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The season 1983–84 of the European Cup

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football

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club tournament was won by for a fourth time by Liverpool

Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...

in a penalty shootout in the final against Roma

A.S. Roma

Associazione Sportiva Roma, commonly referred to as simply Roma, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma have participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence but one season in the early 50s...

. The game had finished 1–1. Phil Neal

Phil Neal

Philip George "Phil" Neal is a former footballer who was, at one time, the most successful player in English football history. He played for Liverpool 650 times over an eleven year period and is the only player to have appeared in the first five of their European Cup finals, winning four of them...

had scored for Liverpool and Roberto Pruzzo

Roberto Pruzzo

Roberto Pruzzo is an Italian former football striker, now a coach.-Biography and career:Born at Crocefieschi, in the province of Genoa, Pruzzo made his debut in professional football for Genoa in 1973. There he remained for six seasons, scoring 57 goals in 143 matches.Pruzzo passed to Roma in...

for Roma. It was England's seventh title in eight seasons.

Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar

Bruce Grobbelaar

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put his name into football history for making key saves and distracting his opponents during the penalty shootout with his leg-wobbling antics.

Hamburg

Hamburger SV

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, the defending champions, were eliminated by Dinamo Bucharest

Dinamo Bucuresti

Fotbal Club Dinamo Bucureşti is a Romanian professional football club based in Bucharest. Dinamo is one of the two most successful football teams in Romania, having won 18 Romanian Liga I titles, 12 Romanian Cups and 1 Romanian Supercup....

in the second round.

First round

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¹ CSKA Sofia progressed to the Second round on away goals.

First leg

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Second leg

Liverpool beat Odense 6-0 on aggregate.
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Athletic Bilbao beat Lech Poznań 4-2 on aggregate.
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Olympiacos beat Ajax 2-0 on aggregate.
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Benfica beat Linfield 6-2 on aggregate.
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Rába ETO Győr beat Vikingur 4-1 on aggregate.
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Dinamo Minsk beat Grasshopper 3-2 on aggregate.
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Dinamo Bucharest beat Kuusysi 4-0 on aggregate.
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Bohemians Prague beat Fenerbahçe 5-0 on aggregate.
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Austria Vienna beat Nantes 4-3 on aggregate.
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Roma won 4–2 on aggregate.
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4-4 on aggregate. Sporting CP win on away goals

Second round

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¹ Rapid Vienna progressed to the Quarter finals on away goals.

First Leg

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Second leg

Liverpool beat Athletic Bilbao 1-0 on aggregate.
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Benfica beat Olympiacos 3-1 on aggregate.
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Dinamo Minsk beat Rába ETO Győr 9-4 on aggregate.
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Dinamo Bucharest beat Hamburg 5-3 on aggregate.
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Rapid Vienna beat Bohemians Prague 2-2 on away goals.
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Dundee United beat Standard Liège 4-0 on aggregate.
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Roma beat CSKA Sofia 2-0 on aggregate.
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Dynamo Berlin beat Partizan 2-1 on aggregate.

Quarter finals

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¹ Dundee United progressed to the Semifinals on away goals.

First Leg

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Second Leg

Liverpool beat Benfica 5-1 on aggregate.
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Dinamo Bucharest beat Dinamo Minsk 2-1 on aggregate.
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Dundee United beat Rapid Vienna 2-2 on away goals.
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Roma beat Dynamo Berlin 4-2 on aggregate.

Semifinals

Roma

A.S. Roma

controversially beat Dundee United

Dundee United F.C.

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3–2 on aggregate. It was later revealed that Roma had bribed Michel Vautrot, the referee for the second leg. The Liverpool vs Dinamo Bucharest tie

Liverpool vs Dinamo Bucharest, 1984 European Cup Semi-Final

The 1983-84 UEFA European Cup Semi-Final between Liverpool of England and Dinamo Bucharest of Romania was one of two association football ties that made up the penultimate round of the 1983–84 European Cup, Europe's primary club football competition...

was highly physical and confrontational in nature.
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First Leg

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Second Leg

Liverpool beat Dinamo Bucharest 3-1 on aggregate.
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Roma beat Dundee United 3-2 on aggregate."

