The 1985–86 UEFA Cup was the 15th season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The final was played over two legs at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid, Spain, and at the Olympiastadion, West Berlin, West Germany. For the second year in a row, the competition was won by Real Madrid of Spain, who defeated Köln of West Germany by an aggregate result of 5–3.
Real Madrid became the first club to successfully defend the UEFA Cup, a feat that would only be repeated by Sevilla on two occasions during the 21st century, both in the UEFA Cup (2006 and 2007) and its successor UEFA Europa League (2014 and 2015). In the former Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the unofficial predecessor of the UEFA Cup, it was only achieved by a representative team of the city of Barcelona (1958 and 1960) and by Valencia (1963 and 1964), both also fellow Spanish squads.
It was the first season in which English clubs were serving an indefinite ban from European football competitions due to the Heysel Stadium disaster, which would last for five seasons before being lifted for the 1990–91 season.
Association team allocation A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1985–86 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.
Following the English ban, their four berths were redistributed among associations 9–12, each gaining a third berth.
Association ranking For the 1985–86 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1984 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1979–80 to 1983–84.
+Association ranking for 1985–86 UEFA CupRankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes1 West Germany43.61842 England37.95003 Spain32.19944 Scotland31.95035 Italy31.6336 Belgium31.6167 Portugal31.2508 Yugoslavia28.4509 Soviet Union27.91610 France27.25011 Czechoslovakia25.55012 Netherlands25.54913 East Germany24.100214 Romania21.41615 Switzerland18.25016 Sweden18.000- Wales17.0000RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes17 Bulgaria16.750218 Austria15.50019 Hungary14.75020 Poland13.25021 Greece12.75022 Denmark10.749123 Republic of Ireland7.33224 Albania7.00025 Turkey5.33326 Norway5.24927 Cyprus4.99828 Finland4.99829 Northern Ireland3.99830 Luxembourg2.66631 Iceland2.33132 Malta1.999
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 1985–86 UEFA Cup Werder Bremen Köln Borussia Mönchengladbach Hamburger SV Athletic Bilbao Sporting de Gijón Real Madrid TH Osasuna Dundee United Rangers St Mirren Torino Internazionale Milan Club Brugge RFC Liège Waregem Sporting CP Boavista Portimonense Hajduk Split Partizan Vardar Spartak Moscow Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Chornomorets Odesa Nantes Auxerre Metz Bohemians Prague Slavia Prague Baník Ostrava PSV Eindhoven Feyenoord Sparta Rotterdam Lokomotive Leipzig Wismut Aue Dinamo București Sportul Studențesc Neuchâtel Xamax St. Gallen Malmö Hammarby Lokomotiv Sofia Pirin Blagoevgrad LASK Wacker Innsbruck Győri ETO Videoton Legia Warsaw Lech Poznań Panathinaikos AEK Athens AGF Bohemians Dinamo Tirana Beşiktaş Viking APOEL TPS Coleraine Avenir Beggen Valur Ħamrun Spartans Notes
Schedule The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches exceptionally took place on Tuesdays or Thursdays. In a departure from previous editions, both semi-finals were played in different days, and the two-legged final was held on consecutive weeks, with the second leg being played on a Tuesday. +Schedule for 1985–86 UEFA CupRoundFirst legSecond legFirst round11–19 September 19851–3 October 1985Second round23 October 19856 November 1985Third round27 November 198511 December 1985Quarter-finals4–5 March 198618–19 March 1986Semi-finals2–3 April 198615–16 April 1986Final30 April 19866 May 1986
First round
First leg
Second leg
LASK won 3–0 on aggregate.
Lokomotiv Sofia won 6–4 on aggregate.
Dinamo Tirana won 1–0 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Vardar won on away goals.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 3–1 on aggregate.
Lokomotive Leipzig won 6–1 on aggregate.
Bohemians Praha won 5–4 on aggregate.
Dnipro won 5–2 on aggregate.
Partizan won 4-1 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 4–1 on aggregate.
Legia Warsaw won 4–1 on aggregate.
Hammarby won 7-1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; Videoton won on away goals.
PSV Eindhoven won 6–0 on aggregate.
RFC Liège won 4-1 on aggregate.
Waregem won 6–2 on aggregate.
Nantes won 4–2 on aggregate.
4–4 on aggregate; Chornomorets Odesa won on away goals.
Hajduk Split won 7–3 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 5–1 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 4-3 on aggregate.
Torino won 3–2 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Sparta Rotterdam won 4–3 on penalties.
Club Brugge won 6–5 on aggregate.
St Mirren won 3-1 on aggregate.
Dundee United won 7–4 on aggregate.
Köln won 2–1 on aggregate.
Osasuna won 2-1 on aggregate.
Milan won 4–3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 5–1 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 5–1 on aggregate.
Neuchâtel Xamax won 7-4 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
Second leg
Dundee United won 3–1 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 2–1 on aggregate.
Legia Warsaw won 2–1 on aggregate.
Köln won 8–2 on aggregate.
Hajduk Split won 4–2 on aggregate.
Dnipro won 3–2 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Neuchâtel Xamax won on away goals.
3–3 on aggregate; Milan won on away goals.
Nantes won 5–1 on aggregate.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 6–2 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 4–1 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 4–1 on aggregate.
Hammarby won 5–4 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 4–1 on aggregate.
Waregem won 3–2 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 1–0 on aggregate.
Third round
First leg
Second leg
Hajduk Split won 3–0 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 1–0 on aggregate.
Köln won 4–3 on aggregate.
Nantes won 2–1 on aggregate.
Neuchâtel Xamax won 4–3 on aggregate.
Following the referee's controversial decision to award Waregem a penalty in the 44th minute as the foul looked to be outside of the penalty area, Milan fans pelted the pitch with missiles some of which hit several Waregem players. Following the match, as a result of the incident, AC Milan received a two-match European competition stadium ban, enforced at the start of their 1987–88 UEFA Cup campaign.Waregem won 3–2 on aggregate.
5–5 on aggregate; Real Madrid won on away goals.
Sporting CP won 4–2 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Köln won 3–1 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Waregem won 5–4 on penalties.
Internazionale won 6–3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Köln won 7–3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 6–4 on aggregate.
Final
First leg
Second leg
Real Madrid won 5–3 on aggregate.
Notes
External links 1985–86 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website Official Site Results at RSSSF.com All scorers 1985–86 UEFA Cup according to protocols UEFA 1985/86 UEFA Cup - results and line-ups (archive)