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| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | 16 September 1986 – 20 May 1987 |
| Teams | 64 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  IFK Göteborg (2nd title) |
| Runners-up |  Dundee United |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 126 |
| Goals scored | 291 (2.31 per match) |
| Attendance | 2,502,655 (19,862 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Peter Houtman (Groningen) Paulinho Cascavel (Vitória Guimarães) Jari Rantanen (IFK Göteborg) Wim Kieft (Torino) 5 goals each |
The 1986–87 UEFA Cup was the 16th 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 Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden, and at Tannadice Park, Dundee, Scotland. The competition was won by IFK Göteborg of Sweden, who defeated Dundee United of Scotland by an aggregate result of 2–1 to claim their second title.
This is the second and last European tournament won by a Swedish team, five years after Göteborg's first UEFA Cup conquest in 1982, as well as the last European final played by a Swedish team, while Dundee United became the last team from Scotland to reach a European final until 2003. This was the second season in which all English clubs were banned from European football competitions.[1][2]
Association team allocation
A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1986–87 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.
Due to the ongoing English ban, their four births were allocated to associations 9–12, each gaining a third birth.
Association ranking
For the 1986–87 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1985 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1980–81 to 1984–85.
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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
Notes
- ^ Yugoslavia: Partizan was crowned champion of the 1985-86 Yugoslav First League on a tie-breaker with Red Star Belgrade, but the Football Association of Yugoslavia voided all results of the last matchday of the season and ordered a full replay, due to allegations of match fixing over multiple games. Partizan elected to not replay their final game, and Red Star Belgrade was crowned champion instead, with Partizan qualifying for the UEFA Cup in 2nd place. After an appeal by Partizan, the Yugoslav Constituional Court reversed the decision on 29 July 1987, reinstating Partizan as champions.
- ^ Austria: Wacker Innsbruck qualified for the UEFA Cup, but its license in the Austrian Football Bundesliga was taken by FC Swarovski Tirol, as Wacker Innsbruck fell to the eighth division of Austrian football. While considered a new team, Swarovski Tirol retained the UEFA Cup placing.
Schedule
The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches exceptionally took place on Tuesdays or Thursdays. The semi-finals reverted to being played in the same days, and the two-legged final again had a two week interval.