1961–62 European Cup

1961–62 European Cup

Final positions
Champions	Benfica (2nd title)
Runners-up	Real Madrid
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)	Ferenc Puskás (7 goals)
← 1960–61 1962–63 →

The 1961–62 European Cup was the seventh season of the European Cup. The competition was won by Benfica for the second time in a row, beating Real Madrid 5–3 at the Olympisch Stadion in Amsterdam.

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Steaua Bucureşti	0–2	Austria Wien	0–0	0–2
Nuremberg	9–1	Drumcondra	5–0	4–1
Servette	7–1	Hibernians	5–0	2–1
CDNA Sofia	5–6	Dukla Prague	4–4	1–2
IFK Göteborg	2–11	Feyenoord	0–3	2–8
Górnik Zabrze	5–10	Tottenham Hotspur	4–2	1–8
Standard Liège	4–1	Fredrikstad	2–1	2–0
Vorwärts Berlin	3–0	Linfield	3–0	(w/o)
AS Monaco	4–6	Rangers	2–3	2–3
Sporting CP	1–3	Partizan	1–1	0–2
Panathinaikos	2–3	Juventus	1–1	1–2
Spora Luxembourg	2–15	Boldklubben 1913	0–6	2–9
Vasas	1–5	Real Madrid	0–2	1–3

Note: S.L. Benfica, Fenerbahçe, and FC Haka received byes.

First leg

21 September 1961	Steaua Bucureşti	0–0	Austria Wien	Stadionul 23. August, Bucharest Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Konstantin Zečević (Yugoslavia)
		Report Gamesheet

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23 August 1961	Nuremberg	5–0	Drumcondra	Städtisches Stadium, Nuremberg Attendance: 30,645 Referee: Pieter Paulus Roomer (Netherlands)
	Müller  10' Strehl  15', 23' Gettinger  47', 75'	Report Gamesheet

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6 September 1961	Servette	5–0	Hibernians	Charmilles Stadium, Geneva Attendance: 14,739 Referee: Cesare Jonni (Italy)
	Robbiani  2', 30' Németh  22' Georgy  56' (pen.), 71'	Report Gamesheet

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6 September 1961	CDNA Sofia	4–4	Dukla Prague	Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Bronisław Bilak (Poland)
	Rankov  32' Rakarov  49' Romanov  64', 86'	Report Gamesheet	Jelínek  35' Kučera  42' Dvořák  53' Adamec  61'

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5 September 1961	IFK Göteborg	0–3	Feyenoord	Nya Ullevi, Gothenburg Attendance: 5,431 Referee: Einar Poulsen (Denmark)
		Report Gamesheet	Bouwmeester  31' Bennaars  32' Temming  41'

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13 September 1961	Górnik Zabrze	4–2	Tottenham Hotspur	Silesian Stadium, Chorzów Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Arthur Blavier (Belgium)
	Norman  8' (o.g.) Musialek  20' Wilczek  40' Pol  48'	Report Gamesheet	Jones  70' Dyson  73'

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6 September 1961	Standard Liège	2–1	Fredrikstad	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège Attendance: 23,546 Referee: Reginald Leafe (England)
	Dierendonck  5' Paeschen  77'	Report Gamesheet	Pedersen  52'

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30 August 1961	Vorwärts Berlin	3–0	Linfield	Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark, Berlin Attendance: 15,626 Referee: Johan Einar Boström (Sweden)
	Kohle  10', 38' Wirth  52'	Report Gamesheet

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5 September 1961	AS Monaco	2–3	Rangers	Stade Louis II, Monaco Attendance: 6,024 Referee: Daniel María Zariquiegui Izco (Spain)
	Hess  61' Douis  75' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet	Baxter  9' Scott  25', 85'

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13 September 1961	Sporting CP	1–1	Partizan	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Attendance: 16,302 Referee: Josef Gulde (Switzerland)
	Lúcio  87'	Report Gamesheet	Vukelić  68'

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20 September 1961	Panathinaikos	1–1	Juventus	Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Athens Attendance: 23,904 Referee: Karol Galba (Czechoslovakia)
	Papaemmanuil  66'	Report Gamesheet	Mora  45'

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7 September 1961	Spora Luxembourg	0–6	Boldklubben 1913	Stade Municipal, Luxembourg City Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Günther Ternieden (West Germany)
		Report Gamesheet	Løfqvist  6', 36' Bruun  38', 66' Rasmussen  50' Grønning-Hansen  55'

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6 September 1961	Vasas	0–2	Real Madrid	Népstadion, Budapest Attendance: 90,000 Referee: Marcel Bois (France)
		Report Gamesheet	Tejada  6', 26'

Second leg

28 September 1961	Austria Wien	2–0	Steaua Bucureşti	Praterstadion, Vienna Attendance: 38,490 Referee: Branko Tesanić (Yugoslavia)
	Stotz  38' (pen.) Němec  41'	Report Gamesheet

Austria Wien won 2–0 on aggregate.

