1970–71 European Cup Winners' Cup

The 1970–71 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by Chelsea in a replay against Real Madrid. Defending champions Manchester City were eliminated by Chelsea in the semi-finals, only the second ever tie in the competition between two clubs from the same country. These two sides would later compete in the 2021 UEFA Champions League final, with Chelsea winning 1-0. The final was played in Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, Greece.^[1][2][3]

1970–71 European Cup Winners' Cup

Final positions
Champions	Chelsea (1st title)
Runners-up	Real Madrid
← 1969–70 1971–72 →

Bracket

	First round						Second round						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Kickers Offenbach	2	0	2
	Club Brugge	1	2	3			Club Brugge	2	2	4
	Zürich	7	7	14			Zürich	0	3	3
	ÍB Akureyri	1	0	1									Club Brugge	2	0	2
	CSKA September Flag	9	2	11									Chelsea	0	4	4
	Haka	0	1	1			CSKA September Flag	0	0	0
	Aris Thessaloniki	1	1	2			Chelsea	1	1	2
	Chelsea	1	5	6															Chelsea	1	1	2
	Göztepe	5	0	5															Manchester City	0	0	0
	Union Luxembourg	0	1	1			Göztepe	0	0	0
	AaB	0	1	1			Górnik Zabrze	1	3	4
	Górnik Zabrze	1	8	9									Górnik Zabrze	2	0	2/1
	Aberdeen	3	1	4(4)									Manchester City	0	2	2/3
	Budapest Honvéd	1	3	4(5)			Budapest Honvéd	0	0	0
	Manchester City	1	1	2			Manchester City	1	2	3
	Linfield	0	2	2																					Chelsea	2
	TJ Gottwaldov	2	0	2																					Real Madrid	1
	PSV Eindhoven	1	1	2			PSV Eindhoven	4	3	7
	Karpaty Lviv	0	3	3			Steaua București	0	0	0
	Steaua București	1	3	4									PSV Eindhoven	2	0	2
	Olimpija Ljubljana	1	1	2									Vorwärts Berlin	0	1	1
	Benfica	1	8	9			Benfica	2	0	2(3)
	Vorwärts Berlin	0	1	1			Vorwärts Berlin	0	2	2(5)
	Bologna	0	1	1															PSV Eindhoven	0	1	1
	Cardiff City	8	0	8															Real Madrid	0	2	2
	Pezoporikos Larnaca	0	0	0			Cardiff City	5	2	7
	Strømsgodset	0	3	3			Nantes	1	1	2
	Nantes	5	2	7									Cardiff City	1	0	1
	Hibernians	0	0	0									Real Madrid	0	2	2
	Real Madrid	0	5	5			Real Madrid	0	2	2
	Wacker Innsbruck	3	2	5			Wacker Innsbruck	1	0	1
	Partizani	2	1	3

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Åtvidabergs FF	1–3	Partizani	1–1	0–2
Bohemian	3–4	TJ Gottwaldov	1–2	2–2

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Kickers Offenbach	2–3	Club Brugge	2–1	0–2
Zürich	14–1	ÍB Akureyri	7–1	7–0
CSKA September Flag	11–1	Haka	9–0	2–1
Aris Thessaloniki	2–6	Chelsea	1–1	1–5
Aberdeen	4–4 (p)	Budapest Honvéd	3–1	1–3 (a.e.t.)
Manchester City	2–2 (a)	Linfield	1–0	1–2
Göztepe	5–1	Union Luxembourg	5–0	0–1
AaB	1–9	Górnik Zabrze	0–1	1–8
TJ Gottwaldov	2–2 (a)	PSV Eindhoven	2–1	0–1
Karpaty Lviv	3–4	Steaua București	0–1	3–3
Olimpija Ljubljana	2–9	Benfica	1–1	1–8
Vorwärts Berlin	1–1 (a)	Bologna	0–0	1–1
Cardiff City	8–0	Pezoporikos Larnaca	8–0	0–0
Strømsgodset	3–7	Nantes	0–5	3–2
Hibernians	0–5	Real Madrid	0–0	0–5
Wacker Innsbruck	5–3	Partizani	3–2	2–1

First leg

Zürich	7–1	ÍB Akureyri
Stierli 1' Martinelli 34' Volkert 44', 49', 62' Künzli 51', 69'	FCZ summary	71' Árnason

16 September 1970

Letzigrund, Zürich

Attendance: 5,700

Referee: Alexandru Pîrvu (Romania)

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CSKA September Flag	9–0	Haka
Yakimov 7', 30', 64' Nikodimov 15' (pen.), 37' Zhekov 61', 81' Marashliev 77'

16 September 1970

Bulgarian Army Stadium, Sofia

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Karpaty Lviv	0–1	Steaua București
	Report	Tătaru 88'

16 September 1970

19:00

Druzhba Stadium, Lviv

Attendance: 48,000

Referee: István Zsolt (Hungary)

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Olimpija Ljubljana	1–1	Benfica
Pejović 53'	[citation needed]	Eusébio 30'

16 September 1970

Bežigrad Stadium, Ljubljana

Attendance: 11,951

Referee: Paul Bonett (Malta)

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Vorwärts Berlin	0–0	Bologna

16 September 1970

Berlin

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Cardiff City	8-0	Pezoporikos Larnaca
Sutton 18' Gibson 33' King 36' Woodruff 40' Clark 44', 60' Toshack 54', 82'	[citation needed]

16 September 1970

Ninian Park, Cardiff

Attendance: 12,984

Referee: Jacques Colling (Luxembourg)

Second leg

ÍB Akureyri	0–7	Zürich
	FCZ summary	6', 13', 19' Künzli 17', 55' Volkert 83' Heer 87' Grünig

22 September 1970

Espenmoos, St. Gallen

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Cornel Niţescu

Zürich won 14–1 on aggregate

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Haka	1–2	CSKA September Flag
Malm 88'		Yakimov 50', 56'

30 September 1970

Tehtaan kenttä, Valkeakoski

CSKA September Flag won 11–1 on aggregate.

