1983–84 UEFA Cup

1983–84 UEFA Cup
Tournament details
Dates	11 September 1983 – 23 May 1984
Teams	64 (from 31 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Tottenham Hotspur (2nd title)
Runners-up	Anderlecht
Tournament statistics
Matches played	126
Goals scored	371 (2.94 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tibor Nyilasi (Austria Wien); 8 goals
	← 1982–83 1984–85 →

The 1983–84 UEFA Cup was the 13th 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 Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels, Belgium, and at White Hart Lane, London, England. Tottenham Hotspur of England defeated title holders Anderlecht of Belgium, on penalties, after the final finished 2–2 on aggregate, to win the competition for the second time.

Association team allocation

A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1982–83 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.

Association ranking

For the 1983–84 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1982 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1977–78 to 1981–82.

Association ranking for 1983-84 UEFA Cup

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
1	West Germany	51.999	4
2	England	37.902
3	Netherlands	35.466
4	Spain	34.599	3
5	Belgium	31.066
6	France	29.550
7	East Germany	29.450
8	Yugoslavia	28.800
9	Soviet Union	25.966	2
10	Czechoslovakia	24.050	3	^{[Note ALB]}
11	Switzerland	22.150	2
12	Italy	22.082
13	Portugal	21.750
14	Scotland	21.750
15	Sweden	19.500
16	Romania	16.750
17	Bulgaria	16.700

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
18	Hungary	15.570	2
19	Denmark	15.166
20	Austria	13.750
-	Wales	13.000	0	^{[Note WAL]}
21	Greece	12.500	2
22	Poland	11.850	1
23	Republic of Ireland	8.999
24	Norway	7.583
25	Albania	5.500	0	^{[Note ALB]}
26	Northern Ireland	4.999	1
27	Turkey	4.833
28	Cyprus	4.332
29	Luxembourg	3.666
30	Iceland	3.664
31	Malta	3.331
32	Finland	2.499

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Wales: There was no national league in Wales before 1992 and the only competition organised by the Football Association of Wales was the Welsh Cup so Wales had just a single participant in European competitions, the winner (or best placed Welsh team as several English teams also competed) of the Welsh Cup which competed in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Its virtual ranking is only an original research, because the UEFA country ranking was only used to allocate the UEFA Cup spots at time, so Wales was not included.

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Albania: Until 1985, Albania frequently withdrew their allocated place in the UEFA Cup due to political reasons. Partizani would have qualified by league position. This additional place went to the 10th placed association, Czechoslovakia, instead of the 9th placed association, the Soviet Union.

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 1983–84 UEFA Cup
Werder Bremen (2nd)	Stuttgart (3rd)	Bayern Munich (4th)	Kaiserslautern (6th)
Watford (2nd)	Tottenham Hotspur (4th)	Nottingham Forest (5th)	Aston Villa (6th)
Feyenoord (2nd)	PSV Eindhoven (3rd)	Sparta Rotterdam (4th)	Groningen (5th)
Real Madrid (2nd)	Atlético Madrid (3rd)	Sevilla (5th)	Anderlecht (2nd)^TH
Royal Antwerp (3rd)	Gent (4th)	Bordeaux (2nd)	Lens (4th)
Laval (5th)	Vorwärts Frankfurt (2nd)	Carl Zeiss Jena (3rd)	Lokomotive Leipzig (4th)
Hajduk Split (2nd)	Radnički Niš (4th)	Red Star Belgrade (5th)	Dynamo Kyiv (2nd)
Spartak Moscow (3rd)	Baník Ostrava (2nd)	Sparta Prague (3rd)	Inter Bratislava (4th)
St. Gallen (3rd)	FC Zürich (4th)	Internazionale (3rd)	Verona (4th)
Sporting CP (3rd)	Vitória S.C. (4th)	Celtic (2nd)	St Mirren (5th)
Elfsborg (3rd)	Malmö (4th)	Universitatea Craiova (2nd)	Sportul Studențesc (3rd)
Levski Sofia (2nd)	Lokomotiv Plovdiv (LC)	Ferencváros (2nd)	Budapest Honvéd (3rd)
AGF (2nd)	B 1903 (3rd)	Austria Memphis (2nd)	Sturm Graz (4th)
AEL (2nd)	PAOK (4th)	Widzew Łódź (2nd)	Drogheda United (2nd)
Bryne (2nd)	Coleraine (3rd)	Trabzonspor (2nd)	Anorthosis (2nd)
Aris Bonnevoie (3rd)	ÍBV (2nd)	Rabat Ajax (3rd)	HJK (2nd)

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches exceptionally took place on Tuesdays or Sundays.

Schedule for 1983–84 UEFA Cup
Round	First leg	Second leg
First round	11–14 September 1983	27–28 September 1983
Second round	19 October 1983	2 November 1983
Third round	23 November 1983	7 December 1983
Quarter-finals	7 March 1984	21 March 1984
Semi-finals	11 April 1984	25 April 1984
Final	9 May 1984	23 May 1984

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Kaiserslautern	3–4	Watford	3–1	0–3
Sparta Prague	4–3	Real Madrid	3–2	1–1
AEL	2–3	Budapest Honvéd	2–0	0–3 (a.e.t.)
Anorthosis	0–11	Bayern Munich	0–1	0–10
Atlético Madrid	2–4	Groningen	2–1	0–3
Bryne	1–4	Anderlecht	0–3	1–1
Celtic	5–1	AGF	1–0	4–1
Drogheda United	0–14	Tottenham Hotspur	0–6	0–8
Aris Bonnevoie	0–15	Austria Memphis	0–5	0–10
Baník Ostrava	6–1	B 1903	5–0	1–1
Dynamo Kyiv	0–1	Laval	0–0	0–1
Bordeaux	2–7	Lokomotive Leipzig	2–3	0–4
Spartak Moscow	7–0	HJK	2–0	5–0
Universitatea Craiova	1–1 (1–3 p)	Hajduk Split	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
FC Zürich	3–8	Royal Antwerp	1–4	2–4
Verona	4–2	Red Star Belgrade	1–0	3–2
ÍBV	0–3	Carl Zeiss Jena	0–0	0–3
Gent	2–3	Lens	1–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Nottingham Forest	3–0	Vorwärts Frankfurt	2–0	1–0
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	2–5	PAOK	1–2	1–3
PSV Eindhoven	6–2	Ferencváros	4–2	2–0
Rabat Ajax	0–16	Inter Bratislava	0–10	0–6
Radnički Niš	5–1	St. Gallen	3–0	2–1
Sevilla	3–4	Sporting CP	1–1	2–3
Sparta Rotterdam	5–1	Coleraine	4–0	1–1
Sportul Studențesc	1–2	Sturm Graz	1–2	0–0
St Mirren	0–3	Feyenoord	0–1	0–2
Trabzonspor	1–2	Internazionale	1–0	0–2
Stuttgart	1–2	Levski Sofia	1–1	0–1
Vitória S.C.	1–5	Aston Villa	1–0	0–5
Werder Bremen	3–2	Malmö	1–1	2–1
Widzew Łódź	2–2 (a)	Elfsborg	0–0	2–2

First leg

11 September 1983

17:00

Rabat Ajax	0–10	Inter Bratislava
	Report	Brezík 15', 24', 35', 88' Koník 26', 28' Hudec 51' Reznák 62', 75' Tomčák 82'

Rabat Ajax Football Ground, Mtarfa

Attendance: 4,220

Referee: Rosario Lo Bello (Italy)

14 September 1983