1970–71 European Cup

1970–71 European Cup

Final positions
Champions	Ajax (1st title)
Runners-up	Panathinaikos
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)	Antonis Antoniadis (10 goals)
← 1969–70 1971–72 →

The 1970–71 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won by Ajax in the final against Panathinaikos. It was the first time the cup went to Ajax, beginning a three-year period of domination, and the second consecutive championship for the Netherlands. UEFA had introduced for first time the penalty shoot-out as a way of deciding drawn ties – doing away with the unsatisfactory tossing of a coin. They had also decided that the away goals rule should apply to all rounds, and not just the first two as had been the case.

Feyenoord, the defending champions, were eliminated by UTA Arad in the first round.

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Levski-Spartak	3–4	Austria Wien	3–1	0–3

First leg

18 August 1970	Levski-Spartak	3 – 1	Austria Wien
	Mitkov  17' Asparuhov  52', 62'	Report Gamesheet	Riedl  73'

Second leg

2 September 1970	Austria Wien	3 – 0	Levski-Spartak
	Riedl  28' Hickersberger  37', 49'	Report Gamesheet

Austria Wien won 4–3 on aggregate.

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cagliari	3–1	Saint-Étienne	3–0	0–1
Atlético Madrid	4–1	Austria Wien	2–0	2–1
Rosenborg	0–7	Standard Liège	0–2	0–5
Göteborg	1–6	Legia Warszawa	0–4	1–2
17 Nëntori Tirana	2–4	Ajax	2–2	0–2
Spartak Moscow	4–4 (a)	Basel	3–2	1–2
Glentoran	1–4	Waterford United	1–3	0–1
Celtic	14–0	KPV	9–0	5–0
Fenerbahçe	0–5	Carl Zeiss Jena	0–4	0–1
Sporting CP	9–0	Floriana	5–0	4–0
Újpesti Dózsa	2–4	Red Star Belgrade	2–0	0–4
Feyenoord	1–1 (a)	UTA Arad	1–1	0–0
EPA Larnaca	0–16	Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–6	0–10
Everton	9–2	Keflavík	6–2	3–0
Jeunesse Esch	1–7	Panathinaikos	1–2	0–5
Slovan Bratislava	4–3	Boldklubben 1903	2–1	2–2

First leg

16 September 1970	Cagliari	3 – 0	Saint-Étienne	Sant'Elia, Cagliari Attendance: 70.000 ca.
	Riva  7', 70' Nené  76'	Report Gamesheet

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16 September 1970	Atlético Madrid	2 – 0	Austria Wien
	Aragonés  9' Gárate  54'	Report Gamesheet

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16 September 1970	Rosenborg	0 – 2	Standard Liège
		Report Gamesheet	Kostedde  42' Depireux  63'

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16 September 1970	Göteborg	0 – 4	Legia Warszawa
		Report Gamesheet	Gadocha  45' Pieszko  52' Stachurski  82', 87'

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16 September 1970	17 Nëntori Tirana	2 – 2	Ajax
	Kazanxhi  58' Zhega  87'	Report Gamesheet	Suurbier  19', 58'

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16 September 1970	Spartak Moscow	3 – 2	Basel
	Osyanin  17', 66' Papayev  76'	Report Gamesheet	Odermatt  78' Benthaus  83'

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16 September 1970	Glentoran	1 – 3	Waterford United
	Hall  9'	Report Gamesheet	O'Neill  20' McGeough  60' Casey  75'

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16 September 1970	Celtic	9 – 0	KPV
	Hood  1', 23', 36' (pen.) Hughes  15' McNeill  22' Johnstone  38' Wilson  54', 70' Davidson  60'	Report Gamesheet

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16 September 1970	Fenerbahçe	0 – 4	Carl Zeiss Jena
		Report Gamesheet	Krauß  44' Ducke  70', 85' Vogel  86'

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16 September 1970	Sporting CP	5 – 0	Floriana
	Peres  1' Lourenço  6', 8', 43', 61'	Report Gamesheet

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16 September 1970	Újpesti Dózsa	2 – 0	Red Star Belgrade
	Nagy  52' A. Dunai  81'	Report Gamesheet

