The 1995–96 season of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was won by Paris Saint-Germain 1–0 in the final against Austrian entrants Rapid Wien in Brussels on 8 May 1996.
The 1995–96 season also saw the return of Yugoslav clubs on the international scene after a three-year ban due to a UN embargo. However, the finalist of Yugoslav national cup, FK Obilić, was eliminated in the qualifying round.
Teams
First round ZaragozaTH Deportivo La Coruña Club Brugge AEK Athens Parma Everton Feyenoord Copenhagen Paris Saint-Germain Sporting CP Trabzonspor Halmstad Borussia Mönchengladbach Dynamo Moscow Rapid Wien CelticQualifying round Sion GKS Katowice Petrolul Ploiești Molde Maccabi Haifa Vác FC Samsung APOEL Shakhtar Donetsk Dinamo Batumi KR DAG Liepāja TPS Inter Bratislava Mura Lokomotiv Sofia Hradec Králové Wrexham Linfield Derry City Dinamo-93 Minsk Valletta Teuta Durrës Vaduz Žalgiris Vilnius Grevenmacher KÍ Sileks Ararat Yerevan Tiligul Tiraspol Lantana Tallinn Neftçi Obilić TH Title Holders
Qualifying round
First leg
DAG Liepāja awarded victory 3–0, due to Lantana Tallinn fielding an ineligible player, Andrei Borissov. The score at the moment was 1–2.
Second leg
KR won 4–3 on aggregate.
Sion won 3–2 on aggregate.
Sileks won 4–2 on aggregate.
Teuta Durrës won 3–1 on aggregate.
Hradec Králové won 14–1 on aggregate.
APOEL won 3–0 on aggregate.
Petrolul Ploiești won 1–0 on aggregate.
Inter Bratislava won 5–2 on aggregate.
Shakhtar Donetsk won 5–1 on aggregate.
Žalgiris Vilnius won 3–2 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate. Ararat Yerevan won 5–4 on penalties.
Dinamo Batumi won 3–2 on aggregate.
Lokomotiv Sofia won 2–1 on aggregate.
Maccabi Haifa won 6–3 on aggregate.
Molde won 3–2 on aggregate.
DAG Liepāja won 3–0 on aggregate.
First round
First leg
Second leg
Trabzonspor won 3–2 on aggregate.
Deportivo La Coruña won 8–0 on aggregate.
Zaragoza won 5–1 on aggregate.
Club Brugge won 2–1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate. Halmstad won on away goals.
Parma won 4–0 on aggregate.
Paris Saint-Germain won 6–2 on aggregate.
Celtic won 7–2 on aggregate.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 6–2 on aggregate.
AEK Athens won 4–2 on aggregate.
Everton won 6–3 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 13–0 on aggregate.
Dynamo Moscow won 4–1 on aggregate.
Hradec Králové won 7–2 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 4–0 on aggregate.
Rapid Wien won 3–1 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
Second leg
Deportivo La Coruña won 4–0 on aggregate.
Zaragoza won 3–1 on aggregate.
Parma won 4–3 on aggregate.
Paris Saint-Germain won 4–0 on aggregate.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 5–1 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 1–0 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate. Dynamo Moscow won 3–1 on penalties.
Rapid Wien won 4–2 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Deportivo La Coruña won 2–1 on aggregate.
Paris Saint-Germain won 3–2 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 3–2 on aggregate.
Rapid Wien won 4–0 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Paris Saint-Germain won 2–0 on aggregate.
Rapid Wien won 4–1 on aggregate.
Final
Top goalscorers The top goalscorers from the 1995–96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup are as follows: RankNameTeamGoals1 Petr Samec Hradec Králové92 Bebeto Deportivo La Coruña6 Carsten Jancker Rapid Wien64 Mihajlo Biberčić KR Reykjavík4 Regi Blinker Feyenoord4 Youri Djorkaeff Paris Saint-Germain4 Patrice Loko Paris Saint-Germain4 Michael Obiku Feyenoord4 Christian Stumpf Rapid Wien4 Andreas Thom Celtic4
See also 1995–96 UEFA Champions League 1995–96 UEFA Cup 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup
References
External links 1995–96 competition at UEFA website Cup Winners' Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Cup Winners Cup Seasons 1995-96 – results, protocols