UEFA Cup 1995-96
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The UEFA Cup
1995-96 was won by Bayern Munich on aggregate over Bordeaux. Girondins de Bordeaux went to the finals all the way from the UEFA Intertoto Cup 1995.
Örebro SK
, Sweden
defeated FC Avenir Beggen
, Luxembourg
in the preliminary round but some days later, it was decided that FC Avenir Beggen was allowed to advance since Örebro SK fielded an ineligible player.
This was the first time that English clubs
had all four of their UEFA Cup places back, five years after the end of their ban as a result of the Heysel disaster in 1985. However, the only team to reach the quarter-finals of this European competition (or indeed any of the three European competitions) were Nottingham Forest
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Sparta Prague won 4–2 on aggregate.
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RAF Jelgava won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Olimpija Ljubljana won 2–3 on aggregate.
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Widzew Lodz won 0–5 on aggregate.
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Brøndby IF won 6–0 on aggregate.
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Silkeborg IF won 1–6 on aggregate.
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Levski Sofia won 1–2 on aggregate.
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Malmö FF won 0–4 on aggregate.
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Lugano won 0–4 on aggregate.
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Újpest won 1–3 on aggregate.
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Universitatea Craiova 0–0 Dinamo Misk on aggregate. Dinamo Minsk won 1–3 on penalties.
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Fenerbahçe won 0–6 on aggregate.
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Vardar won 3–0 on aggregate.
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Glenavon won 1–0 on aggregate.
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Chornomorets Odessa won 2–7 on aggregate.
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Austria Wien won 1–9 on aggregate.
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Lillestrøm SK won 4–1 on aggregate.
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Motherwell 3–3 MyPa on aggregate. MyPa won on away goals rule
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Örebro SK 1–1 Avenir Beggen on aggregate. Örebro won on away goals rule
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But Örebro fielded an ineligible player, match awarded 3-0 to Avenir Beggen.
Avenir Beggen won 0–3 on aggregate.
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Botev Plovdiv won 2–0 on aggregate.
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Olympiacos won 0–3 on aggregate.
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Raith Rovers won 6–2 on aggregate.
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Neuchâtel Xamax won 0–1 on aggregate.
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IA won 0–6 on aggregate.
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Slovan Bratislava won 6–0 on aggregate.
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Slavia Prague won 1–2 on aggregate.
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Hapoel Be'er Sheva won 0–3 on aggregate.
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Maribor won 1–2 on aggregate.
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Viking FK won 1–7 on aggregate.
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Zaglebie Lubin won 1–0 on aggregate.
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Zimbru Chisinau won 2–0 on aggregate.
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Milan won 8–1 on aggregate.
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Sparta Prague 2–2 Silkeborg IF on aggregate. Sparta Prague won on away goals rule
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Leeds United won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Bayern Munich won 5–1 on aggregate.
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Brøndby IF won 3–0 on aggregate.
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Chornomorets Odessa 1–1 Widzew Lodz on aggregate. Chornomorets Odessa won 5–6 on penalties.
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Liverpool won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Real Betis won 1–4 on aggregate.
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Dinamo Minsk won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Bordeaux won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Werder Bremen won 7–0 on aggregate.
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Barcelona won 12–0 on aggregate.
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Benfica won 5–2 on aggregate.
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Malmö FF 2–2 Nottingham Forest on aggregate. Nottingham Forest won on away goals rule
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PSV won 8–2 on aggregate.
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Roma won 5–1 on aggregate.
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Olympiacos won 5–1 on aggregate.
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Eendracht Aalst won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Raith Rovers won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Lens won 13–0 on aggregate.
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Strasbourg won 5–0 on aggregate.
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Roda JC won 5–2 on aggregate.
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Lyon won 2–0 on aggregate.
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Slavia Prague won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Manchester United 2–2 Rotor on aggregate. Rotor won on away goals rule.
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Sevilla won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Kaiserslautern won 4–2 on aggregate.
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Lazio won 7–1 on aggregate.
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Auxerre won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Vitória won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Zimbru Chisinau won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Slavia Prague won 1–3 on aggregate.
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Sparta Prague won 6–3 on aggregate.
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Nottingham Forest won 0–1 on aggregate.
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Roma won 4–0 on aggregate.
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Brøndby IF won 0–1 on aggregate.
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Barcelona won 4–1 on aggregate.
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Lens won 0–4 on aggregate.
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Bordeaux won 3–1 on aggregate.
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PSV won 3–8 on aggregate.
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Lyon won 4–1 on aggregate.
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Bayern Munich won 4–1 on aggregate.
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Milan won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Sevilla won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Benfica won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Werder Bremen won 6–2 on aggregate.
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Bayern Munich won 7–1 on aggregate.
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Roma won 4–3 on aggregate.
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Bordeaux won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Nottingham Forest won 1–0 on aggregate.
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PSV won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Barcelona won 2–4 on aggregate.
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Slavia Prague won 1–0 on aggregate.
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Bayern Munich won 7–2 on aggregate.
