SV Werder Bremen in European football

SV Werder Bremen in European football

The official logo of SV Werder Bremen
Club	SV Werder Bremen
Seasons played	26
First entry	1961–62 European Cup Winners' Cup
Latest entry	2010–11 UEFA Champions League
Titles
Champions League	0
Europa League	0 [a]
Cup Winners' Cup	1 1992
Super Cup	0 [b]

Werder Bremen is a successful German football club based in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, northern Germany which participated in UEFA competitions on many occasions in the past. The club won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1992 ^{[1] [2]} and the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1998. ^[2] They were runners-up of the UEFA Cup in 2008–09 ^[2] before it was rebranded as the UEFA Europa League (or UEL for short). ^[3] They were also runners-up of the 1993 European Super Cup.

Currently, they still play in Bundesliga as of 2025. Nonetheless, they haven't been playing in any UEFA-organised competition since the 2010–11 season, when they last competed in UEFA Champions League, reaching the group stage respectively.

Overall statistics in UEFA competitions

Competition	P	W	D	L
UEFA Champions League	66	27	14	25	[4]
UEFA Europa League	99	46	24	29
UEFA Super Cup	2	0	1	1
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	21	11	3	7
UEFA Intertoto Cup	22	14	4	4

UEFA record

In the table below are depicted SV Werder Bremen's historical results in European football by UEFA competition, according to their competitive history in the passing of time. ^{[5] [6]}

Season	Competition	Round	Opponents	Home	Away	Aggregate
1961–62	European Cup Winners' Cup	First round	Aarhus	2–0	3–2	5–2
		Quarter-finals	Atlético Madrid	1–1	1–3	2–4
1965–66	European Cup	Preliminary round	APOEL	5–0	5–0	10–0
		First round	Partizan	0–3	1–0	1–3
1982–83	UEFA Cup	First round	Vorwärts Frankfurt	2–0	1–3	3–3(a)
		Second round	Brage	2–0	6–2	8–2
		Third round	Dundee United	1–1	1–2	2–3
1983–84	UEFA Cup	First round	Malmö	1–1	2–1	3–2
		Second round	Lokomotive Leipzig	0–1	1–1	1–2
1984–85	UEFA Cup	First round	Anderlecht	0–1	2–1	2–2(a)
1985–86	UEFA Cup	First round	Chornomorets	1–2	3–2	4–4(a)
1986–87	UEFA Cup	First round	Atlético	0–2	2–1 (a.e.t.)	2–3
1987–88	UEFA Cup	First round	Mjøndalen	5–0	0–1	5–1
		Second round	Spartak	1–4	6–2 (a.e.t.)	7–6
		Third round	Dinamo Tbilisi	2–1	1–1	3–2
		Quarter-finals	Hellas	1–1	1–0	2–1
		Semi-finals	Bayer Leverkusen	0–0	0–1	0–1
1988–89	European Cup	First round	Berliner FC Dynamo	5–0	0–3	5–3
		Second round	Celtic	1–0	0–0	1–0
		Quarter-finals	Milan	0–0	0–1	0–1
1989–90	UEFA Cup	First round	Lillestrøm SK	2–0	3–1	5–1
		Second round	Austria Vienna	5–0	0–2	5–2
		Third round	Napoli	5–1	3–2	8–3
		Quarter-finals	RFC Liège	0–2	4–1	4–3
		Semi-finals	Fiorentina	1–1	0–0	1–1(a)
1991–92	European Cup Winners' Cup	First round	Bacău	5–0	6–0	11–0
		Second round	Ferencváros	3–2	1–2	4–2
		Quarter-finals	Galatasaray	2–1	0–0	2–1
		Semi-finals	Brugge	2–0	0–1	2–1
		Final	Monaco	2–0	—	Winners
1992–93	Super Cup	Final	Barcelona	1–1	1–2	2–3
1992–93	European Cup Winners' Cup	First round	Hannover 96	3–1	1–2	4–3
		Second round	Sparta	2–3	0–1	2–4
1993–94	UEFA Champions League
		First round	Dinamo Minsk	5–2	1–1	6–3
		Second round	Levski	1–0	2–2	3–2
		Group B
			Milan	1–1	1–2	3rd place
			Anderlecht	5–3	2–1
			Porto	0–5	2–3
1994–95	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
		First round	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–0	0–0	2–0
		Second round	Feyenoord	3–4	0–1	3–5
1995–96	UEFA Cup
		First round	Glenavon	5–0	2–0	7–0
		Second round	Dinamo Minsk	5–0	1–2	6–2
		Third round	PSV	0–0	1–2	1–2
1998–99	UEFA Cup
		First round	Brann	4–0 ( a.e.t. )	0–2	4–2
		Second round	Marseille	1–1	2–3	3–4
1999–2000	UEFA Cup
		First round	Bodø/Glimt	1–1	5–0	6–1
		Second round	Viking	0–0	2–2 (a)	2–2
		Third round	Lyon	4–0	0–3	4–3
		Fourth round	Parma	3–1	0–1	3–2
		Quarter-finals	Arsenal	2–4	0–2	2–6
2000–01	UEFA Cup
		First round	Antalyaspor	6–0	0–2	6–2
		Second round	Genk	4–1	5–2	9–3
		Third round	Bordeaux	0–0	1–4	0–4
2002–03	UEFA Cup
		First round	Metalurh Donetsk	8–0	2–2	10–2
		Second round	Vitesse	3–3	1–2	4–5
2004–05	UEFA Champions League	Group G	Internazionale	1–1	0–2	2nd place
			Valencia	2–1	2–0
			Anderlecht	5–1	2–1
		Round of 16	Lyon	0–3	2–7	2–10
2005–06	UEFA Champions League	Third qualifying round	Basel	3–0	1–2	4–2
		Group C	Barcelona	0–2	1–3	2nd place
			Udinese	4–3	1–1
			Panathinaikos	5–1	1–2
		Round of 16	Juventus	3–2	1–2	4–4(a)
2006–07	UEFA Champions League
		Group A	Barcelona	1–1	0–2	3rd place
			Chelsea	1–0	0–2
			Levski	2–0	3–0
	UEFA Cup	Round of 32	Ajax	3–0	1–3	4–3
		Round of 16	Celta Vigo	1–0	2–0	3–0
		Quarter-finals	AZ Alkmaar	0–0	4–1	4–1
		Semi-finals	Espanyol	0–3	1–2	1–5

Notes

1. Runners-up in 2009
2. Runners-up in 1992

References

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