1972–73 European Cup

The 1972–73 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the third consecutive time by Ajax in the final against Juventus at Red Star Stadium in Belgrade. The win by Ajax resulted in the fourth consecutive championship by a Dutch team. Since Ajax had won the cup for a third time, they got to keep the full size copy of the cup. Because the reigning European champions were also champions of their own league, and neither Albania nor Northern Ireland sent their champions, the number of participating clubs dropped from 33 to 30.

1972–73 European Cup

The Stadion FK Crvena Zvezda in Belgrade hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	13 September 1972 – 30 May 1973
Teams	30
Final positions
Champions	Ajax (3rd title)
Runners-up	Juventus
Tournament statistics
Matches played	57
Goals scored	160 (2.81 per match)
Attendance	1,752,786 (30,751 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Gerd Müller (Bayern Munich) 11 goals
← 1971–72 1973–74 →

Teams

Wacker Innsbruck (1st)	Anderlecht (1st)	CSKA Sofia (1st)
Omonia (1st)	Spartak Trnava (1st)	Vejle (1st)
Derby County (1st)	TPS (1st)	Marseille (1st)
Magdeburg (1st)	Bayern Munich (1st)	Panathinaikos (1st)
Újpesti Dózsa (1st)	Keflavík (1st)	Waterford (1st)
Juventus (1st)	Aris (1st)	Sliema Wanderers (1st)
Ajax (1st)TH	Rosenborg (1st)	Górnik Zabrze (1st)
Benfica (1st)	Argeș Pitești (1st)	Celtic (1st)
Real Madrid (1st)	Malmö FF (1st)	Basel (1st)
Galatasaray (1st)	Dynamo Kyiv (1st)	Željezničar (1st)

Bracket

	First round						Second round						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	CSKA	2	2	4
	Panathinaikos	1	0	1
							CSKA	1	0	1
							Ajax	3	3	6
													Ajax	4	1	5
													Bayern Munich	0	2	2
	Galatasaray	1	0	1
	Bayern Munich	1	6	7
							Bayern Munich	9	4	13
							Omonia	0	0	0
	Waterford United	2	0	2
	Omonia	1	2	3
																			Ajax	2	1	3
																			Real Madrid	1	0	1
	Wacker	0	0	0
	Dynamo Kyïv	1	2	3
							Dynamo Kyïv	2	1	3
							Górnik Zabrze	0	2	2
	Sliema Wanderers	0	0	0
	Górnik Zabrze	5	5	10
													Dynamo Kyïv	0	0	0
													Real Madrid	0	3	3
	Aris	0	0	0
	Argeș Pitești	2	4	6
							Argeș Pitești	2	1	3
							Real Madrid	1	3	4
	Real Madrid	3	1	4
	Keflavík	0	0	0
																									Ajax	1
																									Juventus	0
	Marseille	1	0	1
	Juventus	0	3	3
							Juventus	1	1	2
							Magdeburg	0	0	0
	Magdeburg	6	3	9
	TPS	0	1	1
													Juventus	0	2	2
													Újpesti	0	2	2
	Celtic	2	3	5
	Rosenborg	1	1	2
							Celtic	2	0	2
							Újpesti	1	3	4
	Újpesti	2	2	4
	Basel	0	3	3
																			Juventus	3	0	3
																			Derby County	1	0	1
							Spartak Trnava	1	1	2
							Anderlecht	0	0	0
	Anderlecht	4	3	7
	Vejle	2	0	2
													Spartak Trnava	1	0	1
													Derby County	0	2	2
	Derby County	2	2	4
	Željezničar	1	0	1
							Derby County	3	0	3
							Benfica	0	0	0
	Malmö FF	1	1	2
	Benfica	0	4	4

