Heart of Midlothian F.C. in European football

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Heart of Midlothian F.C. in European football
Steven Pressley, who holds the appearance record for Hearts in European matches
ClubHeart of Midlothian F.C.
Seasons played24
First entry1958–59 European Cup
Latest entry2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League
Titles
Champions League0 (Best: Preliminary rounds)
Europa League0 (Best: Quarter-final)
Cup Winners' Cup0 (Best: Second round)
Europa Conference League0 (Best: Group stage)

Heart of Midlothian F.C. played their first official match in competitive European football on 3 September 1958. This made the club only the third Scottish and fifth British team to compete in Europe at the time. Hearts have been beaten on two occasions by the club who would go on to win the competition[note 1] and have also lost twice to the eventual runners–up.[note 2]

Hearts' best showing in European competition was in the 1988–89 UEFA Cup, where they reached the quarter–finals and narrowly lost 2–1 on aggregate to German giants Bayern Munich. Since then, Hearts became both the first–ever Scottish club and the first–ever British club to reach the new group stage format of the 2004–05 UEFA Cup (now the UEFA Europa League). They also qualified for the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League, becoming the first non Old Firm team in Scotland to do so since the tournament changed from the European Cup to the Champions League.

The club has an unfortunate record of having never progressed through a tie which has finished level on aggregate after two legs. They lost play–off matches by a single goal to Lausanne–Sport in the 1963–64 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and to eventual runners–up Real Zaragoza in the 1965–66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, and they lost due to the away goals rule against Dukla Prague, Red Star Belgrade and Stuttgart in the 1986–87 UEFA Cup, 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, and 2000–01 UEFA Cup respectively.

Steven Pressley and Henry Smith jointly hold the record for playing in the most European matches for Hearts with 22 appearances each, and John Robertson is the club's top scorer with seven goals.

Statistics[edit]

Results[edit]

Note: In all cases the Hearts score is listed first.[1]

List of Hearts games in European competitions
Season Competition Round Opponent Home Away Other Agg. [a] Notes Ref
1958–59 European Cup PR Belgium Standard Liège 2–1 1–5 — 3–6 —
1960–61 European Cup PR Portugal Benfica 1–2 0–3 1–5
1961–62 Fairs Cup R1 Belgium Saint–Gilloise 2–0 3–1 5–1
R2 Italy Inter Milan 0–1 0–4 0–5
1963–64 Fairs Cup R1 Switzerland Lausanne–Sport 2–2 2–2 2–3 6–7 Playoff
1965–66 Fairs Cup R2 Norway Vålerenga 1–0 3–1 — 4–1 —
R3 Spain Real Zaragoza 3–3 2–2 0–1 5–6 Playoff
1976–77 Cup Winners' Cup R1 East Germany Lokomotive Leipzig 5–1 0–2 — 5–3 —
R2 West Germany Hamburg 1–4 2–4 3–8
1984–85 UEFA Cup R1 France Paris Saint–Germain 2–2 0–4 2–6
1986–87 UEFA Cup R1 Czechoslovakia Dukla Prague 3–2 0–1 3–3 Away goals
1988–89 UEFA Cup R1 Republic of Ireland St. Patrick's Athletic 2–0 2–0 4–0 —
R2 Austria Austria Vienna 0–0 1–0 1–0
R3 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Velež Mostar 3–0 1–2 4–2
QF West Germany Bayern Munich 1–0 0–2 1–2
1990–91 UEFA Cup R1 Soviet Union Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 3–1 1–1 4–2
R2 Italy Bologna 3–1 0–3 3–4
1992–93 UEFA Cup R1 Czechoslovakia Slavia Prague 4–2 0–1 4–3
R2 Belgium Standard Liège 0–1 0–1 0–2
1993–94 UEFA Cup R1 Spain Atlético Madrid 2–1 0–3 2–4
1996–97 Cup Winners' Cup QR Serbia and Montenegro Red Star Belgrade 1–1 0–0 1–1 Away goals
1998–99 Cup Winners' Cup QR Estonia Lantana Tallinn 5–0 1–0 6–0 —
R1 Spain Real Mallorca 0–1 1–1 1–2
2000–01 UEFA Cup QR Iceland ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar 3–0 2–0 5–0
R1 Germany Stuttgart 3–2 0–1 3–3 Away goals
2003–04 UEFA Cup R1 Bosnia and Herzegovina Zeljeznicar 2–0 0–0 2–0 —
R2 France Bordeaux 0–2 1–0 1–2
2004–05 UEFA Cup R1 Portugal Braga 3–1 2–2 5–3
Group A Netherlands Feyenoord — 0–3 5th
Germany Schalke 04 0–1 —
Switzerland Basel — 2–1
Hungary Ferencváros 0–1 —
2006–07 Champions League QR2 Bosnia and Herzegovina Široki Brijeg 3–0 0–0 3–0
QR3 Greece AEK Athens 1–2 0–3 1–5
UEFA Cup R1 Czech Republic Sparta Prague 0–2 0–0 0–2
2009–10 Europa League PO Croatia Dinamo Zagreb 2–0 0–4 2–4
2011–12 Europa League QR3 Hungary Paks 4–1 1–1 5–2
PO England Tottenham Hotspur 0–5 0–0 0–5
2012–13 Europa League PO England Liverpool 0–1 1–1 1–2
2016–17 Europa League QR1 Estonia Infonet Tallinn 2–1 4–2 6–3
QR2 Malta Birkirkara 1–2 0–0 1–2
2022–23 Europa League PO Switzerland Zürich 0–1 1–2 1–3
Europa Conference League Group A Italy Fiorentina 0–3 1–5 3rd
Turkey İstanbul Başakşehir 0–4 1–3
Latvia RFS 2–1 2–0
2023–24 Europa Conference League QR3 Norway Rosenborg 3–1 1–2 4–3
PO Greece PAOK 1–2 0–4 1–6

By Competition[edit]

Competition Pld W D L GF GA GD
UEFA Champions League 4 1 1 2 4 5 −1
European Cup 4 1 0 3 4 11 −7
UEFA Europa League 13 4 4 5 16 20 −4
UEFA Europa Conference League 10 3 0 7 11 25 –14
UEFA Cup 38 17 6 15 46 44 +2
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 6 2 3 1 8 3 +5
European Cup Winners' Cup 4 1 0 3 8 11 −3
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 12 4 4 4 20 20 0
Total 91 33 18 40 117 139 −22

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Round or group progressed () or eliminated ()
  1. ^ Benfica in the 1960–61 European Cup and Hamburg in the 1976–77 European Cup Winners' Cup.
  2. ^ Real Zaragoza in the 1965–66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and Real Mallorca in the 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Hearts European Results". London Hearts Supporters Club. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
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