# Royal Antwerp F.C. in European football

Royal Antwerp Football Club, often simply referred to as R. Antwerp or simply Antwerp, is an association football club from Antwerp, Belgium. The team has participated in sixteen seasons of Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) club competitions, including one season in the European Cup, fourteen seasons in the Inter Cities Fairs Cup, UEFA Cup and Europa League, one season in the Cup Winners' Cup. The club's first appearance was in the 1957–58 European Cup. Since then, the club has participated in various seasons of the UEFA club competitions, with various success. Their best performance was reaching the final of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1993, where Antwerp lost 3–1 to Italian side Parma.

## Total statistics

As of home match with Barcelona.
| Competition | S | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
| European Cup / UEFA Champions League | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 17 | −11 |
| UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League | 15 | 63 | 21 | 12 | 30 | 83 | 102 | −19 |
| UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 11 | +1 |
| Total | 17 | 78 | 24 | 16 | 38 | 101 | 130 | –29 |

## Statistics by country

As of 13 December 2023.
| Country | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
| Austria | 6 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 9 | +2 |
| Bulgaria | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | +4 |
| Cyprus | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Czech Republic | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| England | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 13 | –5 |
| France | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | –1 |
| Germany | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 14 | –4 |
| Greece | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 |
| Hungary | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | –2 |
| Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | –1 |
| Kosovo | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 |
| Luxembourg | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 |
| Netherlands | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | –3 |
| Norway | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 |
| Poland | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | –1 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | –3 |
| Romania | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Russia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 |
| Scotland | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 20 | –7 |
| Spain | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 21 | –15 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | +5 |
| Northern Ireland | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 5 | +1 |
| Turkey | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | –4 |
| Ukraine | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | –2 |
| Total | 85 | 27 | 18 | 41 | 111 | 142 | –31 |

## Matches

| Season | Competition | Round | Opponent | Home | Away | Aggregate |
| 1957–58 | European Cup | 1R | Real Madrid | 1–2 | 0–6 | 1–8 |
| 1964–65 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 1R | Hertha BSC | 2–0 | 1–2 | 3–2 |
| 1964–65 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 2R | Athletic Bilbao | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–3 |
| 1965–66 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 1R | Glentoran | 1–0 | 3–3 | 4–3 |
| 1965–66 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 2R | Barcelona | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–3 |
| 1966–67 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 1R | Union Luxembourg | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| 1966–67 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 2R | Kilmarnock | 0–1 | 2–7 | 2–8 |
| 1967–68 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 1R | Göztepe Izmir | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 |
| 1974–75 | UEFA Cup | 1R | Sturm Graz | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 (a) |
| 1974–75 | UEFA Cup | 2R | Ajax | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 (a) |
| 1975–76 | UEFA Cup | 1R | Aston Villa | 4–1 | 1–0 | 5–1 |
| 1975–76 | UEFA Cup | 2R | Śląsk Wrocław | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–3 |
| 1983–84 | UEFA Cup | 1R | Zürich | 4–2 | 4–1 | 8–3 |
| 1983–84 | UEFA Cup | 2R | Lens | 2–3 | 2–2 | 4–5 |
| 1988–89 | UEFA Cup | 1R | 1. FC Köln | 2–4 | 1–2 | 3–6 |
| 1989–90 | UEFA Cup | 1R | Levski Sofia | 4–3 | 0–0 | 4–3 |
| 1989–90 | UEFA Cup | 2R | Dundee United | 4–0 | 2–3 | 6–3 |
| 1989–90 | UEFA Cup | 3R | VfB Stuttgart | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 |
| 1989–90 | UEFA Cup | QF | 1. FC Köln | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–2 |
| 1990–91 | UEFA Cup | 1R | Ferencváros | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–3 |
| 1992–93 | European Cup Winners' Cup | 1R | Glenavon | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 |
| 1992–93 | European Cup Winners' Cup | 2R | Admira Wacker | 3–4 | 4–2 | 7–6 |
| 1992–93 | European Cup Winners' Cup | QF | Steaua București | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 (a) |
| 1992–93 | European Cup Winners' Cup | SF | Spartak Moscow | 3–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 |
| 1992–93 | European Cup Winners' Cup | F | Parma | 1–3 | 1–3 | 1–3 |
| 1993–94 | UEFA Cup | 1R | Marítimo | 2–0 | 2–2 | 4–2 |
| 1993–94 | UEFA Cup | 2R | Austria Salzburg | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 |
| 1994–95 | UEFA Cup | 1R | Newcastle United | 0–5 | 2–5 | 2–10 |
| 2019–20 | UEFA Europa League | 3Q | Viktoria Plzeň | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 |
| 2019–20 | UEFA Europa League | PO | AZ | 1–1 | 1–4 | 2–5 |
| 2020–21 | UEFA Europa League | Group J | Tottenham Hotspur | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2nd |
| 2020–21 | UEFA Europa League | Group J | LASK | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2nd |
| 2020–21 | UEFA Europa League | Group J | Ludogorets Razgrad | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2nd |
| 2020–21 | UEFA Europa League | R32 | Rangers | 3–4 | 2–5 | 5–9 |
| 2021–22 | UEFA Europa League | PO | Omonia | 2–0 (a.e.t.) | 2–4 | 4–4 (3–2 p) |
| 2021–22 | UEFA Europa League | Group D | Olympiacos | 1–0 | 1–2 | 4th |
| 2021–22 | UEFA Europa League | Group D | Eintracht Frankfurt | 0–1 | 2–2 | 4th |
| 2021–22 | UEFA Europa League | Group D | Fenerbahçe | 0–3 | 2–2 | 4th |
| 2022–23 | UEFA Europa Conference League | 2Q | Drita | 0−0 | 2–0 | 2–0 |
| 2022–23 | UEFA Europa Conference League | 3Q | Lillestrøm | 2–0 | 3–1 | 5–1 |
| 2022–23 | UEFA Europa Conference League | PO | İstanbul Başakşehir | 1–3 | 1−1 | 2–4 |
| 2023–24 | UEFA Champions League | PO | AEK Athens | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 |
| 2023–24 | UEFA Champions League | Group H | Barcelona | 3–2 | 0–5 | 4th |
| 2023–24 | UEFA Champions League | Group H | Shakhtar Donetsk | 2–3 | 0–1 | 4th |
| 2023–24 | UEFA Champions League | Group H | Porto | 1–4 | 0–2 | 4th |

### Summary of best results

From the quarter-finals upwards:
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1):
* Runners-up in 1993.
UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League:
* Quarter-finalists in 1990.