1995–96 UEFA Champions League qualifying round

The 1995–96 UEFA Champions League featured 24 teams, with eight teams (the league champions from the seven top-ranked nations in the UEFA country coefficient table, plus the defending champions from 1994–95) qualifying automatically for the group stage and the remaining 16 (the league champions of the nations ranked 8–23 in the country coefficient table) playing in a two-legged preliminary round. The winners of each tie entered the Champions League group stage

Dynamo Kyiv won their tie against AaB, but, in their first group game against Panathinaikos, they were accused of a failed attempt to bribe referee Antonio López Nieto to get a win. Despite an appeal, they were thrown out of the competition by UEFA and were banned for the subsequent two years. AaB replaced them in the group stage. Dynamo's ban was eventually reduced to just one season.

Teams

The sixteen lowest-ranked associations with teams that qualified for the Champions League entered the qualifying round.[1]

Key to colours
Winners of qualifying round advanced to group stage
Qualifying round participants
Assoc. Team
8 Anderlecht
10 Beşiktaş
11 Casino Salzburg
13 Panathinaikos
14 AaB
15 IFK Göteborg
16 Rangers
17 Grasshopper
18 Legia Warsaw
19 Steaua București
20 Rosenborg
21 Maccabi Tel Aviv
22 Ferencváros
23 Hajduk Split
24 Anorthosis Famagusta
25 Dynamo Kyiv

Seeding

The sixteen teams were divided into seeded and unseeded pots, each containing eight teams, for the draw based on their association's ranking.[1][2]

Seeded Unseeded

Summary

Team 1Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Grasshopper 2–1 Maccabi Tel Aviv1–11–0
Rangers 1–0 Anorthosis Famagusta1–00–0
Legia Warsaw 3–1 IFK Göteborg1–02–1
Casino Salzburg 0–1 Steaua București0–00–1
Dynamo Kyiv 4–1 AaB1–03–1
Rosenborg 4–3 Beşiktaş3–01–3
Anderlecht 1–2 Ferencváros0–11–1
Panathinaikos 1–1 (a) Hajduk Split0–01–1

Matches

Grasshopper 1–1 Maccabi Tel Aviv
  • Ibrahim 49'
 Report
Attendance: 11,200
Referee: Juan Ansuátegui Roca (Spain)
Maccabi Tel Aviv 0–1 Grasshopper
Report
Attendance: 15,432
Referee: Marcello Nicchi (Italy)

Grasshopper won 2–1 on aggregate.

Rangers 1–0 Anorthosis Famagusta
 Report
Attendance: 43,519
Referee: Éric Blareau (Belgium)
Anorthosis Famagusta 0–0 Rangers
Report
Attendance: 9,400

Rangers won 1–0 on aggregate.

Legia Warsaw 1–0 IFK Göteborg
 Report
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Jaap Uilenberg (Netherlands)
IFK Göteborg 1–2 Legia Warsaw
 Report
Attendance: 11,017

Legia Warsaw won 3–1 on aggregate.

Casino Salzburg 0–0 Steaua București
Report
Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)
Steaua București 1–0 Casino Salzburg
 Report
Attendance: 19,987
Referee: Jorge Coroado (Portugal)

Steaua București won 1–0 on aggregate.

Dynamo Kyiv 1–0 AaB
 Report
Attendance: 61,000
Referee: Jiří Ulrich (Czech Republic)
AaB 1–3 Dynamo Kyiv
 Report
Attendance: 13,200

Dynamo Kyiv won 4–1 on aggregate.

Rosenborg 3–0 Beşiktaş
 Report
Attendance: 14,083
Beşiktaş 3–1 Rosenborg
 Report
Attendance: 23,882
Referee: Marc Batta (France)

Rosenborg won 4–3 on aggregate.

Anderlecht 0–1 Ferencváros
Report
Attendance: 15,036
Ferencváros 1–1 Anderlecht
 Report
Attendance: 16,737

Ferencváros won 2–1 on aggregate.

Panathinaikos 0–0 Hajduk Split
Report
Attendance: 0
Hajduk Split 1–1 Panathinaikos
 Report
Attendance: 10,800

1–1 on aggregate; Panathinaikos won on away goals.

References

  1. ^ a b "UEFA Country Ranking 1995". Bert Kassies. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
  2. ^ Protzen, Martin (29 July 1994). "FAQ: Qualification and Seeding for the European Cups". RSSSF. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
  3. ^ "Besiktas - Rosenborg - 23.08. 1995". rbkmedia.no.
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