The 1966–67 season of the European Cup

UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...

 football club tournament was won by Celtic for the first time in the final against Internazionale

F.C. Internazionale Milano

Football Club Internazionale Milano, often referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Italy. Outside Italy, the club is often called Inter Milan. They are the reigning FIFA Club World champions and Coppa Italia holders.Inter have always...

, who eliminated defending champions Real Madrid

Real Madrid C.F.

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. The club have won a record 31 La Liga titles, the Primera División of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional , 18 Copas del Rey, 8 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de la...

 in the quarter-finals. They were the first British team to win the cup and also the first and only Scottish team to ever win the European Cup.

Preliminary round

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First leg

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Second leg

CSKA Red Flag won 6–1 on aggregate.
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Vorwärts Berlin won 12–1 on aggregate.

First round

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¹ Liverpool beat Petrolul Ploieşti 2–0 in a play-off match to proceed to the Second Round.

² Górnik Zabrze beat Vorwärts Berlin 3–1 in a play-off match to proceed to the Second Round

First leg

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Second leg

Atlético Madrid won 5–1 on aggregate.
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Vojvodina won 1–0 on aggregate.
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Nantes won 8–4 on aggregate.
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Celtic won 5–0 on aggregate.
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Ajax won 4–1 on aggregate.
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Liverpool 3–3 Petrolul Ploieşti on aggregate.

Liverpool won on play-off match.
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Dukla Prague won 6–0 on aggregate.
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Anderlecht won 12–1 on aggregate.
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Internazionale won 1–0 on aggregate.
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Vasas won 7–0 on aggregate.
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1860 Munich won 10–1 on aggregate.
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Linfield won 9–4 on aggregate.
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CSKA Red Flag won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Górnik Zabrze 3–3 Vorwärts Berlin on aggregate.
Górnik Zabrze won on play-off match.

Second round

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¹ Vojvodina beat Atlético Madrid 3–2 in a play-off match to progress to the Quarter-Finals.

First leg

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Second leg

Vojvodina 3–3 Atlético Madrid on aggregate.
Vojvodina won 3–2 on play-off match.
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Celtic won 6–2 on aggregate.
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Ajax won 7–3 on aggregate.
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Dukla Prague won 6–2 on aggregate.
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Internazionale won 4–1 on aggregate.
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Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Linfield won 5–2 on aggregate.
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CSKA Red Flag won 4–3 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

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First leg

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Second leg

Celtic won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Dukla Prague won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Internazionale won 3–0 on aggregate.
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CSKA Red Flag won 3–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

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¹Internazionale beat CSKA Red Flag 1–0 in a play-off match to qualify to the Final.

First leg

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Second leg

Celtic won 3–1 on aggregate.
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CSKA Red Flag 2–2 Internazionale on aggregate.

Play-off

Final

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1966-67 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Paul van Himst Paul Van Himst Paul van Himst is a former talented Belgian football midfielder and a football manager. Now retired, he still supports R.S.C. Anderlecht, his former team. He was nicknamed Polle Gazon due to the large number of fouls committed on him...	Anderlecht	6
2	Stevie Chalmers Stevie Chalmers Stevie Chalmers is a former Scottish association football player who played as a centre forward. He is best remembered for scoring the winning goal for Celtic in the 1967 European Cup Final against Inter Milan....	Celtic Celtic F.C. Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...	5
	Ernst Pohl	Górnik Zabrze Górnik Zabrze Górnik Zabrze is a Polish football club from Zabrze. The club has won numerous championships, and was a dominant force in the 1960s and 1980s. For now Górnik has the most titles in Poland. The club plays in white or dark blue - red kit, and is based at the Ernest Pohl Stadium...	5
	Arthur Thomas Arthur Thomas (footballer) Arthur Thomas was born in Liverpool and signed for Linfield F.C. from Ballymena United F.C. in November 1965. He made his Linfield debut in a 2-0 defeat by Glentoran on 6 November 1965. In that 1965-66 season he won a Co...	Linfield Linfield F.C. Linfield F.C. , is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club, whose home ground is Windsor Park in Belfast, which is also the home of the Northern Ireland international team....	5
5	Luis Aragonés Luis Aragonés José Luis Aragonés Suárez , usually referred to as Luis Aragonés and sometimes simply as Luis, is a former Spanish footballer and national coach....	Atlético Madrid	4
	Johan Devrindt Johan Devrindt Johan Devrindt was a Belgian football player. He played for R.S.C. Anderlecht and the Belgium. He played in the match Belgium-Netherlands in 1964 with 10 fellows from the Anderlecht team after the substitution of goalkeeper Delhasse by Jean Trappeniers.Devrindt scored 15 goals for the Belgium...	Anderlecht	4
	Tommy Gemmell Tommy Gemmell Thomas Gemmell is a former Scottish footballer and manager.He played as left-sided fullback and had powerful shooting ability. In October 1961, he joined Celtic from Coltness United. He was one of the 'Lisbon Lions' who won the European Cup in 1967. In the final he scored a spectacular goal that...	Celtic Celtic F.C. Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...	4
	Friedhelm Konietzka	1860 Munich TSV 1860 München Turn- und Sportverein München von 1860, commonly known as TSV 1860 München or 1860 Munich, is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. The club's football team plays in the Second Bundesliga, after relegation from the Bundesliga following the 2003–04 season...	4
	Ivan Mráz	Dukla Prague	4
	Lajos Puskás Lajos Puskás Lajos Puskás is a Hungarian football forward who played for Hungary in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Vasas SC.-External links:*...	Vasas Vasas SC Vasas SC is one of Hungary's major sports clubs. Most of its facilities are situated in Budapest's 13th district in the north of the town. Members of the Hungarian Union of Iron Workers founded the club as Vas-és Fémmunkások Sport Clubja, the "Sport Club of Iron and Steel Workers", on 16 March 1911...	4
	Phil Scott	Linfield Linfield F.C. Linfield F.C. , is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club, whose home ground is Windsor Park in Belfast, which is also the home of the Northern Ireland international team....	4

External links

• The story of Celtic's 1967 European Cup final victory, by Chris Hunt
  Chris Hunt
  Chris Hunt is a magazine editor, journalist and author. He has worked in journalism for over twenty years, most often writing about football or rock music. He was managing editor of Match from 1993 to 2001, a period that saw the weekly title become Britain's biggest selling football magazine...
  
  , published in FourFourTwo
  FourFourTwo
  FourFourTwo is a football magazine published by Haymarket. Published monthly, costing £4.50, and at about 164 pages long, it published its 200th edition in February 2011...
  
  magazine, June 2007
• 1966-67 season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation