The 1991–92 UEFA Cup was the 21st season of Europe's then-tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at Stadio Delle Alpi, Turin, Italy, and at Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam, Netherlands. The competition was won by Dutch club Ajax, who defeated Torino of Italy on away goals after an aggregate result of 2–2 to claim their first UEFA Cup title.
The victory made Ajax only the second team—after Torino's city rivals Juventus—to have won all three major European trophies at the time (European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, and the Cup Winners' Cup). As the only English team in the tournament due to lost coeffecient following the five-year ban for the Heysel disaster during the 1985 European Cup final, and being given an additional year of exclusion, Liverpool made their comeback in continental competition for the first time since then.
Association team allocation A total of 64 teams from 32 UEFA member associations participated in the 1991–92 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 1991–92 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1990 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1985–86 to 1989–90. Despite returning to European competitions the previous season, England's five-year ban was served during the period reflected in the ranking and had no score, so only one English club competed in the UEFA Cup. +Association ranking for 1991-92 UEFA CupRankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes145.4274243.212342.666436.2333528.633628.100726.966826.500926.30021024.8001122.6001220.5001319.95014 East Germany19.2501516.7501615.7501714.581RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes-14.00001813.99821912.7492012.2502112.2502111.00012310.9982410.666255.999265.666274.333284.000291.999301.332310.999320.000
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 1991–92 UEFA Cup Bayern Munich Eintracht Frankfurt Hamburg Stuttgart Internazionale TH Genoa Torino Parma Real Madrid Osasuna Sporting Gijón Oviedo Mechelen Gent Germinal Ekeren Sporting CP Boavista Salgueiros Auxerre Cannes Lyon Dynamo Moscow Torpedo Moscow Spartak Moscow Ajax Groningen Utrecht Steaua București Dinamo București Aberdeen Celtic Örebro Östers HAŠK Građanski Partizan Swarovski Tirol Sturm Graz Rot-Weiß Erfurt Hallescher FC Neuchâtel Xamax Lausanne Slovan Bratislava Sigma Olomouc Kuusysi Lahti MP B 1903 Ikast CSKA Sofia Slavia Sofia AEK Athens PAOK Pécsi Munkás Váci Izzó Górnik Zabrze Trabzonspor Vllaznia Shkodër Tromsø Anorthosis Famagusta Bangor KR Floriana Spora Luxembourg Cork City Liverpool Notes
Schedule The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled primarily for Wednesdays, though some matches took place on Tuesdays or Thursdays. +Schedule for 1991–92 UEFA CupRoundFirst legSecond legFirst round17–19 September 19911–3 October 1991Second round22–24 October 19915–7 November 1991Third round27 November 199110–12 December 1991Quarter-finals4 March 199218–19 March 1992Semi-finals1 April 199215 April 1992Final29 April 199213 May 1992
First round
1 This match was played in Düsseldorf, Germany due to hooliganism in a previous match. 2 This match was played in Klagenfurt, Austria due to the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence. 3 This match was played in Istanbul, Turkey due to the deteriorating security situation in Yugoslavia that eventually turned into the Yugoslav Wars.
First leg
Match was played in Austria due to the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence.
Because of hooliganism in a previous match, Ajax was ordered to play this match at least 200 km away from Amsterdam.
Match played at Estádio do Bessa instead of their regular stadium Estádio Engenheiro Vidal Pinheiro.
Second leg
Steaua București won 4–3 on aggregate.
Celtic won 3–1 on aggregate.
Bayern Munich won 3–1 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 11–1 on aggregate.
Torpedo Moscow won 4–2 on aggregate.
Neuchâtel Xamax won 2–0 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.
B 1903 won 3–0 on aggregate.
Ajax won 4–0 on aggregate.
Sigma Olomouc won 6–0 on aggregate.
Boavista won 2–1 on aggregate.
Trabzonspor won 4–3 on aggregate.
Rot-Weiß Erfurt won 2–0 on aggregate.
Auxerre won 6–1 on aggregate.
