Dundee United Football Club is a Scottish association football club based in the city of Dundee. The club's first ever tie in European competition was in the 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup where they knocked out holders Barcelona in the Second round winning both legs in the process before losing in the following round to Italian giants Juventus despite winning the home leg 1–0. They had their best spell in the 1980s, reaching the semi-final of the European Cup in 1984 and the final of the UEFA Cup in 1987,^[1][2] also reaching the quarter-final stage of the latter in both 1982 and 1983. In total they have won 46 games in European competition, currently more than any Scottish club outside the Old Firm and Aberdeen.^[3]

Following a 10 year absence from European matches, Dundee United qualified for the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League third qualifying round, culminating in a 7–1 aggregate loss to AZ Alkmaar, matching the record greatest loss inflicted on a Scottish Club in a European competition.^[4]

List of Dundee United games in European competitions[5]
Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Agg.	Notes	Ref
1966–67	Fairs Cup	2R	Barcelona	2–0	2–1	4–1	—
		3R	Juventus	1–0	0–3	1–3
1969–70	Fairs Cup	R1	Newcastle United	1–2	0–1	1–3
1970–71	Fairs Cup	R1	Grasshoppers	3–2	0–0	3–2
		R2	Sparta Prague	1–0	1–3	2–3
1974–75	Cup Winners' Cup	R1	Jiul Petroşani	3–0	0–2	3–2
		R2	Bursaspor	0–0	0–1	0–1
1975–76	UEFA Cup	R1	Keflavík	4–0	2–0	6–0
		R2	Porto	1–2	1–1	2–3
1977–78	UEFA Cup	R1	KB Copenhagen	1–0	0–3	1–3
1978–79	UEFA Cup	R1	Standard Liège	0–0	0–1	0–1
1979–80	UEFA Cup	R1	Anderlecht	0–0	1–1	1–1	Away goals
		R2	Diósgyőri	0–1	1–3	1–4	—
1980–81	UEFA Cup	R1	Śląsk Wrocław	7–2	0–0	7–2
		R2	Lokeren	1–1	0–0	1–1	Away goals
1981–82	UEFA Cup	R1	AS Monaco	1–2	5–2	6–4	—
		R2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	5–0	0–2	5–2
		R3	SV Winterslag	5–0	0–0	5–0
		QF	Radnički Niš	2–0	0–3	2–3
1982–83	UEFA Cup	R1	PSV Eindhoven	1–1	2–0	3–1
		R2	Viking Stavanger	0–0	3–1	3–1
		R3	Werder Bremen	2–1	1–1	3–2
		QF	Bohemians Prague	0–0	0–1	0–1
1983–84	European Cup	R1	Ħamrun Spartans	3–0	3–0	6–0
		R2	Standard Liège	4–0	0–0	4–0
		QF	Rapid Vienna	1–0	1–2	2–2	Away goals
		SF	Roma	2–0	0–3	2–3	—
1984–85	UEFA Cup	R1	AIK Stockholm	3–0	0–1	3–1
		R2	LASK Linz	5–1	2–1	7–2
		R3	Manchester United	2–3	2–2	4–5
1985–86	UEFA Cup	R1	Bohemians	2–2	5–2	7–4
		R2	Vardar Skopje	2–0	1–1	3–1
		R3	Neuchâtel Xamax	2–1	1–3	3–4	Extra time
1986–87	UEFA Cup	R1	Lens	2–0	0–1	2–1	—
		R2	Universitatea Craiova	3–0	0–1	3–1
		R3	Hajduk Split	2–0	0–0	2–0
		QF	Barcelona	1–0	2–1	3–1
		SF	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–0	2–0	2–0
		Final	IFK Göteborg	1–1	0–1	1–2
1987–88	UEFA Cup	R1	Coleraine	3–1	1–0	4–1
		R2	TJ Vítkovice	1–2	1–1	2–3
1988–89	Cup Winners' Cup	R1	Floriana	1–0	0–0	1–0
		R2	Dinamo Bucharest	0–1	1–1	1–2
1989–90	UEFA Cup	R1	Glentoran	2–0	3–1	5–1
		R2	Royal Antwerp	3–2	0–4	3–6
1990–91	UEFA Cup	R1	FH	2–2	3–1	5–3
		R2	Vitesse Arnhem	0–4	0–1	0–5
1993–94	UEFA Cup	R1	Brøndby IF	3–1	0–2	3–3	Away goals
1994–95	Cup Winners' Cup	R1	Tatran Prešov	3–2	1–3	4–5	—
1997–98	UEFA Cup	QR1	CE Principat	9–0	8–0	17–0
		QR2	Trabzonspor	1–1	0–1	1–2
2005–06	UEFA Cup	QR2	MyPa-47	2–2	0–0	2–2	Away goals
2010–11	Europa League	PO	AEK Athens	0–1	1–1	1–2	—
2011–12	Europa League	QR2	Śląsk Wrocław	3–2	0–1	3–3	Away goals
2012–13	Europa League	QR3	Dynamo Moscow	2–2	0–5	2–7	—
2022–23	Europa Conference League	QR3	AZ	1–0	0–7	1–7	—