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Steaua București	3–3	Karpaty Lviv
Dumitriu 19' Tătaru 28' (pen.) Ștefănescu 70'	Report	Kulchytskyi 16' Habowda 25' Hreshchak 90'

30 September 1970

13:30

Stadionul Republicii, Bucharest

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Günter Männig (East Germany)

Steaua București won 4–3 on aggregate.

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Benfica	8–1	Olimpija Ljubljana
Eusébio 26', 30', 32', 71', 83' Zeca 47' Artur Jorge 67' Jaime Graça 84'	[citation needed]	Ameršek 51'

30 September 1970

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 38,760

Referee: Antoine Queudeville (Luxembourg)

Benfica won 9–2 on aggregate.

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Bologna	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Vorwärts Berlin
Savoldi 106'		Begerad 112'

30 September 1970

Bologna

1–1 on aggregate; Vorwärts Berlin won on away goals.

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Pezoporikos Larnaca	0–0	Cardiff City
	[citation needed]

30 September 1970

GSZ Stadium, Larnaca

Attendance: 2,100

Referee: Petar Nikolov (Bulgaria)

Cardiff City won 8-0 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Club Brugge	4–3	Zürich	2–0	2–3
CSKA September Flag	0–2	Chelsea	0–1	0–1
Budapest Honvéd	0–3	Manchester City	0–1	0–2
Göztepe	0–4	Górnik Zabrze	0–1	0–3
PSV Eindhoven	7–0	Steaua București	4–0	3–0
Benfica	2–2 (p)	Vorwärts Berlin	2–0	0–2
Cardiff City	7–2	Nantes	5–1	2–1
Real Madrid	2–1	Wacker Innsbruck	0–1	2–0

First leg

Club Brugge	2–0	Zürich
Rensenbrink 18' Carteus 38'	FCZ summary

21 October 1970

Klokke Stadion, Bruges

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Brunon Piotrowicz

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CSKA September Flag	0–1	Chelsea
		Baldwin 43'

21 October 1970

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

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PSV Eindhoven	4–0	Steaua București
Veenstra 32' Devrindt 67', 87' Mulders 68'	Report

21 October 1970 (1970-10-21)

Philips Stadion, Eindhoven

Attendance: 24,500

Referee: Gerhard Schulenburg (West Germany)

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Benfica	2–0	Vorwärts Berlin
Eusébio 3' Diamantino Costa 66'	[citation needed]

21 October 1970

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 29,796

Referee: Josip Horvath (Yugoslavia)

Second leg

Zürich	3–2	Club Brugge
Axelsson 21' (o.g.) Martinelli  23' Grünig 55' Künzli 83'	FCZ summary	4' Carteus  23' Moelaert  60' Houwaart 74' Rensenbrink

4 November 1970

Letzigrund, Zürich

Attendance: 11,500

Referee: Ertugrul Dilek

Club Brugge won 4–3 on aggregate

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Chelsea	1–0	CSKA September Flag
Webb 41'

4 November 1970

Stamford Bridge, London

Chelsea won 2–0 on aggregate.

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Steaua București	0–3	PSV Eindhoven
	Report	Veenstra 45', 53' Van der Kuijlen 79'

4 November 1970 (1970-11-04)

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Jim Finney (England)

PSV Eindhoven won 7–0 on aggregate.

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Vorwärts Berlin	2–0 (a.e.t.)	Benfica
Wruck 25' Fräßdorf 67'	[citation needed]

4 November 1970

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark, Berlin

Attendance: 10,533

Referee: John Adair (Northern Ireland)

2–2 on aggregate. Vorwärts Berlin won 5–3 on penalties.

Quarter-finals

Ticket to match Manchester City–Górnik Zabrze in Chorzów

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Play-off
Club Brugge	2–4	Chelsea	2–0	0–4
Górnik Zabrze	2–2	Manchester City	2–0	0–2	1–3
PSV Eindhoven	2–1	Vorwärts Berlin	2–0	0–1
Cardiff City	1–2	Real Madrid	1–0	0–2

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Chelsea	2–0	Manchester City	1–0	1–0
PSV Eindhoven	1–2	Real Madrid	0–0	1–2

First leg

Chelsea	1–0	Manchester City
Smethurst 46'	Report Report 2

14 April 1971

Stamford Bridge, London

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PSV Eindhoven	0–0	Real Madrid
	Report Report 2

14 April 1971

19:15

Philips Stadion, Eindhoven

Attendance: 24,000

Referee: William O'Neill (Republic of Ireland)

Second leg

Manchester City	0–1	Chelsea
	Report Report 2	Healey 43' (o.g.)

28 April 1971

Maine Road, Manchester

Chelsea won 2–0 on aggregate.

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Real Madrid	2–1	PSV Eindhoven
Zoco 36' Pirri 82'	Report Report 2	Van den Dungen 58'

28 April 1971

21:00

Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Michel Kitabdjian (France)

Real Madrid won 2–1 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1971 European Cup Winners' Cup final

Chelsea	1–1	Real Madrid
Osgood 56'	Report Report 2	Zoco 90'

19 May 1971

20:30

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland)

Replay

Chelsea	2–1	Real Madrid
Dempsey 33' Osgood 39'	Report Report 2	Fleitas 75'

21 May 1971

20:30

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 19,917

Referee: Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland)

See also

• 1970–71 European Cup
• 1970–71 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup