The 1973âÂÂ74 UEFA Cup was the third season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at White Hart Lane, London, England, and at De Kuip, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was won by Feyenoord of the Netherlands, who defeated Tottenham Hotspur of England by an aggregate result of 4âÂÂ2 to claim their first UEFA Cup title.
This was the fifth consecutive year where a Dutch team won a European competition, and the first one outside of the European Cup. Feyenoord also broke a streak of six consecutive years of English clubs winning the UEFA Cup or the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.
A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participate in the 1973âÂÂ74 UEFA Cup. The original allocation scheme was as follows:
Northern Ireland returned to the competition after a one-year absence. Scotland and Belgium were the two associations selected to have an extra third berth for this season, while France, Yugoslavia and Portugal went back to two qualified teams.
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:
Notes
The schedule of the competition: Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches took place on Tuesdays, including the first leg of the final. Both legs of the first round match phase between VfB Stuttgart and Olympiakos Nicosia were played in the same week over three days, with the first leg being held on a Monday. Two other matches in the first leg of the first round, three matches were held on a Thursday and a Saturday, respectively.
Dynamo Kyiv won 5âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Ruch Chorzów won 8âÂÂ6 on aggregate.
B 1903 won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Carl Zeiss Jena won 6âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Leeds United won 7âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 5âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Hibernian won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Nice won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Fortuna Düsseldorf won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 9âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Aberdeen won 7âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Twente won 7âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Molenbeek won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Wolverhampton Wanderers won 4âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Marseille won 12âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Vitória Setúbal won 4âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Ipswich Town won 1âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Lazio won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Lokomotiv Plovdiv won 3âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Universitatea Craiova won 1âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Gwardia Warsaw won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
VfB Stuttgart won 13âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Tatran Preà ¡ov won 5âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Dinamo Tbilisi won 5âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
2âÂÂ2 on aggregate. OFK Beograd won on away goals.
2âÂÂ2 on aggregate. Admira/Wacker won on away goals.
Fenerbahçe won 6âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Honvéd won 5âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Lokomotive Leipzig won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
1. FC Köln won 2âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Panachaiki won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Standard Liège won 8âÂÂ4 on aggregate.
Fortuna Düsseldorf won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 5âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Dinamo Tbilisi won 8âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Nice won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
4âÂÂ4 on aggregate. Lokomotive Leipzig won on away goals.
Twente won 8âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
2âÂÂ2 on aggregate. Vitória Setúbal won on away goals.
1. FC Köln won 6âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Ipswich Town won 6âÂÂ4 on aggregate.
Dynamo Kyiv won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Honvéd won 7âÂÂ5 on aggregate.
Ruch Chorzów won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
VfB Stuttgart won 8âÂÂ4 on aggregate.
0âÂÂ0 on aggregate. Leeds United won 5âÂÂ4 on penalties.
Feyenoord won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Standard Liège won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
VfB Stuttgart won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 6âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Ipswich Town won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Ruch Chorzów won 5âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Vitória Setúbal won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Lokomotive Leipzig won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
1. FC Köln won 4âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
3âÂÂ3 on aggregate. Feyenoord won on away goals.
1âÂÂ1 on aggregate. Lokomotive Leipzig won 4âÂÂ3 on penalties.
Tottenham Hotspur won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
VfB Stuttgart won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 4âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.