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Cup Winners Cup

Cup Winners’ Cup 1971-72

Preliminary Round

B1909 (Odense) Den FK Austria (Vienna) Aut 4-2 0-2 4-4*

Hibernians (Paola) Mlt Fram (Reykjavik) Isl 3-0 0-2 3-2x x 2nd leg in Malta

First Round

Servette FC Geneva Sui Liverpool Eng 2-1 0-2 2-3

Distillery Nir FC Barcelona Esp 1-3 0-4 1-7

Berliner FC Dynamo GDR Cardiff City Wal 1-1 1-1 2-2 5-4p

Jeunesse Hautcharage Lux Chelsea Eng 0-8 0-13 0-21x

Limerick Irl Torino Ita 0-1 0-4 0-5

KS Dinamo (Tirane) Alb FK Austria (Vienna) Aut 1-1 0-1 1-2

Stade Rennais Fra Rangers Sco 1-1 0-1 1-2

Hibernians (Paola) Mlt Steaua Bucharest Rom 0-0 0-1 0-1

Sporting CP (Lisbon) Por SFK Lyn Nor 4-0 3-0 7-0

TJ Skoda Pilzen Tch Bayern Munich FRG 0-1 1-6 1-7

Komloi Banyasz Hun Red Star (Belgrade) Yug 2-7 2-1 4-8

Olympiakos (Pireus) Gre Dinamo Moscow URS 0-2 2-1 2-3

FC Levski-Spartak Bul Sparta Rotterdam Ned 1-1 0-2 1-3

Zaglebie Sosnowiec Pol Atvidabergs FF Swe 3-4 1-1 4-5

MP (Mikkeli) Fin Eskisehirspor Tur 0-0 0-4 0-4

Beerschot VAV Bel Anorthosis (Famagusta) Cyp 7-0 1-0 8-0y

x 1st leg in Luxembourg y 2nd leg in Antwerpen

Second Round

Liverpool Eng Bayern Munich FRG 0-0 1-3 1-3

Atvidabergs FF Swe Chelsea Eng 0-0 1-1 *1-1

Torino Ita FK Austria (Vienna) Aut 1-0 0-0 1-0

Rangers Sco Sporting CP (Lisbon) Por 3-2 3-4 *6-6 aet

Beerschot VAV Bel Berliner FC Dynamo GDR 1-3 1-3 2-6

Sparta Rotterdam Ned Red Star (Belgrade) Yug 1-1 1-2 2-3

FC Barcelona Esp Steaua Bucharest Rom 0-1 1-2 1-3

Eskisehirspor Tur Dinamo Moscow URS 0-1 0-1 0-2

Quarter-Finals

Torino Ita Rangers Sco 1-1 0-1 1-2

Steaua Bucharest Rom Bayern Munich FRG 1-1 0-0 1-1*

Atvidabergs FF Swe Berliner FC Dynamo GDR 0-2 2-2 2-4x

Red Star (Belgrade) Yug Dinamo Moscow URS 1-2 1-1 2-3

y x 1st leg in Stockholm y 2nd leg in Tashkent

Semi-Finals

Bayern Munich FRG Rangers Sco 1-1 0-2 1-3

Berliner FC Dynamo GDR Dinamo Moscow URS 1-1 1-1 2-2x 1-4p

x 2nd leg in Lwow

Final, Nou Camp Stadium, Barcelona, 24 May 1972, att 35000 Rangers (2) 3 Dinamo Moscow (0) 2 23′ 1-0 R: Stein 40′ 2-0 R: Johnston 49′ 3-0 R: Johnston 60′ 3-1 DM: Estrekov 87′ 3-2 M: Makovikov

Rangers McCloy; Jardine, Johnstone, Smith, Mathieson; Greig, Conn, MacDonald, McLean, Stein, Johnston

Dinamo Moscow Pilgui; Basalayev, Dolmatov, Zykov, Dolbonosov (Gershkovich 69); Zhukov, Baydachny, Yakubik (Eshtrekov 56), Sabo; Makhovikov, Yevryuzhikhin

Referee: Ortiz de Mendíbil (Spain)

Rangers celebrated.

Dynamo protested, UEFA ignored the protest, the result stayed. Rightly or wrongly, Dynamo lost. Yes, there was pitch invasion by Rangers’ fans, cutting the game a few minutes shorter than regulated time. Yes, there was possiblity for equalizing goal.

Glasgow Rangers won the Cup – their ony Europen trophy so far. A bit tainted too – nothing wrong with the players, but their fans interupted the final beforev time. Yet, a great success.

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Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia was more fun. On one hand, the local rivalry was more complex – between Belgrade and Croat clubs, itself split into two more big rivalries – between Crvena zvezda and Partizan in Belgrade, and Dynamo (Zagreb) and Hajduk (Split) in Croatia. On the other hand, Yugoslav football was interesting to watch. It was fairly competitive championship full of technical players – the Yugoslavs boasted to be the ‘Brazilians of Europe’ for good reason.

Zeljeznicar (Sarajevo) were the surprise champions in 1972. Not a bad club, but they belonged to the ‘secondary’ clubs of the league. It was not clear why they won – Crvena zvezda had very, very good squad at that time. Hajduk too. The other two big clubs were in relative decline, yet judging by the players not exactly worse than the team from Bosna and Herzegovina. Zeljeznicar had only three noticeable players – Josip Bukal, Josip Katalinski, and Enver Hadziabdic. Bukal was getting old, and apparently no longer needed for national duty, he was allowed to join Standard (Liege) after winning the title. Katalinski was younger and just establishing his place in the national team competing with strong players from other clubs – not yet undisputed star. The rest of the team was quite unknown. At first glance, it looked like the Soviet case – smaller club, having decent squad, using rare lapse of the establishment. Unlike Zarya (Voroshilovgrad), Zeljeznicar won fairly – no bribes and wild schemes.

 

 

The captain Bukal lifts the cup of champions. I fell in love with Zeljeznicar’s kit – the unusual combination of blue and … blue. Alas, this was a beginning of dominance – it was the only title the club won in its Yugoslavian history.

The first team was: Janjuš, D. Kojović, Bećirspahić, Bratić, Katalinski, Hadžiabdić, Jelušić, Janković, Bukal, Sprečo, Deraković.