UEFA Cup todays Europa League
is a UEFA competition founded in 1971. Clubs qualify for the competition based
on their performance in national leagues and cup competitions. It's a second
competition in European club football after UEFA Champions League. Since its
foundation in 1971 and until 2008/09 it was named UEFA Cup. Since 2009/10
season it's known as UEFA Europa League. The first UEFA Cup final was played in
1971/72. It was an english final between Tottenham and Wolves with Spurs taking
the first honours. Until 1996/97 every final match was played as home/away
match. 70s were marked by Liverpool and Borussia Monchengladbach who won two
title each plus the German club losing in two other finals. 80s saw Real Madrid
winning two consecutive titles but also two titles from Goteborg. In late 80s
also started the domination from Italian clubs which lasted until 1999. Napoli
started that domination in 1989. At least one Italian club appeared in every
UEFA Cup final until 1999 except in 1996 where Bayern beat Marseille. 90s ended
with Galatasaray title in a win over Arsenal. 2000s started with probobly the
best UEFA Cup final every where Liverpool beat Deportivo Alaves 5:4 after golden
goal in extra time. Sevilla is the most successful team in the history of this
competition with five titles. They first appeared on the tron in 2006. Except
Alaves and Sevilla some other Spain clubs marked Europa League finals in last
20 years. Valencia won title in 2004 and Atletico Madrid three titles, first
one in 2010. Espanyol and Bilbao lost in final. Porto won two titles plus
Sporting, Braga and Benfica playing in a finals. 2000s also saw glory of two
Russian clubs: CSKA and Zenit. Except Liverpool, Chelsea and Man. United also
won their first UEL titles. Shakhtar is the last winner of UEFA Cup before it
was renamed to UEL. And so on.
Here you can see all UEFA
Cup/Europa League winners in football stickers. If there was no sticker albums
in season when some team won the competition I made “my own“ stickers like with
Goteborg in 1982, Galatasaray 2000... Just a note. Not all players who appeared
in a sticker albums necessary won the competitions. Especially in Spain
Colecciones ESTE albums. It depends on a publisher. From the other side maybe
some important players are missing like Kostadinov who scored for Bayern in
1996 final match. Enjoy in all these collages.
1971/72 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Tottenham Hotspurs 1:2 (McCaillog / Chivers x2)
Tottenham Hotspur vs Wolverhampton Wanderers 1:1 (Wagstaffe / Mullery)
1972/73 LIVERPOOL
Liverpool vs Borussia Monchengladbach 3:0 (Keegan x2; Lloyd)
Borussia Monchengladbach vs Liverpool 2:0 (Heynckes x2)
1973/74 FEYENOORD
Tottenham Hotspur vs Feyenoord 2:2 (England; Van Daele (o.g.) / Van Hanegem; T. De Jong)
Feyenoord vs Tottenham Hotspur 2:0 (Rijsbergen; Ressel)
Players on stickers: Hennes Weisweiler (coach), Wolfgang Kleff, Allan Simonsen, Berti Vogts, Christian Kulik, Dietmar Danner, Hacki Wimmer, Hans-Jurgen Wittkamp, Henning Jensen, Horst Koppel, Jupp Heynckes, Klinkhammer, Lorenz-Gunter Kostner, Rainer Bonhof and Uli Stielike.
1974/75 BORUSSIA MONCHENGLADBACH
Borussia Monchengladbach vs Twente 0:0 (-)
Twente vs Borussia Monchengladbach 1:5 (Drost / Simonsen x2; Heynckes x3)
1975/76 LIVERPOOL
Liverpool vs Club Brugge 3:2 (Kennedy; Case; Keegan / Lambert; Cools)
Club Brugge vs Liverpool 1:1 (Lambert / Keegan)
1976/77 JUVENTUS
Juventus vs Athletic Bilbao 1:0 (Tardelli)
Athletic Bilbao vs Juventus 2:1 (Irureta; Carlos Herrero / Bettega)
1977/78 PSV
Bastia vs PSV 0:0 (-)
PSV vs Bastia 3:0 (W. van de Kerkhof; Deijkers and van der Kuijlen)
Players on stickers: Wolfgang Kleff, Wolfgang Kneib, Hans Klinkhammer, Wilfried Hannes, Norbert Ringels, Hans-Gunter Bruns, Frank Schaffer, Horst Wohlers, Berti Vogts, Winfried Schafer, Christian Kulik, Carsten Nielsen, Kalle del Haye, Ewald Lienen and Allan Simonsen.
1978/79 BORUSSIA MONCHENGLADBACH
Red Star Belgrade vs Borussia Monchengladbach 1:1 (Šestić / Jurišić (o.g.))
Borussia Monchengladbach vs Red Star Belgrade 1:0 (Simonsen)
1979/80 EINTRACH FRANKFURT
Borussia Monchengladbach vs Eintrach Frankfurt 3:2 (Kulik x2 and Matthaus / Karger and Holzenbein)
Eintracht Frankfurt vs Borussia Monchengladbach 1:0 (Schaub)
1980/81 IPSWICH
Ipswich vs AZ 3:0 (Wark; Thijssen and Mariner)
AZ vs Ipswich 4:2 (Welzl, Metgod, Tol and Jonker / Thijssen and Wark)
1981/82 GOTEBORG
Goteborg vs HSV 1:0 (Holmgren)
HSV vs Goteborg 0:3 (Corneliusson; Nilsson and Fredriksson)
1982/83 ANDERLECHT
Anderlecht vs Benfica 1:0 (Brylle)
Benfica vs Anderlecht 1:1 (Sheu / Lozano)
1980/81 IPSWICH
Ipswich vs AZ 3:0 (Wark; Thijssen and Mariner)
AZ vs Ipswich 4:2 (Welzl, Metgod, Tol and Jonker / Thijssen and Wark)
1981/82 GOTEBORG
Goteborg vs HSV 1:0 (Holmgren)
HSV vs Goteborg 0:3 (Corneliusson; Nilsson and Fredriksson)
1982/83 ANDERLECHT
Anderlecht vs Benfica 1:0 (Brylle)
Benfica vs Anderlecht 1:1 (Sheu / Lozano)
1983/84 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Anderlecht vs Tottenham Hotspur 1:1 (Olsen / Miller)
Tottenham Hotspur vs Anderlecht 1:1 (Roberts / Czerniatynski)
PKs: 4:3 (Roberts, Falco, Stevens and Archibald / Grun, Scifo and Vercauteren)
1984/85 REAL MADRID
Videoton vs Real Madrid 0:3 (Michel; Santillana and Valdano)Real Madrid vs Videoton 0:1 (Majer)
1985/86 REAL MADRID
Real Madrid vs Koln 5:1 (Sanchez, Gordillo, Valdano x2 and Santillana / K. Allofs)
Koln vs Real Madrid 2:0 (Bein and Geilenkirchen)
1986/87 GOTEBORG
Goteborg vs Dundee United 1:0 (Pettersson)
Dundee United vs Goteborg 1:1 (Clark / L. Nilsson)
1987/88 BAYER LEVERKUSEN
Espanyol vs Bayer Leverkusen 3:0 (Losada x2 and Soler)
Bayer Leverkusen vs Espanyol 3:0 (Tita; Gotz and Cha)
PKs: 3:2 (Rolff; Waas and Tauber / Pichi Alonso and Job)
1988/89 NAPOLI
Napoli vs Stuttgart 2:1 (Maradona and Careca / Gaudino)
Stuttgart vs Napoli 3:3 (Klinsmann; De Napoli (o.g.) and O. Schmaler / Alemao; Ferrara and Careca)
1989/90 JUVENTUS
Juventus vs Fiorentina 3:1 (Galia; Casiraghi and De Agostini / Buso)
Fiorentina vs Juventus 0:0 (-)
1990/91 INTER
Inter vs Roma 2:0 (Matthaus and Berti)
Roma vs Inter 1:0 (Rizzitelli)
1991/92 AJAX
Torino vs Ajax 2:2 (Casagrande x2 / Jonk and Pettersson)
Ajax vs Torino 0:0 (-)
1992/93 JUVENTUS
Borussia Dortmund vs Juventus 1:3 (M. Rummenigge / D. Baggio and R. Baggio x2)
Juventus vs Borussia Dortmund 3:0 (D. Baggio x2 and Moller)
1993/94 INTER
Austria Salzburg vs Inter 0:1 (Berti)
Inter vs Austria Salzburg 1:0 (Jonk)
1994/95 PARMA
Parma vs Juventus 1:0 (D. Baggio)
Juventus vs Parma 1:1 (Vialli / D. Baggio)
1995/96 BAYERN MUNCHEN
Bayern Munchen vs Bordeaux 2:0 (Helmer and Scholl)
Bordeaux vs Bayern Munchen 1:3 (Dutuel / Scholl; Kostadinov and Klinsmann)
1996/97 SCHALKE
Schalke vs Inter 1:0 (Wilmots)
Inter vs Schalke 1:0 (Zamorano)
PKs: 1:4 (Djorkaeff / Anderburgge; Thon; M. Max and Wilmots)
1997/98 INTER
Lazio vs Inter 0:3 (Zamorano; Zanetti and Ronaldo)
1998/99 PARMA
Parma vs Marseille 3:0 (Crespo; Vanoli and Chiesa)
1999/00 GALATASARAY
Galatasaray vs Arsenal 0:0
PKs: 4:1 (Penbe; Sukur; Davala and Popescu / Parlour)
Players on stickers: Westerveld, Babbel, Hyypia, Henchoz, Ziege, Carragher, McAllister, Hamann, Redknapp, Gerrard, Berger, Šmicer, Barmby, Heskey, Owen and Fowler
2000/01 LIVERPOOL
Liverpool vs Deportivo Alaves 5:4 (a.e.t.) (Babbel, Gerrard; McAllister; Fowler and Geli (o.g.) / Ivan Alonso; Moreno x2 and Cruyff)
2001/02 FEYENOORD
Feyenoord vs Borussia Dortmund 3:2 (Van Hooijdonk x2 and Tomasson / Amoroso and Koller)
2002/03 PORTO
Porto vs Celtic 3:2 (a.e.t.) (Derlei x2 and Alenichev / Larsson x2)
2003/04 VALENCIA
Valencia vs Marseille 2:0 (Vicente Rodriguez and Mista)
2004/05 CSKA MOSCOW
Sporting CP vs CSKA Moscow 1:3 (Rogerio / A. Berezutskiy; Zhirkov and Vagner Love)
2005/06 SEVILLA
Middlesbrough vs Sevilla 0:4 (Luis Fabiano; Maresca x2 and Kanoute)
2006/07 SEVILLA
Espanyol vs Sevilla 2:2 (a.e.t.) (Riera and Jonatas / Adriano and Kanoute)
PKs: 1:3 (Pandiani / Kanoute; Dragutonović and Puerta)
2007/08 ZENIT
Zenit vs Rangers 2:0 (Denisov and Zyryanov)
2008/09 SHAKHTAR
Shakhtar vs Werder Bremen 2:1 (a.e.t.) (Luiz Adriano and Jadson / Naldo)
2009/10 ATLETICO MADRID
Atletico Madrid vs Fulham 2:1 (a.e.t.) (Forlan x2 / Davies)
2010/11 PORTO
Porto vs Braga 1:0 (Falcao)
2011/12 ATLETICO MADRID
Atletico Madrid vs Athletic Bilbao 3:0 (Falcao x2 and Diego)
2012/13 CHELSEA
Benfica vs Chelsea 1:2 (Cardozo / Torres and Ivanović)
2013/14 SEVILLA
Sevilla vs Benfica 0:0 (-)
PKs: 4:2 (Bacca; Mbia; Coke and Gameiro / Rodrigo Lima and Luisao)
2014/15 SEVILLA
Dnipro vs Sevilla 2:3 (Kalinić and Rotan / Krychowiak and Bacca x2)
2015/16 SEVILLA
Liverpool vs Sevilla 1:3 (Sturridge / Gameiro and Coke x2)
2016/17 MANCHESTER UNITED
Ajax vs Manchester United 0:2 (Pogba and Mkhitaryan)
2017/18 ATLETICO MADRID
Marseille vs Atletico Madrid 0:3 (Griezmann x2 and Gabi)
2018/19 CHELSEA
Chelsea vs Arsenal 4:1 (Giroud, Pedro and Hazard x2 / Iwobi)
2019/20 SEVILLA
Sevilla vs Inter 3:2 (de Jong L. x2, Diego Carlos / Lukaku, Godin)
2020/21 VILLARREAL
Villarreal vs Manchester United 1:1 (Moreno / Cavani)
PKs: 11:10 (G. Moreno, Raba, Alcacer, A. Moreno, Parejo, Gomez, Albiol, Coquelin, Mario G., P. Torres and Rulli / Mata, Telles, Fernandes, Rashford, Cavani, Fred, James, Shaw, Tuanzebe and Lindelof)