Final

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1983-84 European Cup are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Viktor Sokol Viktor Sokol (footballer born 1954) Viktor Petrovich Sokol is a retired Soviet and Belarussian football player and a current manager. His son, who is also named Viktor Sokol is also a professional footballer, currently playing for Shakhtyor Soligorsk....	Dinamo Minsk	7
2	Roberto Pruzzo Roberto Pruzzo Roberto Pruzzo is an Italian former football striker, now a coach.-Biography and career:Born at Crocefieschi, in the province of Genoa, Pruzzo made his debut in professional football for Genoa in 1973. There he remained for six seasons, scoring 57 goals in 143 matches.Pruzzo passed to Roma in...	Roma A.S. Roma Associazione Sportiva Roma, commonly referred to as simply Roma, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma have participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence but one season in the early 50s...	5
2	Ian Rush Ian Rush Ian James Rush, MBE, is a retired football player from Flint, Wales. He is best remembered as a player for Liverpool, where he was among the top strikers in the English game in the 1980s and 1990s. He also had spells playing at Chester City, Juventus, Leeds United, Newcastle United, Sheffield...	Liverpool Liverpool F.C. Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...	5
4	Ralph Milne Ralph Milne Ralph Milne is a Scottish former footballer whose clubs included Dundee United, Charlton Athletic, Bristol City and Manchester United. He played as a midfielder.-Career:...	Dundee United Dundee United F.C. Dundee United Football Club is a Scottish professional football club located in the city of Dundee. Formed in 1909, originally as Dundee Hibernian, the club changed to the present name in 1923...	5
5	Nikos Anastopoulos Nikos Anastopoulos Nikos Anastopoulos is a Greek former football player, one of the most prolific strikers in the Greek league during the late 1970s and the 1980s. With 29 goals he is the all time highest scorer for the Greek national football team. Since retiring as a player he has become a football manager...	Olympiacos	3
	Ionel Augustin Ionel Augustin -Career:He was born in Bucharest and made his debut in Divizia A with Dinamo Bucureşti in 1975. He spent eleven seasons with Dinamo, winning the league title three years in a row from 1982 through 1984. Midway in the 1985/1986 season, he was transferred to Victoria Bucureşti, where he helped them...	Dinamo Bucharest	3
	Kenny Dalglish Kenny Dalglish Kenneth Mathieson "Kenny" Dalglish MBE is a Scottish former footballer and the current manager of Liverpool F.C.. In a 22-year playing career, he played for two club teams, Celtic and Liverpool, winning numerous honours with both. He is the most capped Scottish player, with 102 appearances, and...	Liverpool Liverpool F.C. Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...	3
	Davie Dodds Davie Dodds David Dodds is a former Scottish football player who played for Dundee United, Aberdeen and Rangers in the 1980s. During his playing career, he scored over 100 League goals, and earned two Scotland caps.- Early life and career :...	Dundee United Dundee United F.C. Dundee United Football Club is a Scottish professional football club located in the city of Dundee. Formed in 1909, originally as Dundee Hibernian, the club changed to the present name in 1923...	3
	Rainer Ernst Rainer Ernst Rainer Ernst is a former German footballer who amassed 56 caps for East Germany.-Career:Until the age of 14, Ernst played in the Dynamo Neutrelitz youth side. He then transferred to BFC Dynamo, where he played in 203 league games, scoring 88 goals, until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, when...	Dynamo Berlin Berliner FC Dynamo Berliner FC Dynamo is a German association football club and is the successor organization to the club that played in East Berlin as Dynamo Berlin from 1953 to 1966.-Founding and Stasi patronage:...	3
	Gheorghe Mulţescu Gheorghe Multescu Gheorghe "Gigi" Mulţescu is a former football player, who coached several teams both in Turkey and Romania.Mulţescu managed several clubs in Turkey, including Adanaspor, Gaziantepspor and Samsunspor....	Dinamo Bucharest	3
	Antonín Panenka Antonín Panenka Antonín Panenka is a Czech former footballer.- Club career :An attacking midfielder known for the quality of his passing and his free kicks, Panenka played for Bohemians Prague for most of his career, joining the club as a youth in 1959. In 1981 Panenka left Bohemians for Austrian club Rapid...	Rapid Vienna SK Rapid Wien The Sportklub Rapid Wien is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid is the most popular club in Austria and also record title holder having won the Austrian national football title 32 times...	3

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