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1989 UEFA Cup final

association football match

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ840275 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1989 UEFA Cup Final was an association football tie played on 3 May 1989 and 17 May 1989 between Napoli of Italy and Stuttgart of West Germany. Captained by Diego Maradona, Napoli won the two-legged final 5–4 on aggregate to win their first major European honour.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1989 UEFA Cup final” as association football match. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around UEFA, final and association.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with UEFA, final and association providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “1989 UEFA Cup final”, the useful work is to connect “association football match” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q840275. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “1989 UEFA Cup final” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.