1967–68 European Cup

1967–68 European Cup
	The Wembley Stadium in London hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	20 September 1967 – 29 May 1968
Teams	32 (31 competed)
Final positions
Champions	Manchester United (1st title)
Runners-up	Benfica
Tournament statistics
Matches played	60
Goals scored	162 (2.7 per match)
Attendance	2,059,590 (34,327 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Eusébio (Benfica); 6 goals
	← 1966–67 1968–69 →

The 1967–68 European Cup was the 13th European Cup, UEFA's premier club football tournament. The competition was won by Manchester United, who beat Benfica 4–1 in the final at Wembley Stadium, London. The European Cup title marked the tenth year since the Munich air disaster, in which eight United players were killed and their manager, Matt Busby, was left close to death, the day after earning a place in the semi-finals of the 1957–58 competition. It was also the first time an English side had won the trophy.

The away goals rule (which had already been used in the Cup Winners' Cup and the Fairs' Cup) was introduced if aggregate scores were level after two legs, but only for the first round of the competition. Extra time goals were not included in the rule.

Celtic were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Dynamo Kyiv in the first round.

Teams

Dinamo Tirana (1st)	Rapid Wien (1st)	Anderlecht (1st)	Botev Plovdiv (1st)
Olympiakos Nicosia (1st)	Sparta Prague (1st)	Hvidovre (1st)	Manchester United (1st)
KuPS (1st)	Saint-Étienne (1st)	FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (1st)	Eintracht Braunschweig (1st)
Olympiacos (1st)	Vasas (1st)	Valur (1st)	Dundalk (1st)
Juventus (1st)	Jeunesse Esch (1st)	Hibernians (1st)	Ajax (1st)
Glentoran (1st)	Skeid (1st)	Górnik Zabrze (1st)	Benfica (1st)
Rapid București (1st)	Celtic (1st)^TH	Real Madrid (1st)	Djurgården (1st)
Basel (1st)	Beşiktaş (1st)	Dynamo Kyiv (1st)	Sarajevo (1st)

Bracket

First round				Second round				Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final

Olympiakos Nicosia	2	1	3

Sarajevo	2	3	5
				Sarajevo	0	1	1

				Manchester United	0	2	2
Manchester United	4	0	4

Hibernians	0	0	0
								Manchester United	2	0	2

								Górnik Zabrze	0	1	1
Celtic	1	1	2

Dynamo Kyiv	2	1	3
				Dynamo Kyiv	1	1	2

				Górnik Zabrze	1	2	3
Górnik Zabrze	3	1	4

Djurgården	0	0	0
												Manchester United	1	3	4

												Real Madrid	0	3	3
Basel	1	3	4

Hvidovre	2	3	5
				Hvidovre	2	1	3

				Real Madrid	2	4	6
Ajax	1	1	2

Real Madrid (a.e.t.)	1	2	3
								Real Madrid	3	1	4

								Sparta Prague	0	2	2
Skeid	0	1	1

Sparta Prague	1	1	2
				Sparta Prague	3	3	6

				Anderlecht	2	3	5
FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1	1	2

Anderlecht	3	2	5
																Manchester United (a.e.t.)	4

																Benfica	1
Dundalk	0	1	1

Vasas	1	8	9
				Vasas	6	5	11

				Valur	0	1	1
Valur (a)	1	3	4

Jeunesse Esch	1	3	4
								Vasas	0	0	0

								Benfica	0	3	3
Glentoran	1	0	1

Benfica (a)	1	0	1
				Benfica	2	0	2

				Saint-Étienne	0	1	1
Saint-Étienne	2	3	5

KuPS	0	0	0
												Benfica	2	1	3

												Juventus	0	0	0
Beşiktaş	0	0	0

Rapid Wien	1	3	4
				Rapid Wien	1	0	1

				Eintracht Braunschweig	0	2	2
Eintracht Braunschweig			w

Dinamo Tirana			o
								Eintracht Braunschweig	3	0	3 (0)

