1990–91 European Cup Winners' Cup

The 1990–91 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup was won by Manchester United against Barcelona. The victory for United was significant as it was the season English clubs returned to European football, after completing a five-year ban as a result of the Heysel Stadium disaster.

1990–91 European Cup Winners' Cup

Tournament details
Dates	19 August 1990 – 15 May 1991
Teams	33
Final positions
Champions	Manchester United (1st title)
Runners-up	Barcelona
Tournament statistics
Matches played	63
Goals scored	160 (2.54 per match)
Attendance	1,112,484 (17,658 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Roberto Baggio (Juventus) 9 goals
← 1989–90 1991–92 →

Teams

A total of 33 teams participated in the competition. Yugoslav Cup winners Red Star Belgrade won the double, and cup runners-up Hajduk Split were disqualified, so no representative of Yugoslavia participated.

Qualified teams for 1990–91 European Cup Winners' Cup

First round
SampdoriaTH	Juventus (CW)	1. FC Kaiserslautern (CW)	Barcelona (CW)
Dynamo Kyiv (CW)	Liège (CW)	PSV Eindhoven (CW)	Estrela da Amadora (CW)
Steaua București (CR)	Aberdeen (CW)	Djurgårdens IF (CW)	Montpellier (CW)
Austria Wien (CW)	PSV Schwerin (CR)[Note GDR]	Dukla Prague (CW)	Pécsi Mecsek (CW)
Olympiacos (CW)	Neuchâtel Xamax (CW)	Lyngby BK (CW)	Wrexham (CR)
KuPS (CW)	Legia Warsaw (CW)	Sliven (CW)	Manchester United (CW)
KS Flamurtari (CR)	Viking FK (CW)	Glentoran (CW)	Nea Salamis (CW)
Fram Reykjavík (CW)	Sliema Wanderers (CW)	Swift Hesperange (CW)
Qualifying round
Trabzonspor (CR)	Bray Wanderers (CW)

Notes

1. ^
   East Germany (GDR): All matches of PSV Schwerin, representing the DFV of East Germany as runners-up of the 1989–90 FDGB-Pokal (as Dynamo Dresden won the double and qualified for the European Cup), on or after German reunification of 3 October show the flag of the reunited nation of Germany. However, those matches and their records were still counted for East Germany, and not for Germany, under UEFA regulations.

Qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bray Wanderers	1–3	Trabzonspor	1–1	0–2

First leg

Bray Wanderers	1–1	Trabzonspor
Nugent 51'	Report	Đukić 2'

19 August 1990

Tolka Park, Dublin

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Michel Piraux (Belgium)

Second leg

Trabzonspor	2–0	Bray Wanderers
Đukić 48' Aslan 62'	Report

4 September 1990

Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium, Trabzon

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Adrian Porumboiu (Romania)

Trabzonspor won 3–1 on aggregate.

First round

Nea Salamis Famagusta against Aberdeen at Tsirion Stadium in Limassol

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nea Salamis	0–5	Aberdeen	0–2	0–3
Legia Warsaw	6–0	Swift Hesperange	3–0	3–0
Olympiacos	5–1	Flamurtari	3–1	2–0
Kaiserslautern	1–2	Sampdoria	1–0	0–2
Manchester United	3–0	Pécsi Munkás	2–0	1–0
Wrexham	1–0	Lyngby	0–0	1–0
Montpellier	1–0	PSV Eindhoven	1–0	0–0
Glentoran	1–6	Steaua București	1–1	0–5
KuPS	2–6	Dynamo Kyiv	2–2	0–4
Sliema Wanderers	1–4	Dukla Prague	1–2	0–2
Fram	4–1	Djurgårdens IF	3–0	1–1
Trabzonspor	3–7	Barcelona	1–0	2–7
Viking	0–5	RFC Liège	0–2	0–3
Estrela da Amadora	2–2 (4–3 p)†	Neuchâtel Xamax	1–1	1–1 (aet)
PSV Schwerin	0–2	Austria Wien	0–2	0–0
Sliven	1–8	Juventus	0–2	1–6

