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The 1996–97 UEFA Champions League featured 24 teams, with eight teams (the seven top-ranked league champions in the UEFA clubs coefficient table, plus the defending champions from 1995–96) qualifying automatically for the group stage and the remaining 16 (the league champions ranked 8–23 in the 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.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maccabi Tel Aviv |
1–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | |
| Rangers |
10–3 | 3–1 | 7–2 | |
| Panathinaikos |
1–3 | 1–0 | 0–3 (aet) | |
| IFK Göteborg |
4–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 | |
| Widzew Łódź |
4–4 (a) | 2–1 | 2–3 | |
| Grasshopper |
6–0 | 5–0 | 1–0 | |
| Club Brugge |
2–5 | 2–2 | 0–3 | |
| Rapid Wien |
6–2 | 2–0 | 4–2 |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 0–1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Kemalettin |
| Fenerbahçe | 1–1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Okocha |
Report | Driks |
Fenerbahçe won 2–1 on aggregate.
| Alania Vladikavkaz | 2–7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Yanovsky Suleymanov |
Report | McCoist Van Vossen Laudrup Miller |
Rangers won 10–3 on aggregate.
| Panathinaikos | 1–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Warzycha |
Report |
Rosenborg won 3–1 on aggregate.
| IFK Göteborg | 3–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Blomqvist Pettersson |
Report |
| Ferencváros | 1–1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Horváth |
Report | A. Andersson |
IFK Göteborg won 4–1 on aggregate.
4–4 on aggregate; Widzew Łódź won on away goals.
| Grasshopper | 5–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Türkyilmaz Esposito Moldovan Koller |
Report |
| Slavia Prague | 0–1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Türkyilmaz |
Grasshopper won 6–0 on aggregate.
| Club Brugge | 2–2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Nielsen Špehar |
Report | A. Ilie |
| Steaua București | 3–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| A. Ilie Nagy |
Report |
Steaua București won 5–2 on aggregate.
| Rapid Wien | 2–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Stumpf Guggi |
Report |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 2–4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Kalitvintsev Maksymov |
Report | Ivanov Kühbauer Holovko |
Rapid Wien won 6–2 on aggregate.