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13 September 1961	Drumcondra	1–4	Nuremberg	Tolka Park, Dublin Attendance: 10,997 Referee: Andries van Leeuwen (Netherlands)
	Fullam  16'	Report Gamesheet	Strehl  15', 47', 52' Healy  70' (o.g.)

Nuremberg won 9–1 on aggregate.

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20 September 1961	Hibernians	1–2	Servette	Empire Stadium, Gżira Attendance: 4,853 Referee: Gennaro Marchese (Italy)
	Sultana  60'	Report Gamesheet	Wüthrich  44' Robbiani  78'

Servette won 7–1 on aggregate.

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13 September 1961	Dukla Prague	2–1	CDNA Sofia	Na Litavce, Příbram Attendance: 13,142 Referee: Grzegorz Placik (Poland)
	Kučera  54' Šafránek  70'	Report Gamesheet	Rankov  44'

Dukla Prague won 6–5 on aggregate.

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13 September 1961	Feyenoord	8–2	Gothenburg	Feijenoord Stadium, Rotterdam Attendance: 33,577 Referee: Carl Jørgensen (Denmark)
	Temming  3', 88' Bennaars  9', 80' Schouten  20' Bouwmeester  44', 58', 59'	Report Gamesheet	Danielsson  68' Johansson  70'

Feyenoord won 11–2 on aggregate.

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20 September 1961	Tottenham Hotspur	8–1	Górnik Zabrze	White Hart Lane, London Attendance: 56,737 Referee: Lucien Van Nuffel (Belgium)
	Blanchflower  10' (pen.) Jones  20', 26', 36' Smith  38', 71' Dyson  79' White  90'	Report Gamesheet	Pol  28'

Tottenham Hotspur won 10–5 on aggregate.

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20 September 1961	Fredrikstad	0–2	Standard Liège	Bislett Stadion, Oslo Attendance: 25,074 Referee: Ken Aston (England)
		Report Gamesheet	Claessen  68', 85'

Standard Liège won 4–1 on aggregate.

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12 September 1961	Rangers	3–2	AS Monaco	Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow Attendance: 67,501 Referee: Juan Gardeazábal Garay (Spain)
	Christie  47', 68' Scott  84'	Report Gamesheet	Hess  18', 77'

Rangers won 6–4 on aggregate.

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20 September 1961	Partizan	2–0	Sporting CP	JNA Stadium, Belgrade Attendance: 19,755 Referee: Daniel Mellet (Switzerland)
	Radović  18' Vislavski  87'	Report Gamesheet

Partizan won 3–1 on aggregate.

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27 September 1961	Juventus	2–1	Panathinaikos	Stadio Comunale, Turin Attendance: 19,452 Referee: Alois Obtulovic (Czechoslovakia)
	Nicolè  20' Rossano  26'	Report Gamesheet	Holevas  62' (pen.)

Juventus won 3–2 on aggregate.

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13 September 1961	Boldklubben 1913	9–2	Spora Luxembourg	Odense Stadion, Odense Attendance: 9,643 Referee: Werner Treichel (West Germany)
	Andersen  34' (pen.), 77' Løfqvist  44', 59', 61', 87', 89' Rasmussen  75' Grønning-Hansen  80'	Report Gamesheet	Scheer  10' Leer  29'

Boldklubben 1913 won 15–2 on aggregate.

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20 September 1961	Real Madrid	3–1	Vasas	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 70,000 Referee: Maurice Guigue (France)
	di Stéfano  12', 57' Tejada  90'	Report Gamesheet	Pál I  10'

Real Madrid won 5–1 on aggregate.

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Fenerbahçe	1–3	Nuremberg	1–2	0–1
Austria Vienna	2–6	Benfica	1–1	1–5
Servette	4–5	Dukla Prague	4–3	0–2
Feyenoord	2–4	Tottenham Hotspur	1–3	1–1
Boldklubben 1913	0–12	Real Madrid	0–3	0–9
FK Partizan	1–7	Juventus	1–2	0–5
Standard Liège	7–1	Haka	5–1	2–0
Vorwärts Berlin	2–6	Rangers	1–2	1–4

First leg

18 October 1961	Fenerbahçe	1–2	Nuremberg	Mithatpaşa Stadium, Istanbul Attendance: 13,743 Referee: János Pósa Polareczki (Hungary)
	Bartu  65'	Report Gamesheet	Flachenecker  52' Strehl  55'

