1965–66 European Cup

1965–66 European Cup

Final positions
Champions	Real Madrid (6th title)
Runners-up	Partizan
← 1964–65 1966–67 →

The 1965–66 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won by Real Madrid, winners of the first five European Cups from 1956 to 1960, for the sixth time in a close final against Partizan. Real Madrid eliminated title-holders Internazionale in the semi-finals.

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Feyenoord	2–6	Real Madrid	2–1	0–5
17 Nëntori Tirana	0–1	Kilmarnock	0–0	0–1
Fenerbahçe	1–5	Anderlecht	0–0	1–5
Lyn	6–8	Derry City	5–3	1–5
Panathinaikos	4–2	Sliema Wanderers	4–1	0–1
Keflavík	2–13	Ferencváros	1–4	1–9
Dinamo Bucharest	7–2	Boldklubben 1909	4–0	3–2
HJK	2–9	Manchester United	2–3	0–6
Drumcondra	1–3	Vorwärts Berlin	1–0	0–3
Stade Dudelange	0–18	Benfica	0–8	0–10
Djurgården	2–7	Levski Sofia	2–1	0–6
Lausanne Sports	0–4	Sparta Prague	0–0	0–4
LASK Linz	2–5	Górnik Zabrze	1–3	1–2
APOEL	0–10	Werder Bremen	0–5	0–5
Partizan	4–2	Nantes	2–0	2–2

Note: Starting in the 1964/65 tournament, only the title holder, Internazionale, joined directly in the first round.

First leg

8 September 1965	Feyenoord	2–1	Real Madrid	Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam Attendance: 62,610 Referee: Karol Galba (Czechoslovakia)
	Venneker  78' Kruiver  85'	Report Gamesheet	Puskás  35'

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8 September 1965	17 Nëntori Tirana	0–0	Kilmarnock	Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Franz Mayer (Austria)
		Report Gamesheet

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8 September 1965	Fenerbahçe	0–0	Anderlecht	BJK İnönü Stadium, Istanbul Attendance: 30,140 Referee: Nicolae Mihăilescu (Romania)
		Report Gamesheet

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31 August 1965	Lyn	5–3	Derry City	Bislett Stadion, Oslo Attendance: 15,237 Referee: Rudolf Glöckner (East Germany)
	Berg  4', 32' Dybwad-Olsen  19', 50' Stavrum  62'	Report Gamesheet	R. Wood  10' Gilbert  24', 34'

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26 September 1965	Panathinaikos	4–1	Sliema Wanderers	Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, Athens Attendance: 23,726 Referee: Atanas Stavrev Kiryakov (Bulgaria)
	Sakelaridis  5' Loukanidis  18' Domazos  32' Kamaras  61'	Report Gamesheet	Cini  36'

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29 August 1965	Keflavík	1–4	Ferencváros	Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík Attendance: 5,422 Referee: Bobby Davidson (Scotland)
	Júlíusson  67'	Report Gamesheet	Németh  27' Karába  37' Varga  38' Albert  57'

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28 September 1965	Dinamo Bucharest	4–0	Boldklubben 1909	Stadionul Republicii, Bucharest Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Stjepan Varaždinec (Yugoslavia)
	Ene  50' Gergely  75' Fratila  85', 88'	Report Gamesheet

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22 September 1965	HJK	2–3	Manchester United	Olympic Stadium, Helsinki Attendance: 15,583 Referee: Ryszard Banasiuk (Poland)
	Pahlman  30' Peltoniemi  71'	Report Gamesheet	Herd  1' Connelly  15' Law  36'

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15 September 1965	Drumcondra	1–0	Vorwärts Berlin	Tolka Park, Dublin Attendance: 8,600 Referee: Leopold Sylvain Horn (Netherlands)
	Morrissey  65'	Report Gamesheet

