# SV Werder Bremen in European football

Werder Bremen is a successful German football club based in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, northern Germany which participated in UEFA competitions on many occasions in the past. The club won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1992 and the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1998. They were runners-up of the UEFA Cup in 2008–09 before it was rebranded as the UEFA Europa League (or UEL for short). They were also runners-up of the 1993 European Super Cup.
Currently, they still play in Bundesliga as of 2025. Nonetheless, they haven't been playing in any UEFA-organised competition since the 2010–11 season, when they last competed in UEFA Champions League, reaching the group stage respectively.

## Overall statistics in UEFA competitions

| Competition | P | W | D | L |
| UEFA Champions League | 66 | 27 | 14 | 25 |
| UEFA Europa League | 99 | 46 | 24 | 29 |
| UEFA Super Cup | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 21 | 11 | 3 | 7 |
| UEFA Intertoto Cup | 22 | 14 | 4 | 4 |

## UEFA record

In the table below are depicted SV Werder Bremen's historical results in European football by UEFA competition, according to their competitive history in the passing of time.
| Season | Competition | Round | Opponents | Home | Away | Aggregate |
| 1961–62 | European Cup Winners' Cup | First round | Aarhus | 2–0 | 3–2 | 5–2 |
| 1961–62 | European Cup Winners' Cup | Quarter-finals | Atlético Madrid | 1–1 | 1–3 | 2–4 |
| 1965–66 | European Cup | Preliminary round | APOEL | 5–0 | 5–0 | 10–0 |
| 1965–66 | European Cup | First round | Partizan | 0–3 | 1–0 | 1–3 |
| 1982–83 | UEFA Cup | First round | Vorwärts Frankfurt | 2–0 | 1–3 | 3–3 (a) |
| 1982–83 | UEFA Cup | Second round | Brage | 2–0 | 6–2 | 8–2 |
| 1982–83 | UEFA Cup | Third round | Dundee United | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–3 |
| 1983–84 | UEFA Cup | First round | Malmö | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 |
| 1983–84 | UEFA Cup | Second round | Lokomotive Leipzig | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 |
| 1984–85 | UEFA Cup | First round | Anderlecht | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 (a) |
| 1985–86 | UEFA Cup | First round | Chornomorets | 1–2 | 3–2 | 4–4 (a) |
| 1986–87 | UEFA Cup | First round | Atlético | 0–2 | 2–1 (a.e.t.) | 2–3 |
| 1987–88 | UEFA Cup | First round | Mjøndalen | 5–0 | 0–1 | 5–1 |
| 1987–88 | UEFA Cup | Second round | Spartak | 1–4 | 6–2 (a.e.t.) | 7–6 |
| 1987–88 | UEFA Cup | Third round | Dinamo Tbilisi | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 |
| 1987–88 | UEFA Cup | Quarter-finals | Hellas | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| 1987–88 | UEFA Cup | Semi-finals | Bayer Leverkusen | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| 1988–89 | European Cup | First round | Berliner FC Dynamo | 5–0 | 0–3 | 5–3 |
| 1988–89 | European Cup | Second round | Celtic | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 |
| 1988–89 | European Cup | Quarter-finals | Milan | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| 1989–90 | UEFA Cup | First round | Lillestrøm SK | 2–0 | 3–1 | 5–1 |
| 1989–90 | UEFA Cup | Second round | Austria Vienna | 5–0 | 0–2 | 5–2 |
| 1989–90 | UEFA Cup | Third round | Napoli | 5–1 | 3–2 | 8–3 |
| 1989–90 | UEFA Cup | Quarter-finals | RFC Liège | 0–2 | 4–1 | 4–3 |
| 1989–90 | UEFA Cup | Semi-finals | Fiorentina | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 (a) |
| 1991–92 | European Cup Winners' Cup | First round | Bacău | 5–0 | 6–0 | 11–0 |
| 1991–92 | European Cup Winners' Cup | Second round | Ferencváros | 3–2 | 1–2 | 4–2 |
| 1991–92 | European Cup Winners' Cup | Quarter-finals | Galatasaray | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 |
| 1991–92 | European Cup Winners' Cup | Semi-finals | Brugge | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 |
| 1991–92 | European Cup Winners' Cup | Final | Monaco | 2–0 | — | Winners |
| 1992–93 | Super Cup | Final | Barcelona | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–3 |
| 1992–93 | European Cup Winners' Cup | First round | Hannover 96 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 4–3 |
| 1992–93 | European Cup Winners' Cup | Second round | Sparta | 2–3 | 0–1 | 2–4 |
| 1993–94 | UEFA Champions League |
| 1993–94 | UEFA Champions League | First round | Dinamo Minsk | 5–2 | 1–1 | 6–3 |
| 1993–94 | UEFA Champions League | Second round | Levski | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–2 |
| 1993–94 | UEFA Champions League | Group B |
| 1993–94 | UEFA Champions League | Group B | Milan | 1–1 | 1–2 | 3rd place |
| 1993–94 | UEFA Champions League | Group B | Anderlecht | 5–3 | 2–1 | 3rd place |
| 1993–94 | UEFA Champions League | Group B | Porto | 0–5 | 2–3 | 3rd place |
| 1994–95 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | Group B |
| 1994–95 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | First round | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 |
| 1994–95 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | Second round | Feyenoord | 3–4 | 0–1 | 3–5 |
| 1995–96 | UEFA Cup |
| 1995–96 | UEFA Cup | First round | Glenavon | 5–0 | 2–0 | 7–0 |
| 1995–96 | UEFA Cup | Second round | Dinamo Minsk | 5–0 | 1–2 | 6–2 |
| 1995–96 | UEFA Cup | Third round | PSV | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 |
| 1998–99 | UEFA Cup |
| 1998–99 | UEFA Cup | First round | Brann | 4–0 (a.e.t.) | 0–2 | 4–2 |
| 1998–99 | UEFA Cup | Second round | Marseille | 1–1 | 2–3 | 3–4 |
| 1999–2000 | UEFA Cup |
| 1999–2000 | UEFA Cup | First round | Bodø/Glimt | 1–1 | 5–0 | 6–1 |
| 1999–2000 | UEFA Cup | Second round | Viking | 0–0 | 2–2 (a) | 2–2 |
| 1999–2000 | UEFA Cup | Third round | Lyon | 4–0 | 0–3 | 4–3 |
| 1999–2000 | UEFA Cup | Fourth round | Parma | 3–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 |
| 1999–2000 | UEFA Cup | Quarter-finals | Arsenal | 2–4 | 0–2 | 2–6 |
| 2000–01 | UEFA Cup |
| 2000–01 | UEFA Cup | First round | Antalyaspor | 6–0 | 0–2 | 6–2 |
| 2000–01 | UEFA Cup | Second round | Genk | 4–1 | 5–2 | 9–3 |
| 2000–01 | UEFA Cup | Third round | Bordeaux | 0–0 | 1–4 | 0–4 |
| 2002–03 | UEFA Cup |
| 2002–03 | UEFA Cup | First round | Metalurh Donetsk | 8–0 | 2–2 | 10–2 |
| 2002–03 | UEFA Cup | Second round | Vitesse | 3–3 | 1–2 | 4–5 |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Champions League | Group G | Internazionale | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2nd place |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Champions League | Group G | Valencia | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2nd place |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Champions League | Group G | Anderlecht | 5–1 | 2–1 | 2nd place |
| 2004–05 | UEFA Champions League | Round of 16 | Lyon | 0–3 | 2–7 | 2–10 |
| 2005–06 | UEFA Champions League | Third qualifying round | Basel | 3–0 | 1–2 | 4–2 |
| 2005–06 | UEFA Champions League | Group C | Barcelona | 0–2 | 1–3 | 2nd place |
| 2005–06 | UEFA Champions League | Group C | Udinese | 4–3 | 1–1 | 2nd place |
| 2005–06 | UEFA Champions League | Group C | Panathinaikos | 5–1 | 1–2 | 2nd place |
| 2005–06 | UEFA Champions League | Round of 16 | Juventus | 3–2 | 1–2 | 4–4 (a) |
| 2006–07 | UEFA Champions League |
| 2006–07 | UEFA Champions League | Group A | Barcelona | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3rd place |
| 2006–07 | UEFA Champions League | Group A | Chelsea | 1–0 | 0–2 | 3rd place |
| 2006–07 | UEFA Champions League | Group A | Levski | 2–0 | 3–0 | 3rd place |
| 2006–07 | UEFA Cup | Round of 32 | Ajax | 3–0 | 1–3 | 4–3 |
| 2006–07 | UEFA Cup | Round of 16 | Celta Vigo | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 |
| 2006–07 | UEFA Cup | Quarter-finals | AZ Alkmaar | 0–0 | 4–1 | 4–1 |
| 2006–07 | UEFA Cup | Semi-finals | Espanyol | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–5 |