1982 European Cup final

Match programme cover
Event	1981–82 European Cup
Aston Villa Bayern Munich 1 0
Date	26 May 1982
Venue	De Kuip, Rotterdam
Man of the Match	Peter Withe (Aston Villa)
Referee	Georges Konrath ( France)
Attendance	46,000
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The 1982 European Cup final was played on 26 May 1982 at the end of the 1981–82 European Cup season. Football League First Division winners Aston Villa defeated Bundesliga winners Bayern Munich 1–0 at De Kuip in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to win their first (and to date only) European Cup; this continued the streak of English teams winning the competition in six straight seasons.

Route to the final

Aston Villa				Round	Bayern Munich
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Valur	7–0	5–0 (H)	2–0 (A)	First round	Östers IF	6–0	1–0 (A)	5–0 (H)
Dynamo Berlin	2–2 ( a)	2–1 (A)	0–1 (H)	Second round	Benfica	4–1	0–0 (A)	4–1 (H)
Dynamo Kyiv	2–0	0–0 (A)	2–0 (H)	Quarter-finals	Universitatea Craiova	3–1	2–0 (A)	1–1 (H)
Anderlecht	1–0	1–0 (H)	0–0 (A)	Semi-finals	CSKA Sofia	7–4	3–4 (A)	4–0 (H)

Match

Summary

Two moments of the match, (left): Des Bremner, Dieter Hoeneß, Paul Breitner, and Kenny Swain in action; (right): Players of Aston Villa celebrating their victory

After 10 minutes, Aston Villa goalkeeper Jimmy Rimmer suffered a repeat of a recurring shoulder injury. His replacement, Nigel Spink, subsequently made his second first team appearance for the club. His performance in helping prevent Bayern from scoring throughout the match was highly praised, and is seen by many as the making of a player who would be Villa's first choice goalkeeper for the following 10 seasons. ^[1]

Bayern did find the net with three minutes of play remaining, but the goal was canceled by an offside. Villa also got the ball in the net for a second time a few seconds before the end of the match but this goal was also disallowed.

Brian Moore's commentary of the winning goal is displayed on a giant banner across the North Stand of Villa Park:

Shaw, Williams, prepared to venture down the left. There's a good ball in for Tony Morley. Oh, it must be and it is! It's Peter Withe.

As defending European champions, Villa were invited into the European Cup, European Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup for the following season. Their defence of the European Cup ended in a quarter-final defeat to Juventus. They beat Barcelona 3–1 on aggregate to win the Super Cup, but lost 2–0 to Uruguayan club Peñarol for the Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo, Japan.

Details

26 May 1982

20:15 CEST

Aston Villa	1–0	Bayern Munich
Withe 67'	Report

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 46,000

Referee: Georges Konrath ( France)

Aston Villa

Bayern Munich

GK 1 Jimmy Rimmer  9' RB 2 Kenny Swain CB 5 Ken McNaught CB 4 Allan Evans LB 3 Gary Williams  38' CM 6 Dennis Mortimer ( c) CM 10 Gordon Cowans CM 7 Des Bremner RW 9 Peter Withe CF 8 Gary Shaw LW 11 Tony Morley Substitutes: GK 16 Nigel Spink  9' DF Colin Gibson MF Andy Blair MF Pat Heard FW David Geddis Manager: Tony Barton

GK 1 Manfred Müller RB 2 Wolfgang Dremmler CB 4 Hans Weiner CB 5 Klaus Augenthaler LB 3 Udo Horsmann RM 10 Reinhold Mathy  51' CM 6 Wolfgang Kraus  78' CM 8 Paul Breitner ( c) LM 7 Bernd Dürnberger CF 9 Dieter Hoeneß CF 11 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Substitutes: MF 16 Günter Güttler  51' MF 13 Kurt Niedermayer  78' GK Walter Junghans Manager: Pál Csernai

See also

• 1981–82 Aston Villa F.C. season
• 1981–82 European Cup
• FC Bayern Munich in international football competitions

References

External links

• 1981–82 season at UEFA website

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