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16 September 1970	Feyenoord	1 – 1	UTA Arad
	Jansen  25'	Report Gamesheet	Dumitrescu  14'

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16 September 1970	EPA Larnaca	0 – 6	Borussia Mönchengladbach
		Report Gamesheet	Laumen  6', 35' Köppel  28', 48' Netzer  57' Heynckes  84'

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16 September 1970	Everton	6 – 2	Keflavík
	Ball  39', 58', 67' Kendall  41' Royle  51', 70'	Report Gamesheet	West  11' (o.g.) Ragnarsson  78'

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16 September 1970	Jeunesse Esch	1 – 2	Panathinaikos
	Di Genova  11'	Report Gamesheet	Antoniadis  5' Eleftherakis  36'

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16 September 1970	Slovan Bratislava	2 – 1	Boldklubben 1903
	Jozef Čapkovič  36' Zlocha  90' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet	Johansen  35'

Second leg

30 September 1970	Saint-Étienne	1 – 0	Cagliari	Saint-Étienne
	Larqué  32'	Report Gamesheet

Cagliari won 3–1 on aggregate.

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30 September 1970	Austria Wien	1 – 2	Atlético Madrid
	Krieger  20' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet	Aragonés  42' Gárate  84'

Atlético Madrid won 4–1 on aggregate.

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16 September 1970	Standard Liège	5 – 0	Rosenborg
	Pilot  2', 75' Cvetler  4' Depireux  26' Semmeling  62'	Report Gamesheet

Standard Liège won 7–0 on aggregate.

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1 October 1970	Legia Warszawa	2 – 1	Göteborg
	Deyna  37' Gadocha  38'	Report Gamesheet	Almqvist  28'

Legia Warszawa won 6–1 on aggregate.

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30 September 1970	Ajax	2 – 0	17 Nëntori Tirana
	Keizer  8' Swart  70'	Report Gamesheet

Ajax won 4–2 on aggregate.

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30 September 1970	Basel	2 – 1	Spartak Moscow
	Siegenthaler  48' Balmer  55'	Report Gamesheet	Khusainov  84'

Spartak Moscow 4–4 Basel on aggregate. Basel won on away goals.

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30 September 1970	Waterford United	1 – 0	Glentoran
	Casey  57'	Report Gamesheet

Waterford United won 4–1 on aggregate.

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30 September 1970	KPV	0 – 5	Celtic
		Report Gamesheet	Wallace  26', 46' Callaghan  35' Davidson  51' Lennox  72'

Celtic won 14–0 on aggregate.

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30 September 1970	Carl Zeiss Jena	1 – 0	Fenerbahçe
	Vogel  43'	Report Gamesheet

Carl Zeiss Jena won 5–0 on aggregate.

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30 September 1970	Floriana	0 – 4	Sporting CP
		Report Gamesheet	Fernandes  30', 65' Dinis  57' Tomé  73'

Sporting CP won 9–0 on aggregate.

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30 September 1970	Red Star Belgrade	4 – 0	Újpesti Dózsa
	Filipović  7', 58' Džajić  24' Ostojić  44'	Report Gamesheet

Red Star Belgrade won 4–2 on aggregate.

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30 September 1970	UTA Arad	0 – 0	Feyenoord
		Report Gamesheet

Feyenoord 1–1 UTA Arad on aggregate. UTA Arad won on away goals.

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22 September 1970	Borussia Mönchengladbach	10 – 0	EPA Larnaca
	Netzer  19' Wimmer  30' Köppel  35', 60' Dietrich  40' Sieloff  44' (pen.) Laumen  50', 56' Heynckes  73' Vogts  82'	Report Gamesheet

Borussia Mönchengladbach won 16–0 on aggregate.

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30 September 1970	Keflavík	0 – 3	Everton
		Report Gamesheet	Whittle  32' Royle  38', 46'

Everton won 9–2 on aggregate.

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30 September 1970	Panathinaikos	5 – 0	Jeunesse Esch
	Eleftherakis  16' Antoniadis  26', 29', 37', 51'	Report Gamesheet

Panathinaikos won 7–1 on aggregate.

