

UEFA Cup Memories
A pre-match rant about Rapid Vienna – Celtic
By: Dan |Does it get more simultaneously pathetic and irritating than the whining we’ve had to put up with from Celtic for the past few weeks? In case you’ve missed Celtic stop just short of accusing Rapid Vienna of war crimes, a recap of the situation can be found in today’s Guardian.
In fairness [...]
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 1
By: Dan |1975-1976 Liverpool 4 – Club Brugge 3
At least this didn’t get shoehorned into Sloop John B…
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 2
By: Dan |1980-1981 Ipswich Town 5 – AZ Alkmaar 4
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 3
By: Dan |1987-1988 Bayer Leverkusen 3 (3) – Espanyol 3 (2)
A collapse that can only be described as utter.
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 4
By: Dan |1988-1989 Napoli 5 – Stuttgart 4
Napoli’s finest hour, featuring a classic, yet underrated, Maradona performance.
Top 5 UEFA Cup Finals: # 5
By: Dan |The last UEFA Cup final is going to be an event that launches a thousand lists, so no points for originality here. There are five days until this year’s final, so I’d like to spend them counting down my top five UEFA Cup finals.
2006-2007 Sevilla 2 (3) – Espanyol 2 (1)
A stand out among [...]
UEFA Cup 1982: Hooray for Sven
By: Dan |Here’s a fun UEFA Cup final from days of yore, when UEFA Cups were not handed out like so many supermarket samples of an exciting new cookie based on the result of a single game.
IFK Göteborg were paired with a Hamburg side that would win the European Cup the following season. Swedish sides were [...]
Best UEFA Cup final ever?
By: Ian Rose |Tomorrow, the 37th champion of the UEFA Cup will be crowned, and it will be the first UEFA Cup for either side if they manage it. Looking back on all those years, which are the best UEFA Cup finals ever?
My three candidates are as follows:
UC Memories: 7 December 1993
By: Ian Rose |On this date in 1993, the final legs of the UEFA Cup’s third round were played. It was a rough day for France and Spain, but Germany put its stamp on the tournament with two Bundesliga teams advancing into the quarterfinals. The first was Eintracht Frankfurt, who beat Deportivo 1-0 in both legs [...]
UC Memories: 26 November 1957
By: Ian Rose |Before there was such a thing as the UEFA Cup, the second-tier cup competition in Europe was known as the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. It matched up clubs with custom-made city teams like London XI and Frankfurt XI. The very first of these cups was contested between 1955 and 1958, with preliminaries followed by [...]