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
CSKA Sofia	4–1	Panathinaikos	2–1	2–0[n 1]
Ajax	Bye	–	–	–
Galatasaray	1–7	Bayern Munich	1–1	0–6
Waterford	2–3	Omonia	2–1	0–2
Wacker	0–3	Dynamo Kyiv	0–1	0–2
Sliema Wanderers	0–10	Górnik Zabrze	0–5	0–5
Aris	0–6	Argeș Pitești	0–2	0–4
Real Madrid	4–0	Keflavík	3–0	1–0
Marseille	1–3	Juventus	1–0	0–3
Magdeburg	9–1	TPS	6–0	3–1
Celtic	5–2	Rosenborg	2–1	3–1
Újpesti Dózsa	4–3	Basel	2–0	2–3
Spartak Trnava	Bye	–	–	–
Anderlecht	7–2	Vejle	4–2	3–0
Derby County	4–1	Željezničar	2–0	2–1[n 2]
Malmö FF	2–4	Benfica	1–0	1–4

1. Originally 1–2 to Panathinaikos, with CSKA winning the subsequent penalty shoot-out 3–2. Panathinaikos complained to UEFA, and the match was annulled and replayed the following month.^[1][2]
2. The match was played at FK Sarajevo's Stadion Koševo due to Željezničar's Grbavica ground undergoing renovations.

First leg

CSKA Sofia	2–1	Panathinaikos
Kolev 24' (pen.) Yankov 71'	Report	Verón 59'

13 September 1972

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 21,901

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Galatasaray	1–1	Bayern Munich
Ünder 55'	Report	Müller 66'

13 September 1972

Mithat Paşa Stadyumu

Attendance: 42,850

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Waterford	2–1	Omonia
Hale 5', 10'	Report	Rotsidis 79'

13 September 1972

Kilcohan Park, Waterford

Attendance: 2,544

Referee: René Vigliani (France)

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Wacker	0–1	Dynamo Kyiv
	Report	Puzach 88'

13 September 1972

19:30

Tivoli, Innsbruck

Attendance: 8,655

Referee: Theo Boosten (Netherlands)

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Sliema Wanderers	0–5	Górnik Zabrze
	Report	Lubański 25', 27', 39' Banaś 82' Wilczek 87'

13 September 1972

Empire Stadium, Gżira

Attendance: 3,898

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Aris Bonnevoie	0–2	Argeș Pitești
	Report	Troi 58' Dobrin 89' (pen.)

13 September 1972

Stade Josy Barthel, Bonnevoie

Attendance: 350

Referee: Joseph Minnoy (Belgium)

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Real Madrid	3–0	Keflavík
Santillana 15', 30' Grande 90'	Report

13 September 1972

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 30,000

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Marseille	1–0	Juventus
Bonnel 52'	Report

13 September 1972

Stade de Gerland, Lyon

Attendance: 21,403

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Magdeburg	6–0	TPS
Mewes 5' Pommerenke 24', 79' Seguin 30' Sparwasser 38', 45'	Report

13 September 1972

Ernst-Grube-Stadion, Magdeburg

Attendance: 16,119

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Celtic	2–1	Rosenborg
Macari 15' Deans 45'	Report	Wirkola 55'

13 September 1972

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 18,489

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Újpesti Dózsa	2–0	Basel
Horváth 57' Zámbó 60'	Report

13 September 1972

Megyeri úti Stadion, Budapest

Attendance: 4,282

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Anderlecht	4–2	Vejle
Ejderstedt 49' Rensenbrink 59', 62' Van Himst 85'	Report	Johansen 64' (pen.), 67'

13 September 1972

Stade Emile Versé, Anderlecht

Attendance: 7,837

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Derby County	2–0	Željezničar
McFarland 38' Gemmill 53'	Report

13 September 1972

Baseball Ground, Derby

Attendance: 27,350

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Malmö FF	1–0	Benfica
Larsson 11'	Report

13 September 1972

Malmö Stadion, Malmö

Attendance: 9,492

Referee: Wolfgang Riedel (East Germany)

Second leg

Panathinaikos	Annulled	CSKA Sofia
Verón 18' Melo 20' (pen.)		Trankov 68'
Penalties
Gramajo Verón Domazos Irala	2–3	Kolev Nikodimov Gaganelov

27 September 1972

Leofóros, Athens

Attendance: 24,927

The game was annulled because the referee ended the shoot-out prematurely after Panathinaikos fourth penalty was saved by Bulgarian goalkeeper.^[3] Panathinaikos complained to UEFA and the match was annulled and replayed the following month.^[4]

Panathinaikos	0–2	CSKA Sofia
	Report	Zhekov 4' Kolev 46'

26 October 1972

Leofóros, Athens

Attendance: 22,546

CSKA Sofia won 4–1 on aggregate.