								Juventus	2	1	3 (1)
Olympiacos	0	0	0

Juventus	0	2	2
				Juventus	1	0	1

				Rapid București	0	0	0
Botev Plovdiv	2	0	2

Rapid București (a.e.t.)	0	3	3

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Olympiakos Nicosia	3–5	Sarajevo	2–2	1–3
Manchester United	4–0	Hibernians	4–0	0–0
Celtic	2–3	Dynamo Kyiv	1–2	1–1
Górnik Zabrze	4–0	Djurgården	3–0	1–0
Basel	4–5	Hvidovre	1–2	3–3
Ajax	2–3	Real Madrid	1–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Skeid	1–2	Sparta Prague	0–1	1–1
FC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2–5	Anderlecht	1–3	1–2
Dundalk	1–9	Vasas	0–1	1–8
Valur	4–4 (a)	Jeunesse Esch	1–1	3–3
Glentoran	1–1 (a)	Benfica	1–1	0–0
Saint-Étienne	5–0	KuPS	2–0	3–0
Beşiktaş	0–4	Rapid Wien	0–1	0–3
Eintracht Braunschweig	(w/o)	Dinamo Tirana	–	–
Olympiacos	0–2	Juventus	0–0	0–2
Botev Plovdiv	2–3	Rapid București	2–0	0–3 (a.e.t.)

First leg

20 September 1967

Olympiakos Nicosia	2–2	Sarajevo
Kettenis 1' Tešan 43' (o.g.)	Report	Antić 50', 58'

GSP Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Aurelio Angonese (Italy)

20 September 1967

Manchester United	4–0	Hibernians
Sadler 12', 58' Law 43', 62'	Report

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 43,912

Referee: Pereira da Costa (Portugal)

20 September 1967

20:00

Celtic	1–2	Dynamo Kyiv
Lennox 62'	Report	Puzach 4' Byshovets 29'

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 52,223

Referee: Kurt Waldemar Tschenscher (West Germany)

20 September 1967

Górnik Zabrze	3–0	Djurgården
Lubański 41', 86' Lentner 88'	Report

Silesian Stadium, Chorzów

Attendance: 35,665

Referee: Rudolf Glöckner (East Germany)

20 September 1967

Basel	1–2	Hvidovre
Hauser 17'	Report	Larsen 58' Sørensen 80'

St. Jakob Stadium, Basel

Attendance: 13,344

Referee: Gyula Emsberger (Hungary)

20 September 1967

Ajax	1–1	Real Madrid
Cruyff 17'	Report	Pirri 35'

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 55,940

Referee: Jim Finney (England)

20 September 1967

Skeid	0–1	Sparta Prague
	Report	Mráz 7'

Bislett Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 16,123

Referee: Bertil Lööw (Sweden)

20 September 1967

Karl-Marx-Stadt	1–3	Anderlecht
Steinmann 41'	Report	Mulder 3', 35' Van Himst 38'

Ernst-Thälmann-Stadion, Karl-Marx-Stadt

Attendance: 29,260

Referee: Kevin Howley (England)

20 September 1967

Dundalk	0–1	Vasas
	Report	Korsós 67'

Oriel Park, Dundalk

Attendance: 4,177

Referee: Laurens van Ravens (Netherlands)

17 September 1967

Valur	1–1	Jeunesse Esch
Gunnarsson 38'	Report	Di Genova 25'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 3,125

Referee: John Russel (Northern Ireland)

13 September 1967

Glentoran	1–1	Benfica
Colrain 10' (pen.)	Report	Eusébio 86'

The Oval, Belfast

Attendance: 24,750

Referee: Roger Barde (France)

20 September 1967

Saint-Étienne	2–0	KuPS
Herbin 43' Jacquet 47'	Report

Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne

Attendance: 18,948

Referee: Leo Callaghan (Wales)

13 September 1967

Beşiktaş	0–1	Rapid Wien
	Report	Flögel 22'

Mithatpaşa Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 31,208

Referee: Goncho Rusev (Bulgaria)

20 September 1967

Olympiacos	0–0	Juventus
	Report

Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 35,702

Referee: Lajos Horvath (Hungary)

27 September 1967

Botev Plovdiv	2–0	Rapid București
Dermendzhiev 54' (pen.) Popov 70'	Report

9th September Stadium, Plovdiv

Attendance: 11,600

Referee: Sergei Alimov (Soviet Union)

Second leg

11 October 1967

Sarajevo	3–1	Olympiakos Nicosia
Antić 33' Šiljkut 83', 84'	Report	Kettenis 79'

Koševo Stadium, Sarajevo

Attendance: 4,308

Referee: Gyula Gere (Hungary)

Sarajevo won 5–3 on aggregate.

27 September 1967

Hibernians	0–0	Manchester United
	Report

Empire Stadium, Gżira

Attendance: 23,217

Referee: Bruno de Marchi (Italy)

Manchester United won 4–0 on aggregate.

4 October 1967

19:00

Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	Celtic
Byshovets 89'	Report	Lennox 67'

Central Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 68,352

Referee: Antonio Sbardella (Italy)

Dynamo Kyiv won 3–2 on aggregate.

4 October 1967

Djurgården	0–1	Górnik Zabrze
	Report	Musiałek 35'

Stockholms Olympiastadion, Stockholm

Attendance: 1,364

Referee: Tage Sørensen (Denmark)

Górnik Zabrze won 4–0 on aggregate.

18 October 1967

Hvidovre	3–3	Basel
Hansen 18' Sørensen 39' Olsen 58'	Report	Hauser 2' Benthaus 78' Wenger 85'

Idrætsparken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 9,363

Referee: Ken Dagnall (England)

Hvidovre won 5–4 on aggregate.

11 October 1967

Real Madrid	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Ajax
Gento 58' Veloso 99'	Report	Groot 69'

Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid

Attendance: 39,244

Referee: Bobby Davidson (Scotland)

Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.

4 October 1967

Sparta Prague	1–1	Skeid
Mráz 58'	Report	Sjøberg 38'

Letná Stadium, Prague

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Franz Mayer (Austria)

Sparta Prague won 2–1 on aggregate.

18 October 1967

Anderlecht	2–1	Karl-Marx-Stadt
Bergholtz 33' Van Himst 38'	Report	Schuster 11'

Émile Versé Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 28,831

Referee: José María Ortiz de Mendíbil (Spain)

Anderlecht won 5–2 on aggregate.

11 October 1967

Vasas	8–1	Dundalk
Vidáts 10', 87' Farkas 32', 35', 72' Korsós 43', 85' Molnár 68'	Report	Hale 25'

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 74,117

Referee: Josef Krňávek (Czechoslovakia)

Vasas won 9–1 on aggregate.

1 October 1967

Jeunesse Esch	3–3	Valur
Hnatow 56' Di Genova 86' Langer 89'	Report	Jónsson 10' Gunnarsson 36', 60'

Stade Émile Mayrisch, Esch-sur-Alzette

Attendance: 4,552

Referee: Michel Kitabdjian (France)

4–4 on aggregate; Valur won on away goals.

4 October 1967

Benfica	0–0	Glentoran
	Report

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 36,844

Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)

1–1 on aggregate; Benfica won on away goals.

4 October 1967

KuPS	0–3	Saint-Étienne
	Report	Herbin 5' Bosquier 25' Revelli 84' (pen.)

Väinölänniemen Stadion, Kuopio

Attendance: 5,279

Referee: Tofik Bakhramov (Soviet Union)

Saint-Étienne won 5–0 on aggregate.

19 September 1967

Rapid Wien	3–0	Beşiktaş
Seitl 9' Grausam 43' Flögel 75'	Report

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 27,783

Referee: Joseph Heymann (Switzerland)

Rapid Wien won 4–0 on aggregate.

11 October 1967

Juventus	2–0	Olympiacos
Zigoni 12' Menichelli 49'	Report

Stadio Comunale, Turin

Attendance: 31,878

Referee: Gilbert Droz (Switzerland)

Juventus won 2–0 on aggregate.

18 October 1967

Rapid București	3–0 (a.e.t.)	Botev Plovdiv
Codreanu 25', 70' Ionescu 108'	Report

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 20,179^[1]

Referee: Marian Srodecki (Poland)

Rapid București won 3–2 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sarajevo	1–2	Manchester United	0–0	1–2
Dynamo Kyiv	2–3	Górnik Zabrze	1–2	1–1
Hvidovre	3–6	Real Madrid	2–2	1–4
Sparta Prague	6–5	Anderlecht	3–2	3–3
Vasas	11–1	Valur	6–0	5–1
Benfica	2–1	Saint-Étienne	2–0	0–1
Rapid Wien	1–2	Eintracht Braunschweig	1–0	0–2
Juventus	1–0	Rapid București	1–0	0–0

First leg

15 November 1967

Sarajevo	0–0	Manchester United
	Report

Koševo Stadium, Sarajevo

Attendance: 37,222^[2]

Referee: Francesco Francescon (Italy)

17 November 1967

19:00

Dynamo Kyiv	1–2	Górnik Zabrze
Olek 12' (o.g.)	Report	Szołtysik 15' Lubański 61'

Central Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 57,038

Referee: Vasile Dumitrescu (Romania)

15 November 1967

Hvidovre	2–2	Real Madrid
Hansen 25' Petersen 71'	Report	Gento 35' Pirri 47'

Idrætsparken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 40,663

Referee: Rudolf Glöckner (East Germany)

29 November 1967

Sparta Prague	3–2	Anderlecht
Mašek 25', 32' (pen.), 62'	Report	Jurion 35' Van Himst 55'

Stadion Dr. Václava Vacka, Prague

Attendance: 10,071

Referee: Joseph Heymann (Switzerland)

15 November 1967

Vasas	6–0	Valur
Bergsson 5' (o.g.) Pál 14' Radics 37', 44', 50' Puskás 47'	Report

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 27,797^[3]

Referee: Pavel Špoták (Czechoslovakia)

16 November 1967

Benfica	2–0	Saint-Étienne
José Augusto 28' Eusébio 59' (pen.)	Report

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 22,804

Referee: John Adair (Northern Ireland)

15 November 1967

Rapid Wien	1–0	Eintracht Braunschweig
Hasil 54'	Report

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 51,181

Referee: Tofik Bakhramov (Soviet Union)

29 November 1967

Juventus	1–0	Rapid București
Magnusson 57'	Report

Stadio Comunale, Turin

Attendance: 19,452

Referee: Gyula Emsberger (Hungary)

Second leg

29 November 1967

Manchester United	2–1	Sarajevo
Aston 10' Best 63'	Report	Delalić 87'

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 62,801

Referee: Roger Mâchin (France)

Manchester United won 2–1 on aggregate.

29 November 1967

17:30

Górnik Zabrze	1–1	Dynamo Kyiv
Szołtysik 43'	Report	Turyanchik 37'

Silesian Stadium, Chorzów

Attendance: 71,145

Referee: Johan Einar Boström (Sweden)

Górnik Zabrze won 3–2 on aggregate.

29 November 1967

Real Madrid	4–1	Hvidovre
Velázquez 16' Grosso 19', 30' Gento 75'	Report	Petersen 28'

Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid

Attendance: 26,263

Referee: Vital Loraux (Belgium)

Real Madrid won 6–3 on aggregate.

6 December 1967

Anderlecht	3–3	Sparta Prague
Van Himst 60', 65' Devrindt 83'	Report	Mašek 30', 85' Mráz 89'

Émile Versé Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 31,466

Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria)

Sparta Prague won 6–5 on aggregate.

17 November 1967

Valur	1–5	Vasas
Gunnarsson 85'	Report	Molnár 11' Pál 13' Mathesz 30' Váradi 53' Kovács 72'

Városi Stadium, Várpalota

Attendance: 2,773

Referee: Iván Pláček (Czechoslovakia)

Vasas won 11–1 on aggregate.

30 November 1967

Saint-Étienne	1–0	Benfica
Bereta 10'	Report

Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne

Attendance: 24,480

Referee: Marian Środecki (Poland)

Benfica won 2–1 on aggregate.

29 November 1967

Eintracht Braunschweig	2–0	Rapid Wien
Grzyb 38' Saborowski 43'	Report

Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig

Attendance: 30,507

Referee: Thomas Wharton (Scotland)

Eintracht Braunschweig won 2–1 on aggregate.

13 December 1967

Rapid București	0–0	Juventus
	Report

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 5,510

Referee: Karl Riegg (West Germany)

Juventus won 1–0 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Play-off
Manchester United	2–1	Górnik Zabrze	2–0	0–1
Real Madrid	4–2	Sparta Prague	3–0	1–2
Vasas	0–3	Benfica	0–0	0–3
Eintracht Braunschweig	3–3	Juventus	3–2	0–1	0–1

First leg

28 February 1968

Manchester United	2–0	Górnik Zabrze
Florenski 60' (o.g.) Kidd 90'	Report

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 63,456

Referee: José María Ortiz de Mendibil (Spain)

6 March 1968

Real Madrid	3–0	Sparta Prague
Amancio 61', 62', 68'	Report

Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid

Attendance: 35,250

Referee: Jim Finney (England)

6 March 1968

Vasas	0–0	Benfica
	Report

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 36,394

Referee: Kurt Waldemar Tschenscher (West Germany)

31 January 1968

Eintracht Braunschweig	3–2	Juventus
Kaack 28' Dulz 37' Berg 38'	Report	Kaack 10' (o.g.) Sacco 81'

Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig

Attendance: 29,963

Referee: Gilbert Droz (Switzerland)

Second leg

13 March 1968

Górnik Zabrze	1–0	Manchester United
Lubański 70'	Report

Silesian Stadium, Chorzów

Attendance: 77,649

Referee: Concetto Lo Bello (Italy)

Manchester United won 2–1 on aggregate.

20 March 1968

Sparta Prague	2–1	Real Madrid
Kvašňák 36' Dyba 45'	Report	Gento 57'

Stadion Dr. Václava Vacka, Prague

Attendance: 40,431

Referee: Hans Rademacher (West Germany)

Real Madrid won 4–2 on aggregate.

14 March 1968

Benfica	3–0	Vasas
Eusébio 48', 70' Torres 77'	Report

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 49,336

Referee: Laurens van Ravens (Netherlands)

Benfica won 3–0 on aggregate.

28 February 1968

Juventus	1–0	Eintracht Braunschweig
Bercellino 88' (pen.)	Report

Stadio Comunale, Turin

Attendance: 37,918

Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria)

Juventus 3–3 Eintracht Braunschweig on aggregate.

Play-off

20 March 1968

Juventus	1–0	Eintracht Braunschweig
Magnusson 56'	Report

Wankdorf Stadium, Bern

Attendance: 44,701

Referee: Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland)

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Manchester United	4–3	Real Madrid	1–0	3–3
Benfica	3–0	Juventus	2–0	1–0

First leg

24 April 1968

Manchester United	1–0	Real Madrid
Best 36'	Report

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 62,562

Referee: Tofik Bakhramov (Soviet Union)

9 May 1968

Benfica	2–0	Juventus
Torres 64' Eusébio 70'	Report

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 69,375

Referee: Roger Barde (France)

Second leg

15 May 1968

Real Madrid	3–3	Manchester United
Pirri 32' Gento 41' Amancio 45'	Report	Zoco 44' (o.g.) Sadler 73' Foulkes 78'

Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid

Attendance: 77,299

Referee: Antonio Sbardella (Italy)

Manchester United won 4–3 on aggregate.

15 May 1968

Juventus	0–1	Benfica
	Report	Eusébio 66'

Stadio Comunale, Turin

Attendance: 62,570

Referee: Rudolf Glöckner (East Germany)

Benfica won 3–0 on aggregate.

Final

29 May 1968

Manchester United	4–1 (a.e.t.)	Benfica
Charlton 53', 99' Best 92' Kidd 94'	Report	Graça 79'

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 92,225

Referee: Concetto Lo Bello (Italy)

Top scorers

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Eusébio	Benfica	6
2	Francisco Gento	Real Madrid	5
	Václav Mašek	Sparta Prague	5
	Paul Van Himst	Anderlecht	5
5	Amancio	Real Madrid	4
	Hermann Gunnarsson	Valur	4
	Włodzimierz Lubański	Górnik Zabrze	4
8	Boško Antić	Sarajevo	3
	George Best	Manchester United	3
	János Farkas	Vasas	3
	István Korsós	Vasas	3
	Ivan Mráz	Sparta Prague	3
	Pirri	Real Madrid	3
	János Radics	Vasas	3
	David Sadler	Manchester United	3
Source:^[4]

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