1983–84 European Cup

The 1983–84 European Cup was the 29th season of the European Cup, UEFA's premier club football competition. The tournament was won for a fourth time by Liverpool in a penalty shootout in the final against Roma. The game had finished 1–1. Phil Neal had scored for Liverpool and Roberto Pruzzo for Roma. It was the seventh title in eight seasons for English clubs.

1983–84 European Cup

Stadio Olimpico in Rome hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	14 September 1983 – 30 May 1984
Teams	32 (31 competed)
Final positions
Champions	Liverpool (4th title)
Runners-up	Roma
Tournament statistics
Matches played	59
Goals scored	165 (2.8 per match)
Attendance	1,798,652 (30,486 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Viktor Sokol (Dinamo Minsk) 6 goals
← 1982–83 1984–85 →

Hamburg, the defending champions, were eliminated by Dinamo București in the second round.

Teams

Vllaznia (1st)	Rapid Wien (1st)	Standard Liège (1st)	CSKA Sofia (1st)
Omonia (1st)	Bohemians Prague (1st)	Odense (1st)	Liverpool (1st)
Kuusysi (1st)	Nantes (1st)	BFC Dynamo (1st)	Hamburg (1st)TH
Olympiacos (1st)	Rába ETO Győr (1st)	Víkingur (1st)	Athlone Town (1st)
Roma (1st)	Jeunesse Esch (1st)	Ħamrun Spartans (1st)	Ajax (1st)
Linfield (1st)	Viking (1st)	Lech Poznań (1st)	Benfica (1st)
Dinamo București (1st)	Dundee United (1st)	Athletic Bilbao (1st)	Gothenburg (1st)
Grasshopper (1st)	Fenerbahçe (1st)	Dinamo Minsk (1st)	Partizan (1st)

Bracket

	First round						Second round						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Odense	0	0	0
	Liverpool	1	5	6
							Liverpool	0	1	1
							Athletic Bilbao	0	0	0
	Lech Poznań	2	0	2
	Athletic Bilbao	0	4	4
													Liverpool	1	4	5
													Benfica	0	1	1
	Ajax	0	0	0
	Olympiacos	0	2	2
							Olympiacos	1	0	1
							Benfica	0	3	3
	Benfica	3	3	6
	Linfield	0	2	2
																			Liverpool	1	2	3
																			Dinamo București	0	1	1
	Rába ETO Győr	2	2	4
	Vikingur	1	0	1
							Rába ETO Győr	3	1	4
							Dinamo Minsk	6	3	9
	Dinamo Minsk	1	2	3
	Grasshopper	0	2	2
													Dinamo Minsk	1	0	1
													Dinamo București	1	1	2
	Kuusysi	0	0	0
	Dinamo București	1	3	4
							Dinamo București	3	2	5
							Hamburg	0	3	3
	Hamburg			(w)
	Vllaznia			(o)
																									Liverpool (a.e.t)	1 (4)
																									Roma	1 (2)
	Fenerbahçe	0	0	0
	Bohemians Prague	1	4	5
							Bohemians Prague	2	0	2
							Rapid Wien (a)	1	1	2
	Rapid Wien	3	1	4
	Nantes	0	3	3
													Rapid Wien	2	0	2
													Dundee United (a)	1	1	2
	Athlone Town	2	2	4
	Standard Liège	3	8	11
							Standard Liège	0	0	0
							Dundee United	0	4	4
	Hamrun Spartans	0	0	0
	Dundee United	3	3	6
																			Dundee United	2	0	2
																			Roma	0	3	3
	CSKA Sofia (a)	3	1	4
	Omonia	0	4	4
							CSKA Sofia	0	0	0
							Roma	1	1	2
	Roma	3	1	4
	Gothenburg	0	2	2
													Roma	3	1	4
													BFC Dynamo	0	2	2
	BFC Dynamo	4	2	6
	Jeunesse Esch	1	0	1
							BFC Dynamo	2	0	2
							Partizan	0	1	1
	Partizan	5	0	5
	Viking	1	0	1

