2nd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA
1972–73 UEFA Cup The first leg of the final was played at
Anfield in Liverpool.
Dates 13 September 1972 – 23 May 1973 Teams 63[1] (from 29[2] associations) Champions Liverpool (1st title) Runners-up Borussia Mönchengladbach Matches played 124 Goals scored 405 (3.27 per match) Attendance 1,947,828 (15,708 per match) Top scorer(s) Jupp Heynckes (Borussia Mönchengladbach)Jan Jeuring (Twente) 12 goals each
International football competition
The 1972–73 UEFA Cup was the second season of the UEFA Cup , a football competition organised by UEFA for clubs affiliated to its member associations. It was won by Liverpool , who beat Borussia Mönchengladbach over two legs in the final. The first leg was played at Anfield in Liverpool, where Liverpool won the match 3–0. Mönchengladbach won the second leg in Germany 2–0 for an aggregate score of 3–2.
Bracket [ edit ]
First round [ edit ]
Summary [ edit ]
1 Hvidovre walkover, HJK withdrew.
Matches [ edit ]
Liverpool won 2–0 on aggregate.
Norrköping won 4–1 on aggregate.
Levski-Spartak won 6–5 on aggregate.
AEK Athens won 4–2 on aggregate.
Beroe Stara Zagora won 10–1 on aggregate.
Twente won 4–2 on aggregate.
Slovan Bratislava won 8–2 on aggregate.
Ruch Chorzów won 3–1 on aggregate.
Dynamo Dresden won 4–2 on aggregate.
Red Star Belgrade won 7–4 on aggregate.
OFK Beograd won 5–3 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 12–3 on aggregate.
Viking won 1–0 on aggregate.
Club Brugge won 6–5 on aggregate.
Frem won 5–2 on aggregate.
Budapest Honvéd won 4–0 on aggregate.
Köln won 5–1 on aggregate.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 9–5 on aggregate.
BFC Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 21–0 on aggregate.
Valencia won 4–3 on aggregate.
Grasshoppers won 4–2 on aggregate.
Kaiserslautern won 5–3 on aggregate.
Las Palmas won 4–2 on aggregate.
Inter Milan won 7–1 on aggregate.
Vitória de Setúbal won 6–2 on aggregate.
Ararat Yerevan won 2–0 on aggregate.
Fiorentina won 5–1 on aggregate.
Olympiacos won 3–1 on aggregate.
CUF Barreiro won 3–0 on aggregate.
Porto won 4–1 on aggregate.
Hvidovre walkover, HJK withdrew.
Second round [ edit ]
Summary [ edit ]
Matches [ edit ]
Köln won 9–2 on aggregate.
Liverpool won 6–1 on aggregate.
Beroe Stara Zagora won 3–1 on aggregate.
BFC Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate.
Red Star Belgrade won 4–1 on aggregate.
Kaiserslautern won 3–2 on aggregate.
Dynamo Dresden won 4–0 on aggregate.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 6–1 on aggregate.
Twente won 9–0 on aggregate.
Ararat Yerevan won 7–3 on aggregate.
5–5 on aggregate; OFK Beograd won on away goals.
Tottenham Hotspur won 4–1 on aggregate.
Inter Milan won 4–2 on aggregate.
Las Palmas won 3–2 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Vitória de Setúbal won on away goals.
Porto won 5–3 on aggregate.
Third round [ edit ]
Summary [ edit ]
Matches [ edit ]
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 5–0 on aggregate.
Liverpool won 3–1 on aggregate.
OFK Beograd won 3–1 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Kaiserslautern won on penalties.
Twente won 4–2 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 2–1 on aggregate.
Dynamo Dresden won 3–1 on aggregate.
Vitória de Setúbal won 2–1 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals [ edit ]
Summary [ edit ]
Matches [ edit ]
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 9–2 on aggregate.
Twente won 4–3 on aggregate.
Liverpool won 3–0 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Tottenham won on away goals.
Semi-finals [ edit ]
Summary [ edit ]
Matches [ edit ]
2–2 on aggregate; Liverpool won on away goals.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 5–1 on aggregate.
Summary [ edit ]
Matches [ edit ]
Liverpool won 3–2 on aggregate.
References [ edit ]
^ 64 teams were scheduled to participate, but HJK from Finland withdrew before their first match.
^ 30 associations were scheduled to participate, but HJK from Finland withdrew before their first match.
^ "Valletta FC 0-1 Internazionale :: UEFA Cup 1972/73 :: Match Events :: playmakerstats.com" . www.playmakerstats.com . Retrieved 11 February 2024 .
^ Buchspieß, Dieter (31 October 1972). "An Terletzkis "Geschoß" wird Staikow noch lange denken!" (PDF) . Neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) (De) (in German). Vol. 1972, no. 44. Berlin: DFV der DDR . p. 9. ISSN 0323-8407 . Retrieved 24 June 2022 .
^ Schaefer, Otto (5 December 1972). "BFC Dynamo mit zuviel Respekt vor dem Wiederpart" (PDF) . Neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) (De) (in German). Vol. 1972, no. 49. Berlin: DFV der DDR . p. 9. ISSN 0323-8407 . Retrieved 10 April 2022 .
^ Schlehahn, Britt (17 May 2020). "Vor dem Abriss nochmal BFC Dynamo gegen BSG Chemie - Corona verhindert letztes Halali" . Sportbuzzer (in German). Hannover : Sportbuzzer GmbH. Retrieved 31 July 2020 .
^ Karas, Steffen (2022). 66 Jahre BFC Dynamo – Auswärts mit 'nem Bus (2nd ed.). Berlin : CULTURCON medien, Sole trader: Bernd Oeljeschläger. p. 362. ISBN 978-3-944068-95-4 .
^ Schaefer, Otto (5 December 1972). "BFC Dynamo mit zuviel Respekt vor dem Wiederpart" (PDF) . Neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) (De) (in German). Vol. 1972, no. 49. Berlin: DFV der DDR . p. 9. ISSN 0323-8407 . Retrieved 21 March 2022 .
^ "Liverpool FC - Tottenham Hotspur 1:0 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)" . worldfootball.net . Retrieved 11 February 2024 .
^ "Tottenham Hotspur - Liverpool FC 2:1 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)" . worldfootball.net . Retrieved 11 February 2024 .
^ "Bor. Mönchengladbach - FC Twente '65 3:0 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)" . worldfootball.net . Retrieved 11 February 2024 .
^ "FC Twente '65 - Bor. Mönchengladbach 1:2 (Europa League 1972/1973, Semi-finals)" . worldfootball.net . Retrieved 11 February 2024 .
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