1976 European Cup Final
Encyclopedia
The 1976 European Cup Final was a football match held at Hampden Park
, Glasgow
, on 12 May 1976, that saw Bayern Munich
of West Germany
defeat Saint-Étienne
of France
1–0.
, where Saint-Étienne
had already defeated Rangers
during the competition. Les Verts were playing against Bayern Munich
, a team that was hoping to win a third consecutive European Cup.
The game began with Gerd Müller
finding the back of the net after fine preparatorial work by Bernd Dürnberger
who won the ball in his own half and went on a 50-metre solo run. But his effort was disallowed by the referee for offside by the Hungarian referee Károly Palotai
; a decision that may well deemed too harsh when reviewed with the benefit of televisual slow motion. After this Saint-Étienne were more and more confident but Franz Roth
was keeping an eye on Jean-Michel Larqué
, the team captain. In the 37th minute, Uli Hoeneß shot but it did not worry goalkeeper Ivan Ćurković
. Saint-Étienne had plenty of chances to score though, at the 34th minute Dominique Bathenay
's shot hit the crossbar, with Bayern's keeper Sepp Maier beaten. Five minutes later, Jacques Santini connected with a cross from Christian Sarramagna
, but shot went just wide of the goalpost. After the final, French people
called Hampden Park's goalposts "les poteaux carrés" (the square posts). This bad luck had influence on Saint-Étienne's players, and Bayern Munich would have been satisfied that they were still on terms at the break.
After the start of the 2nd half, Bayern Munich were more confident. In the 57th minute, Franz Beckenbauer
passed to Gerd Müller, sporting a beard, who was tackled by Osvaldo Piazza and the referee gave a free-kick to the German team from twenty metres just left of the semicircle. Franz Beckenbauer tipped the ball to Roth on his right who scored half high into the left side of the goal. After this, les Verts tried everything. Robert Herbin
chose to substitute Christian Sarramagna for Dominique Rocheteau
but to no avail.
At the end of the match, Saint-Étienne's players were crying, because they felt that they had been unlucky, but their supporters (at least 25,000 in Glasgow, plus 20,000 supportive and sympathetic Scots) were congratulating them, and their return in France was heroic, even though they were defeated.
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SAINT-ÉTIENNE:
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GK
1
Ivan Ćurković
DF
2
Gérard Janvion
DF
3
Pierre Repellini
DF
4
Osvaldo Piazza
DF
5
Christian Lopez
MF
6
Dominique Bathenay
MF
7
Patrick Revelli
MF
8
Jean-Michel Larqué
(c)
FW
9
Hervé Revelli
MF
10
Jacques Santini
FW
11
Christian Sarramagna
Substitutes:
FW
12
Dominique Rocheteau
GK
13
Jean Castaneda
Manager:
Robert Herbin
Hampden Park
Hampden Park is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland. The 52,063 capacity venue serves as the national stadium of football in Scotland...
, Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
, on 12 May 1976, that saw Bayern Munich
FC Bayern Munich
FC Bayern Munich , is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 national titles and 15 cups....
of West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
defeat Saint-Étienne
AS Saint-Étienne
Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne Loire is a French association football club based in Saint-Étienne. The club was founded in 1919 and currently play in Ligue 1, the top division of French football. Saint-Étienne plays its home matches at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard located within the city...
of France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
1–0.
Match summary
The match took place at Hampden ParkHampden Park
Hampden Park is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland. The 52,063 capacity venue serves as the national stadium of football in Scotland...
, where Saint-Étienne
AS Saint-Étienne
Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne Loire is a French association football club based in Saint-Étienne. The club was founded in 1919 and currently play in Ligue 1, the top division of French football. Saint-Étienne plays its home matches at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard located within the city...
had already defeated Rangers
Rangers F.C.
Rangers Football Club are an association football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premier League. The club are nicknamed the Gers, Teddy Bears and the Light Blues, and the fans are known to each other as bluenoses...
during the competition. Les Verts were playing against Bayern Munich
FC Bayern Munich
FC Bayern Munich , is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 national titles and 15 cups....
, a team that was hoping to win a third consecutive European Cup.
The game began with Gerd Müller
Gerd Müller
Gerhard "Gerd" Müller is a former German football player and one of the most prolific goalscorers of all time.With national records of 68 goals in 62 international appearances, 365 goals in 427 Bundesliga games and the international record of 66 goals in 74 European Club games, he was one of the...
finding the back of the net after fine preparatorial work by Bernd Dürnberger
Bernd Dürnberger
Bernd Dürnberger is a former German football player. A defensive midfielder, he played for thirteen seasons with Bayern Munich, from 1972 to 1985. He played in a total of 375 Bundesliga games and scored 38 goals...
who won the ball in his own half and went on a 50-metre solo run. But his effort was disallowed by the referee for offside by the Hungarian referee Károly Palotai
Károly Palotai
Károly Palotai is a retired Hungarianfootball player and referee. He was an Olympic Gold winner as a player before turning to refereeing...
; a decision that may well deemed too harsh when reviewed with the benefit of televisual slow motion. After this Saint-Étienne were more and more confident but Franz Roth
Franz Roth
Franz Roth is a former German footballer who played for Bayern Munich for his entire career. He earned 4 caps for the Germany national football team and was nicknamed "the Bull" due to his physical playing style....
was keeping an eye on Jean-Michel Larqué
Jean-Michel Larqué
Jean-Michel Larqué is a retired football player, and now a journalist. He has also been player-coach of RC Paris, his only experience as head-coach.-Biography:...
, the team captain. In the 37th minute, Uli Hoeneß shot but it did not worry goalkeeper Ivan Ćurković
Ivan Curkovic
Ivan Ćurković had a professional goalkeeping career and was the president of the FK Partizan and of the Serbian Olympic Committee...
. Saint-Étienne had plenty of chances to score though, at the 34th minute Dominique Bathenay
Dominique Bathenay
Dominique Bathenay is a retired football midfielder from France, who last worked as Head Coach of United Arab Emirates.- Career :...
's shot hit the crossbar, with Bayern's keeper Sepp Maier beaten. Five minutes later, Jacques Santini connected with a cross from Christian Sarramagna
Christian Sarramagna
Christian Sarramagna is a former French football player, currently without a club.-Titles:*As a player**French championship in 1974, 1975, 1976 with AS Saint-Étienne**Coupe de France 1974, 1975, and 1977 with AS Saint-Étienne...
, but shot went just wide of the goalpost. After the final, French people
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
called Hampden Park's goalposts "les poteaux carrés" (the square posts). This bad luck had influence on Saint-Étienne's players, and Bayern Munich would have been satisfied that they were still on terms at the break.
After the start of the 2nd half, Bayern Munich were more confident. In the 57th minute, Franz Beckenbauer
Franz Beckenbauer
Franz Anton Beckenbauer is a German football coach, manager, and former player, nicknamed Der Kaiser because of his elegant style, his leadership, his first name "Franz" , and his dominance on the football pitch...
passed to Gerd Müller, sporting a beard, who was tackled by Osvaldo Piazza and the referee gave a free-kick to the German team from twenty metres just left of the semicircle. Franz Beckenbauer tipped the ball to Roth on his right who scored half high into the left side of the goal. After this, les Verts tried everything. Robert Herbin
Robert Herbin
Robert Herbin is a retired French association football defender and manager.-Playing era:He was formed at Cavigal de Nice, but OGC Nice, one of the best French team at the moment, did not recruit him so he went to AS Saint-Étienne in 1957, becoming one of the best prospects of French football...
chose to substitute Christian Sarramagna for Dominique Rocheteau
Dominique Rocheteau
Dominique Rocheteau is a former football striker from France, who is currently the head of the National Commission of Ethics of the French Football Association....
but to no avail.
At the end of the match, Saint-Étienne's players were crying, because they felt that they had been unlucky, but their supporters (at least 25,000 in Glasgow, plus 20,000 supportive and sympathetic Scots) were congratulating them, and their return in France was heroic, even though they were defeated.
