1971–72 European Cup Winners' Cup

1971–72 European Cup Winners' Cup
Final positions
Champions	Rangers (1st title)
Runners-up	Dynamo Moscow
	← 1970–71 1972–73 →

The 1971–72 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by Rangers, who defeated Dynamo Moscow in the final.^[1]

Preliminary round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
BK 1909	4–4 (a)	Austria Wien	4–2	0–2
Hibernians	3–2	Fram	3–0	0–2

First leg[]

18 August 1971

BK 1909	4–2	Austria Wien
47' 57' (pen.) Berg 75' H Andersen 80'	Report	37' 60'

Odense Stadium, Odense

Attendance: 10,561

Referee: Erik Axelryd (Sweden)

28 August 1971

Hibernians	3–0	Fram
Cini 65' Micallef 70' 75'	Report

Empire Stadium, Gzira

Attendance: 3,383

Referee: Paolo Toselli (Italy)

Second leg[]

28 August 1971

Austria Wien	2–0	BK 1909
21' Köglberger 41'	Report

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 7,873

Referee: Sándor Petri (Hungary)

4–4 on aggregate; Austria Wien won on away goals.

1 September 1971

Fram	2–0	Hibernians
22' 67'	Report

Empire Stadium, Gzira

Attendance: 2,194

Referee: Francesco Francescon (Italy)

Hibernians won 3–2 on aggregate.

First round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Distillery	1–7	Barcelona	1–3	0–4
Hibernians	0–1	Steaua Bucharest	0–0	0–1
Servette	2–3	Liverpool	2–1	0–2
TJ Škoda Plzeň	1–7	Bayern Munich	0–1	1–6
Limerick	0–5	Torino	0–1	0–4
Dinamo Tirana	1–2	Austria Wien	1–1	0–1
Rennes	1–2	Rangers	1–1	0–1
Sporting CP	7–0	Lyn	4–0	3–0
Zagłębie Sosnowiec	4–5	Åtvidaberg	3–4	1–1
Jeunesse Hautcharage	0–21	Chelsea	0–8	0–13
Beerschot	8–0	Anorthosis Famagusta	7–0	1–0
BFC Dynamo	2–2 (5–4 p)	Cardiff City	1–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Levski-Spartak	1–3	Sparta Rotterdam	1–1	0–2
Komlói Bányász	4–8	Red Star Belgrade	2–7	2–1
Mikkeli	0–4	Eskişehirspor	0–0	0–4
Olympiacos	2–3	Dynamo Moscow	0–2	2–1

First leg[]

15 September 1971

Distillery	1–3	Barcelona
O'Neill 77'	Report	Alfonseda 44' Asensi 57' 85'

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Antoine Queudeville (Luxembourg)

14 September 1971

Hibernians	0–0	Steaua București
	Report

National Stadium, Ta' Qali, Valletta

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: (Yugoslavia)

15 September 1971

Servette	2–1	Liverpool
Dörfel 25' 48'	Report	Lawler 80'

Stade des Charmilles, Geneva

Attendance: 21,000

Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)

15 September 1971

TJ Škoda Plzeň	0–1	Bayern Munich
		Sühnholz 76'

Plzeň

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Costas Xanthoulis (Cyprus)

15 September 1971

Limerick	0–1	Torino
		Rampanti 8'

Thomond Park, Limerick

15 September 1971

Dinamo Tirana	1–1	Austria Wien
Çeço 70' (pen.)	Report	Dirnberger 64'

Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana

Attendance: 18,051

Referee: Günter Männig (West Germany)

15 September 1971

Stade Rennes	1–1	Rangers
Redon 11'		Johnston 68'

Rennes

Attendance: 20,000

15 September 1971

Sporting CP	4–0	Lyn
Yazalde 8' Lourenço 20' 90' Marinho 88'	Report

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 17,022

Referee: Magnús Pétursson (Iceland)

15 September 1971

Zagłębie Sosnowiec	3–4	Åtvidaberg
Jarosik 15' Gzel 50' Gałeczka 82'	Report	Sandberg 30' (pen.) 47' Torstensson 62' Edström 71'

Ludowy, Sosnowiec

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Tsvetan Stanev (Bulgaria)

15 September 1971

Jeunesse Hautcharage	0–8	Chelsea
	Report	Osgood 2' 28' 42' Houseman 9' 29' Hollins 37' Baldwin 74' Webb 81'

Stade Municipal, Luxembourg

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Ferdinand Biwersi (West Germany)

23 September 1971

Beerschot	7–0	Anorthosis Famagusta
Tolsa 8' 29' 21' 60' 74' (og) Claessen 76' 87'	Report

Olympisch, Antwerp

Attendance: 5,587

Referee: Norbert Rolles (Luxembourg)

