Eintracht Frankfurt in European football

Eintracht Frankfurt in European football

Club	Eintracht Frankfurt
First entry	1955–58 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
Latest entry	2019–20 UEFA Europa League
Titles
Champions League	0
Europa League	1 1980
Cup Winners' Cup	0
Super Cup	0

Eintracht Frankfurt played their first very official match in competitive European football on 11 November 1959. This was a European Cup first round game against BSC Young Boys of Switzerland. The match ended in a 4–1 away victory for the Eagles. However, a Frankfurt XI took part already earlier in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup with several Eintracht players in the squad.

Summary

The club's first ever match against European opponents however, was a friendly match against Swedish side Malmö FF in 1920 when the Scanians visited Germany.

In season 1959–60, Eintracht took part in the European Cup. In this season, they became the first German club to reach a European final, eventually losing 7–3 to Real Madrid.

In the 1966–67 season, the club played in the Intertoto Cup which they finally won, facing Inter Bratislava in the final. Plus in the same season, Eintracht played in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and reached the semi-finals. In 1967, the Eagles won the Cup of the Alps, a tournament then composed of Italian, Swiss and German teams.

Frankfurt's first appearance in the renamed UEFA Cup was in 1972, the first step in the Cup Winners' Cup stage was made in 1974.

In the 1979–80 edition of the UEFA Cup, Eintracht reached the finals. The first leg was lost at fellow German club Borussia Mönchengladbach, but the second leg was decided by the send on striker Fred Schaub in the 81st minute and secured the Mainhattan club the first major European title.

In the 1980s, the club struggled to participate regularly in European competitions.

Between the beginning to the mid-1990s the Eagles re-established themselves as a powerhouse in Europe and advanced far in the UEFA Cup regularly with players such as Uwe Bein, Jay-Jay Okocha, Uli Stein, Ralf Weber and Tony Yeboah on the books.

Despite reaching the 1994–95 UEFA Cup quarter-finals, Eintracht bounced between the first two tiers for almost ten years after the relegation from the Bundesliga in the 1995–96 campaign.

Since 2005, they were part of the first Bundesliga again and immediately qualified for the UEFA Cup due to the participation in the DFB Cup final against Bayern Munich who were already qualified for the Champions League. In the following UEFA Cup campaign, Eintracht reached the group stage and seemed to be likely to advance to the next round but conceded two goals at Fenerbahçe after being up 2–0 what meant that Eintracht had to defer to the Istanbul club.

In 2013, Eintracht played at Bordeaux with 12,000 fans from Frankfurt and about 8,000 Bordeaux supporters. Eintracht were eliminated in the round of 32 after drawing twice with FC Porto.

In 2018, the qualification for the Europa League group stage was achieved by winning the DFB Cup for the first time in thirty years. In the 2018–19 Europa League, Luka Jović with his ten goals aided Eintracht to reach the semi-finals of the competition, only losing on penalties to the eventual champions, Chelsea.

Overall record

Accurate as of 12 March 2020

Competition	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	GF	GA	GD	Win%
European Cup / Champions League	7	4	2	1	23	15	+8	057.14
Cup Winners' Cup	24	14	3	7	41	23	+18	058.33
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League	99	55	19	25	194	104	+90	055.56
UEFA Intertoto Cup	5	3	0	2	14	6	+8	060.00
Total	135	76	24	35	272	148	+124	056.30

Legend: GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference.

UEFA competitions

Season	Competition	Round	Opposition	Home	Away	Aggregate
1959–60	European Cup	Preliminary round	KuPS	KuPS withdrew
		First Round	Young Boys	1–1	4–1	5–2
		Quarter-Final	Wiener SC	2–1	1–1	3–2
		Semi-Final	Rangers	6–1	6–3	12–4
		Final	Real Madrid	3–7
1972–73	UEFA Cup	First Round	Liverpool	0–0	0–2	0–2
1974–75	Cup Winners' Cup	First Round	Monaco	3–0	2–2	5–2
		Second Round	Dynamo Kyiv	2–3	1–2	3–5
1975–76	Cup Winners' Cup	First Round	Coleraine	5–1	6–2	11–3
		Second Round	Atlético Madrid	1–0	2–1	3–1
		Quarter-Final	SK Sturm Graz	1–0	2–0	3–0
		Semi-Final	West Ham United	2–1	1–3	3–4
1977–78	UEFA Cup	First Round	Sliema Wanderers	5–0	0–0	5–0
		Second Round	Zürich	4–3	3–0	7–3
		Third Round	Bayern Munich	4–0	2–1	6–1
		Quarter-Final	Grasshopper	3–2	0–1	3–3 (a)
1979–80	UEFA Cup	First Round	Aberdeen	1–0	1–1	2–1
		Second Round	Dinamo București	3–0 (a.e.t.)	0–2	3–2
		Third Round	Feyenoord	4–1	0–1	4–2
		Quarter-Final	Zbrojovka Brno	4–1	2–3	6–4
		Semi-Final	Bayern Munich	5–1 (a.e.t.)	0–2	5–3
		Final	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–0	2–3	3–3 (a)
1980–81	UEFA Cup	First Round	Shakhtar Donetsk	3–0	0–1	3–1
		Second Round	Utrecht	3–1	1–2	4–3
		Third Round	FC Sochaux-Montbéliard	4–2	0–2	4–4 (a)
1981–82	Cup Winners' Cup	First Round	PAOK	2–0	0–2	2–2, 5–4 (p)
		Second Round	SKA Rostov	2–0	0–1	2–1
		Quarter-Final	Tottenham Hotspur	2–1	0–2	2–3
1988–89	Cup Winners' Cup	First Round	Grasshopper	1–0	0–0	1–0
		Second Round	Sakaryaspor	3–1	3–0	6–1
		Quarter-Final	KV Mechelen	0–0	0–1	0–1
1990–91	UEFA Cup	First Round	Brøndby IF	4–1	0–5	4–6
1991–92	UEFA Cup	First Round	Spora Luxembourg	6–1	5–0	11–1
		Second Round	Gent	0–1	0–0	0–1
1992–93	UEFA Cup	First Round	Widzew Łódź	9–0	2–2	11–2
		Second Round	Galatasaray	0–0	0–1	0–1
1993–94	UEFA Cup	First Round	Dynamo Moscow	1–2	6–0	7–2
		Second Round	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2–0	0–1	2–1
		Third Round	Deportivo La Coruña	1–0	1–0	2–0
		Quarter-Final	Austria Salzburg	1–0	0–1	1–1, 4–5 (p)
1994–95	UEFA Cup	First Round	Olimpija Ljubljana	2–0	1–1	3–1
		Second Round	Rapid București	5–0	1–2	6–2
		Third Round	Napoli	1–0	1–0	2–0
		Quarter-Final	Juventus	1–1	0–3	1–4
1995	Intertoto Cup	Group 12	Spartak Plovdiv	—	4–0	2nd
			Iraklis	5–1	—
			FK Panerys Vilnius	—	4–0
			Vorwärts Steyr	1–2	—
		Second Round	Bordeaux	—	0–3	0–3
2006–07	UEFA Cup	First Round	Brøndby IF	4–0	2–2	6–2
		Group A	Palermo	1–2	—	5th
			Celta Vigo	—	1–1
			Newcastle United	0–0	—
			Fenerbahçe	—	2–2
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	Play-off Round	Qarabağ	2–1	2–0	4–1
		Group F	Bordeaux	3–0	1–0	1st
			APOEL	2–0	3–0
			Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–0	2–4
		Round of 32	Porto	3–3	2–2	5–5 (a)
2018–19	UEFA Europa League
		Group H	Marseille	4–0	2–1	1st
			Lazio	4–1	2–1
			Apollon Limassol	2–0	3–2
		Round of 32	Shakhtar Donetsk	4–1	2–2	6–3
		Round of 16	Internazionale	0–0	1–0	1–0
		Quarter-Final	Benfica	2–0	2–4	4–4 (a)
		Semi-Final	Chelsea	1–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)	2–2, 3–4 (p)
2019–20	UEFA Europa League	Second qualifying Round	Flora	2–1	2–1	4–2
		Third qualifying Round	Vaduz	1–0	5–0	6–0
		Play-off Round	Strasbourg	3–0	0–1	3–1
		Group F	Arsenal	0–3	2–1	2nd
			Standard Liège	2–1	1–2
			Vitória de Guimarães	2–3	1–0
		Round of 32	Red Bull Salzburg	4–1	2–2	6–3
		Round of 16	Basel	0–3