^† Order of legs reversed after original draw

First leg

Sliema Wanderers	1–2	Dukla Prague
Walker 54'	Report	V. Rada 32' J. Kostelník 87'

18 September 1990

National Stadium, Attard

Attendance: 850

Referee: Rosario Lo Bello (Italy)

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Nea Salamis	0–2	Aberdeen
	Report	Mason 62' Gillhaus 81'

19 September 1990

Tsirion Stadium, Limassol

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Octavian Streng (Romania)

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Legia Warsaw	3–0	Swift Hesperange
Kosecki 48', 79' Pisz 90'	Report

19 September 1990

Stadion Wojska Polskiego, Warsaw

Attendance: 4,172

Referee: Kaj Natri (Finland)

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Olympiacos	3–1	Flamurtari
Anastopoulos 9', 69' Hantzidis 25'	Report	Ziu 75'

19 September 1990

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 14,907

Referee: Atanas Uzunov (Bulgaria)

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Kaiserslautern	1–0	Sampdoria
Kuntz 75'	Report

19 September 1990

Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Kaiserslautern

Attendance: 32,674

Referee: John Blankenstein (Netherlands)

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Manchester United	2–0	Pécsi Munkás
Blackmore 10' Webb 17'	Report

19 September 1990

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 28,411

Referee: Mario van der Ende (Netherlands)

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Wrexham	0–0	Lyngby
	Report

19 September 1990

Racecourse Ground, Wrexham

Attendance: 3,417

Referee: Frans van der Wijngaert (Belgium)

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Montpellier	1–0	PSV Eindhoven
Ziober 54'	Report

19 September 1990

Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier

Attendance: 14,404

Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (West Germany)

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Glentoran	1–1	Steaua București
Douglas 84'	Report	Stan 47' (pen.)

19 September 1990

The Oval, Belfast

Attendance: 2,163

Referee: Tore Hollung (Norway)

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KuPS	2–2	Dynamo Kyiv
K. Nyyssönen 38' Gayle 90'	Report	Salenko 11' Yuran 66'

19 September 1990

Väinölänniemen stadion, Kuopio

Attendance: 2,460

Referee: Egil Nervik (Norway)

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Fram	3–0	Djurgårdens IF
Ragnarsson 55', 57' Arnþórsson 89'	Report

19 September 1990

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 637

Referee: Wilfred Wallace (Republic of Ireland)

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Trabzonspor	1–0	Barcelona
Aslan 67'	Report

19 September 1990

Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium, Trabzon

Attendance: 21,352

Referee: Lajos Németh (Hungary)

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Viking	0–2	RFC Liège
	Report	Boffin 15' Ernès 82'

19 September 1990

Stavanger Stadion, Stavanger

Attendance: 1,845

Referee: George Smith (Scotland)

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Estrela da Amadora	1–1	Neuchâtel Xamax
Ricky 26'	Report	Sutter 57'

19 September 1990

Estádio José Gomes, Amadora

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Alphonse Constantin (Belgium)

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PSV Schwerin	0–2	Austria Wien
	Report	Miļevskis 34' Zsak 36'

19 September 1990

Ostseestadion, Rostock

Attendance: 835

Referee: John Nielsen (Denmark)

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Sliven	0–2	Juventus
	Report	Schillaci 26' Baggio 88' (pen.)

19 September 1990

Stadion Hadzhi Dimitar, Sliven

Attendance: 17,600

Referee: Ignace van Swieten (Netherlands)

Second leg

Aberdeen	3–0	Nea Salamis
C. Robertson 13' Gillhaus 33' Jess 67'	Report

3 October 1990

Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen

Attendance: 9,884

Referee: Andrew Ritchie (Northern Ireland)

Aberdeen won 5–0 on aggregate.

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Swift Hesperange	0–3	Legia Warsaw
	Report	Jóźwiak 60' Łatka 82' Kosecki 88'

3 October 1990

Stade de la Frontière, Esch-sur-Alzette

Attendance: 518

Referee: Hans-Peter Dellwing (Germany)

Legia Warsaw won 6–0 on aggregate.

