The 1989–90 UEFA Cup was the 19th season of the UEFA Cup, the secondary club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The final was played over two legs at the Stadio Comunale Vittorio Pozzo, Turin, Italy, and at the Stadio Partenio, Avellino, Italy. The competition was won by Juventus, who defeated fellow Italian team Fiorentina by an aggregate result of 3–1 to claim their second UEFA Cup title.
This was the first final between two Italian sides in the UEFA competitions history and the third between two clubs of the same country. This was the fifth and final season in which all English clubs were banned from European football competitions
Association team allocation A total of 65 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1988–89 UEFA Cup. 63 teams entered from the first round, competing over six knock-out rounds, while two other teams competed in a preliminary round.
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.
Due to the ongoing English ban, their first berth was allocated to association 9, gaining a third berth. As two associations were tied for 10th place in the UEFA rankings, both of them qualified a third team for a preliminary round, whose winner would take the remaining English berth in the first round.
Association ranking For the 1989–90 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1988 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1983–84 to 1987–88.
+Association ranking for 1989–90 UEFA CupRankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes1 Italy41.08242 Soviet Union37.5503 West Germany36.1654 Spain34.79935 Belgium31.8006 Portugal28.1837 Scotland27.7008 Netherlands26.6339 Austria26.500=10 France23.200=10 Yugoslavia23.20012 England22.094013 Sweden21.500214 Czechoslovakia21.30015 Romania20.46616 East Germany18.75017 Greece17.916RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes18 Hungary17.500219 Switzerland15.00020 Finland13.664- Wales13.000021 Poland12.750222 Bulgaria11.916123 Denmark10.91624 Albania9.66625 Turkey7.99926 Norway6.66627 Cyprus6.33228 Northern Ireland4.99929 Iceland3.99930 Republic of Ireland2.66531 Malta1.66632 Luxembourg1.665
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 1989–90 UEFA CupFirst round Napoli TH Juventus Atalanta Fiorentina Dynamo Kyiv Spartak Moscow Žalgiris Vilnius Zenit Köln Werder Bremen Hamburg Stuttgart Valencia Atlético Madrid Zaragoza RFC Liège Club Brugge Antwerp Porto Boavista Sporting CP Aberdeen Dundee United Hibernian Ajax Twente Feyenoord Austria Wien Rapid Wien First Vienna Paris Saint-Germain Sochaux Red Star Belgrade Rad IFK Göteborg Örgryte Baník Ostrava Plastika Nitra Victoria București Flacăra Moreni Karl-Marx-Stadt Hansa Rostock Olympiacos Iraklis MTK Videoton Sion Wettingen Kuusysi RoPS Katowice Górnik Zabrze Vitosha Sofia Næstved Apolonia Galatasaray Lillestrøm Apollon Limassol Glentoran ÍA Dundalk Valletta Jeunesse Esch Preliminary round Auxerre Dinamo Zagreb Notes
Schedule The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with each legs of both semifinals now being held over consecutive days. Matches for the first and second round were held on Tuesdays, while other rounds were held on Wednesdays, except for the Antwerp vs Stuttgart match-up in the third round. +Schedule for 1989–90 UEFA CupRoundFirst legSecond legPreliminary round9 August 198923 August 1989First round12 September 198926 September 1989Second round17 October 198931 October 1989Third round21–22 November 19895–6 December 1989Quarter-finals7 March 199021 March 1990Semi-finals3–4 April 199017–18 April 1990Final2 May 199016 May 1990
Preliminary round
First leg
Second leg
Auxerre won 3–2 on aggregate.
First round
First leg
Second leg
The match was abandoned in the 104th minute with the score at 1–1 after Austria Wien's goalkeeper Franz Wohlfahrt was struck by an iron rod thrown from the home stand. As a result, Ajax had to concede the match by default and were excluded from competing in European football for a year. Austria Wien won 4–0 on aggregate.
Antwerp won 4–3 on aggregate.
Zaragoza won 4–1 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Rapid Wien won on away goals.
Hibernian won 4–0 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Fiorentina won 3–1 on penalties.
Valencia won 4–2 on aggregate.
Paris Saint-Germain won 3–2 on aggregate.
RoPS won 2–1 on aggregate.
Auxerre won 8–0 on aggregate.
Sochaux won 12–0 on aggregate.
Sion won 2–1 on aggregate.
Dundee United won 5–1 on aggregate.
RFC Liège won 6–1 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 2–0 on aggregate.
First Vienna won 7–1 on aggregate.
Werder Bremen won 5–1 on aggregate.
Club Brugge won 4–1 on aggregate.
Juventus won 5–2 on aggregate.
0–0 on aggregate; Napoli won 4–3 on penalties.
Porto won 4–1 on aggregate.
Köln won 5–1 on aggregate.
Stuttgart won 3–2 on aggregate.
Hamburg won 7–2 on aggregate.
Wettingen won 5–0 on aggregate.
Red Star Belgrade won 3–1 on aggregate.
Dynamo Kyiv won 6–1 on aggregate.
Zenit Leningrad won 3–1 on aggregate.
Žalgiris Vilnius won 2–1 on aggregate.
Olympiacos won 3–2 on aggregate.
Karl-Marx-Stadt won 3–2 on aggregate.
Baník Ostrava won 7–2 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
Second leg
3–3 on aggregate; Olympiacos won on away goals.
Antwerp won 6–3 on aggregate.
Rapid Wien won 6–4 on aggregate.
RFC Liège won 1–0 on aggregate.
Hamburg won 2–1 on aggregate.
Auxerre won 8–0 on aggregate.
Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Fiorentina won on away goals.
Porto won 5–4 on aggregate.
Werder Bremen won 5–2 on aggregate.
Köln won 3–1 on aggregate.
Karl-Marx-Stadt won 5–3 on aggregate.
Napoli won 2–1 on aggregate.
Dynamo Kyiv won 4–1 on aggregate.
Stuttgart won 6–0 on aggregate.
Red Star Belgrade won 5–1 on aggregate.
Third round
First leg
Second leg
Antwerp won 2–1 on aggregate.
RFC Liège won 3–2 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Auxerre won on away goals.
Fiorentina won 1–0 on aggregate.
Werder Bremen won 8–3 on aggregate.
Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Hamburg won on away goals.
Köln won 3–2 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Werder Bremen won 4–3 on aggregate.
Fiorentina won 2–0 on aggregate.
Köln won 2–0 on aggregate.
Juventus won 3–2 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
1–1 on aggregate; Fiorentina won on away goals.
Juventus won 3–2 on aggregate.
Final
First leg
Second leg
Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.
Notes
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