1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

Tournament details
Teams	32 (First Round) 47 (Qualifying)
Final positions
Champions	Chelsea F.C.
Runners-up	VfB Stuttgart
Tournament statistics
Matches played	91

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

Qualifying round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
HB Tórshavn	1 - 7	APOEL	1 - 1	0 - 6
Hibernians	0 - 4	ÍBV	0 - 1	0 - 3
Glenavon	1 - 5	Legia Warszawa	1 - 1	0 -4
Cwmbran Town	2 - 12	Naţional Bucureşti	2 - 5	0 - 7
Žalgiris Vilnius	1 - 2	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	0 - 0	1 - 2(aet)
Zimbru Chişinău	1 - 4	Shakhtar Donetsk	1 - 1	0 - 3
Dinaburg	2 - 0	Kapaz Ganja	1 - 0	1 - 0
Kilmarnock	3 - 2	Shelbourne	2 - 1	1 - 1
HJK Helsinki	1 - 3	Red Star Belgrade	1 - 0	0 - 3
Sloga Jugomagnat	1 - 4	NK Zagreb	1 - 2	0 - 2
Balzers	1 - 5	BVSC Budapest	1 - 3	0 - 2
Tallinna Sadam	2 - 5	Belshina Bobruisk	1 - 1	1 - 4
NK Primorje	3 - 0	Union Luxembourg	2 - 0	1 - 0
Levski Sofia	2 - 3	Slovan Bratislava	1 - 1	1 - 2
Dynamo Batumi	2 - 3	Ararat Yerevan	0 - 3 (f)	2 - 0

First leg

14 August 1997	HB Tórshavn	1 – 1	APOEL	Toftir
	Arque  19'		Alexandrou  40'

14 August 1997	Hibernians	0 – 1	ÍBV	Paola
			Gudmundsson  70'

14 August 1997	Glenavon	1 – 1	Legia Warszawa	Lurgan
	Grant  60'		Sokołowski  33'

14 August 1997	Cwmbran Town	2 – 5	Naţional Bucureşti	Cwmbran
	Parfitt  76' (pen) Townsend  84'		Vasc  34' Niculescu  47', 62' Lita  77', 90'

14 August 1997	Žalgiris Vilnius	0 – 0	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Vilnius

14 August 1997	Zimbru Chişinău	1 – 1	Shakhtar Donetsk	Chişinău
	Zgura  75'		Alexandrou  45'

14 August 1997	Dinaburg	1 – 0	Kapaz Ganja	Daugavpils
	Tarasovs  35'

14 August 1997	Kilmarnock	2 – 1	Shelbourne	Kilmarnock
	Wright  65' (pen)  90'		Rutherford  12'

14 August 1997	HJK Helsinki	1 – 0	Red Star Belgrade	Helsinki
	Helin  58'

14 August 1997	Sloga Jugomagnat	1 – 2	NK Zagreb	Skopje
	Petkov  68'		Bule  76' Čižmek  90'

14 August 1997	Balzers	1 – 3	BVSC Budapest	Vaduz
	Wörnhard  38'		Telser  57' (o.g.) Füzi  77' Csordás  84'

14 August 1997	Tallinna Sadam	1 – 1	Belshina Bobruisk	Tallinn
	Olumets  49'		Khripach  18'

14 August 1997	NK Primorje	2 – 0	Union Luxembourg	Ajdovscina
	Sabadin  37' Sculac  86' (pen)

14 August 1997	Levski Sofia	1 – 1	Slovan Bratislava	Sofia
	Ivanov  18'		Novak  65'

14 August 1997	Dynamo Batumi	0 – 3	Ararat Yerevan	Batumi

The first game finished 4-2 but awarded 0-3 (ineligible player for Dynamo Batumi - Sotogashvili).

Second leg

28 August 1997	APOEL	6 – 0	HB Tórshavn	Nicosia
	Hörtnagl  14', 21' Sotiriou  52' Ioannou  77', 81' Fasouliotis  87'

APOEL won 7–1 on aggregate.

27 August 1997	ÍBV	3 – 0	Hibernians	Vestmannaeyjar
	Helgason  21' Gudmundsson  33', 90'

ÍBV won 4–0 on aggregate.

28 August 1997	Legia Warszawa	4 – 0	Glenavon	Warsaw
	Kacprzak  73' Sokołowski  76', 89' (pen.) Skrzyek  86'

Legia Warszawa won 5–1 on aggregate.

