The 1996–97 UEFA Cup was the 26th season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). It was won by German side Schalke 04, who beat Inter Milan of Italy on penalties after the two-legged final finished 1–1 on aggregate. Defending champions Bayern Munich were eliminated in the first round by Valencia.
This was the last year in which the UEFA Cup final was played in a two-legged, home-and-away format. From 1998, the final was played as a single match at a neutral venue.
Format According to 1995 UEFA ranking, Bulgaria ceded a slot to Norway.
The access list was finally increased to 117 clubs: all the 47 federations obtained a UEFA place, all the 24 national champions excluded from the Champions League entered in the UEFA Cup, all the 8 national champions that failed to qualify for the Champions League group stage entered in the UEFA Cup First round a third winner of the UEFA Intertoto Cup was added, 3 clubs of the UEFA Fair Play ranking were confirmed.
A second qualifying round was consequently added for the first time in the history of the European competitions.
Teams The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: TH: Title holders LC: League Cup winners Nth: League position IC: Intertoto Cup FP: Fair play CLQ: Relegated from the Champions League
First round Lazio Tenerife Newcastle United Alania Vladikavkaz Roma Bayern MunichTH Aston Villa Brøndby Parma Schalke 04 Arsenal Slavia Prague Inter Milan Borussia Mönchengladbach Anderlecht Dynamo Kyiv Monaco Hamburg Germinal Ekeren Ferencváros Metz Feyenoord Molenbeek Maccabi Tel Aviv Lens Roda Olympiacos Guingamp Montpellier Sporting CP Club Brugge Karlsruhe Valencia Boavista Panathinaikos Silkeborg Espanyol Vitória Guimarães Qualifying round Iraklis Lyngby Aarau Chornomorets Odesa Spartak Moscow Tirol Innsbruck Sigma Olomouc BVSC Dynamo Moscow GAK Celtic Național București Torpedo Moscow Helsingborg Aberdeen Rapid București Trabzonspor Halmstad Molde CSKA Moscow Beşiktaş Neuchâtel Xamax Bodø/Glimt Malmö Odense Preliminary round Legia Warsaw Dinamo Tbilisi Zimbru Chișinău B71 Hutnik Kraków Margveti Zestaponi Tiligul Tiraspol Barry Town Maccabi Haifa ÍA St Patrick's Athletic Newtown Beitar Jerusalem ÍBV Bohemians Pyunik APOEL Haka Sliema Wanderers Shirak Anorthosis Famagusta HJK Floriana Lantana Tallinn Croatia Zagreb Slavia Sofia Inkaras Kaunas Flora Hajduk Split Lokomotiv Sofia Žalgiris Vilnius Partizan Skonto Dinamo Minsk Tirana Vojvodina Dinaburg Dinamo-93 Minsk Teuta Durrës Bečej Slovan Bratislava Portadown Jeunesse Esch Neftçi Košice Crusaders Grevenmacher Khazri Buzovna Gorica Sileks GÍ Jazz Mura Vardar
Preliminary round
First leg
Second leg
Dinamo Tbilisi won 6–2 on aggregate.
Barry Town won 2–1 on aggregate.
Dinamo-93 Minsk won 4–2 on aggregate.
Croatia Zagreb won 10–2 on aggregate.
Sliema Wanderers won 4–3 on aggregate.
Jazz won 4–1 on aggregate.
Vardar won 3–1 on aggregate.
Anorthosis Famagusta won 6–2 on aggregate.
Vojvodina won 5–1 on aggregate.
HJK won 6–5 on aggregate.
Lantana Tallinn won 2–1 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate. Dinamo Minsk won on away goals.
Beitar Jerusalem won 8–2 on aggregate.
Legia Warsaw won 7–2 on aggregate.
Slavia Sofia won 5–4 on aggregate.
ÍA won 2–1 on aggregate.
Lokomotiv Sofia won 7–2 on aggregate.
Skonto won 7–1 on aggregate.
Hajduk Split won 6–1 on aggregate.
APOEL won 9–3 on aggregate.
Žalgiris Vilnius won 3–2 on aggregate.
Košice won 6–2 on aggregate.
Haka won 3–2 on aggregate.
Mura won 2–0 on aggregate.
Hutnik Kraków won 11–2 on aggregate.
Partizan won 4–1 on aggregate.
Slovan Bratislava won 5–3 on aggregate.
Qualifying round
First leg
Second leg
Dynamo Moscow won 4–2 on aggregate.
Rapid București won 2–0 on aggregate.
Neuchâtel Xamax won 6–1 on aggregate.
Halmstad won 1–0 on aggregate.
GAK won 7–1 on aggregate.
Legia Warsaw won 4–1 on aggregate.
APOEL won 3–1 on aggregate.
Helsingborg won 4–1 on aggregate.
CSKA Moscow won 6–1 on aggregate.
Odense won 9–1 on aggregate.
Aberdeen won 5–4 on aggregate.
