The 1985âÂÂ86 UEFA Cup was the 15th 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 Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid, Spain, and at the Olympiastadion, West Berlin, West Germany. For the second year in a row, the competition was won by Real Madrid of Spain, who defeated Köln of West Germany by an aggregate result of 5âÂÂ3.
Real Madrid became the first club to successfully defend the UEFA Cup, a feat that would only be repeated by Sevilla on two occasions during the 21st century, both in the UEFA Cup (2006 and 2007) and its successor UEFA Europa League (2014 and 2015). In the former Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the unofficial predecessor of the UEFA Cup, it was only achieved by a representative team of the city of Barcelona (1958 and 1960) and by Valencia (1963 and 1964), both also fellow Spanish squads.
It was the first season in which English clubs were serving an indefinite ban from European football competitions due to the Heysel Stadium disaster, which would last for five seasons before being lifted for the 1990âÂÂ91 season.
A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1985âÂÂ86 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:
Following the English ban, their four berths were redistributed among associations 9âÂÂ12, each gaining a third berth.
For the 1985âÂÂ86 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1984 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1979âÂÂ80 to 1983âÂÂ84.
The labels in parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:
Notes
The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches exceptionally took place on Tuesdays or Thursdays. In a departure from previous editions, both semi-finals were played in different days, and the two-legged final was held on consecutive weeks, with the second leg being played on a Tuesday.
LASK won 3âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Lokomotiv Sofia won 6âÂÂ4 on aggregate.
Dinamo Tirana won 1âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
2âÂÂ2 on aggregate; Vardar won on away goals.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Lokomotive Leipzig won 6âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Bohemians Praha won 5âÂÂ4 on aggregate.
Dnipro won 5âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Partizan won 4-1 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 4âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Legia Warsaw won 4âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Hammarby won 7-1 on aggregate.
3âÂÂ3 on aggregate; Videoton won on away goals.
PSV Eindhoven won 6âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
RFC Liège won 4-1 on aggregate.
Waregem won 6âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Nantes won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
4âÂÂ4 on aggregate; Chornomorets Odesa won on away goals.
Hajduk Split won 7âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 4-3 on aggregate.
Torino won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
2âÂÂ2 on aggregate; Sparta Rotterdam won 4âÂÂ3 on penalties.
Club Brugge won 6âÂÂ5 on aggregate.
St Mirren won 3-1 on aggregate.
Dundee United won 7âÂÂ4 on aggregate.
Köln won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Osasuna won 2-1 on aggregate.
Milan won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Neuchâtel Xamax won 7-4 on aggregate.
Dundee United won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Legia Warsaw won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Köln won 8âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Hajduk Split won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Dnipro won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
1âÂÂ1 on aggregate; Neuchâtel Xamax won on away goals.
3âÂÂ3 on aggregate; Milan won on away goals.
Nantes won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 6âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Spartak Moscow won 4âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 4âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Hammarby won 5âÂÂ4 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 4âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Waregem won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 1âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Hajduk Split won 3âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 1âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Köln won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Nantes won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Neuchâtel Xamax won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Following the referee's controversial decision to award Waregem a penalty in the 44th minute as the foul looked to be outside of the penalty area, Milan fans pelted the pitch with missiles some of which hit several Waregem players. Following the match, as a result of the incident, AC Milan received a two-match European competition stadium ban, enforced at the start of their 1987âÂÂ88 UEFA Cup campaign.<br>Waregem won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
5âÂÂ5 on aggregate; Real Madrid won on away goals.
Sporting CP won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Köln won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
1âÂÂ1 on aggregate; Waregem won 5âÂÂ4 on penalties.
Internazionale won 6âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Köln won 7âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 6âÂÂ4 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 5âÂÂ3 on aggregate.