1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final

Event	European Cup Winners' Cup 1971–72
Rangers Dynamo Moscow 3 2
Date	24 May 1972
Venue	Camp Nou, Barcelona
Referee	José Maria Ortiz de Mendebil
Attendance	124,701
← 1971 1973 →

The 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was contested between Rangers F.C. and Dynamo Moscow on 24 May 1972. The match was played at the Camp Nou in Barcelona where Scottish team Rangers defeated their Soviet opponents 3–2. This was the first time a Soviet team had reached a European final and the players could have been awarded the coveted title Master of Sport, had they won in Barcelona.^[1] Before the event, many concerns were expressed for possible troubles between Spanish police and Russian supporters. Due to the political background of the time in Spain, with the last years of Francisco Franco's right-wing dictatorship, it was clear that the Russian players and supporters would have found themselves into a very hostile environment.

Contents 1 Match summary 1.1 First half 1.2 Second half 1.3 Pitch invasion 2 Match details 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Match summary

[edit] First half

Favourites Rangers had a two goal lead by half time with goals from Colin Stein and a header from Willie Johnston.

[edit] Second half

Rangers went 3–0 up minutes into the second half as Willie Johnston scored his second. Dynamo Moscow came back into the match when with thirty minutes left for play Eshtrekov scored. They continued to pressure Rangers and scored again with three minutes left with a goal from Makhovikov. Rangers held on to secure their only trophy in Europe in front of 124,000 people.

[edit] Pitch invasion

The end of the contest was overshadowed by a pitch invasion of Rangers support celebrating the famous win (three minutes before the final whistle, just after Dynamo's second goal) which resulted in the cup being awarded behind closed doors. The Russian supporters did not answer to provokings avoiding feared further troubles. Rangers lost the possibility to defend the trophy as they were handed a two year ban from European competition following their fans' behaviour, which was later reduced to a one year ban. This was the first time in the history of the competition that the winners have been banned from playing the following year, the second being Everton, who were unable to defend their title in 1985-86 because of UEFA's ban of English clubs due to Heysel disaster.^[1]

[edit] Match details

24 May 1972	Rangers	3 – 2	Dynamo Moscow	Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 24,701 Referee: José Maria Ortiz de Mendebil
	Stein  23' Johnston  40'  49'	(Report)	Eshtrekov  60' Makhovikov  87'

Rangers

Dynamo Moscow

RANGERS: GK 1 Peter McCloy DF 2 Sandy Jardine DF 4 John Greig (c) DF 5 Derek Johnstone DF 3 Willie Mathieson MF 6 David Smith MF 8 Alfie Conn MF 10 Alex MacDonald MF 7 Tommy McLean FW 9 Colin Stein FW 11 Willie Johnston Manager: William Waddell

DYNAMO MOSCOW: GK 1 Vladimir Pilguy DF 2 Vladimir Basalayev DF 3 Yozhef Sabo (c) DF 4 Valeri Zykov DF 5 Vladimir Dolbonosov 69' MF 6 Yevgeni Zhukov MF 7 Oleg Dolmatov MF 8 Aleksandr Makhovikov MF 9 Anatoly Baidachny FW 10 Andrei Yakubik 56' FW 11 Gennady Yevriuzhikin Substitutes: MF 12 Vladimir Eshtrekov 56' FW 13 Mikhail Gershkovich 69' Manager: Konstantin Beskov

[edit] See also

• European Cup Winners' Cup 1971–72
• 1972 European Cup Final
• 1972 UEFA Cup Final

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

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