1996–97 UEFA Champions League qualifying round

The 1996–97 UEFA Champions League featured 24 teams, with eight teams (the league champions from the seven top-ranked nations in the UEFA country coefficient table, plus the defending champions from 1995–96) qualifying automatically for the group stage and the remaining 16 (the league champions of the nations ranked 8–23 in the country 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 Israel 1–2 Turkey Fenerbahçe 0–1 1–1
Rangers Scotland 10–3 Russia Alania Vladikavkaz 3–1 7–2
Panathinaikos Greece 1–3 Norway Rosenborg 1–0 0–3(aet)
IFK Göteborg Sweden 4–1 Hungary Ferencváros 3–0 1–1
Widzew Łódź Poland 4–4 (a) Denmark Brøndby 2–1 2–3
Grasshopper Switzerland 6–0 Czech Republic Slavia Prague 5–0 1–0
Club Brugge Belgium 2–5 Romania Steaua București 2–2 0–3
Rapid Wien Austria 6–2 Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv 2–0 4–2

First leg

7 August 1996
20:00
Rangers Scotland 3–1 Russia Alania Vladikavkaz
McInnes  51'
McCoist  60'
Petrić  77' 		Report Yanovskiy  29'
Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)

7 August 1996
21:15
Panathinaikos Greece 1–0 Norway Rosenborg
Warzycha  19' Report
Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, Athens
Attendance: 33,095
Referee: Michel Piraux (Belgium)

7 August 1996
19:00
IFK Göteborg Sweden 3–0 Hungary Ferencváros
Blomqvist  37'
Pettersson  49', 56' 		Report
Idrottsparken, Norrköping
Attendance: 5,513
Referee: Alain Sars (France)

7 August 1996
20:15
Widzew Łódź Poland 2–1 Denmark Brøndby
Dembiński  63'
Majak  73' 		Report Bjur  75'

7 August 1996
20:15
Grasshopper Switzerland 5–0 Czech Republic Slavia Prague
Türkyilmaz  11', 46'
Esposito  43'
Moldovan  57'
Koller  89' 		Report
Hardturm, Zürich
Attendance: 9,300
Referee: Jorge Monteiro Coroado (Portugal)

7 August 1996
20:00
Club Brugge Belgium 2–2 Romania Steaua București
Nielsen  27'
Špehar  54' 		Report Ilie  45', 62'
Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges
Attendance: 10,755
Referee: Rune Pedersen (Norway)

7 August 1996
20:30
Rapid Wien Austria 2–0 Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv
Stumpf  7'
Guggi  89' 		Report
Gerhard Hanappi Stadium, Vienna
Attendance: 29,500
Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)

Second leg

21 August 1996
20:00
Fenerbahçe Turkey 1–1 Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv
Okocha  19' Report Driks  75'

Fenerbahçe won 2–1 on aggregate.

21 August 1996
20:00
Alania Vladikavkaz Russia 2–7 Scotland Rangers
Yanovskiy  14'
Suleymanov  24' (pen.) 		Report McCoist  1', 13', 18'
Van Vossen  40'
Laudrup  56', 83'
Miller  87'

Rangers won 10–3 on aggregate.

21 August 1996
19:30
Rosenborg Norway 3–0 (a.e.t.) Greece Panathinaikos
Strand  63'
Iversen  94'
Heggem  97' 		Report
Lerkendal Stadion, Trondheim
Attendance: 21,500
Referee: Paul Durkin (Scotland)

Rosenborg won 3–1 on aggregate.

IFK Göteborg won 4–1 on aggregate.

21 August 1996
20:05
Brøndby Denmark 3–2 Poland Widzew Łódź
Möller  31'
Bjur  44'
Vilfort  47' 		Report Citko  56'
Wojtala  88'
Brøndby Stadium, Brøndby
Attendance: 10,400
Referee: Ahmet Çakar (Turkey)

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

Grasshopper won 6–0 on aggregate.

21 August 1996
21:00
Steaua București Romania 3–0 Belgium Club Brugge
Ilie  32', 44'
Nagy  55' 		Report
Ghencea Stadium, Bucharest
Attendance: 10,912
Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)

Steaua București won 5–2 on aggregate.

21 August 1996
19:00
Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine 2–4 Austria Rapid Wien
Kalitvintsev  6'
Maksymov  77' 		Report Ivanov  23', 42'
Kühbauer  32'
Holovko  62' (o.g.)
NSK Olimpiyskyi, Kiev
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Serge Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)

Rapid Wien won 6–2 on aggregate.

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