UEFA Cup 1996-97
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The UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...

 1996-97 was won by Schalke 04
FC Schalke 04
Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly known as simply FC Schalke 04 or Schalke , is a German, association-football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Schalke has long been one of the most popular football teams in Germany, even though major...

 in penalties over Internazionale
F.C. Internazionale Milano
Football Club Internazionale Milano, often referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Italy. Outside Italy, the club is often called Inter Milan. They are the reigning FIFA Club World champions and Coppa Italia holders.Inter have always...

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This was the last year in which the UEFA Cup Final was played in a two-legged, home-and-away format. Starting with the 1998 Final, the UEFA Cup was decided by a single-game final.

Preliminary round

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Second leg

Dinamo Tbilisi won 6–2 on aggregate.
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Dinamo-93 Minsk won 4–2 on aggregate.
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Croatia Zagreb won 10–2 on aggregate.
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Sliema Wanderers won 4–3 on aggregate.
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FC Jazz won 4–1 on aggregate.
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Vardar won 1–3 on aggregate.
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Anorthosis Famagusta won 6–2 on aggregate.
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Vojvodina won 1–5 on aggregate.
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HJK Helsinki won 5–6 on aggregate.
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Lantana Tallinn won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Bohemian 1–1 Dinamo Minsk on aggregate. Dinamo Minsk won on away goals rule
Away goals rule
The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" will win if scores are otherwise equal...

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Beitar Jerusalem won 8–2 on aggregate.
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Legia Warsaw won 2–7 on aggregate.
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Slavia Sofia won 5–4 on aggregate.
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ÍA won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Lokomotiv Sofia won 2–7 on aggregate.
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Skonto won 1–7 on aggregate.
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Hajduk Split won 1–6 on aggregate.
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APOEL won 3–9 on aggregate.
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Barry Town won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Zalgiris Vilnius won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Kosice won 2–6 on aggregate.
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Haka won 2–3 on aggregate.
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Mura won 0–2 on aggregate.
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Hutnik Kraków won 11–2 on aggregate.
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Partizan won 1–4 on aggregate.
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Slovan Bratislava won 3–5 on aggregate.

Qualifying round

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Second leg

Dynamo Moscow won 4–2 on aggregate.
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Rapid Bucharest won 2–0 on aggregate.
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Neuchâtel Xamax won 1–6 on aggregate.
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Halmstads BK won 1–0 on aggregate.
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Grazer AK won 7–1 on aggregate.
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Legia Warsaw won 4–1 on aggregate.
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APOEL won 1–3 on aggregate.
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Helsingborgs IF won 4–1 on aggregate.
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CSKA Moscow won 1–6 on aggregate.
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Odense BK won 1–9 on aggregate.
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Aberdeen won 4–5 on aggregate.
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BVSC Budapest 4–4 Barry Town on aggregate. Barry Town won 2–4 on penalties.
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Hutnik Kraków won 2–3 on aggregate.
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Trabzonspor won 3–5 on aggregate.
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National Bucharest won 0–1 on aggregate.
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Aarau won 4–2 on aggregate.
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Croatia Zagreb 3–3 Spartak Moscow on aggregate. Spartak Moscow won on away goals rule
Away goals rule
The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" will win if scores are otherwise equal...

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Tirol Innsbruck won 2–5 on aggregate.
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Torpedo Moscow won 1–2 on aggregate.
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Bodø/Glimt won 2–7 on aggregate.
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Lyngby BK won 2–0 on aggregate.
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Celtic won 0–1 on aggregate.
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Chornomorets Odessa won 2–4 on aggregate.
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Dinamo Tblisi won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Malmö FF won 1–4 on aggregate.
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Besiktas won 2–3 on aggregate.

First round

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Second leg

Feyenoord won 1–2 on aggregate.
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Ferencvárosi TC won 5–3 on aggregate.
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Slavia Prague won 2–5 on aggregate.
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Besiktas won 0–3 on aggregate.
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Hamburger SV won 4–0 on aggregate.
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National Bucharest won 0–2 on aggregate.
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Metz won 0–1 on aggregate.
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Brøndby IF won 7–0 on aggregate.
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Club Brugge won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Odense BK 4–4 Boavista on aggregate. Boavista won on away goals rule
Away goals rule
The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" will win if scores are otherwise equal...

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Valencia won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Roma won 6–1 on aggregate.
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Neuchâtel Xamax won 1–2 on aggregate.
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Schalke 04 won 5–2 on aggregate.
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Lazio won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Internazionale won 4–1 on aggregate.
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Aberdeen won 6–4 on aggregate.
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Sporting CP won 1–2 on aggregate.
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Trabzonspor won 2–5 on aggregate.
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Espanyol won 2–3 on aggregate.
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Aston Villa 1–1 Helsingborgs IF on aggregate. Helsingborgs IF won on away goals rule
Away goals rule
The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" will win if scores are otherwise equal...

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Germinal Ekeren 3–3 Grazer AK on aggregate. Grazer AK won on away goals rule
Away goals rule
The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" will win if scores are otherwise equal...

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Newcastle United won 5–2 on aggregate.
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Anderlecht won 2–5 on aggregate.
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Vitória de Guimarães won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Dinamo Tblisi won 1–2 on aggregate.
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Tenerife won 4–3 on aggregate.
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Borussia Mönchengladbach won 6–4 on aggregate.
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Monaco won 1–4 on aggregate.
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Spartak Moscow won 5–3 on aggregate.
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Panathinaikos 4–4 Legia Warsaw on aggregate. Legia Warsaw won on away goals rule
Away goals rule
The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" will win if scores are otherwise equal...

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Karlsruhe won 4–2 on aggregate.

Second round

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Second leg

Boavista won 1–5 on aggregate.
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Newcastle United won 3–6 on aggregate.
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Club Brugge won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Vitória Guimarães 1–1 Anderlecht on aggregate. Anderlecht won on away goals rule
Away goals rule
The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" will win if scores are otherwise equal...

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Metz won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Feyenoord won 1–3 on aggregate.
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Brøndby IF won 0–2 on aggregate.
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Valencia won 0–1 on aggregate.
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Tenerife won 5–4 on aggregate.
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Grazer AK 1–1 Internazionale on aggregate. Internazionale won 5–3 on penalties.
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Helsingborgs IF won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Besiktas won 2–3 on aggregate.
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Schalke 04 won 4–3 on aggregate.
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Monaco won 3–4 on aggregate.
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Karlsruher SC won 4–2 on aggregate.
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Hamburger SV won 5–2 on aggregate.

Third round

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Second leg

Brøndby IF won 6–3 on aggregate.
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Schalke 04 won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Monaco won 5–0 on aggregate.
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Anderlecht won 0–1 on aggregate.
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Valencia won 5–3 on aggregate.
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Newcastle United won 1–3 on aggregate.
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Internazionale won 7–1 on aggregate.
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Tenerife won 4–2 on aggregate.

Quarter–finals

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Second leg

Monaco won 0–4 on aggregate.
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Internazionale won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Schalke 04 won 3–1 on aggregate.
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C.D. Tenerife won 2–1 on aggregate.

Semi–finals

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Second leg

Internazionale won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Schalke 04 won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Second leg

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1996–97 UEFA Cup are as follows:
Rank Name Team Goals
1   Maurizio Ganz
Maurizio Ganz
Maurizio Ganz is a former Italian football striker.-Club career:Ganz started his career at Sampdoria in 1985. He later helped Parma to promotion from Serie B in 1989-90 season. When he played for Inter Milan, Ganz scored 36 goals from 68 appearances and was a feared goalscorer.Ganz moved to AC...

  Internazionale
F.C. Internazionale Milano
Football Club Internazionale Milano, often referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Italy. Outside Italy, the club is often called Inter Milan. They are the reigning FIFA Club World champions and Coppa Italia holders.Inter have always...

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2   Victor Ikpeba
Victor Ikpeba
Victor Nosa Ikpeba is a former football forward from Nigeria. He has played thirty international matches and scored three goals for Nigeria, and played at the FIFA World Cups in 1994 and 1998...

  Monaco
AS Monaco FC
Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club are a French football club based in Fontvieille, Monaco. The club was founded in 1924 and currently play in Ligue 2, the second tier of French football. The team plays its home matches at the Stade Louis II located within Fontvieille...

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3   Peter Møller
Peter Møller
Peter Møller-Nielsen is a Danish former professional football player who became a sports journalist after ending his football career in December 2005. He won three Danish Superliga championships for the rival clubs Brøndby IF and F.C. Copenhagen, and became the most scoring Superliga player ever...

  Brøndby IF
Brøndby IF
Brøndby IF is a Danish professional football club based in Brøndbyvester, Brøndby, on the western outskirts of Copenhagen and is the biggest football club in Denmark with almost 2000 members. The club is also known as Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening, or Brøndby and BIF for short...

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  Andreas Sotiriou
Andreas Sotiriou
Andreas Sotiriou is a former international Cypriot football striker.He started his career in 1987 from APOEL FC and he spent his career mainly there, where he totally played for twelve years. He had also played for Anorthosis Famagusta and Digenis Morphou.-External links:*...

  APOEL 6
  Marc Wilmots
Marc Wilmots
Marc Robert Wilmots is a former Belgian football player.-Career:In his club career, that started in 1987, Wilmots played for Sint-Truiden, KV Mechelen, Standard Liège, Schalke 04, and Bordeaux. At Schalke he helped them to the 1997 UEFA Cup Final...

  Schalke 04
FC Schalke 04
Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly known as simply FC Schalke 04 or Schalke , is a German, association-football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Schalke has long been one of the most popular football teams in Germany, even though major...

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6   Faustino Asprilla
Faustino Asprilla
Faustino Hernán "Tino" Asprilla Hinestroza is a former Colombian football player. He was known by his supporters in his home country as The Octopus for his voracious appetite...

  Newcastle United
Newcastle United F.C.
Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has played at its current home ground, St James' Park, since the merger...

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  Herfried Sabitzer
Herfried Sabitzer
Herfried Sabitzer is a retired Austrian football player.-Club career:Born in Styria, Sabitzer started his professional career at Alpine Donawitz and scored 9 goals for them in his debut Bundesliga season. That earned him a move to SV Casino Salzburg where he formed a successful strike partnership...

  Grazer AK
Grazer AK
Grazer AK, founded 18 August 1902 as Grazer Athletik-Sport Klub , is an Austrian sports club, from the city of Graz in the federal state of Styria . The football section is one of the most traditional Austrian clubs, most successful in the decade 1995 – 2005...

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  Josip Skoko
Josip Skoko
Josip Skoko is a former Australian football player who last played as a Central Midfielder for A-League club Melbourne Heart.-Early career:...

  Hajduk Split
HNK Hajduk Split
HNK Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian football club founded in 1911 and based in the city of Split. The club's home ground since 1979 is the 35,000-seater Poljud Stadium and the team's traditional home colours are white shirts with blue shorts and...

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9   Alexandros Alexandrou   APOEL 4
  Shota Arveladze
Shota Arveladze
Shota Arveladze is a former Georgian professional football player and currently the manager of Kayserispor. He is Georgia’s all-time top scorer with 291 goals in his 410 league games for his clubs and 26 goals during his 61 games on the national team...

  Trabzonspor
Trabzonspor
Trabzonspor is a professional Turkish football club located in the city of Trabzon, Turkey. Formed in 1967 through a merger of several local clubs, Trabzonspor won six championships in Turkish Super League. The Club won their first Championship title in 1975 which is also the Club's initiation year...

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  Runar Berg
Runar Berg
Runar Berg is a retired Norwegian football midfielder. His last club was Bodø/Glimt, and has previously played for Rosenborg, Tromsø, Lyn and Venezia....

  Bodø/Glimt 4
  Igor Cvitanović
Igor Cvitanovic
Igor Cvitanović is a retired Croatian football striker.He is currently the all-time top goalscorer of the Croatian First League with a total of 126 goals, and also scored 122 domestic league goals for Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb, 117 of which were in the Croatian First League...

  Croatia Zagreb 4
  Billy Dodds
Billy Dodds
William "Billy" Dodds is a Scottish former professional footballer, he was assistant manager at Dundee, but was made redundant when the club went into administration in October 2010, one of his former clubs...

  Aberdeen
Aberdeen F.C.
Aberdeen Football Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Aberdeen...

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  Les Ferdinand
Les Ferdinand
Leslie "Les" Ferdinand MBE is a former English footballer. His playing career included spells at Queens Park Rangers, Besiktas J.K., Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United and Bolton Wanderers F.C., during which period he earned a number of appearances for England...

  Newcastle United
Newcastle United F.C.
Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has played at its current home ground, St James' Park, since the merger...

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  Juanele
Juanele
Juan Castaño Quirós, aka Juanele , is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a forward.-Club career:...

  Tenerife
CD Tenerife
Club Deportivo Tenerife, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in Tenerife . Founded in 1922, it currently plays in Segunda División B, holding home matches at Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez López, with a 24,000-seat capacity.-History:Club Deportivo Tenerife was founded in...

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  Marcin Mięciel
Marcin Mieciel
Marcin Mięciel is a Polish footballer who plays for Polish club Łódzki KS. His trademark is the bicycle kick.-Poland:...

  Legia Warsaw 4
  Oktay Derelioğlu
Oktay Derelioglu
Oktay Derelioğlu is Turkish former international footballer. Derelioğlu played as a forward and is notable for his goal against Belgium during the qualifying rounds of the 1998 FIFA World Cup...

  Besiktas
Besiktas J.K.
Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü , or simply Beşiktaş , is a Turkish sports club. The club's football team is one of the major teams in Turkey. The professional sports club, founded in 1903, is based in the Beşiktaş district in Istanbul, Turkey...

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  Michael Schjønberg
Michael Schjønberg
Michael Schjønberg Christensen is a Danish Association football manager, club official, and former player, who most recently was the manager of FC Vestsjælland....

  Odense BK
Odense BK
Odense Boldklub is a Danish professional football club based in the town of Odense. The club has won three Danish championships and five Danish Cup trophies. OB play in the Danish Superliga and their home field is TRE-FOR Park in Odense on Funen...

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  Sonny Anderson
Sonny Anderson
Anderson da Silva Nilmar , known as Sonny or Anderson, is a retired Brazilian footballer who played as a striker....

  Monaco
AS Monaco FC
Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club are a French football club based in Fontvieille, Monaco. The club was founded in 1924 and currently play in Ligue 2, the second tier of French football. The team plays its home matches at the Stade Louis II located within Fontvieille...

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See also

  • UEFA Champions League 1996-97
    UEFA Champions League 1996-97
    The 1996–97 UEFA Champions League was the 42nd edition of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, the fifth since its rebranding as the UEFA Champions League, and the last involving only clubs that were champions of their domestic leagues. The tournament was won by Borussia Dortmund in a...

  • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1996-97
    UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1996-97
    The season 1996-97 of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was won by FC Barcelona after beating holders Paris Saint-Germain in the final. It was the last of four occasions that the Catalan club won the tournament.-Qualifying round:-First leg:...

  • UEFA Intertoto Cup 1996

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