# Heart of Midlothian F.C. in European football

Heart of Midlothian F.C. played their first official match in competitive European football on 3 September 1958. This made the club only the third Scottish and fifth British team to compete in Europe at the time. Hearts have been beaten on two occasions by the club who would go on to win the competition and have also lost twice to the eventual runners–up.
Hearts' best showing in European competition was in the 1988–89 UEFA Cup, where they reached the quarter–finals and narrowly lost 2–1 on aggregate to German giants Bayern Munich. Since then, Hearts became both the first–ever Scottish club and the first–ever British club to reach the new group stage format of the 2004–05 UEFA Cup (now the UEFA Europa League). They also qualified for the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League, becoming the first non Old Firm team in Scotland to do so since the tournament changed from the European Cup to the Champions League.
The club has an unfortunate record of having never progressed through a tie which has finished level on aggregate after two legs. They lost play–off matches by a single goal to Lausanne–Sport in the 1963–64 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and to eventual runners–up Real Zaragoza in the 1965–66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, and they lost due to the away goals rule against Dukla Prague, Red Star Belgrade and Stuttgart in the 1986–87 UEFA Cup, 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, and 2000–01 UEFA Cup respectively.
Steven Pressley and Henry Smith jointly hold the record for playing in the most European matches for Hearts with 22 appearances each, and John Robertson is the club's top scorer with seven goals.

