1972–73 UEFA Cup

1972–73 UEFA Cup
Tournament details
Dates	13 September 1972 – 23 May 1973
Teams	64
Final positions
Champions	Liverpool (1st title)
Runners-up	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Tournament statistics
Matches played	124
Goals scored	405 (3.27 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Jupp Heynckes; Jan Jeuring (12 each)
	← 1971–72 1973–74 →

The 1972–73 UEFA Cup was won by Liverpool over Borussia Mönchengladbach on aggregate.

A new team distribution was decided by UEFA, abolishing the Fairs Cup criteria. Two clubs for a nation became the ordinary assignment. However, the five strongest federations had a third club, and the three biggest ones a fourth team: consequently, the eight minor nations could enlist a single club only.^[1]^[2]

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Aberdeen	5–9	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–3 (Report)	3–6 (Report)
Åtvidaberg	5–6	Club Brugge	3–5 (Report)	2–1 (Report)
Manchester City	3–4	Valencia	2–2 (Report)	1–2 (Report)
Lyn	3–12	Tottenham Hotspur	3–6 (Report)	0–6 (Report)
Köln	5–1	Bohemians	2–1 (Report)	3–0 (Report)
Budapest Honvéd	4–0	Partick Thistle	1–0 (Report)	3–0 (Report)
Viking	1–0	IBV	1–0 (Report)	0–0 (Report)
Feyenoord	21–0	Rumelange	9–0 (Report)	12–0 (Report)
Liverpool	2–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–0 (Report)	0–0 (Report)
Nîmes	2–4	Grasshoppers	1–2 (Report)	1–2 (Report)
Vitória de Setúbal	6–2	Zagłębie Sosnowiec	6–1 (Report)	0–1 (Report)
Stoke City	3–5	Kaiserslautern	3–1 (Report)	0–4 (Report)
Racing White	0–3	CUF Barreiro	0–1 (Report)	0–2 (Report)
Torino	2–4	Las Palmas	2–0 (Report)	0–4 (Report)
Sochaux	2–5	Frem	1–3 (Report)	1–2 (Report)
Olympiacos	3–1	Cagliari	2–1 (Report)	1–0 (Report)
Angers	2–3	BFC Dynamo	1–1 (Report)	1–2 (Report)
Porto	4–1	Barcelona	3–1 (Report)	1–0 (Report)
Universitatea Cluj	5–6	Levski-Spartak	4–1 (Report)	1–5 (Report)
Red Star Belgrade	7–4	Lausanne-Sport	5–1 (Report)	2–3 (Report)
Internazionale	7–1	Valletta	6–1 (Report)	1–0 (Report)
Beroe Stara Zagora	10–1	Austria Wien	7–0 (Report)	3–1 (Report)
UTA Arad	1–4	Norrköping	1–2 (Report)	0–2 (Report)
EPA Larnaca	0–2	Ararat Yerevan	0–1 (Report)	0–1 (Report)
AEK Athens	4–2	Salgótarján	3–1 (Report)	1–1 (Report)
Eskişehirspor	1–5	Fiorentina	1–2 (Report)	0–3 (Report)
Dukla Prague	3–5	OFK Beograd	2–2 (Report)	1–3 (Report)
Slovan Bratislava	8–1	Vojvodina	6–0 (Report)	2–1 (Report)
Dinamo Tbilisi	3–4	Twente	3–2 (Report)	0–2 (Report)
Ruch Chorzów	3–1	Fenerbahçe	3–0 (Report)	0–1 (Report)
Dynamo Dresden	4–2	VÖEST	2–0 (Report)	2–2 (Report)
Hvidovre	(wo)	HJK	— (Report)

First leg

13 September 1972

Torino	2–0	Las Palmas
Toschi 11' 44'

Stadio Comunale, Turin

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Joseph M. Cassar Naudi (Malta)

13 September 1972

Köln	2–1	Bohemians
Flohe 48' 65'		Daly 24'

Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: José María Ortiz (Spain)

14 September 1972

Olympiacos	2–1	Cagliari
Gioutsos 2' Triantafyllos 51'		Domenghini 66'

Piraeus

13 September 1972

Universitatea Cluj	4–1	Levski-Spartak
Șoo 67' Crețu 70' Mureșan 78' Uifăleanu 87'	Report	Haralampiev 54'

Stadionul Municipal, Cluj-Napoca

Attendance: 6,105

Referee: Gerhard Künze (East Germany)

13 September 1972

Internazionale	6–1	Valletta
Boninsegna 11' (pen.) 29' 45' 65' Massa 23' Bedin 33'		Borg 34'

Milan

13 September 1972

UTA Arad	1–2	Norrköping
Broșovschi 26'	Report	Kindvall 47' Wendt 60'

Stadionul Francisc von Neuman, Arad

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Fehmi Pazarici (Turkey)

14 September 1972

Eskişehirspor	1–2	Fiorentina
Vahap 73'		Sormani 36' Clerici 85'

Istanbul

Second leg

27 September 1972

Las Palmas	4–0	Torino
Soto 5' 48' Germán 40' 74'

Estadio Insular, Las Palmas

Attendance: 24,000

Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)

Las Palmas won 4–2 on aggregate.