Match details
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| GK | 1 |  Sepp Maier |
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| DF | 2 |  Johnny Hansen |
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| DF | 3 | Udo Horsmann Udo Horsmann Udo Horsmann is a former German footballer who played for FC Bayern Munich and was part of their European Cup winning team in 1976.-Honours:* European Cup winner: 1976* European Cup finalist: 1982... |
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| DF | 4 | Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck |
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| DF | 5 | Franz Beckenbauer Franz Beckenbauer Franz Anton Beckenbauer is a German football coach, manager, and former player, nicknamed Der Kaiser because of his elegant style, his leadership, his first name "Franz" , and his dominance on the football pitch... (c) |
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| MF | 6 | Franz Roth Franz Roth Franz Roth is a former German footballer who played for Bayern Munich for his entire career. He earned 4 caps for the Germany national football team and was nicknamed "the Bull" due to his physical playing style.... |
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| FW | 7 | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Karl-Heinz "Kalle" Rummenigge is a German former football player.He had his greatest career success with German club Bayern Munich, where he won the Intercontinental Cup, the European Cup, as well as two league titles and two domestic cups.A member of the German national team, Rummenigge won the... |
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| MF | 8 | Bernd Dürnberger Bernd Dürnberger Bernd Dürnberger is a former German football player. A defensive midfielder, he played for thirteen seasons with Bayern Munich, from 1972 to 1985. He played in a total of 375 Bundesliga games and scored 38 goals... |
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| FW | 9 | Gerd Müller Gerd Müller Gerhard "Gerd" Müller is a former German football player and one of the most prolific goalscorers of all time.With national records of 68 goals in 62 international appearances, 365 goals in 427 Bundesliga games and the international record of 66 goals in 74 European Club games, he was one of the... |
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| FW | 10 | Uli Hoeneß |
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| MF | 11 | Jupp Kapellmann Jupp Kapellmann Hans-Josef "Jupp" Kapellmann is a former West German football player.Shining for just promoted Alemannia Aachen in a Bundesliga runner-up season in 1969, midfielder Kapellmann left Aachen for 1. FC Köln a year later and after Aachen had been relegated from the Bundesliga. Kapellmann was a proven... |
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| Substitutes: | |||
| GK | Hugo Robl |
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| Manager: | |||
 Dettmar CramerDettmar Cramer Dettmar Cramer is a German former football player and coach who led Bayern Munich to the 1975 and 1976 European Cups. Cramer is commonly considered to be the father of modern football in Japan and is a member of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd Class... |
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Ivan ĆurkovićIvan Curkovic
Ivan Ćurković had a professional goalkeeping career and was the president of the FK Partizan and of the Serbian Olympic Committee...
Gérard JanvionGérard Janvion
Gérard Janvion is a retired French international footballer who played defender.-Club career:Janvion started his career in Martinique with the local side CS Case-Pilote...
Pierre RepelliniPierre Repellini
Pierre Repellini is a French former football striker and manager. He is a historic player of AS Saint-Etienne, and won lots of trophy with les Verts before ending his career in his native town of Hyères with Hyères FC.He later had a stints as a coach at Red Star FC and AS...
Osvaldo Piazza Christian LopezChristian Lopez
Christian Lopez is a retired French international footballer who played defender. He earned 39 caps for the France national football team from 1975 to 1982, and participated in two World Cups . During his career he played for AS Saint-Étienne and Toulouse FC .-References:...
Dominique BathenayDominique Bathenay
Dominique Bathenay is a retired football midfielder from France, who last worked as Head Coach of United Arab Emirates.- Career :...
Patrick RevelliPatrick Revelli
Patrick Revelli is a French former professional football striker and brother of the footballer Hervé Revelli.-Titles:* French Championship in 1970, 1974, 1975, 1976 with AS Saint-Étienne....
Jean-Michel LarquéJean-Michel Larqué
Jean-Michel Larqué is a retired football player, and now a journalist. He has also been player-coach of RC Paris, his only experience as head-coach.-Biography:...
(c)
Hervé RevelliHervé Revelli
Hervé Revelli, is a French former footballer. He is well known for having won the French Championship the equal most amount of times of any player...
Jacques Santini Christian SarramagnaChristian Sarramagna
Christian Sarramagna is a former French football player, currently without a club.-Titles:*As a player**French championship in 1974, 1975, 1976 with AS Saint-Étienne**Coupe de France 1974, 1975, and 1977 with AS Saint-Étienne...
Dominique RocheteauDominique Rocheteau
Dominique Rocheteau is a former football striker from France, who is currently the head of the National Commission of Ethics of the French Football Association....
Jean CastanedaJean Castaneda
Jean-Luc Castaneda is a former French footballer who played goalkeeper from France. Castaneda began his professional career with AS Saint-Etienne in 1975. He also played for the France national football team...
Robert HerbinRobert Herbin
Robert Herbin is a retired French association football defender and manager.-Playing era:He was formed at Cavigal de Nice, but OGC Nice, one of the best French team at the moment, did not recruit him so he went to AS Saint-Étienne in 1957, becoming one of the best prospects of French football...