Eintracht Frankfurt in European football

Eintracht Frankfurt played their first very official match in competitive European football on 11 November 1959. This was a European Cup first round game against BSC Young Boys of Switzerland. The match ended in a 4–1 away victory for the Eagles. However, a Frankfurt XI took part already earlier in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup with several Eintracht players in the squad.

The club's first ever match against European opponents however, was a friendly match against Swedish side Malmö FF in 1920 when the Scanians visited Germany.

In season 1959–60 Eintracht took part in the European Cup. In this season they became the first German club to reach a European final, eventually losing 7–3 to Real Madrid.

In the 1966–67 season the club played in the Intertoto Cup which they finally won, facing Inter Bratislava in the final. Plus in the same season Eintracht played in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and reached the semi-finals. In 1967 the Eagles won the Coppa delle Alpi, a tournament then composed of Italian, Swiss and German teams.

Frankfurt's first appearance in the renamed UEFA Cup was in 1972, the first step in the Cup Winners' Cup stage was made in 1974.

In the 1979–80 edition of the UEFA Cup Eintracht reached the finals. The first leg was lost at fellow German club Borussia Mönchengladbach, but the second leg was decided by the send on striker Fred Schaub in the 81st minute and secured the Mainhattan club the first major European title.

In the 1980s the club struggled to participate regularly in European competitions.

Between the beginning to the mid-1990s the Eagles re-established themselves as a powerhouse in Europe and advanced far in the UEFA Cup regularly with players such as Uwe Bein, Jay-Jay Okocha, Uli Stein, Ralf Weber and Tony Yeboah on the books.

After the relegation from the Bundesliga in the 1995–96 campaign, Eintracht bounced between the first two tiers for almost ten years.

Since 2005 they were part of the first Bundesliga again and immediately qualified for the UEFA Cup due to the participation in the DFB Cup final against Bayern Munich who were already qualified for the Champions League. In the following UEFA Cup campaign Eintracht reached the group stage and seemed to be likely to advance to the next round but conceded two goals at Fenerbahçe after being up 2–0 what meant that Eintracht had to defer to the Istanbul club.

In 2013 Eintracht played in at Bordeaux with 12,000 fans from Frankfurt and about 8,000 Bordeaux supporters).

Record players

European Goalscorers

#	Name	Career	Apps	Goals	Average
1	Bernd Hölzenbein	1967-1981	38	18
2	Bernd Nickel	1967-1983	42	12
	Tony Yeboah	1990-1995	16	12
4	Jürgen Grabowski	1965-1980	40	9
	Jan Furtok	1993-1995	15	9
6	Oskar Lotz	1965-1969	15	7
7	Bruno Pezzey	1978-1983	23	6
	Cha Bum-Kun	1979-1983	22	6
	Willi Huberts	1963-1970	17	6
	Uwe Bein	1989-1994	14	6
	Harald Karger	1979-1983	11	6
	Erwin Stein	1959-1966	8	6