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Flamurtari	0–2	Olympiacos
	Report	Christodoulou 84' Mitropoulos 87'

3 October 1990

Flamurtari Stadium, Vlorë

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: László Molnár (Hungary)

Olympiacos won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Sampdoria	2–0	Kaiserslautern
Mancini 6' (pen.) Branca 75'	Report

3 October 1990

Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa

Attendance: 29,994

Referee: Neil Midgley (England)

Sampdoria won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Pécsi Munkás	0–1	Manchester United
	Report	McClair 78'

3 October 1990

Stadion PMFC, Pécs

Attendance: 9,700

Referee: Zoran Petrović (Yugoslavia)

Manchester United won 3–0 on aggregate.

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Lyngby	0–1	Wrexham
	Report	Armstrong 10'

3 October 1990

Lyngby Stadion, Kongens Lyngby

Attendance: 1,548

Referee: Jiří Stiegler (Czechoslovakia)

Wrexham won 1–0 on aggregate.

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PSV Eindhoven	0–0	Montpellier
	Report

3 October 1990

Philips Stadion, Eindhoven

Attendance: 24,500

Referee: Alexey Spirin (Soviet Union)

Montpellier won 1–0 on aggregate.

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Steaua București	5–0	Glentoran
Stan 21' Dumitrescu 37', 45' Petrescu 80', 88'	Report

3 October 1990

Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest

Attendance: 4,700

Referee: Arsen Hoxha (Albania)

Steaua București won 6–1 on aggregate.

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Dynamo Kyiv	4–0	KuPS
Salenko 14' Lytovchenko 25', 54' Yuran 85'	Report

3 October 1990

Republican Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 28,500

Referee: Sadık Deda (Turkey)

Dynamo Kyiv won 6–2 on aggregate.

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Dukla Prague	2–0	Sliema Wanderers
Walker 47' (o.g.) Záleský 73'	Report

3 October 1990

Stadion Juliska, Prague

Attendance: 677

Referee: Ernest Kesseler (Luxembourg)

Dukla Prague won 4–1 on aggregate.

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Djurgårdens IF	1–1	Fram
Martinsson 81'	Report	Ormslev 9' (pen.)

3 October 1990

Råsunda fotbollsstadion, Solna

Attendance: 956

Referee: Eero Aho (Finland)

Fram won 4–1 on aggregate.

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Barcelona	7–2	Trabzonspor
Begiristain 13' Amor 29' Koeman 32', 40', 76' (pen.) Stoichkov 44', 87'	Report	Hami 7' Boz 68'

3 October 1990

Estadi del Futbol Club Barcelona, Barcelona

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Joe Worrall (England)

Barcelona won 7–3 on aggregate.

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RFC Liège	3–0	Viking
Boffin 22', 35', 88'	Report

3 October 1990

Stade Vélodrome de Rocourt, Liège

Attendance: 2,570

Referee: José Veiga Trigo (Portugal)

RFC Liège won 5–0 on aggregate.

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Neuchâtel Xamax	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Estrela da Amadora
Sutter 49'	Report	Valério 82'
Penalties
Sutter Gigon Fernandez Froidevaux Egli	3–4	Valério Rui Neves Dimas Paulo Jorge

3 October 1990

Stade de la Maladière, Neuchâtel

Attendance: 12,400

Referee: Dušan Krchňák (Czechoslovakia)

2–2 on aggregate. Estrela da Amadora won 4–3 on penalties.

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Austria Wien	0–0	PSV Schwerin
	Report

3 October 1990

Franz-Horr-Stadion, Vienna

Attendance: 1,150

Referee: Zdravko Đokić (Yugoslavia)

Austria Wien won 2–0 on aggregate.

