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1971–72 European Cup

Football tournament

1971–72 European Cup
De Kuip in Rotterdam hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates19 August 1971 – 31 May 1972
Teams33
Final positions
Champions Ajax (2nd title)
Runners-up Internazionale
Tournament statistics
Matches played63
Goals scored175 (2.78 per match)
Top scorer(s) Antal Dunai
Johan Cruyff
Lou Macari
Silvester Takač (5 goals each)

The 1971–72 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the second consecutive time by Ajax, who beat Internazionale in the final.

1971–72 European Cup Intro articles: 4
1 UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners. It is one of the most prestigious football tournaments in the world and the most prestigious club competition in European football, played by the national league champions of their national associations.More
2 Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of 11 players. It is played by approximately 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.More
3 AFC Ajax
Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax, also known as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam, or simply Ajax, is a Dutch professional football club based in Amsterdam, that plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football. Historically, Ajax has been the most successful club in the Netherlands, with 34 Eredivisie titles and 19 KNVB Cups. It has continuously played in the Eredivisie, since the league's inception in 1956 and, along with Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven, it is one of the country's "big three" clubs that have dominated that competition.More
4 Inter Milan
Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, and known as Inter Milan outside Italy, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Inter is the only Italian club to have never been relegated from the top flight of Italian football.More

Preliminary round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Valencia 4–1 Union Luxembourg 3–1 1–0

First leg

Valencia 3–1 Union Luxembourg
Forment  28'
Claramunt  56' (pen.)
Valdez  90'		 Report Clemen  16'
Attendance: 10,105

Second leg

Union Luxembourg 0–1 Valencia
Report Forment  17'
Attendance: 3,230
Referee: Jef Dorpmans (Netherlands)

Valencia won 4–1 on aggregate.

First round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Marseille 3–2 Górnik Zabrze 2–1 1–1
Ajax 2–0 Dynamo Dresden 2–0 0–0
Reipas Lahti 1–9 Grasshopper 1–1 0–8
Strømsgodset 1–7 Arsenal 1–3 0–4
Dinamo București 2–2 (a) Spartak Trnava 0–0 2–2
Feyenoord 17–0 Olympiakos Nicosia 8–0 9–0
Wacker 1–7 Benfica 0–4 1–3
CSKA Sofia 4–0 Partizani 3–0 1–0
Valencia 1–1 (a) Hajduk Split 0–0 1–1
Újpesti Dózsa 4–1 Malmö FF 4–0 0–1
Boldklubben 1903 2–4 Celtic 2–1 0–3
ÍA 0–4 Sliema Wanderers 0–4 0–0
Internazionale 6–4 AEK Athens 4–1 2–3
Cork Hibernians 1–7 Borussia Mönchengladbach 0–5 1–2
Galatasaray 1–4 CSKA Moscow 1–1 0–3
Standard Liège 5–2 Linfield 2–0 3–2

First leg

Marseille 2–1 Górnik Zabrze
Wraży  45' (o.g.)
Skoblar  78'		 Report Lubański  28'
Attendance: 41,707
Referee: Santos Fernando Leite (Portugal)
Ajax 2–0 Dynamo Dresden
Swart  2'
Keizer  19'		 Report
Attendance: 45,027
Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)
Reipas Lahti 1–1 Grasshopper
Lindholm  75' Report Ohlhauser  63'
Attendance: 1,276
Strømsgodset 1–3 Arsenal
Pettersen  52' Report Simpson  2'
Wølner  20' (o.g.)
Kelly  81'
Attendance: 21,570
Referee: Georg Krutelew (Finland)
Dinamo București 0–0 Spartak Trnava
Report
Attendance: 13,200
Referee: Paul Schiller (Finland)
Feyenoord 8–0 Olympiakos Nicosia
Maiwald  4', 32'
Van Hanegem  9'
Schoenmaker  25', 47', 49'
Israël  82'
Schneider  88'		 Report
Attendance: 51,633
Referee: Kaj Bernhard Rasmussen (Denmark)
Wacker 0–4 Benfica
Report Graça  15'
Artur Jorge  20', 82'
Eusébio  80'
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Liuben Radunchev (Bulgaria)
CSKA Sofia 3–0 Partizani
Atanasov  20'
Nikodimov  44' (pen.)
Marashliev  65'		 Report
Attendance: 15,670
Referee: Ertuğrul Dilek (Turkey)
Valencia 0–0 Hajduk Split
Report
Attendance: 13,000
Referee: John Carpenter (Republic of Ireland)
Újpesti Dózsa 4–0 Malmö FF
A. Dunai  17'
Bene  28', 64', 80'		 Report
Attendance: 7,833
Referee: Tahir Kalaci (Albania)
Boldklubben 1903 2–1 Celtic
Johansen  14', 24' Report Macari  28'
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Egil Bergstad (Norway)
ÍA 0–4 Sliema Wanderers
Report Cocks  25', 57', 68'
Aquilina  81'
Attendance: 3,516
Referee: John Gow (Wales)
Internazionale 4–1 AEK Athens
Mazzola  20'
Facchetti  35'
Jair  44'
Boninsegna  61' (pen.)		 Report Pomonis  15'
Attendance: 72,333
Referee: Vital Loraux (Belgium)
Cork Hibernians 0–5 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Report Wloka  5', 30'
Heynckes  19'
Le Fevre  32', 39'
Attendance: 8,513
Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)
Galatasaray 1–1 CSKA Moscow
Güleş  71' Report Kopeikin  43'
Attendance: 24,789
Referee: Victor Pădureanu (Romania)
Standard Liège 2–0 Linfield
Semmeling  33'
Takač  87'		 Report
Attendance: 25,000

Second leg

Górnik Zabrze 1–1 Marseille
Anczok  32' Report Skoblar  53'
Attendance: 48,617
Referee: Gaspar Pintado Viu (Spain)

Marseille won 3–2 on aggregate.

Dynamo Dresden 0–0 Ajax
Report
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Ken Burns (England)

Ajax won 2–0 on aggregate.

Grasshopper 8–0 Reipas Lahti
Müller  1', 39', 71', 85'
Gröbli  31'
Schneeberger  45'
Meier  70'
Mayer  77'		 Report
Attendance: 5,200

Grasshopper won 9–1 on aggregate.

Arsenal 4–0 Strømsgodset
Kennedy  6'
Radford  18', 58'
Armstrong  78'		 Report
Attendance: 27,176
Referee: Savar Sigurdsson (Iceland)

Arsenal won 7–1 on aggregate.

Spartak Trnava 2–2 Dinamo București
Kabát  40'
Dobiaš  69' (pen.)		 Report Popescu  64', 88'
Attendance: 23,000
Referee: Hans-Joachim Weyland (West Germany)

Dinamo București won 2–2 on away goals.

Olympiakos Nicosia 0–9 Feyenoord
Report Van Hanegem  6', 82'
Hasil  11'
Wery  20'
Posthumus  31', 39'
Israël  61' (pen.), 63' (pen.), 70'
Attendance: 33,000
Referee: Joszip Horvat (Yugoslavia)

Feyenoord won 17–0 on aggregate.

Benfica 3–1 Wacker
Calisto  36'
Artur Jorge  74'
Simões  89'		 Report Jara  46'
Attendance: 37,809
Referee: Malcolm Wright (Northern Ireland)

Benfica won 7–1 on aggregate.

Partizani 0–1 CSKA Sofia
Report Atanasov  57'
Attendance: 18,018
Referee: Gyula Emsberger (Hungary)

CSKA Sofia won 4–0 on aggregate.