^[5][6]

Country	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win%	Ref
Andorra	2	2	0	0	17	0	+17	100.00
Austria	4	3	0	1	9	4	+5	075.00
Belgium	12	3	7	2	14	9	+5	025.00
Czechoslovakia	6	1	2	3	4	7	−3	016.67
Denmark	4	2	0	2	4	6	−2	050.00
England	4	0	1	3	5	8	−3	000.00
Finland	2	0	2	0	2	2	+0	000.00
France	4	2	0	2	8	5	+3	050.00
Greece	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	000.00
Hungary	2	0	0	2	1	4	−3	000.00
Iceland	4	3	1	0	11	3	+8	075.00
Ireland	2	1	1	0	7	4	+3	050.00
Italy	4	2	0	2	3	6	−3	050.00
Malta	4	3	1	0	7	0	+7	075.00
Netherlands	6	2	1	3	4	13	−9	033.33
Northern Ireland	4	4	0	0	9	2	+7	100.00
Norway	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2	050.00
Poland	4	2	1	1	10	5	+5	050.00
Portugal	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	000.00
Romania	6	2	1	3	7	5	+2	033.33
Russia	2	0	1	1	2	7	−5	000.00
Slovakia	2	1	0	1	4	5	−1	050.00
Spain	4	4	0	0	7	2	+5	100.00
Sweden	4	1	1	2	4	3	+1	025.00
Switzerland	4	2	1	1	6	6	+0	050.00
Turkey	4	0	2	2	1	3	−2	000.00
West Germany	6	3	2	1	10	4	+6	050.00
Yugoslavia	6	3	2	1	7	4	+3	050.00

Appearances[7] Name      Career      Apps 1 David Narey 1973–1994 76 2 Paul Hegarty 1974–1990 68 3 Paul Sturrock 1974–1989 60 Maurice Malpas 1979–2000 60 5 Hamish McAlpine 1966–1986 52 6 Eamonn Bannon 1979–1988 51 7 Billy Kirkwood 1976–1986 44 8 John Holt 1973–1987 43 9 Ralph Milne 1979–1987 41 10 Davie Dodds 1975–1986 40

Top goalscorers[8] Name      Career      Goals 1 Ralph Milne 1979–1987 15 2 Paul Hegarty 1974–1990 12 3 Davie Dodds 1975–1986 11 Paul Sturrock 1974–1989 11 5 John Clark 1981–1994 9 6 Eamonn Bannon 1979–1988 8 7 Ian Redford 1985–1988 7 8 Dave Narey 1973–1994 6 Robbie Winters 1992–1998 6 Gary McSwegan 1995–1998 6