1984–85 European Cup Explained

Tourney Name:European Cup
Year:1984–85
Size:300px
Dates:19 September 1984 – 29 May 1985
Num Teams:32
Champion Other: Juventus
Count:1
Second Other: Liverpool
Matches:61
Goals:186
Attendance:1546110
Top Scorer:Torbjörn Nilsson (IFK Göteborg)
Michel Platini (Juventus)
7 goals each
Prevseason:1983–84
Nextseason:1985–86

The 1984–85 European Cup (1984/85 UEFA Champions League) tournament was overshadowed by the Heysel Stadium disaster that happened prior to the final match. That edition was won for the first time by Juventus in a 1–0 win against defending champions Liverpool. At sporting level, with this result they became the first club to have won all three major European trophies (European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, and the Cup Winners' Cup), as well a posteriori as the one that needed the shortest amount of time to complete this (8 years).[1]

Following the disaster, English clubs received a five-year ban from entering any European competition, thus ending a period of great success for English clubs in the European Cup which had seen three clubs winning seven finals since 1977, including six successive finals up to 1982. Liverpool, English champions in 1989–90, were given an extra year's ban. There would be no English club to win the trophy until 1999, when Manchester United beat Bayern Munich 2–1.

First round

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First leg

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Second leg

Grasshopper won 4–3 on aggregate.----Austria Wien won 8–0 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; Linfield won on away goals.----Sparta Praha won 5–3 on aggregate.----3–3 on aggregate; BFC Dynamo won 5–4 on penalties.----Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk won 3–1 on aggregate.----Lyngby won 6–0 on aggregate.----IFK Göteborg won 17–0 on aggregate.----Dinamo Bucharest won 5–3 on aggregate.----3–3 on aggregate; Levski-Spartak won on away goals.----Beveren won 7–2 on aggregate.----Panathinaikos won 2–1 on aggregate.----Juventus won 6–1 on aggregate.----Bordeaux won 3–2 on aggregate.----Liverpool won 5–0 on aggregate.----Benfica won 4–3 on aggregate.

Second round

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Second leg

3–3 on aggregate; Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk won on away goals.----Bordeaux won 2–1 on aggregate.----Sparta Praha won 2–1 on aggregate.----Austria Wien won 5–4 on aggregate.----Juventus won 6–2 on aggregate.----2–2 on aggregate; IFK Göteborg won on away goals.----Panathinaikos won 5–4 on aggregate.----Liverpool won 3–2 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

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Second leg

Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.----2–2 on aggregate; Bordeaux won 5–3 on penalties.----Panathinaikos won 3–2 on aggregate.----Liverpool won 5–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

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Second leg

Juventus won 3–2 on aggregate.----Liverpool won 5–0 on aggregate.

Final

See main article: 1985 European Cup Final.

Top scorers

RankNameTeamGoals
1 Torbjörn Nilsson IFK Göteborg7
Michel Platini Juventus7
3 Paolo Rossi Juventus5
Ian Rush Liverpool5
John Wark Liverpool5
6 Massimo Briaschi Juventus3
Jerry Carlsson IFK Göteborg3
Stig Fredriksson IFK Göteborg3
Rajko Janjanin Red Star Belgrade3
Bernard Lacombe Bordeaux3
Hennadiy Lytovchenko Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk3
Dieter Müller Bordeaux3
Stefan Pettersson IFK Göteborg3
Toni Polster Austria Vienna3
Zdeněk Procházka Sparta Praha3
Herbert Prohaska Austria Vienna3
Dimitris Saravakos Panathinaikos3
Andreas Thom BFC Dynamo3
Paul Walsh Liverpool3

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Notes and References

  1. News: Tottenham eye rare European clean sweep. Union des Associations Europénnes de Football. 30 May 2019. [...] 49 years separated United's first European title and the UEFA Europa League trophy that completed the set..