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31 October 1961	Austria Wien	1–1	Benfica	Praterstadion, Vienna Attendance: 78,833 Referee: Joseph Barbéran (France)
	Stark  70'	Report Gamesheet	Águas  30'

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5 November 1961	Servette	4–3	Dukla Prague	Charmilles Stadium, Geneva Attendance: 25,644 Referee: Gino Rigato (Italy)
	Fatton  24', 67', 88' Robbiani  84'	Report Gamesheet	Adamec  6', 49' Vacenovsky  37'

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1 November 1961	Feyenoord	1–3	Tottenham Hotspur	Feijenoord Stadium, Rotterdam Attendance: 61,700 Referee: Leif Gulliksen (Norway)
	Kreijermaat  62'	Report Gamesheet	Dyson  41' Saul  47', 76'

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18 October 1961	Boldklubben 1913	0–3	Real Madrid	Odense Stadion, Odense Attendance: 27,587 Referee: Lucien Van Nuffel (Belgium)
		Report Gamesheet	Puskás  15', 84' Tejada  86'

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8 November 1961	Partizan	1–2	Juventus	JNA Stadium, Belgrade Attendance: 23,472 Referee: Victor Schicker (Switzerland)
	Vasović  76'	Report Gamesheet	Nicolè  35' Rosa  73'

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24 October 1961	Standard Liège	5–1	Valkeakosken Haka	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège Attendance: 25,391 Referee: Valdemar Hansen (Denmark)
	Dierendonck  20' Claessen  33', 61', 70' Paeschen  78'	Report Gamesheet	Kumpulampi  76'

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15 November 1961	Vorwärts Berlin	1–2	Rangers	Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark, Berlin Attendance: 14,268 Referee: Johan Heinrich Martens (Netherlands)
	Kohle  26'	Report Gamesheet	Caldow  25' (pen.) Brand  43'

Second leg

3 December 1961	Nuremberg	1–0	Fenerbahçe	Städtisches Stadium, Nuremberg Attendance: 42,641 Referee: Andor Dorogi (Hungary)
	Wild  72'	Report Gamesheet

Nuremberg won 3–1 on aggregate.

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8 November 1961	Benfica	5–1	Austria Wien	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Marcel Bois (France)
	Santana  5', 83' Águas  36', 88' Eusébio  69'	Report Gamesheet	Fernandes  80' (o.g.)

Benfica won 6–2 on aggregate.

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22 November 1961	Dukla Prague	2–0	Servette	Na Litavce, Pribram Attendance: 9,585 Referee: Giuseppe Adami (Italy)
	Kučera  24', 27'	Report Gamesheet

Dukla Prague won 5–4 on aggregate.

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15 November 1961	Tottenham Hotspur	1–1	Feyenoord	White Hart Lane, London Attendance: 61,957 Referee: Birger Nilsen (Norway)
	Dyson  10'	Report Gamesheet	Bennaars  7'

Tottenham Hotspur won 4–2 on aggregate.

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25 October 1961	Real Madrid	9–0	Boldklubben 1913	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 54,000 Referee: Raymond Lespineux (Belgium)
	Puskás  8' del Sol  25', 30' di Stéfano  35', 42', 73' Gento  55', 57' Isidro Sánchez  89'	Report Gamesheet

Real Madrid won 12–0 on aggregate.

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15 November 1961	Juventus	5–0	FK Partizan	Stadio Comunale, Turin Attendance: 14,347 Referee: Josef Gulde (Switzerland)
	Nicolè  1' Mora  36', 65' Rosa  61' Stacchini  67'	Report Gamesheet

Juventus won 7–1 on aggregate.

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2 November 1961	Valkeakosken Haka	0–2	Standard Liège	Tehtaan kenttä, Valkeakoski Attendance: 2,401 Referee: Jarl Hansen (Denmark)
		Report Gamesheet	Semmeling  78' Myttimäki  87' (o.g.)

Standard Liège won 7–1 on aggregate.

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23 November 1961	Rangers	4–1	Vorwärts Berlin	Malmö Stadion, Malmö Attendance: 3,012 Referee: Bertil Lööw (Sweden)
	Henderson  37' Kalinke  47' (o.g.) McMillan  68', 81'	Report Gamesheet	Caldow  70' (o.g.)

Rangers won 6–2 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nuremberg	3–7	Benfica	3–1	0–6
Dukla Prague	2–4	Tottenham Hotspur	1–0	1–4
Juventus	1–11	Real Madrid	0–1	1–0
Standard Liège	4–3	Rangers	4–1	0–2

¹ Real Madrid beat Juventus 3–1 in a play-off to qualify for the semi-finals.

