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.

Eintracht Frankfurt in European football
ClubEintracht Frankfurt
First entry1955–58 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
Latest entry2019–20 UEFA Europa League
Titles
Champions League0
Europa League
Cup Winners' Cup0
Super Cup0

Summary

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 Cup of the Alps, 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.

Despite reaching the 1994–95 UEFA Cup quarter-finals, Eintracht bounced between the first two tiers for almost ten years after the relegation from the Bundesliga in the 1995–96 campaign.

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 at Bordeaux with 12,000 fans from Frankfurt and about 8,000 Bordeaux supporters. Eintracht were eliminated in the round of 32 after drawing twice with FC Porto.

In 2018, the qualification for the Europa League group stage was achieved by winning the DFB Cup for the first time in thirty years. In the 2018–19 Europa League, Luka Jović with his ten goals aided Eintracht to reach the semi-finals of the competition, only losing on penalties to the eventual champions, Chelsea.

Overall record
Accurate as of 12 March 2020
CompetitionPlayedWonDrewLostGFGAGDWin%
European Cup / Champions League 7 4 2 1 23 15 +8 057.14
Cup Winners' Cup 24 14 3 7 41 23 +18 058.33
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League 99 55 19 25 194 104 +90 055.56
UEFA Intertoto Cup 5 3 0 2 14 6 +8 060.00
Total 135 76 24 35 272 148 +124 056.30

Legend: GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference.

UEFA competitions
Season Competition Round Opposition Home Away Aggregate
1959–60 European Cup Preliminary round KuPS
KuPS withdrew[note 1]
First Round Young Boys 1–1 4–1 5–2
Quarter-Final Wiener SC 2–1 1–1 3–2
Semi-Final Rangers 6–1 6–3 12–4
Final Real Madrid 3–7
1972–73 UEFA Cup First Round Liverpool 0–0 0–2 0–2
1974–75 Cup Winners' Cup First Round Monaco 3–0 2–2 5–2
Second Round Dynamo Kyiv 2–3 1–2 3–5
1975–76 Cup Winners' Cup First Round Coleraine 5–1 6–2 11–3
Second Round Atlético Madrid 1–0 2–1 3–1
Quarter-Final SK Sturm Graz 1–0 2–0 3–0
Semi-Final West Ham United 2–1 1–3 3–4
1977–78 UEFA Cup First Round Sliema Wanderers 5–0 0–0 5–0
Second Round Zürich 4–3 3–0 7–3
Third Round Bayern Munich 4–0 2–1 6–1
Quarter-Final Grasshopper 3–2 0–1 3–3 (a)
1979–80 UEFA Cup First Round Aberdeen 1–0 1–1 2–1
Second Round Dinamo București 3–0 (a.e.t.) 0–2 3–2
Third Round Feyenoord 4–1 0–1 4–2
Quarter-Final Zbrojovka Brno 4–1 2–3 6–4
Semi-Final Bayern Munich 5–1 (a.e.t.) 0–2 5–3
Final Borussia Mönchengladbach 1–0 2–3 3–3 (a)
1980–81 UEFA Cup First Round Shakhtar Donetsk 3–0 0–1 3–1
Second Round Utrecht 3–1 1–2 4–3
Third Round FC Sochaux-Montbéliard 4–2 0–2 4–4 (a)
1981–82 Cup Winners' Cup First Round PAOK 2–0 0–2 2–2, 5–4 (p)
Second Round SKA Rostov 2–0 0–1 2–1
Quarter-Final Tottenham Hotspur 2–1 0–2 2–3
1988–89 Cup Winners' Cup First Round Grasshopper 1–0 0–0 1–0
Second Round Sakaryaspor 3–1 3–0 6–1
Quarter-Final KV Mechelen 0–0 0–1 0–1
1990–91 UEFA Cup First Round Brøndby IF 4–1 0–5 4–6
1991–92 UEFA Cup First Round Spora Luxembourg 6–1 5–0 11–1
Second Round Gent 0–1 0–0 0–1
1992–93 UEFA Cup First Round Widzew Łódź 9–0 2–2 11–2
Second Round Galatasaray 0–0 0–1 0–1
1993–94 UEFA Cup First Round Dynamo Moscow 1–2 6–0 7–2
Second Round Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2–0 0–1 2–1
Third Round Deportivo La Coruña 1–0 1–0 2–0
Quarter-Final Austria Salzburg 1–0 0–1 1–1, 4–5 (p)
1994–95 UEFA Cup First Round Olimpija Ljubljana 2–0 1–1 3–1
Second Round Rapid București 5–0 1–2 6–2
Third Round Napoli 1–0 1–0 2–0
Quarter-Final Juventus 1–1 0–3 1–4
1995 Intertoto Cup Group 12 Spartak Plovdiv N/A 4–0 2nd
Iraklis 5–1 N/A
FK Panerys Vilnius N/A 4–0
Vorwärts Steyr 1–2 N/A
Second Round [1] Bordeaux N/A 0–3 0–3
2006–07 UEFA Cup First Round Brøndby IF 4–0 2–2 6–2
Group A Palermo 1–2 N/A 5th
Celta Vigo N/A 1–1
Newcastle United 0–0 N/A
Fenerbahçe N/A 2–2
2013–14 UEFA Europa League Play-off Round Qarabağ 2–1 2–0 4–1
Group F Bordeaux 3–0 1–0 1st
APOEL 2–0 3–0
Maccabi Tel Aviv 2–0 2–4
Round of 32 Porto 3–3 2–2 5–5 (a)
2018–19 UEFA Europa League
Group H Marseille 4–0 2–1 1st
Lazio 4–1 2–1
Apollon Limassol 2–0 3–2
Round of 32 Shakhtar Donetsk 4–1 2–2 6–3
Round of 16 Internazionale 0–0 1–0 1–0
Quarter-Final Benfica 2–0 2–4 4–4 (a)
Semi-Final Chelsea 1–1 1–1 (a.e.t.) 2–2, 3–4 (p)
2019–20 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying Round Flora 2–1 2–1 4–2
Third qualifying Round Vaduz 1–0 5–0 6–0
Play-off Round Strasbourg 3–0 0–1 3–1
Group F Arsenal 0–3 2–1 2nd
Standard Liège 2–1 1–2
Vitória de Guimarães 2–3 1–0
Round of 32 Red Bull Salzburg 4–1 2–2 6–3
Round of 16 Basel 0–3

