1981–82 European Cup

The 1981–82 European Cup was the 27th season of the European Cup, UEFA's premier club football competition. The tournament was won for the only time by Aston Villa in the final against Bayern Munich. It was the sixth consecutive year that an English club won the competition. Liverpool, the defending champions, were eliminated by CSKA Sofia in the quarter-finals.

1981–82 European Cup

De Kuip in Rotterdam hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	26 August 1981 – 26 May 1982
Teams	33
Final positions
Champions	Aston Villa (1st title)
Runners-up	Bayern Munich
Tournament statistics
Matches played	63
Goals scored	170 (2.7 per match)
Attendance	1,675,358 (26,593 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Dieter Hoeneß (Bayern Munich) 7 goals
← 1980–81 1982–83 →

The final is remembered mainly for the performance of young stand-in goalkeeper Nigel Spink who made a host of saves from the experienced Bayern players.^[1] Villa's winning goal came from Peter Withe who converted Tony Morley's cross in off the post.

Teams

Partizani (1st)	Austria Wien (1st)	Anderlecht (1st)
CSKA Sofia (1st)	Omonia (1st)	Baník Ostrava (1st)
KB (1st)	Aston Villa (1st)	Liverpool (5th)TH
OPS (1st)	Saint-Étienne (1st)	BFC Dynamo (1st)
Bayern Munich (1st)	Olympiacos (1st)	Ferencváros (1st)
Valur (1st)	Athlone Town (1st)	Juventus (1st)
Progrès Niedercorn (1st)	Hibernians (1st)	AZ (1st)
Glentoran (1st)	Start (1st)	Widzew Łódź (1st)
Benfica (1st)	Universitatea Craiova (1st)	Celtic (1st)
Real Sociedad (1st)	Öster (1st)	Zürich (1st)
Trabzonspor (1st)	Dynamo Kyiv (1st)	Red Star Belgrade (1st)

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Saint-Étienne	1–3	BFC Dynamo	1–1	0–2

First leg

26 August 1981

Saint-Étienne	1–1	BFC Dynamo
Lopez 75'	Report	Lopez 25' (o.g.)

Stade Geoffroy Guichard, Saint-Étienne

Attendance: 12,072^[2]

Referee: Clive White (England)

Second leg

1 September 1981

BFC Dynamo	2–0	Saint-Étienne
Netz 39' Riediger 83'	Report

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion, East Berlin

Attendance: 25,000^[3]

Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)

BFC Dynamo won 3–1 on aggregate

Bracket

	First round						Second round						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Austria Wien	3	0	3
	Partizani	1	1	2
							Austria Wien	0	1	1
							Dynamo Kyïv	1	1	2
	Dynamo Kyïv	1	1	2
	Trabzonspor	0	1	1
													Dynamo Kyïv	0	0	0
													Aston Villa	0	2	2
	BFC Dynamo (a)	2	1	3
	Zürich	0	3	3
							BFC Dynamo	1	1	2
							Aston Villa (a)	2	0	2
	Aston Villa	5	2	7
	Valur	0	0	0
																			Aston Villa	1	0	1
																			Anderlecht	0	0	0
	Widzew Łódź	1	1	2
	Anderlecht	2	4	6
							Anderlecht	3	1	4
							Juventus	1	1	2
	Celtic	1	0	1
	Juventus	0	2	2
													Anderlecht	2	2	4
													Crvena zvezda	1	1	2
	Ferencváros	3	0	3
	Baník Ostrava	2	3	5
							Baník Ostrava	3	0	3
							Crvena zvezda	1	3	4
	Hibernians	1	1	2
	Crvena zvezda	2	8	10
																									Aston Villa	1
																									Bayern Munich	0
	Start	1	0	1
	AZ	3	1	4
							AZ	2	2	4
							Liverpool	2	3	5
	OPS	0	0	0
	Liverpool	1	7	8
													Liverpool	1	0	1
													CSKA Sofia	0	2	2
	CSKA Sofia	1	0	1
	Real Sociedad	0	0	0
							CSKA Sofia	2	1	3
							Glentoran	0	2	2
	Progrès Niedercorn	1	0	1
	Glentoran	1	4	5
																			CSKA Sofia	4	0	4
																			Bayern Munich	3	4	7
	KB (a)	1	2	3
	Athlone Town	1	2	3
							KB	1	1	2
							Universitatea Craiova	0	4	4
	Universitatea Craiova	3	0	3
	Olympiacos	0	2	2
													Universitatea Craiova	0	1	1
													Bayern Munich	2	1	3
	Benfica	3	1	4
	Omonoia	0	0	0
							Benfica	0	1	1
							Bayern Munich	0	4	4
	Öster	0	0	0
	Bayern Munich	1	5	6

