The 1997–98 season of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup club football tournament was won by Chelsea in the final against VfB Stuttgart.
Teams
First round Vicenza Real Betis Nice VfB Stuttgart Roda Boavista Chelsea Kocaelispor AEK Sturm Graz Lokomotiv Moscow Germinal Ekeren Copenhagen AIK Tromsø Slavia Prague LuzernQualifying round Legia Warsaw Kilmarnock Național București NK Zagreb Shakhtar Donetsk APOEL Hapoel Be'er Sheva BVSC Dinamo Batumi Slovan Bratislava Dinaburg Primorje HJK Belshina Bobruisk ÍBV Levski Sofia Sloga Jugomagnat Žalgiris Vilnius Zimbru Chișinău Glenavon Balzers Cwmbrân Town Red Star Belgrade Tallinna Sadam Hibernians Shelbourne Ararat Yerevan Union Luxembourg HB Kapaz
Qualifying round
Notes Note 1: Ararat Yerevan were awarded a 3–0 win in the qualifying round first leg after Dinamo Batumi were found guilty of fielding an ineligible player — Sologashvili. The match originally ended as a 4–2 win for Dinamo Batumi.
First leg
Second leg
ÍBV won 4–0 on aggregate.
APOEL won 7–1 on aggregate.
Legia Warsaw won 5–1 on aggregate.
Național București won 12–2 on aggregate.
Hapoel Be'er Sheva won 2–1 on aggregate.
Shakhtar Donetsk won 4–1 on aggregate.
Dinaburg won 2–0 on aggregate.
Kilmarnock won 3–2 on aggregate.
Red Star Belgrade won 3–1 on aggregate.
NK Zagreb won 4–1 on aggregate.
BVSC won 5–1 on aggregate.
Belshina Bobruisk won 5–2 on aggregate.
Primorje won 3–0 on aggregate.
Slovan Bratislava won 3–2 on aggregate.
Ararat Yerevan won 3–2 on aggregate.
First round
First leg
Second leg
Kocaelispor won 3–0 on aggregate.
Sturm Graz won 4–0 on aggregate.
Stuttgart won 5–2 on aggregate.
Shakhtar Donetsk won 4–3 on aggregate.
Germinal Ekeren won 4–3 on aggregate.
Primorje won 2–1 on aggregate.
AEK won 9–2 on aggregate.
Slavia Prague won 6–2 on aggregate.
Roda won 14–1 on aggregate.
Tromsø won 6–5 on aggregate.
Copenhagen won 5–0 on aggregate.
Lokomotiv Moscow won 5–1 on aggregate.
Chelsea won 4–0 on aggregate.
Nice won 4–2 on aggregate.
Real Betis won 4–0 on aggregate.
Vicenza won 3–1 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
Second leg
Chelsea won 9–4 on aggregate.
Stuttgart won 6–4 on aggregate.
Lokomotiv Moscow won 2–1 on aggregate.
Vicenza won 5–2 on aggregate.
Real Betis won 3–1 on aggregate.
AEK won 2–1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate. Slavia Prague won on away goals.
Roda won 6–0 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Vicenza won 9–1 on aggregate.
Stuttgart won 3–1 on aggregate.
Lokomotiv Moscow won 2–1 on aggregate.
Chelsea won 5–2 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Chelsea won 3–2 on aggregate.
Stuttgart won 3–1 on aggregate.
Final
Top goalscorers The top goalscorers from the 1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup are as follows:
RankNameTeamGoals1 Pasquale Luiso Vicenza82 Jonathan Akpoborie VfB Stuttgart6 Fredi Bobic VfB Stuttgart6 Peter Van Houdt Roda6 Gianluca Vialli Chelsea66 Serhiy Atelkin Shakhtar Donetsk57 Alfonso Real Betis4 Gábor Torma Roda4 Karel Vácha Slavia Prague4 Gianfranco Zola Chelsea4
See also 1997–98 UEFA Champions League 1997–98 UEFA Cup 1997 UEFA Intertoto Cup
References
External links 1997-98 competition at UEFA website results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Cup Winners Cup Seasons 1997-98 – results, protocols Archive of old pages site UEFA Season 1997–98, written protocol games.