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30 September 1965	Stade Dudelange	0–8	Benfica	Stade Émile Mayrisch, Esch-sur-Alzette Attendance: 4,570 Referee: Werner Treichel (West Germany)
		Report Gamesheet	Pedras  15', 21', 78' Pereira  29' Brenner  46' (o.g.) Yaúca  59', 81' Santana  85'

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12 September 1965	Djurgården	2–1	Levski Sofia	Olympic Stadium, Stockholm Attendance: 3,311 Referee: Joseph Hannet (Belgium)
	Nilsson  40', 63'	Report Gamesheet	Sokolov  9'

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22 September 1965	Lausanne Sports	0–0	Sparta Prague	Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne Attendance: 25,614 Referee: Vital Loraux (Belgium)
		Report Gamesheet

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15 September 1965	LASK Linz	1–3	Górnik Zabrze	Linzer Stadion, Linz Attendance: 18,887 Referee: Jenő Gere (Hungary)
	Köglberger  60'	Report Gamesheet	Musiałek  19' Wilczek  22', 55'

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6 October 1965	APOEL	0–5	Werder Bremen	Volksparkstadion, Hamburg Attendance: 8,208 Referee: Marcel Zeimes (Luxembourg)
		Report Gamesheet	Matischak  13', 32' Podlich  31' Schulz  45' Zebrowski  78'

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22 September 1965	Partizan	2–0	Nantes	JNA Stadium, Belgrade Attendance: 20,464 Referee: Francesco Francescon (Italy)
	Galić  37' Hasanagić  48'	Report Gamesheet

Second leg

22 September 1965	Real Madrid	5–0	Feyenoord	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 80,000 Referee: Jack Taylor (England)
	Puskás  10', 20', 29', 86' Grosso  44'	Report Gamesheet

Real Madrid won 6–2 on aggregate.

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29 September 1965	Kilmarnock	1–0	17 Nëntori Tirana	Rugby Park, Kilmarnock Attendance: 15,816 Referee: Birger Nilsen (Norway)
	Black  77'	Report Gamesheet

Kilmarnock won 1–0 on aggregate.

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15 September 1965	Anderlecht	5–1	Fenerbahçe	Émile Versé Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 34,287 Referee: Ernest Crawford (England)
	Van Himst  32' Stockman  42', 50', 70' Hanon  89'	Report Gamesheet	Altıparmak  84'

Anderlecht won 5–1 on aggregate.

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9 September 1965	Derry City	5–1	Lyn	Brandywell Stadium, Derry Attendance: 6,968 Referee: Willem Schalks (Netherlands)
	Wilson  3', 17' Crossan  49' R. Wood  67' McGeough  71'	Report Gamesheet	Stavrum  44'

Derry City won 8–6 on aggregate.

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10 October 1965	Sliema Wanderers	1–0	Panathinaikos	Manoel Island Football Ground, Gżira Attendance: 7,697 Referee: Concetto Lo Bello (Italy)
	Micallef  30'	Report Gamesheet

Panathinaikos won 4–2 on aggregate.

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8 September 1965	Ferencváros	9–1	Keflavík	Népstadion, Budapest Attendance: 18,088 Referee: Wacław Majdan (Poland)
	Albert  7', 45', 77', 82', 89' Novák  11', 22' Varga  23', 34'	Report Gamesheet	Jóhansson  36'

Ferencváros won 13–2 on aggregate.

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6 October 1965	Boldklubben 1909	2–3	Dinamo Bucharest	Odense Stadion, Odense Attendance: 7,596 Referee: Jean Tricot (France)
	Petersen  29' Hansen  34'	Report Gamesheet	Nunweiller  8' Pârcălab  12' Ene  44'

Dinamo Bucharest won 7–2 on aggregate.

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6 October 1965	Manchester United	6–0	HJK	Old Trafford, Manchester Attendance: 30,388 Referee: Manuel Lousada Rodrigues (Portugal)
	Connelly  15', 47', 73' Best  44', 52' Charlton  76'	Report Gamesheet

Manchester United won 9–2 on aggregate.

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22 October 1965	Vorwärts Berlin	3–0	Drumcondra	Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark, Berlin Attendance: 12,971 Referee: Kurt Lindberg (Sweden)
	Vogt  22' Begerad  51' Piepenburg  68'	Report Gamesheet

Vorwärts Berlin won 3–1 on aggregate.

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5 October 1965	Benfica	10–0	Stade Dudelange	Estadio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 4,598 Referee: Robert Lacoste (France)
	Eusébio  9', 30', 32', 83' José Augusto  11', 24', 60' Pinto  49' Guerreiro  54' Torres  70'	Report Gamesheet

Benfica won 18–0 on aggregate.

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3 October 1965	Levski Sofia	6–0	Djurgården	Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia Attendance: 15,769 Referee: Dittmar Huber (Switzerland)
	Asparuhov  15', 19' Iliev  34', 47' Nikolov  35' Abadzhiev  60'	Report Gamesheet

Levski Sofia won 7–2 on aggregate.

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29 September 1965	Sparta Prague	4–0	Lausanne Sports	Letná Stadium, Prague Attendance: 14,659 Referee: Ferdinand Marschall (Austria)
	Mráz  21', 24', 77' Dyba  82'	Report Gamesheet

Sparta Prague won 4–0 on aggregate.

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22 September 1965	Górnik Zabrze	2–1	LASK Linz	Silesian Stadium, Chorzów Attendance: 38,887 Referee: Karl Göppel (Switzerland)
	Pohl  9' Szołtysik  22'	Report Gamesheet	Lipošinović  34' (pen.)

Górnik Zabrze won 5–2 on aggregate.

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13 October 1965	Werder Bremen	5–0	APOEL	Weserstadion, Bremen Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Tage Sørensen (Denmark)
	Danielsen  36', 53' Ferner  41' Höttges  63', 83' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet

Werder Bremen won 10–0 on aggregate.

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13 October 1965	Nantes	2–2	Partizan	Stade Marcel Saupin, Nantes Attendance: 16,007 Referee: Gaspar Pintado Viu (Spain)
	Magny  32' Blanchet  70'	Report Gamesheet	Kovačević  43' Galić  47'

Partizan won 4–2 on aggregate.

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Anderlecht	9–0	Derry City	9–0	(w/o)
Kilmarnock	3–7	Real Madrid	2–2	1–5
Dinamo Bucharest	2–3	Internazionale	2–1	0–2
Ferencváros	3–1	Panathinaikos	0–0	3–1
Sparta Prague	5–1	Górnik Zabrze	3–0	2–1
Partizan	3–1	Werder Bremen	3–0	0–1
Vorwärts Berlin	1–5	Manchester United	0–2	1–3
Levski Sofia	4–5	Benfica	2–2	2–3

First leg

23 November 1965	Anderlecht	9–0	Derry City	Émile Versé Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 23,589 Referee: Joaquim Fernandes Campos (Portugal)
	Jurion  5' Van Himst  13', 66' Puis  43', 83' Mulder  46', 48', 65' Stockman  90'	Report Gamesheet

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17 November 1965	Kilmarnock	2–2	Real Madrid	Rugby Park, Kilmarnock Attendance: 25,385 Referee: Gerhard Schulenburg (West Germany)
	McLean  22' (pen.) McInally  60'	Report Gamesheet	Pirri  25' Amancio  55'

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1 December 1965	Dinamo Bucharest	2–1	Internazionale	23 August Stadium, Bucharest Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Karl Göppel (Switzerland)
	Frăţilă  25' Haidu  51'	Report Gamesheet	Peiró  12'

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10 November 1965	Ferencváros	0–0	Panathinaikos	Népstadion Budapest Attendance: 12,278 Referee: Joseph Hannet (Belgium)
		Report Gamesheet

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24 November 1965	Sparta Prague	3–0	Górnik Zabrze	Letná Stadium, Prague Attendance: 19,491 Referee: Rudolf Glöckner (East Germany)
	Kvašňák  35' (pen.) Jílek  64' Vrána  80'	Report Gamesheet

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9 November 1965	Partizan	3–0	Werder Bremen	JNA Stadium, Belgrade Attendance: 24,203 Referee: Bruno de Marchi (Italy)
	Jusufi  70' Hasanagić  75' Pirmajer  89'	Report Gamesheet

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17 November 1965	Vorwärts Berlin	0–2	Manchester United	Walter-Ulbricht-Stadion, Berlin Attendance: 23,230 Referee: Hans Carlsson (Sweden)
		Report Gamesheet	Law  73' Connelly  80'

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10 November 1965	Levski Sofia	2–2	Benfica	Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia Attendance: 25,315 Referee: Gyula Gere (Hungary)
	Asparuhov  5' Nikolov  59'	Report Gamesheet	Eusébio  22', 63'

Second leg

	Derry City	Match unplayed	Anderlecht
		Report Gamesheet

Anderlecht won 9–0 on aggregate.

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1 December 1965	Real Madrid	5–1	Kilmarnock	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 80,000 Referee: Giulio Campanati (Italy)
	Grosso  25', 36' Ruiz  26' Gento  58' Pirri  90'	Report Gamesheet	McIlroy  22'

Real Madrid won 7–3 on aggregate.

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16 December 1965	Internazionale	2–0	Dinamo Bucharest	San Siro, Milan Attendance: 15,324 Referee: Franz Mayer (Austria)
	Mazzola  47' (pen.) Facchetti  87'	Report Gamesheet

Internazionale won 3–2 on aggregate.

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17 November 1965	Panathinaikos	1–3	Ferencváros	Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, Athens Attendance: 24,919 Referee: Vladimir Stanković (Yugoslavia)
	Domazos  48'	Report Gamesheet	Karába  8' Fenyvesi  27' Albert  63'

Ferencváros won 3–1 on aggregate.

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28 November 1965	Górnik Zabrze	1–2	Sparta Prague	Silesian Stadium, Chorzów Attendance: 46,609 Referee: Alexandru Toth (Romania)
	Szołtysik  84'	Report Gamesheet	Mráz  17', 78'

Sparta Prague won 5–1 on aggregate.

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17 November 1965	Werder Bremen	1–0	Partizan	Weserstadion, Bremen Attendance: 28,478 Referee: Thomas Wharton (Scotland)
	Schütz  32'	Report Gamesheet

Partizan won 3–1 on aggregate.

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1 December 1965	Manchester United	3–1	Vorwärts Berlin	Old Trafford, Manchester Attendance: 30,082 Referee: Juan Gardeazábal Garay (Spain)
	Herd  19', 39', 84'	Report Gamesheet	Piepenburg  82'

Manchester United won 5–1 on aggregate.

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8 December 1965	Benfica	3–2	Levski Sofia	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Henri Faucheux (France)
	Eusébio  6' Coluna  28' Torres  46'	Report Gamesheet	Asparuhov  3', 75'

Benfica won 5–4 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Anderlecht	3–4	Real Madrid	1–0	2–4
Internazionale	5–1	Ferencváros	4–0	1–1
Sparta Prague	4–6	Partizan	4–1	0–5
Manchester United	8–3	Benfica	3–2	5–1

First leg

23 February 1966	Anderlecht	1–0	Real Madrid	Émile Versé Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 34,862 Referee: Thomas Wharton (Scotland)
	Van Himst  2'	Report Gamesheet

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23 February 1966	Internazionale	4–0	Ferencváros	San Siro, Milan Attendance: 36,896 Referee: Manuel Gómez Arribas (Spain)
	Jair  8' Corso  36' Peiró  65', 73'	Report Gamesheet

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2 March 1966	Sparta Prague	4–1	Partizan	Letná Stadium, Prague Attendance: 30,214 Referee: Gyula Emsberger (Hungary)
	Kvašňák  20', 54' (pen.), 86' Mašek  73'	Report Gamesheet	Hasanagić  16'

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2 February 1966	Manchester United	3–2	Benfica	Old Trafford, Manchester Attendance: 64,035 Referee: Karol Galba (Czechoslovakia)
	Herd  36' Law  44' Foulkes  58'	Report Gamesheet	José Augusto  30' Torres  70'

Second leg

9 March 1966	Real Madrid	4–2	Anderlecht	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 110,000 Referee: Joseph Barbéran (France)
	Amancio  12', 35' Gento  58' (pen.), 83'	Report Gamesheet	Jurion  87' Puis  90'

Real Madrid won 4–3 on aggregate.

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2 March 1966	Ferencváros	1–1	Internazionale	Népstadion, Budapest Attendance: 70,425 Referee: Kurt Waldemar Tschenscher (West Germany)
	Novák  31' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet	Domenghini  62'

Internazionale won 5–1 on aggregate.

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9 March 1966	Partizan	5–0	Sparta Prague	JNA Stadium, Belgrade Attendance: 36,912 Referee: Dimitar Rumentschev (Bulgaria)
	Kovačević  4', 29' Vasović  23' Hasanagić  35', 41'	Report Gamesheet

Partizan won 6–4 on aggregate.

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9 March 1966	Benfica	1–5	Manchester United	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Concetto Lo Bello (Italy)
	Brennan  52' (o.g.)	Report Gamesheet	Best  6', 13' Connelly  15' Crerand  78' Charlton  89'

Manchester United won 8–3 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Real Madrid	2–1	Internazionale	1–0	1–1
Partizan	2–1	Manchester United	2–0	0–1

First leg

13 April 1966	Real Madrid	1–0	Internazionale	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 120,000 Referee: Dimitris Wlachojanis (Austria)
	Pirri  12'	Report Gamesheet

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13 April 1966	Partizan	2–0	Manchester United	JNA Stadium, Belgrade Attendance: 37,031 Referee: Kurt Waldemar Tschenscher (West Germany)
	Hasanagić  46' Bečejac  59'	Report Gamesheet

Second leg

20 April 1966	Internazionale	1–1	Real Madrid	San Siro, Milan Attendance: 75,991 Referee: György Vadász (Hungary)
	Facchetti  78'	Report Gamesheet	Amancio  20'

Real Madrid won 2–1 on aggregate.

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20 April 1966	Manchester United	1–0	Partizan	Old Trafford, Manchester Attendance: 61,475 Referee: Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland)
	Stiles  72'	Report Gamesheet

Partizan won 2–1 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1966 European Cup Final

11 May 1966	Real Madrid	2–1	Partizan	Heysel Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 46,745 Referee: Rudolf Kreitlein (West Germany)
	Amancio  70' Serena  76'	Report Gamesheet	Vasović  55'

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1965–66 European Cup (including preliminary round) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Florián Albert	Ferencváros	7
	Eusébio	Benfica	7
3	John Connelly	Manchester United	6
	Mustafa Hasanagić	Partizan	6
5	Amancio	Real Madrid	5
	Georgi Asparuhov	Levski Sofia	5
	David Herd	Manchester United	5
	Ivan Mráz	Sparta Prague	5
	Ferenc Puskás	Real Madrid	5
10	José Augusto	Benfica	4
	George Best	Manchester United	4
	Paul van Himst	Anderlecht	4
	Andrej Kvašňák	Sparta Prague	4
	Jacques Stockman	Anderlecht	4

External links

• 1965–66 All matches – season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
• All scorers 1965–66 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers preliminary round

Games Internazionale – Dinamo Bucurest – 2:0
Starting with the RSSSF site and all the other sites, including UEFA, writes that the game was held 15 December.
Club websites team Internazionale, La Gazzetta dello Sport and Dinamo Bucurest write that the game was held 16 December. In reality, the match would have been played on 15 December, but it was played the following day because of the fog.