1995–96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup explained

Tourney Name:UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
Year:1995–96
Dates:10 August 1995 – 8 May 1996
Champion Other: Paris Saint-Germain
Count:1
Second Other: Rapid Wien
Matches:83
Goals:251
Attendance:1277014
Top Scorer:Petr Samec (Hradec Králové)
9 goals
Prevseason:1994–95
Nextseason:1996–97

The 1995–96 season of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was won by Paris Saint-Germain 1–0 in the final against Austrian entrants Rapid Wien in Brussels on 8 May 1996.

The 1995–96 season also saw the return of Yugoslav clubs on the international scene after a three-year ban due to a UN embargo. However, the finalist of Yugoslav national cup, FK Obilić, was eliminated in the qualifying round.

Teams

First round
Real ZaragozaTH Deportivo La Coruña Club Brugge AEK Athens
Parma Everton Feyenoord Copenhagen
Paris Saint-Germain Sporting CP Trabzonspor Halmstad
Borussia Mönchengladbach Dynamo Moscow Rapid Wien Celtic
Qualifying round
Sion GKS Katowice Petrolul Ploiești Molde
Maccabi Haifa Vác FC Samsung APOEL Shakhtar Donetsk
Dinamo Batumi KR DAG Liepāja TPS
Inter Bratislava Mura Lokomotiv Sofia Hradec Králové
Wrexham Linfield Derry City Dinamo-93 Minsk
Valletta Teuta Durrës Vaduz Žalgiris Vilnius
Grevenmacher Sileks Ararat Yerevan
Tiligul Tiraspol Lantana Tallinn Neftçi Obilić
TH Title Holders

Qualifying round

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First leg

------------------------------------------------------------DAG-Liepaya awarded 3–0, due to Lantana Tallinn fielding an ineligible player, Andrei Borissov. The score at the moment was 1–2.

Second leg

KR Reykjavík won 4–3 on aggregate.----Sion won 3–2 on aggregate.----Sileks won 3–2 on aggregate.----KS Teuta won 3–1 on aggregate.----Hradec Králové won 14–1 on aggregate.----APOEL won 3–0 on aggregate.----Petrolul Ploieşti won 1–0 on aggregate.----Inter Bratislava won 5–2 on aggregate.----Shakhtar Donetsk won 5–1 on aggregate.----Žalgiris Vilnius won 3–2 on aggregate.----2–2 on aggregate. Ararat Yerevan won on penalties.----Dinamo Batumi won 3–2 on aggregate.----Lokomotiv Sofia won 2–1 on aggregate.----Maccabi Haifa won 6–3 on aggregate.----Molde won 3–2 on aggregate.----DAG-Liepaya won 3–0 on aggregate.

First round

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First leg

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Second leg

Trabzonspor won 3–2 on aggregate.----Deportivo La Coruña won 8–0 on aggregate.----Real Zaragoza won 5–1 on aggregate.----Club Brugge won 2–1 on aggregate.----3–3 on aggregate. Halmstad won on away goals.----Parma won 4–0 on aggregate.----Paris Saint-Germain won 6–2 on aggregate.----Celtic won 7–2 on aggregate.----Borussia Mönchengladbach won 6–2 on aggregate.----AEK Athens won 4–2 on aggregate.----Everton won 6–3 on aggregate.----Feyenoord won 13–0 on aggregate.----Dynamo Moscow won 4–1 on aggregate.----Hradec Králové won 7–2 on aggregate.----Sporting CP won 4–0 on aggregate.----Rapid Wien won 3–1 on aggregate.

Second round

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First leg

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Second leg

Deportivo La Coruña won 4–0 on aggregate.----Real Zaragoza won 3–1 on aggregate.----Parma won 4–3 on aggregate.----Paris Saint-Germain won 4–0 on aggregate.----Borussia Mönchengladbach won 5–1 on aggregate.----Feyenoord won 1–0 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate. Dynamo Moscow won 3–1 on penalties.----Rapid Wien won 4–2 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

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First leg

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Second leg

Deportivo La Coruña won 2–1 on aggregate.----Feyenoord won 3–2 on aggregate.----Paris Saint-Germain won 3–2 on aggregate.----Rapid Wien won 4–0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

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First leg

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Second leg

Paris Saint-Germain won 2–0 on aggregate.----Rapid Wien won 4–1 on aggregate.

Final

See main article: 1996 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final.

Top goalscorers

The top goalscorers from the 1995–96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup are as follows:

RankNameTeamGoals
1 Petr Samec Hradec Králové9
2 Bebeto Deportivo La Coruña6
Carsten Jancker Rapid Wien6
4 Mihajlo Biberčić KR Reykjavík4
Regi Blinker Feyenoord4
Youri Djorkaeff Paris Saint-Germain4
Patrice Loko Paris Saint-Germain4
Michael Obiku Feyenoord4
Christian Stumpf Rapid Wien4
Andreas Thom Celtic4

See also

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