1981–82 UEFA Cup

1981–82 UEFA Cup
Tournament details
Dates	15 September 1981 – 19 May 1982
Teams	64 (from 32 associations)
Final positions
Champions	IFK Göteborg (1st title)
Runners-up	Hamburger SV
Tournament statistics
Matches played	126
Goals scored	389 (3.09 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Torbjörn Nilsson (IFK Göteborg); 9 goals
	← 1980–81 1982–83 →

The 1981–82 UEFA Cup was the 11th edition of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden, and at the Volksparkstadion, Hamburg, Germany. The final was won by IFK Göteborg of Sweden, who defeated Hamburger SV of Germany by an aggregate result of 4–0 to claim their first UEFA Cup title.

This was the first of two UEFA Cup conquests for Göteborg, which were the only major European titles achieved by Swedish teams. It was also the first Swedish team to play and win in a UEFA Cup final, while Hamburg went on to win the European Cup a year later. For the second and last time in UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League history, both finalists won their national championship in the same season.

Association team allocation

A total of 64 teams from 32 UEFA member associations participate in the 1981–82 UEFA Cup. 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 1981–82 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1980 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1975–76 to 1979–80.

Association ranking for 1981-82 UEFA Cup

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
1	West Germany	53.998	4
2	England	38.426
3	Belgium	37.300
4	Spain	36.066	3
5	Netherlands	35.250
6	East Germany	29.400
7	Soviet Union	28.050
8	France	27.750
9	Yugoslavia	26.000	2
10	Italy	24.165
11	Czechoslovakia	22.300
12	Hungary	20.150
13	Scotland	19.250
14	Portugal	18.500
15	Switzerland	18.400
-	Wales	17.000	0	^{[Note WAL]}
16	Poland	16.850	2

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams
17	Austria	16.000	2
18	Greece	15.750
19	Bulgaria	15.450
20	Sweden	14.150
21	Romania	13.050
22	Denmark	10.000	1
23	Republic of Ireland	9.665
24	Turkey	7.750
25	Norway	6.500
26	Cyprus	5.332
27	Finland	3.832
=28	Luxembourg	3.666
=28	Northern Ireland	3.666
=30	Malta	3.664
=30	Iceland	3.664
32	Albania	3.000

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Wales: There was no national league in Wales before 1992 and the only competition organised by the Football Association of Wales was the Welsh Cup so Wales had just a single participant in European competitions, the winner (or best placed Welsh team as several English teams also competed) of the Welsh Cup which competed in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Its virtual ranking is only an original research, because the UEFA country ranking was only used to allocate the UEFA Cup spots at time, so Wales was not included.

Teams

The labels in the 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 1981–82 UEFA Cup
Hamburger SV (2nd)	Stuttgart (3rd)	Kaiserslautern (4th)	Borussia Mönchengladbach (6th)
Ipswich Town (2nd)^TH	Arsenal (3rd)	West Bromwich Albion (4th)	Southampton (6th)
Lokeren (2nd)	Beveren (4th)	Winterslag (5th)	Club Brugge (6th)
Real Madrid (2nd)	Atlético Madrid (3rd)	Valencia (4th)	Utrecht (3rd)
Feyenoord (4th)	PSV Eindhoven (5th)	Carl Zeiss Jena (2nd)	Magdeburg (3rd)
Dynamo Dresden (4th)	Spartak Moscow (2nd)	Zenit Leningrad (3rd)	CSKA Moscow (5th)
Nantes (2nd)	Bordeaux (3rd)	Monaco (4th)	Hajduk Split (2nd)
Radnički Niš (3rd)	Napoli (3rd)	Internazionale (4th)	Bohemians Praha (3rd)
Sparta Prague (4th)	Tatabánya (2nd)	Videoton (4th)	Aberdeen (2nd)
Dundee United (LC)	Sporting CP (3rd)	Boavista (4th)	Grasshoppers (2nd)
Neuchâtel Xamax (3rd)	Wisła Kraków (2nd)	Szombierki Bytom (3rd)	Sturm Graz (2nd)
Rapid Wien (3rd)	Aris (3rd)	Panathinaikos (5th)^{[Note GRE]}	Levski-Spartak Sofia (2nd)
Akademik Sofia (4th)	Malmö (2nd)	IFK Göteborg (3rd)	Dinamo București (2nd)
Argeș Pitești (3rd)	Næstved (2nd)	Limerick United (3rd)	Adanaspor (2nd)
Bryne (2nd)	APOEL (2nd)	Haka (2nd)	Linfield (2nd)
Red Boys Differdange (2nd)	Víkingur (P-W)	Sliema Wanderers (2nd)	Dinamo Tirana (2nd)