15 September 1971

BFC Dynamo	1–1	Cardiff City
90'	Report	Gibson 75'

Dynamo-Sportforum, East Berlin

Attendance: 11,651

Referee: Rolf Nyhus (Norway)

16 September 1971

Levski-Spartak	1–1	Sparta Rotterdam
Panov 40'	Report	Bosveld 81'

Vasil Levski, Sofia

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Timoleon Latsios (Greece)

15 September 1971

Komlói Bányász	2–7	Red Star Belgrade
14' Horváth 44'	Report	Karasi 19' Filipović 33' 53' 58' 71' Antonijević 41' Krivokuća 62'

, Komló

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Francisco Lobo (Portugal)

15 September 1971

Mikkeli	0–0	Eskişehirspor
	Report

Urheilupuisto, Mikkeli

Attendance: 3,796

Referee: Erik Axelryd (Sweden)

15 September 1971

Olympiacos	0–2	Dynamo Moscow
	Report	Kozlov 83' 87'

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 41,817

Referee: Gerhard Kunze (East Germany)

Second leg[]

29 September 1971

Barcelona	4–0	Distillery
Marcial 4' 29' 51' 66'	Report

Camp Nou, Barcelona

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Paul Bonett (Malta)

Barcelona won 7–1 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Steaua București	1–0	Hibernians
9' (o.g.)	Report

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: (Turkey)

Steaua București won 1–0 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Liverpool	2–0	Servette
Hughes 27' Heighway 59'	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 38,591

Referee: Rudi Glöckner (East Germany)

Liverpool won 3–2 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Bayern Munich	6–1	TJ Škoda Plzeň
G. Müller 1', 75' Hoffmann 50' (oal), 70' Krauthausen 15' Roth 88'		5'

Munich

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Christos Michas (Greece)

Bayern Munich won 7–1 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Torino	4–0	Limerick
46' 74' 83' 80'

Turin

Torino won 5–0 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Austria Wien	1–0	Dinamo Tirana
Riedl 22'	Report

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 1,425

Referee: Josef Poucek (Czechoslovakia)

Austria Wien won 2–1 on aggregate.

28 September 1971

Rangers	1–0	Stade Rennes
MacDonald 37'

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow

Attendance: 40,000

Rangers won 2–1 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Lyn	0–3	Sporting CP
	Report	Yazalde 35' 70' Dinis 42'

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 3,214

Referee: Magnús Pétursson (Iceland)

Sporting CP won 7–0 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Åtvidaberg	1–1	Zagłębie Sosnowiec
Ljungberg 15'	Report	Jarosik 7'

Kopparvallen, Åtvidaberg

Attendance: 2,678

Referee: Kaj Rasmussen (Denmark)

Åtvidaberg won 5–4 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Chelsea	13–0	Jeunesse Hautcharage
Osgood 4' 6' 63' 81' 85' Hudson 12' Hollins 13' (pen.) Webb 22' Harris 43' Baldwin 61' 69' 90' Houseman 78'	Report

Stamford Bridge, London

Attendance: 27,621

Referee: Richard Navarra (Malta)

Chelsea won 21–0 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Anorthosis Famagusta	0–1	Beerschot
	Report	90' (pen.)

Olympisch, Antwerp

Attendance: 2,089

Referee: Marcel Hermann (Luxembourg)

Beerschot won 8–0 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Cardiff City	1–1 (a.e.t.)	BFC Dynamo
Clark 59'	Report	62'
Penalties
Gibson Murray King Bell Woodruff	4–5	Terletzki Carow

Ninian Park, Cardiff

Attendance: 12,676

Referee: Franz Geluck (Belgium)

2–2 on aggregate; BFC Dynamo won 5–4 on penalties.

29 September 1971

Sparta Rotterdam	2–0	Levski-Spartak
Kristensen 5' Kowalik 49'	Report

Stadion Spangen, Rotterdam

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: William Mullan (Scotland)

Sparta won 3–1 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Red Star Belgrade	1–2	Komlói Bányász
Aćimović 25'	Report	35' Filipović 60'

Red Star Stadium, Belgrade

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Valentin Lipatov (Russia)

Red Star Belgrade won 8–4 on aggregate.

29 September 1971

Eskişehirspor	4–0	Mikkeli
Heper 8' 15' 40' 80'	Report

Eskişehir Atatürk Stadı, Eskişehir

Attendance: 11,935

Referee: Constantin Bărbulescu (Romania)

Eskişehirspor won 4–0 on aggregate.

30 September 1971

Dynamo Moscow	1–2	Olympiacos
Sabo 6'	Report	Triantafyllos 6' Gaitatzis 45'

Central Dynamo Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Anton Bucheli (Switzerland)

Dynamo Moscow won 3–2 on aggregate.

Second round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Barcelona	1–3	Steaua Bucharest	0–1	1–2
Liverpool	1–3	Bayern Munich	0–0	1–3
Torino	1–0	Austria Wien	1–0	0–0
Rangers	6–6 (a) ¹	Sporting CP	3–2	3–4 (a.e.t.)
Åtvidaberg	1–1 (a)	Chelsea	0–0	1–1
Beerschot	2–6	BFC Dynamo	1–3	1–3
Sparta Rotterdam	2–3	Red Star Belgrade	1–1	1–2
Eskişehirspor	0–2	Dynamo Moscow	0–1	0–1

¹The second leg was originally 3–2 to Sporting after 90 minutes, and 4–3 to Sporting after extra time. The referee erroneously ordered a penalty shoot-out which Sporting won 3–0; UEFA later ruled that Rangers had won on away goals.

First leg[]

20 October 1971

Barcelona	0–1	Steaua București
	Report	Năstase 12'

Camp Nou, Barcelona

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: (Republic of Ireland)

20 October 1971

Torino	1–0	Austria Wien
Agroppi 81'

Turin

Referee: Hans-Joachim Weyland (East Germany)

20 October 1971

Rangers	3–2	Sporting CP
Stein 5', 10' Henderson 30'		Chico Faria 67' Wágner 88'

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow

Attendance: 50,000

Second leg[]

3 November 1971

Steaua București	2–1	Barcelona
Năstase 53' (pen.), 60'	Report	Asensi 50'

Stadionul Republicii, Bucharest

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: (Switzerland)

Steaua București won 3–1 on aggregate.

3 November 1971

Austria Wien	0–0	Torino

Vienna

Referee: Robert Héliès (France)

Torino won 1–0 on aggregate.

3 November 1971

Sporting CP	4–3 (a.e.t.)	Rangers
Yazalde 25' Laranjeira 38' Pedro Gomes 87' Fernando Peres 115'		Stein 26', 46' Henderson 100'

Lisbon

Attendance: 60,000

6–6 on aggregate; Rangers won on away goals.^[2]

Quarter-finals[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Steaua Bucharest	1–1 (a)	Bayern Munich	1–1	0–0
Torino	1–2	Rangers	1–1	0–1
Åtvidaberg	2–4	BFC Dynamo	0–2	2–2
Red Star Belgrade	2–3	Dynamo Moscow	1–2	1–1

First leg[]

8 March 1972

Steaua București	1–1	Bayern Munich
Tătaru 17'	Report	Müller 70'

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: (Netherlands)

8 March 1972

Torino	1–1	Rangers
Pulici 61'		Johnston 12'

Turin

Second leg[]

22 March 1972

Bayern Munich	0–0	Steaua București
	Report

Grünwalder Stadion, Munich

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: (Czechoslovakia)

1–1 on aggregate; Bayern Munich won on away goals.

22 March 1972

Rangers	1–0	Torino
MacDonald 46'

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow

Rangers won 2–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayern Munich	1–3	Rangers	1–1	0–2
BFC Dynamo	2–2 (1–4 p)	Dynamo Moscow	1–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)

First leg[]

5 April 1972

Bayern Munich	1–1	Rangers
Breitner 21'	Report Report 2	Zobel 47' (o.g.)

Grünwalder Stadion, Munich

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Liuben Radunchev (Bulgaria)

5 April 1972

BFC Dynamo	1–1	Dynamo Moscow
83' (pen.)	Report Report 2 Report 3	Yevriuzhikin 54'

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark, Berlin

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Gusztav Bircsak (Hungary)

Second leg[]

19 April 1972

Rangers	2–0	Bayern Munich
Jardine 1' Parlane 22'	Report Report 2

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Francesco Francescon (Italy)

Rangers won 3–1 on aggregate.

20 April 1972

Dynamo Moscow	1–1 (a.e.t.)	BFC Dynamo
Yevriuzhikin 58'	Report Report 2	Netz 37'
Penalties
	4–1

Druzhba Stadium, Lviv

2–2 on aggregate; Dynamo Moscow won 4–1 on penalties.

Final[]

24 May 1972

20:30

Rangers	3–2	Dynamo Moscow
Stein 23' Johnston 40', 49'	Report Report 2	Eshtrekov 60' Makhovikov 87'

Camp Nou, Barcelona

Attendance: 24,701

Referee: José María Ortiz de Mendíbil (Spain)

References[]

^ Harris, Daniel (4 September 2014). "The forgotten story of … Rangers' 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup win". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
^ "A sporting nation: Rangers triumph in Europe 1972". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 January 2018.

External links[]

[theguardian-1] Harris, Daniel (4 September 2014). "The forgotten story of … Rangers' 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup win". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2014.

[rfc72-2] "A sporting nation: Rangers triumph in Europe 1972". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 January 2018.

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