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Barcelona won 5–4 on aggregate.
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Roma 3–3 Slavia Prague on aggregate. Slavia Prague won on away goals rule.
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Bordeaux won 2–0 on aggregate.
UEFA Cup
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1995-96 was won by Bayern Munich on aggregate over Bordeaux. Girondins de Bordeaux went to the finals all the way from the UEFA Intertoto Cup 1995.
Örebro SK
Örebro SK
Örebro SK, also known as ÖSK or just Örebro, is a Swedish football club based in Örebro. The club, formed on 28 October 1908, is currently playing in the highest Swedish league, Allsvenskan.-The first years:...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
defeated FC Avenir Beggen
FC Avenir Beggen
Football Club Avenir Beggen is a football club, based in Beggen, a quarter of Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg.The club were founded in 1915 as FC Daring Beggen but changed their name to FC Avenir Beggen a year later...
, Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...
in the preliminary round but some days later, it was decided that FC Avenir Beggen was allowed to advance since Örebro SK fielded an ineligible player.
This was the first time that English clubs
Football in England
Association football is a national sport in England, where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1863, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game...
had all four of their UEFA Cup places back, five years after the end of their ban as a result of the Heysel disaster in 1985. However, the only team to reach the quarter-finals of this European competition (or indeed any of the three European competitions) were Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest F.C.
Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...
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Preliminary round
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Second leg
Omonia won 5–1 on aggregate.----
Sparta Prague won 4–2 on aggregate.
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RAF Jelgava won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Olimpija Ljubljana won 2–3 on aggregate.
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Widzew Lodz won 0–5 on aggregate.
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Brøndby IF won 6–0 on aggregate.
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Silkeborg IF won 1–6 on aggregate.
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Levski Sofia won 1–2 on aggregate.
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Malmö FF won 0–4 on aggregate.
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Lugano won 0–4 on aggregate.
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Újpest won 1–3 on aggregate.
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Universitatea Craiova 0–0 Dinamo Misk on aggregate. Dinamo Minsk won 1–3 on penalties.
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Fenerbahçe won 0–6 on aggregate.
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Vardar won 3–0 on aggregate.
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Glenavon won 1–0 on aggregate.
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Chornomorets Odessa won 2–7 on aggregate.
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Austria Wien won 1–9 on aggregate.
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Lillestrøm SK won 4–1 on aggregate.
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Motherwell 3–3 MyPa on aggregate. MyPa 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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Örebro SK 1–1 Avenir Beggen on aggregate. Örebro 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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But Örebro fielded an ineligible player, match awarded 3-0 to Avenir Beggen.
Avenir Beggen won 0–3 on aggregate.
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Botev Plovdiv won 2–0 on aggregate.
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Olympiacos won 0–3 on aggregate.
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Raith Rovers won 6–2 on aggregate.
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Neuchâtel Xamax won 0–1 on aggregate.
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IA won 0–6 on aggregate.
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Slovan Bratislava won 6–0 on aggregate.
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Slavia Prague won 1–2 on aggregate.
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Hapoel Be'er Sheva won 0–3 on aggregate.
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Maribor won 1–2 on aggregate.
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Viking FK won 1–7 on aggregate.
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Zaglebie Lubin won 1–0 on aggregate.
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Zimbru Chisinau won 2–0 on aggregate.
First round
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Second leg
AC Lugano won 2–1 on aggregate.----
Milan won 8–1 on aggregate.
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Sparta Prague 2–2 Silkeborg IF on aggregate. Sparta Prague 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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Leeds United won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Bayern Munich won 5–1 on aggregate.
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Brøndby IF won 3–0 on aggregate.
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Chornomorets Odessa 1–1 Widzew Lodz on aggregate. Chornomorets Odessa won 5–6 on penalties.
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Liverpool won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Real Betis won 1–4 on aggregate.
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Dinamo Minsk won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Bordeaux won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Werder Bremen won 7–0 on aggregate.
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Barcelona won 12–0 on aggregate.
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Benfica won 5–2 on aggregate.
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Malmö FF 2–2 Nottingham Forest on aggregate. Nottingham Forest 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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PSV won 8–2 on aggregate.
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Roma won 5–1 on aggregate.
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Olympiacos won 5–1 on aggregate.
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Eendracht Aalst won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Raith Rovers won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Lens won 13–0 on aggregate.
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Strasbourg won 5–0 on aggregate.
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Roda JC won 5–2 on aggregate.
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Lyon won 2–0 on aggregate.
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Slavia Prague won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Manchester United 2–2 Rotor on aggregate. Rotor won on away goals rule.
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Sevilla won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Kaiserslautern won 4–2 on aggregate.
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Lazio won 7–1 on aggregate.
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Auxerre won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Vitória won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Zimbru Chisinau won 3–1 on aggregate.
Second round
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Second leg
Real Betis won 1–4 on aggregate.----
Slavia Prague won 1–3 on aggregate.
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Sparta Prague won 6–3 on aggregate.
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Nottingham Forest won 0–1 on aggregate.