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Bayern Munich	6–0	Galatasaray
Müller 14', 78' Hoeneß 29' Schneider 35' Beckenbauer 76' (pen.) Roth 88'	Report

27 September 1972

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 60,000

Bayern Munich won 7–1 on aggregate.

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Omonia	2–0	Waterford
Chelebis 18', 63'	Report

27 September 1972

GSP Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 5,095

Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)

Omonia won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Dynamo Kyiv	2–0	Wacker
Puzach 23' Damin 51'	Report

27 September 1972

19:00

Respublikanskiy Stadion, Kyiv

Attendance: 35,037

Referee: Doğan Babacan (Turkey)

Dynamo Kyiv won 3–0 on aggregate.

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Górnik Zabrze	5–0	Sliema Wanderers
Szołtysik 1' Lubański 31' Szarmach 62', 90' Oślizło 67'	Report

27 September 1972

Stadion Ernesta Pohla, Zabrze

Attendance: 5,020

Górnik Zabrze won 10–0 on aggregate.

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Argeș Pitești	4–0	Aris Bonnevoie
Dobrin 4', 47' (pen.) Radu 14', 28'	Report

27 September 1972

Stadionul 1 Mai, Pitești

Attendance: 4,500

Referee: Georgios Katsoras (Greece)

Argeș Pitești won 6–0 on aggregate.

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Keflavík	0–1	Real Madrid
	Report	Verdugo 89'

27 September 1972

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 4,219

Real Madrid won 4–0 on aggregate.

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Juventus	3–0	Marseille
Bettega 4', 37' Haller 44'	Report

27 September 1972

Stadio Comunale, Turin

Attendance: 56,389

Referee: Tsvetan Stanev (Bulgaria)

Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.

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TPS	1–3	Magdeburg
Toivola 73'	Report	Sparwasser 52', 87' Jalonen 72' (o.g.)

27 September 1972

Kupittaan jalkapallostadion, Turku

Attendance: 1,282

Magdeburg won 9–1 on aggregate.

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Rosenborg	1–3	Celtic
Christiansen 38'	Report	Macari 55', 88' Hood 83'

27 September 1972

Lerkendal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 16,153

Celtic won 5–2 on aggregate.

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Basel	3–2	Újpesti Dózsa
Hasler 65' Balmer 75', 83'	Report	Bene 46', 89'

27 September 1972

St. Jakob Stadion, Basel

Attendance: 15,962

Újpesti Dózsa won 4–3 on aggregate.

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Vejle	0–3	Anderlecht
	Report	Volders 61' Rensenbrink 85', 87'

27 September 1972

Vejle Stadion, Vejle

Attendance: 11,431

Anderlecht won 7–2 on aggregate.

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Željezničar	1–2	Derby County
Sprečo 60'	Report	Hinton 9' O'Hare 15'

27 September 1972

Gradski stadion Koševo, Sarajevo

Attendance: 32,080

Derby County won 4–1 on aggregate.

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Benfica	4–1	Malmö FF
Jordão 24' Simões 29' Eusébio 43' (pen.), 60'	Report	Tapper 89' (pen.)

27 September 1972

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 34,628

Referee: Robert Héliès (France)

Benfica won 4–2 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
CSKA Sofia	1–6	Ajax	1–3	0–3
Bayern Munich	13–0	Omonia	9–0	4–0
Dynamo Kyiv	3–2	Górnik Zabrze	2–0	1–2
Argeș Pitești	3–4	Real Madrid	2–1	1–3
Juventus	2–0	Magdeburg	1–0	1–0
Celtic	2–4	Újpesti Dózsa	2–1	0–3
Spartak Trnava	2–0	Anderlecht	1–0	1–0
Derby County	3–0	Benfica	3–0	0–0

First leg

CSKA Sofia	1–3	Ajax
Zhekov 27'	Report	Swart 13' Keizer 32' Haan 52'

8 November 1972

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 70,000

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Bayern Munich	9–0	Omonia
Müller 14', 37', 54', 73', 74' Hoeneß 25' Roth 42' Schneider 69', 82'	Report

24 October 1972

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 11,931

Referee: Michal Jursa (Czechoslovakia)

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Dynamo Kyiv	2–0	Górnik Zabrze
Muntyan 60' Puzach 75'	Report

25 October 1972

19:00

Respublikanskiy Stadion, Kyiv

Attendance: 60,112

Referee: György Müncz (Hungary)

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Argeș Pitești	2–1	Real Madrid
Dobrin 22' (pen.) Prepurgel 62'	Report	Anzarda 41'

25 October 1972

Stadionul 1 Mai, Pitești

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: David Smith (England)

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Juventus	1–0	Magdeburg
Anastasi 66'	Report

25 October 1972

21:00

Stadio Comunale, Turin

Attendance: 37,678

Referee: Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland)

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Celtic	2–1	Újpesti Dózsa
Dalglish 60', 75'	Report	Bene 38'

25 October 1972

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 51,515

Referee: Ferdinand Biwersi (West Germany)

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Spartak Trnava	1–0	Anderlecht
Kabát 46'	Report

25 October 1972

Stadion Trnava, Trnava

Attendance: 18,700

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Derby County	3–0	Benfica
McFarland 6' Hector 8' McGovern 40'	Report

25 October 1972

Baseball Ground, Derby

Attendance: 36,282

Referee: Bertil Lööw (Sweden)

Second leg

Ajax	3–0	CSKA Sofia
Cruyff 13', 75' Blankenburg 15'	Report

29 November 1972

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 35,027

Ajax won 6–1 on aggregate.

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Omonia	0–4	Bayern Munich
	Report	Roth 29' Müller 42', 66' Hoffmann 50'

26 October 1972

Rosenaustadion, Augsburg, West Germany

Attendance: 14,199

Referee: Josef Pláček (Czechoslovakia)

Bayern Munich won 13–0 on aggregate.

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Górnik Zabrze	2–1	Dynamo Kyiv
Lubański 30' Gorgoń 62'	Report	Blokhin 25'

8 November 1972

13:30

Silesian Stadium, Chorzów

Attendance: 48,527

Referee: Liuben Radunchev (Bulgaria)

Dynamo Kyiv won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Real Madrid	3–1	Argeș Pitești
Santillana 18', 87' Grande 47'	Report	Radu 43'

9 November 1972

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 14,939

Referee: Milivoje Gugulovic (Yugoslavia)

Real Madrid won 4–3 on aggregate.

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Magdeburg	0–1	Juventus
	Report	Cuccureddu 51'

8 November 1972

Ernst-Grube-Stadion, Magdeburg

Attendance: 41,790

Juventus won 2–0 on aggregate.

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Újpesti Dózsa	3–0	Celtic
Bene 7', 24' Fazekas 15' (pen.)	Report

8 November 1972

Megyeri úti Stadion, Budapest

Attendance: 13,012

Újpesti Dózsa won 4–2 on aggregate.

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Anderlecht	0–1	Spartak Trnava
	Report	Masrna 88'

8 November 1972

Stade Émile Versé, Anderlecht

Attendance: 23,548

Spartak Trnava won 2–0 on aggregate.

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Benfica	0–0	Derby County
	Report

8 November 1972

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 49,978

Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)

Derby County won 3–0 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ajax	5–2	Bayern Munich	4–0	1–2
Dynamo Kyiv	0–3	Real Madrid	0–0	0–3
Juventus	2–2 (a)	Újpesti Dózsa	0–0	2–2
Spartak Trnava	1–2	Derby County	1–0	0–2

First leg

Ajax	4–0	Bayern Munich
Haan 53', 70' G. Mühren 68' Cruyff 89'	Report

7 March 1973

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 53,230

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Dynamo Kyiv	0–0	Real Madrid
	Report

7 March 1973

17:00

ChMP Central Stadium, Odesa^{[note 1]}

Attendance: 36,239

Referee: Sergio Gonella (Italy)

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Juventus	0–0	Újpesti Dózsa
	Report

7 March 1973

Stadio Comunale, Turin

Attendance: 64,844

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Spartak Trnava	1–0	Derby County
Horváth 42'	Report

7 March 1973

Stadion Trnava, Trnava

Attendance: 24,838

Second leg

Bayern Munich	2–1	Ajax
Krol 30' (o.g.) Müller 37'	Report	Keizer 7'

21 March 1973

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 74,194

Ajax won 5–2 on aggregate.

