1990–91 UEFA Cup

1990–91 UEFA Cup
Tournament details
Dates	18 September 1990 – 22 May 1991
Teams	64
Final positions
Champions	Inter Milan (1st title)
Runners-up	Roma
Tournament statistics
Matches played	126
Goals scored	288 (2.29 per match)
Attendance	2,407,258 (19,105 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Rudi Völler (Roma); 10 goals
	← 1989–90 1991–92 →

The 1990–91 UEFA Cup was the 20th season of the UEFA Cup, the secondary club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The final was played over two legs at San Siro, Milan, Italy, and at the Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy. The competition was won by Inter Milan, who defeated fellow Italian team Roma by an aggregate result of 2–1 to claim their first UEFA Cup title.

For the second consecutive year, two Italian teams reached the final of the UEFA Cup, This was the first European title for Inter Milan in 26 years, after their two consecutive European Cup triumphs in 1964 and 1965. This tournament also marked the return of English clubs, after a five-year ban resulting from the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985.

Association team allocation

A total of 64 teams from 32 UEFA member associations participated in the 1990–91 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 1990–91 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1989 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1984–85 to 1988–89. Having returned to European competitions after serving its five-year ban, England's score was limited to the first of the five seasons accounted for in the ranking, and only one English club competed in the UEFA Cup, from a previous total of four.

Association ranking for 1990–91 UEFA Cup

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams
1	Italy	42.498	4
2	West Germany	41.093
3	Spain	40.999
4	Soviet Union	31.966	3
5	Belgium	30.833
6	Netherlands	27.050
7	Portugal	25.583
8	Romania	25.050
9	Scotland	24.800	2
10	Sweden	22.900
11	France	22.800
12	Yugoslavia	21.400
13	Austria	20.000
14	East Germany	20.000
15	Czech Republic	16.550
16	Hungary	16.500
17	Greece	16.416

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
18	Switzerland	16.000	2
19	Denmark	15.332	2
-	Wales	15.000	0	^{[Note WAL]}
20	Finland	13.664	2
21	Poland	13.250	2
22	Bulgaria	12.916	1
23	Turkey	11.665
24	England	9.428
25	Albania	8.666
26	Norway	6.666
27	Northern Ireland	5.666
28	Cyprus	5.666
28	Iceland	4.333
30	Malta	2.666
31	Republic of Ireland	2.665
32	Luxembourg	1.665

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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 (or best placed Welsh team as several English teams also competed) 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.

Teams

The labels in parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:

TH: Title holders
CW: Cup winners
CR: Cup runners-up
LC: League Cup winners
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
P-W: End-of-season European competition play-offs winners

Qualified teams for 1990–91 UEFA Cup
Inter Milan (3rd)	Roma (6th)	Atalanta (7th)	Bologna (8th)
Köln (2nd)	Eintracht Frankfurt (3rd)	Borussia Dortmund (4th)	Bayer Leverkusen (5th)
Valencia (2nd)	Atlético Madrid (4th)	Real Sociedad (5th)	Sevilla (6th)
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (2nd)	Torpedo Moscow (5th)	Chornomorets Odesa (6th)^{[Note URS]}	Anderlecht (2nd)
Mechelen (3rd)	Antwerp (4th)	Twente (3rd)	Vitesse (4th)
Roda JC (5th)	Benfica (2nd)	Sporting CP (3rd)	Vitória Guimarães (4th)
Universitatea Craiova (3rd)	Petrolul Ploieşti (4th)	Politehnica Timișoara (5th)	Heart of Midlothian (3rd)
Dundee United (4th)	Nörrkoping (2nd)	GAIS (3rd)	Bordeaux (2nd)
Monaco (3rd)	Dinamo Zagreb (2nd)	Partizan (4th)^{[Note YUG]}	Rapid Wien (3rd)
Admira Wacker (4th)	Chemnitzer FC (2nd)^{[Note GDR]}	Magdeburg (3rd)^{[Note GDR]}	Baník Ostrava (2nd)
Inter Bratislava (3rd)	MTK (2nd)	Ferencváros (3rd)	PAOK (3rd)
Iraklis (5th)^{[Note GRE]}	Lausanne (2nd)	Luzern (4th)	Brøndby (2nd)
Vejle (4th)	TPS (2nd)	RoPS (3rd)	Zagłębie Lubin (2nd)
Katowice (3rd)	Slavia Sofia (2nd)	Fenerbahçe (2nd)	Aston Villa (2nd)
Partizani (2nd)	Rosenborg (2nd)	Glenavon (2nd)	Omonia (2nd)
FH (2nd)	Hibernians (3rd)	Derry City (2nd)	Avenir Beggen (2nd)