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Austria Wien	3–2	Partizani	3–1	0–1
Dynamo Kyiv	2–1	Trabzonspor	1–0	1–1
BFC Dynamo	3–3 (a)	Zürich	2–0	1–3
Aston Villa	7–0	Valur	5–0	2–0
Widzew Łódź	2–6	Anderlecht	1–4	1–2
Celtic	1–2	Juventus	1–0	0–2
Ferencváros	3–5	Baník Ostrava	3–2	0–3
Hibernians	2–10	Red Star Belgrade	1–2	1–8
Start	1–4	AZ	1–3	0–1
OPS	0–8	Liverpool	0–1	0–7
CSKA Sofia	1–0	Real Sociedad	1–0	0–0
Progrès Niedercorn	1–5	Glentoran	1–1	0–4
KB	3–3 (a)	Athlone Town	1–1	2–2
Universitatea Craiova	3–2	Olympiacos	3–0	0–2
Benfica	4–0	Omonia	3–0	1–0
Öster	0–6	Bayern Munich	0–1	0–5

First leg

16 September 1981

Austria Wien	3–1	Partizani
Steinkogler 26' Gasselich 27' (pen.), 62' (pen.)	Report	Tomorri 21'

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 27,000^[4]

Referee: Klaus Peschel (East Germany)

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16 September 1981

19:00

Dynamo Kyiv	1–0	Trabzonspor
Blokhin 74'	Report

Republican Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria)

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16 September 1981

BFC Dynamo	2–0	Zürich
Schulz 53' Riediger 59'	Report

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion, East Berlin

Attendance: 28,000^[5]

Referee: Enzo Barbaresco (Italy)

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16 September 1981

Aston Villa	5–0	Valur
Morley 6' Withe 37', 68' Donovan 40', 69'	Report

Villa Park, Birmingham

Attendance: 20,481

Referee: Daniel Lambert (France)

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16 September 1981

Widzew Łódź	1–4	Anderlecht
Smolarek 83'	Report	Lozano 37' (pen.), 62' Frimann 80' Pétursson 90'

Stadion Miejski, Łódź

Attendance: 28,000^[6]

Referee: Henning Lund-Sørensen (Denmark)

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16 September 1981

Celtic	1–0	Juventus
MacLeod 65'	Report

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 61,017

Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)

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16 September 1981

Ferencváros	3–2	Baník Ostrava
Pogany 22', 40' (pen.) Szokolai 47'	Report	Lička 76' Knapp 78' (pen.)

Üllői út, Budapest

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)

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16 September 1981

Hibernians	1–2	Red Star Belgrade
Spiteri-Gonzi 38'	Report	Jurišić 72' Janković 90'

Empire Stadium, Gżira

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Oliver Donnelly (Northern Ireland)

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16 September 1981

Start	1–3	AZ
Haugen 79'	Report	Peters 16', 23' Kist 48'

Kristiansand Stadion, Kristiansand

Attendance: 6,149

Referee: Juhani Smolander (Finland)

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16 September 1981

OPS	0–1	Liverpool
	Report	Dalglish 84'

Raatin Stadion, Oulu

Attendance: 8,400

Referee: Wiesław Bartosik (Poland)

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16 September 1981

CSKA Sofia	1–0	Real Sociedad
Yonchev 89'	Report

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 10,000^[7]

Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)

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16 September 1981

Progrès Niedercorn	1–1	Glentoran
Meunier 27'	Report	Cleary 1'

Stade Jos Haupert, Niederkorn

Attendance: 800^[8]

Referee: Francis Rion (Belgium)

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16 September 1981

KB	1–1	Athlone Town
Tune 10'	Report	O'Connor 4'

Idrætsparken, Copenhague

Attendance: 3,200

Referee: Reidar Bjørnestad (Norway)

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16 September 1981

Universitatea Craiova	3–0	Olympiacos
Cârțu 6' Irimescu 66' Țicleanu 89'	Report

Stadionul Central, Craiova

Attendance: 26,000

Referee: Marcel Bacou (France)

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16 September 1981

Benfica	3–0	Omonia
Néné 54' Filipović 67' Carlos Manuel 81'	Report

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 27,500

Referee: Anthony Mangion (Malta)

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16 September 1981

Öster	0–1	Bayern Munich
	Report	Rummenigge 75' (pen.)

