# 1985–86 UEFA Cup

The 1985–86 UEFA Cup was the 15th season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The final was played over two legs at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid, Spain, and at the Olympiastadion, West Berlin, West Germany. For the second year in a row, the competition was won by Real Madrid of Spain, who defeated Köln of West Germany by an aggregate result of 5–3.
Real Madrid became the first club to successfully defend the UEFA Cup, a feat that would only be repeated by Sevilla in two different occasions during the 21st century, both in the UEFA Cup (2006 and 2007) and its successor UEFA Europa League (2014 and 2015). In the former Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the unofficial predecessor of the UEFA Cup, it was only achieved by a representative team of the city of Barcelona (1958 and 1960) and by Valencia (1963 and 1964), both also fellow Spanish squads.
It was the first season in which English clubs were serving an indefinite ban from European football competitions due to the Heysel Stadium disaster, which would last for five seasons before being lifted for the 1990–91 season.

## Association team allocation

A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1985–86 UEFA Cup, all entering from the first round over six knock-out rounds. 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.
Following the English ban, their four births were redistributed among associations 9–12, each gaining a third birth.

### Association ranking

For the 1985–86 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1984 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1979–80 to 1983–84.
| Rank | Association | Coeff. | Teams |
| 1 | West Germany | 43.618 | 4 |
| 2 | England | 37.950 | 0 |
| 3 | Spain | 32.199 | 4 |
| 4 | Scotland | 31.950 | 3 |
| 5 | Italy | 31.633 | 3 |
| 6 | Belgium | 31.616 | 3 |
| 7 | Portugal | 31.250 | 3 |
| 8 | Yugoslavia | 28.450 | 3 |
| 9 | Soviet Union | 27.916 | 3 |
| 10 | France | 27.250 | 3 |
| 11 | Czechoslovakia | 25.550 | 3 |
| 12 | Netherlands | 25.549 | 3 |
| 13 | East Germany | 24.100 | 2 |
| 14 | Romania | 21.416 | 2 |
| 15 | Switzerland | 18.250 | 2 |
| 16 | Sweden | 18.000 | 2 |
| - | Wales | 17.000 | 0 |
| Rank | Association | Coeff. | Teams |
| 17 | Bulgaria | 16.750 | 2 |
| 18 | Austria | 15.500 | 2 |
| 19 | Hungary | 14.750 | 2 |
| 20 | Poland | 13.250 | 2 |
| 21 | Greece | 12.750 | 2 |
| 22 | Denmark | 10.749 | 1 |
| 23 | Republic of Ireland | 7.332 | 1 |
| 24 | Albania | 7.000 | 1 |
| 25 | Turkey | 5.333 | 1 |
| 26 | Norway | 5.249 | 1 |
| 27 | Cyprus | 4.998 | 1 |
| 28 | Finland | 4.998 | 1 |
| 29 | Northern Ireland | 3.998 | 1 |
| 30 | Luxembourg | 2.666 | 1 |
| 31 | Iceland | 2.331 | 1 |
| 32 | Malta | 1.999 | 1 |

### Teams

The labels in 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 1985–86 UEFA Cup :
| Werder Bremen (2nd) | Köln (3rd) | Borussia Mönchengladbach (4th) | Hamburger SV (5th) |
| Athletic Bilbao (3rd) | Sporting de Gijón (4th) | Real Madrid (5th) | Osasuna (6th) |
| Dundee United (3rd) | Rangers (4th) | St Mirren (5th) | Torino (2nd) |
| Internazionale (3rd) | Milan (5th) | Club Brugge (2nd) | RFC Liège (3rd) |
| Waregem (4th) | Sporting CP (2nd) | Boavista (4th) | Portimonense (5th) |
| Hajduk Split (2nd) | Partizan (3rd) | Vardar (5th) | Spartak Moscow (2nd) |
| Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (3rd) | Chornomorets Odesa (4th) | Nantes (2nd) | Auxerre (4th) |
| Metz (5th) | Bohemians Prague (2nd) | Slavia Prague (3rd) | Baník Ostrava (4th) |
| PSV Eindhoven (2nd) | Feyenoord (3rd) | Sparta Rotterdam (4th) | Lokomotive Leipzig (3rd) |
| Wismut Aue (4th) | Dinamo București (2nd) | Sportul Studențesc (3rd) | Neuchâtel Xamax (3rd) |
| St. Gallen (4th) | Malmö (3rd) | Hammarby (4th) | Lokomotiv Sofia (4th) |
| Pirin Blagoevgrad (5th) | LASK (3rd) | Wacker Innsbruck (4th) | Győri ETO (2nd) |
| Videoton (3rd) | Legia Warsaw (2nd) | Lech Poznań (4th) | Panathinaikos (2nd) |
| AEK Athens (3rd) | AGF (2nd) | Bohemians (2nd) | Dinamo Tirana (2nd) |
| Beşiktaş (2nd) | Viking (2nd) | APOEL (2nd) | TPS (2nd) |
| Coleraine (2nd) | Avenir Beggen (3rd) | Valur (2nd) | Ħamrun Spartans (2nd) |
Notes
* ^ Bulgaria: The top two teams of the 1984-85 A Group season, Levski Sofia and CSKA Sofia, were disbanded by the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party and refounded, after a number of violent incidents on the pitch during the 1985 Bulgarian Cup final. Trakia Plovdiv, which would have qualified for the UEFA Cup along CSKA Sofia, was awarded with the title and competed at the European Cup. Therefore, the UEFA Cup places went to Lokomotiv Sofia and Pirin Blagoevgrad, which had initially finished the season in 4th and 5th place. The decision regarding league placements was eventually reversed in 1990.

## Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches exceptionally took place on Tuesdays or Thursdays. In a departure from previous editions, both semi-finals were played in different days, and the two-legged final was held on consecutive weeks, with the second leg being played on a Tuesday.
Schedule for 1985–86 UEFA Cup :
| Round | First leg | Second leg |
| First round | 11–19 September 1985 | 1–3 October 1985 |
| Second round | 23 October 1985 | 6 November 1985 |
| Third round | 27 November 1985 | 11 December 1985 |
| Quarter-finals | 4–5 March 1986 | 18–19 March 1986 |
| Semi-finals | 2–3 April 1986 | 15–16 April 1986 |
| Final | 30 April 1986 | 6 May 1986 |

## First round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Köln | 2–1 | Sporting de Gijón | 0–0 | 2–1 |
| AEK Athens | 1–5 | Real Madrid | 1–0 | 0–5 |
| Auxerre | 3–4 | Milan | 3–1 | 0–3 |
| APOEL | 4–6 | Lokomotiv Sofia | 2–2 | 2–4 (a.e.t.) |
| Athletic Bilbao | 5–1 | Beşiktaş | 4–1 | 1–0 |
| Boavista | 5–6 | Club Brugge | 4–3 | 1–3 |
| Bohemians | 4–7 | Dundee United | 2–5 | 2–2 |
| Borussia Mönchengladbach | 3–1 | Lech Poznań | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| Coleraine | 1–6 | Lokomotive Leipzig | 1–1 | 0–5 |
| Dinamo București | 2–2 (a) | Vardar | 2–1 | 0–1 |
| Avenir Beggen | 0–6 | PSV Eindhoven | 0–2 | 0–4 |
| Chornomorets Odesa | 4–4 (a) | Werder Bremen | 2–1 | 2–3 |
| Wismut Aue | 2–5 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 1–3 | 1–2 |
| Spartak Moscow | 4–1 | TPS | 1–0 | 3–1 |
| Győri ETO | 4–5 | Bohemians Praha | 3–1 | 1–4 (a.e.t.) |
| Hajduk Split | 7–3 | Metz | 5–1 | 2–2 |
| Internazionale | 5–1 | St. Gallen | 5–1 | 0–0 |
| Waregem | 6–2 | AGF | 5–2 | 1–0 |
| Dinamo Tirana | 1–0 | Ħamrun Spartans | 1–0 | 0–0 |
| LASK | 3–0 | Baník Ostrava | 2–0 | 1–0 |
| Legia Warsaw | 4–1 | Viking | 3–0 | 1–1 |
| Neuchâtel Xamax | 7–4 | Sportul Studențesc | 3–0 | 4–4 |
| Pirin Blagoevgrad | 1–7 | Hammarby | 1–3 | 0–4 |
| Portimonense | 1–4 | Partizan | 1–0 | 0–4 |
| RFC Liège | 4–1 | Wacker Innsbruck | 1–0 | 3–1 |
| Rangers | 1–2 | Osasuna | 1–0 | 0–2 |
| Slavia Prague | 1–3 | St Mirren | 1–0 | 0–3 (a.e.t.) |
| Sparta Rotterdam | 2–2 (4–3 p) | Hamburger SV | 2–0 | 0–2 (a.e.t.) |
| Sporting CP | 4–3 | Feyenoord | 3–1 | 1–2 |
| Torino | 3–2 | Panathinaikos | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| Valur | 2–4 | Nantes | 2–1 | 0–3 |
| Videoton | 3–3 (a) | Malmö | 1–0 | 2–3 |