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30 September 1970	Boldklubben 1903	2 – 2	Slovan Bratislava
	Thygesen  78' (pen.) Johansen  90'	Report Gamesheet	Jozef Čapkovič  9', 57'

Slovan Bratislava won 4–3 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cagliari	2–4	Atlético Madrid	2–1	0–3
Standard Liège	1–2	Legia Warszawa	1–0	0–2
Ajax	5–1	Basel	3–0	2–1
Waterford United	2–10	Celtic	0–7	2–3
Carl Zeiss Jena	4–2	Sporting CP	2–1	2–1
Red Star Belgrade	6–1	UTA Arad	3–0	3–1
Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–2 (3–4p)	Everton	1–1	1–1
Panathinaikos	4–2	Slovan Bratislava	3–0	1–2

First leg

21 October 1970	Cagliari	2 – 1	Atlético Madrid	Stadio Sant'Elia, Cagliari Attendance: 44,000 Referee: Josef Krňávek (Czechoslovakia)
	Riva  42' Gori  45+'	Report Gamesheet	Aragonés  77'

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21 October 1970	Standard Liège	1 – 0	Legia Warszawa
	Pilot  76'	Report Gamesheet

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21 October 1970	Ajax	3 – 0	Basel
	Keizer  17' van Dijk  23' Hulshoff  63'	Report Gamesheet

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21 October 1970	Waterford United	0 – 7	Celtic
		Report Gamesheet	Wallace  1', 54', 56' Macari  19', 87' Murdoch  27', 38'

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21 October 1970	Carl Zeiss Jena	2 – 1	Sporting CP
	Vogel  51' Kurbjuweit  87'	Report Gamesheet	Marinho  67'

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21 October 1970	Red Star Belgrade	3 – 0	UTA Arad
	Filipović  18' Aćimović  50' Ostojić  53'	Report Gamesheet

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21 October 1970	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1 – 1	Everton
	Vogts  35'	Report Gamesheet	Kendall  47'

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21 October 1970	Panathinaikos	3 – 0	Slovan Bratislava
	Domazos  31' Antoniadis  55' Delijannis  88'	Report Gamesheet

Second leg

5 November 1970	Atlético Madrid	3 – 0	Cagliari	Estadio del Manzanares, Madrid Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Ronald Jones (Wales)
	Aragonés  33', 72' (pen.), 89'	Report Gamesheet

Atlético Madrid won 4–2 on aggregate.

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4 November 1970	Legia Warszawa	2 – 0	Standard Liège
	Pieszko  7' Żmijewski  20'	Report Gamesheet

Legia Warszawa won 2–1 on aggregate.

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	Basel	1 – 2	Ajax
	Odermatt  36' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet	Rijnders  69' Neeskens  72'

Ajax won 5–1 on aggregate.

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4 November 1970	Celtic	3 – 2	Waterford United
	Hughes  47' Johnstone  56', 65'	Report Gamesheet	McNeill  17' (o.g.) Matthews  32'

Celtic won 10–2 on aggregate.

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4 November 1970	Sporting CP	1 – 2	Carl Zeiss Jena
	Gonçalves  79'	Report Gamesheet	Ducke  30' Kurbjuweit  36'

Carl Zeiss Jena won 4–2 on aggregate.

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4 November 1970	UTA Arad	1 – 3	Red Star Belgrade
	Brosovschi  56'	Report Gamesheet	Filipović  51', 67' Janković  78'

Red Star Belgrade won 6–1 on aggregate.

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4 November 1970	Everton	1 – 1 (aet)	Borussia Mönchengladbach
	Morrissey  1'	Report Gamesheet	Laumen  35'
		Penalties
	Royle Ball Morrissey Kendall Brown	4 – 3	Sieloff Laumen Heynckes Köppel Müller

Borussia Mönchengladbach 2–2 Everton on aggregate. Everton won on penalties.

