1991–92 UEFA Cup
The 1991–92 UEFA Cup was the 21st season of Europe's then-tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA. The [1992 UEFA Europa League|UEFA Cup final|final] was played over two legs at Stadio Delle Alpi, Turin, Italy, and at Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam, Netherlands. The competition was won by Dutch club Ajax, who defeated Torino of Italy on away goals after an aggregate result of 2–2 to claim their first UEFA Cup title.
The victory made Ajax only the second team—after Torino's city rivals Juventus—to have won all three major European trophies at the time. As the only English team in the tournament due to lost coeffecient following the five-year ban for the Heysel disaster during the 1985 European Cup final, and being given an additional year of exclusion, Liverpool made their comeback in continental competition for the first time since then.
Association team allocation
A total of 64 teams from 32 UEFA member associations participated in the 1991–92 UEFA Cup, all entering from the first round over six knock-out rounds. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:- Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify.
- Associations 4–8 each have three teams qualify.
- Associations 9–21 each have two teams qualify.
- Associations 22–32 each have one team qualify.
Association ranking
For the 1991–92 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1990 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1985–86 to 1989–90. Despite returning to European competitions the previous season, England's five-year ban was served during the period reflected in the ranking and had no score, so only one English club competed in the UEFA Cup.Cnote2|Note WAL|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 of the Welsh Cup which competed in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Its virtual ranking is only an original research, because the UEFA country ranking was only used to allocate the UEFA Cup spots at time, so Wales was not included.Cnote2|Note GDR|Germany: Due to the reunification of Germany in October 1990, all flags show Germany instead of the former West/East Germany. However, the original slot allocation still applied, and matches and records for NOFV-Oberliga representatives were still counted for East Germany. TeamsThe labels in parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:
'''Notes''' ScheduleThe schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled primarily for Wednesdays, though some matches took place on Tuesdays or Thursdays.
First roundFirst leg----Match was played in Austria due to the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence. ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Because of hooliganism in a previous match, Ajax was ordered to play this match at least 200 km away from Amsterdam. ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ''Match played at Estádio do Bessa instead of their regular stadium Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro.'' Second legSteaua București won 4–3 on aggregate.---- Celtic won 3–1 on aggregate. ---- Bayern Munich won 3–1 on aggregate. ---- Eintracht Frankfurt won 11–1 on aggregate. ---- Torpedo Moscow won 4–2 on aggregate. ---- Neuchâtel Xamax won 2–0 on aggregate. ---- Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate. ---- B 1903 won 3–0 on aggregate. ---- Ajax won 4–0 on aggregate. ---- Sigma Olomouc won 6–0 on aggregate. ---- Boavista won 2–1 on aggregate. ---- Trabzonspor won 4–3 on aggregate. ---- Rot-Weiß Erfurt won 2–0 on aggregate. ---- Auxerre won 6–1 on aggregate. ---- Swarovski Tirol won 3–2 on aggregate. ---- Hamburg won 4–1 on aggregate. ---- 1–1 on aggregate. Gent won 4–1 on penalties. ---- Torino won 8–1 on aggregate. ---- Liverpool won 6–2 on aggregate. ---- PAOK won 2–1 on aggregate. ---- 1–1 on aggregate. CSKA Sofia won on away goals. ---- Osasuna won 4–1 on aggregate. ---- Utrecht won 4-1 on aggregate. ---- Dinamo București won 2–1 on aggregate. ---- Dynamo Moscow won 4–2 on aggregate. ---- Stuttgart won 6–3 on aggregate. ---- AEK won 3–0 on aggregate. ---- Spartak Moscow won 5–1 on aggregate. ---- Lyon won 2–1 on aggregate. ---- Genoa won 3–2 on aggregate. ---- 1–1 on aggregate. Cannes won 4–2 on penalties. ---- 2–2 on aggregate. Sporting Gijón won 3–2 on penalties. ''Match was played in Turkey due to the deteriorating security situation in Yugoslavia that eventually turned into the Yugoslav Wars.'' Second roundFirst leg-------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Second legB 1903 won 6–3 on aggregate.---- Osasuna won 3–2 on aggregate. ---- Liverpool won 3–2 on aggregate. ---- Dynamo Moscow won 2–1 on aggregate. ---- Real Madrid won 4–1 on aggregate. ---- Because of hooliganism in a previous match, Ajax was ordered to play this match at least 200 km away from Amsterdam. Ajax won 5–1 on aggregate. ---- AEK won 2–1 on aggregate. ---- Genoa won 5–3 on aggregate. ---- Hamburg won 6–1 on aggregate. ---- Gent won 1–0 on aggregate. ---- Neuchâtel Xamax won 5–2 on aggregate. ---- Trabzonspor won 8–4 on aggregate. ---- Swarovski Tirol won 4–0 on aggregate. ---- Torino won 2–0 on aggregate. ---- Sigma Olomouc won 2–0 on aggregate. ---- ''Steaua București won 3–2 on aggregate.'' Third roundFirst leg-------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Second legSigma Olomouc won 6–2 on aggregate.---- Torino won 3–2 on aggregate. ---- B 1903 won 2–1 on aggregate. ---- Because of hooliganism in a previous match, Ajax was ordered to play this match at least 200 km away from Amsterdam. Ajax won 2–0 on aggregate. ---- Liverpool won 6–0 on aggregate. ---- Gent won 2–0 on aggregate. ---- Genoa won 2–0 on aggregate. ---- ''Real Madrid won 4–1 on aggregate.'' Quarter-finalsFirst leg-------- ---- Second legGenoa won 4–1 on aggregate.---- Ajax won 3–0 on aggregate. ---- Real Madrid won 2–1 on aggregate. ---- ''Torino won 3–0 on aggregate.'' Semi-finalsFirst leg----Second legAjax won 4–3 on aggregate.---- ''Torino won 3–2 on aggregate.'' FinalSecond leg''2–2 on aggregate. Ajax won on away goals.''Top scorersThe top scorers from the 1991–92 UEFA Cup are as follows: |