Collapse in the UEFA Cup final: 1. FC Köln reached a European semi-final eight times, but only in 1986 did they make a final - and it became a mega-disappointment. The Rhinelanders lost the first leg of the UEFA Cup final 5-1 at Real Madrid, too much to recover from. After crowd trouble in the semi-final in Waregem, they had to stage the return leg at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium.
The atmosphere stayed firmly seated under its own backside: only 16,185 spectators drifted into the vast bowl. Köln won 2-0, but it was nowhere near enough. “It didn’t feel like a final,” striker Klaus Allofs told the tabloid Express afterwards.