28 August 1997	Naţional Bucureşti	7 – 0	Cwmbran Town	Bucharest
	Niculescu  15' Pigulea  20', 40', 80' Albeanu  30', 37' Savu  51'

Naţional Bucureşti won 12–2 on aggregate.

28 August 1997	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Žalgiris Vilnius	Be'er Sheva
	Benayoun  105' (pen.) Buchnik  116'		Radzius  96'

Hapoel Be'er Sheva won 2–1 on aggregate.

28 August 1997	Shakhtar Donetsk	3 – 0	Zimbru Chişinău	Donetsk
	Orbu  25' Alexandrou  43' Kriventsov  82'

Shakhtar Donetsk won 4–1 on aggregate.

28 August 1997	Kapaz Ganja	0 – 1	Dinaburg	Ganja
			Isayev  50'

Dinaburg won 2–0 on aggregate.

28 August 1997	Shelbourne	2 – 1	Kilmarnock	Dublin
	Baker  39'		McIntyre  21'

Kilmarnock won 2–1 on aggregate.

28 August 1997	Red Star Belgrade	3 – 0	HJK Helsinki	Belgrade
	Stanković  6', 26' Njegus  89' (pen)

Red Star Belgrade won 3–1 on aggregate.

28 August 1997	NK Zagreb	2 – 0	Sloga Jugomagnat	Zagreb
	Sopić  2' Bule  8'		Petkov  68'

NK Zagreb won 4–1 on aggregate.

28 August 1997	BVSC Budapest	2 – 0	Balzers	Budapest
	Komlósi  12' Bükszegi  89'

BVSC Budapest won 5–1 on aggregate.

28 August 1997	Belshina Bobruisk	4 – 1	Tallinna Sadam	Bobruysk
	Smirnykh  3' Timofeev  57' Hlebasolaw  73' Putrash  75'		Rychkov  69' (pen)

Belshina Bobruisk won 5–2 on aggregate.

28 August 1997	Union Luxembourg	0 – 1	NK Primorje	Luxembourg
			Rudonja  18'

NK Primorje won 3–0 on aggregate.

28 August 1997	Slovan Bratislava	2 – 1	Levski Sofia	Bratislava
	Novak  15' Muzlay  53'		Todorov  2'

Slovan Bratislava won 3–2 on aggregate.

28 August 1997	Ararat Yerevan	0 – 2	Dynamo Batumi	Yerevan
			Torgashvili  2' Makharadze  38'

Ararat Yerevan won 3–2 on aggregate.

First round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Kocaelispor	3 - 0	Naţional Bucureşti	2 - 0	1 - 0
APOEL	0 - 4	Sturm Graz	0 - 1	0 - 3
ÍBV	2 - 5	VfB Stuttgart	1 - 3	1 - 2
Boavista	3 - 4	Shakhtar Donetsk	2 - 3	1 - 1
Germinal Ekeren	4 - 3	Red Star Belgrade	3 - 2	1 - 1
AIK Fotboll	1 - 2	NK Primorje	0 - 1	1 - 1
AEK Athens	9 - 2	Dinaburg	5 - 0	4 - 2
Slavia Prague	6 - 2	FC Luzern	4 - 2	2 - 0
Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1 - 14	Roda JC	1 - 4	0 - 10
NK Zagreb	5 - 6	Tromsø	3 - 2	2 - 4
FC København	5 - 0	Ararat Yerevan	3 - 0	2 - 0
Belshina Bobruisk	1 - 5	Lokomotiv Moscow	1 - 2	0 - 3
Chelsea	4 - 0	Slovan Bratislava	2 - 0	2 - 0
OGC Nice	4 - 2	Kilmarnock	3 - 1	1 - 1
Real Betis	4 - 0	BVSC Budapest	2 - 0	2 - 0
Vicenza	3 - 1	Legia Warszawa	2 - 0	1 - 1

