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The season 1981–82 of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the only time by Aston Villa in the final against Bayern Munich. The Final is remembered mainly for the performance of young stand-in goalkeeper Nigel Spink who made a host of saves from the experienced Bayern players. Villa's winning goal came from Peter Withe who converted Tony Morley's cross in off the post.

[edit] Preliminary round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Saint-Étienne	1–3	Dynamo Berlin	1–1	0–2

[edit] First round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Austria Vienna	3–2	Partizani Tirana	3–1	0–1
Dynamo Kiev	2–1	Trabzonspor	1–0	1–1
Dynamo Berlin	3–3¹	Zürich	2–0	1–3
Aston Villa	7–0	Valur	5–0	2–0
Widzew Łódź	2–6	Anderlecht	1–4	1–2
Celtic	1–2	Juventus	1–0	0–2
Ferencváros	3–5	Baník Ostrava	3–2	0–3
Hibernians	2–10	Red Star Belgrade	1–2	1–8
Start	1–4	AZ	1–3	0–1
OPS	0–8	Liverpool	0–1	0–7
CSKA September Flag	1–0	Real Sociedad	1–0	0–0
Progrès Niedercorn	1–5	Glentoran	1–1	0–4
KB	3–3²	Athlone Town	1–1	2–2
Universitatea Craiova	3–2	Olympiacos	3–0	0–2
Benfica	4–0	Omonia	3–0	1–0
Öster	0–6	Bayern Munich	0–1	0–5

¹ Dinamo Berlin progressed to the Second round on away goals.

² KB progressed to the Second round on away goals.

[edit] Second round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Austria Vienna	1–2	Dynamo Kiev	0–1	1–1
Dynamo Berlin	2–2¹	Aston Villa	1–2	1–0
Anderlecht	4–2	Juventus	3–1	1–1
Baník Ostrava	3–4	Red Star Belgrade	3–1	0–3
AZ	4–5	Liverpool	2–2	2–3
CSKA September Flag	3–2	Glentoran	2–0	1–2
KB	2–4	Universitatea Craiova	1–0	1–4
Benfica	1–4	Bayern Munich	0–0	1–4

¹ Aston Villa progressed to the Quarter finals on away goals.

[edit] Quarter finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dynamo Kiev	0–2	Aston Villa	0–0	0–2
Anderlecht	4–2	Red Star Belgrade	2–1	2–1
Liverpool	1–2	CSKA September Flag	1–0	0–2
Universitatea Craiova	1–3	Bayern Munich	0–2	1–1