The 1983âÂÂ84 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 2âÂÂ2 on aggregate, to win the competition for the second time.
A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1982âÂÂ83 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:
For the 1983âÂÂ84 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1982 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1977âÂÂ78 to 1981âÂÂ82.
The labels in parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:
The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches exceptionally took place on Tuesdays or Sundays.
Inter Bratislava won 16âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
RadniÃÂki Nià ¡ won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Royal Antwerp won 8âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Budapest Honvéd won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Lokomotive Leipzig won 7âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Sparta Rotterdam won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 7âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Verona won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
1âÂÂ1 on aggregate; Hajduk Split won 3âÂÂ1 on penalties.
Nottingham Forest won 3âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
BanÃÂk Ostrava won 6âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
PSV Eindhoven won 6âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Austria Memphis won 15âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
PAOK won 5âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Werder Bremen won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
2âÂÂ2 on aggregate; Widzew à Âódà º won on away goals.
Celtic won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Sturm Graz won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Levski Sofia won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Bayern Munich won 11âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Groningen won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Anderlecht won 4âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Laval won 1âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Carl Zeiss Jena won 3âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Lens won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 3âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Watford won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 14âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Aston Villa won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Sparta Prague won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Sparta Prague won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Hajduk Split won 5âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Anderlecht won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
RadniÃÂki Nià ¡ won 6âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Sparta Rotterdam won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Watford won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
2âÂÂ2 on aggregate; Sturm Graz won on away goals.
Austria Memphis won 5âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Lokomotive Leipzig won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
0âÂÂ0 on aggregate; Bayern Munich won 9âÂÂ8 on penalties.
Lens won 5âÂÂ4 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 6âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 5âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Nottingham Forest won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Celtic won 5âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Sturm Graz won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Hajduk Split won 4âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Sparta Prague won 7âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Anderlecht won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Austria Memphis won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Nottingham Forest won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Hajduk Split won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Nottingham Forest won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Anderlecht won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
In 1997, it was revealed that the Anderlecht chairman Constant Vanden Stock had paid a ã27,000 bribe to the referee Emilio Guruceta Muro in exchange for help fixing their semi-final second leg match versus Nottingham Forest. During the match, Anderlecht were awarded a dubious penalty, and a last minute Nottingham Forest goal â that would have won them the tie on the away goals rule â was disallowed. In 2016, it emerged that UEFA had known about the bribe since 1993 but had taken no action until the information was made public in 1997, when UEFA suspended Anderlecht from the next European tournament for which they qualified. On qualifying for the 1998âÂÂ99 UEFA Cup, Anderlecht appealed the suspension in the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which overturned the ban on the grounds that it was made by UEFA's executive committee, which did not have the authority to issue the ban.
The match featured an infamous incident that saw a Hajduk fan run onto the pitch before the start of the second half with a live rooster â in reference to Tottenham's club symbol, the cockerel â and, while standing at the centre circle, kill the animal by snapping its neck. The contest took place as scheduled, however, as a result of the incident, Hajduk were fined CHF3,000 and ordered to play their next European tie at least 300 km away from their home stadium. That tie turned out to be their 1984âÂÂ85 European Cup Winners' Cup first round match against Dynamo Moscow.
Anderlecht won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
2âÂÂ2 on aggregate; Tottenham Hotspur won on away goals.
2âÂÂ2 on aggregate; Tottenham Hotspur won 4âÂÂ3 on penalties.