# 1981–82 UEFA Cup

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.
| Rank | Association | Coeff. | Teams |
| 1 | West Germany | 53.998 | 4 |
| 2 | England | 38.426 | 4 |
| 3 | Belgium | 37.300 | 4 |
| 4 | Spain | 36.066 | 3 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 35.250 | 3 |
| 6 | East Germany | 29.400 | 3 |
| 7 | Soviet Union | 28.050 | 3 |
| 8 | France | 27.750 | 3 |
| 9 | Yugoslavia | 26.000 | 2 |
| 10 | Italy | 24.165 | 2 |
| 11 | Czechoslovakia | 22.300 | 2 |
| 12 | Hungary | 20.150 | 2 |
| 13 | Scotland | 19.250 | 2 |
| 14 | Portugal | 18.500 | 2 |
| 15 | Switzerland | 18.400 | 2 |
| - | Wales | 17.000 | 0 |
| 16 | Poland | 16.850 | 2 |
| Rank | Association | Coeff. | Teams |
| 17 | Austria | 16.000 | 2 |
| 18 | Greece | 15.750 | 2 |
| 19 | Bulgaria | 15.450 | 2 |
| 20 | Sweden | 14.150 | 2 |
| 21 | Romania | 13.050 | 2 |
| 22 | Denmark | 10.000 | 1 |
| 23 | Republic of Ireland | 9.665 | 1 |
| 24 | Turkey | 7.750 | 1 |
| 25 | Norway | 6.500 | 1 |
| 26 | Cyprus | 5.332 | 1 |
| 27 | Finland | 3.832 | 1 |
| =28 | Luxembourg | 3.666 | 1 |
| =28 | Northern Ireland | 3.666 | 1 |
| =30 | Malta | 3.664 | 1 |
| =30 | Iceland | 3.664 | 1 |
| 32 | Albania | 3.000 | 1 |

### 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) | 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) | 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
* ^ 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 |

### Second leg

Valencia won 2–0 on aggregate.
Neuchâtel Xamax won 6–3 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Real Madrid won on away goals.
Aris won 8–2 on aggregate.
Dinamo București won 4–2 on aggregate.
Carl Zeiss Jena won 4–1 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 6–2 on aggregate.
Dynamo Dresden won 6–2 on aggregate.
FC Winterslag won 3–2 on aggregate.
Rapid Wien won 4–2 on aggregate.
IFK Göteborg won 7–2 on aggregate.
Boavista won 5–4 on aggregate.
Southampton won 4–1 on aggregate.
Hajduk Split won 5–3 on aggregate.
Malmö FF won 5–1 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 7–2 on aggregate.
Arsenal won 3–0 on aggregate.
PSV Eindhoven won 8–2 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate, Sturm Graz won on away goals
Beveren won 8–0 on aggregate.
Argeș Pitești won 5–1 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 3–1 on aggregate.
Grasshoppers won 4–1 on aggregate.
Hamburger SV won 6–4 on aggregate.
1. FC Kaiserslautern won 3–1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; Borussia Mönchengladbach won on away goals.
Lokeren won 5–3 on aggregate.
Aberdeen won 4–2 on aggregate.
Dundee United won 6–4 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Radnički Niš won on away goals.
Sporting CP won 11–0 on aggregate.

## Second round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Aberdeen | 5–2 | Argeș Pitești | 3–0 | 2–2 |
| Aris | 1–5 | Lokeren | 1–1 | 0–4 |
| Borussia Mönchengladbach | 2–5 | Dundee United | 2–0 | 0–5 |
| Bordeaux | 2–3 | Hamburger SV | 2–1 | 0–2 |
| Spartak Moscow | 2–5 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 2–1 | 0–4 |
| Feyenoord | 3–2 | Dynamo Dresden | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| Grasshoppers | 2–2 (0–3 p) | Radnički Niš | 2–0 | 0–2 (a.e.t.) |
| Internazionale | 3–4 | Dinamo București | 1–1 | 2–3 (a.e.t.) |
| FC Winterslag | 2–2 (a) | Arsenal | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| K.S.K. Beveren | 4–4 (a) | Hajduk Split | 2–3 | 2–1 |
| Malmö FF | 0–2 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| Real Madrid | 3–2 | Carl Zeiss Jena | 3–2 | 0–0 |
| Rapid Wien | 2–2 (a) | PSV Eindhoven | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| Sturm Graz | 4–5 | IFK Göteborg | 2–2 | 2–3 |
| Southampton | 2–4 | Sporting CP | 2–4 | 0–0 |
| Valencia | 2–1 | Boavista | 2–0 | 0–1 |

