1970 European Cup final

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Template other The 1970 European Cup final was a football match held at the San Siro, Milan, on 6 May 1970, that saw FeijenoordTemplate:Efn of the Netherlands defeat Celtic of Scotland 2–1 after extra time. Ove Kindvall's goal in the 117th minute meant the trophy was won by a Dutch club for the first time. It remains Feyenoord's only European Cup triumph.

For losing finalists Celtic, this marked the second, and to date most recent, European Cup final appearance in club history, after the famous win by the "Lisbon Lions" side in the 1967 edition. The match nearly never took place due to massive strikes throughout Italy during 1970; the Italian Football Federation backed down to ensure that their own clubs would be able to compete in further UEFA competitions.

Route to the final

Feyenoord				Round	Celtic
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Template:Fbaicon KR	16–2	12–2 (A)Template:Efn	4–0 (H)	First round	Template:Fbaicon Basel	2–0	0–0 (A)	2–0 (H)
Template:Fbaicon AC Milan	2–1	0–1 (A)	2–0 (H)	Second round	Template:Fbaicon Benfica	3–3 (c)	3–0 (H)	0–3 Template:Aet (A)
Template:Fbaicon Vorwärts Berlin	2–1	0–1 (A)	2–0 (H)	Quarter-finals	Template:Fbaicon Fiorentina	3–1	3–0 (H)	0–1 (A)
Template:Fbaicon Legia Warsaw	2–0	0–0 (A)	2–0 (H)	Semi-finals	Template:Fbaicon Leeds United	3–1	1–0 (A)	2–1 (H)

Match

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Wim van Hanegem, Piet Vrauwdeunt, and Coen Moulijn

Summary

In contrast to their win in the European Cup final three years prior, in which they had gone into the match as heavy underdogs against Inter Milan, this time around, Celtic entered the final as strong favourites over Feyenoord. However, despite Celtic's Tommy Gemmell opening the scoring after 30 minutes, they were outplayed by the Dutch outfit, whose manager, Ernst Happel, ensured Celtic winger Jimmy Johnstone was double marked at all times, whilst the midfield trio of Franz Hasil, Willem van Hanegem, and Wim Jansen dominated their Scottish counterparts. Rinus Israël quickly equalised with his head; remarkably, this was the first goal of Feyenoord's European campaign that they scored away from their home stadium.Template:Efn Early in the first half of extra time John Hughes intercepted a sloppy pass from Israel and burst past two Feynoord defenders and into the penalty area but he overran the ball slightly and could not quite clip the ball over the goalkeeper but then a Feynoord defender's passback to the goalkeeper almost resulted in an own goal.

In the second half, Celtic managed to hold on at 1–1 to force extra time. With just a few minutes of extra-time remaining, a long free-kick from the Feyenoord half was sent towards the Celtic penalty area. Celtic defender and captain Billy McNeill stumbled and misjudged the ball, and as he tried to recover he appeared to punch the ball away. Before the referee had a chance to award a penalty, Ove Kindvall reacted quickly, running on and chipping the ball over the advancing goalkeeper Evan Williams to seal a 2–1 win for Feyenoord.

Details

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GK 1 Template:Flagicon Eddy Pieters Graafland RB 2 Template:Flagicon Piet Romeijn downward-facing red arrow 106' CB 4 Template:Flagicon Theo Laseroms CB 3 Template:Flagicon Rinus Israël (c) LB 5 Template:Flagicon Theo van Duivenbode CM 7 Template:Flagicon Wim Jansen RM 6 Template:Flagicon Franz Hasil LM 10 Template:Flagicon Willem van Hanegem RW 8 Template:Flagicon Henk Wery CF 9 Template:Flagicon Ove Kindvall LW 11 Template:Flagicon Coen Moulijn Substitutes: MF 15 Template:Flagicon Guus Haak upward-facing green arrow 106' GK Template:Flagicon Eddy Treijtel DF Template:Flagicon Cor Veldhoen MF Template:Flagicon Template:Interlanguage link CF Template:Flagicon Joop van Daele Manager: Template:Flagicon Ernst Happel

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GK 1 Template:Flagicon Evan Williams RB 2 Template:Flagicon David Hay CB 5 Template:Flagicon Billy McNeill (c) CB 6 Template:Flagicon Jim Brogan LB 3 Template:Flagicon Tommy Gemmell CM 4 Template:Flagicon Bobby Murdoch CM 10 Template:Flagicon Bertie Auld downward-facing red arrow 77' RW 7 Template:Flagicon Jimmy Johnstone CF 9 Template:Flagicon John Hughes CF 8 Template:Flagicon Willie Wallace LW 11 Template:Flagicon Bobby Lennox Substitutes: GK 12 Template:Flagicon John Fallon RB 13 Template:Flagicon Jim Craig MF 14 Template:Flagicon George Connelly upward-facing green arrow 77' MF 15 Template:Flagicon Tommy Callaghan FW 16 Template:Flagicon Harry Hood Manager: Template:Flagicon Jock Stein

See also

• 1969–70 European Cup
• Celtic F.C. in European football

External links

• European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
• 1969-70 season at UEFA website
• European Cup History 1970