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4 November 1970	Slovan Bratislava	2 – 1	Panathinaikos
	Medviď  31' Jozef Čapkovič  59'	Report Gamesheet	Antoniadis  55'

Panathinaikos won 4–2 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Atlético Madrid	2–2 (a)	Legia Warszawa	1–0	1–2
Ajax	3–1	Celtic	3–0	0–1
Carl Zeiss Jena	3–6	Red Star Belgrade	3–2	0–4
Everton	1–1 (a)	Panathinaikos	1–1	0–0

First leg

10 March 1971	Atlético Madrid	1 – 0	Legia Warszawa
	Adelardo  22'	Report Gamesheet

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10 March 1971	Ajax	3 – 0	Celtic
	Cruyff  63' Hulshoff  70' Keizer  89'	Report Gamesheet

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10 March 1971	Carl Zeiss Jena	3 – 2	Red Star Belgrade
	Strempel  16' Ducke  21', 86'	Report Gamesheet	Janković  42' Džajić  58'

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9 March 1971	Everton	1 – 1	Panathinaikos
	Johnson  90'	Report Gamesheet	Antoniadis  81'

Second leg

24 March 1971	Legia Warszawa	2 – 1	Atlético Madrid
	Pieszko  25' Stachurski  54'	Report Gamesheet	Salcedo  11'

Atlético Madrid 2–2 Legia Warszawa on aggregate. Atlético Madrid won on away goals.

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24 March 1971	Celtic	1 – 0	Ajax
	Johnstone  27'	Report Gamesheet

Ajax won 3–1 on aggregate.

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24 March 1971	Red Star Belgrade	4 – 0	Carl Zeiss Jena
	Đorić  15' (pen.) Filipović  30' Ostojić  60' Karasi  70'	Report Gamesheet

Red Star Belgrade won 6–3 on aggregate.

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24 March 1971	Panathinaikos	0 – 0	Everton
		Report Gamesheet

Everton 1–1 Panathinaikos on aggregate. Panathinaikos won on away goals.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Atlético Madrid	1–3	Ajax	1–0	0–3
Red Star Belgrade	4–4 (a)	Panathinaikos	4–1	0–3

First leg

14 April 1971	Atlético Madrid	1 – 0	Ajax
	Irureta  44'	Report Gamesheet

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14 April 1971	Red Star Belgrade	4 – 1	Panathinaikos
	Ostojić  14', 46', 69' Janković  40'	Report Gamesheet	Kamaras  56'

Second leg

28 April 1971	Ajax	3 – 0	Atlético Madrid
	Keizer  8' Suurbier  80' Neeskens  85'	Report Gamesheet

Ajax won 3–1 on aggregate.

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28 April 1971	Panathinaikos	3 – 0	Red Star Belgrade
	Antoniadis  2', 55' Kamaras  64'	Report Gamesheet

Red Star Belgrade 4–4 Panathinaikos on aggregate. Panathinaikos won on away goals.

Final

Main article: 1971 European Cup Final

2 June 1971	Ajax	2 – 0	Panathinaikos	Wembley Stadium, London Attendance: 90,000 Referee: Jack Taylor (England)
	Van Dijk  5' Haan  87'	Report Gamesheet

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1970-71 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Antonis Antoniadis	Panathinaikos	10
2	Luis Aragonés	Atlético Madrid	6
	Zoran Filipović	Red Star Belgrade	6
	Stevan Ostojić	Red Star Belgrade	6
5	Peter Ducke	Carl Zeiss Jena	5
	Herbert Laumen	Borussia Mönchengladbach	5
	William Wallace	Celtic	5
8	Jozef Čapkovič	Slovan Bratislava	4
	Jimmy Johnstone	Celtic	4
	Piet Keizer	Ajax	4
	Horst Köppel	Borussia Mönchengladbach	4
	João Lourenço	Sporting CP	4
	Joe Royle	Everton	4
14	Alan Ball	Everton	3
	Harry Hood	Celtic	3
	Slobodan Janković	Red Star Belgrade	3
	Jan Pieszko	Legia Warszawa	3
	Louis Pilot	Standard Liège	3
	Luigi Riva	Cagliari	3
	Władysław Stachurski	Legia Warszawa	3
	Wim Suurbier	Ajax	3
	Eberhard Vogel	Carl Zeiss Jena	3

External links

• 1970–71 All matches - season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
• All scorers 1970–71 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA