1972–73 UEFA CupThe first leg of the final was played at Anfield in Liverpool. |
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| Dates | 13 September 1972 – 23 May 1973 |
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| Teams | 63 (from 29[1] associations) |
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| Champions | Liverpool (1st title) |
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| Runners-up | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
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| Matches played | 124 |
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| Goals scored | 405 (3.27 per match) |
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| Attendance | 1,947,828 (15,708 per match) |
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| Top scorer(s) | Jupp Heynckes (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
Jan Jeuring (Twente)
12 goals each |
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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.
Association team allocation
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:
- 3 associations have four teams qualify.
- 3 associations have three teams qualify.
- 18 associations have two teams qualify.
- 7 associations have one team qualify.
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.
Associations in the 1972–73 UEFA Cup
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^ Wales: There was no national league in Wales before 1992 and the only competition organised by the
Football Association of Wales was the
Welsh Cup so Wales had just a single participant in European competitions, the winner (or best placed Welsh team as several English teams also competed) of the Welsh Cup which competed in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
^ Northern Ireland: Due to
the Troubles and the aftermath of the
Bloody Sunday, Northern Ireland withdrew from all European competitions on safety grounds.
Portadown would have qualified for the UEFA Cup by league position.
^ Albania: After withdrawing its team from the previous edition, Albania was punished with a one-year ban for the UEFA Cup.
17 Nëntori would have qualified by league position.
Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:
- TH: Title holders
- CW: Cup winners
- CR: Cup runners-up
- LC: League Cup winners
- 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
- P-W: End-of-season European competition play-offs winners
Notes
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West Germany: The fourth UEFA Cup spot for West Germany was not awarded to the fourth best team not qualified for the European Cup or the European Cup Winners' Cup, which was
Hertha BSC, as it was common practice. Instead, this place was awarded to
Kaiserslautern, who had been runners-up in the
1971–72 DFB-Pokal.
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Finland: Official UEFA records show
HJK Helsinki as the Finnish representative in the UEFA Cup, despite finishing 4th in the
1971 Mestaruussarja, before withdrawing from its first round match-up.
[2] However, records from the
RSSSF, contemporary papers and the
Football Association of Finland show that
HIFK Helsinki was indeed the team that withdrew from the tournament after finishing 2nd in the Mestaruussarja.
[3][4][5] While no official reason for the withdrawal has been provided, HIFK ran into financial problems during the 1972 season and was fighting to avoid relegation at the time of the UEFA Cup first round. The team was finally relegated on 24 September 1972, halfway through what should've been its European participation.
Schedule
The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches took place on Tuesdays.
Schedule for 1972–73 UEFA Cup
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First leg
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Second leg
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| First round
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12–20 September 1972
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26 September – 4 October 1972
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| Second round
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24–25 October 1972
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1–8 November 1972
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| Third round
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28–29 November 1972
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13 December 1972
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| Quarter-finals
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6–7 March 1973
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20–21 March 1973
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| Semi-finals
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10–11 April 1973
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25 April 1973
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| Final
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10 May 1973
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23 May 1973
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Bracket
First round
Summary
1 Hvidovre walkover, HIFK withdrew.
Matches
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.
Second round
Summary
Matches
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.
Third round
Summary
Matches
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.
Quarter-finals
Summary
Matches
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.
Semi-finals
Summary
Matches
2–2 on aggregate; Liverpool won on away goals.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 5–1 on aggregate.
Final
Summary
Matches
Liverpool won 3–2 on aggregate.
References
- ^ 30 associations were scheduled to participate, but HIFK Helsinki from Finland withdrew before their first match.
- ^ UEFA.com. "History: HJK-Hvidovre". UEFA. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ "European Competitions 1972-73". www.rsssf.org. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ Helsingin Sanomat 19.9.1972
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- ^ Buchspieß, Dieter (31 October 1972). "An Terletzkis "Geschoß" wird Staikow noch lange denken!" (PDF). Neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) (De) (in German). Vol. 1972, no. 44. Berlin: DFV der DDR. p. 9. ISSN 0323-8407. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- ^ Schaefer, Otto (5 December 1972). "BFC Dynamo mit zuviel Respekt vor dem Wiederpart" (PDF). Neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) (De) (in German). Vol. 1972, no. 49. Berlin: DFV der DDR. p. 9. ISSN 0323-8407. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ Schlehahn, Britt (17 May 2020). "Vor dem Abriss nochmal BFC Dynamo gegen BSG Chemie - Corona verhindert letztes Halali". Sportbuzzer (in German). Hannover: Sportbuzzer GmbH. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ Karas, Steffen (2022). 66 Jahre BFC Dynamo – Auswärts mit 'nem Bus (2nd ed.). Berlin: CULTURCON medien, Sole trader: Bernd Oeljeschläger. p. 362. ISBN 978-3-944068-95-4.
- ^ Schaefer, Otto (5 December 1972). "BFC Dynamo mit zuviel Respekt vor dem Wiederpart" (PDF). Neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) (De) (in German). Vol. 1972, no. 49. Berlin: DFV der DDR. p. 9. ISSN 0323-8407. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
- ^ "Liverpool FC - Tottenham Hotspur 1:0 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ "Tottenham Hotspur - Liverpool FC 2:1 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ "Bor. Mönchengladbach - FC Twente '65 3:0 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ "FC Twente '65 - Bor. Mönchengladbach 1:2 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
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