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Odense	0–6	Liverpool	0–1	0–5
Lech Poznań	2–4	Athletic Bilbao	2–0	0–4
Ajax	0–2	Olympiacos	0–0	0–2
Benfica	6–2	Linfield	3–0	3–2
Rába ETO Győr	4–1	Vikingur	2–1	2–0
Dinamo Minsk	3–2	Grasshopper	1–0	2–2
Kuusysi	0–4	Dinamo București	0–1	0–3
Hamburg	(w/o)	Vllaznia	–	–
Fenerbahçe	0–5	Bohemians Prague	0–1	0–4
Rapid Wien	4–3	Nantes	3–0	1–3
Athlone Town	4–11	Standard Liège	2–3	2–8
Ħamrun Spartans	0–6	Dundee United	0–3	0–3
CSKA Sofia	4–4 (a)	Omonia	3–0	1–4
Roma	4–2	Gothenburg	3–0	1–2
BFC Dynamo	6–1	Jeunesse Esch	4–1	2–0
Partizan	5–1	Viking	5–1	0–0

First leg

14 September 1983

Odense	0–1	Liverpool
	Report	Dalglish 14'

Odense Stadion, Odense

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Eysteinn Guðmundsson (Iceland)

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14 September 1983

Lech Poznań	2–0	Athletic Bilbao
Niewiadomski 35' Okoński 44'	Report

Stadion Miejski, Poznań

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Einar Halle (Norway)

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14 September 1983

Ajax	0–0	Olympiacos
	Report

De Meer Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany)

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14 September 1983

Benfica	3–0	Linfield
Diamantino 72' Nené 83' Manniche 89'	Report

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Gérard Biguet (France)

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14 September 1983

Rába ETO Győr	2–1	Víkingur
Magyar 27' Gíslason 34' (o.g.)	Report	Þorvaldsson 28'

Stadion ETO, Győr

Attendance: 9,000

Referee: George Philippides (Cyprus)

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14 September 1983

Dinamo Minsk	1–0	Grasshopper
Kurnenin 18'	Report

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Pietro D'Elia (Italy)

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14 September 1983

Kuusysi	0–1	Dinamo București
	Report	Dragnea 49'

Lahden kisapuisto, Lahti

Attendance: 1,811

Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)

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14 September 1983

Fenerbahçe	0–1	Bohemians Prague
	Report	V. Hruška 76'

Fenerbahçe Stadyumu, Istanbul

Attendance: 23,000

Referee: Damir Matovinović (Yugoslavia)

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14 September 1983

Rapid Wien	3–0	Nantes
Panenka 18', 38' Hagmayr 46'	Report

Gerhard-Hanappi-Stadion, Vienna

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Neil Midgley (England)

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14 September 1983

Athlone Town	2–3	Standard Liège
Collins 44' Salmon 62'	Report	Hrubesch 12' Vandersmissen 41' Plessers 60' (pen.)

St. Mel's Park, Athlone

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Albert Thomas (Netherlands)

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14 September 1983

Ħamrun Spartans	0–3	Dundee United
	Report	Reilly 2' Bannon 30' Stark 66'

Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Berisha Şinasi (Yugoslavia)

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14 September 1983

CSKA Sofia	3–0	Omonia
S. Mladenov 51' Yonchev 54' Slavkov 60'	Report

Natsionalen Stadion Vasil Levski, Sofia

Attendance: 23,000

Referee: Lulzim Konci (Albania)

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14 September 1983

Roma	3–0	IFK Göteborg
Vincenzi 51' Conti 62' Toninho Cerezo 70'	Report

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 68,355^[1]

Referee: Bogdan Dochev (Bulgaria)

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14 September 1983

BFC Dynamo	4–1	Jeunesse Esch
Götz 35' Schulz 39' Ernst 77' Netz 86'	Report	Scuto 18'

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion, East Berlin

Attendance: 16,500^[2]

Referee: Heikki Tuominen (Finland)

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14 September 1983

Partizan	5–1	Viking
Dimitrijević 27', 38' (pen.) Prekazi 44' Živković 82', 87'	Report	Goodchild 36'

Stadion JNA, Belgrade

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)

Second leg

28 September 1983

Liverpool	5–0	Odense
Robinson 15', 70' Dalglish 33', 40' Clausen 65' (o.g.)	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 14,985

Referee: Francis Bastian (Luxembourg)

Liverpool won 6–0 on aggregate.

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28 September 1983

Athletic Bilbao	4–0	Lech Poznań
Goikoetxea 10' Sola 33' (pen.) Noriega 50' Urquiaga 84'	Report

Estadio San Mamés, Bilbao

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (West Germany)

Athletic Bilbao won 4–2 on aggregate.

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28 September 1983

Olympiacos	2–0 (a.e.t.)	Ajax
Anastopoulos 94', 118'	Report

OAKA Spyros Louis, Athens

Attendance: 75,000

Referee: Volker Roth (West Germany)

Olympiacos won 2–0 on aggregate.

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28 September 1983

Linfield	2–3	Benfica
Diamantino 29' (o.g.) Walsh 81'	Report	Strömberg 36', 75' Diamantino 39'

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 9,133

Referee: Henning Lund-Sørensen (Denmark)

Benfica won 6–2 on aggregate.

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28 September 1983

Víkingur	0–2	Rába ETO Győr
	Report	Magyar 58' Szentes 86'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 1,750

Referee: Alan Ferguson (Scotland)

Rába ETO Győr won 4–1 on aggregate.

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28 September 1983

Grasshopper	2–2	Dinamo Minsk
Ponte 21', 49'	Report	Kondratiev 31' Sokol 84'

Hardturm, Zürich

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Brian McGinlay (Scotland)

Dinamo Minsk won 3–2 on aggregate.

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28 September 1983

Dinamo București	3–0	Kuusysi
Movilă 47' Augustin 70' Mulţescu 89'	Report

Stadionul Dinamo, Bucharest

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Sotos Afxentiou (Cyprus)

Dinamo București won 4–0 on aggregate.

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28 September 1983

Bohemians Prague	4–0	Fenerbahçe
Zelenský 20' Novák 56', 86' Chaloupka 71'	Report

Ďolíček, Prague

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Eamonn Farrell (Republic of Ireland)

Bohemians Prague won 5–0 on aggregate.

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28 September 1983

Nantes	3–1	Rapid Wien
Baronchelli 14' Rio 15' Muller 60' (pen.)	Report	Panenka 40'

Stade Marcel-Saupin, Nantes

Attendance: 18,789

Referee: Emilio Carlos Guruceta (Spain)

Rapid Wien won 4–3 on aggregate.

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28 September 1983

Standard Liège	8–2	Athlone Town
Jelikić 1' Delbrouck 29' Plessers 31', 70' Daerden 40' Vandersmissen 47' Tahamata 59' Wintacq 64'	Report	Salmon 52' Hitchcock 74'

Stade Maurice-Dufrasne, Liège

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Jaromír Fausek (Czechoslovakia)

Standard Liège won 11–4 on aggregate.

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28 September 1983

Dundee United	3–0	Ħamrun Spartans
Milne 29', 46' Kirkwood 44'	Report

Tannadice Park, Dundee

Attendance: 9,000

Referee: Jack Poucher (Northern Ireland)

Dundee United won 6–0 on aggregate.

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28 September 1983

Omonia	4–1	CSKA Sofia
Savvidis 42' Arsov 48' Kantilos 82' G. Savva 89'	Report	Yonchev 23'

Makario Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Ștefan Petrescu (Romania)

4–4 on aggregate; CSKA Sofia won on away goals.

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28 September 1983

IFK Göteborg	2–1	Roma
Gardner 1' Tord Holmgren 73'	Report	Pruzzo 60'

Ullevi, Gothenburg

Attendance: 26,000

Referee: Marcel Van Langenhove (Belgium)

Roma won 4–2 on aggregate.

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28 September 1983

Jeunesse Esch	0–2	BFC Dynamo
	Report	Ullrich 32' (pen.) Noack 50'

Stade de la Frontière, Esch-sur-Alzette

Attendance: 3,200

Referee: Jean-François Crucke (Belgium)

Dynamo Berlin won 6–1 on aggregate.

