| Winners | Runners-up | |||||
| Played as two-leg final until 1997. | ||||||
| 1972 | Tottenham Hotspur | 3 | v | 2 | Wolverhampton W | (2-1, 1-1) |
| 1973 | Liverpool | 3 | v | 2 | Moenchengladbach | (3-0, 0-2) |
| 1974 | Feyenoord | 4 | v | 2 | Tottenham Hotspur | (2-2, 2-0) |
| 1975 | Moenchengladbach | 5 | v | 1 | Twente | (0-0, 5-1) |
| 1976 | Liverpool | 4 | v | 3 | FC Brugge | (3-2, 1-1) |
| 1977 | Juventus | 2 | v | 2 | Athletico Bilbao | (1-0, 1-2) Won away goals |
| 1978 | PSV Eindhoven | 3 | v | 0 | Bastia | (0-0, 3-0) |
| 1979 | Moenchengladbach | 2 | v | 1 | Red Star Belgrade | (1-1, 1-0) |
| 1980 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 3 | v | 3 | Moenchengladbach | (2-3, 1-0) Won away goals |
| 1981 | Ipswich Town | 5 | v | 4 | Alkmaar | (3-0, 2-4) |
| 1982 | Gothenburg | 4 | v | 0 | Hamburg | (1-0, 3-0) |
| 1983 | Anderlecht | 2 | v | 1 | Benfica | (1-0, 1-1) |
| 1984 | Tottenham Hotspur | 2 | v | 2 | Anderlecht | (1-1, 1-1) Won 4-3 pens aet |
| 1985 | Real Madrid | 3 | v | 1 | Videoton | (3-0, 0-1) |
| 1986 | Real Madrid | 5 | v | 3 | Cologne | (5-1, 0-2) |
| 1987 | Gothenburg | 2 | v | 1 | Dundee United | (1-0, 1-1) |
| 1988 | Bayer Leverkusen | 3 | v | 3 | Espanyol | (0-3, 3-0) Won 3-2 pens aet |
| 1989 | Napoli | 5 | v | 4 | Stuttgart | (2-1, 3-3) |
| 1990 | Juventus | 3 | v | 1 | Fiorentina | (3-1, 0-0) |
| 1991 | Inter Milan | 2 | v | 1 | AS Roma | (2-0, 0-1) |
| 1992 | Ajax | 2 | v | 2 | Torino | (2-2, 0-0) Won away goals |
| 1993 | Juventus | 6 | v | 1 | Borussia Dortmund | (3-1, 3-0) |
| 1994 | Inter Milan | 2 | v | 0 | Salzburg | (1-0, 1-0) |
| 1995 | Parma | 2 | v | 1 | Juventus | (1-0, 1-1) |
| 1996 | Bayern Munich | 5 | v | 1 | Bordeaux | (2-0, 3-1) |
| 1997 | Schalke 04 | 1 | v | 1 | Inter Milan | (1-0, 0-1) Won 4-1 pens aet |
| 1998 | Inter Milan | 3 | v | 0 | Lazio | |
| 1999 | Parma | 3 | v | 0 | Marseille | |
| 2000 | Galatasaray | 0 | v | 0 | Arsenal | aet, Gala 4-1 pens |
| 2001 | Liverpool | 5 | v | 4 | Alaves | sudden death |
| 2002 | Feyenoord | 3 | v | 2 | Borussia Dortmund | |
| 2003 | FC Porto | 3 | v | 2 | Celtic | aet |
| 2004 | Valencia | 2 | v | 0 | Marseille | |
| 2005 | CSKA Moscow | 3 | v | 1 | Sporting Lisbon | |