Swarovski Tirol won 3–2 on aggregate.
Hamburg won 4–1 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate. Gent won 4–1 on penalties.
Torino won 8–1 on aggregate.
Liverpool won 6–2 on aggregate.
PAOK won 2–1 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate. CSKA Sofia won on away goals.
Osasuna won 4–1 on aggregate.
Utrecht won 4-1 on aggregate.
Dinamo București won 2–1 on aggregate.
Dynamo Moscow won 4–2 on aggregate.
Stuttgart won 6–3 on aggregate.
AEK won 3–0 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 5–1 on aggregate.
Lyon won 2–1 on aggregate.
Genoa won 3–2 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate. Cannes won 4–2 on penalties.
2–2 on aggregate. Sporting Gijón won 3–2 on penalties. Match was played in Turkey due to the deteriorating security situation in Yugoslavia that eventually turned into the Yugoslav Wars.
Second round
1 This match was played in Düsseldorf, Germany due to hooliganism in a previous match.
First leg
Second leg
B 1903 won 6–3 on aggregate.
Osasuna won 3–2 on aggregate.
Liverpool won 3–2 on aggregate.
Dynamo Moscow won 2–1 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 4–1 on aggregate.
Because of hooliganism in a previous match, Ajax was ordered to play this match at least 200 km away from Amsterdam. Ajax won 5–1 on aggregate.
AEK won 2–1 on aggregate.
Genoa won 5–3 on aggregate.
Hamburg won 6–1 on aggregate.
Gent won 1–0 on aggregate.
Neuchâtel Xamax won 5–2 on aggregate.
Trabzonspor won 8–4 on aggregate.
Swarovski Tirol won 4–0 on aggregate.
Torino won 2–0 on aggregate.
Sigma Olomouc won 2–0 on aggregate.
Steaua București won 3–2 on aggregate.
Third round
1 This match was played in Düsseldorf, Germany due to hooliganism in a previous match.
First leg
Second leg
Sigma Olomouc won 6–2 on aggregate.
Torino won 3–2 on aggregate.
B 1903 won 2–1 on aggregate.
Because of hooliganism in a previous match, Ajax was ordered to play this match at least 200 km away from Amsterdam. Ajax won 2–0 on aggregate.
Liverpool won 6–0 on aggregate.
Gent won 2–0 on aggregate.
Genoa won 2–0 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 4–1 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Genoa won 4–1 on aggregate.
Ajax won 3–0 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 2–1 on aggregate.
Torino won 3–0 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Ajax won 4–3 on aggregate.
Torino won 3–2 on aggregate.
Final
First leg
Second leg
2–2 on aggregate. Ajax won on away goals.
Top scorers The top scorers from the 1991–92 UEFA Cup are as follows:
RankNameTeamGoals1 Dean Saunders Liverpool92 Carlos Aguilera Genoa83 Dennis Bergkamp Ajax6 Walter Casagrande Torino65 Hami Mandıralı Trabzonspor5 Christoph Westerthaler Swarovski Tirol57 Pavel Hapal Sigma Olomouc4 Hossam Hassan Neuchâtel Xamax4 Stefan Pettersson Ajax4 Harald Spörl Hamburger SV4 Aron Winter Ajax412 Hamdi Aslan Trabzonspor3 Daniel Batista Lima AEK Athens3 Jean-Marc Ferreri Auxerre3 Gábor Gerstenmájer Dinamo București3 Gheorghe Hagi Real Madrid3 Wim Jonk Ajax3 Milan Kerbr Sigma Olomouc3 Michael Manniche B 19033 Željko Petrović HAŠK Građanski3 Radek Sindelar Sigma Olomouc3 Tomáš Skuhravý Genoa3 Włodzimierz Smolarek Utrecht3 Ilie Stan Steaua București3
References
External links 1991–92 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website Official site Results at RSSSF.com All scorers 1991–92 UEFA Cup according to protocols UEFA 1991/92 UEFA Cup - results and line-ups (archive)