Burnley F.C. in European football

Burnley Football Club is an English professional association football club who have made two appearances in Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) competitions, one in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, and seven in other European competitions since 1960. The first competitive venture in Europe came about as a result of Burnley winning the First Division title in the 1959–60 season under their manager Harry Potts. The team qualified for the 1960–61 European Cup where they faced French champions Stade de Reims in the first round before being sent out of the contest by West German champions Hamburger SV in the quarter-final. Burnley's following European campaign came six years later, in the 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, where they were again knocked out by a West German side, this time Eintracht Frankfurt. It was 51 years before Burnley ventured back into European football competition, when the team qualified for the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League, in which they were eliminated in the play-off round by Greek club Olympiacos.

Burnley F.C. in European football
ClubBurnley F.C.
Most appearancesBrian Miller (12)[lower-alpha 1]
Top scorerAndy Lochhead (6)[lower-alpha 1]
First entry1960–61 European Cup
Latest entry2018–19 UEFA Europa League

Burnley have also played in other competitive European football tournaments. They participated in the Texaco Cup for two seasons, and reached the final in 1974. Burnley also competed in the Anglo-Scottish Cup on five occasions, and won the tournament in 1979.

History

1960–61 European Cup
The Parc des Princes (1932 photograph) was the stage for a hectic first round return leg against Stade de Reims

Burnley's first appearance in European football came in the 1960–61 season. Under the management of Harry Potts, the club had won their second First Division title and as such qualified for the 1960–61 European Cup.[1] They were the third club to represent England in the competition, preceded by Manchester United and Wolverhampton Wanderers.[2] The club's squad consisted of mostly players who came through the Burnley youth academy, and a transfer fee was paid for only two players — Jimmy McIlroy (1950) and Alex Elder (1959).[3] Potts often employed the, at the time unfashionable, 4–4–2 formation and he implemented the Total Football playing style,[4][5] as the team mainly revolved around the duo of captain Jimmy Adamson and playmaker McIlroy.[6]

Burnley received a bye in the preliminary round of the competition, and were drawn against French club Stade de Reims in the first round.[7] Reims were the 1959–60 French Division 1 champions,[8] were runners-up in the European Cup in 1956 and 1959,[9] and featured the likes of Just Fontaine and Raymond Kopa.[8] The first leg was played at Turf Moor, and was won 2–0; Jimmy Robson scoring in the first minute and McIlroy netting a second in the 22nd minute.[10] The return leg, two weeks later at Parc des Princes, Paris, ended in a 3–2 loss.[10] Robson put Burnley ahead in the 33rd minute, but Reims scored two in the second half via Roger Piantoni and Bruno Rodzik, before John Connelly equalised, only for Rodzik to score his second a minute later. Connelly's goal is often included in lists of the club's most memorable goals of all time;[11] he picked up the ball just inside his own half and dribbled past several Reims players to score.[12] The match was marred by crowd disturbances,[8] and manager Potts ran on the field to put the ball back to its correct place during a Reims free-kick, having become exasperated by their constant attempts to steal a few yards, as he was taken off the field by the police.[12] A 4–3 aggregate victory saw Burnley qualify for the quarter-final.[7]

The draw saw the club face West German champions Hamburger SV, the first leg to be played at Turf Moor.[13] Brian Pilkington scored twice to put Burnley 2–0 up, with Robson adding a third, before Hamburg pulled one back in the last minutes of the game.[10] The second leg was played two months later, at the Volksparkstadion.[14] The match was broadcast live on the BBC.[13] Klaus Stürmer and star striker Uwe Seeler scored for Hamburg, only for Gordon Harris to put Burnley back ahead on aggregate in the 55th minute.[14] Hamburg were in front again inside six minutes, as Gert Dörfel and Seeler scored. McIlroy hit the post in the last minute, and Burnley were eliminated.[13]

1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
José Altafini's penalty (Napoli) was saved by Harry Thomson, who was later hailed by the Italian press as "A God in a Green Jersey"

