Royal Antwerp F.C. in European football

Royal Antwerp Football Club, often simply referred to as R. Antwerp or simply Antwerp, is an association football club from Antwerp, Belgium. The team has participated in sixteen seasons of Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) club competitions, including one season in the European Cup, fourteen seasons in the Inter Cities Fairs Cup, UEFA Cup and Europa League, one season in the Cup Winners' Cup. [1] The club's first appearance was in the 1957–58 European Cup. Since then, the club has participated in various seasons of the UEFA club competitions, with various success. Their best performance was reaching the final of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1993, where Antwerp lost 3–1 to Italian side Parma.

Total statistics

As of home match with Barcelona.

Competition	S	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
European Cup / UEFA Champions League	1	6	1	0	5	6	17	−11
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League	15	63	21	12	30	83	102	−19
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1	9	2	4	3	12	11	+1
Total	17	78	24	16	38	101	130	–29

Statistics by country

As of 13 December 2023.

Country	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Austria	6	2	0	3	11	9	+2
Bulgaria	4	3	1	0	9	5	+4
Cyprus	2	1	0	1	4	4	0
Czech Republic	2	1	0	1	2	2	0
England	6	3	0	3	8	13	–5
France	2	0	1	1	4	5	–1
Germany	10	2	3	5	10	14	–4
Greece	4	3	0	1	5	3	+2
Hungary	2	0	1	1	1	3	–2
Italy	1	0	0	1	0	1	–1
Kosovo	2	1	1	0	2	0	+2
Luxembourg	2	2	0	0	2	0	+2
Netherlands	4	1	1	2	4	7	–3
Norway	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4
Poland	2	0	1	1	2	3	–1
Portugal	4	1	1	2	5	8	–3
Romania	2	0	2	0	1	1	0
Russia	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1
Scotland	6	1	1	4	13	20	–7
Spain	8	2	0	6	6	21	–15
Switzerland	2	2	0	0	8	3	+5
Northern Ireland	4	1	3	0	6	5	+1
Turkey	6	0	3	3	5	9	–4
Ukraine	2	0	0	2	2	4	–2
Total	85	27	18	41	111	142	–31

Matches

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1957–58	European Cup	1R	Real Madrid	1–2	0–6	1–8
1964–65	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	1R	Hertha BSC	2–0	1–2	3–2
		2R	Athletic Bilbao	0–1	0–2	0–3
1965–66	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	1R	Glentoran	1–0	3–3	4–3
		2R	Barcelona	2–1	0–2	2–3
1966–67	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	1R	Union Luxembourg	1–0	1–0	2–0
		2R	Kilmarnock	0–1	2–7	2–8
1967–68	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	1R	Göztepe Izmir	1–2	0–0	1–2
1974–75	UEFA Cup	1R	Sturm Graz	1–0	1–2	2–2 (a)
		2R	Ajax	2–1	0–1	2–2 (a)
1975–76	UEFA Cup	1R	Aston Villa	4–1	1–0	5–1
		2R	Śląsk Wrocław	1–1	1–2	2–3
1983–84	UEFA Cup	1R	Zürich	4–2	4–1	8–3
		2R	Lens	2–3	2–2	4–5
1988–89	UEFA Cup	1R	1. FC Köln	2–4	1–2	3–6
1989–90	UEFA Cup	1R	Levski Sofia	4–3	0–0	4–3
		2R	Dundee United	4–0	2–3	6–3
		3R	VfB Stuttgart	1–0	1–1	2–1
		QF	1. FC Köln	0–0	0–2	0–2
1990–91	UEFA Cup	1R	Ferencváros	0–0	1–3	1–3
1992–93	European Cup Winners' Cup	1R	Glenavon	1–1	1–1	1–1
		2R	Admira Wacker	3–4	4–2	7–6
		QF	Steaua București	0–0	1–1	1–1 (a)
		SF	Spartak Moscow	3–1	0–1	3–2
		F	Parma	1–3
1993–94	UEFA Cup	1R	Marítimo	2–0	2–2	4–2
		2R	Austria Salzburg	0–1	0–1	0–2
1994–95	UEFA Cup	1R	Newcastle United	0–5	2–5	2–10
2019–20	UEFA Europa League	3Q	Viktoria Plzeň	1–0	1–2	2–2
		PO	AZ	1–1	1–4	2–5
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	Group J	Tottenham Hotspur	1–0	0–2	2nd
			LASK	0–1	2–0
			Ludogorets Razgrad	3–1	2–1
		R32	Rangers	3–4	2–5	5–9
2021–22	UEFA Europa League	PO	Omonia	2–0 (a.e.t.)	2–4	4–4 (3–2 p)
		Group D	Olympiacos	1–0	1–2	4th
			Eintracht Frankfurt	0–1	2–2
			Fenerbahçe	0–3	2–2
2022–23	UEFA Europa Conference League	2Q	Drita	0−0	2–0	2–0
		3Q	Lillestrøm	2–0	3–1	5–1
		PO	İstanbul Başakşehir	1–3	1−1	2–4
2023–24	UEFA Champions League	PO	AEK Athens	1–0	2–1	3–1
		Group H	Barcelona	3–2	0–5	4th
			Shakhtar Donetsk	2–3	0–1
			Porto	1–4	0–2

Summary of best results

From the quarter-finals upwards:

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1):

• Runners-up in 1993.

UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League:

• Quarter-finalists in 1990.

References

1. "Royal Antwerp". Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 21 October 2020.