won 7–2 on aggregate.----Wettingen won 5–0 on aggregate.----Red Star Belgrade won 3–1 on aggregate.----Dynamo Kyiv won 6–1 on aggregate.----Zenit Leningrad won 3–1 on aggregate.----Žalgiris Vilnius won 2–1 on aggregate.----Olympiacos won 3–2 on aggregate.----Karl-Marx-Stadt won 3–2 on aggregate.----Baník Ostrava won 7–2 on aggregate.

Second round

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First leg

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Second leg

3–3 on aggregate; Olympiacos won on away goals.----Antwerp won 6–3 on aggregate.----Rapid Wien won 6–4 on aggregate.----RFC Liège won 1–0 on aggregate.----Hamburg won 2–1 on aggregate.----Auxerre won 8–0 on aggregate.----Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; Fiorentina won on away goals.----Porto won 5–4 on aggregate.----Werder Bremen won 5–2 on aggregate.----Köln won 3–1 on aggregate.----Karl-Marx-Stadt won 5–3 on aggregate.----Napoli won 2–1 on aggregate.----Dynamo Kyiv won 4–1 on aggregate.----Stuttgart won 6–0 on aggregate.----Red Star Belgrade won 5–1 on aggregate.

Third round

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First leg

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Second leg

Antwerp won 2–1 on aggregate.----RFC Liège won 3–2 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; Auxerre won on away goals.----Fiorentina won 1–0 on aggregate.----Werder Bremen won 8–3 on aggregate.----Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.----2–2 on aggregate; Hamburg won on away goals.----Köln won 3–2 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

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First leg

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Second leg

Werder Bremen won 4–3 on aggregate.----Fiorentina won 2–0 on aggregate.----Köln won 2–0 on aggregate.----Juventus won 3–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

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First leg

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Second leg

1–1 on aggregate; Fiorentina won on away goals.----Juventus won 3–2 on aggregate.

Final

See main article: 1990 UEFA Cup Final.

Second leg

Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.

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