27 September 1972

Bohemians	0–3	Köln
		Flohe 76' Kapellmann 81' Lauscher 84'

Dalymount Park, Dublin

Attendance: 10,800

Referee: Franz Geluck (Belgium)

Köln won 5–1 on aggregate.

27 September 1972

Cagliari	0–1	Olympiacos
		Niccolai 10' (o.g.)

Cagliari

Olympiacos won 3–1 on aggregate.

4 October 1972

Levski-Spartak	5–1 (a.e.t.)	Universitatea Cluj
Tsvetkov 38' Zhechev 41' Veselinov 63', 85' Mitkov 109' (pen.)	Report	Munteanu 88'

Levski Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Ivan Placek (Czechoslovakia)

Levski-Spartak won 6–5 on aggregate.

27 September 1972

Valletta	0–1	Internazionale
		Massa 23'

Valletta

Internazionale won 7–1 on aggregate.

27 September 1972

Norrköping	2–0	UTA Arad
Kindvall 6' Wendt 37'	Report

Norrköpings Idrottspark, Norrköping

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Tofiq Bahramov (Soviet Union)

Norrköping won 4–1 on aggregate.

27 September 1972

Fiorentina	3–0	Eskişehirspor
Clerici 6' 74' (pen.) Saltutti 34'

Florence

Fiorentina won 5–1 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
BFC Dynamo	3–2	Levski-Spartak	3–0 (Report)	0–2 (Report)
Borussia Mönchengladbach	6–1	Hvidovre	3–0 (Report)	3–1 (Report)
Porto	5–3	Club Brugge	3–0 (Report)	2–3 (Report)
Tottenham Hotspur	4–1	Olympiacos	4–0 (Report)	0–1 (Report)
Red Star Belgrade	4–1	Valencia	3–1 (Report)	1–0 (Report)
Internazionale	4–2	Norrköping	2–2 (Report)	2–0 (Report)
Viking	2–9	Köln	1–0 (Report)	1–9 (Report)
Beroe Stara Zagora	3–1	Budapest Honvéd	3–0 (Report)	0–1 (Report)
Feyenoord	5–5(a)	OFK Beograd	4–3 (Report)	1–2 (Report)
Liverpool	6–1	AEK Athens	3–0 (Report)	3–1 (Report)
Vitória de Setúbal	(a)2–2	Fiorentina	1–0 (Report)	1–2 (Report)
Grasshoppers	3–7	Ararat Yerevan	1–3 (Report)	2–4 (Report)
CUF Barreiro	2–3	Kaiserslautern	1–3 (Report)	1–0 (Report)
Las Palmas	3–2	Slovan Bratislava	2–2 (Report)	1–0 (Report)
Ruch Chorzów	0–4	Dynamo Dresden	0–1 (Report)	0–3 (Report)
Frem	0–9	Twente	0–5 (Report)	0–4 (Report)

First leg

25 October 1972

Internazionale	2–2	Norrköping
Massa 2' 48'		Jansson 5' Kindvall 38'

Milan

25 October 1972

Vitória de Setúbal	1–0	Fiorentina
Machado 60'

Setúbal

Second leg

8 November 1972

Norrköping	0–2	Internazionale
		Boninsegna 10' Magistrelli 68'

Norrköping

Internazionale won 4–2 on aggregate.

1 November 1972

Fiorentina	2–1	Vitória de Setúbal
Clerici 1' Perego 21'		Duda 28'

Florence

2–2 on aggregate; Vitória de Setúbal won on away goals.

Third round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ararat Yerevan	2–2(p)	Kaiserslautern	2–0 (Report)	0–2 (Report)
Köln	0–5	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–0 (Report)	0–5 (Report)
Tottenham Hotspur	2–1	Red Star Belgrade	2–0 (Report)	0–1 (Report)
Twente	4–2	Las Palmas	3–0 (Report)	1–2 (Report)
OFK Beograd	3–1	Beroe Stara Zagora	0–0 (Report)	3–1 (Report)
Vitória de Setúbal	2–1	Internazionale	2–0 (Report)	0–1 (Report)
BFC Dynamo	1–3	Liverpool	0–0 (Report)	1–3 (Report)
Porto	1–3	Dynamo Dresden	1–2 (Report)	0–1 (Report)

First leg

28 November 1972

BFC Dynamo	0–0	Liverpool
	Report

Dynamo-Stadion im Sportforum, East Berlin

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Muzzafer Sarvan (Turkey)

29 November 1972

Vitória de Setúbal	2–0	Internazionale
Machado 13' Bini 83' (o.g.)

Setúbal

Second leg

13 December 1972

Liverpool	3–1	BFC Dynamo
Boersma Heighway Toshack		Netz

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 34,280

Referee: Petar Nikolow

13 December 1972

Internazionale	1–0	Vitória de Setúbal
Boninsegna 27' (pen.)

Milan

Vitória de Setúbal won 2–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Kaiserslautern	2–9	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–2 (Report)	1–7 (Report)
OFK Beograd	3–4	Twente	3–2 (Report)	0–2 (Report)
Tottenham Hotspur	2–2 (a)	Vitória de Setúbal	1–0 (Report)	1–2 (Report)
Liverpool	3–0	Dynamo Dresden	2–0 (Report)	1–0 (Report)

Semi-finals

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Liverpool	2–2 (a)	Tottenham Hotspur	1–0	1–2
Borussia Mönchengladbach	5–1	Twente	3–0	2–1

Matches

10 April 1973

20:30 (19:30 BST)

Liverpool	1–0	Tottenham Hotspur
Lindsay 26'	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 42,174^[3]

Referee: Bertil Lööw (Sweden)

25 April 1973

20:30 (19:30 BST)

Tottenham Hotspur	2–1	Liverpool
Peters 49', 62'	Report	Heighway 54'

White Hart Lane, London

Attendance: 46,919^[4]

Referee: Aurelio Angonese (Italy)

2–2 on aggregate; Liverpool won on away goals.

11 April 1973

19:30

Borussia Mönchengladbach	3–0	Twente
Heynckes 32', 60' (pen.) Jensen 51'	Report

Bökelbergstadion, Mönchengladbach

Attendance: 34,110^[5]

Referee: Petar Hristov (Bulgaria)

25 April 1973

19:30

Twente	1–2	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Notten 81'	Report	Drost 13' (o.g.) Rupp 27'

Diekman Stadion, Enschede

Attendance: 25,000^[6]

Referee: John Carpenter (Republic of Ireland)

Borussia Mönchengladbach won 5–1 on aggregate.

Final

First leg

10 May 1973

Liverpool	3–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Keegan 21', 32' Lloyd 61'

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 41,169

Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

Second leg

23 May 1973

Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–0	Liverpool
Heynckes 29', 40'

Bökelbergstadion, Mönchengladbach

Attendance: 34,905

Referee: Pavel Kazakov (Soviet Union)

Liverpool won 3–2 on aggregate.

References

^ The five most successful nations in the first 15 years of the European football were Spain, Italy, England, Portugal and West Germany. If Italy and England easily became part of the big three, Francoist Spain was opposed by the Eastern bloc for political reasons, so West Germany obtained its position underlining its economic strength.
^ Albania and Northern Ireland did not join, so they were substituted by clubs from France and Yugoslavia.
^ "Liverpool FC – Tottenham Hotspur 1:0 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)".
^ "Tottenham Hotspur – Liverpool FC 2:1 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)".
^ "Bor. Mönchengladbach – FC Twente 3:0 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)".
^ "FC Twente – Bor. Mönchengladbach 1:2 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)".

External links

1972–73 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website
Official site
Results at RSSSF.com
All scorers 1972–73 UEFA Cup according to protocols UEFA
1972/73 UEFA Cup - results and line-ups (archive)

[1] The five most successful nations in the first 15 years of the European football were Spain, Italy, England, Portugal and West Germany. If Italy and England easily became part of the big three, Francoist Spain was opposed by the Eastern bloc for political reasons, so West Germany obtained its position underlining its economic strength.

[2] Albania and Northern Ireland did not join, so they were substituted by clubs from France and Yugoslavia.

[3] "Liverpool FC – Tottenham Hotspur 1:0 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)".

[4] "Tottenham Hotspur – Liverpool FC 2:1 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)".

[5] "Bor. Mönchengladbach – FC Twente 3:0 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)".

[6] "FC Twente – Bor. Mönchengladbach 1:2 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)".

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