### Second leg

Aberdeen won 5–2 on aggregate.
Lokeren won 5–1 on aggregate.
Dundee United won 5–2 on aggregate.
Hamburger SV won 3–2 on aggregate.
1. FC Kaiserslautern won 5–2 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 3–2 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Radnički Niš won 3–0 on penalties.
Dinamo București won 4–3 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Winterslag won on away goals.
4–4 on aggregate; Hajduk Split won on away goals.
Neuchâtel Xamax won 2–0 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Rapid Wien won on away goals.
IFK Göteborg won 5–4 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 4–2 on aggregate.
Valencia won 2–1 on aggregate.

## Third round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Aberdeen | 4–5 | Hamburger SV | 3–2 | 1–3 |
| IFK Göteborg | 4–1 | Dinamo București | 3–1 | 1–0 |
| FC Winterslag | 0–5 | Dundee United | 0–0 | 0–5 |
| Lokeren | 2–4 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 1–0 | 1–4 |
| Radnički Niš | 2–1 | Feyenoord | 2–0 | 0–1 |
| Rapid Wien | 0–1 | Real Madrid | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| Sporting CP | 0–1 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 0–0 | 0–1 |
| Valencia | 6–5 | Hajduk Split | 5–1 | 1–4 |

### Second leg

Hamburger SV won 5–4 on aggregate.
IFK Göteborg won 4–1 on aggregate.
Dundee United won 5–0 on aggregate.
1. FC Kaiserslautern won 4–2 on aggregate.
Radnički Niš won 2–1 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 1–0 on aggregate.
Neuchâtel Xamax won 1–0 on aggregate.
Valencia won 6–5 on aggregate.

## Quarter-finals

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Dundee United | 2–3 | Radnički Niš | 2–0 | 0–3 |
| Hamburger SV | 3–2 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 3–2 | 0–0 |
| Real Madrid | 3–6 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 3–1 | 0–5 |
| Valencia | 2–4 | IFK Göteborg | 2–2 | 0–2 |

### Second leg

Radnički Niš won 3–2 on aggregate.
Hamburger SV won 3–2 on aggregate.
1. FC Kaiserslautern won 6–3 on aggregate.
IFK Göteborg won 4–2 on aggregate.

## Semi-finals

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 2–3 | IFK Göteborg | 1–1 | 1–2 (a.e.t.) |
| Radnički Niš | 3–6 | Hamburger SV | 2–1 | 1–5 |

### Second leg

IFK Göteborg won 3–2 on aggregate.
Hamburger SV won 6–3 on aggregate.

## Final
### Second leg

IFK Göteborg won 4–0 on aggregate.

## Top goalscorers

| Rank | Name | Team | Goals |
| 1 | Torbjörn Nilsson | IFK Göteborg | 9 |
| =2 | Dinos Kouis | Aris | 5 |
| =2 | Stig Fredriksson | IFK Göteborg | 5 |
| =2 | John Hewitt | Aberdeen | 5 |
| =2 | António Oliveira | Sporting CP | 5 |
| =2 | Ronny Martens | Beveren | 5 |
| =2 | Thomas von Heesen | Hamburger SV | 5 |
| =2 | Friedhelm Funkel | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 5 |
| =2 | Horst Hrubesch | Hamburger SV | 5 |
| =10 | Robert Lüthi | Neuchâtel Xamax | 4 |
| =10 | Eamonn Bannon | Dundee United | 4 |
| =10 | Hans-Peter Briegel | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 4 |
| =10 | Ralph Milne | Dundee United | 4 |
| =10 | Ivan Gudelj | Hajduk Split | 4 |
| =10 | Norbert Eilenfeldt | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 4 |