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Juventus	6–1	Sliven
Baggio 15' (pen.), 18' Schillaci 25' Corini 49' Bonetti 52' Júlio César 56'	Report	Kelepov 85'

3 October 1990

Stadio delle Alpi, Turin

Attendance: 9,765

Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

Juventus won 8–1 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Aberdeen	0–1	Legia Warsaw	0–0	0–1
Olympiacos	1–4	Sampdoria	0–1	1–3
Manchester United	5–0	Wrexham	3–0	2–0
Montpellier	8–0	Steaua București	5–0	3–0
Dynamo Kyiv	3–2	Dukla Prague	1–0	2–2
Fram	1–5	Barcelona	1–2	0–3
RFC Liège	2–1	Estrela da Amadora	2–0	0–1
Austria Wien	0–8	Juventus	0–4	0–4

First leg

Manchester United	3–0	Wrexham
McClair 42' Bruce 44' (pen.) Pallister 59'	Report

23 October 1990

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 29,406

Referee: Antonio Martín Navarrete (Spain)

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Fram	1–2	Barcelona
Daðason 60'	Report	Salinas 32' Stoichkov 86'

23 October 1990

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 1,321

Referee: Rodger Gifford (Wales)

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Aberdeen	0–0	Legia Warsaw
	Report

24 October 1990

Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen

Attendance: 15,946

Referee: José Francisco Silva (Portugal)

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Olympiacos	0–1	Sampdoria
	Report	Katanec 53'

24 October 1990

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 14,289

Referee: George Courtney (England)

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Montpellier	5–0	Steaua București
Ziober 27', 63' Xuereb 51' Blanc 56' (pen.) Castro 81'	Report

24 October 1990

Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier

Attendance: 18,869

Referee: Carlos Silva Valente (Portugal)

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Dynamo Kyiv	1–0	Dukla Prague
Lytovchenko 65'	Report

24 October 1990

Republican Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 42,500

Referee: Borislav Aleksandrov (Bulgaria)

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RFC Liège	2–0	Estrela da Amadora
Malbaša 7' Milošević 86'	Report

24 October 1990

Stade Vélodrome de Rocourt, Liège

Attendance: 4,809

Referee: Wieland Ziller (Germany)

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Austria Wien	0–4	Juventus
	Report	Casiraghi 30', 45' Baggio 49' Schillaci 70' (pen.)

24 October 1990

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Guy Goethals (Belgium)

Second leg

Legia Warsaw	1–0	Aberdeen
Iwanicki 85'	Report

7 November 1990

Stadion Wojska Polskiego, Warsaw

Attendance: 5,665

Referee: Leif Sundell (Sweden)

Legia Warsaw won 1–0 on aggregate.

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Sampdoria	3–1	Olympiacos
Lombardo 17' Branca 29', 66'	Report	Drakopoulos 62'

7 November 1990

Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa

Attendance: 23,745

Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladrén (Spain)

Sampdoria won 4–1 on aggregate.

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Wrexham	0–2	Manchester United
	Report	Robins 31' Bruce 35'

7 November 1990

Racecourse Ground, Wrexham

Attendance: 13,327

Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)

Manchester United won 5–0 on aggregate.

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Steaua București	0–3	Montpellier
	Report	Colleter 52' Garande 71' Guérin 82'

7 November 1990

Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest

Attendance: 2,188

Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)

Montpellier won 8–0 on aggregate.

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Dukla Prague	2–2	Dynamo Kyiv
Foldyna 51' Bittengel 72'	Report	Yuran 6', 60'

7 November 1990

Stadion Juliska, Prague

Attendance: 2,191

Referee: Borislav Aleksandrov (Bulgaria)

Dynamo Kyiv won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Barcelona	3–0	Fram
Eusebio 17' Begiristain 33' Pinilla 69'	Report

7 November 1990

Estadi del Futbol Club Barcelona, Barcelona

Attendance: 17,300

Referee: Stavros Zakestidis (Greece)

Barcelona won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Estrela da Amadora	1–0	RFC Liège
Duílio 32'	Report

7 November 1990

Estádio José Gomes, Amadora

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: John Spillane (Republic of Ireland)

RFC Liège won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Juventus	4–0	Austria Wien
Alessio 3' Baggio 25' (pen.), 46', 52'	Report

7 November 1990

Stadio delle Alpi, Turin

Attendance: 12,082

Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)

Juventus won 8–0 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Legia Warsaw	3–2	Sampdoria	1–0	2–2
Manchester United	3–1	Montpellier	1–1	2–0
Dynamo Kyiv	3–4	Barcelona	2–3	1–1
RFC Liège	1–6	Juventus	1–3	0–3

First leg

Legia Warsaw	1–0	Sampdoria
Czykier 44'	Report

6 March 1991

Stadion Wojska Polskiego, Warsaw

Attendance: 7,028

Referee: Serge Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)

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Manchester United	1–1	Montpellier
McClair 1'	Report	Martin 7' (o.g.)