First leg

1 February 1962	Nuremberg	3–1	Benfica	Städtisches Stadium, Nuremberg Attendance: 41,010 Referee: Thomas Wharton (Scotland)
	Flachenecker  31', 85' Strehl  40'	Report Gamesheet	Cavém  10'

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14 February 1962	Dukla Prague	1–0	Tottenham Hotspur	Stadion Dr.Václava Vacka, Prague Attendance: 32,475 Referee: Josef Stoll (Austria)
	Kučera  59'	Report Gamesheet

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14 February 1962	Juventus	0–1	Real Madrid	Stadio Comunale, Turin Attendance: 66,403 Referee: Albert Dusch (West Germany)
		Report Gamesheet	Di Stéfano  69'

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7 February 1962	Standard Liège	4–1	Rangers	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège Attendance: 35,891 Referee: Vicente Caballero (Spain)
	Claessen  7' Crossan  40', 51' Vliers  56'	Report Gamesheet	Wilson  18'

Second leg

22 February 1962	Benfica	6–0	Nuremberg	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Gino Rigato (Italy)
	Águas  1' Eusébio  4', 55' Coluna  20' Augusto  63', 78'	Report Gamesheet

Benfica won 7–3 on aggregate.

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21 February 1962	Tottenham Hotspur	4–1	Dukla Prague	White Hart Lane, London Attendance: 55,389 Referee: Carl Jørgensen (Denmark)
	Smith  11', 53' Mackay  15', 54'	Report Gamesheet	Jelínek  44'

Tottenham Hotspur won 4–2 on aggregate.

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21 February 1962	Real Madrid	0–1	Juventus	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 130,000 Referee: Maurice Guigue (France)
		Report Gamesheet	Sívori  39'

Real Madrid 1–1 Juventus on aggregate.

28 February 1962	Real Madrid	3–1	Juventus	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 36,750 Referee: Pierre Schwinte (France)
	Felo  1' del Sol  65' Tejada  83'	Report Gamesheet	Sívori  35'

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14 February 1962	Rangers	2–0	Standard Liège	Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow Attendance: 76,730 Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands)
	Brand  28' Caldow  88' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet

Standard Liège won 4–3 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Benfica	4–3	Tottenham Hotspur	3–1	1–2
Real Madrid	6–0	Standard Liège	4–0	2–0

First leg

21 March 1962	Benfica	3–1	Tottenham Hotspur	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Daniel Mellet (Switzerland)
	Simões  6' Augusto  20', 64'	Report Gamesheet	Smith  55'

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22 March 1962	Real Madrid	4–0	Standard Liège	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 110,000 Referee: Joseph Barbéran (France)
	di Stéfano  23' Tejada  38', 78' Casado  48'	Report Gamesheet

Second leg

5 April 1962	Tottenham Hotspur	2–1	Benfica	White Hart Lane, London Attendance: 64,448 Referee: Aage Poulsen (Denmark)
	Smith  11' Blanchflower  48' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet	Águas  16'

Benfica won 4–3 on aggregate.

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12 April 1962	Standard Liège	0–2	Real Madrid	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Gerhard Schulenburg (West Germany)
		Report Gamesheet	Puskás  50' del Sol  60'

Real Madrid won 6–0 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1962 European Cup Final

2 May 1962	Benfica	5–3	Real Madrid	Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam Attendance: 61,257 Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands)
	Águas  25' Cavém  34' Coluna  51' Eusébio  65', 68'	Report Gamesheet	Puskás  17', 23', 38'

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1961–62 European Cup (including preliminary round) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Alfredo di Stéfano	Real Madrid	7
	Bent Løfqvist	Boldklubben 1913	7
	Ferenc Puskás	Real Madrid	7
	Heinz Strehl	Nuremberg	7
	Justo Tejada	Real Madrid	7
6	José Águas	Benfica	6
	Roger Claessen	Standard Liège	6
	Bobby Smith	Tottenham Hotspur	6
9	Eusébio	Benfica	5
	Rudolf Kučera	Dukla Prague	5
11	Rinus Bennaars	Feyenoord	4
	Frans Bouwmeester	Feyenoord	4
	Luis del Sol	Real Madrid	4
	Terry Dyson	Tottenham Hotspur	4
	Cliff Jones	Tottenham Hotspur	4
	José Augusto	Benfica	4
	Giuliano Robbiani	Servette	4
18	Jozef Adamec	Dukla Prague	3
	Jacques Fatton	Servette	3
	Gustav Flachenecker	Nuremberg	3
	André Hess	AS Monaco	3
	Horst Kohle	Vorwärts Berlin	3
	Bruno Nicolè	Juventus	3
	Alex Scott	Rangers	3
	Mosje Temming	Feyenoord	3

External links

• 1961–62 All matches – season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
• All scorers 1961–62 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers preliminary round