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Roma won 4–0 on aggregate.
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Brøndby IF won 0–1 on aggregate.
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Barcelona won 4–1 on aggregate.
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Lens won 0–4 on aggregate.
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Bordeaux won 3–1 on aggregate.
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PSV won 3–8 on aggregate.
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Lyon won 4–1 on aggregate.
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Bayern Munich won 4–1 on aggregate.
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Milan won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Sevilla won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Benfica won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Werder Bremen won 6–2 on aggregate.
Third round
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Second leg
Milan won 2–0 on aggregate.----
Bayern Munich won 7–1 on aggregate.
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Roma won 4–3 on aggregate.
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Bordeaux won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Nottingham Forest won 1–0 on aggregate.
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PSV won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Barcelona won 2–4 on aggregate.
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Slavia Prague won 1–0 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
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Second leg
Bordeaux won 3–2 on aggregate.----
Bayern Munich won 7–2 on aggregate.
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Barcelona won 5–4 on aggregate.
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Roma 3–3 Slavia Prague on aggregate. Slavia Prague won on away goals rule.
Semi-finals
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Bayern Munich won 4–3 on aggregate.----
Bordeaux won 2–0 on aggregate.
Final
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Bayern Munich won 5–1 on aggregate.Top scorers
The top scorers from the 1995-96 UEFA Cup are as follows:| Rank | Name | Team | Goals |
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| 1 |  Jürgen KlinsmannJürgen Klinsmann Jürgen Klinsmann is a German football manager and former player who is currently the coach of the United States Men's National Team. As a player, Klinsmann played for several prominent clubs in Europe and was part of the West German team that won the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the German one that... |
Bayern Munich FC Bayern Munich FC Bayern Munich , is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 national titles and 15 cups.... |
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| 2 |  RonaldoRonaldo Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima , commonly known as Ronaldo, is a retired Brazilian footballer who last played for Corinthians. Ronaldo is widely considered to be the greatest 'pure' striker in the history of the modern game, and by some accounts, in the history of football. Ronaldo was one of the... |
 PSV |
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| 3 |  Luc Nilis |
PSV |
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 Pavel NedvědPavel Nedved Pavel Nedvěd is a retired Czech football midfielder. He is one of the most successful Czech players to emerge from the newly formed Czech Republic, winning numerous accolades with Lazio and Juventus, including the last ever Cup Winners' Cup... |
Sparta Prague |
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| Mehmet Scholl Mehmet Scholl Mehmet Scholl is a former German football player with Turkish-German ancestry. He played most of his career as an attacking midfielder for Bayern Munich... |
Bayern Munich FC Bayern Munich FC Bayern Munich , is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 national titles and 15 cups.... |
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| 6 |  Abel Balbo |
 RomaA.S. Roma Associazione Sportiva Roma, commonly referred to as simply Roma, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma have participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence but one season in the early 50s... |
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| Pierluigi Casiraghi |
Lazio S.S. Lazio Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football... |
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| Bernd Hobsch Bernd Hobsch Bernd Hobsch is a German former footballer.-External links:* at worldfootball.net... |
Werder Bremen SV Werder Bremen SV Werder Bremen is a German sports club best known for its association football team playing in Bremen, in the northwest German federal state of the same name. The club was founded on 4 February 1899 as Fußballverein Werder by a group of sixteen vocational high school students who had won a prize... |
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 Danny LennonDanny Lennon Danny Lennon is a former association football player and current manager of Scottish Premier League club St. Mirren. Lennon played internationally for the Northern Ireland B national football team.-Club career:... |
 Raith RoversRaith Rovers F.C. Raith Rovers Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Kirkcaldy, Fife. They are members of the Scottish Football League, currently playing in the First Division, having secured promotion from the Second Division as champions in 2009. Rovers have won one national trophy, the... |
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 Peter MøllerPeter 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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Barcelona FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona , also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.... |
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 Davor ŠukerDavor Šuker Davor Šuker , is a retired Croatian footballer. He played as a striker for a number of European clubs as well as the Croatian national team, where he is the all-time top goal scorer with 45 goals.... |
Sevilla Sevilla FC Sevilla Fútbol Club S.A.D. is a Spanish professional football club based in Seville, Spain that plays in the Spanish La Liga championship.They are one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football having won a 1 La Liga title, 5 Spanish "Copa del Rey" Cups, 1 Spanish Super Cup and 2 UEFA... |
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 Joël TiéhiJoël Tiéhi Joël Tiéhi is a retired footballer from Ivory Coast.-Career:He was a striker who played in French Ligue 1 and for Ivory Coast, at the 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 African Cup of Nations.-External links:**... |
 LensRC Lens Racing Club de Lens is a French association football club based in the northern city of Lens in the Pas-de-Calais department. Its nickname, sang et or , comes from its traditional colours of red and gold. Their primary rivals are their northern neighbors Lille OSC, whom they contest the Derby du... |
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See also
- 1995-96 UEFA Champions League
- 1995-96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
- 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup