1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup explained

Tourney Name:UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
Year:1997–98
Dates:14 August 1997 – 13 May 1998
Num Teams:32 (first round)
47 (qualifying round)
Champion Other: Chelsea
Count:2
Second Other: VfB Stuttgart
Matches:91
Goals:272
Attendance:826944
Top Scorer:Pasquale Luiso (Vicenza)
8 goals
Prevseason:1996–97
Nextseason:1998–99

The 1997–98 season of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup club football tournament was won by Chelsea in the final against Stuttgart.

Teams

First round
Vicenza Real Betis Nice VfB Stuttgart
Roda Boavista Chelsea Kocaelispor
AEK Athens Sturm Graz Lokomotiv Moscow Germinal Ekeren
Copenhagen AIK Tromsø Slavia Prague
Luzern
Qualifying round
Legia Warsaw Kilmarnock National București NK Zagreb
Shakhtar Donetsk APOEL Hapoel Be'er Sheva BVSC Budapest
Dinamo Batumi Slovan Bratislava Dinaburg Primorje
HJK Belshina Bobruisk ÍBV Levski Sofia
Sloga Jugomagnat Žalgiris Vilnius Zimbru Chișinău Glenavon
Balzers Cwmbrân Town Red Star Belgrade Tallinna Sadam
Hibernians Shelbourne Ararat Yerevan Union Luxembourg
HB Tórshavn Kapaz

Qualifying round

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Notes
Note 1: Ararat Yerevan were awarded a 3–0 win in the qualifying round first leg after Dinamo Batumi were found guilty of fielding an ineligible player — Sotogashvili. The match originally ended as a 4–2 win for Dinamo Batumi.

First leg

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Second leg

APOEL won 7–1 on aggregate.----ÍBV won 4–0 on aggregate.----Legia Warsaw won 5–1 on aggregate.----Național București won 12–2 on aggregate.----Hapoel Be'er Sheva won 2–1 on aggregate.----Shakhtar Donetsk won 4–1 on aggregate.----Dinaburg won 2–0 on aggregate.----Kilmarnock won 3–2 on aggregate.----Red Star Belgrade won 3–1 on aggregate.----Zagreb won 4–1 on aggregate.----BVSC won 5–1 on aggregate.----Belshina Bobruisk won 5–2 on aggregate.----Primorje won 3–0 on aggregate.----Slovan Bratislava won 3–2 on aggregate.----Ararat Yerevan won 3–2 on aggregate.

First round

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First leg

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Second leg

Kocaelispor won 3–0 on aggregate.----Sturm Graz won 4–0 on aggregate.----Stuttgart won 5–2 on aggregate.----Shakhtar Donetsk won 4–3 on aggregate.----Germinal Ekeren won 4–3 on aggregate.----Primorje won 2–1 on aggregate.----AEK Athens won 9–2 on aggregate.----Slavia Prague won 6–2 on aggregate.----Roda won 14–1 on aggregate.----Tromsø won 6–5 on aggregate.----Copenhagen won 5–0 on aggregate.----Lokomotiv Moscow won 5–1 on aggregate.----Chelsea won 4–0 on aggregate.----Nice won 4–2 on aggregate.----Real Betis won 4–0 on aggregate.----Vicenza won 3–1 on aggregate.

Second round

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First leg

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Second leg

Chelsea won 9–4 on aggregate.----Stuttgart won 6–4 on aggregate.----Lokomotiv Moscow won 2–1 on aggregate.----Vicenza won 5–2 on aggregate.----Real Betis won 3–1 on aggregate.----AEK Athens won 2–1 on aggregate. ----3–3 on aggregate. Slavia Prague won on away goals.----Roda won 6–0 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

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First leg

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Second leg

Vicenza won 9–1 on aggregate.----Stuttgart won 3–1 on aggregate.----Lokomotiv Moscow won 2–1 on aggregate.----Chelsea won 5–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

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First leg

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Second leg

Chelsea won 3–2 on aggregate.----Stuttgart won 3–1 on aggregate.

Final

See main article: 1998 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final.

Top goalscorers

The top goalscorers from the 1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup are as follows:

RankNameTeamGoals
1 Pasquale Luiso Vicenza8
2 Jonathan Akpoborie VfB Stuttgart6
Fredi Bobic VfB Stuttgart6
Peter Van Houdt Roda6
3 Gianluca Vialli Chelsea5
6 Alfonso Real Betis4
Gábor Torma Roda4
Karel Vácha Slavia Prague4
Gianfranco Zola Chelsea4
10 Ole Martin Årst Tromsø3
Serhiy Atelkin Shakhtar Donetsk3
Nino Bule NK Zagreb3
Roberto Di Matteo Chelsea3
Tryggvi Guðmundsson ÍBV3
Yevgeni Kharlachyov Lokomotiv Moscow3
Charis Kopitsis AEK Athens3
Garba Lawal Roda3
Radu Niculescu Național București3
Adrian Pigulea Național București3
Mladen Rudonja Primorje3
Tomasz Sokołowski Legia Warsaw3
Dejan Stanković Red Star Belgrade3
Paul Wright Kilmarnock3

See also

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