NK Maribor in European football
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Nogometni klub Maribor, also simply known as NK Maribor, is a Slovenian professional football club based in Maribor. The club have participated in 40 editions of the club competitions governed by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the chief authority for football across Europe. These include 16 seasons in the UEFA Champions League, 16 seasons in the UEFA Cup and Europa League, three seasons in the UEFA Europa Conference League, two seasons in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, and three seasons in the UEFA Intertoto Cup. Counting all of the 185 games the side have played in European competitions since their first entry into the Mitropa Cup in the 1970–71 season, the team's record stands at 66 wins, 46 draws, and 73 defeats as of match played 17 August 2023. The club's most recent participation in a continental competition was in the 2023–24 season, when they played in the qualifying rounds of the 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League.
Club | Maribor |
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Seasons played | 31 |
Most appearances | Marcos Tavares (94) |
Top scorer | Marcos Tavares (31) |
First entry | 1970–71 Mitropa Cup |
Latest entry | 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League |
Titles | |
Intertoto Cup | 2006[A] |
Maribor's 10–0 victory over Norma Tallinn of Estonia in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup is the club's most decisive win in European competitions, while the team's heaviest defeat is 9–1, against the Dutch club Ajax in the 1997–98 UEFA Cup. Brazilian striker Marcos Tavares holds the club record for most appearances with 94, and is the club's record goalscorer in European competitions with 31 goals.
As of the 2023–24 season, Maribor is the only Slovenian club that has managed to qualify for the group stages of the UEFA Champions League, and one of five clubs from the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia who have participated in the group stages of the competition since the breakup of the country in 1992.[1][2] Maribor won their only European honour in 2006, when they defeated Villarreal in the third round of the 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup, becoming one of the eleven co-winners of the competition.