Notes

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Greece: AEK Athens finished second in the 1980–81 Alpha Ethniki, but couldn't qualify for the UEFA Cup due to a one year ban imposed in 1979, due to incidents in the locker room and the referees' room after a return game against Argeș Pitești in the first round of the 1979–80 European Cup. The ban was only due to be enacted on the first season where AEK would've qualified for European competition, having failed to do so the previous year after losing a play-off game that would've enable AEK to serve its penalty a year earlier. Therefore, the UEFA Cup place went to the 5th placed team, Panathinaikos.

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches exceptionally took place on Tuesdays, and two first round matches were held on Thursdays.

Schedule for 1981–82 UEFA Cup
Round	First leg	Second leg
First round	15–17 September 1981	29 September – 1 October 1981
Second round	20–21 October 1981	3–4 November 1981
Third round	25 November – 1 December 1981	9 December 1981
Quarter-finals	3 March 1982	17 March 1982
Semi-finals	7 April 1982	21 April 1982
Final	5 May 1982	19 May 1982

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
1. FC Kaiserslautern	3–1	Akademik Sofia	1–0	2–1
1. FC Magdeburg	3–3 (a)	Borussia Mönchengladbach	3–1	0–2
Adanaspor	2–7	Internazionale	1–3	1–4
APOEL	1–5	Argeș Pitești	1–1	0–4
Aris	8–2	Sliema Wanderers	4–0	4–2
Monaco	4–6	Dundee United	2–5	2–1
Boavista	5–4	Atlético Madrid	4–1	1–3
Bryne	2–3	FC Winterslag	0–2	2–1
Dinamo București	4–2	Levski Sofia	3–0	1–2
Bohemians	0–2	Valencia	0–1	0–1
Haka	2–7	IFK Göteborg	2–3	0–4
Nantes	3–5	Lokeren	1–1	2–4
Spartak Moscow	6–2	Club Brugge	3–1	3–1
Zenit Leningrad	2–6	Dynamo Dresden	1–2	1–4
Feyenoord	3–1	Szombierki Bytom	2–0	1–1
Grasshoppers	4–1	West Bromwich Albion	1–0	3–1
Hajduk Split	5–3	VfB Stuttgart	3–1	2–2
Hamburger SV	6–4	FC Utrecht	0–1	6–3
Ipswich Town	2–4	Aberdeen	1–1	1–3
Beveren	8–0	Linfield	3–0	5–0
Víkingur	0–8	Bordeaux	0–4	0–4
Dinamo Tirana	1–4	Carl Zeiss Jena	1–0	0–4
Limerick United	1–4	Southampton	0–3	1–1
Malmö FF	5–1	Wisła Kraków	2–0	3–1
Napoli	2–2 (a)	Radnički Niš	2–2	0–0
Neuchâtel Xamax	6–3	Sparta Prague	4–0	2–3
Panathinaikos	0–3	Arsenal	0–2	0–1
PSV Eindhoven	8–2	Næstved	7–0	1–2
Rapid Wien	4–2	Videoton	2–2	2–0
Sturm Graz	2–2 (a)	CSKA Moscow	1–0	1–2
Sporting CP	11–0	FA Red Boys Differdange	4–0	7–0
Tatabánya	2–2 (a)	Real Madrid	2–1	0–1

First leg

15 September 1981