The 1989–90 UEFA Cup was the 19th season of the

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, the secondary club

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competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The

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was played over two legs at the Stadio Comunale Vittorio Pozzo,

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, and at the Stadio Partenio, Avellino,

. The competition was won by

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, who defeated fellow Italian team

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by an aggregate result of 3–1 to claim their second UEFA Cup title. This was the first final between two Italian sides in the

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history and the third between two clubs of the same country. This was the fifth and final season in which all English clubs were banned from European football competitions

Association team allocation

A total of 65 teams from 31

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member associations participated in the 1988–89 UEFA Cup. 63 teams entered from the first round, competing over six knock-out rounds, while two other teams competed in a preliminary round. 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 first berth was allocated to association 9, gaining a third berth. As two associations were tied for 10th place in the UEFA rankings, both of them qualified a third team for a preliminary round, whose winner would take the remaining English berth in the first round.

Association ranking

For the 1989–90 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1988 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1983–84 to 1987–88.

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

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with each legs of both semifinals now being held over consecutive days. Matches for the first and second round were held on Tuesdays, while other rounds were held on Wednesdays, except for the Antwerp vs Stuttgart match-up in the third round.

Preliminary round

First leg

''Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.''

Notes

External links

Official UEFA Website
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