1974–75 UEFA Cup
4th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1974–75 UEFA Cup was the fourth season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at the Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf, West Germany, and at the Diekman Stadion, Enschede, the Netherlands. It was won by Borussia Mönchengladbach of West Germany, who defeated FC Twente of the Netherlands by an aggregate result of 5–1 to claim their first UEFA Cup title.
Tournament details | |
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Dates | 11 September 1974 – 21 May 1975 |
Teams | 64 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Borussia Mönchengladbach (1st title) |
Runners-up | Twente |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 124 |
Goals scored | 388 (3.13 per match) |
Attendance | 1,987,332 (16,027 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Jupp Heynckes (Borussia Mönchengladbach) 11 goals |
← 1973–74 1975–76 → |
No team from West Germany had ever won the UEFA Cup, or its unofficial predecessor Inter-Cities Fairs Cup before Borussia's first conquest, which came two years after reaching the final in 1973. In that edition, both teams had already faced in the semi-finals, which ended with the same aggregate score. For the first time since the 1966 edition of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, no English team reached the final.