Non-UEFA Competitions

Season	Competition	Round	Opposition	Home	Away	Aggregate
1955–58	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	Group D	London XI	1–0	2–3	2nd
		Group D	Basel XI	5–1	2–6
1964–65	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	First Round	Kilmarnock	3–0	1–5	4–5
1965–66	Intertoto Cup	Group A3	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds	4–0	2–3	3rd
			IFK Norrköping	1–2	0–1
			PSV	4–2	0–3
1966–67	Intertoto Cup	Group A1	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds	3–1	4–2	1st
			Feyenoord Rotterdam	2–0	4–1
			Lanerossi Vicenza	1–5	1–0
		Quarter-Final	IFK Norrköping	3–1	1–2	4–3
		Semi-Final	Zagłębie Sosnowiec	6–1	1–4	7–5
		Final	Inter Bratislava	1–1	3–2	4–3
1966–67	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	First Round	Drumcondra	6–1	2–0	8–1
		Second Round	Hvidovre IF	5–1	2–2	7–3
		Third Round	Ferencvárosi TC	4–1	1–2	5–3
		Quarter-Final	Burnley	1–1	2–1	3–2
		Semi-Final	Dinamo Zagreb	3–0	0–4 (a.e.t)	3–4
1967–68	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	First Round	Nottingham Forest	0–1	0–4	0–5
1968–69	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	First Round	Wacker Innsbruck	3–0	2–2	5–2
		Second Round	Juventus	1–0 (a.e.t)	0–0	1–0
		Third Round	Athletic Bilbao	1–1	0–1	1–2

Teams played

Eintracht Frankfurt have played against clubs from 35 countries (clubs classed by the country they were in when the game was played). Eintracht have played 90 different clubs in Europe.

Country	Clubs
Austria	Sturm Graz, Wacker Innsbruck, Austria Salzburg, Vorwärts Steyr, Wiener SC
Azerbaijan	Qarabağ
Belgium	Gent, Standard Liège, KV Mechelen
Bulgaria	Spartak Plovdiv
Cyprus	APOEL, Apollon Limassol
Czechoslovakia	Zbrojovka Brno (now Czech Republic ), Inter Bratislava (now Slovakia )
Denmark	Brøndby IF, Hvidovre IF
England	Arsenal, Burnley, Chelsea, Liverpool, London XI, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United
Estonia	Flora
France	Girondins de Bordeaux, Marseille, Monaco, Strasbourg
Germany	Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayern Munich
Greece	Iraklis, PAOK
Hungary	Ferencvárosi TC
Ireland	Drumcondra
Israel	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Italy	Internazionale, Juventus, Lazio, Napoli, Palermo, Lanerossi Vicenza
Liechtenstein	Vaduz
Lithuania	FK Panerys Vilnius
Luxembourg	Spora Luxembourg
Malta	Sliema Wanderers
Netherlands	PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord, Utrecht
Northern Ireland	Coleraine
Poland	Widzew Łódź, Zagłębie Sosnowiec
Portugal	Benfica, Porto, Vitória de Guimarães
Romania	Dinamo București, Rapid București
Russia	Dynamo Moscow
Scotland	Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, Rangers
Slovenia	Olimpija Ljubljana
Soviet Union	Shakhtar Donetsk (now Ukraine ), Dynamo Kyiv (now Ukraine ), SKA Rostov (now Russia )
Spain	Athletic Bilbao, Deportivo La Coruña, Atlético Madrid, Real Madrid, Celta Vigo
Sweden	IFK Norrköping
Switzerland	Basel, Basel XI, Young Boys, FC Biel-Bienne, FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, FC Lausanne-Sport, Zürich, Grasshoppet
Turkey	Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, Sakaryaspor
Ukraine	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Shakhtar Donetsk
Yugoslavia	Dinamo Zagreb (now Croatia )

Record by country of opposition

As of 12 March 2020

Country	P	W	D	L	Win %
Austria	11	6	3	2	55
Azerbaijan	2	2	0	0	100
Belgium	6	1	2	3	16.67
Bulgaria	1	1	0	0	100
Cyprus	4	4	0	0	100
Czechoslovakia	4	2	1	1	50
Denmark	4	2	1	1	50
England	17	5	5	7	29.41
Estonia	2	2	0	0	100
France	11	7	1	3	63.64
Germany	6	4	0	2	66.67
Greece	3	2	0	1	66.67
Hungary	2	1	0	1	50
Ireland	2	2	0	0	100
Israel	2	1	0	1	50
Italy	19	11	4	4	57.9
Liechtenstein	2	2	0	0	100
Lithuania	1	1	0	0	100
Luxembourg	2	2	0	0	100
Malta	2	1	1	0	50
Netherlands	8	5	0	3	62.5
Northern Ireland	2	2	0	0	100
Poland	4	2	1	1	50
Portugal	6	2	2	2	33.33
Romania	4	2	0	2	50
Russia	2	1	0	1	50
Scotland	6	4	1	1	66.67
Slovenia	2	1	1	0	50
Spain	8	4	2	2	50
Sweden	3	1	0	2	33.33
Switzerland	19	13	2	4	68.42
Turkey	5	2	2	1	40
Ukraine	4	2	1	1	50
USSR	6	2	0	4	33.33
Yugoslavia	2	1	0	1	50
Totals	182	102	30	50	56.04

P – Played; W – Won; D – Drawn; L – Lost

Record players

Key

EC / CL = European Cup / Champions League, CL Q = Champions League Qualifying, EL / UC = Europa League / UEFA Cup, EL Q = Europa League Qualifying, CWC = Cup Winners' Cup, UIC = Intertoto Cup

As of 12 March 2020

Most appearances

#	Player	Eintracht career	EC / CL	CL Q	EL / UC	EL Q	CWC	UIC	Total
1	Charly Körbel	1972–1991	–	–	25	–	23	5	53
2	Willi Neuberger	1974–1983	–	–	25	–	14	6	45
3	Bernd Nickel	1967–1983	–	–	20	–	16	6	42
4	Bernd Hölzenbein	1967–1981	–	–	24	–	11	5	40
5	Manfred Binz	1985–1996	–	–	25	–	06	5	36
6	Jürgen Grabowski	1965–1980	–	–	16	–	12	4	32
7	Uwe Bindewald	1988–2004	–	–	23	–	–	5	28
	Kevin Trapp	2012–2015, 2018–	–	–	25	3	–	–
9	Dietmar Roth	1987–1997	–	–	18	–	06	3	27
	Danny da Costa	2017–	–	–	22	5	–	–

Top goalscorers

Numbers in brackets indicate appearances made. Ø = goals per game

#	Player	Eintracht career	EC / CL	CL Q	EL / UC	EL Q	CWC	UIC	Total	Ø
1	Bernd Hölzenbein	1967–1981	–	–	10 (24)	–	08 (11)	06 0(5)	24 (40)	0.63
2	Anthony Yeboah	1990–1995	–	–	12 (16)	–	–	–	12 (16)	0.75
3	Bernd Nickel	1967–1983	–	–	05 (20)	–	05 (16)	01 0(6)	11 (42)	0.26
4	Luka Jović	2017–2019	–	–	10 (14)	–	–	–	10 (14)	0.71
5	Filip Kostić	2018–	–	–	06 (21)	03 0(5)	–	–	09 (26)	0.34
6	Jan Furtok	1993–1995	–	–	07 (14)	–	–	01 0(1)	08 (15)	0.53
7	Jürgen Grabowski	1965–1980	–	–	04 (16)	–	03 (12)	00 0(4)	07 (32)	0.22
	Alexander Meier	2004–2018	–	–	07 0(9)	–	–	–	07 0(9)	0.78
9	Cha Bum-kun	1979–1983	–	–	05 (16)	–	01 0(6)	–	06 (22)	0.27
	Rüdiger Wenzel	1975–1979	–	–	03 0(6)	–	01 0(8)	02 0(4)	06 (18)	0.33
	Wolfgang Kraus	1971–1979, 1986–1987	–	–	04 0(8)	–	01 0(5)	01 0(4)	06 (17)	0.35
	Harald Karger	1979–1983	–	–	06 (11)	–	–	–	06 (11)	0.55
	Daichi Kamada	2017–	–	–	06 (12)	–	–	–	06 (12)	0.50

Map

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Eintracht Frankfurt's opponents in Europe
Red: Eintracht
Yellow: Opponents in Inter-Cities Fairs Cup / UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League
Black: European Cup
Green: Intertoto Cup
Blue: Cup of the Alps / Philips Trophy
Purple: Cup Winners' Cup

Sources

• Matheja, Ulrich (2011). Unsere Eintracht - Eintracht Frankfurt - Die Chronik. Die Werkstatt. ISBN 978-3-89533-750-5.