By the time Burnley qualified for a second European campaign, the 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup,[15] due to a third place finish in the 1965–66 First Division,[16] their fortunes declined.[17] McIlroy was sold to Stoke City in 1963 and Adamson retired a year later.[18] Even more damaging was the impact of the abolition of the maximum wage in 1961, meaning clubs from small towns, like Burnley, could no longer compete financially with teams from bigger towns and cities.[4][19]

The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was a European competition played between 1955 and 1971.[20] The contest was set up to promote international trade fairs, and was initially only open to clubs or selected squads from cities that hosted those; where teams finished in their national league had no relevance. This later changed, with teams qualifying based on league position in their domestic leagues.[20] The competition was organised by the Fairs Cup Committee,[21] who were backed by FIFA Executive Committee members Ottorino Barassi, Stanley Rous, and Ernst Thommen.[22] In 1971, the tournament came under the auspices of UEFA and was replaced by the UEFA Cup.[23] UEFA does not consider teams' records in the Fairs Cup to be part of their European record.[24] However, FIFA does view the competition as a major honour.[25][26]

The club entered the competition along with fellow English clubs West Bromwich Albion and eventual beaten finalists Leeds United.[15] The first round draw saw Burnley face another West German team; VfB Stuttgart, who replaced Hannover 96, whose entry was later disallowed by the competition committee, as Stuttgart finished in a higher league position.[21] The first leg was played at their Neckarstadion, and ended in a 1–1 draw, Willie Irvine scoring the first goal.[27] The team ended the match with 10 players, as Brian O'Neil was sent off in the 85th minute.[28] Burnley won the return leg a week later with a score of 2–0, Ralph Coates and Andy Lochhead both on the scoresheet.[15] Swiss side Lausanne-Sport were the opponents in the second round, and the team won the first leg with 3–1 at their ground, after conceding first.[27] The second leg was a one-sided contest, Burnley running out 5–0 winners, Lochhead scoring a hat-trick, with O'Neil and Irvine adding further goals.[15]

They were drawn against Italian club Napoli in the following round. The first leg, at Turf Moor, ended in a 3–0 victory, with goals from Coates, Les Latcham and Lochhead, who scored his sixth goal in the competition.[27] Napoli ended the match with 10 men, after defender Dino Panzanato was sent off for kicking Lochhead in the head.[21] The return leg three weeks later proved to be much more difficult. The Italian Press previewed the leg in a belligerent manner: "From Lancashire where studs are made out of rose petals ... to Naples where visiting players are put through a mincing machine at the end of the game and their remains are roasted on a spit".[21] A crowd of 60,000 saw Burnley goalkeeper Harry Thomson making 13 saves, including a penalty kick from José Altafini, as the match ended in a 0–0 draw. The game was again not without controversy; Dave Merrington was elbowed in the stomach by a frustrated Omar Sivori in the closing stages of the match, and after the match ended, Thomson was spit in his face by Alberto Orlando, who refused his handshake. The team, the Burnley fans, and the English press were escorted to the airport by a convoy to escape the Napoli fans, who hurled missiles during the match.[21] After the game, Thomson was hailed by the Italian press as "A God in a Green Jersey".[29]

The quarter final draw paired Burnley with Eintracht Frankfurt, the first leg being held in the Waldstadion. The match ended in a 1–1 draw; Jürgen Friedrich scored for Eintracht, before Brian Miller netted an important away goal.[15] The home leg was played two weeks later, in front of more than 25,000 supporters.[30] Eintracht took a 2–0 lead, only for Miller to score again, in the 86th minute; the team could not find two more goals and were again eliminated by a West German side.[27]

2018–19 UEFA Europa League
Manager Sean Dyche (2013 photograph) accused Olympiacos' staff of intimidating the officials during the first leg of the play-off round

It was 51 years before Burnley ventured back into European football competition. In those years, the club played in all four professional divisions,[31] and only escaped relegation to the Football Conference (tier 5) on the last matchday in 1987.[32] Burnley climbed back up the leagues and were promoted to the first tier again in 2009, after a 33-year absence.[31] Relegation followed after one season, but Burnley were promoted again in 2014; they went down after one season, only to make an instant return.[31] The team finished in seventh position in the 2017–18 Premier League, which ensured qualification for the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round.[33]