4–4 on aggregate. Barry Town won 4–2 on penalties.
Hutnik Kraków won 3–2 on aggregate.
Trabzonspor won 5–3 on aggregate.
Național București won 1–0 on aggregate.
Aarau won 4–2 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate. Spartak Moscow won on away goals.
Tirol Innsbruck won 5–2 on aggregate.
Torpedo Moscow won 2–1 on aggregate.
Bodø/Glimt won 7–2 on aggregate.
Lyngby won 2–0 on aggregate.
Celtic won 1–0 on aggregate.
Chornomorets Odesa won 4–2 on aggregate.
Dinamo Tbilisi won 2–1 on aggregate.
Malmö FF won 4–1 on aggregate.
Beşiktaş won 3–2 on aggregate.
First round
First leg
Second leg
Feyenoord won 2–1 on aggregate.
Ferencváros won 5–3 on aggregate.
Slavia Prague won 5–2 on aggregate.
Beşiktaş won 3–0 on aggregate.
Hamburg won 4–0 on aggregate.
Național București won 2–0 on aggregate.
Metz won 1–0 on aggregate.
Brøndby won 7–0 on aggregate.
Club Brugge won 3–1 on aggregate.
4–4 on aggregate. Boavista won on away goals.
Valencia won 3–1 on aggregate.
Roma won 6–1 on aggregate.
Neuchâtel Xamax won 2–1 on aggregate.
Schalke 04 won 5–2 on aggregate.
Lazio won 2–1 on aggregate.
Inter Milan won 4–1 on aggregate.
Aberdeen won 6–4 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 2–1 on aggregate.
Trabzonspor won 5–2 on aggregate.
Espanyol won 3–2 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate. Helsingborg won on away goals.
3–3 on aggregate. GAK won on away goals.
Newcastle United won 5–2 on aggregate.
Anderlecht won 5–2 on aggregate.
Vitória Guimarães won 3–2 on aggregate.
Dinamo Tbilisi won 2–1 on aggregate.
Monaco won 4–1 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 5–3 on aggregate.
4–4 on aggregate. Legia Warsaw won on away goals.
Karlsruhe won 4–2 on aggregate.
Tenerife won 4–3 on aggregate.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 6–4 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
Second leg
Boavista won 5–1 on aggregate.
Newcastle United won 6–3 on aggregate.
Club Brugge won 3–1 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate. Anderlecht won on away goals.
Metz won 3–2 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 3–1 on aggregate.
Brøndby won 2–0 on aggregate.
Valencia won 1–0 on aggregate.
Tenerife won 5–4 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate. Inter Milan won 5–3 on penalties.
Helsingborg won 3–1 on aggregate.
Beşiktaş won 3–2 on aggregate.
Schalke 04 won 4–3 on aggregate.
Monaco won 4–3 on aggregate.
Karlsruhe won 4–2 on aggregate.
Hamburg won 5–2 on aggregate.
Third round
First leg
Second leg
Brøndby won 6–3 on aggregate.
Schalke 04 won 3–2 on aggregate.
Monaco won 5–0 on aggregate.
Anderlecht won 1–0 on aggregate.
Valencia won 5–3 on aggregate.
Newcastle United won 3–1 on aggregate.
Inter Milan won 7–1 on aggregate.
Tenerife won 4–2 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Monaco won 4–0 on aggregate.
Inter Milan won 3–2 on aggregate.
Schalke 04 won 3–1 on aggregate.
Tenerife won 2–1 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Inter Milan won 3–2 on aggregate.
Schalke 04 won 2–1 on aggregate.
Final
First leg
Second leg
1–1 on aggregate. Schalke 04 won 4–1 on penalties.
Top scorers The top scorers from the 1996–97 UEFA Cup are as follows:
RankNameTeamGoals1 Maurizio Ganz Inter Milan82 Victor Ikpeba Monaco73 Peter Møller Brøndby6 Andreas Sotiriou APOEL65 Faustino Asprilla Newcastle United5 Herfried Sabitzer GAK5 Marc Wilmots Schalke 0458 Alexis Alexandrou APOEL4 Sonny Anderson Monaco4 Shota Arveladze Trabzonspor4 Runar Berg Bodø/Glimt4 Igor Cvitanović Croatia Zagreb4 Billy Dodds Aberdeen4 Les Ferdinand Newcastle United4 Juanele Tenerife4 Hami Mandıralı Trabzonspor4 Marcin Mięciel Legia Warsaw4 Oktay Derelioğlu Beşiktaş4 Michael Schjønberg Odense4 Josip Skoko Hajduk Split4 Andrey Tikhonov Spartak Moscow4
See also 1996–97 UEFA Champions League 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup
References
External links 1996–97 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website Official Site Results at RSSSF.com All scorers 1996–97 UEFA Cup according to (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers preliminary round 1996/97 UEFA Cup – results and line-ups (archive)