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Real Madrid	3–0	Dynamo Kyiv
Santillana 2' Aguilar 36' Amancio 81'	Report

21 March 1973

21:30

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 27,949

Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

Real Madrid won 3–0 on aggregate.

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Újpesti Dózsa	2–2	Juventus
Bene 1' A. Tóth 13'	Report	Altafini 30' Anastasi 56'

21 March 1973

Megyeri úti Stadion, Budapest

Attendance: 28,550

2–2 on aggregate; Juventus won on away goals.

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Derby County	2–0	Spartak Trnava
Hector 40', 51'	Report

21 March 1973

Baseball Ground, Derby

Attendance: 36,272

Referee: Aurelio Angonese (Italy)

Derby County won 2–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ajax	3–1	Real Madrid	2–1	1–0
Juventus	3–1	Derby County	3–1	0–0

First leg

Ajax	2–1	Real Madrid
Hulshoff 67' Krol 77'	Report	Pirri 84'

11 April 1973

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 53,234

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Juventus	3–1	Derby County
Altafini 27', 84' Causio 65'	Report	Hector 29'

11 April 1973

Stadio Comunale, Turin

Attendance: 53,758

Second leg

Real Madrid	0–1	Ajax
	Report	G. Mühren 50'

25 April 1973

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 110,000

Ajax won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Derby County	0–0	Juventus
	Report

25 April 1973

Baseball Ground, Derby

Attendance: 38,444

Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1973 European Cup Final

Ajax	1–0	Juventus
Rep 5'	Report

30 May 1973

20:30

Stadion Crvena Zvezda, Belgrade

Attendance: 89,484

Referee: Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia)

Top scorers

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Gerd Müller	Bayern Munich	11
2	Ferenc Bene	Újpesti Dózsa	6
3	Włodzimierz Lubański	Górnik Zabrze	5
	Santillana	Real Madrid	5
5	Nicolae Dobrin	Argeș Pitești	4
	Kevin Hector	Derby County	4
	Rob Rensenbrink	Anderlecht	4
	Jürgen Sparwasser	Magdeburg	4
9	José Altafini	Juventus	3
	Arie Haan	Ajax	3
	Johan Cruyff	Ajax	3
	Lou Macari	Celtic	3
	Anatoliy Puzach	Dynamo Kyiv	3
	Constantin Radu	Argeș Pitești	3
	Franz Roth	Bayern Munich	3
	Edgar Schneider	Bayern Munich	3

Notes

1. Dynamo Kyiv played their home match at ChMP Central Stadium, Odesa, instead of their regular stadium Central Stadium, Kyiv, due to frozen pitch.^[5]

References

1. "UEFA annul Cup result". The Times. Reuters. 9 October 1972. p. 7.
2. Barham, Albert (25 October 1972). "Derby could silence their critics". The Guardian. p. 27.
3. "Еврокубки, Кубок Чемпионов 1972–1973: 26 октября 1972, Панатинаикос (Греция) – ЦСКА Септемврийско знаме (Болгария)" [European Cups, 1972–73 European Cup: 26 October 1972, Panathinaikos (Greece) – CSKA Septemvriysko Zname (Bulgaria)] (in Russian). Retrieved 12 December 2021.
4. "UEFA annul Cup result". The Times. Reuters. 9 October 1972. p. 7.
5. Valerko, Artur (11 September 2015). "Семь королевских аудиенций" (in Russian). SPORTARENA.com. Retrieved 2 July 2018.

External links

• 1972–73 All matches – season at UEFA website
• European Cup results; at rsssf
• All scorers 1972–73 European Cup according to protocols UEFA
• All attendances 1972–73 European Cup according to protocols UEFA through UEFA match database
• 1972-73 European Cup - results and line-ups (archive)