Matches in Europe

Season	Competition	Round	Opposition	Score
1955–58	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup[1]	Group D	London XI	2–3, 1–0
		Group D	Basel XI	5–1, 2–6
1959–60	European Cup	First Round	BSC Young Boys	4–1, 1–1
		Quarter-Final	Wiener SC	2–1, 1–1
		Semi-Final	Rangers	6–1, 6–3
		Final	Real Madrid	3–7
1964–65	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	First Round	Kilmarnock	3–0, 1–5
1965–66	Intertoto Cup	Group A3	PSV	0–3
		Group A3	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds	4–2
		Group A3	PSV	4–2
		Group A3	IFK Norrköping	0–1
1966–67	Intertoto Cup	Group A1	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds	3–1
		Group A1	Feyenoord Rotterdam	4–1
		Group A1	Lanerossi Vicenza	1–0
		Group A1	Lanerossi Vicenza	1–5
		Group A1	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds	4–2
		Group A1	Feyenoord Rotterdam	2–0
		Quarter-Final	IFK Norrköping	1–2, 3–1
		Semi-Final	Zagłębie Sosnowiec	1–4, 6–1
		Final	Inter Bratislava	3–2, 1–1
1966–67	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	First Round	Drumcondra	2–0, 6–1
		Second Round	Hvidovre IF	5–1, 2–2
		Third Round	Ferencvárosi TC	4–1, 1–2
		Quarter-Final	Burnley	1–1, 2–1
		Semi-Final	Dinamo Zagreb	3–0, 0–4(a.e.t)
1967–68	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	First Round	Nottingham Forest	0–1, 0–4
1967	Coppa delle Alpi	Day 1	AC Torino[2]	0–0
		Day 2	FC Zürich	5–2
		Day 3	AC Milan	1–0
		Day 4	AS Roma	4–2
		Day 5	FC Basel	2–1
1968–69	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	First Round	Wacker Innsbruck	2–2, 3–0
		Second Round	Juventus	0–0, 1–0
1969	Coppa delle Alpi	Day 1	FC Biel-Bienne	3–1
		Day 2	SSC Napoli	2–1
		Day 3	FC Basel	2–3
		Day 4	UC Sampdoria	0–4
		Third Round	Athletic Bilbao	0–1, 1–1
1972–73	UEFA Cup	First Round	Liverpool	0–2, 0–0
1974–75	Cup Winners' Cup	First Round	AS Monaco	3–0, 2–2
		Second Round	Dynamo Kyiv	2–3, 1–2
1975–76	Cup Winners' Cup	First Round	Coleraine	5–1, 6–2
		Second Round	Atlético Madrid	2–1, 1–0
		Quarter-Final	SK Sturm Graz	2–0, 1–0
		Semi-Final	West Ham United	2–1, 1–3
1977–78	UEFA Cup	First Round	Sliema Wanderers	5–0, 0–0
		Second Round	FC Zürich	3–0, 4–3
		Third Round	Bayern Munich	4–0, 2–1
		Quarter-Final	Grasshopper Club Zürich	3–2, 0–1
1979–80	UEFA Cup	First Round	Aberdeen	1–1, 1–0
		Second Round	Dinamo București	0–2, 3–0
		Third Round	Feyenoord	4–1, 0–1
		Quarter-Final	Zbrojovka Brno	4–1, 2–3
		Semi-Final	Bayern Munich	0–2, 5–1
		Final	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–3, 1–0
1980–81	UEFA Cup	First Round	Shakhtar Donetsk	0–1, 3–0
		Second Round	FC Utrecht	1–2, 3–1
		Third Round	FC Sochaux-Montbéliard	4–2, 0–2
1981–82	Cup Winners' Cup	First Round	PAOK	2–0, 0–2[3]
		Second Round	SKA Rostov	0–1, 2–0
		Quarter-Final	Tottenham Hotspur	0–2, 2–1
1988–89	Cup Winners' Cup	First Round	Grasshopper Club Zürich	0–0, 1–0
		Second Round	Sakaryaspor	3–1, 3–0
		Quarter-Final	KV Mechelen	0–0, 0–1
1990	Philips Trophy	Semi-Final	FC Porto	4–5
		Third place play-off	FC Lausanne-Sport	5–3
1990–91	UEFA Cup	First Round	Brøndby IF	0–5, 4–1
1991–92	UEFA Cup	First Round	Spora Luxembourg	6–1, 5–0
		Second Round	KAA Gent	0–0, 0–1
1992–93	UEFA Cup	First Round	Widzew Łódź	2–2, 9–0
		Second Round	Galatasaray SK	0–0, 0–1
1993–94	UEFA Cup	First Round	Dynamo Moscow	6–0, 1–2
		Second Round	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2–0, 0–1
		Third Round	Deportivo de La Coruña	1–0, 1–0
		Quarter-Final	SV Austria Salzburg	1–0, 0–1[4]
1994–95	UEFA Cup	First Round	Olimpija Ljubljana	1–1, 2–0
		Second Round	Rapid București	1–2, 5–0
		Third Round	SSC Napoli	1–0, 1–0
		Quarter-Final	Juventus	1–1, 0–3
1995	Intertoto Cup	Group 12	Spartak Plovdiv	4–0
		Group 12	Iraklis	5–1
		Group 12	FK Panerys Vilnius	4–0
		Group 12	Vorwärts Steyr	1–2
		Second Round [5]	Girondins de Bordeaux	0–3
2006–07	UEFA Cup	First Round	Brøndby IF	4–0, 2–2
		Group A	US Palermo	1–2
		Group A	Celta de Vigo	1–1
		Group A	Newcastle United	0–0
		Group A	Fenerbahçe SK	2–2
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	Play-off Round	Qarabağ	2–1, 2–0
		Group F	Girondins de Bordeaux	3–0, 1–0
		Group F	APOEL	3–0, 2–0
		Group F	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–0, 2–4
		Round of 32	FC Porto	2–2, 3–3

Teams played

Eintracht Frankfurt have played against clubs from 33 countries (clubs classed by the country they were in when the game was played). Eintracht have played 77 different clubs in Europe.

