2nd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA
1972–73 UEFA Cup The first leg of the final was played at
Anfield in Liverpool.
Dates 13 September 1972 – 23 May 1973 Teams 63[1] (from 29[2] associations) Champions Liverpool (1st title) Runners-up Borussia Mönchengladbach Matches played 124 Goals scored 405 (3.27 per match) Attendance 1,947,828 (15,708 per match) Top scorer(s) Jupp Heynckes (Borussia Mönchengladbach)Jan Jeuring (Twente) 12 goals each
International football competition
The 1972–73 UEFA Cup was the second season of the UEFA Cup , a football competition organised by UEFA for clubs affiliated to its member associations. It was won by Liverpool , who beat Borussia Mönchengladbach over two legs in the final. The first leg was played at Anfield in Liverpool, where Liverpool won the match 3–0. Mönchengladbach won the second leg in Germany 2–0 for an aggregate score of 3–2.
Bracket [ edit ] First round [ edit ] Summary [ edit ] 1 Hvidovre walkover, HJK withdrew.
Matches [ edit ] Liverpool won 2–0 on aggregate.
Norrköping won 4–1 on aggregate.
Levski-Spartak won 6–5 on aggregate.
AEK Athens won 4–2 on aggregate.
Beroe Stara Zagora won 10–1 on aggregate.
Twente won 4–2 on aggregate.
Slovan Bratislava won 8–2 on aggregate.
Ruch Chorzów won 3–1 on aggregate.
Dynamo Dresden won 4–2 on aggregate.
Red Star Belgrade won 7–4 on aggregate.
OFK Beograd won 5–3 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 12–3 on aggregate.
Viking won 1–0 on aggregate.
Club Brugge won 6–5 on aggregate.
Frem won 5–2 on aggregate.
Budapest Honvéd won 4–0 on aggregate.
Köln won 5–1 on aggregate.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 9–5 on aggregate.
BFC Dynamo won 3–2 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 21–0 on aggregate.
Valencia won 4–3 on aggregate.
Grasshoppers won 4–2 on aggregate.
Kaiserslautern won 5–3 on aggregate.
Las Palmas won 4–2 on aggregate.
Inter Milan won 7–1 on aggregate.