First leg

18 September 1997	Kocaelispor	2 – 0	Naţional Bucureşti	Izmir
	Albayrak  41' Moshoeu  45'

18 September 1997	APOEL	0 – 1	Sturm Graz	Nicosia
			Spiteri  81'

18 September 1997	ÍBV	1 – 3	VfB Stuttgart	Vestmannaeyjar
	Olafsson  40'		Bobic  9', 12' Akpoborie  70'

18 September 1997	Boavista	2 – 3	Shakhtar Donetsk	Porto
	Rui Miguel  34' Litos  44'		Zubov  24' Atelkin  62', 64'

18 September 1997	Germinal Ekeren	3 – 2	Red Star Belgrade	Antwerp
	Kovács  17' Hofmans  57' Dauwe  71'		Ognjenović  59' Stanković  63'

18 September 1997	AIK Fotboll	0 – 1	NK Primorje	Stockholm
			Rudonja  85'

18 September 1997	AEK Athens	5 – 0	Dinaburg	Athens
	Kopitsis  37' (pen) 44' Katsavos  64' Kalitzakis  67' Marcelo  76'

18 September 1997	Slavia Prague	4 – 2	FC Luzern	Prague
	Ašanin  5' Vácha  14' Vágner  54' Labant  54'		Aleksandrov  7' Koilov  76'

18 September 1997	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	1 – 4	Roda JC	Beersheba
	Benayoun  63' (pen)		van Houdt  15', 31' Torma  24', 34'

18 September 1997	NK Zagreb	3 – 2	Tromsø	Zagreb
	Lalić  44' Sopić  50' Baturina  52'		B. Johansen  56' Årst  80'

18 September 1997	FC København	3 – 0	Ararat Yerevan	Copenhagen
	Jónsson  17' Højer  53' Tur  87'

18 September 1997	Belshina Bobruisk	1 – 2	Lokomotiv Moscow	Minsk
	Hlebasolaw  14' (pen)		Loskov  49' Borodyuk  71'

18 September 1997	Chelsea	2 – 0	Slovan Bratislava	London
	Di Matteo  6' Granville  80'

18 September 1997	OGC Nice	3 – 1	Kilmarnock	Nice
	Kohn  12', 48' Rol  79'		Wright  77' (pen)

18 September 1997	Real Betis	2 – 0	BVSC Budapest	Seville
	Alfonso  58', 72'

18 September 1997	Vicenza	2 – 0	Legia Warszawa	Vicenza
	Luiso  10' Ambrosetti  24'

Second leg

2 October 1997	Naţional Bucureşti	0 – 1	Kocaelispor	Bucharest
			Colak  79'

Kocaelispor won 3–0 on aggregate.

2 October 1997	Sturm Graz	3 – 0	APOEL	Graz
	Reinmayr  3' Vastić  29' Haas  42'

Sturm Graz won 4–0 on aggregate.

2 October 1997	VfB Stuttgart	2 – 1	ÍBV	Stuttgart
	Akpoborie  73', 76'		Larusson  79'

VfB Stuttgart won 5–2 on aggregate.

2 October 1997	Shakhtar Donetsk	1 – 1	Boavista	Donetsk
	Potskhveria  78'		Latapy  87'

Shakhtar Donetsk won 4–3 on aggregate.

2 October 1997	Red Star Belgrade	1 – 1	Germinal Ekeren	Belgrade
	Drulić  18'		Radzinski  66'

Germinal Ekeren won 4–3 on aggregate.

2 October 1997	NK Primorje	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	AIK Fotboll	Ajdovscina
	Rudonja  110'		Novaković  77'

NK Primorje won 2–1 on aggregate.

2 October 1997	Dinaburg	2 – 4	AEK Athens	Daugavpils
	Fedotovs  34' Isayev  62'		Nikolaidis  35', 80' Vlachos  50' Kostis  72'

AEK Athens won 9–2 on aggregate.

2 October 1997	FC Luzern	0 – 2	Slavia Prague	Luzern
			Koilov  55' (o.g.) Vágner  74'

Slavia Prague won 6–2 on aggregate.

2 October 1997	Roda JC	10 – 0	Hapoel Be'er Sheva	Kerkrade
	van Houdt  19', 32', 70' Lawal  41', 63' Ooijer  49', 85' (pen) Vrede  53' Torma  72', 90'

Roda JC won 14–1 on aggregate.

2 October 1997	Tromsø	4 – 2 (a.e.t.)	NK Zagreb	Tromse
	Lange  15', 115' Årst  74' S.M. Johansen  90'		Vukić  53' Bule  57'

Tromsø won 6–5 on aggregate

2 October 1997	Ararat Yerevan	0 – 2	FC København	Yerevan
			M. Nielsen  87' Šestan  89'

FC København won 5–0 on aggregate.

2 October 1997	Lokomotiv Moscow	3 – 0	Belshina Bobruisk	Moscow
	Maminov  23' Kharlachyov  41' Loskov  74'

Lokomotiv Moscow won 5–1 on aggregate.

2 October 1997	Slovan Bratislava	0 – 2	Chelsea	Bratislava
			Vialli  27' Di Matteo  60'

Chelsea won 4–0 on aggregate.

2 October 1997	Kilmarnock	1 – 1	OGC Nice	Kilmarnock
	Reilly  31'		Milinković  76'

OGC Nice won 4–2 on aggregate.

2 October 1997	BVSC Budapest	0 – 2	Real Betis	Budapest
			Alexis Trujillo  8' Alfonso  48'

Real Betis won 4–0 on aggregate.

2 October 1997	Legia Warszawa	1 – 1	Vicenza	Warsaw
	Kacprzak  57'		Zauli  87'

Vicenza won 3–1 on aggregate.

Second round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tromsø	4 - 9	Chelsea	3 - 2	1 - 7
Germinal Ekeren	4 - 6	VfB Stuttgart	0 - 4	4 - 2
Lokomotiv Moscow	2 - 1	Kocaelispor	2 - 1	0 - 0
Shakhtar Donetsk	2 - 5	Vicenza	1 - 3	1 - 2
Real Betis	3 - 1	FC København	2 - 0	1 - 1
AEK Athens	2 - 1	Sturm Graz	2 - 0	0 - 1
OGC Nice	3 - 3(a)	Slavia Prague	2 - 2	1 - 1
NK Primorje	0 - 6	Roda JC	0 - 2	0 - 4

First leg

23 October 1997	Tromsø	3 – 2	Chelsea	Tromse
	Nilsen  6' Fermann  19' Årst  81'		Vialli  86', 90'

23 October 1997	Germinal Ekeren	0 – 4	VfB Stuttgart	Antwerp
			Bobic  43', 61' Akpoborie  55', 75'

23 October 1997	Lokomotiv Moscow	2 – 1	Kocaelispor	Moscow
	Kharlachyov  32' Janashia  82'		Uzun  73'

23 October 1997	Shakhtar Donetsk	1 – 3	Vicenza	Donetsk
	Zubov  62'		Luiso  1', 90' Beghetto  55'

23 October 1997	Real Betis	2 – 0	FC København	Seville
	Oli  25' Cañas  38'

23 October 1997	AEK Athens	2 – 0	Sturm Graz	Athens
	Batista  74' Marcelo  84'

23 October 1997	OGC Nice	2 – 2	Slavia Prague	Nice
	Aulanier  5' (pen)		Vácha  74', 35'

23 October 1997	NK Primorje	0 – 2	Roda JC	Ajdovscina
			Lawal  15' van Houdt  67'

Second leg

6 November 1997	Chelsea	7 – 1	Tromsø	London
	Petrescu  13', 86' Vialli  25', 61', 76' Zola  43' Leboeuf  55' (pen)		B. Johansen  39'

Chelsea won 9–4 on aggregate.

6 november 1997	VfB Stuttgart	2 – 4	Germinal Ekeren	Antwerp
	Verlaat  12' Poschner  34'		van Ankeren  43', 82' Van Geneugden  45' Karagiannis  72'

VfB Stuttgart won 6–4 on aggregate.

23 October 1997	Kocaelispor	0 – 0	Lokomotiv Moscow	Izmir

Lokomotiv Moscow won 2–1 on aggregate.

6 November 1997	Vicenza	2 – 1	Shakhtar Donetsk	Vicenza
	Luiso  24' Viviani  70'		Atelkin  60'

Vicenza won 5–2 on aggregate.

6 November 1997	FC København	1 – 1	Real Betis	Copenhagen
	P. Nielsen  61' (pen)		Ureña  79'

Real Betis won 3–1 on aggregate.

6 November 1997	Sturm Graz	1 – 0	AEK Athens	Graz
	Spiteri  82'

AEK Athens won 2–1 on aggregate.

6 November 1997	Slavia Prague	1 – 1	OGC Nice	Prague
	Labant  80'		Vandecasteele  75'

Slavia Prague won 3–3 on away goals rule.

