1990/91, 1993/94, 1997/98
Italian teams utterly dominated the UEFA Cup in the 1990s – seven of the winners and six of the runners-up from 1990 to 1999 were from Serie A, with Inter the absolute masters with three final triumphs and one defeat in the space of seven years. Tellingly, Inter defender Giuseppe Bergomi (96) and goalkeeper Walter Zenga (69) are first and third respectively on the competition's all-time appearance list.
Italian teams utterly dominated the UEFA Cup in the 1990s – seven of the winners and six of the runners-up from 1990 to 1999 were from Serie A, with Inter the absolute masters with three final triumphs and one defeat in the space of seven years. Tellingly, Inter defender Giuseppe Bergomi (96) and goalkeeper Walter Zenga (69) are first and third respectively on the competition's all-time appearance list.
Under Trapattoni – on his way to becoming the sole coach to lift the UEFA Cup three times – Inter got the better of AS Roma in the 1991 showpiece, a Lothar Matthäus penalty and a Nicola Berti strike in a 2-0 first-leg victory sufficient to quell their opponents, who could not add to Ruggiero Rizzitelli's 81st-minute goal in the return fixture. They then beat FC Salzburg 1-0 away and at home in the 1994 decider, but – under Englishman Roy Hodgson – lost on penalties to FC Schalke 04 in the 1997 final. Amends were made 12 months later with a 3-0 success over SS Lazio in Paris in the first one-legged UEFA Cup final, Iván Zamorano scoring in his second straight final.
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