1971–72 European Cup

1971–72 European Cup
	De Kuip in Rotterdam hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	19 August 1971 – 31 May 1972
Teams	33
Final positions
Champions	Ajax (2nd title)
Runners-up	Internazionale
Tournament statistics
Matches played	63
Goals scored	175 (2.78 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Antal Dunai; Johan Cruyff; Lou Macari; Silvester Takač (5 goals each)
	← 1970–71 1972–73 →

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. Ajax qualified as the current holders of the European Cup, not as the current national league champion. This was the second year in a row that the European Cup had two Dutch clubs compete.

1971–72 European Cup Intro articles: 1

1 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 never to have 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

19 August 1971

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

Estadio Luis Casanova, Valencia

Attendance: 10,105

Referee: Michel Kitabdjian (France)

Second leg

24 August 1971

Union Luxembourg	0–1	Valencia
	Report	Forment 17'

Stade Achille Hammerel, Luxembourg

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

15 September 1971

Marseille	2–1	Górnik Zabrze
Wraży 45' (o.g.) Skoblar 78'	Report	Lubański 28'

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 41,707

Referee: Santos Fernando Leite (Portugal)

15 September 1971

Ajax	2–0	Dynamo Dresden
Swart 2' Keizer 19'	Report

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 45,027

Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)

15 September 1971

Reipas Lahti	1–1	Grasshopper
Lindholm 75'	Report	Ohlhauser 63'

Lahden kisapuisto, Lahti

Attendance: 1,276

Referee: Einar Boström (Sweden)

15 September 1971

Strømsgodset	1–3	Arsenal
Pettersen 52'	Report	Simpson 2' Wølner 20' (o.g.) Kelly 81'

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 21,570

Referee: Georg Krutelew (Finland)

15 September 1971

Dinamo București	0–0	Spartak Trnava
	Report

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 13,200

Referee: Paul Schiller (Finland)

15 September 1971

Feyenoord	8–0	Olympiakos Nicosia
Maiwald 4', 32' Van Hanegem 9' Schoenmaker 25', 47', 49' Israël 82' Schneider 88'	Report

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 51,633

Referee: Kaj Bernhard Rasmussen (Denmark)

15 September 1971

Wacker	0–4	Benfica
	Report	Graça 15' Artur Jorge 20', 82' Eusébio 80'

Tivoli, Innsbruck

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Liuben Radunchev (Bulgaria)

15 September 1971

CSKA Sofia	3–0	Partizani
Atanasov 20' Nikodimov 44' (pen.) Marashliev 65'	Report

Armiyata, Sofia

Attendance: 15,670

Referee: Ertuğrul Dilek (Turkey)

15 September 1971

Valencia	0–0	Hajduk Split
	Report

Estadio Luis Casanova, Valencia

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: John Carpenter (Republic of Ireland)

15 September 1971

Újpesti Dózsa	4–0	Malmö FF
A. Dunai 17' Bene 28', 64', 80'	Report

Megyeri úti Stadion, Budapest

Attendance: 7,833

Referee: Tahir Kalaci (Albania)

15 September 1971

Boldklubben 1903	2–1	Celtic
Johansen 14', 24'	Report	Macari 28'

Parken, Copenhague

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Egil Bergstad (Norway)

26 September 1971

ÍA	0–4	Sliema Wanderers
	Report	Cocks 25', 57', 68' Aquilina 81'

Empire Stadium, Gżira, Gżira

Attendance: 3,516

Referee: John Gow (Wales)

15 September 1971

Internazionale	4–1	AEK Athens
Mazzola 20' Facchetti 35' Jair 44' Boninsegna 61' (pen.)	Report	Pomonis 15'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 72,333

Referee: Vital Loraux (Belgium)

15 September 1971

Cork Hibernians	0–5	Borussia Mönchengladbach
	Report	Wloka 5', 30' Heynckes 19' Le Fevre 32', 39'

Flower Lodge, Cork

Attendance: 8,513

Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)

15 September 1971

Galatasaray	1–1	CSKA Moscow
Güleş 71'	Report	Kopeikin 43'

Mithat Paşa Stadyumu, Istanbul

Attendance: 24,789

Referee: Victor Pădureanu (Romania)

15 September 1971

Standard Liège	2–0	Linfield
Semmeling 33' Takač 87'	Report

Sclessin, Liège

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland)

Second leg

29 September 1971

Górnik Zabrze	1–1	Marseille
Anczok 32'	Report	Skoblar 53'

Stadion Śląski, Chorzow

Attendance: 48,617

Referee: Gaspar Pintado Viu (Spain)

Marseille won 3–2 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Dynamo Dresden	0–0	Ajax
	Report

Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, Dresden

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Ken Burns (England)

Ajax won 2–0 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

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

Hardturm, Zürich

Attendance: 5,200

Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)

Grasshopper won 9–1 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Arsenal	4–0	Strømsgodset
Kennedy 6' Radford 18', 58' Armstrong 78'	Report

Highbury, London

Attendance: 27,176

Referee: Savar Sigurdsson (Iceland)

Arsenal won 7–1 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Spartak Trnava	2–2	Dinamo București
Kabát 40' Dobiaš 69' (pen.)	Report	Popescu 64', 88'

Stadion Trnava, Trnava

Attendance: 23,000

Referee: Hans-Joachim Weyland (West Germany)

2–2 on aggregate; Dinamo București won on away goals.

22 September 1971

Olympiakos Nicosia	0–9	Feyenoord
	Report	Van Hanegem 6', 82' Hasil 11' Wery 20' Posthumus 31', 39' Israël 61' (pen.), 63' (pen.), 70'

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 33,000

Referee: Joszip Horvat (Yugoslavia)

Feyenoord won 17–0 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Benfica	3–1	Wacker
Calisto 36' Artur Jorge 74' Simões 89'	Report	Jara 46'

Estádio de Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 37,809

Referee: Malcolm Wright (Northern Ireland)

Benfica won 7–1 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Partizani	0–1	CSKA Sofia
	Report	Atanasov 57'

Stadiumi Kombëtar Qemal Stafa, Tirana

Attendance: 18,018

Referee: Gyula Emsberger (Hungary)

CSKA Sofia won 4–0 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Hajduk Split	1–1	Valencia
Pérez 15' (o.g.)	Report	Claramunt 55'

Stadion Stari plac, Split

Attendance: 14,761

Referee: Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)

1–1 on aggregate; Valencia won on away goals.

29 September 1971

Malmö FF	1–0	Újpesti Dózsa
Tapper 11' (pen.)	Report

Malmö Stadion, Malmö

Attendance: 8,233

Referee: Brunon Piotrowicz (Poland)

Újpesti Dózsa won 4–1 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Celtic	3–0	Boldklubben 1903
Wallace 23', 85' Callaghan 79'	Report

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 53,000

Referee: Robert Héliès (France)

Celtic won 4–2 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Sliema Wanderers	0–0	ÍA
	Report

Empire Stadium, Gżira

Attendance: 1,487

Referee: Tom Reynolds (Wales)

Sliema Wanderers won 4–0 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

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

Nikos Goumas Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 29,449

Referee: Tofiq Bahramov (Soviet Union)

Internazionale won 6–4 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–1	Cork Hibernians
Sieloff 60' Wimmer 82'	Report	Dennehy 32'

Bökelbergstadion, Mönchengladbach

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Josef Krnavek (Czechoslovakia)

Borussia Mönchengladbach won 7–1 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

CSKA Moscow	3–0	Galatasaray
Dorofeev 6', 75' Oglobin 85'	Report

Central Stadium Vladimir Lenin, Moscow

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Reino Koskinen (Finland)

CSKA Moscow won 4–1 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

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

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 5,500

Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)

Standard Liège won 5–2 on aggregate.

1971–72 European Cup Preliminary round articles: 142

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 was relegated from the 2. Bundesliga to the 3. Liga at the end of the 2019–20 season.More

2 East Germany

East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic, is a former country 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. On 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, Coswig and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants. The Dresden metropolitan area has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants.More

6 Ken Burns (referee)

Kenneth Howard Burns (1931–2016) was an English 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. He most notably refereed Sunderland AFC’s famous 1-0 victory against Leeds United in the 1973 FA Cup Final which is still regarded as one of the biggest upsets in FA Cup history.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 championships and the Swiss Cups, 19 trophies in the latter. 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 at 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. These cities are home to several offices of international organisations such as the headquarters of FIFA, the UN's second-largest Office, and the main building of the Bank for International Settlements. The main international airports of Switzerland are also located in these cities.More

10 Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country located in Northern Europe. Finland shares land borders with Sweden to the west, Russia to the east, and Norway to the north and is defined by the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south that are part of the Baltic Sea.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 club has won 13 league titles, a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 16 FA Community Shields, the League Centenary Trophy, one European 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.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. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land.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. The city stands 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 and financial centre − 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 adjacent City of Westminster is an Inner London borough and has for centuries been the location of much of the national government. Thirty-one additional boroughs north and south of the river also comprise modern London. 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 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 Slovak league title in 2018 and Slovak 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 twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union, having approximately 19.3 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 "Little Rome", or more recently, the "Slovak Rome".More

37 German Football Association

The German Football Association is the successful 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. It is the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, and is located north of Egypt; northwest of Lebanon, Palestine, and Israel; west of Syria; southeast of Greece; and south of Turkey.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 the second largest 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 10th-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.More

50 Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located 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 an Austrian football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.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 Air Albania,Elbasan Arena,Stadiumi Dinamo.More

61 Albania

Albania, officially the Republic of Albania, is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Sea within the Mediterranean Sea, and 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. Tirana is its capital and largest city, followed by Durrës, Vlorë and Shkodër.More

62 Bulgaria

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast 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 or Tiranë 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 Gyula Emsberger

Gyula Emsberger was a Hungarian international football referee.More

68 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

69 HNK Hajduk Split

Hrvatski nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian professional football club based in Split. Since 1979, the club's home ground has been the 34,198-seat Stadion Poljud. The team's traditional home colours are white shirts with blue shorts and blue socks.More

70 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Southeast and Central 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

71 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 exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera make 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; 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

72 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 have won two Inter-Cities Fairs Cups, one UEFA Cup, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, two UEFA Super Cups and one UEFA Intertoto Cup. They have 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

73 José Claramunt

José Claramunt Torres is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a midfielder.More

74 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

75 Split, Croatia

Split is Croatia's second-largest city and the largest city in the Dalmatia region. 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

76 Kurt Tschenscher

Kurt Waldemar Tschenscher was a German former football referee.More

77 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, the Malmö FF are based at Eleda Stadion in Malmö, Scania. The club have won a record 21 Swedish championship titles and the most national cup titles with 14.More

78 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 10.4 million and a low population density of 25 inhabitants per square kilometre (65/sq mi). 87% of Swedes live in urban areas, which cover 1.5% of the entire land area. The highest concentration is in the central and southern half of the country.More

79 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

80 Újpest FC

Újpest Football Club is a Hungarian professional football club, based in Újpest, Budapest, that competes in Nemzeti Bajnokság I.More

81 Staffan Tapper

Staffan Tapper is a former footballer from Sweden. He is the son of Börje Tapper.More

82 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 first match played at the ground, a 1958 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and West Germany.More

83 Malmö

Malmö is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Skåne. 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

84 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

85 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 throughout their history, adopting hoops in 1903, which have been used ever since.More

86 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 (154 km) 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. There are also more than 790 islands; principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Most of the population, including the capital Edinburgh, is concentrated in the Central Belt – the plain between the Scottish Highlands and the Southern Uplands – in the Scottish Lowlands.More

87 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 42,943 km² (16,580 sq mi) as of 2020, and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 km² (853,509 sq mi). Denmark proper has a population of 5.83 million.More

88 Boldklubben 1903

Boldklubben 1903 or B 1903 is a football club founded in 2 June 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

89 Willie Wallace

William Semple Brown Wallace is a Scottish former football player and coach. He won the European Cup with Celtic in 1967 along with several domestic honours. His other clubs included Stenhousemuir, Raith Rovers, Heart of Midlothian and Dumbarton in the Scottish leagues, and Crystal Palace in English football.More

90 Tommy Callaghan

Tommy Callaghan is a Scottish former footballer 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

91 Celtic Park

Celtic Park is the home stadium of Celtic Football Club, in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, Scotland. 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 also known as Parkhead or Paradise.More

92 Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland.More

93 Robert Héliès

Robert Héliès was a French goalkeeper and international football referee.More

94 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

95 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

96 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. Italian and Sicilian also previously served as official and cultural languages on the island for centuries, with Italian being an official language in Malta until 1934 and a majority of the current Maltese population being at least conversational in the Italian language.More

97 Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, with a population of 356,991 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

98 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

99 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

100 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

101 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

102 AEK Athens F.C.

AEK Athens Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Nea Filadelfeia, a suburb of Athens, Greece.More

103 Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic and also known as Hellas, is a country located in Southeast Europe. Its population is approximately 10.7 million as of 2018; Athens is its largest and capital city, followed by Thessaloniki. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. It shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, the Cretan Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin and the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13,676 km (8,498 mi) in length, featuring many islands, of which 227 are inhabited. Eighty percent of Greece is mountainous, with Mount Olympus being the highest peak at 2,918 metres (9,573 ft). The country consists of nine traditional geographic regions: Macedonia, Central Greece, the Peloponnese, Thessaly, Epirus, the Aegean Islands, Thrace, Crete, and the Ionian Islands.More

104 Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country consisting of a peninsula delimited by the Alps and several islands surrounding it. Italy is located in South-Central Europe, and is considered part of Western Europe. A unitary parliamentary republic with Rome as its capital, 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 enclave 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

105 Mimis Papaioannou

Dimitrios "Mimis" Papaioannou is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a forward, mostly for AEK Athens. Papaioannou was a symbol of morality and faith for AEK Athens and the Greek football. He played for the same team for the most of his career and was never shown a single red card while being spotted only three times with a yellow, showing a wonderful prudence and integrity of character. Papaioannou was considered to be the best Greek footballer of his generation and one of the best Greek footballers of all time, being awarded as the best Greek footballer of the 20th Century by IFFHS.More

106 Kostas Nikolaidis

Kostas Nikolaidis is a former Greek international striker. During his presence in 1st division of Greek Football he scored 100 goals which ranks him amongst the best scorers in the history of the organisation.More

107 Giorgos Karafeskos

Giorgos Karafeskos is a former Greek international footballer who played as a midfielder, mostly for AEK Athens.More

108 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

109 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

110 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

111 Tofiq Bahramov

Tofiq Bahramov, in England often referred to as "the Russian linesman", was a Soviet footballer and football referee from Azerbaijan.More

112 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

113 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

114 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. West Germany was formed as a political entity 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

115 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 which is part of the United Kingdom. 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

116 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

117 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

118 Herbert Wimmer

Herbert "Hacki" Wimmer (born 9 November 1944 is a German 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

119 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

120 Bökelbergstadion

The Bökelbergstadion was a football stadium in Mönchengladbach, Germany.More

121 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

122 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

123 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. It plays in red and blue colours, with various plain and striped patterns having been used.More

124 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, 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, parts of Northern Europe and Western Asia, and all of Central and North Asia. Its five climate zones were tundra, taiga, steppes, desert, and mountains. Its diverse population was collectively known as Soviet people.More

125 Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe. Turkey is bordered on its northwest by Greece and Bulgaria; north by the Black Sea; northeast by Georgia; east by Armenia, Azerbaijan, 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 are ethnic Turks. Istanbul, which straddles Europe and Asia, is the country's largest city, while Ankara is the capital.More

126 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. The team traditionally play in dark shades of red and yellow at home, with the shirts split down the middle between the two colours.More

127 Luzhniki Stadium

Luzhniki Stadium is the national stadium of Russia, 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". The stadium is located at Luzhniki Street, 24, Moscow.More

128 Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 12.4 million residents within the city limits, while over 17 million residents in the urban area, and over 20 million residents in the Moscow Metropolitan Area. The city covers an area of 2,511 square kilometres (970 sq mi), while the urban area covers 5,891 square kilometres (2,275 sq mi), and the metropolitan area covers over 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi). Moscow is among the world's largest cities, being the largest city entirely within Europe, the largest urban area in Europe, the largest metropolitan area in Europe, and also the largest city by land area on the European continent.More

129 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

130 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

131 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 population and about 3% of the UK's population. The Northern Ireland Assembly, established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998, 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.More

132 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, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven.More

133 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

134 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

135 Albert Larmour

Albert Andrew James Larmour is a former Northern Irish professional footballer.More

136 Wilfried Van Moer

Wilfried van Moer is a former Belgian football player who was born in Beveren-Waas and won the Belgian Golden Shoe three times, first in 1966 while at Antwerp then in 1969 and in 1970 while at Standard Liège.More

137 Silvester Takač

Silvester Takač is a Serbian former football forward and manager.More

138 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

139 Windsor Park

Windsor Park, its official correct name or sometimes referred to as the National Football Stadium at Windsor Park, is a football stadium in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is the home ground of Linfield FC who own the ground and rented by the IFA on behalf of the Northern Ireland national football team, and is also where the Irish Cup final is played.More

140 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 343,542 as of 2019. Belfast suffered greatly during the violence that accompanied the partition of Ireland, and especially during the more recent conflict known as 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

141 Charles Corver

Charles George Reinier Corver was a Dutch football referee.More

142 Royal Dutch Football Association

The Royal Dutch 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's and women's'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

20 October 1971

Marseille	1–2	Ajax
Gress 10'	Report	Keizer 37' Cruyff 60'

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 48,039

Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)

20 October 1971

Grasshopper	0–2	Arsenal
	Report	Kennedy 2' Graham 88'

Hardturm, Zürich

Attendance: 14,964

Referee: Michel Kitabdjian (France)

20 October 1971

Dinamo București	0–3	Feyenoord
	Report	Wery 38' Maiwald 43' Schneider 50'

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Doğan Babacan (Turkey)

20 October 1971

Benfica	2–1	CSKA Sofia
Rodrigues 51' Artur Jorge 63'	Report	Zhekov 85'

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 39,944

Referee: Aurelio Angonese (Italy)

20 October 1971

Valencia	0–1	Újpesti Dózsa
	Report	A. Dunai 55'

Estadio Luis Casanova, Valencia

Attendance: 47,695

Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales)

20 October 1971

Celtic	5–0	Sliema Wanderers
Gemmell 6' Macari 17', 41' Hood 69' Brogan 78'	Report

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 26,647

Referee: Einar Hjartarsson (Iceland)

20 October 1971

Borussia Mönchengladbach	7–1	Internazionale
Heynckes 7', 44' Le Fevre 21', 34' Netzer 42', 52' Sieloff 83' (pen.)	[1]	Boninsegna 20'

Bökelbergstadion, Mönchengladbach

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.

3 November 1971

Internazionale	4–2	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Bellugi 10' Boninsegna 13' Jair 57' Ghio 90'	Report	Le Fevre 38' Wittkamp 89'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 57,413

Referee: Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland)

20 October 1971

CSKA Moscow	1–0	Standard Liège
Kopeikin 27'	Report

Central Stadium Vladimir Lenin, Moscow

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

Second leg

3 November 1971

Ajax	4–1	Marseille
Cruyff 32, 64' Swart 37' Haan 80'	Report	Couécou 17'

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 53,785

Referee: Alastair MacKenzie (Scotland)

Ajax won 6–2 on aggregate.

3 November 1971

Arsenal	3–0	Grasshopper
Kennedy 40' George 47' Radford 84'	Report

Highbury, London

Attendance: 31,106

Referee: Ove Dahlberg (Sweden)

Arsenal won 5–0 on aggregate.

3 November 1971

Feyenoord	2–0	Dinamo București
Nunweiller 53' (o.g.) Schoenmaker 64'	Report

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Norman Burtenshaw (England)

Feyenoord won 5–0 on aggregate.

3 November 1971

CSKA Sofia	0–0	Benfica
	Report

Natsionalen Stadion Vasil Levski, Sofia

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Leonidas Vasilikopoulos (Greece)

Benfica won 2–1 on aggregate.

3 November 1971

Újpesti Dózsa	2–1	Valencia
A. Dunai 51', 54'	Report	Valdez 57'

Megyeri úti Stadion, Budapest

Attendance: 7,201

Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)

Újpesti Dózsa won 3–1 on aggregate.

3 November 1971

Sliema Wanderers	1–2	Celtic
Cocks 1'	Report	Hood 42' Lennox 57'

Empire Stadium, Gżira

Attendance: 10,416

Referee: Andreas Kouniaides (Cyprus)

Celtic won 7–1 on aggregate.

1 December 1971

Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–0	Internazionale
	Report

Olympiastadion, West Berlin

Attendance: 84,561

Referee: Jack Taylor (England)

Internazionale won 4–2 on aggregate.

3 November 1971

Standard Liège	2–0	CSKA Moscow
Takač 7', 60' (pen.)	Report

Sclessin, Liège

Attendance: 38,000

Referee: Gerhard Schulenburg (West Germany)

Standard Liège won 2–1 on aggregate.

1971–72 European Cup Second round articles: 44

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 appareances 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

San Siro, officially known as Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, is a football stadium in the San Siro district of Milan, which is the home of A.C. 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 3rd largest in the EU.More

8 Rudolf Scheurer

Rudolf Scheurer was 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 primarily located in Western Europe, consisting of metropolitan France and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland, Monaco and Italy to the east, Andorra and Spain to the south, as well as the Netherlands, Suriname and Brazil in the Americas. The country's eighteen integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 km² (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.41 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 twelve.More

13 Olympique de Marseille

Olympique de Marseille, also known as OM or simply Marseille, is a French professional football club based in Marseille. 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 management 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 a proponent of the football philosophy known as Total Football explored by Rinus Michels, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most prolific players in the history of the sport.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, 1,558,755 in the urban area and 2,480,394 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

24 Ion Nunweiller

Ion Nunweiller was a Romanian football defender and manager.More

25 Lex Schoenmaker

Alex "Lex" Schoenmaker is a Dutch former professional football player and manager.More

26 Norman Burtenshaw

Norman Charles Henry Burtenshaw OBE is an English former football referee, who officiated in the English Football League and was also on the FIFA list. During his time on the list he was based in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Outside of football he originally worked as a night telephonist before becoming a newsagent.More

27 Vasil Levski National Stadium

Vasil Levski National Stadium, named after Bulgarian national hero and revolutionary Vasil Levski, is the country's second largest stadium. The stadium has 44,000 seats and is located in the centre of Sofia, on the territory of the city's oldest and most famous park - the Borisova gradina. The Bulgaria national football team's home matches and the Bulgarian Cup finals are held at the venue, as well as athletics competitions. It was used as the home venue for Levski Sofia's Champions League games, and is often used for important derbies between the big clubs from Sofia, instead of their own home stadiums.More

28 Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the eponymous valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and has many mineral springs, such as the Sofia Central Mineral Baths. It has a humid continental climate. Being in the centre of the Balkans, it is midway between the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea, and closest to the Aegean Sea.More

29 Leonidas Vasilikopoulos

Leonidas Vasilikopoulos was a Greek Navy officer, who served as Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff in 1986–89 and then as head of the Greek National Intelligence Service in 1993–96. A distinguished officer, he is also notable for his participation in resistance groups against the Greek military junta of 1967–74, being repeatedly imprisoned and exiled as a consequence.More

1971–72 European Cup

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Contents

1971–72 European Cup Intro articles: 1

Preliminary round

First leg

Second leg

First round

First leg

Second leg

1971–72 European Cup Preliminary round articles: 142

Second round

First leg

Second leg

1971–72 European Cup Second round articles: 44