Non-UEFA Competitions
Season Competition Round Opposition Home Away Aggregate
1955–58 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup[2] Group D London XI 1–0 2–3 2nd
Group D Basel XI 5–1 2–6
1964–65 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First Round Kilmarnock 3–0 1–5 4–5
1965–66 Intertoto Cup Group A3 FC La Chaux-de-Fonds 4–0 2–3 3rd
IFK Norrköping 1–2 0–1
PSV 4–2 0–3
1966–67 Intertoto Cup Group A1 FC La Chaux-de-Fonds 3–1 4–2 1st
Feyenoord Rotterdam 2–0 4–1
Lanerossi Vicenza 1–5 1–0
Quarter-Final IFK Norrköping 3–1 1–2 4–3
Semi-Final Zagłębie Sosnowiec 6–1 1–4 7–5
Final Inter Bratislava 1–1 3–2 4–3
1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First Round Drumcondra 6–1 2–0 8–1
Second Round Hvidovre IF 5–1 2–2 7–3
Third Round Ferencvárosi TC 4–1 1–2 5–3
Quarter-Final Burnley 1–1 2–1 3–2
Semi-Final Dinamo Zagreb 3–0 0–4 (a.e.t) 3–4
1967–68 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First Round Nottingham Forest 0–1 0–4 0–5
1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup First Round Wacker Innsbruck 3–0 2–2 5–2
Second Round Juventus 1–0 (a.e.t) 0–0 1–0
Third Round Athletic Bilbao 1–1 0–1 1–2

Teams played

Eintracht Frankfurt have played against clubs from 35 countries (clubs classed by the country they were in when the game was played). Eintracht have played 90 different clubs in Europe.

Country Clubs
 Austria Sturm Graz, Wacker Innsbruck, Austria Salzburg, Vorwärts Steyr, Wiener SC
 Azerbaijan Qarabağ
 Belgium Gent, Standard Liège, KV Mechelen
 Bulgaria Spartak Plovdiv
 Cyprus APOEL, Apollon Limassol
 Czechoslovakia Zbrojovka Brno (now Czech Republic ), Inter Bratislava (now Slovakia )
 Denmark Brøndby IF, Hvidovre IF
 England Arsenal, Burnley, Chelsea, Liverpool, London XI, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United
 Estonia Flora
 France Girondins de Bordeaux, Marseille, Monaco, Strasbourg
 Germany Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayern Munich
 Greece Iraklis, PAOK
 Hungary Ferencvárosi TC
 Ireland Drumcondra
 Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv
 Italy Internazionale, Juventus, Lazio, Napoli, Palermo, Lanerossi Vicenza
 Liechtenstein Vaduz
 Lithuania FK Panerys Vilnius
 Luxembourg Spora Luxembourg
 Malta Sliema Wanderers
 Netherlands PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord, Utrecht
 Northern Ireland Coleraine
 Poland Widzew Łódź, Zagłębie Sosnowiec
 Portugal Benfica, Porto, Vitória de Guimarães
 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 La Coruña, Atlético Madrid, Real Madrid, Celta Vigo
 Sweden IFK Norrköping
  Switzerland Basel, Basel XI, Young Boys, FC Biel-Bienne, FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, FC Lausanne-Sport, Zürich, Grasshoppet
 Turkey Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, Sakaryaspor
 Ukraine Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Shakhtar Donetsk
 Yugoslavia Dinamo Zagreb (now Croatia )

