1971–72 UEFA Cup
Team 1 Agg Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Hertha BSC 7-2 Elfsborg 3-1 4-1
Dundee 5-2 AB 4-2 1-0
Rosenborg 4-0 HIFK 3-0 1-0
Vasas 2-1 Shelbourne 1-0 1-1
Glentoran 1-7 Eintracht Braunschweig 0-1 1-6
ÍBK Keflavík 1-15 Tottenham Hotspur 1-6 0-9
Celta Vigo 0-3 Aberdeen 0-2 0-1
ADO Den Haag 7-2 Aris Bonnevoie 5-0 2-2
Wolverhampton Wanderers 7-1 Académica de Coimbra 3-0 4-1
Saint-Étienne 2-3 Köln 1-1 1-2
Lugano 1-3 Legia Warsaw 1-3 0-0
Porto 1-3 Nantes 0-2 1-1
Hamburg 2-4 St Johnstone 2-1 0-3
Southampton 2-3 Athletic Bilbao 2-1 0-2
Bologna 3-1 Anderlecht 1-1 2-0
Napoli 1-2 Rapid București 1-0 0-2
Vitória de Setúbal ( a ) 2-2 Nîmes Olympique 1-0 1-2
Atlético Madrid 2-2 ( a ) Panionios 2-1 0-1
Carl Zeiss Jena 4-3 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 3-0 1-3
Basel 2-4 Real Madrid 1-2 1-2
First round
The matches were played on 14–16 and 29–30 September 1971 . Teams from the same nation could not be drawn against one another .
The 1971-72 UEFA Cup was the inaugural year of the competition, which effectively replaced the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. It was won by English side Tottenham Hotspur over their countrymen Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-2 on aggregate after a two-legged final. The tournament was open to the highest-placed European teams that had not qualified for the European Cup or UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. It commenced on 14 September 1971 and concluded on 17 May 1972. A total of 64 football clubs entered the first round draw. Team distribution was inherited from the Fairs Cup with only little changes: seat cessions between Denmark and Sweden and between Scotland and East Germany were yet decided. Three nations never joined the Fairs Cup, so Yugoslavia ceded a team to near Albania, Greece to near Cyprus, while a place for Soviet Union was obtained from the holders. The tournament's top scorer was Ludwig Bründl of Eintracht Braunschweig with ten goals.