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 gameEdit

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

First roundEdit

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

First legEdit

15 September 1971

Limerick	0–1	Torino
		Rampanti 8'

Thomond Park, Limerick

15 September 1971

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

Rennes

Attendance: 20,000

15 September 1971

TJ Škoda Plzeň	0–1	Bayern Munich
		Sühnholz 76'

Plzeň

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Xanhoulis

Second legEdit

29 September 1971

Torino	4–0	Limerick
Toschi 46' 74' 83' Luppi 80'

Turin

Torino won 5–0 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

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

Munich

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Mihas

Bayern won 7–1 on aggregate.

Second roundEdit

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

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 shootout which Sporting won 3-0; UEFA later ruled that Rangers had won on away goals.

First legEdit

20 October 1971

Torino	1–0	Austria Wien
Agroppi 81'

Turin

Referee: Weyland (GDR)

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 legEdit

3 November 1971

Austria Wien	0–0	Torino

Vienna

Referee: Robert Héliès (FRA)

Torino won 1–0 on aggregate.

3 November 1971

Sporting CP	4–3	Rangers
Yazalde 25' Laranjeira 38' Pedro Gomes 87' Fernando Peres 115'		Stein 26', 46' Henderson 100'

Lisbon

Attendance: 60,000

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

Quarter-finalsEdit

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

First legEdit

8 March 1972

Torino	1–1	Rangers
Pulici 61'		Johnston 12'

Turin

Second legEdit

22 March 1972

Rangers	1–0	Torino
MacDonald 46'

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow

Rangers won 2–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finalsEdit

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayern Munich	1–3	Rangers	1–1	0–2
Dynamo Berlin	2–2(p)	Dynamo Moscow	1–1	1–1

First legEdit

5 April 1972

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

Grünwalder Stadion, Munich

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Radountschev (BUL)

5 April 1972

Dynamo Berlin	1–1	Dynamo Moscow
Johannsen 83' (pen.)	Report Report 2	Yevriuzhikin 54'

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark, Berlin

Second legEdit

19 April 1972

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

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Francesconi (ITA)

Rangers won 3–1 on aggregate.

20 April 1972

Dynamo Moscow	1–1	Dynamo Berlin
Yevriuzhikin 58'	Report Report 2	Netz 37'

Druzhba Stadium, Lviv

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

FinalEdit

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)

ReferencesEdit

^ 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. BBC. Retrieved 19 January 2018.

External linksEdit

1971-72 competition at UEFA website
Cup Winners' Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Cup Winners Cup Seasons 1971-72–results, protocols
website Football Archive 1971–72 Cup Winners Cup^{[permanent dead link]}

[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. BBC. Retrieved 19 January 2018.

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1971–72 European Cup Winners' Cup

Contents

Preliminary gameEdit

First roundEdit

First legEdit

Second legEdit

Second roundEdit

First legEdit

Second legEdit

Quarter-finalsEdit

First legEdit

Second legEdit

Semi-finalsEdit

First legEdit

Second legEdit

FinalEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

External linksEdit