The 1973–74 UEFA Cup was the third season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at White Hart Lane, London, England, and at De Kuip, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was won by Feyenoord of the Netherlands, who defeated Tottenham Hotspur of England by an aggregate result of 4–2 to claim their first UEFA Cup title.
This was the fifth consecutive year where a Dutch team won a European competition, and the first one outside of the European Cup. Feyenoord also broke a streak of six consecutive years of English clubs winning the UEFA Cup or the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.
Association team allocation A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participate in the 1973–74 UEFA Cup. The original allocation scheme was as follows:
3 associations have four teams qualify. 3 associations have three teams qualify. 18 associations have two teams qualify. 7 associations have one team qualify.
Northern Ireland returned to the competition after a one-year absence. Scotland and Belgium were the two associations selected to have an extra third berth for this season, while France, Yugoslavia and Portugal went back to two qualified teams.
+Associations in the 1973–74 UEFA CupFour teams England Italy West GermanyThree teams Scotland Spain BelgiumTwo teams Hungary Netherlands Poland Portugal East Germany Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia Soviet Union Romania Turkey France Greece Austria Bulgaria Denmark Switzerland Sweden NorwayOne team Northern Ireland Malta Finland Luxembourg Republic of Ireland Iceland CyprusDid not compete Wales Albania
Teams The labels in the 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 1973–74 UEFA Cup Leeds United Ipswich Town Wolverhampton Wanderers Tottenham Hotspur Lazio Fiorentina Inter Milan Torino Köln Fortuna Düsseldorf Wuppertaler SV Stuttgart Hibernian Aberdeen Dundee Barcelona Español Real Madrid Standard Liège Molenbeek Beerschot Ferencváros Budapest Honvéd Feyenoord Twente Ruch Chorzów Gwardia Warsaw Belenenses Vitória de Setúbal Carl Zeiss Jena Lokomotive Leipzig Tatran Prešov Košice Velež OFK Beograd Dynamo Kyiv Dinamo Tbilisi Universitatea Craiova Argeș Pitești Fenerbahçe Eskişehirspor Nice Marseille Panathinaikos Panachaiki GAK Admira/Wacker Lokomotiv Plovdiv Slavia Sofia B1903 Næstved Grasshoppers Sion AIK Östers Fredrikstad Strømsgodset Ards Sliema Wanderers MP Mikkeli Union Luxembourg Finn Harps Keflavík Olympiakos Nicosia Notes
Schedule The schedule of the competition: Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches took place on Tuesdays, including the first leg of the final. Both legs of the first round match phase between VfB Stuttgart and Olympiakos Nicosia were played in the same week over three days, with the first leg being held on a Monday. Two other matches in the first leg of the first round, three matches were held on a Thursday and a Saturday, respectively. +Schedule for 1973–74 UEFA CupRoundFirst legSecond legFirst round12–26 September 197319 September – 3 October 1973Second round16–24 October 19736–7 November 1973Third round27 November – 12 December 197312–19 December 1973Quarter-finals6 March 197420 March 1974Semi-finals10 April 197424 April 1974Final21 May 197429 May 1974
First round
First leg
Second leg
Dynamo Kyiv won 5–0 on aggregate.
Ruch Chorzów won 8–6 on aggregate.
B 1903 won 3–2 on aggregate.
Carl Zeiss Jena won 6–0 on aggregate.
Leeds United won 7–2 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 5–2 on aggregate.
Hibernian won 3–1 on aggregate.
Nice won 3–2 on aggregate.
Fortuna Düsseldorf won 3–2 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 9–2 on aggregate.
Aberdeen won 7–2 on aggregate.
Twente won 7–3 on aggregate.
Molenbeek won 4–2 on aggregate.
Wolverhampton Wanderers won 4–1 on aggregate.
Marseille won 12–1 on aggregate.
Vitória Setúbal won 4–0 on aggregate.
Ipswich Town won 1–0 on aggregate.
Lazio won 4–3 on aggregate.
Lokomotiv Plovdiv won 3–0 on aggregate.
Universitatea Craiova won 1–0 on aggregate.
Gwardia Warsaw won 3–1 on aggregate.
VfB Stuttgart won 13–0 on aggregate.
Tatran Prešov won 5–3 on aggregate.
Dinamo Tbilisi won 5–3 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate. OFK Beograd won on away goals.
2–2 on aggregate. Admira/Wacker won on away goals.
Fenerbahçe won 6–2 on aggregate.
Honvéd won 5–3 on aggregate.
Lokomotive Leipzig won 4–2 on aggregate.
1. FC Köln won 2–0 on aggregate.
Panachaiki won 3–1 on aggregate.
Standard Liège won 8–4 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
Second leg
Fortuna Düsseldorf won 4–2 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 5–2 on aggregate.
Dinamo Tbilisi won 8–1 on aggregate.
Nice won 4–2 on aggregate.
4–4 on aggregate. Lokomotive Leipzig won on away goals.
Twente won 8–1 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate. Vitória Setúbal won on away goals.
1. FC Köln won 6–2 on aggregate.
Ipswich Town won 6–4 on aggregate.
Dynamo Kyiv won 3–1 on aggregate.
Honvéd won 7–5 on aggregate.
Ruch Chorzów won 3–1 on aggregate.
VfB Stuttgart won 8–4 on aggregate.
0–0 on aggregate. Leeds United won 5–4 on penalties.
Feyenoord won 3–2 on aggregate.
Standard Liège won 3–1 on aggregate.
Third round
First leg
Second leg
VfB Stuttgart won 3–2 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 6–2 on aggregate.
Ipswich Town won 3–1 on aggregate.
Ruch Chorzów won 5–2 on aggregate.
Vitória Setúbal won 3–2 on aggregate.
Lokomotive Leipzig won 4–2 on aggregate.
1. FC Köln won 4–1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate. Feyenoord won on away goals.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
1–1 on aggregate. Lokomotive Leipzig won 4–3 on penalties.
Tottenham Hotspur won 5–1 on aggregate.
VfB Stuttgart won 3–2 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 4–2 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Tottenham Hotspur won 4–1 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 4–3 on aggregate.
Final
First leg
Second leg
Feyenoord won 4–2 on aggregate.
References
External links 1973–74 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website Official Site Results at RSSSF.com All scorers 1973–74 UEFA Cup according to protocols UEFA 1973/74 UEFA Cup - results and line-ups (archive)