1986–87 UEFA Cup
16th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 1986–87 UEFA Cup was the 16th 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 Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden, and at Tannadice Park, Dundee, Scotland. The competition was won by IFK Göteborg of Sweden, who defeated Dundee United of Scotland by an aggregate result of 2–1 to claim their second title.
Tournament details | |
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Dates | 16 September 1986 – 20 May 1987 |
Teams | 64 |
Final positions | |
Champions | IFK Göteborg (2nd title) |
Runners-up | Dundee United |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 126 |
Goals scored | 291 (2.31 per match) |
Attendance | 2,502,655 (19,862 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Peter Houtman (Groningen) Paulinho Cascavel (Vitória Guimarães) Jari Rantanen (IFK Göteborg) Wim Kieft (Torino) 5 goals each |
← 1985–86 1987–88 → |
This is the second and last European tournament won by a Swedish team, five years after Göteborg's first UEFA Cup conquest in 1982, as well as the last European final played by a Swedish team, while Dundee United became the last team from Scotland to reach a European final until 2003. This was the second season in which all English clubs were banned from European football competitions.[1][2]