1972–73 UEFA Cup
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2nd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA
Key facts
- Dates
- 13 September 1972 – 23 May 1973
- Teams
- 63 (from 29 associations)
- Champions
- Liverpool (1st title)
- Runners up
- Borussia Mönchengladbach
- Goals scored
- 405 (3.27 per match)
- Attendance
- 1,947,828 (15,708 per match)
- Top scorer s
- Jupp Heynckes (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Jan Jeuring (Twente), 12 goals each
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- sports season
- Country
- Germany
- Followed by
- 1973–74 UEFA Cup
- Location
- Europe
- Sport
- association football
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- Commons category
- UEFA Cup 1972-73
- number of participants
- 64
- number of points/goals/set scored
- 405
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 124
- sports season of league or competition
- UEFA Europa League
- point in time
- 1972-01-01
- winner
- Liverpool F.C.
- edition number
- 2
- start time
- 1972-09-13
- end time
- 1973-05-23
- participating team
- Liverpool F.C.
- native label
- 1972–73 UEFA Cup
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Encyclopedic overview
The 1972–73 UEFA Cup was the second season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The 1973 UEFA Cup final was played over two legs at Anfield, Liverpool, England, and at Bökelbergstadion, Mönchengladbach, West Germany. It was won by Liverpool of England, who defeated West German team Borussia Mönchengladbach by an aggregate result of 3–2 to claim their first UEFA Cup title.
This was the sixth consecutive title won by an English team between the UEFA Cup and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, as well as the first time Liverpool won a European competition.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “1972–73 UEFA Cup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.