23 October 1997	Roda JC	4 – 0	NK Primorje	Kerkrade
	van der Luer  45' Peeters  50' Zafarin  74' Valgaeren  85'

Roda JC won 6–0 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Roda JC	1 - 9	Vicenza	1 - 4	0 - 5
Slavia Prague	1 - 3	VfB Stuttgart	1 - 1	0 - 2
AEK Athens	1 - 2	Lokomotiv Moscow	0 - 0	1 - 2
Real Betis	2 - 5	Chelsea	1 - 2	1 - 3

First leg

5 March 1998	Roda JC	1 – 4	Vicenza	Kerkrade
	Peeters  73'		Luiso  17', 40' Belotti  28' Otero  67'

5 March 1998	Slavia Prague	1 – 1	VfB Stuttgart	Prague
	Vácha  40'		Poschner  51'

5 March 1998	AEK Athens	0 – 0	Lokomotiv Moscow	Athens

5 March 1998	Real Betis	1 – 2	Chelsea	Seville
	Alfonso  46'		Flo  9', 12'

Second leg

19 March 1998	Vicenza	5 – 0	Roda JC	Vicenza
	Luiso  5' Firmani  24' Méndez  39' Ambrosetti  43' Zauli  47'

Vicenza won 9–1 on aggregate.

19 March 1998	VfB Stuttgart	2 – 0	Slavia Prague	Moscow
	Balakov  9', 88'

VfB Stuttgart won 3–1 on aggregate.

19 March 1998	Lokomotiv Moscow	2 – 1	AEK Athens	Moscow
	Kharlachyov  55' Chugainov  90'		Kopitsis  68' (pen)

Lokomotiv Moscow won 2–1 on aggregate.

19 March 1998	Chelsea	3 – 1	Real Betis	London
	Sinclair  30' Di Matteo  50' Zola  90'		Finidi  20'

Chelsea won 5–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Vicenza	2 - 3	Chelsea	1 - 0	1 - 3
VfB Stuttgart	3 - 1	Lokomotiv Moscow	2 - 1	1 - 0

First leg

2 April 1998	Vicenza	1 – 0	Chelsea	Vicenza
	Zauli  16'

2 April 1998	VfB Stuttgart	2 – 1	Lokomotiv Moscow	Stuttgart
	Akpoborie  42' Bobic  90'		Janashia  22'

Second leg

16 April 1998	Chelsea	3 – 1	Vicenza	London
	Poyet  35' Zola  51' M. Hughes  76'		Luiso  32'

Chelsea won 3–2 on aggregate.

2 April 1998	Lokomotiv Moscow	0 – 1	VfB Stuttgart	Moscow
			Bobic  24'

VfB Stuttgart won 3–1 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1998 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final

13 May 1998	Chelsea	1 – 0	VfB Stuttgart	Råsunda Stadium, Stockholm Attendance: 30,216 Referee: Stefano Braschi (Italy)
	Zola  71'

Top scorers

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

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Pasquale Luiso	Vicenza	8
2	Jonathan Akpoborie	VfB Stuttgart	6
	Fredi Bobic	VfB Stuttgart	6
	Peter van Houdt	Roda JC	6
	Gianluca Vialli	Chelsea	6
6	Alfonso	Real Betis	4
	Gábor Torma	Roda JC	4
	Karel Vácha	Slavia Prague	4
	Gianfranco Zola	Chelsea	4
10	Ole Martin Årst	Tromsø	3
	Serhiy Atelkin	Shakhtar Donetsk	3
	Nino Bule	NK Zagreb	3
	Roberto Di Matteo	Chelsea	3
	Tryggvi Guðmundsson	ÍBV	3
	Yevgeni Kharlachyov	Lokomotiv Moscow	3
	Charis Kopitsis	AEK Athens	3
	Garba Lawal	Roda JC	3
	Radu Niculescu	Naţional Bucureşti	3
	Adrian Pigulea	Naţional Bucureşti	3
	Mladen Rudonja	NK Primorje	3
	Tomasz Sokołowski	Legia Warszawa	3
	Dejan Stanković	Red Star Belgrade	3
	Paul Wright	Kilmarnock	3

See also

• UEFA Champions League 1997-98
• UEFA Cup 1997-98
• UEFA Intertoto Cup 1997

External links

• 1997-98 competition at UEFA website
• results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
• Archive of old pages site UEFA Season 1997 – 1998, written protocol games. On the opened page should click on the word «Impatient»