Hajduk Split 1–1 Valencia
Pérez  15' (o.g.) Report Claramunt  55'
Attendance: 14,761

Valencia won 1–1 on away goals.

Malmö FF 1–0 Újpesti Dózsa
Tapper  11' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 8,233
Referee: Brunon Piotrowicz (Poland)

Újpesti Dózsa won 4–1 on aggregate.

Celtic 3–0 Boldklubben 1903
Wallace  23', 85'
Callaghan  79'		 Report
Attendance: 53,000
Referee: Robert Héliès (France)

Celtic won 4–2 on aggregate.

Sliema Wanderers 0–0 ÍA
Report
Attendance: 1,487
Referee: Tom Reynolds (Wales)

Sliema Wanderers won 4–0 on aggregate.

AEK Athens 3–2 Internazionale
Ventouris  29'
Papaioannou  45'
Nikolaidis  89'		 Report Karafeskos  17' (o.g.)
Boninsegna  75'
Attendance: 29,449

Internazionale won 6–4 on aggregate.

Borussia Mönchengladbach 2–1 Cork Hibernians
Sieloff  60'
Wimmer  82'		 Report Dennehy  32'
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Josef Krnavek (Czechoslovakia)

Borussia Mönchengladbach won 7–1 on aggregate.

CSKA Moscow 3–0 Galatasaray
Dorofeev  6', 75'
Oglobin  85'		 Report
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Reino Koskinen (Finland)

CSKA Moscow won 4–1 on aggregate.

Linfield 2–3 Standard Liège
Magee  57'
Larmour  62'		 Report Van Moer  36'
Takač  53'
Piot  86' (pen.)
Attendance: 5,500

Standard Liège won 5–2 on aggregate.

1971–72 European Cup Preliminary round articles: 138
1 Dynamo Dresden
Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden e.V., commonly known as SG Dynamo Dresden or Dynamo Dresden, is a German football club in Dresden, Saxony. It was founded on 12 April 1953, as a club affiliated with the East German police, and became one of the most popular and successful clubs in East German football, winning eight league titles. After the reunification of Germany, Dynamo played four seasons in the top division Bundesliga (1991–95), but have since drifted between the second and fourth tiers. The club currently plays in the 2. Bundesliga.More
2 East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic, was a state that existed from 1949 to 1990, the period when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state in English usage, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state". It consisted of territory that was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the end of World War II—the Soviet occupation zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it and West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR.More
3 Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country primarily located in Western Europe and partly in the Caribbean, forming the largest constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In Europe, it consists of 12 provinces that border Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, with maritime borders in the North Sea with those countries and the United Kingdom. In the Caribbean, it consists of three special municipalities: the islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. The country's official language is Dutch, with West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland, and English and Papiamentu as secondary official languages in the Caribbean Netherlands. Dutch Low Saxon and Limburgish are recognised regional languages, while Sinte Romani and Yiddish are recognised non-territorial languages.More
4 Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion
Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion is a football stadium in Dresden, Saxony. It is named after German athlete Rudolf Harbig, and is the current home of Dynamo Dresden. Sports facilities have existed on the site of the stadium, the Güntzwiesen, since 1874. In 10 September 1911 this stadium host international match between Germany and Austria, which ended 1:2 defeat of host team Germany. The stadium also hosts events other than soccer games and has hosted several home games of the Dresden Monarchs American Football team of the German Football League, including their lone home appearance in the BIG6 European Football League in 2014.More
5 Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area, and the third most populous city in the area of former East Germany, following only (East) Berlin and Leipzig. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen and Coswig and has around 790,000 inhabitants. The Dresden metropolitan region has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants.More
6 Ken Burns (referee)
Kenneth Howard Burns (1931–2016) was an English former football referee who officiated in the English Football League, and on the FIFA list. During his refereeing career he was based in Stourbridge, in the borough of Dudley, West Midlands, and was by profession a legal executive.More
7 The Football Association
The Football Association (FA) is the governing body of association football in England and the Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man. Formed in 1863, it is the oldest football association in the world and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the amateur and professional game in its territory.More
8 Grasshopper Club Zürich
Grasshopper Club Zürich, commonly referred to as simply GC, GCZ, or Grasshoppers, is a multisports club based in Zürich, Switzerland. The oldest and best known department of the club is its football team. With 27 titles, Grasshopper holds the records for winning the most national championship titles and for the most successes in the Swiss Cup tournament, 19 victories in the competition. The club is the oldest football team in Zürich and maintains a substantial rivalry with FC Zürich.More
9 Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a country situated in the confluence of Western, Central, and Southern Europe. It is a federal republic composed of 26 cantons, with federal authorities based in Bern. Switzerland is a landlocked country bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. It is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Alps, and the Jura, spanning a total area of 41,285 km2 (15,940 sq mi), and land area of 39,997 km2 (15,443 sq mi). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8.5 million is concentrated mostly on the plateau, where the largest cities and economic centres are located, among them Zürich, Geneva and Basel, where multiple international organisations are domiciled and where the main international airports of Switzerland are.More
10 Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a country located in the Nordic region of Europe. Bounded by the Baltic Sea to its southwest, the Gulf of Bothnia on the west, and the Gulf of Finland on the south, it shares land borders with Sweden to the west, Russia to the east, and Norway to the north. Helsinki, the capital of Finland, and Tampere are largest cities and urban areas in the whole country.More
11 FC Lahti
FC Lahti is a Finnish football club based in the city of Lahti. It currently plays in the Finnish Premier League (Veikkausliiga) after placing first in the Finnish First Division (Ykkönen) during season 2011. The homeground of FC Lahti is Lahden Stadion. FC Lahti is famous of being the local team of the most successful Finnish player, Jari Litmanen, who played for the club in two stints in 2004 and 2009–10. In his youth years and the start of his career, he played in Reipas Lahti.More
12 Kurt Müller (footballer)
Kurt "Kudi" Müller is a Swiss former footballer who was capped on 38 occasions by the Switzerland national football team, scoring eight goals.More
13 Hardturm
The Hardturm was a football stadium located in Zürich's Kreis 5. Opened in 1929, it was the home of the Grasshopper Club Zürich until it closed in 2007. It was a host stadium for the 1954 FIFA World Cup.More
14 Zürich
Zürich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020 the municipality has 434,335 inhabitants, the urban area (agglomeration) 1.315 million (2009) and the Zürich metropolitan area 1.83 million (2011). Zürich is a hub for railways, roads, and air traffic. Both Zurich Airport and railway station are the largest and busiest in the country.More
15 Franz Wöhrer
Franz Wöhrer is a former football referee from Austria. He is best known for supervising one match in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain, between Cameroon and Peru. On 22 April 1981 he supervised a UEFA Cup Wnners' Cup semifinal match between Feyenoord Rotterdam and Dinamo Tbilisi. Wöhrer retired in 1987.More
16 Austrian Football Association
The Austrian Football Association is the governing body of football in Austria. It organises the football league, Austrian Bundesliga, the Austrian Cup and the Austrian national team, as well as its female equivalent. It is based in the capital, Vienna.More
17 Arsenal F.C.
Arsenal Football Club is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England, that plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. The most successful London club, they have won 13 League titles, a record 13 FA Cups, two League Cups, 15 FA Community Shields, the League Centenary Trophy, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.More
18 England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. It is the largest country of the British Isles.More
19 Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe whose mainland territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula; Mainland Norway and the remote island of Jan Mayen as well as the archipelago of Svalbard form Metropolitan Norway. The subantarctic Bouvet Island is a dependent territory of the Kingdom of Norway. Norway also lays claim to the Antarctic territories of Queen Maud Land and Peter I Island.More
20 Strømsgodset IF
Strømsgodset IF is a Norwegian multi-sports club from Gulskogen in Drammen. It has sections for association football, handball and bandy, but is best known for the top-level football section known as Strømsgodset Toppfotball, which plays in Eliteserien, the Norwegian top flight.More
21 Ray Kennedy
Raymond Kennedy is an English former footballer who won every domestic honour in the game with Arsenal and Liverpool in the 1970s and early 1980s. Kennedy played as a forward for Arsenal, and then played as a left-sided midfielder for Liverpool. He scored 148 goals in 581 league and cup appearances in a 15-year career in the English Football League and also won 17 caps for England between 1976 and 1980, scoring three international goals.More
22 John Radford (footballer)
John Radford is an English former footballer who played for Arsenal, West Ham United and Blackburn Rovers throughout his career. Radford, who played as a forward, is Arsenal's fourth highest goal scorer of all time.More
23 George Armstrong (footballer)
George "Geordie" Armstrong was an English football player and coach, who was mostly associated with Arsenal. A winger, Armstrong made his Arsenal debut in 1962 at the age of 17 and went on to make 621 appearances – which was then an all-time club record – before he left Highbury in 1977. He spent a season each with Leicester City and Stockport County, and then took up coaching, both domestically and abroad. After a year as Kuwait national team manager, Armstrong returned to Arsenal as reserve-team coach in 1990, a post which he held for the remaining ten years of his life.More
24 Arsenal Stadium
Arsenal Stadium was a football stadium in Highbury, London, which was the home of Arsenal Football Club between 6 September 1913 and 7 May 2006. It was popularly known as "Highbury" due to its location and was given the affectionate nickname of the "Home of Football" by the club.More
25 London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south-east of England, at the head of its 50-mile (80 km) estuary leading to the North Sea, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. Londinium was founded by the Romans. The City of London, London's ancient core − an area of just 1.12 square miles (2.9 km2) and colloquially known as the Square Mile − retains boundaries that closely follow its medieval limits. The City of Westminster is also an Inner London borough holding city status. London is governed by the mayor of London and the London Assembly.More
26 Football Association of Iceland
The Football Association of Iceland is the governing body of association football in Iceland. It was founded on 26 March 1947, joined FIFA the same year, and UEFA in 1954. It organises the football league, Úrvalsdeild, and the Iceland men's national football team and Iceland women's national football team. It is based in Reykjavík.More
27 FC Spartak Trnava
FC Spartak Trnava is a Slovak professional football club based in Trnava. Historically, it is one of the most successful clubs in the country, having won the Czechoslovak First League five times and the Czechoslovak Cup on four occasions, and reaching the semi-final of the European Cup once and the quarter-final twice. More recently, the club won the domestic league title in 2018 and domestic cup in 2019.More
28 Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia, was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993.More
29 Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It shares land borders with Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, and Moldova to the east and has its opening to the Black Sea. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate. With a total area of 238,397 square kilometres, Romania is the 12th-largest country in Europe and the 7th most populous member state of the European Union, having approximately 20 million inhabitants. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest. Other major urban areas include: Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați.More
30 FC Dinamo București
Fotbal Club Dinamo București, commonly known as Dinamo București or simply Dinamo, is a Romanian professional football club based in Bucharest.More
31 Dušan Kabát
Dušan Kabát is a former Czechoslovakia international football player.More
32 Karol Dobiaš
Karol Dobiaš is a former Slovak football player and coach. During his career, he was a versatile player, mostly playing as defender or midfielder.More
33 Penalty kick (association football)
A penalty kick is a method of restarting play in association football, in which a player is allowed to take a single shot on the goal while it is defended only by the opposing team's goalkeeper. It is awarded when a foul punishable by a direct free kick is committed by a player in their own penalty area. The shot is taken from the penalty mark, which is 11 m from the goal line and centred between the touch lines.More
34 Doru Popescu
Doru Popescu is a Romanian former football forward.More
35 Anton Malatinský Stadium
Anton Malatinský Stadium is a football stadium located in Trnava, Slovakia, which is the home ground of the local football club Spartak Trnava. The stadium was completely renovated in 2013–2015 and has an all-seated capacity of 19,200 which makes it the second-largest football stadium in Slovakia.More
36 Trnava
Trnava is a city in western Slovakia, 47 km (29 mi) to the north-east of Bratislava, on the Trnávka river. It is the capital of a kraj and of an okres. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishopric. The city has a historic center. Because of the many churches within its city walls, Trnava has often been called "parva Roma", i.e. "Little Rome", or more recently, the "Slovak Rome".More
37 German Football Association
The German Football Association is the governing body of football in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction for the German football league system and is in charge of the men's and women's national teams. The DFB headquarters are in Frankfurt am Main. Sole members of the DFB are the German Football League, organising the professional Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga, along with five regional and 21 state associations, organising the semi-professional and amateur levels. The 21 state associations of the DFB have a combined number of more than 25,000 clubs with more than 6.8 million members, making the DFB the single largest sports federation in the world.More
38 Olympiakos Nicosia
Olympiakos Nicosia is a football club based in Nicosia, Cyprus and competes in the Cypriot First Division. The club was founded in 1931, and is a founding member of the Cyprus Football Association. The club colors are black and green. Olympiakos' home ground is the Makario Stadium, which has a 16,000-seat capacity. The team's main nickname is "mavroprasini", and the club's other nickname is Taktakalas, derived from the area of Nicosia where the club hails from.More
39 Cyprus
Cyprus, officially called the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean. The third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, it is located south of Turkey; west of Syria and Lebanon; north of Egypt, Israel, and the Palestinian region of the Gaza Strip; and southeast of Greece.More
40 Feyenoord
Feyenoord Rotterdam is a Dutch professional football club in Rotterdam, that plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football. Founded as Wilhelmina in 1908, the club changed to various names before settling on being called after its neighborhood in 1912 as SC Feijenoord, updated in 1974 to SC Feyenoord, and then to Feyenoord Rotterdam in 1978, when it split from the amateur club under its wing, SC Feyenoord. Since 1937, Feyenoord's home ground has been the Stadion Feijenoord, nicknamed De Kuip, one of the largest stadiums in the Netherlands and Europe.More
41 Willem van Hanegem
Willem "Wim" van Hanegem is a Dutch former football midfielder and coach born in Breskens, Zeeland. In a playing career spanning over 20 years he won several domestic honours in the Netherlands, as well as a European Cup and a UEFA trophy, all with Feyenoord. He was also a finalist in the 1974 FIFA World Cup. As a manager, he won the league and cup with Feyenoord and spent a period as the Dutch national team's assistant coach. His most recent job as manager was for FC Utrecht, from 2007 to 2008.More
42 Franz Hasil
Franz Hasil is a former Austrian footballer.More
43 Henk Wery
Henk Wery is a former Dutch footballer who played for Feyenoord and was part of their European Cup victory in 1970. He earned 12 caps and scored 3 goals for the Netherlands national football team.More
44 Hans Posthumus
Hans Posthumus was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a striker.More
45 Rinus Israël
Marinus "Rinus" David Israël is a Dutch former association football player and manager who is currently a scout. Nicknamed "Iron Rinus", he formed a solid defence line at Feyenoord with Theo Laseroms.More
46 De Kuip
Stadion Feijenoord, more commonly known by its nickname De Kuip, is a stadium in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It was completed in 1937. The name is derived from the Feijenoord district in Rotterdam, and from the club with the same name.More
47 Rotterdam
Rotterdam is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, at the mouth of the Nieuwe Maas channel leading into the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta at the North Sea. Its history goes back to 1270, when a dam was constructed in the Rotte. In 1340, Rotterdam was granted city rights by the Count of Holland. The Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, with a population of approximately 2.7 million, is the 13th-largest in the European Union and the most populous in the country.More
48 Football Association of Yugoslavia
The Football Association of Yugoslavia (FSJ) was the governing body of football in Yugoslavia, based in Belgrade, with a major administrative branch in Zagreb.More
49 S.L. Benfica
Sport Lisboa e Benfica, commonly known as Benfica, is a professional football club based in Lisbon, Portugal, that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football, where they are the current champions and the most successful team in terms of overall titles.More
50 Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located mostly on the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe. It is the westernmost sovereign state of mainland Europe, being bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain. Its territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, both autonomous regions with their own regional governments. The official and national language is Portuguese.More
51 Austria
Austria, officially the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked East Alpine country in the southern part of Central Europe. It is composed of nine federated states (Bundesländer), one of which is Vienna, Austria's capital and its largest city. It is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. Austria occupies an area of 83,879 km2 (32,386 sq mi) and has a population of nearly 9 million people. While German is the country's official language, many Austrians communicate informally in a variety of Bavarian dialects.More
52 FC Wacker Innsbruck
FC Wacker Innsbruck was an Austrian association football club from Innsbruck, Tyrol.More
53 Adolfo Calisto
Adolfo António da Luz Calisto, simply known as Adolfo, is a retired Portuguese footballer who played left back and was one of the top players for Benfica and the Portugal national team during the 1960s and 1970s.More
54 Artur Jorge (footballer, born 1946)
Artur Jorge Braga Melo Teixeira, commonly known as Artur Jorge, is a Portuguese football manager and former player, who played as a forward.More
55 António Simões
António Simões da Costa ; born 14 December 1943), known as Simões, is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a left winger.More
56 Kurt Jara
Kurt Jara is a retired Austrian football midfielder and manager.More
57 Estádio da Luz (1954)
Estádio da Luz, officially named Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, was a multi-purpose stadium located in Lisbon, Portugal.More
58 Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 505,526 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.8 million people, being the 10th-most populous urban area in the European Union. About 3 million people live in the Lisbon metropolitan area, which represents approximately 27% of the country's population. It is mainland Europe's westernmost capital city and the only one along the Atlantic coast. Lisbon lies in the western Iberian Peninsula on the Atlantic Ocean and the River Tagus. The westernmost portions of its metro area, the Portuguese Riviera, form the westernmost point of Continental Europe, culminating at Cabo da Roca.More
59 Irish Football Association
The Irish Football Association (IFA) is the governing body for association football in Northern Ireland. It organised the Ireland national football team from 1880 to 1950, which after 1954, became the Northern Ireland national football team.More
60 FK Partizani Tirana
FK Partizani is an Albanian professional football club based in Tirana, that competes in the Kategoria Superiore. Founded in 1946, the club was historically affiliated to the Albanian army. Partizani's current temporary home ground is Selman Stërmasi Stadium.More
61 Albania
Albania, officially the Republic of Albania, is a country in Southeast Europe on the Adriatic and Ionian Sea within the Mediterranean Sea. It shares land borders with Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the east, Greece to the south and maritime borders with Greece, Montenegro and Italy to the west.More
62 Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. The capital and largest city is Sofia; other major cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), Bulgaria is Europe's sixteenth-largest country.More
63 PFC CSKA Sofia
CSKA is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia and currently competing in the country's premier football competition, the First League. CSKA is an abbreviation for Central Sports Club of the Army.More
64 Tsvetan Atanasov
Tsvetan Atanasov was a Bulgarian football player who was deployed as a central midfield. He played for CSKA Sofia form the spring of 1966 to the 1976 having 231 match and 36 goals for the A PFG. He is champion with CSKA Sofia, Four times winner of the Bulgarian Cup With 18 match and 3 goals for CSKA Sofia in European Tournaments. Participated in the Champions League 1/2 Final (1967) and 1/4 Final (1974). He was coach of CSKA Sofia in three matches in the spring of 1995.More
65 Qemal Stafa Stadium
The Qemal Stafa Stadium, named after Qemal Stafa, a World War II hero, was a national stadium and the largest football stadium in Tirana, Albania. Construction started in 1939 and the stadium was inaugurated in 1946 for the Balkan Cup, which was won by the Albania national football team. The stadium has been used for football matches of the Albanian Superliga and the national team, athletic events, and the six Albanian Spartakiads. Although it was enlarged in 1974 to accommodate up to 35,000 spectators, in the 1990s it became an all-seater stadium, and its capacity was reduced to the current 19,700.More
66 Tirana
Tirana is the capital and largest city by area and population of the Republic of Albania. It is located in the center of Albania enclosed by mountains and hills with Mount Dajt elevating on the east and a slight valley on the northwest overlooking the Adriatic Sea in the distance. Due to its location at the Plain of Tirana and the close proximity to the Mediterranean Sea, the city is particularly influenced by a Mediterranean seasonal climate. It is among the wettest and sunniest cities in Europe, with 2,544 hours of sun per year.More
67 Hungarian Football Federation
The Hungarian Football Federation is the governing body of football in Hungary. It organizes the Hungarian league and the Hungarian national team. It is based in Budapest.More
68 HNK Hajduk Split
Hrvatski nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split or simply Hajduk, is a professional Croatian football club founded in 1911, and based in the city of Split. Since 1979, the club's home ground has been the 35,000-seat Stadion Poljud. The team's traditional home colours are white shirts with blue shorts and blue socks. Hajduk is by far the most popular football club in Croatia, having support from all corners of the country. A lot of support comes from abroad, not only from Croatian natives, but foreign fans as well.More
69 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), also known as SFR Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeastern Europe that existed from its foundation in the aftermath of World War II until its dissolution in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. Covering an area of 255,804 km2, the SFRY was bordered by the Adriatic Sea and Italy to the west, Austria and Hungary to the north, Bulgaria and Romania to the east, and Albania and Greece to the south. The nation was a socialist state and a federation governed by the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and made up of six socialist republics – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia – with Belgrade as its capital. In addition, it included two autonomous provinces within Serbia: Kosovo and Vojvodina. The SFRY's origin is traced to 26 November 1942, when the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia was formed during World War II.More
70 Spain
Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southwestern Europe with some pockets of territory across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean. Its continental European territory is situated on the Iberian Peninsula. Its territory also includes two archipelagos: the Canary Islands off the coast of North Africa, and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The African enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, makes Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country (Morocco). Several small islands in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean respectively.More
71 Valencia CF
Valencia Club de Fútbol, commonly referred to as Valencia CF or simply Valencia, is a Spanish professional football club in Valencia. They play in La Liga. Valencia have won six La Liga titles, eight Copa del Rey titles, one Supercopa de España and one Copa Eva Duarte. In European competitions, they've won two Inter-Cities Fairs Cups, one UEFA Cup, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, two UEFA Super Cups and one UEFA Intertoto Cup. They also reached two UEFA Champions League finals in a row, losing to La Liga rivals Real Madrid in 2000 and German club Bayern Munich on penalties after a 1–1 draw in 2001. Valencia were also members of the G-14 group of leading European football clubs and since its end has been part of the original members of the European Club Association. In total, Valencia have reached seven major European finals, winning four of them.More
72 José Claramunt
José Claramunt Torres is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a midfielder.More
73 Stadion Stari plac
Stari plac, also often referred to as Plinara Stadion, is a stadium in Split, Croatia used originally for association football and later mainly for rugby union. It hosted a match between Yugoslavia and Netherlands in the UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying tournament, and in April 2010 a match between Croatia national rugby union team playing against Netherlands in the 2008-10 European Nations Cup tournament. Stari plac is the home ground of Rugby Club Nada Split.More
74 Split, Croatia
Split is the second-largest city of Croatia and the largest city of the region of Dalmatia, with about 250,000 people living in its urban area. It lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and is spread over a central peninsula and its surroundings. An intraregional transport hub and popular tourist destination, the city is linked to the Adriatic islands and the Apennine peninsula.More
75 Kurt Tschenscher
Kurt Waldemar Tschenscher was a German former football referee.More
76 Malmö FF
Malmö Fotbollförening, commonly known as Malmö FF, Malmö, or MFF, is the most successful football club in Sweden in terms of trophies won. Formed in 1910 and affiliated with the Scania Football Association, Malmö FF are based at Eleda Stadion in Malmö, Scania. The club have won the most Swedish championship titles, 20, a record 23 league titles, and a record 14 national cup titles.More
77 Sweden
Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund Strait. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe, the third-largest country in the European Union and the fifth largest country in Europe by area. The capital city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.3 million of which 2.6 million have a foreign background. Persons with foreign backgrounds are defined as persons who are foreign born, or born in Sweden with foreign born parents. It has a low population density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre (57/sq mi) and the highest urban concentration is in the central and southern half of the country.More
78 Hungary
Hungary is a country in Central Europe. Spanning 93,030 square kilometres (35,920 sq mi) in the Carpathian Basin, it borders Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. With about 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a medium-sized member state of the European Union. The official language is Hungarian, which is the most widely spoken Uralic language in the world, and among the few non-Indo-European languages to be widely spoken in Europe. Hungary's capital and largest city is Budapest; other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs, and Győr.More
79 Újpest FC
Újpest Football Club is a Hungarian professional football club, based in Újpest, Budapest, that competes in Nemzeti Bajnokság I.More
80 Staffan Tapper
Staffan Tapper is a former footballer from Sweden. He is the son of Börje Tapper.More
81 Malmö Stadion
Malmö Stadion, often known simply as Stadion before the construction of the new Stadion between 2007 and 2009, is a multi-purpose stadium in Malmö, Sweden. As of 2015, it is the home of association football club IFK Malmö, presently of Division 2, and athletics club MAI. The stadium served as the home ground for Malmö FF, an association football team in Sweden's top flight, Allsvenskan, from its opening in 1958 until 2009, when the club moved to the newly constructed Stadion, built beside Malmö Stadion, in 2009. Malmö FF still use the stadium for training purposes and youth matches. Besides being used for sports, the stadium has also hosted various concerts and other events. The ground's record attendance, 30,953, was set in the very first match played at the ground, a 1958 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and West Germany.More
82 Malmö
Malmö is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania. It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in Scandinavia, with a population of 316,588. The Malmö Metropolitan Region is home to over 700,000 people, and the Öresund region, which includes Malmö, is home to 4 million people.More
83 Polish Football Association
The Polish Football Association is the governing body of association football in Poland. It organizes the Polish football leagues, the Polish Cup and the Polish national football team. It is based in the Polish capital of Warsaw.More
84 Celtic F.C.
The Celtic Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Glasgow, which plays in the Scottish Premiership. The club was founded in 1887 with the purpose of alleviating poverty in the immigrant Irish population in the East End of Glasgow. They played their first match in May 1888, a friendly match against Rangers which Celtic won 5–2. Celtic established themselves within Scottish football, winning six successive league titles during the first decade of the 20th century. The club enjoyed their greatest successes during the 1960s and 70s under Jock Stein when they won nine consecutive league titles and the 1967 European Cup. Celtic have played in green and white for the entirety of its history, adopting hoops in 1903, those being used ever since.More
85 Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a 96 mile border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and the Irish Sea to the south. In addition, Scotland includes more than 790 islands; principally within the Northern Isles and the Hebrides archipelagos.More
86 Denmark
Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. Denmark proper, which is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark is constitutionally a unitary state comprising Denmark proper and the two autonomous territories in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark has a total area of 42,924 km2 (16,573 sq mi), land area of 42,394 km2 (16,368 sq mi), and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 km2 (853,509 sq mi), and a population of 5.8 million in Denmark proper.More
87 Boldklubben 1903
Boldklubben 1903 or B 1903 is a football club founded in 1903, located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Seven times winner of the Danish championship in 1920, 1924, 1926, 1938, 1969, 1970 and 1976 and twice winner of the Danish Cup in 1979 and 1986. Best international result: Quarter final in the UEFA Cup (1991/92) after eliminating Aberdeen F.C., Bayern Munich and Trabzonspor. In 1992 the club was merged with Kjøbenhavns Boldklub (KB) to form the current club F.C. Copenhagen to which B 1903 transferred its license to play in the Danish league. As a note, F.C. Copenhagen won the Danish championship in its first season.More
88 Willie Wallace
William Semple Brown Wallace is a Scottish former football player and coach.More
89 Tommy Callaghan
Tommy Callaghan is a Scottish former football player, who played for Celtic, Dunfermline Athletic, and Clydebank. He was a left-sided midfielder famous for his long attacking runs from deep positions, and powerful shot.More
90 Celtic Park
Celtic Park in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, Scotland, is the home ground of Celtic Football Club. With a capacity of 60,411, it is the largest football stadium in Scotland, and the eighth-largest stadium in the United Kingdom. It is known by Celtic fans as Parkhead or Paradise.More
91 Glasgow
Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, and the third most populous city in the United Kingdom, as of the 2019 estimated city population of 611,748. Historically part of Lanarkshire, the city now forms the Glasgow City council area, one of the 32 council areas of Scotland; the local authority is Glasgow City Council. Glasgow is situated on the River Clyde in the country's West Central Lowlands. It is the fifth most visited city in the UK.More
92 French Football Federation
The French Football Federation (FFF) is the governing body of football in France. It also includes the overseas departments and the overseas collectivities and also in Monaco. It was formed in 1919 and is based in the capital, Paris. The FFF was a founding member of FIFA and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the game of football in France, both professional and amateur. The French Football Federation is a founding member of UEFA and joined FIFA in 1907 after replacing the USFSA, who were founding members.More
93 Sliema Wanderers F.C.
Sliema Wanderers Football Club, nicknamed "tax-Xelin", is a professional Maltese football club. It is the most successful team in Malta and hails from the seaside town of Sliema. It currently plays in the Maltese Premier League.More
94 Malta
Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta and formerly Melita, is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. It lies 80 km (50 mi) south of Italy, 284 km (176 mi) east of Tunisia, and 333 km (207 mi) north of Libya. With a population of about 515,000 over an area of 316 km2 (122 sq mi), Malta is the world's tenth smallest country in area and fourth most densely populated sovereign country. Its capital is Valletta, which is the smallest national capital in the European Union by area at 0.8 km2 (0.31 sq mi). The official and national language is Maltese, which is descended from Sicilian Arabic that developed during the Emirate of Sicily, while English serves as the second official language.More
95 Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of 364,134 and an area of 103,000 km2 (40,000 sq mi), making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Reykjavík. Reykjavík and the surrounding areas in the southwest of the country are home to over two-thirds of the population. Iceland is volcanically and geologically active. The interior consists of a plateau characterised by sand and lava fields, mountains, and glaciers, and many glacial rivers flow to the sea through the lowlands. Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a temperate climate, despite a high latitude just outside the Arctic Circle. Its high latitude and marine influence keep summers chilly, with most of the archipelago having a polar climate.More
96 Íþróttabandalag Akraness
Íþróttabandalag Akraness, commonly known simply as ÍA, is an Icelandic sports club founded in 1946 and based in the town of Akranes, west Iceland. Among the main sports its members can practice are basketball, football, golf, horsemanship, gymnastics, volleyball, bowling, karate, badminton, swimming and powerlifting. The football team plays in yellow shirts and socks, and black shorts.More
97 Empire Stadium, Gżira
The Empire Stadium, also known as the Gżira Stadium or just The Stadium, was a multi-purpose stadium in Gżira, Malta. It was used mostly for football matches and hosted the home matches of the Maltese national football team, including the very first international match for Malta in 1957 against Austria. It also hosted the final of the Maltese Cup. The stadium was able to hold 30,000 spectators and originally opened in 1922. It was notorious for its sandy pitch. The stadium hosted its final game in 1981, being replaced by the modern Ta' Qali Stadium.More
98 Gżira
Gżira is a town in the Central Region of Malta. It is located between Msida and Sliema, also bordering on Ta' Xbiex. It has a population of 8,029 as of March 2014. The word Gżira means "island" in Maltese, and the town is named after Manoel Island which lies just adjacent to the town. The seafront of Gżira has views of the walled city of Valletta, which are illuminated at night, forming a backdrop to Manoel Island, the yacht marina and a seafront public garden. Kappara is located close to Gżira. The Orpheum Theatre is located in Gżira.More
99 Football Association of Wales
The Football Association of Wales is the governing body of association football and futsal in Wales, and controls the Welsh national football team, its corresponding women's team, as well as the Welsh national futsal team. It is a member of FIFA, UEFA and the IFAB.More
100 AEK Athens F.C.
AEK Football Club, also known in European competitions as AEK Athens FC, is a Greek professional football club based in Nea Filadelfeia, a suburb of Athens, Greece.More
101 Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, known also as Hellas, is a country located in Southeast Europe. Its population is approximately 10.7 million as of 2018; Athens, the nation's capital, is its largest city, followed by Thessaloniki.More
102 Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country consisting of a peninsula delimited by the Alps and surrounded by several islands. Italy is located in south-central Europe, and it is also considered a part of western Europe. A unitary parliamentary republic with its capital in Rome, the country covers a total area of 301,340 km2 (116,350 sq mi) and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. Italy has a territorial exclave in Switzerland (Campione) and a maritime exclave in Tunisian waters (Lampedusa). With around 60 million inhabitants, Italy is the third-most populous member state of the European Union.More
103 Mimis Papaioannou
Mimis Papaioannou is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a striker.More
104 Roberto Boninsegna
Roberto Boninsegna is an Italian former football player, who mainly played as a forward. After retiring, he worked as a football manager. As a player, he represented the Italian national side at two World Cups, reaching the final in 1970.More
105 Nikos Goumas Stadium
Nikos Goumas Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Nea Filadelfeia, a northwestern suburb of Athens, Greece. It was used mostly for football matches and was the home stadium of AEK Athens F.C.More
106 Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence started somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennium BC.More
107 Tofiq Bahramov
Tofiq Bahramov, in England often incorrectly referred to as "the Russian linesman", was a Soviet footballer and football referee from Azerbaijan.More
108 Football Federation of the Soviet Union
The Football Federation of the USSR was a governing body of football in the Soviet Union and since 1972 the main governing body of football in the country. The Federation was created late in 1934 by the decision of the Supreme Council of Physical Culture of the USSR as its sports section governing specifically football. It was the only organization that obtained recognition of FIFA in 1946.More
109 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e.V. Mönchengladbach, commonly known as Borussia Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach or Gladbach, is a professional football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, that plays in the Bundesliga, the top flight of German football. The club has won five League titles, three DFB-Pokals, and two UEFA Europa League titles.More
110 West Germany
West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany, retrospectively designated the Bonn Republic, in the period between its formation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990. During this Cold War period, the western portion of Germany was part of the Western Bloc. The FRG was created during the Allied occupation of Germany after World War II, established from eleven states formed in the three Allied zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Its provisional capital was the city of Bonn.More
111 Republic of Ireland
Ireland, also known as the Republic of Ireland, is a country in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, which is located on the eastern side of the island. Around 40% of the country's population of 4.9 million people resides in the greater Dublin area. The sovereign state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland. It is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, St George's Channel to the south-east, and the Irish Sea to the east. It is a unitary, parliamentary republic. The legislature, the Oireachtas, consists of a lower house, Dáil Éireann, an upper house, Seanad Éireann, and an elected President who serves as the largely ceremonial head of state, but with some important powers and duties. The head of government is the Taoiseach, who is elected by the Dáil and appointed by the President; the Taoiseach in turn appoints other government ministers.More
112 Cork Hibernians F.C.
Cork Hibernians F.C. were an Irish football club based in Cork. They played in the League of Ireland between 1957 and 1976 and, from 1962, played their home games at Flower Lodge. In 1971, they were League of Ireland champions.More
113 Klaus-Dieter Sieloff
Klaus-Dieter Sieloff was a German footballer who played as a defender. He spent 11 seasons in the Bundesliga with VfB Stuttgart and Borussia Mönchengladbach. He played in two World Cup Qualifying matches in 1966.More
114 Herbert Wimmer
Herbert "Hacki" Wimmer is a former footballer who played as a midfielder. Besides winning five national championships and two UEFA Cups with his club side Borussia Mönchengladbach he won the 1974 World Cup and the UEFA Euro 1972 with Germany.More
115 Miah Dennehy
Jeremiah Dennehy, commonly referred to as Miah Dennehy, is a former Republic of Ireland international footballer who played for, among others, Cork Hibernians, Nottingham Forest, Walsall F.C., and Bristol Rovers. In 1972, he became the first ever player to score a hat-trick in an FAI Cup final. As an international he also played for the Republic of Ireland.More
116 Bökelbergstadion
The Bökelbergstadion was a football stadium in Mönchengladbach, Germany.More
117 Mönchengladbach
Mönchengladbach is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located west of the Rhine, halfway between Düsseldorf and the Dutch border.More
118 Football Association of the Czech Republic
The Football Association of the Czech Republic or colloquially the Czech Football Association is the governing body of football in the Czech Republic, based in Prague. It organizes the lower-level league competitions in the country, the Czech Cup, and the Czech Republic national football team.More
119 PFC CSKA Moscow
Professional Football Club CSKA , commonly referred to as CSKA Moscow outside of Russia, or simply as CSKA [tsɛ ɛs ˈka], is a Russian professional football club. It is based in Moscow, playing its home matches at the 30,000-capacity VEB Arena. The club is the 2nd best known part of the CSKA Moscow sports club, following the hockey club.More
120 Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, in practice its government and economy were highly centralized. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party, with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian SFSR. Other major urban centers were Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Tashkent, Alma-Ata and Novosibirsk. It was the largest country in the world by surface area, spanning over 10,000 kilometers (6,200 mi) east to west across 11 time zones and over 7,200 kilometers (4,500 mi) north to south. Its territory included much of Eastern Europe as well as part of Northern Europe and all of Northern and Central Asia. It had five climate zones such as tundra, taiga, steppes, desert, and mountains.More
121 Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a transcontinental Eurasian country located mainly on the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeastern Europe. East Thrace, the part of Turkey in Europe, is separated from Anatolia by the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. Istanbul, which straddles Europe and Asia, is the largest city in the country, while Ankara is the capital. Turkey is bordered on its northwest by Greece and Bulgaria; north by the Black Sea; northeast by Georgia; east by Armenia, the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan and Iran; southeast by Iraq; south by Syria and the Mediterranean Sea; and west by the Aegean Sea. Approximately 70 to 80 percent of the country's citizens identify as Turkish, while Kurds are the largest minority, at between 15 to 20 percent of the population.More
122 Galatasaray S.K. (football)
Galatasaray Spor Kulübü, is a Turkish professional football club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul in Turkey. It is the association football branch of the larger Galatasaray Sports Club of the same name, itself a part of the Galatasaray Community Cooperation Committee which includes Galatasaray High School where the football club was founded in October 1905 consisting entirely of student members.More
123 Luzhniki Stadium
Luzhniki Stadium is the national stadium of Russia, located in its capital city, Moscow. The full name of the stadium is Grand Sports Arena of the Luzhniki Olympic Complex. Its total seating capacity of 81,000 makes it the largest football stadium in Russia and the ninth-largest stadium in Europe. The stadium is a part of the Luzhniki Olympic Complex, and is located in Khamovniki District of the Central Administrative Okrug of Moscow city. The name Luzhniki derives from the flood meadows in the bend of Moskva River where the stadium was built, translating roughly as "The Meadows".More
124 Moscow
Moscow is the capital and most populous city of Russia, standing on the Moskva River in the central part of Western Russia, Moscow's population is estimated at 12.6 million residents within the city proper, with over 17 million residents in the urban area, and over 20 million residents in the Moscow Metropolitan Area. The city limits cover an area of 2,511 square kilometres (970 sq mi), while the metropolitan area covers over 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi), Moscow is among the world's largest cities, being the most populous city entirely within Europe, the most populous urban area in Europe, the most populous metropolitan area in Europe, and also the largest city on the European continent.More
125 Football Association of Finland
The Football Association of Finland is the governing body of football in Finland. It was founded in Helsinki on 19 May 1907.More
126 Linfield F.C.
Linfield Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which plays in the NIFL Premiership – the highest level of the Northern Ireland Football League. The club was founded in 1886 as Linfield Athletic Club and in 1905 moved into their current home of Windsor Park, which is also the home of the Northern Ireland national team. The club's badge displays Windsor Castle, in reference to the ground's namesake. Historically, Linfield's main rival has been Glentoran with whom they contest the Big Two derby. This rivalry traditionally includes a league derby played on Boxing Day each year, which usually attracts the largest league attendance of the season. Linfield's average league home attendance is approximately 2,500, the highest in the division and more than double the league's overall average of about 1,000.More
127 Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is variously described as a country, province or region which is part of the United Kingdom. Located in the northeast of the island of Ireland, Northern Ireland shares a border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. In 2011, its population was 1,810,863, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the UK's population. Established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998 as part of the Good Friday Agreement, the Northern Ireland Assembly holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the British government. Northern Ireland co-operates with the Republic of Ireland in several areas, and the Agreement granted the Republic the ability to "put forward views and proposals" with "determined efforts to resolve disagreements between the two governments".More
128 Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of 30,689 km2 (11,849 sq mi) and has a population of more than 11.5 million, making it the 22nd most densely populated country in the world and the 6th most densely populated country in Europe, with a density of 376 per square kilometre (970/sq mi). The capital and largest city is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi and Liège.More
129 Standard Liège
Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège, is a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Liège. They are one of the most successful clubs in Belgium, having won the Belgian league on ten occasions, most recently in 2007–08 and 2008–09. They have been in the top flight without interruption since 1921, longer than any other Belgian side. They have also won eight Belgian Cups, and in 1981–82 they reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup, which they lost 2–1 against Barcelona.More
130 Eric Magee
Eric Magee is a Northern Irish former footballer who played as a forward for Glenavon, Oldham Athletic, Port Vale, and Linfield. He helped Port Vale to win promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1969–70.More
131 Albert Larmour
Albert Andrew James Larmour is a former Northern Irish professional footballer.More
132 Wilfried Van Moer
Wilfried van Moer is a former Belgian football player who won the Belgian Golden Shoe three times, first in 1966 while at Antwerp then in 1969 and in 1970 while at Standard Liège.More
133 Silvester Takač
Silvester Takač is a Serbian former football forward and manager.More
134 Christian Piot
Christian Piot is a retired Belgian football goalkeeper who won the Belgian Golden Shoe in 1972 while at Standard Liège. He played 40 times and scored 1 goal for the national team between 1969 and 1977, starting in a 0–4 defeat to Yugoslavia on 19 October 1969. Piot was in the team for the 1970 World Cup and for the Euro 1972.More
135 Windsor Park
Windsor Park is a football stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is the home ground of Linfield FC and tenants Northern Ireland national football team, and is also where the Irish Cup final is played.More
136 Belfast
Belfast is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdom and the second-largest on the island of Ireland. It had a population of 333,871 as of 2015. Belfast suffered greatly in the Troubles: in the 1970s and 1980s it was one of the world's most dangerous cities, with a homicide rate around 31 per 100,000.More
137 Charles Corver
Charles George Reinier Corver is a former Dutch football referee.More
138 Royal Dutch Football Association
The Royal Netherlands Football Association is the governing body of football in Netherlands. It organises the main Dutch football leagues, the amateur leagues, the KNVB Cup, and the Dutch men's and women's national teams.More

Second round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Marseille 2–6 Ajax 1–2 1–4
Grasshopper 0–5 Arsenal 0–2 0–3
Dinamo București 0–5 Feyenoord 0–3 0–2
Benfica 2–1 CSKA Sofia 2–1 0–0
Valencia 1–3 Újpesti Dózsa 0–1 1–2
Celtic 7–1 Sliema Wanderers 5–0 2–1
Internazionale 4–2 Borussia Mönchengladbach 4–2 0–0
CSKA Moscow 1–2 Standard Liège 1–0 0–2

First leg

Marseille 1–2 Ajax
Gress  10' Report Keizer  37'
Cruyff  60'
Attendance: 48,039
Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)
Grasshopper 0–2 Arsenal
Report Kennedy  2'
Graham  88'
Attendance: 14,964
Dinamo București 0–3 Feyenoord
Report Wery  38'
Maiwald  43'
Schneider  50'
Attendance: 35,000
Benfica 2–1 CSKA Sofia
Rodrigues  51'
Artur Jorge  63'		 Report Zhekov  85'
Attendance: 39,944
Referee: Aurelio Angonese (Italy)
Valencia 0–1 Újpesti Dózsa
Report A. Dunai  55'
Attendance: 47,695
Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales)
Celtic 5–0 Sliema Wanderers
Gemmell  6'
Macari  17', 41'
Hood  69'
Brogan  78'		 Report
Attendance: 26,647
Referee: Einar Hjartarsson (Iceland)
Borussia Mönchengladbach 7–1 Internazionale
Heynckes  7', 44'
Le Fevre  21', 34'
Netzer  42', 52'
Sieloff  83' (pen.)		 [1] Boninsegna  20'
Referee: Jef Dorpmans (Netherlands)

This game was annulled as Inter player Roberto Boninsegna was hit by a Coca-Cola can in the 29th minute.[2][3] The first leg game was replayed after the game that was originally scheduled to be second leg was played, thus the order of legs was switched.

Internazionale 4–2 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Bellugi  10'
Boninsegna  13'
Jair  57'
Ghio  90'		 Report Le Fevre  38'
Wittkamp  89'
Attendance: 57,413
CSKA Moscow 1–0 Standard Liège
Kopeikin  27' Report
Attendance: 18,000

Second leg

Ajax 4–1 Marseille
Cruyff  32, 64'
Swart  37'
Haan  80'		 Report Couécou  17'
Attendance: 53,785
Referee: Alastair MacKenzie (Scotland)

Ajax won 6–2 on aggregate.

Arsenal 3–0 Grasshopper
Kennedy  40'
George  47'
Radford  84'		 Report
Attendance: 31,106
Referee: Ove Dahlberg (Sweden)

Arsenal won 5–0 on aggregate.

Feyenoord 2–0 Dinamo București
Nunweiller  53' (o.g.)
Schoenmaker  64'		 Report
Attendance: 60,000

Feyenoord won 5–0 on aggregate.

CSKA Sofia 0–0 Benfica
Report
Attendance: 50,000

Benfica won 2–1 on aggregate.

Újpesti Dózsa 2–1 Valencia
A. Dunai  51', 54' Report Valdez  57'
Attendance: 7,201
Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)

Újpesti Dózsa won 3–1 on aggregate.

Sliema Wanderers 1–2 Celtic
Cocks  1' Report Hood  42'
Lennox  57'
Attendance: 10,416
Referee: Andreas Kouniaides (Cyprus)

Celtic won 7–1 on aggregate.

Borussia Mönchengladbach 0–0 Internazionale
Report
Attendance: 84,561
Referee: Jack Taylor (England)

Internazionale won 4–2 on aggregate.

Standard Liège 2–0 CSKA Moscow
Takač  7', 60' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 38,000
Referee: Gerhard Schulenburg (West Germany)

Standard Liège won 2–1 on aggregate.

1971–72 European Cup Second round articles: 43
1 Mauro Bellugi
Mauro Bellugi is a former Italian footballer, who played as a defender.More
2 Jair da Costa
Jair da Costa is a former Brazilian footballer who played as a right winger.More
3 Gian Piero Ghio
Gian Piero Ghio is an Italian football coach and former player who played as a forward. He scored 69 goals from 282 appearances in the Italian professional leagues, which included 72 apparances in Serie A.More
4 Ulrik le Fevre
Ulrik le Fevre is a Danish former professional football player and manager, and current FIFA-licensed player agent. He was a left winger, who had a fierce shot. He played for Danish club Vejle Boldklub, German club Borussia Mönchengladbach and FC Brugge in Belgium, and won the national championship with all three clubs. He played 37 matches and scored seven goals for the Denmark national football team.More
5 Hans-Jürgen Wittkamp
Hans-Jürgen Wittkamp is a retired German football player. He spent 11 seasons in the Bundesliga with FC Schalke 04 and Borussia Mönchengladbach.More
6 San Siro
The San Siro, officially known as Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, is a football stadium in the San Siro district of Milan, which is the home of AC Milan and Internazionale. It has a seating capacity of 75,923, making it one of the largest stadiums in Europe, and the largest in Italy.More
7 Milan
Milan is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome. Milan served as the capital of the Western Roman Empire, the Duchy of Milan and the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million while its metropolitan city has 3.26 million inhabitants. Its continuously built-up urban area, that stretches well beyond the boundaries of the administrative metropolitan city, is the fourth largest in the EU with 5.27 million inhabitants. The population within the wider Milan metropolitan area, also known as Greater Milan, is estimated at 8.2 million, making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and the 4th largest in the EU.More
8 Rudolf Scheurer
Rudolf Scheurer is a football (soccer) referee from Bettlach, most remembered for supervising four matches at the FIFA World Cup: two in 1970 and 1974. During his peak times, Scheurer was a high-profile referee: In 1970, he was nominated as linesman in the final between Brazil and Italy. In 1974, he was awarded the opening game. Scheurer also whistled in 1970 and 1974 World Cup qualifiers, UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying, and many European club competition matches. After he retired from his active career, Scheurer served as chief of the Swiss soccer referees. He died on November 1, 2015.More
9 Swiss Football Association
The Swiss Football Association is the governing body of football in Switzerland. It organizes the football league, the Swiss Football League and the Switzerland national football team. It is based in Bern.More
10 Boris Kopeykin
Boris Arkadyevich Kopeykin is a retired Soviet football player and a current Russian coach.More
11 Erich Linemayr
Erich Linemayr was an Austrian football referee. He is known for having refereed three matches in the FIFA World Cup, two in 1974 and one in 1978. He also refereed two matches in the 1980 UEFA European Football Championship in Italy and the European Cup final in 1979.More
12 France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country consisting of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It borders Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland, Monaco, and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's 18 integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.07 million. France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice. France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones of any country, with a total of 12.More
13 Olympique de Marseille
Olympique de Marseille, also known as OM or simply Marseille, is a French professional football club based in Marseille in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Founded in 1899, the club plays in Ligue 1 and have spent most of their history in the top tier of French football. The club has won ten official league titles, ten Coupes de France and three Coupes de la Ligue. In 1993, coach Raymond Goethals led the team to become the first and only French club to win the UEFA Champions League, defeating AC Milan 1–0 in the final. In 2010, Marseille won its first Ligue 1 title in 18 years under the managing of former club captain Didier Deschamps.More
14 Johan Cruyff
Hendrik Johannes Cruijff OON was a Dutch professional football player and coach. As a player, he won the Ballon d'Or three times, in 1971, 1973, and 1974. Cruyff was an exponent of the football philosophy known as Total Football explored by Rinus Michels, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in football history. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dutch football rose from obscurity to become a powerhouse in the sport. Cruyff led the Netherlands to the final of the 1974 FIFA World Cup and received the Golden Ball as player of the tournament. At the 1974 finals, he executed a feint that subsequently was named after him, the "Cruyff Turn", a move widely replicated in the modern game. Wearing the number 14 jersey, he set a trend for wearing shirt numbers outside the usual starting line-up numbers of one to eleven. After finishing third in UEFA Euro 1976, he refused to take part of 1978 World Cup squad due to Argentinian dictator Jorge Videla.More
15 Sjaak Swart
Jesaia Swart, commonly known as Sjaak Swart, is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a winger for Ajax. During his career at Ajax, he amassed a total of almost 600 matches, a record for the club.More
16 Arie Haan
Arend "Arie" Haan ˈɦaːn]; born 16 November 1948) is a Dutch football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He scored 6 goals in 35 matches for the Dutch national squad of the 1970s. At club level he enjoyed a successful career with AFC Ajax, R.S.C. Anderlecht, Standard Liège and PSV Eindhoven.More
17 Didier Couécou
Didier Couécou is a former French footballer who played striker. He was part of France national football team at the FIFA World Cup 1966.More
18 Olympic Stadium (Amsterdam)
The Olympic Stadium is the main stadium for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The venue is currently used mostly for athletics, other sports events and concerts.More
19 Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands with a population of 872,680 within the city proper, 1,380,872 in the urban area and 2,410,960 in the metropolitan area. Found within the province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", attributed by the large number of canals which form a UNESCO World Heritage Site.More
20 Scottish Football Association
The Scottish Football Association is the governing body of football in Scotland and has the ultimate responsibility for the control and development of football in Scotland. Members of the SFA include clubs in Scotland, affiliated national associations as well as local associations. It was formed in 1873, making it the second oldest national football association in the world. It is not to be confused with the Scottish Football Union, which is the name that the SRU was known by until the 1920s.More
21 Charlie George
Charles Frederick George is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward.More
22 Ove Dahlberg
Ove Dahlberg was a Swedish ice hockey and soccer official. Having previously played a forward position in ice hockey, Dahlberg is considered one of the greatest European referees for his ability to read the game. He was inducted posthumously into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2004 and into the Swedish Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 2012.More
23 Swedish Football Association
The Swedish Football Association also known as SvFF is the governing and body of football in Sweden. It organises the football leagues – Allsvenskan for men and Damallsvenskan for women – and the men's and women's national teams. It is based in Solna and is a founding member of both FIFA and UEFA. SvFF is supported by 24 district organisations.More