1996–97 UEFA Champions League qualifying round

The 1996–97 UEFA Champions League featured 24 teams, with eight teams (the seven top-ranked league champions in the UEFA clubs coefficient table, plus the defending champions from 1995–96) qualifying automatically for the group stage and the remaining 16 (the league champions ranked 8–23 in the coefficient table) playing in a two-legged preliminary round. The winners of each tie entered the Champions League group stage, while the losers entered the UEFA Cup First Round.

Preliminary round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Maccabi Tel Aviv 1–2 Fenerbahçe 0–1 1–1
Rangers 10–3 Alania Vladikavkaz 3–1 7–2
Panathinaikos 1–3 Rosenborg 1–0 0–3(aet)
IFK Göteborg 4–1 Ferencváros 3–0 1–1
Widzew Łódź 4–4 (a) Brøndby 2–1 2–3
Grasshopper 6–0 Slavia Prague 5–0 1–0
Club Brugge 2–5 Steaua București 2–2 0–3
Rapid Wien 6–2 Dynamo Kyiv 2–0 4–2

First leg
Maccabi Tel Aviv 0–1 Fenerbahçe
Report Kemalettin  43'
Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan
Attendance: 20,000
Rangers 3–1 Alania Vladikavkaz
McInnes  51'
McCoist  60'
Petrić  77'		 Report Yanovskiy  29'
Attendance: 44,799[1]
Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)
Panathinaikos 1–0 Rosenborg
Warzycha  19' Report
Attendance: 33,095
IFK Göteborg 3–0 Ferencváros
Blomqvist  37'
Pettersson  49', 56'		 Report
Attendance: 5,513
Referee: Alain Sars (France)
Widzew Łódź 2–1 Brøndby
Dembiński  63'
Majak  73'		 Report Bjur  75'
Attendance: 6,300
Grasshopper 5–0 Slavia Prague
Türkyilmaz  11', 46'
Esposito  43'
Moldovan  57'
Koller  89'		 Report
Attendance: 9,300
Referee: Jorge Monteiro Coroado (Portugal)
Club Brugge 2–2 Steaua București
Nielsen  27'
Špehar  54'		 Report Ilie  45', 62'
Attendance: 10,755
Referee: Rune Pedersen (Norway)
Rapid Wien 2–0 Dynamo Kyiv
Stumpf  7'
Guggi  89'		 Report
Attendance: 29,500
Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)

Second leg
Fenerbahçe 1–1 Maccabi Tel Aviv
Okocha  19' Report Driks  75'
Attendance: 23,188[4]

Fenerbahçe won 2–1 on aggregate.

Alania Vladikavkaz 2–7 Rangers
Yanovskiy  14'
Suleymanov  24' (pen.)		 Report McCoist  1', 13', 18'
Van Vossen  40'
Laudrup  56', 83'
Miller  87'
Attendance: 33,000

Rangers won 10–3 on aggregate.

Rosenborg 3–0 (a.e.t.) Panathinaikos
Strand  63'
Iversen  94'
Heggem  97'		 Report
Attendance: 18,625[5]

Rosenborg won 3–1 on aggregate.

Ferencváros 1–1 IFK Göteborg
Horváth  13' Report Andersson  87'
Attendance: 5,925

IFK Göteborg won 4–1 on aggregate.

Brøndby 3–2 Widzew Łódź
Möller  31'
Bjur  44'
Vilfort  47'		 Report Citko  56'
Wojtala  88'
Attendance: 10,438[6]
Referee: Ahmet Çakar (Turkey)

4–4 on aggregate. Widzew Łódź won on away goals.

Slavia Prague 0–1 Grasshopper
Report Türkyilmaz  70'
Attendance: 3,012

Grasshopper won 6–0 on aggregate.

Steaua București 3–0 Club Brugge
Ilie  32', 44'
Nagy  55'		 Report
Attendance: 10,912

Steaua București won 5–2 on aggregate.

Dynamo Kyiv 2–4 Rapid Wien
Kalitvintsev  6'
Maksymov  77'		 Report Ivanov  23', 42'
Kühbauer  32'
Holovko  62' (o.g.)
NSK Olimpiyskyi, Kiev
Attendance: 70,000

Rapid Wien won 6–2 on aggregate.

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References
  1. https://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/1996-08-09/3_2/
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h79U66EaZcE
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_2aYh_GEvs
  4. https://www.worldfootball.net/report/champions-league-qual-1996-1997-1-runde-fenerbahce-maccabi-tel-aviv/
  5. https://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/1996-08-23/3_1/
  6. https://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/1996-08-23/3_1/
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