| Tourney Name: | UEFA Cup |
| Year: | 1972–73 |
| Size: | 280px |
| Dates: | 13 September 1972 – 23 May 1973 |
| Num Teams: | 63 |
| Associations: | 29[1] |
| Champion Other: | Liverpool |
| Count: | 1 |
| Second Other: | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
| Matches: | 124 |
| Goals: | 405 |
| Attendance: | 1947828 |
| Top Scorer: | Jupp Heynckes (Borussia Mönchengladbach) Jan Jeuring (Twente) 12 goals each |
| Prevseason: | 1971–72 |
| Nextseason: | 1973–74 |
The 1972–73 UEFA Cup was the second season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The 1973 UEFA Cup final was played over two legs at Anfield, Liverpool, England, and at Bökelbergstadion, Mönchengladbach, West Germany. It was won by Liverpool of England, who defeated West German team Borussia Mönchengladbach by an aggregate result of 3–2 to claim their first UEFA Cup title.
This was the sixth consecutive title won by an English team between the UEFA Cup and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, as well as the first time Liverpool won a European competition.
A total of 63 teams from 29 UEFA member associations participate in the 1972–73 UEFA Cup. A new allocation scheme was devised by UEFA, which featured fixed slots for all but two competing associations, and lasted for eight seasons:
Spain was the only association with a fixed allocation of three teams; the other two associations would rotate on a yearly basis among all countries that were allocated two teams.
Albania was not included in this scheme, as it had only entered the competition once without playing and would not have a UEFA Cup competitor until 1981. Northern Ireland withdrew from the competition, so another association was granted an extra third birth for this season. The three chosen associations were France, Yugoslavia and Portugal.
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The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:
The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches took place on Tuesdays.
| First round | 12–20 September 1972 | 26 September – 4 October 1972 | |
| Second round | 24–25 October 1972 | 1–8 November 1972 | |
| Third round | 28–29 November 1972 | 13 December 1972 | |
| Quarter-finals | 6–7 March 1973 | 20–21 March 1973 | |
| Semi-finals | 10–11 April 1973 | 25 April 1973 | |
| Final | 10 May 1973 | 23 May 1973 |
|}1 Hvidovre walkover, HIFK withdrew.
Liverpool won 2–0 on aggregate.----Norrköping won 4–1 on aggregate.----Levski-Spartak won 6–5 on aggregate.----AEK Athens won 4–2 on aggregate.----Beroe Stara Zagora won 10–1 on aggregate.----Twente won 4–2 on aggregate.----Slovan Bratislava won 8–2 on aggregate.----Ruch Chorzów won 3–1 on aggregate.----Dynamo Dresden won 4–2 on aggregate.----Red Star Belgrade won 7–4 on aggregate.----}OFK Beograd won 5–3 on aggregate.----Tottenham Hotspur won 12–3 on aggregate.----Viking won 1–0 on aggregate.----Club Brugge won 6–5 on aggregate.----Frem won 5–2 on aggregate.----Budapest Honvéd won 4–0 on aggregate.----Köln won 5–1 on aggregate.----Borussia Mönchengladbach won 9–5 on aggregate.----BFC Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate.----Feyenoord won 21–0 on aggregate.----Valencia won 4–3 on aggregate.----Grasshoppers won 4–2 on aggregate.----Kaiserslautern won 5–3 on aggregate.----Las Palmas won 4–2 on aggregate.----Inter Milan won 7–1 on aggregate.----Vitória de Setúbal won 6–2 on aggregate.----Ararat Yerevan won 2–0 on aggregate.----Fiorentina won 5–1 on aggregate.----Olympiacos won 3–1 on aggregate.----CUF Barreiro won 3–0 on aggregate.----Porto won 4–1 on aggregate.----Hvidovre walkover, HIFK withdrew.
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Köln won 9–2 on aggregate.----Liverpool won 6–1 on aggregate.----Beroe Stara Zagora won 3–1 on aggregate.----BFC Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate.----Red Star Belgrade won 4–1 on aggregate.----Kaiserslautern won 3–2 on aggregate.----Dynamo Dresden won 4–0 on aggregate.----Borussia Mönchengladbach won 6–1 on aggregate.----Twente won 9–0 on aggregate.----Ararat Yerevan won 7–3 on aggregate.----5–5 on aggregate; OFK Beograd won on away goals.----Tottenham Hotspur won 4–1 on aggregate.----Inter Milan won 4–2 on aggregate.----Las Palmas won 3–2 on aggregate.----2–2 on aggregate; Vitória de Setúbal won on away goals.----Porto won 5–3 on aggregate.
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Borussia Mönchengladbach won 5–0 on aggregate.----Liverpool won 3–1 on aggregate.----OFK Beograd won 3–1 on aggregate.----2–2 on aggregate; Kaiserslautern won on penalties.----Twente won 4–2 on aggregate.----Tottenham Hotspur won 2–1 on aggregate.----Dynamo Dresden won 3–1 on aggregate.----Vitória de Setúbal won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Borussia Mönchengladbach won 9–2 on aggregate.----Twente won 4–3 on aggregate.----Liverpool won 3–0 on aggregate.----2–2 on aggregate; Tottenham won on away goals.
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2–2 on aggregate; Liverpool won on away goals.----Borussia Mönchengladbach won 5–1 on aggregate.
See main article: 1973 UEFA Cup Final.
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Liverpool won 3–2 on aggregate.