Record by country of opposition
As of 12 March 2020
Country P W D L Win %
Austria 11 6 3 2 55
Azerbaijan 2 2 0 0 100
Belgium 6 1 2 3 16.67
Bulgaria 1 1 0 0 100
Cyprus 4 4 0 0 100
Czechoslovakia 4 2 1 1 50
Denmark 4 2 1 1 50
England 17 5 5 7 29.41
Estonia 2 2 0 0 100
France 11 7 1 3 63.64
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 19 11 4 4 57.9
Liechtenstein 2 2 0 0 100
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 6 2 2 2 33.33
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 19 13 2 4 68.42
Turkey 5 2 2 1 40
Ukraine 4 2 1 1 50
USSR 6 2 0 4 33.33
Yugoslavia 2 1 0 1 50
Totals182102305056.04

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

Record players
Key

EC / CL = European Cup / Champions League, CL Q = Champions League Qualifying, EL / UC = Europa League / UEFA Cup, EL Q = Europa League Qualifying, CWC = Cup Winners' Cup, UIC = Intertoto Cup

As of 12 March 2020

Most appearances
# Player Eintracht career EC / CL CL Q EL / UC EL Q CWC UIC Total
1 Charly Körbel 1972–1991 – – 25 – 23 5 53
2 Willi Neuberger 1974–1983 – – 25 – 14 6 45
3 Bernd Nickel 1967–1983 – – 20 – 16 6 42
4 Bernd Hölzenbein 1967–1981 – – 24 – 11 5 40
5 Manfred Binz 1985–1996 – – 25 – 06 5 36
6 Jürgen Grabowski 1965–1980 – – 16 – 12 4 32
7 Uwe Bindewald 1988–2004 – – 23 – – 5 28
Kevin Trapp 2012–2015, 2018– – – 25 3 – –
9 Dietmar Roth 1987–1997 – – 18 – 06 3 27
Danny da Costa 2017– – – 22 5 – –

Top goalscorers

Numbers in brackets indicate appearances made. Ø = goals per game

# Player Eintracht career EC / CL CL Q EL / UC EL Q CWC UIC Total Ø
1 Bernd Hölzenbein 1967–1981 – – 10 (24) – 08 (11) 06 0(5) 24 (40) 0.63
2 Anthony Yeboah 1990–1995 – – 12 (16) – – – 12 (16) 0.75
3 Bernd Nickel 1967–1983 – – 05 (20) – 05 (16) 01 0(6) 11 (42) 0.26
4 Luka Jović 2017–2019 – – 10 (14) – – – 10 (14) 0.71
5 Filip Kostić 2018– – – 06 (21) 03 0(5) – – 09 (26) 0.34
6 Jan Furtok 1993–1995 – – 07 (14) – – 01 0(1) 08 (15) 0.53
7 Jürgen Grabowski 1965–1980 – – 04 (16) – 03 (12) 00 0(4) 07 (32) 0.22
Alexander Meier 2004–2018 – – 07 0(9) – – – 07 0(9) 0.78
9 Cha Bum-kun 1979–1983 – – 05 (16) – 01 0(6) – 06 (22) 0.27
Rüdiger Wenzel 1975–1979 – – 03 0(6) – 01 0(8) 02 0(4) 06 (18) 0.33
Wolfgang Kraus 1971–1979, 1986–1987 – – 04 0(8) – 01 0(5) 01 0(4) 06 (17) 0.35
Harald Karger 1979–1983 – – 06 (11) – – – 06 (11) 0.55
Daichi Kamada 2017– – – 06 (12) – – – 06 (12) 0.50

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: Cup of the Alps / Philips Trophy
Purple: Cup Winners' Cup

References
  1. Effectively the last 16 teams
  2. A Frankfurt XI took part in the competition with Eintracht mostly contributing several players to the squad. The results of this competition are included in the statistics

Notes
  1. Initially, Kuopion Palloseura planned to move their home match to Schwenningen, West Germany, to generate more income. That plan was rejected by UEFA, so KuPS withdrew and Eintracht Frankfurt walkover.

Sources
  • Matheja, Ulrich (2011). Unsere Eintracht - Eintracht Frankfurt - Die Chronik. Die Werkstatt. ISBN 978-3-89533-750-5.
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