## Statistics
### Results

Note: In all cases the Hearts score is listed first.
List of Hearts games in European competitions :
| Season | Competition | Round | Opponent | Home | Away | Other | Agg. | Notes |
| 1958–59 | European Cup | PR | Standard Liège | 2–1 | 1–5 | — | 3–6 | — |
| 1960–61 | European Cup | PR | Benfica | 1–2 | 0–3 | — | 1–5 | — |
| 1961–62 | Fairs Cup | R1 | Union Saint–Gilloise | 2–0 | 3–1 | — | 5–1 | — |
| 1961–62 | Fairs Cup | R2 | Inter Milan | 0–1 | 0–4 | — | 0–5 | — |
| 1963–64 | Fairs Cup | R1 | Lausanne–Sport | 2–2 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 6–7 | Playoff |
| 1965–66 | Fairs Cup | R2 | Vålerenga | 1–0 | 3–1 | — | 4–1 | — |
| 1965–66 | Fairs Cup | R3 | Real Zaragoza | 3–3 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 5–6 | Playoff |
| 1976–77 | Cup Winners' Cup | R1 | Lokomotive Leipzig | 5–1 | 0–2 | — | 5–3 | — |
| 1976–77 | Cup Winners' Cup | R2 | Hamburg | 1–4 | 2–4 | — | 3–8 | — |
| 1984–85 | UEFA Cup | R1 | Paris Saint–Germain | 2–2 | 0–4 | — | 2–6 | — |
| 1986–87 | UEFA Cup | R1 | Dukla Prague | 3–2 | 0–1 | — | 3–3 | Away goals |
| 1988–89 | UEFA Cup | R1 | St. Patrick's Athletic | 2–0 | 2–0 | — | 4–0 | — |
| 1988–89 | UEFA Cup | R2 | Austria Vienna | 0–0 | 1–0 | — | 1–0 | — |
| 1988–89 | UEFA Cup | R3 | Velež Mostar | 3–0 | 1–2 | — | 4–2 | — |
| 1988–89 | UEFA Cup | QF | Bayern Munich | 1–0 | 0–2 | — | 1–2 | — |
| 1990–91 | UEFA Cup | R1 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 3–1 | 1–1 | — | 4–2 | — |
| 1990–91 | UEFA Cup | R2 | Bologna | 3–1 | 0–3 | — | 3–4 | — |
| 1992–93 | UEFA Cup | R1 | Slavia Prague | 4–2 | 0–1 | — | 4–3 | — |
| 1992–93 | UEFA Cup | R2 | Standard Liège | 0–1 | 0–1 | — | 0–2 | — |
| 1993–94 | UEFA Cup | R1 | Atlético Madrid | 2–1 | 0–3 | — | 2–4 | — |
| 1996–97 | Cup Winners' Cup | QR | Red Star Belgrade | 1–1 | 0–0 | — | 1–1 | Away goals |
| 1998–99 | Cup Winners' Cup | QR | Lantana Tallinn | 5–0 | 1–0 | — | 6–0 | — |
| 1998–99 | Cup Winners' Cup | R1 | Real Mallorca | 0–1 | 1–1 | — | 1–2 | — |
| 2000–01 | UEFA Cup | QR | ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar | 3–0 | 2–0 | — | 5–0 | — |
| 2000–01 | UEFA Cup | R1 | Stuttgart | 3–2 | 0–1 | — | 3–3 | Away goals |
| 2003–04 | UEFA Cup | R1 | Zeljeznicar | 2–0 | 0–0 | — | 2–0 | — |
| 2003–04 | UEFA Cup | R2 | Bordeaux | 0–2 | 1–0 | — | 1–2 | — |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Cup | R1 | Braga | 3–1 | 2–2 | — | 5–3 | — |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Cup | Group A | Feyenoord | — | 0–3 | — | 5th | — |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Cup | Group A | Schalke 04 | 0–1 | — | — | 5th | — |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Cup | Group A | Basel | — | 2–1 | — | 5th | — |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Cup | Group A | Ferencváros | 0–1 | — | — | 5th | — |
| 2006–07 | Champions League | QR2 | Široki Brijeg | 3–0 | 0–0 | — | 3–0 | — |
| 2006–07 | Champions League | QR3 | AEK Athens | 1–2 | 0–3 | — | 1–5 | — |
| 2006–07 | UEFA Cup | R1 | Sparta Prague | 0–2 | 0–0 | — | 0–2 | — |
| 2009–10 | Europa League | PO | Dinamo Zagreb | 2–0 | 0–4 | — | 2–4 | — |
| 2011–12 | Europa League | QR3 | Paks | 4–1 | 1–1 | — | 5–2 | — |
| 2011–12 | Europa League | PO | Tottenham Hotspur | 0–5 | 0–0 | — | 0–5 | — |
| 2012–13 | Europa League | PO | Liverpool | 0–1 | 1–1 | — | 1–2 | — |
| 2016–17 | Europa League | QR1 | Infonet Tallinn | 2–1 | 4–2 | — | 6–3 | — |
| 2016–17 | Europa League | QR2 | Birkirkara | 1–2 | 0–0 | — | 1–2 | — |
| 2022–23 | Europa League | PO | Zürich | 0–1 | 1–2 | — | 1–3 | — |
| 2022–23 | Europa Conference League | Group A | Fiorentina | 0–3 | 1–5 | — | 3rd | — |
| 2022–23 | Europa Conference League | Group A | İstanbul Başakşehir | 0–4 | 1–3 | — | 3rd | — |
| 2022–23 | Europa Conference League | Group A | RFS | 2–1 | 2–0 | — | 3rd | — |
| 2023–24 | Europa Conference League | QR3 | Rosenborg | 3–1 | 1–2 | — | 4–3 | — |
| 2023–24 | Europa Conference League | PO | PAOK | 1–2 | 0–4 | — | 1–6 | — |
| 2024–25 | Europa League | PO | Viktoria Plzeň | 0–1 | 0–1 | — | 0–2 | — |
| 2024–25 | Conference League | League Phase | Dinamo Minsk | — | 2–1 | — | 25th | — |
| 2024–25 | Conference League | League Phase | Omonoia | 2–0 | — | — | 25th | — |
| 2024–25 | Conference League | League Phase | 1. FC Heidenheim | 0–2 | — | — | 25th | — |
| 2024–25 | Conference League | League Phase | Cercle Brugge | — | 0–2 | — | 25th | — |
| 2024–25 | Conference League | League Phase | Copenhagen | — | 0–2 | — | 25th | — |
| 2024–25 | Conference League | League Phase | Petroclub | 2–2 | — | — | 25th | — |

### By Competition

| Competition | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
| UEFA Champions League/European Cup | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 16 | −6 |
| UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup | 44 | 21 | 10 | 23 | 62 | 67 | −1 |
| UEFA Conference League | 16 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 34 | –17 |
| UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 14 | +2 |
| Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 20 | 0 |
| Total | 100 | 35 | 19 | 46 | 123 | 151 | −28 |
Most Appearances
Rank
Player
Career
Apps
1
Craig Gordon
2001–2007 2020–Current
27
2
Henry Smith
1981–1996
22
Steven Pressley
1998–2006
22
4
Gary Mackay
1980–1997
21
5
John Colquhoun
1985–1991 1993–1997
18
6
Robbie Neilson
1999–2009
16
John Cumming
1950–1967
16
8
Dave McPherson
1987–1992 1994–1999
15
John Robertson
1981–1988 1988–1998
15
Craig Levein
1983–1997
15
Eamonn Bannon
1976–1979 1988–1993
15
Lawrence Shankland
2022–
15
Top Goalscorers
Rank
Player
Career
Goals
1
John Robertson
1981–1988 1988–1998
7
2
Lawrence Shankland
2022–
6
3
Mike Galloway
1987–1989
5
Willie Wallace
1961–1966
5
5
Mark de Vries
2002–2005
4
Wayne Foster
1986–1994
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