Burnley were drawn against Scottish side Aberdeen, setting up an all-British tie.[34] In the first leg, at the Pittodrie Stadium, ended in a 1–1 draw; Sam Vokes cancelled out Aberdeen's Gary Mackay-Steven's converted penalty kick.[35] The second leg saw the club's striker Chris Wood open the score, before Lewis Ferguson equalised with a bicycle kick. The game went into extra time, with Jack Cork and an Ashley Barnes penalty sealing the tie for Burnley.[36] The club was drawn against Turkish club İstanbul Başakşehir in the third qualifying round, with the first match being played in Istanbul, resulting in a 0–0 draw. For the return leg at Turf Moor, Başakşehir decided to not sell tickets to their fans, leaving the away end empty.[37] After another goalless 90 minutes, Burnley's second leg went again into extra time. Jack Cork scored the only goal in the 97th minute, to set up a tie with Greek club Olympiacos in the play-off round, the last round before the group stage.[37][38]

Before the first leg started in Piraeus, five Burnley supporters were injured in incidents of football hooliganism.[39] The team wore black armbands, in memory of Jimmy McIlroy, who died three days earlier.[39] Kostas Fortounis put the home side in front, before Wood scored a penalty kick to level the score. Andreas Bouchalakis restored their lead in the 48th minute; ten minutes later, Burnley defender Ben Gibson was sent off after collecting his second yellow card for handball, and Fortounis scored his second from the resulting penalty.[40] Olympiacos owner Evangelos Marinakis had reportedly entered the referee's room at half-time, to vent his frustration at his performance; Burnley manager Sean Dyche accused their staff of intimidating the officials.[41] In the return leg, the team missed multiple chances to score, before Daniel Podence put the away side ahead in the 83rd minute, although substitute Matěj Vydra equalised on his debut three minutes later.[42]

Competition record
Burnley's record in UEFA-sanctioned European competitions and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup[43][lower-alpha 2]
Season Competition Round Club Country Home
result[lower-alpha 3]		 Away
result[lower-alpha 3]		 Notes
1960–61 European Cup PR Received a bye [lower-alpha 4]
1R Stade de Reims France 2–0 2–3
QF Hamburger SV West Germany 3–1 1–4
1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1R VfB Stuttgart West Germany 2–0 1–1 [lower-alpha 5]
2R Lausanne-Sport Switzerland 5–0 3–1
3R Napoli Italy 3–0 0–0
QF Eintracht Frankfurt West Germany 1–2 1–1
2018–19 UEFA Europa League 2QR Aberdeen Scotland 3–1[lower-alpha 6] 1–1 [lower-alpha 7]
3QR İstanbul Başakşehir Turkey 1–0[lower-alpha 6] 0–0
POR Olympiacos Greece 1–1 1–3
Key
  • 2QR = Second qualifying round
  • 3QR = Third qualifying round
  • POR = Play-off round
  • PR = Preliminary round
  • 1R = First round
  • 2R = Second round
  • 3R = Third round
  • QF = Quarter-final

Record by competition
Competition Played Won Drawn Lost Goals
for		 Goals
against
European Cup 4 2 0 2 8 8
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 8 4 3 1 16 5
UEFA Europa League 6 2 3 1 7 6
Total 18 8 6 4 31 19

Record by location
Location Played Won Drawn Lost Goals
for		 Goals
against
Turf Moor 9 7 1 1 21 5
Away venues 9 1 5 3 10 14
Total 18 8 6 4 31 19

Club records
  • Most appearances in European competition: Brian Miller, 12[44]
  • Most goals in European competition: Andy Lochhead, 6[27]
  • Most continental goals in a season: Andy Lochhead, 6, 1966–67[27]
  • First European match: Burnley 2–0 Stade de Reims, European Cup, first round, 16 November 1960[10]
  • First goal scored in Europe: Jimmy Robson (in the first minute), against Stade de Reims, 16 November 1960[10]
  • Biggest win: Burnley 5–0 Lausanne-Sport, in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, 25 October 1966[27]
  • Biggest defeat: Hamburger SV 4–1 Burnley, in the European Cup, 15 March 1961[45]
  • Highest home attendance: 47,000 against Hamburger SV, European Cup, 18 January 1961[46]
  • Lowest home attendance: 15,234 against Olympiacos, UEFA Europa League, 30 August 2018[47]
  • Highest away attendance: 74,000 against Hamburger SV, European Cup, 15 March 1961[48]
  • Lowest away attendance: 4,000 against Lausanne-Sport, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, 19 October 1966[46]

Other European competitions

Burnley participated in the non-UEFA-sanctioned Texaco Cup for two seasons; in the inaugural 1970–71 season, and in the 1973–74 competition, where they lost in the final against Newcastle United. The team also competed in the non-UEFA-sanctioned Anglo-Scottish Cup on five occasions, and won the tournament in 1978–79.[49]

The Texaco Cup was a competition involving sides from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Republic of Ireland that had not qualified for European competitions.[50] It was sponsored by petrol company Texaco until 1975, after which the tournament was replaced by the Anglo-Scottish Cup. It had a similar format to its predecessor, but involved clubs from England and Scotland only. Over the years, English entrants were increasingly drawn from the lower divisions, which resulted in withdrawal of the Scottish clubs in 1981, as their public showed little interest in the competition. The competition continued with English clubs only as the Football League Group Cup, which was replaced by the Associate Members' Cup in 1983.[50]

Burnley's record in the Texaco Cup and the Anglo-Scottish Cup[49][51]
Season Competition Round Club Country Home
result[lower-alpha 3]		 Away
result[lower-alpha 3]		 Notes
1970–71 Texaco Cup 1R Hearts Scotland 3–1 1–4
1973–74 1R East Fife 7–0 3–2
QF Hearts 5–0 3–0
SF Norwich City England 2–0 3–2
F Newcastle United 1–2[lower-alpha 6] [lower-alpha 8]
1976–77 Anglo-Scottish Cup GS Blackburn Rovers 1–1
Blackpool 1–2
Bolton Wanderers 1–0 [lower-alpha 9]
1977–78 GS Blackburn Rovers 2–1
Bolton Wanderers 0–1
Blackpool 0–4 [lower-alpha 10]
1978–79 GS Preston North End 3–2
Blackpool 3–1
Blackburn Rovers 1–1 [lower-alpha 11]
QF Celtic Scotland 1–0[lower-alpha 12] 2–1
SF Mansfield Town England 0–1[lower-alpha 13] 2–1
F Oldham Athletic 0–1 4–1
1979–80 GS Blackburn Rovers 2–2
Blackpool 2–3
Preston North End 1–2 [lower-alpha 10]
1980–81 GS Bury 1–2
Oldham Athletic 3–1
Shrewsbury Town 1–1 [lower-alpha 14]
Key
  • GS = Group stage
  • 1R = First round
  • QF = Quarter-final
  • SF = Semi-final
  • F = Final

Record by competition
Competition Played Won Drawn Lost Goals
for		 Goals
against
Texaco Cup 9 7 0 2 28 11
Anglo-Scottish Cup 21 9 4 8 31 29
Total 30 16 4 10 59 40

Record by location
Location Played Won Drawn Lost Goals
for		 Goals
against
Turf Moor 15 10 1 4 32 15
Away venues 15 6 3 6 27 25
Total 30 16 4 10 59 40

Club records in the Texaco Cup and the Anglo-Scottish Cup

Notes
  1. Only appearances and goals in UEFA-sanctioned European competitions and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup are counted
  2. The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup is part of the record, as it is recognized by FIFA as a major honour.
  3. Burnley score is given first in each result
  4. Burnley qualified for the 1960–61 European Cup by winning the 1959–60 First Division.
  5. Burnley qualified for the 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup by finishing third in the 1965–66 First Division.
  6. After extra time
  7. Burnley qualified for the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League by finishing seventh in the 2017–18 Premier League.
  8. The Final was played over one leg, away at St James' Park, Newcastle.
  9. Burnley finished third in their group and were eliminated.
  10. Burnley finished fourth in their group and were eliminated.
  11. Burnley finished first in their group and progressed to the quarter-final.
  12. The match was marred by violence, as 60 people were injured due to acts of hooliganism by Celtic fans.[52]
  13. Burnley won 8–7 on penalties
  14. Burnley finished second in their group and were eliminated.

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