 Twice in the three seasons that followed , Ipswich came within one game of winning the League championship , but finished as runners @-@ up to Liverpool and Aston Villa , respectively . However , Ipswich did win the club 's only European trophy when they lifted the 1980 – 81 UEFA Cup . Wark set a competition record by scoring 14 goals — including two , one in each leg — in the final as Ipswich overcame Dutch side AZ 67 Alkmaar 5 – 4 on aggregate . Wark 's record equalled the long @-@ standing scoring record in a European competition , set by José Altafini of A.C. Milan in the 1962 – 63 European Cup . Wark 's personal triumph that year was to win a European accolade , Young Player of the Year , and gain the acclaim of his fellow professionals in England to earn the PFA Player of the Year award . He ended the 1980 – 81 season with 36 goals . 
