1995–96 UEFA Champions League qualifying round

European football tournament The 1995–96 UEFA Champions League featured 24 teams, with eight teams (the league champions from the seven top-ranked nations in the UEFA country coefficient table, plus the defending champions from 1994–95) qualifying automatically for the group stage and the remaining 16 (the league champions of the nations ranked 8–23 in the country coefficient table) playing in a two-legged preliminary round. The winners of each tie entered the Champions League group stage Dynamo Kyiv won their tie against AaB, but, in their first group game against Panathinaikos, they were accused of a failed attempt to bribe referee Antonio López Nieto to get a win. Despite an appeal, they were thrown out of the competition by UEFA and were banned for the subsequent two years. AaB replaced them in the group stage. Dynamo's ban was eventually reduced to just one season. Teams The sixteen lowest-ranked associations with teams that qualified for the Champions League entered the qualifying round.https://kassiesa.net/uefa/data/method1/crank1995.html UEFA Country Ranking 1995 Bert Kassies 29 January 2025 Key to coloursWinners of qualifying round advanced to group stage + Qualifying round participantsAssoc. Association rankingTeam8BEL Anderlecht10TUR Beşiktaş11AUT Casino Salzburg13GRE Panathinaikos14DEN AaB15SWE IFK Göteborg16SCO Rangers17SUI Grasshopper18POL Legia Warsaw19ROU Steaua București20NOR Rosenborg21ISR Maccabi Tel Aviv22HUN Ferencváros23CRO Hajduk Split24CYP 1960 Anorthosis Famagusta25UKR 1992 Dynamo Kyiv Seeding The sixteen teams were divided into seeded and unseeded pots, each containing eight teams, for the draw based on their association's ranking.Protzen Martin https://kassiesa.net/uefa/history/faq1994.txt FAQ: Qualification and Seeding for the European Cups RSSSF 29 July 1994 29 January 2025 SeededUnseededBEL Anderlecht TUR Beşiktaş AUT Casino Salzburg GRE Panathinaikos DEN AaB SWE IFK Göteborg SCO Rangers SUI GrasshopperPOL Legia Warsaw ROU Steaua București NOR Rosenborg ISR Maccabi Tel Aviv HUN Ferencváros CRO Hajduk Split CYP 1960 Anorthosis Famagusta UKR 1992 Dynamo Kyiv Summary Dynamo Kyiv won their tie against AaB, but, in their first group game against Panathinaikos, they were accused of a failed attempt to bribe the referee, Antonio López Nieto, to get a win. Despite an appeal, they were ejected from the competition and banned for two years, with AaB replacing them in the group stage. Dynamo's ban was eventually reduced to one season. main y Grasshopper SUI 2–1 Maccabi Tel Aviv ISR 1–1 1–0 Rangers SCO 1–0 Anorthosis Famagusta CYP+1960 1–0 0–0 Legia Warsaw POL 3–1 IFK Göteborg SWE 1–0 2–1 Casino Salzburg AUT 0–1 Steaua București ROU 0–0 0–1 Dynamo Kyiv UKR 4–1 AaB DEN 1–0 3–1 Rosenborg NOR 4–3 Beşiktaş TUR 3–0 1–3 Anderlecht BEL 1–2 Ferencváros HUN 0–1 1–1 Panathinaikos GRE 1–1 (a) Hajduk Split CRO 0–0 1–1 Matches 1995 8 9 y 20:15 Grasshopper SUI 1–1 ISR Maccabi Tel Aviv Ibrahim 49 Kashentsev 54 Hardturm, Zurich 11,200 Juan Ansuátegui Roca (Spain) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51834/ 1995 8 23 y 18:00 Maccabi Tel Aviv ISR 0–1 SUI Grasshopper Comisetti 4 Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv 15,432 Marcello Nicchi (Italy) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51835/ Grasshopper won 2–1 on aggregate. 1995 8 9 y 20:00 Rangers SCO 1–0 CYP 1960 Anorthosis Famagusta Durie 68 Ibrox Park, Glasgow 43,519 Éric Blareau (Belgium) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51836/ 1995 8 23 y 20:00 Anorthosis Famagusta CYP 1960 0–0 SCO Rangers Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca 9,400 László Vágner (Hungary) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51837/ Rangers won 1–0 on aggregate. 1995 8 9 y 20:15 Legia Warsaw POL 1–0 SWE IFK Göteborg Podbrożny 49 pen. Polish Army Stadium, Warsaw 10,000 Jaap Uilenberg (Netherlands) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51838/ 1995 8 23 y 19:00 IFK Göteborg SWE 1–2 POL Legia Warsaw Blomqvist 25 Pisz 72 Wieszczycki 90 Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg 11,017 David Elleray (England) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51839/ Legia Warsaw won 3–1 on aggregate. 1995 8 9 y 19:05 Casino Salzburg AUT 0–0 ROU Steaua București Lehener Stadion, Salzburg 8,500 Anders Frisk (Sweden) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51840/ 1995 8 23 y 19:15 Steaua București ROU 1–0 AUT Casino Salzburg A. Ilie 33 Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest 19,987 Jorge Coroado (Portugal) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51841/ Steaua București won 1–0 on aggregate. 1995 8 9 y 19:00 Dynamo Kyiv UKR 1992 1–0 DEN AaB Pokhlebayev 81 pen. Republican Stadium, Kyiv 61,000 Jiří Ulrich (Czech Republic) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51842/ 1995 8 23 y 20:00 AaB DEN 1–3 UKR 1992 Dynamo Kyiv P. Rasmussen 87 Kalitvintsev 36 Shevchenko 49 77 Aalborg Stadion, Aalborg 13,200 Atanas Uzunov (Bulgaria) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51843/ Dynamo Kyiv won 4–1 on aggregate. 1995 8 9 y 20:00 Rosenborg NOR 3–0 TUR Beşiktaş Hoftun 23 Strand 27 Brattbakk 75 Lerkendal Stadion, Trondheim 14,083 Hermann Albrecht (Germany) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51844/ 1995 8 23 y 20:00 Beşiktaş TUR 3–1 NOR Rosenborg Özdilek 9 Kuntz 85 pen. 87 Brattbakk 67http://rbkmedia.no/statistikk/liste_lagoppstilling.php?kamp_id=554 Besiktas - Rosenborg - 23.08. 1995 rbkmedia.no BJK İnönü Stadium, Istanbul 23,882 Marc Batta (France) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51845/ Rosenborg won 4–3 on aggregate. 1995 8 9 y 20:00 Anderlecht BEL 0–1 HUN Ferencváros Kuntić 58 Stade Constant Vanden Stock, Brussels 15,036 Hellmut Krug (Germany) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51846/ 1995 8 23 y 18:00 Ferencváros HUN 1–1 BEL Anderlecht Kopunović 50 De Bilde 70 Üllői úti Stadion, Budapest 16,737 Leslie Mottram (Scotland) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51847/ Ferencváros won 2–1 on aggregate. 1995 8 9 y 21:15 Panathinaikos GRE 0–0 CRO Hajduk Split O.A.K.A., Athens 0 Urs Meier (Switzerland) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51848/ 1995 8 23 y 20:30 Hajduk Split CRO 1–1 GRE Panathinaikos Štimac 5 Borrelli 54 Stadion Kantrida, Rijeka 10,800 Ion Crăciunescu (Romania) https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/51849/ 1–1 on aggregate; Panathinaikos won on away goals. References External links Qualifying round at UEFA.com *1 1995-96