Country	Clubs
Austria	Sturm Graz, Wacker Innsbruck, Austria Salzburg, Vorwärts Steyr, Wiener SC
Azerbaijan	Qarabağ
Belgium	KAA Gent, KV Mechelen
Bulgaria	Spartak Plovdiv
Cyprus	APOEL
Czechoslovakia	Zbrojovka Brno (now Czech Republic ), Inter Bratislava (now Slovakia )
Denmark	Brøndby IF, Hvidovre IF
England	Burnley, Liverpool, London XI, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United
France	Girondins de Bordeaux, AS Monaco
Germany	Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayern Munich
Greece	PAOK, Iraklis
Hungary	Ferencvárosi TC
Ireland	Drumcondra
Israel	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Italy	Juventus, AC Milan, SSC Napoli, US Palermo, AS Roma, UC Sampdoria, AC Torino, Lanerossi Vicenza
Lithuania	FK Panerys Vilnius
Luxembourg	Spora Luxembourg
Malta	Sliema Wanderers
Netherlands	PSV, Feyenoord Rotterdam, FC Utrecht
Northern Ireland	Coleraine
Poland	Widzew Łódź, Zagłębie Sosnowiec
Portugal	FC Porto
Romania	Dinamo București, Rapid București
Russia	Dynamo Moscow
Scotland	Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, Rangers
Slovenia	Olimpija Ljubljana
Soviet Union	Shakhtar Donetsk (now Ukraine ), Dynamo Kyiv (now Ukraine ), SKA Rostov (now Russia )
Spain	Athletic Bilbao, Deportivo de La Coruña, Atlético Madrid, Real Madrid, Celta de Vigo
Sweden	IFK Norrköping
Switzerland	FC Basel, Basel XI, BSC Young Boys, FC Biel-Bienne, FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, FC Lausanne-Sport, FC Zürich, Grasshopper Club Zürich
Turkey	Fenerbahçe SK, Galatasaray SK, Sakaryaspor
Ukraine	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Yugoslavia	Dinamo Zagreb (now Croatia )

Record by country of opposition

• Correct as of 26 December 2013

Country	P	W	D	L	Win %
Austria	9	5	2	2	55.56
Azerbaijan	2	2	0	0	100
Belgium	4	0	2	2	0
Bulgaria	1	1	0	0	100
Cyprus	2	2	0	0	100
Czechoslovakia	4	2	1	1	50
Denmark	4	2	1	1	50
England	13	4	3	6	30.77
France	7	4	1	2	57.14
Germany	6	4	0	2	66.67
Greece	3	2	0	1	66.67
Hungary	2	1	0	1	50
Ireland	2	2	0	0	100
Israel	2	1	0	1	50
Italy	14	7	3	4	50
Lithuania	1	1	0	0	100
Luxembourg	2	2	0	0	100
Malta	2	1	1	0	50
Netherlands	8	5	0	3	62.5
Northern Ireland	2	2	0	0	100
Poland	4	2	1	1	50
Portugal	2	0	1	1	0
Romania	4	2	0	2	50
Russia	2	1	0	1	50
Scotland	6	4	1	1	66.67
Slovenia	2	1	1	0	50
Spain	8	4	2	2	50
Sweden	3	1	0	2	33.33
Switzerland	18	13	2	3	72.22
Turkey	5	2	2	1	40
Ukraine	2	1	0	1	50
USSR	6	2	0	4	33.33
Yugoslavia	2	1	0	1	50
Totals	156	85	25	46	54.49

P – Played; W – Won; D – Drawn; L – Lost

Map

Eintracht Frankfurt's opponents in Europe
Red: Eintracht
Yellow: Opponents in Inter-Cities Fairs Cup / UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League
Black: European Cup
Green: Intertoto Cup
Blue: Coppa delle Alpi / Philips Trophy
Purple: Cup Winners' Cup

References