The 1998–99 season of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup club tournament was the last season of the competition before it was abolished. Lazio won the final against Mallorca to earn their only title in the competition. Chelsea were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the semi-finals by Mallorca.
Teams
First round ChelseaTH Lazio MSV Duisburg Mallorca Paris Saint-Germain Heerenveen Newcastle United Braga Panionios Jablonec 97 Vålerenga Ried Lokomotiv Moscow Varteks BeşiktaşQualifying round Copenhagen Lausanne-Sport CSKA Kyiv Amica Wronki MTK Genk Spartak Trnava Rapid București Helsingborg Dinamo Batumi Apollon Limassol Heart of Midlothian Maccabi Haifa Rudar Velenje Lokomotiv-96 Vitebsk Keflavík FC Haka Liepājas Metalurgs Levski Sofia Vardar Ekranas Partizan Constructorul Chişinău FC Vaduz Lantana Tallinn Tsement Ararat Glentoran Hibernians Bangor City Cork City GÍ Apolonia Grevenmacher Qarabağ TH Title Holders
Qualifying round
First leg
Second leg
Rudar Velenje won 2–0 on aggregate.
Helsingborg won 5–0 on aggregate.
Lausanne-Sport won 7–2 on aggregate.
CSKA Kyiv won 3–2 on aggregate.
Apollon Limassol won 5–4 on aggregate.
Genk won 9–1 on aggregate.
Haka won 3–0 on aggregate.
Levski Sofia won 9–2 on aggregate.
Liepājas Metalurgs won 4–3 on aggregate.
Rapid București won 8–2 on aggregate.
Heart of Midlothian won 6–0 on aggregate.
Amica Wronki won 5–0 on aggregate.
MTK won 10–1 on aggregate.
Maccabi Haifa won 3–1 on aggregate.
Spartak Trnava won 3–0 on aggregate.
Copenhagen won 10–0 on aggregate.
Partizan won 2–1 on aggregate.
First round
First leg
Second leg
Lokomotiv Moscow won 5–1 on aggregate.
Braga won 4–0 on aggregate.
Ried won 3–0 on aggregate.
Maccabi Haifa won 4–3 on aggregate.
Panionios won 5–1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; Apollon Limassol won on penalties.
3–3 on aggregate; Lazio won on away goals.
2–2 on aggregate; Partizan won on away goals.
Chelsea won 1–0 on aggregate.
Copenhagen won 6–1 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Vålerenga won on away goals.
Beşiktaş won 4–2 on aggregate.
Heerenveen won 4–1 on aggregate.
Varteks won 2–0 on aggregate.
The game was played in Brussels as Genk's stadium did not meet UEFA requirements.
Genk won 6–1 on aggregate.
Before the game, the Heart of Midlothian delegate complained about the non-standard goal height, and the referee measured it to be 1 centimetre lower than regulation. Heart of Midlothian agreed to play the game anyway.
Mallorca won 2–1 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
The game was played in Brussels as Genk's home stadium did not meet UEFA requirements.
Second leg
Lokomotiv Moscow won 3–2 on aggregate.
Maccabi Haifa won 5–3 on aggregate.
Panionios won 4–2 on aggregate.
Lazio won 3–2 on aggregate.
Chelsea won 2–1 on aggregate.
Vålerenga won 4–3 on aggregate.
Varteks won 5–4 on aggregate.
Genk raised an official protest, claiming that the corner locations are too close to the fence around the pitch. It was denied.
1–1 on aggregate; Mallorca won on away goals.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Lokomotiv Moscow won 4–0 on aggregate.
Lazio won 7–0 on aggregate.
Chelsea won 6–2 on aggregate.
Mallorca won 3–1 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
1–1 on aggregate; Lazio won on away goals.
Mallorca won 2–1 on aggregate.
Final
Top goalscorers The top scorers from the 1998–99 UEFA Winners' Cup (including qualifying round) are as follows:
RankNameTeamGoals1 Alon Mizrahi Maccabi Haifa72 Zaza Janashia Lokomotiv Moscow63 Souleymane Oularé Genk5 Milenko Spoljaric Apollon Limassol55 Dmitri Bulykin Lokomotiv Moscow4 John Carew Vålerenga4 Fabio Celestini Lausanne-Sport4 Dani Mallorca4 Krisztián Kenesei MTK4 Pavel Nedvěd Lazio4 Oktay Derelioğlu Beşiktaş4 Dejan Stanković Lazio4 Branko Strupar Genk4
See also 1998–99 UEFA Champions League 1998–99 UEFA Cup 1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup
Notes
References
External links 1998–99 competition at UEFA website results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Archive of old pages site UEFA Season 1998–1999, written protocol games. On the opened page should click on the word «Impatient»