African Champions’ Cup 1972
First Round
ASFA Ouagadougou UpV Djoliba AC Mli 1-3 0-1 1-4 Aigle Nkongsamba Cam Olympique Real CAf 3-1 0-1 3-2 Al-Ahly (Tripoli) Lby Al Merreikh Sud w/o x AS Forces Armées (Dakar) Sen AS Cotonou Dah 3-0 3-2 6-2 Hafia FC (Conakry) Gui ASFAN (Niamey) Nig 4-1 1-1 5-2y Hearts of Oak Gha Abaluhya United Ken w/o x Majantja Les Kabwe Warriors Zam 2-2 0-9 2-11 AS Saint Michael Mad Young Africans Tan 2-0 0-1 2-1 Saint George Eth Lavori Publici Som 3-1 1-1 4-2 TP Mazembe Zai Police Gab 2-0 1-1 3-1 Africa Sports IvC bye Canon Yaoundé Cam bye Dynamic Togolais Tog bye Ismaili Egy bye Simba FC Uga bye WNDC Ibadan Nga bye x Al Merreikh and Abaluhya United withdrew before 1st leg; Abaluhya United were later renamed AFC Leopards y 1st leg Feb 13, 2nd leg Feb 27
Second Round
Africa Sports IvC TP Mazembe Zai 1-2 2-5 3-7 Canon Yaoundé Cam Hafia FC (Conakry) Gui 3-2 1-4 4-6z Dynamic Togolais Tog Aigle Nkongsamba Cam 1-1 3-4 4-5x AS Forces Armées (Dakar) Sen Djoliba AC Mli 2-0 0-2 2-2y Ismaili Egy Al-Ahly (Tripoli) Lby 0-1 2-1 2-2 3-4p Kabwe Warriors Zam AS Saint Michael Mad 2-1 3-0 5-1 Simba FC Uga Saint George Eth 4-0 1-1 5-1 WNDC Ibadan Nga Hearts of Oak Gha 1-0 0-3 1-3 x Dynamic Togolais were dissolved in 1974 y Forces Armées withdrew after 2nd leg z 2nd leg Apr 2
Quarterfinals
Al-Ahly (Tripoli) Lby Simba FC Uga 1-1 0-3 1-4 Hafia FC (Conakry) Gui Djoliba AC Mli 3-0 1-2 4-2x [Aly Badra Kolev, Thiam Ousmane “Tolo”, Chérif Souleymane] [Cheick Fantamady Diallo 1, ? 2-1; Petit Sory 28] Hearts of Oak Gha Kabwe Warriors Zam 7-2 2-1 9-3 TP Mazembe Zai Aigle Nkongsamba Cam 4-1 2-1 6-2 x 1st leg Sep 17, 2nd leg Oct 22
Semifinals
Hearts of Oak Gha Simba FC Uga 1-1 0-1 1-2 TP Mazembe Zai Hafia FC (Conakry) Gui 3-2 o/w x [Bwanga 22, Tshinabu 41, 3-2; Bwanga 7og, Soriba Edenté 65] x 1st leg Nov 5, 2nd leg Nov 19; TP Mazembe refused to play the 2nd leg contesting the eligibility of the referees assigned by CAF; CAF awarded the 2nd leg 2-0 by forfeit to Hafia which thus qualified for the final
Final (Dec 10 and 22) Stade du 28 Septembre, Conakry and Nakivubo, Kampala
Hafia FC (Conakry) Gui Simba FC Uga 4-2 3-2 7-4
[Petit Sory 19, Chérif Souleymane 35, 3-2, Aliou N’Jo Léa 4-2; Wandera 2-1, 2-2]
[Wasswa 74, Sukuma 88; Chérif Souleymane 67, Thiam Ousmane “Tolo” 69, Aliou N’Jo Léa 76]
Simba FC, the Army team from Uganda, lost the final.
Hafia won their first African cup. Unfortunately, no picture of the victors seems to exist.
Captains Moore and Beckenbauer are all smiles before the beginning of the second leg in West Berlin. They respected each other, but friends or no friends, the German smile lasted longer.
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3. Malaysia XXX 3-0 1 0 2 3- 9 2
4. USA XXX 0 1 2 0-10 1
3. Burma XXX 2-0 1 0 2 2- 2 2
4. Sudan XXX 0 0 3 1- 5 0
3. Iran XXX 1-0 1 0 2 1- 9 2
4. Brazil XXX 0 1 2 4- 6 1
3. Denmark XXX 3-1 1 1 1 4- 6 3
4. Morocco XXX 0 0 3 1-11 0
3. West Germany XXX 1-1 0 1 2 4- 8 1
4. Mexico XXX 0 1 2 1-10 1
Years later the Soviet team doctor revealed that the match with DDR was fixed by request of the Soviet coach.
Hungary won the silver medals.
Olympic champions for the first time. And the rise of Polish team began, culminating at the 1974 World Cup.
Hungary in front getting the silver medals.
Olympic gold for Poland. 
In front of Van den Daele (5), Piot wins the ball against Riva. Belgium won 2-1 and qualified.
Russians to the ½ finals – Revaz Dzodzuashvili waives and smiles after the final whistle. Russians? Well, in terms of USSR. By today’s measure, not so – Dzodzuashvili is Georgian, Banishevsky – Azerbaijani (although an ethnic Russian), and Kozinkevich – Ukrainian.
A moment from the Bucharest leg: Nunweiler VI of Romania gets ahead of Szucz (Hungary, at the left). The Romanian playmaker was part of great footballing dynasty – he was the 6th (as his media name shows) Nunweiler gracing Romanian football. Alas, Hungary went ahead (they had players with Roman numbers attached to their names too.)
Hungary managing measly 1-1 against France in Budapest. The qualification group was barely won by the Hungarians.
New kids to continue Hungarian glory: the goalkeeper Rothermel guarded by his club teammate Laczko in domestic league match in 1971-72 season. Their club – Tatabanya – was small one. Rothermel never became star goalkeeper – he was mostly second goalie in the national team. However, he was good enough to move to a better club – he became teammate of Ferenc Bene in Ujpest Dosza (Budapest), arguably, the best Hungarian club in the 1970s.
Lajos Kocsis, from Honved (Budapest), was considered one of the young hopes of Hungarian football. He was 25 years old in 1972, having played in the Olympics 1968, so it is hard to see why he was considered ‘a hope for the future’.
Final Tournament (Cameroon)
3.Kenya 3 0 2 1 3- 4 2
4.Togo 3 0 2 1 4- 6 2
3 Morocco 3 0 3 0 3- 3 3
Host Cameroon ended with bronze mwdals
Congo’s captain Ndoulou gets the champion’s cup.
Mali finished with silver medals.
Bottom row from left: Amoyen – coach, Matsima, Mboungou, Tandou, Oba – assistant coach, Mayala – assistant coach
Wacker (Innsbruck) clearly was no match of Benfica (Lisbon). Fear and trembling, when Jaime Graca cannoned the ball in the direction of the Austrian net. Benfica was in decline, but still was much, much stronger team than any Austrian one.
The next round opposed Benfica to CSKA (Sofia) and the Bulgarians were gone. CSKA – Benfica was tough fixture. Benfica won with difficulty – and here CSKA attacks once again. Attacks, attacks, but goals count, not fancy dribbling.
Brussel, June 14, Astridpark Soviet Union 1-0 Hungary [Konkov 53] [missed penalty: Zámbö 85 (saved)] [ref: Glöckner (East Germany); att: 2,000]
MATCH FOR THIRD PLACE Ličge, June 17, Stade Sclessin Belgium 2-1
FINAL Bruxelles, June 18, Stade Heysel West Germany 3-0 Soviet Union [G.Müller 27, 58, Wimmer 52] [ref: Marschall (Austria), att: 50,000]
Topscorer overall: G.Müller (West Germany) 11 goals
The centre-forward Pano often had to play behind his own goalkeeper, the observers said. The Albanians spent most time in desperate defense, involving everybody.
Yet, the goalie Muhedini had to fish out the ball from his net.
They dominated the matches: on this occasion the left winger Marashliev did not reach the ball, but there are three Bulgarian players and only two Albanians.
And here the goalie is alone and desperate against two strikers. Clumsy too, Muhedini.
European ¼ finals. 
[Apr 30, Beograd]
