Saturday, 11 April 2020

WELSH CLUBS IN EUROPE PART TWENTY-SIX - WREXHAM

1972/73
Cup Winner's Cup 

FIRST ROUND 
FC Zurich W 2-1 D 1-1 (W 3-2) 
SECOND ROUND 
Hajduk Split W 3-1 L 0-2 (D 3-3*) 

1975/76
Cup Winner's Cup

FIRST ROUND 
Djurgarden W 2-1 D 1-1 (W 3-2) 
SECOND ROUND
Stal Rzeszow W 2-0 D 1-1 (W 3-1) 
QUARTER FINAL
Anderlecht D 1-1 L 0-1 (L 1-2) 

1978-79
Cup Winner's Cup

FIRST ROUND 
Rijeka W 2-0 L 0-3 (L 2-3)

1979/80
Cup Winner's Cup

FIRST ROUND
FC Magdeburg W 3-2 L 2-5 (L 5-7) 

1984/85
Cup Winner's Cup 

Wrexham's most famous European victory came in 1984 when they were struggling in the Fourth Division of the football league. Bobby Robert's side won the first leg 1-0 thanks to James Steel's 77th minute goal in front of 4,935 people. In the second leg in 35,000 people the Portuguese side went 3-0 up within 38 minutes only for John King to get two goals back to make the half time score 3-2. Porto scored a fourth goal only to make the score 4-3 on aggregate - Barry Horne's (who went on to play for the Welsh National team and win the 1995 FA Cup with Everton) famous 89th minute goal sent Wrexham through on away goals! The Second Round paired them with AS Roma who were then managed by Sven Goran-Eirksson with the Italian side winning 3-0 on aggregate.  

FIRST ROUND
FC Porto W 1-0 L 3-4 (D 4-4*) 
SECOND ROUND 
AS Roma L 0-1 L 0-2 (L 0-3) 

1986/87
Cup Winners Cup 

FIRST ROUND 
Zurrieq W 4-0 W 3-0 (W 7-0) 
SECOND ROUND
Real Zaragoza D 2-2 D 0-0 (D 2-2) 

1990/91 
Cup Winner's Cup

FIRST ROUND 
Lyngby D 0-0 W 1-0 (W 1-0) 
SECOND ROUND
Manchester United L 0-2 L 0-3 (L 0-5)

1995/96
Cup Winner's Cup

FIRST ROUND
Pre Petrolul Ploiseti D 0-0 W 0-1 (L 0-1)

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