Heart of Midlothian F.C. in European football

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. In total, Hearts have appeared in 22 European competitions, with 16 of these coming in the past 29 years.^{[note 3]}

Statistics

Results

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

Season	Competition	Round	Opposition	Score
				First Leg	Second Leg	Aggregate
1958–59	European Cup	Preliminary Round	Standard Liège	1–5	2–1	3–6
1960–61	European Cup	Preliminary Round	Benfica	1–2	0–3	1–5
1961–62	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	First Round	Saint–Gilloise	3–1	2–0	5–1
		Second Round	Inter Milan	0–1	0–4	0–5
1963–64	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	First Round	Lausanne–Sport	2–2	2–2	4–4[note 4]
1965–66	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup	Second Round	Vålerenga	1–0	3–1	4–1
		Third Round	Real Zaragoza	3–3	2–2	5–5[note 5]
1976–77	European Cup Winners' Cup	First Round	Lokomotive Leipzig	0–2	5–1	5–3
		Second Round	Hamburg	2–4	1–4	3–8
1984–85	UEFA Cup	First Round	Paris Saint–Germain	0–4	2–2	2–6
1986–87	UEFA Cup	First Round	Dukla Prague	3–2	0–1	3–3[note 6]
1988–89	UEFA Cup	First Round	St. Patrick's Athletic	2–0	2–0	4–0
		Second Round	Austria Vienna	0–0	1–0	1–0
		Third Round	Velež Mostar	3–0	1–2	4–2
		Quarter–Final	Bayern Munich	1–0	0–2	1–2
1990–91	UEFA Cup	First Round	Dnipro	1–1	3–2	4–2
		Second Round	Bologna	3–1	0–3	3–4
1992–93	UEFA Cup	First Round	Slavia Prague	0–1	4–2	4–3
		Second Round	Standard Liège	0–1	0–1	0–2
1993–94	UEFA Cup	First Round	Atlético Madrid	2–1	0–3	2–4
1996–97	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Qualifying Round	Red Star Belgrade	0–0	1–1	1–1[note 7]
1998–99	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Qualifying Round	Lantana Tallinn	1–0	5–0	6–0
		First Round	Real Mallorca	0–1	1–1	1–2
2000–01	UEFA Cup	Qualifying Round	ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar	2–0	3–0	5–0
		First Round	Stuttgart	0–1	3–2	3–3[note 8]
2003–04	UEFA Cup	First Round	Željezničar Sarajevo	2–0	0–0	2–0
		Second Round	Bordeaux	1–0	0–2	1–2
2004–05	UEFA Cup	First Round	Braga	3–1	2–2	5–3
		Group Stage	Feyenoord	0–3 (away)
			Schalke 04	0–1 (home)
			Basel	2–1 (away)
			Ferencváros	0–1 (home)
2006–07	UEFA Champions League	Second Qualifying Round	Široki Brijeg	3–0	0–0	3–0
		Third Qualifying Round	AEK Athens	1–2	0–3	1–5
2006–07	UEFA Cup	First Round	Sparta Prague	0–2	0–0	0–2
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	Play–Off Round	Dinamo Zagreb	0–4	2–0	2–4
2011–12	UEFA Europa League	Third Qualifying Round	Paks	1–1	4–1	5–2
		Play–Off Round	Tottenham Hotspur	0–5	0–0	0–5
2012–13	UEFA Europa League	Play–Off Round	Liverpool	0–1	1–1	1–2
2016–17	UEFA Europa League	First Qualifying Round	Infonet Tallinn	2–1	4–2	6–3
		Second Qualifying Round	Birkirkara	0–0	1–2	1–2

By Competition

Most Appearances # Name Career Apps 1 Steven Pressley 1998–2006 22 Henry Smith 1981–1996 22 3 Gary Mackay 1980–1997 21 4 John Colquhoun 1985–1991 1993–1997 18 5 Robbie Neilson 1999–2009 16 John Cumming 1950–1967 16 7 Dave McPherson 1987–1992 1994–1999 15 John Robertson 1981–1988 1988–1998 15 Craig Levein 1983–1997 15 Eamonn Bannon 1976–1979 1988–1993 15

Top Goalscorers # Name Career Goals 1 John Robertson 1981–1988 1988–1998 7 2 Mike Galloway 1987–1989 5 Willie Wallace 1961–1966 5 4 Mark de Vries 2002–2005 4 Wayne Foster 1986–1994 4

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