Heart of Midlothian F.C. in European football

Scottish club in European football

Heart of Midlothian F.C. in European football

Steven Pressley, who holds the appearance record for Hearts in European matches

Club| Heart of Midlothian F.C.
Seasons played| 25
First entry| 1958–59 European Cup
Latest entry| 2024–25 UEFA Conference League
Titles
Champions League| 0 (Best: Preliminary rounds)
Europa League| 0 (Best: Quarter-final)
Cup Winners' Cup| 0 (Best: Second round)
Conference League| 0 (Best: Group stage)

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.

## Statistics

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### Results

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

List of Hearts games in European competitions

Season  | Competition  | Round  | Opponent  | Home  | Away  | Other  | Agg. | [a] | Notes
1958–59 | European Cup | PR |  Standard Liège | 2–1  | 1–5  | —  | 3–6  |  | —
1960–61 | European Cup | PR |  Benfica | 1–2  | 0–3  | 1–5  |
1961–62 | Fairs Cup | R1 |  Union Saint–Gilloise | 2–0  | 3–1  | 5–1  |
R2 |  Inter Milan | 0–1  | 0–4  | 0–5  |
1963–64 | Fairs Cup | R1 |  Lausanne–Sport | 2–2  | 2–2  | 2–3  | 6–7  |  | Playoff
1965–66 | Fairs Cup | R2 |  Vålerenga | 1–0  | 3–1  | —  | 4–1  |  | —
R3 |  Real Zaragoza | 3–3  | 2–2  | 0–1  | 5–6  |  | Playoff
1976–77 | Cup Winners' Cup | R1 |  Lokomotive Leipzig | 5–1  | 0–2  | —  | 5–3  |  | —
R2 |  Hamburg | 1–4  | 2–4  | 3–8  |
1984–85 | UEFA Cup | R1 |  Paris Saint–Germain | 2–2  | 0–4  | 2–6  |
1986–87 | UEFA Cup | R1 |  Dukla Prague | 3–2  | 0–1  | 3–3  |  | Away goals
1988–89 | UEFA Cup | R1 |  St. Patrick's Athletic | 2–0  | 2–0  | 4–0  |  | —
R2 |  Austria Vienna | 0–0  | 1–0  | 1–0  |
R3 |  Velež Mostar | 3–0  | 1–2  | 4–2  |
QF |  Bayern Munich | 1–0  | 0–2  | 1–2  |
1990–91 | UEFA Cup | R1 |  Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 3–1  | 1–1  | 4–2  |
R2 |  Bologna | 3–1  | 0–3  | 3–4  |
1992–93 | UEFA Cup | R1 |  Slavia Prague | 4–2  | 0–1  | 4–3  |
R2 |  Standard Liège | 0–1  | 0–1  | 0–2  |
1993–94 | UEFA Cup | R1 |  Atlético Madrid | 2–1  | 0–3  | 2–4  |
1996–97 | Cup Winners' Cup | QR |  Red Star Belgrade | 1–1  | 0–0  | 1–1  |  | Away goals
1998–99 | Cup Winners' Cup | QR |  Lantana Tallinn | 5–0  | 1–0  | 6–0  |  | —
R1 |  Real Mallorca | 0–1  | 1–1  | 1–2  |
2000–01 | UEFA Cup | QR |  ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar | 3–0  | 2–0  | 5–0  |
R1 |  Stuttgart | 3–2  | 0–1  | 3–3  |  | Away goals
2003–04 | UEFA Cup | R1 |  Zeljeznicar | 2–0  | 0–0  | 2–0  |  | —
R2 |  Bordeaux | 0–2  | 1–0  | 1–2  |
2004–05 | UEFA Cup | R1 |  Braga | 3–1  | 2–2  | 5–3  |
Group A |  Feyenoord | —  | 0–3  | 5th |
Schalke 04 | 0–1  | —
Basel | —  | 2–1
Ferencváros | 0–1  | —
2006–07 | Champions League | QR2 |  Široki Brijeg | 3–0  | 0–0  | 3–0  |
QR3 |  AEK Athens | 1–2  | 0–3  | 1–5  |
UEFA Cup | R1 |  Sparta Prague | 0–2  | 0–0  | 0–2  |
2009–10 | Europa League | PO |  Dinamo Zagreb | 2–0  | 0–4  | 2–4  |
2011–12 | Europa League | QR3 |  Paks | 4–1  | 1–1  | 5–2  |
PO |  Tottenham Hotspur | 0–5  | 0–0  | 0–5  |
2012–13 | Europa League | PO |  Liverpool | 0–1  | 1–1  | 1–2  |
2016–17 | Europa League | QR1 |  Infonet Tallinn | 2–1  | 4–2  | 6–3  |
QR2 |  Birkirkara | 1–2  | 0–0  | 1–2  |
2022–23 | Europa League | PO |  Zürich | 0–1  | 1–2  | 1–3  |
Europa Conference League | Group A |  Fiorentina | 0–3  | 1–5  | 3rd |
İstanbul Başakşehir | 0–4  | 1–3
RFS | 2–1  | 2–0
2023–24 | Europa Conference League | QR3 |  Rosenborg | 3–1  | 1–2  | 4–3  |
PO |  PAOK | 1–2  | 0–4  | 1–6  |
2024–25 | Europa League | PO |  Viktoria Plzeň | 0–1  | 0–1  | 0–2  |
Conference League | League Phase |  Dinamo Minsk | —  | 2–1  | 25th |
Omonoia | 2–0  | —
1\. FC Heidenheim | 0–2  | —
Cercle Brugge | —  | 0–2
Copenhagen | —  | 0–2
Petroclub | 2–2  | —

### By Competition

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Competition | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD

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UEFA Champions League/European Cup | 8  | 2  | 1  | 5  | 8  | 16  | −6
UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup | 44  | 21  | 10  | 23  | 62  | 67  | −1
UEFA Conference League | 16  | 5  | 1  | 10  | 17  | 34  | –17
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 10  | 3  | 3  | 4  | 16  | 14  | +2
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 12  | 4  | 4  | 4  | 20  | 20  | 0
Total | 100 | 35 | 19 | 46 | 123 | 151 | −28

### Most Appearances

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| Rank | Player | Career | Apps

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1  |  Craig Gordon | 2001–2007
2020–  | 27
2  |  Henry Smith | 1981–1996  | 22
Steven Pressley | 1998–2006  | 22
4  |  Gary Mackay | 1980–1997  | 21
5  |  John Colquhoun | 1985–1991
1993–1997  | 18
6  |  Robbie Neilson | 1999–2009  | 16
John Cumming | 1950–1967  | 16
8  |  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
Lawrence Shankland | 2022–  | 15

### Top Goalscorers

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Rank | Player | Career | Goals

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1  |  John Robertson | 1981–1988
1988–1998  | 7
2  |  Lawrence Shankland | 2022–  | 6
3  |  Mike Galloway | 1987–1989  | 5
Willie Wallace | 1961–1966  | 5
5  |  Mark de Vries | 2002–2005  | 4
Wayne Foster | 1986–1994  | 4

## Notes

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1. ^ Round or group progressed () or eliminated ()

1. ^ Benfica in the 1960–61 European Cup and Hamburg in the 1976–77 European Cup Winners' Cup.
2. ^ Real Zaragoza in the 1965–66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and Real Mallorca in the 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.

## References

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1. ^ "Hearts European Results". London Hearts Supporters Club. Retrieved 24 November 2015.

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