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28 September 1983

Viking	0–0	Partizan
	Report

Stavanger Stadion, Stavanger

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Bo Helén (Sweden)

Partizan won 5–1 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Liverpool	1–0	Athletic Bilbao	0–0	1–0
Olympiacos	1–3	Benfica	1–0	0–3
Rába ETO Győr	4–9	Dinamo Minsk	3–6	1–3
Dinamo București	5–3	Hamburg	3–0	2–3
Bohemians Prague	2–2 (a)	Rapid Wien	2–1	0–1
Standard Liège	0–4	Dundee United	0–0	0–4
CSKA Sofia	0–2	Roma	0–1	0–1
BFC Dynamo	2–1	Partizan	2–0	0–1

First leg

19 October 1983

Liverpool	0–0	Athletic Bilbao
	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 33,063

Referee: Paolo Bergamo (Italy)

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19 October 1983

Olympiacos	1–0	Benfica
Anastopoulos 21'	Report

OAKA Spyros Louis, Athens

Attendance: 75,537

Referee: Edvard Sostarić (Yugoslavia)

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19 October 1983

Rába ETO Győr	3–6	Dinamo Minsk
Hannich 13' (pen.) Szentes 63' Szabó 84'	Report	Sokol 3', 10', 42' Kurnenin 20' Gotsmanov 55' Rumbutis 70'

Stadion ETO, Győr

Attendance: 17,000^[3]

Referee: Talat Tokat (Turkey)

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19 October 1983

Dinamo București	3–0	Hamburg
Augustin 29' Mulţescu 62' Orac 79'	Report

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 65,000^[4]

Referee: Jan Keizer (Netherlands)

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19 October 1983

Bohemians Prague	2–1	Rapid Wien
Janečka 26' Němec 88'	Report	Keglevits 44'

Ďolíček, Prague

Attendance: 16,500^[5]

Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)

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19 October 1983

Standard Liège	0–0	Dundee United
	Report

Stade Maurice-Dufrasne, Liège

Attendance: 18,000^[6]

Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo (Spain)

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19 October 1983

CSKA Sofia	0–1	Roma
	Report	Falcão 62'

Stadion Balgarska Armia, Sofia

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

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19 October 1983

BFC Dynamo	2–0	Partizan
Götz 1' Ernst 37'	Report

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion, East Berlin

Attendance: 19,500

Referee: Romualdas Yushka (Soviet Union)

Second leg

2 November 1983

Athletic Bilbao	0–1	Liverpool
	Report	Rush 66'

Estadio San Mamés, Bilbao

Attendance: 47,500

Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany)

Liverpool won 1–0 on aggregate.

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2 November 1983

Benfica	3–0	Olympiacos
Filipović 17' Diamantino 28' Manniche 76'	Report

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 65,000

Referee: Neil Midgley (England)

Benfica won 3–1 on aggregate.

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2 November 1983

Dinamo Minsk	3–1	Rába ETO Győr
Sokol 41', 60' Kondratiev 61'	Report	Hannich 31' (pen.)

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 50,050

Referee: Antonios Vassaras (Greece)

Dinamo Minsk won 9–4 on aggregate.

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2 November 1983

Hamburg	3–2	Dinamo București
Jakobs 45', 56' von Heesen 63'	Report	Ţălnar 86' Mulţescu 89'

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 43,700^[7]

Referee: Kjell Johansson (Sweden)

Dinamo București won 5–3 on aggregate.

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2 November 1983

Rapid Wien	1–0	Bohemians Prague
Krankl 6'	Report

Gerhard-Hanappi-Stadion, Vienna

Attendance: 19,400^[8]

Referee: Marcel Van Langenhove (Belgium)

2–2 on aggregate; Rapid Wien won on away goals.

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2 November 1983

Dundee United	4–0	Standard Liège
Milne 26', 44' Hegarty 51' Dodds 68'	Report

Tannadice Park, Dundee

Attendance: 16,674^[9]

Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (West Germany)

Dundee United won 4–0 on aggregate.

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2 November 1983

Roma	1–0	CSKA Sofia
Graziani 80'	Report

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 59,691^[10]

Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)

Roma won 2–0 on aggregate.

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2 November 1983

Partizan	1–0	BFC Dynamo
Prekazi 27'	Report

Stadion JNA, Belgrade

Attendance: 43,425^[11]

Referee: Bogdan Dochev (Bulgaria)

Dynamo Berlin won 2–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Liverpool	5–1	Benfica	1–0	4–1
Dinamo Minsk	1–2	Dinamo București	1–1	0–1
Rapid Wien	2–2 (a)	Dundee United	2–1	0–1
Roma	4–2	BFC Dynamo	3–0	1–2

First leg

7 March 1984

Liverpool	1–0	Benfica
Rush 67'	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 39,096

Referee: Heinz Fahnler (Austria)

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7 March 1984

Dinamo Minsk	1–1	Dinamo București
Gurinovich 7'	Report	Rednic 87'

Vladimir Lenin Dinamo Stadium, Tbilisi

Attendance: 14,000

Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo (Spain)

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7 March 1984

Rapid Wien	2–1	Dundee United
Hagmayr 76' Kranjčar 86'	Report	Stark 30'

Gerhard-Hanappi-Stadion, Vienna

Attendance: 17,000^[12]

Referee: Bogdan Dochev (Bulgaria)

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7 March 1984

Roma	3–0	BFC Dynamo
Graziani 67' Pruzzo 75' Toninho Cerezo 90'	Report

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 61,694^[13]

Referee: Jan Keizer (Netherlands)

Second leg

21 March 1984

Benfica	1–4	Liverpool
Nené 73'	Report	Whelan 9', 88' Johnston 32' Rush 78'

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 66,000^[14]

Referee: Volker Roth (West Germany)

Liverpool won 5–1 on aggregate.

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21 March 1984

Dinamo București	1–0	Dinamo Minsk
Augustin 10'	Report

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 53,175^[15]

Referee: Keith Hackett (England)

Dinamo București won 2–1 on aggregate.

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21 March 1984

Dundee United	1–0	Rapid Wien
Dodds 21'	Report

Tannadice Park, Dundee

Attendance: 16,674^[16]

Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)

2–2 on aggregate; Dundee United won on away goals.

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21 March 1984

BFC Dynamo	2–1	Roma
Thom 76' Ernst 87'	Report	Oddi 55'

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion, East Berlin

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Kjell Johansson (Sweden)

Roma won 4–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

The tie between Roma and Dundee United was controversial; it was later alleged that Roma had bribed Michel Vautrot, the referee for the second leg.^[17][18]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Liverpool	3–1	Dinamo București	1–0	2–1
Dundee United	2–3	Roma	2–0	0–3

First leg

11 April 1984

Liverpool	1–0	Dinamo București
Lee 26'	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 36,941

Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)

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11 April 1984

Dundee United	2–0	Roma
Dodds 48' Stark 60'	Report

Tannadice Park, Dundee

Attendance: 20,543^[19]

Referee: Siegfried Kirschen (East Germany)

Second leg

25 April 1984

Dinamo București	1–2	Liverpool
Orac 39'	Report	Rush 11', 85'

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 40,213^[20]

Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)

Liverpool won 3–1 on aggregate.

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25 April 1984

Roma	3–0	Dundee United
Pruzzo 23', 38' Di Bartolomei 58' (pen.)	Report

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 68,060^[21]

Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

Roma won 3–2 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1984 European Cup Final

30 May 1984

Liverpool	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Roma
Neal 13'	Report	Pruzzo 42'
Penalties
Nicol Neal Souness Rush Kennedy	4–2	Di Bartolomei Conti Righetti Graziani

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 69,693

Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)

Top scorers

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Viktor Sokol	Dinamo Minsk	6
2	Roberto Pruzzo	Roma	5
	Ian Rush	Liverpool	5
4	Ralph Milne	Dundee United	4
5	Nikos Anastopoulos	Olympiacos	3
	Ionel Augustin	Dinamo București	3
	Kenny Dalglish	Liverpool	3
	Diamantino	Benfica	3
	Davie Dodds	Dundee United	3
	Rainer Ernst	BFC Dynamo	3
	Gheorghe Mulţescu	Dinamo București	3
	Antonín Panenka	Rapid Wien	3
	Gerard Plessers	Standard Liège	3
	Derek Stark	Dundee United	3

See also

• 1984 European Super Cup
• 1984 Intercontinental Cup