6 March 1991

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 41,942

Referee: Pierluigi Pairetto (Italy)

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Dynamo Kyiv	2–3	Barcelona
Zayets 33' Salenko 81' (pen.)	Report	Bakero 5' Urbano 45' Stoichkov 63' (pen.)

6 March 1991

Republican Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 96,000

Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

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RFC Liège	1–3	Juventus
Houben 83'	Report	Wégria 32' (o.g.) Baggio 43' Júlio César 47'

6 March 1991

Stade Vélodrome de Rocourt, Liège

Attendance: 16,463

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)

Second leg

Montpellier	0–2	Manchester United
	Report	Blackmore 45' Bruce 49' (pen.)

19 March 1991

Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier

Attendance: 20,433

Referee: Hubert Forstinger (Austria)

Manchester United won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Sampdoria	2–2	Legia Warsaw
Mancini 67' Vialli 88'	Report	Kowalczyk 19', 54'

20 March 1991

Stadio Luigi Ferraris, Genoa

Attendance: 25,860

Referee: Wieland Ziller (Germany)

Legia Warsaw won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Barcelona	1–1	Dynamo Kyiv
Amor 90'	Report	Yuran 62'

20 March 1991

Estadi del Futbol Club Barcelona, Barcelona

Attendance: 37,000

Referee: Zoran Petrović (Yugoslavia)

Barcelona won 4–3 on aggregate.

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Juventus	3–0	RFC Liège
Casiraghi 9' Houben 18' (o.g.) Häßler 22'	Report

20 March 1991

Stadio delle Alpi, Turin

Attendance: 20,641

Referee: Howard King (Wales)

Juventus won 6–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Legia Warsaw	2–4	Manchester United	1–3	1–1
Barcelona	3–2	Juventus	3–1	0–1

First leg

Legia Warsaw	1–3	Manchester United
Cyzio 37'	Report	McClair 38' Hughes 54' Bruce 68'

10 April 1991

Stadion Wojska Polskiego, Warsaw

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Alphonse Constantin (Belgium)

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Barcelona	3–1	Juventus
Stoichkov 58', 61' Goikoetxea 77'	Report	Casiraghi 13'

10 April 1991

Estadi del Futbol Club Barcelona, Barcelona

Attendance: 98,000

Referee: Joël Quiniou (France)

Second leg

Manchester United	1–1	Legia Warsaw
Sharpe 29'	Report	Kowalczyk 56'

24 April 1991

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 44,269

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)

Manchester United won 4–2 on aggregate.

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Juventus	1–0	Barcelona
Baggio 61'	Report

24 April 1991

Stadio delle Alpi, Turin

Attendance: 64,469

Referee: Kurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland)

Barcelona won 3–2 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1991 European Cup Winners' Cup final

Manchester United	2–1	Barcelona
Hughes 67', 74'	Report	Koeman 79'

15 May 1991

Stadion Feijenoord, Rotterdam

Attendance: 43,500

Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 1990–91 European Cup Winners' Cup are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Roberto Baggio	Juventus	9
2	Hristo Stoichkov	Barcelona	6
3	Sergei Yuran	Dynamo Kyiv	5
4	Danny Boffin	Liège	4
	Steve Bruce	Manchester United	4
	Pierluigi Casiraghi	Juventus	4
	Ronald Koeman	Barcelona	4
	Brian McClair	Manchester United	4
9	Marco Branca	Sampdoria	3
	Mark Hughes	Manchester United	3
	Roman Kosecki	Legia Warsaw	3
	Wojciech Kowalczyk	Legia Warsaw	3
	Oleg Salenko	Dynamo Kyiv	3
	Salvatore Schillaci	Juventus	3
	Jacek Ziober	Montpellier	3