Värendsvallen, Växjö

Attendance: 20,100^[9]

Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales)

Second leg

30 September 1981

Partizani	1–0	Austria Wien
Ballgjini 31'	Report

Stadiumi Kombëtar Qemal Stafa, Tirana

Attendance: 19,000

Referee: Erkan Göksel (Turkey)

Austria Wien won 3–2 on aggregate.

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30 September 1981

15:00

Trabzonspor	1–1	Dynamo Kyiv
Canalioğlu 27'	Report	Khlus 57'

Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadyumu, Trabzon

Attendance: 25,000^[10]

Referee: Bogdan Dochev (Bulgaria)

Dynamo Kyiv won 2–1 on aggregate.

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30 September 1981

Zürich	3–1	BFC Dynamo
Jerković 2', 22', 87'	Report	Ullrich 47'

Letzigrund, Zürich

Attendance: 7,800

Referee: César Correia (Portugal)

3–3 on aggregate; BFC Dynamo won on away goals.

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30 September 1981

Valur	0–2	Aston Villa
	Report	Shaw 25', 70'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 4,291^[11]

Referee: Ole Amundsen (Denmark)

Aston Villa won 7–0 on aggregate.

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30 September 1981

Anderlecht	2–1	Widzew Łódź
Brylle 6' Geurts 50'	Report	Smolarek 66'

Stade Émile Versé, Anderlecht

Attendance: 13,000^[12]

Referee: Gwyn Owen (Wales)

Anderlecht won 6–2 on aggregate.

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30 September 1981

Juventus	2–0	Celtic
Virdis 28' Bettega 40'	Report

Stadio Comunale, Turin

Attendance: 65,000^[13]

Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)

Juventus won 2–1 on aggregate.

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30 September 1981

Baník Ostrava	3–0	Ferencváros
Šreiner 7' Knapp 14', 56' (pen.)	Report

Bazaly, Ostrava

Attendance: 17,636^[14]

Referee: Iordan Zhezhov (Bulgaria)

Baník Ostrava won 5–3 on aggregate.

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30 September 1981

Red Star Belgrade	8–1	Hibernians
Goračinov 1' Petrović 20', 41' Šestić 35' D. Savić 43', 58' (pen.) R. Savić 62', 87'	Report	Spiteri-Gonzi 69'

Marakana, Belgrade

Attendance: 4,596^[15]

Referee: Stefanos Hatzistefanou (Cyprus)

Red Star Belgrade won 10–2 on aggregate.

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30 September 1981

AZ	1–0	Start
Tol 86'	Report

Alkmaarderhout, Alkmaar

Attendance: 3,500

Referee: Otto Anderco (Romania)

AZ won 4–1 on aggregate.

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30 September 1981

Liverpool	7–0	OPS
Dalglish 26' McDermott 40' 75' R. Kennedy 46' Johnson 60' Rush 67' Lawrenson 72'	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 20,789

Referee: Guðmundur Haraldsson (Iceland)

Liverpool won 8–0 on aggregate.

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30 September 1981

Real Sociedad	0–0	CSKA Sofia
	Report

Estadio de Atocha, San Sebastián

Attendance: 27,000^[16]

Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)

CSKA Sofia won 1–0 on aggregate.

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30 September 1981

Glentoran	4–0	Progrès Niedercorn
Blackledge 30', 76' Jameson 53' Manley 75'	Report

The Oval, Belfast

Attendance: 3,673^[17]

Referee: Jan Keizer (Netherlands)

Glentoran won 5–1 on aggregate.

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30 September 1981

Athlone Town	2–2	KB
Davis 73', 87'	Report	Larsen 15' Andersen 53'

St. Mel's Park, Athlone

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Norbert Rolles (Luxembourg)

3–3 on aggregate; KB won on away goals.

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30 September 1981

Olympiacos	2–0	Universitatea Craiova
Mitropoulos 36' Anastopoulos 60'	Report

Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 27,397^[18]

Referee: Eduard Shklovski (Soviet Union)

Universitatea Craiova won 3–2 on aggregate.

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30 September 1981

Omonia	0–1	Benfica
	Report	Chalana 75'

Makario Stadium, Nikosia

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Stjepan Glavina (Yugoslavia)

Benfica won 4–0 on aggregate.

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30 September 1981

Bayern Munich	5–0	Öster
Hoeneß 24', 58' Rummenigge 27', 68' Niedermayer 31'	Report

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 7,800^[19]

Referee: Eamonn Farrell (Ireland)

Bayern Munich won 6–0 on aggregate.

Second Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Austria Wien	1–2	Dynamo Kyiv	0–1	1–1
BFC Dynamo	2–2 (a)	Aston Villa	1–2	1–0
Anderlecht	4–2	Juventus	3–1	1–1
Baník Ostrava	3–4	Red Star Belgrade	3–1	0–3
AZ	4–5	Liverpool	2–2	2–3
CSKA Sofia	3–2	Glentoran	2–0	1–2
KB	2–4	Universitatea Craiova	1–0	1–4
Benfica	1–4	Bayern Munich	0–0	1–4

First leg

21 October 1981

18:00

Austria Wien	0–1	Dynamo Kyiv
	Report	Bal 23'

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 25,000^[20]

Referee: Otto Anderco (Romania)

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21 October 1981

BFC Dynamo	1–2	Aston Villa
Riediger 50'	Report	Morley 5', 85'

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark-Stadion, East Berlin

Attendance: 28,000^[21]

Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)

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21 October 1981

Anderlecht	3–1	Juventus
Geurts 24' 56' Vercauteren 88'	Report	Marocchino 39'

Stade Émile Versé, Brussels

Attendance: 35,000^[22]

Referee: Clive White (England)

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21 October 1981

Baník Ostrava	3–1	Red Star Belgrade
Lička 2', 44' Knapp 88'	Report	Krmpotić 51'

Bazaly, Ostrava

Attendance: 15,745^[23]

Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)

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21 October 1981

AZ	2–2	Liverpool
Kist 59' Tol 86'	Report	Johnson 26' Lee 49'

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 12,700^[24]

Referee: Enzo Barbaresco (Italy)

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21 October 1981

CSKA Sofia	2–0	Glentoran
Dimitrov 8' Zdravkov 35' (pen.)	Report

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 23,742^[25]

Referee: Theodoris Aspris (Cyprus)

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21 October 1981

KB	1–0	Universitatea Craiova
Fosgaard 8'	Report

Københavns Idrætspark, Copenhague

Attendance: 5,700

Referee: Aleksander Suchanek (Poland)

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21 October 1981

Benfica	0–0	Bayern Munich
	Report

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 45,000^[26]

Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

Second leg

4 November 1981

19:00

Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	Austria Wien
Buryak 37' (pen.)	Report	Petkov 23'

Republican Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 59,400

Referee: Rolf Ericsson (Sweden)

Dynamo Kyiv won 2–1 on aggregate.

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4 November 1981

Aston Villa	0–1	BFC Dynamo
	Report	Terletzki 15'

Villa Park, Birmingham

Attendance: 28,175

Referee: Jan Keizer (Netherlands)

2–2 on aggregate; Aston Villa won on away goals.

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4 November 1981

Red Star Belgrade	3–0	Baník Ostrava
Ǵurovski 16' Savić 50' Petrović 62'	Report

Marakana, Belgrade

Attendance: 57,750^[27]

Referee: George Smith (Scotland)

Red Star Belgrade won 4–3 on aggregate.

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4 November 1981

Juventus	1–1	Anderlecht
Brio 79'	Report	Geurts 41'

Stadio Comunale, Turin

Attendance: 66,279^[28]

Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

Anderlecht won 4–2 on aggregate.

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4 November 1981

Liverpool	3–2	AZ
McDermott 42' (pen.) Rush 68' Hansen 85'	Report	Kist 55' Thompson 73' (o.g.)

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 29,703

Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)

Liverpool won 5–4 on aggregate.

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4 November 1981

Glentoran	2–1 (a.e.t.)	CSKA Sofia
Cleary 67' Manley 71'	Report	Dimitrov 115'

The Oval, Belfast

Attendance: 4,021

Referee: Henning Lund-Sørensen (Denmark)

CSKA Sofia won 3–2 on aggregate.

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4 November 1981

Universitatea Craiova	4–1	KB
Crișan 8' Balaci 25' Beldeanu 54' Cămătaru 72'	Report	Andersen 74'

Stadionul Central, Craiova

Attendance: 25,000^[29]

Referee: Damir Matovinović (Yugoslavia)

Universitatea Craiova won 4–2 on aggregate.

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4 November 1981

Bayern Munich	4–1	Benfica
Hoeneß 28', 36', 55' Breitner 82'	Report	Nené 63' (pen.)

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 42,000

Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)

Bayern Munich won 4–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dynamo Kyiv	0–2	Aston Villa	0–0	0–2
Anderlecht	4–2	Red Star Belgrade	2–1	2–1
Liverpool	1–2	CSKA Sofia	1–0	0–2
Universitatea Craiova	1–3	Bayern Munich	0–2	1–1

First leg

3 March 1982

19:00

Dynamo Kyiv	0–0	Aston Villa
	Report

Lokomotiv Stadium, Simferopol^{[note 1]}

Attendance: 30,000^[30]

Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)

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3 March 1982

Anderlecht	2–1	Red Star Belgrade
Geurts 27' Lozano 63'	Report	Ǵurovski 52'

Stade Émile Versé, Anderlecht

Attendance: 25,000^[31]

Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany)

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3 March 1982

Liverpool	1–0	CSKA Sofia
Whelan 65'	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 27,388

Referee: Georges Konrath (France)

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3 March 1982

Universitatea Craiova	0–2	Bayern Munich
	Report	Breitner 7' Rummenigge 20'

Stadionul Central, Craiova

Attendance: 37,500^[32]

Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)

Second leg

17 March 1982

19:30

Aston Villa	2–0	Dynamo Kyiv
Shaw 7' McNaught 43'	Report

Villa Park, Birmingham

Attendance: 38,579^[33]

Referee: Marcel van Langenhove (Belgium)

Aston Villa won 2–0 on aggregate.

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17 March 1982

Red Star Belgrade	1–2	Anderlecht
Savić 45' (pen.)	Report	Hofkens 33' Vercauteren 60'

Marakana, Belgrade

Attendance: 89,806

Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)

Anderlecht won 4–2 on aggregate.

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17 March 1982

CSKA Sofia	2–0 (a.e.t.)	Liverpool
Mladenov 77', 101'	Report

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)

CSKA Sofia won 2–1 on aggregate.

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17 March 1982

Bayern Munich	1–1	Universitatea Craiova
D. Hoeneß 21'	Report	Geolgău 30'

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 13,000^[34]

Referee: Talal Tokat (Turkey)

Bayern Munich won 3–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Aston Villa	1–0	Anderlecht	1–0	0–0
CSKA Sofia	4–7	Bayern Munich	4–3	0–4

First leg

7 April 1982

Aston Villa	1–0	Anderlecht
Morley 27'	Report

Villa Park, Birmingham

Attendance: 38,593

Referee: Rolf Eriksson (Sweden)

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7 April 1982

CSKA Sofia	4–3	Bayern Munich
G. Dimitrov 7' Yonchev 13', 49' Zdravkov 18' (pen.)	Report	Dürnberger 27' D. Hoeneß 32' Breitner 82'

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Daniel Lambert (France)

Second leg

21 April 1982

Bayern Munich	4–0	CSKA Sofia
Breitner 43', 47' (pen.) Rummenigge 65', 76'	Report

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

Bayern Munich won 7–4 on aggregate.

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21 April 1982

Anderlecht	0–0	Aston Villa
	Report

Stade Émile Versé, Anderlecht

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Dušan Krchňák (Czechoslovakia)

Aston Villa won 1–0 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1982 European Cup final

26 May 1982

Aston Villa	1–0	Bayern Munich
Withe 67'	Report

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 46,776

Referee: Georges Konrath (France)

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1981–82 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Dieter Hoeneß	Bayern Munich	7
2	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Bayern Munich	6
3	Paul Breitner	Bayern Munich	5
	Willy Geurts	Anderlecht	5
5	Lubomír Knapp	Baník Ostrava	4
	Tony Morley	Aston Villa	4
	Dušan Savić	Red Star Belgrade	4
8	Jurica Jerković	Zürich	3
	Kees Kist	AZ	3
	Verner Lička	Baník Ostrava	3
	Juan Lozano	Anderlecht	3
	Terry McDermott	Liverpool	3
	Vladimir Petrović	Red Star Belgrade	3
	Gary Shaw	Aston Villa	3
	Peter Withe	Aston Villa	3
	Tsvetan Yonchev	CSKA Sofia	3

Notes

1. Dynamo Kyiv played their home match at Lokomotiv Stadium, Simferopol, instead of their regular stadium Republican Stadium, Kyiv, due to weather conditions.