Notes

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Soviet Union (URS): Zalgiris Vilnius qualified for the UEFA Cup by finishing fourth in the 1989 Soviet Top League, but in March 1990, the team seceded from the Football Federation of the Soviet Union and relinquished its UEFA Cup placing after the country of Lithuania formally proclaimed its independence. Chornomorets Odesa, the next best team not already qualified for European competition, took its place in the UEFA Cup.
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Yugoslavia: Hajduk Split finished third in the 1989–90 Yugoslav First League, but it was banned in November 1987 from entering any UEFA competition for two seasons, due to crowd trouble during the club's 1987–88 European Cup Winners' Cup second round return leg against Marseille, which came after repeated prior incidents at Hajduk's European home matches throughout early-to-mid 1980s. The ban was only enacted on seasons where Hadjuk Split would've qualified for European competition, with this being the second instance. Partizan, the next-best team not yet qualified for European competition, took its spot in the UEFA Cup.
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East Germany (GDR): All matches of teams representing the DFV of East Germany, which qualified through the 1989–90 DDR-Oberliga, on or after German reunification of 3 October show the flag of the reunited nation of Germany. However, those matches and their records were still counted for East Germany, and not for Germany, under UEFA regulations.
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Greece: AEK Athens finished second in the 1989–90 Alpha Ethniki, but it was punished with a one-year ban from all European competitions by UEFA, after AEK fans attacked Marseille's team bus on its way to the 1989–90 European Cup second round return leg in Athens. Iraklis, the next best team not already qualified for European competition, took its place in the UEFA Cup.

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches exceptionally took place on Tuesdays or Thursdays.

Schedule for 1990–91 UEFA Cup
Round	First leg	Second leg
First round	18–20 September 1990	2–3 October 1990
Second round	23–24 October 1990	6–8 November 1990
Third round	28 November 1990	11–12 December 1990
Quarter-finals	6 March 1991	20 March 1991
Semi-finals	10 April 1991	24 April 1991
Final	8 May 1991	22 May 1991

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Magdeburg	1–0	RoPS	0–0	1–0
Roma	2–0	Benfica	1–0	1–0
Aston Villa	5–2	Baník Ostrava	3–1	2–1
Atalanta	1–1 (a)	Dinamo Zagreb	0–0	1–1
Bayer Leverkusen	2–1	Twente	1–0	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Borussia Dortmund	4–0	Chemnitzer FC	2–0	2–0
Brøndby	6–4	Eintracht Frankfurt	5–0	1–4
Derry City	0–1	Vitesse	0–1	0–0
Avenir Beggen	2–6	Inter Bratislava	2–1	0–5
Chornomorets Odesa	4–3	Rosenborg	3–1	1–2
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2–4	Heart of Midlothian	1–1	1–3
Torpedo Moscow	5–2	GAIS	4–1	1–1
Politehnica Timișoara	2–1	Atlético Madrid	2–0	0–1
Fenerbahçe	6–2	Vitória Guimarães	3–0	3–2
FH	3–5	Dundee United	1–3	2–2
Katowice	4–0	TPS	3–0	1–0
Glenavon	0–2	Bordeaux	0–0	0–2
Hibernians	0–5	Partizan	0–3	0–2
Norrköping	1–3	Köln	0–0	1–3
Iraklis	0–2	Valencia	0–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Partizani	0–2	Universitatea Craiova	0–1	0–1
Lausanne	3–3 (a)	Real Sociedad	3–2	0–1
MTK	2–3	Luzern	1–1	1–2
Slavia Sofia	4–5	Omonia	2–1	2–4 (a.e.t.)
Antwerp	1–3	Ferencváros	0–0	1–3 (a.e.t.)
Anderlecht	4–0	Petrolul Ploiești	2–0	2–0
Roda JC	2–6	Monaco	1–3	1–3
Sevilla	0–0 (4–3 p)	PAOK	0–0	0–0 (a.e.t.)
Rapid Wien	3–4	Inter Milan	2–1	1–3 (a.e.t.)
Sporting CP	3–2	Mechelen	1–0	2–2
Vejle	0–4	Admira Wacker	0–1	0–3
Zagłębie Lubin	0–2	Bologna	0–1	0–1

First leg

18 September 1990

14:45

Hibernians	0–3	Partizan
	Report	Đurđević 16' Đorđević 81' Mijatović 89'

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 851

Referee: Ilias Karamanis (Greece)

18 September 1990

19:00

Glenavon	0–0	Bordeaux
	Report

Mourneview Park, Lurgan

Attendance: 3,250

Referee: Rune Pedersen (Norway)

18 September 1990

19:30

Avenir Beggen	2–1	Inter Bratislava
Krahen 33', 39'	Report	Stojka 2'

Stade rue Henri Dunant, Luxembourg

Attendance: 499

Referee: Hans Reijgwart (Netherlands)

18 September 1990

19:30

FH	1–3	Dundee United
B. Jónsson 2'	Report	Jackson 35' Cleland 77' B. Jónsson 89' (o.g.)

Kaplakriki, Hafnarfjörður

Attendance: 263

Referee: Patrick Kelly (Republic of Ireland)

18 September 1990