### Second leg

LASK won 3–0 on aggregate.
Lokomotiv Sofia won 6–4 on aggregate.
Dinamo Tirana won 1–0 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Vardar won on away goals.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 3–1 on aggregate.
Lokomotive Leipzig won 6–1 on aggregate.
Bohemians Praha won 5–4 on aggregate.
Dnipro won 5–2 on aggregate.
Partizan won 4-1 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 4–1 on aggregate.
Legia Warsaw won 4–1 on aggregate.
Hammarby won 7-1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; Videoton won on away goals.
PSV Eindhoven won 6–0 on aggregate.
RFC Liège won 4-1 on aggregate.
Waregem won 6–2 on aggregate.
Nantes won 4–2 on aggregate.
4–4 on aggregate; Chornomorets Odesa won on away goals.
Hajduk Split won 7–3 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 5–1 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 4-3 on aggregate.
Torino won 3–2 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Sparta Rotterdam won 4–3 on penalties.
Club Brugge won 6–5 on aggregate.
St Mirren won 3-1 on aggregate.
Dundee United won 7–4 on aggregate.
Köln won 2–1 on aggregate.
Osasuna won 2-1 on aggregate.
Milan won 4–3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 5–1 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 5–1 on aggregate.
Neuchâtel Xamax won 7-4 on aggregate.

## Second round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Köln | 8–2 | Bohemians Praha | 4–0 | 4–2 |
| Milan | 3–3 (a) | Lokomotive Leipzig | 2–0 | 1–3 |
| Dundee United | 3–1 | Vardar | 2–0 | 1–1 |
| Spartak Moscow | 4–1 | Club Brugge | 1–0 | 3–1 |
| Partizan | 1–5 | Nantes | 1–1 | 0–4 |
| Hammarby | 5–4 | St Mirren | 3–3 | 2–1 |
| Waregem | 3–2 | Osasuna | 2–0 | 1–2 |
| Dinamo Tirana | 0–1 | Sporting CP | 0–0 | 0–1 |
| LASK | 1–4 | Internazionale | 1–0 | 0–4 |
| Lokomotiv Sofia | 1–1 (a) | Neuchâtel Xamax | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| PSV Eindhoven | 2–3 | Dnipro | 2–2 | 0–1 |
| RFC Liège | 1–4 | Athletic Bilbao | 0–1 | 1–3 |
| Real Madrid | 2–1 | Chornomorets Odesa | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| Sparta Rotterdam | 2–6 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 1–1 | 1–5 |
| Torino | 2–4 | Hajduk Split | 1–1 | 1–3 |
| Videoton | 1–2 | Legia Warsaw | 0–1 | 1–1 |

### Second leg

Dundee United won 3–1 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 2–1 on aggregate.
Legia Warsaw won 2–1 on aggregate.
Köln won 8–2 on aggregate.
Hajduk Split won 4–2 on aggregate.
Dnipro won 3–2 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Neuchâtel Xamax won on away goals.
3–3 on aggregate; Milan won on away goals.
Nantes won 5–1 on aggregate.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 6–2 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 4–1 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 4–1 on aggregate.
Hammarby won 5–4 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 4–1 on aggregate.
Waregem won 3–2 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 1–0 on aggregate.

## Third round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Athletic Bilbao | 2–4 | Sporting CP | 2–1 | 0–3 |
| Borussia Mönchengladbach | 5–5 (a) | Real Madrid | 5–1 | 0–4 |
| Dundee United | 3–4 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 2–1 | 1–3 (a.e.t.) |
| Dnipro | 0–3 | Hajduk Split | 0–1 | 0–2 |
| Spartak Moscow | 1–2 | Nantes | 0–1 | 1–1 |
| Hammarby | 3–4 | Köln | 2–1 | 1–3 |
| Internazionale | 1–0 | Legia Warsaw | 0–0 | 1–0 (a.e.t.) |
| Waregem | 3–2 | Milan | 1–1 | 2–1 |

### Second leg

Hajduk Split won 3–0 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 1–0 on aggregate.
Köln won 4–3 on aggregate.
Nantes won 2–1 on aggregate.
Neuchâtel Xamax won 4–3 on aggregate.
Following the referee's controversial decision to award Waregem a penalty in the 44th minute as the foul looked to be outside of the penalty area, Milan fans pelted the pitch with missiles some of which hit several Waregem players. Following the match, as a result of the incident, AC Milan received a two-match European competition stadium ban, enforced at the start of their 1987–88 UEFA Cup campaign. Waregem won 3–2 on aggregate.
5–5 on aggregate; Real Madrid won on away goals.
Sporting CP won 4–2 on aggregate.

## Quarter-finals

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Hajduk Split | 1–1 (4–5 p) | Waregem | 1–0 | 0–1 (a.e.t.) |
| Internazionale | 6–3 | Nantes | 3–0 | 3–3 |
| Real Madrid | 3–2 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 3–0 | 0–2 |
| Sporting CP | 1–3 | Köln | 1–1 | 0–2 |

### Second leg

Köln won 3–1 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Waregem won 5–4 on penalties.
Internazionale won 6–3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.

## Semi-finals

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Köln | 7–3 | Waregem | 4–0 | 3–3 |
| Internazionale | 4–6 | Real Madrid | 3–1 | 1–5 (a.e.t.) |

### Second leg

Köln won 7–3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 6–4 on aggregate.

## Final
### Second leg

Real Madrid won 5–3 on aggregate.