UEFA Euro 1976 Final

The UEFA Euro 1976 Final was the final match of UEFA Euro 1976, the fifth UEFA European Football Championship, UEFA's top football competition for national teams. The match was played at Stadion Crvena Zvezda, Belgrade, on 20 June 1976. The match was contested by Czechoslovakia and West Germany. In German, the match is known as the Nacht von Belgrad, or Night from Belgrade.

UEFA Euro 1976 Final
The Red Star Stadium held the final
EventUEFA Euro 1976
Czechoslovakia West Germany
2 2
After extra time
Czechoslovakia won 5–3 on penalties
Date20 June 1976 (1976-06-20)
VenueRed Star Stadium, Belgrade
RefereeSergio Gonella (Italy)[1]
Attendance30,790[1]

After extra time, the result was 2–2, and so the first penalty shoot-out in a European Championships final ensued. Originally, a replay would have been played two days later, but before the match both teams were informed that, if necessary, a penalty shoot-out would be used instead.[2] The first seven kicks were converted, until West Germany's fourth penalty taker, Uli Hoeneß, ballooned his shot over the bar. With the score 4–3, Antonín Panenka stepped up under immense pressure to take the fifth Czechoslovakian penalty, to win the match. German goalkeeper Sepp Maier dived to his left, while Panenka chipped the ball straight in the middle of the net.[3] The sheer cheek of the goal led a watching French journalist to dub Panenka "a poet", and to this day his winning kick is one of the most famous ever, making Panenka's name synonymous with that particular style of penalty kick.

Road to the final
Qualification
Czechoslovakia West Germany
Opponent Results Opponent Results
England 2–1, 0–3 Greece 1–1, 2–2
Portugal 5–0, 1–1 Bulgaria 1–0, 1–1
Cyprus 4–0, 3–0 Malta 8–0, 1–0
Tournament
Netherlands 3–1 (a.e.t.) Yugoslavia 4–2 (a.e.t.)

Match

Details
Czechoslovakia 2–2 (a.e.t.) West Germany
 Report
Penalties
 5–3
Attendance: 30,790[1]

Czechoslovakia
West Germany
GK1Ivo Viktor
SW4Anton Ondruš (c)
CB5Ján Pivarník
CB12Koloman Gögh
CB3Jozef Čapkovič
CM2Karol Dobiaš 55' 94'
CM8Jozef Móder 59'
AM7Antonín Panenka
RW10Marián Masný
LW11Zdeněk Nehoda
CF17Ján Švehlík 79'
Substitutions:
DF6Ladislav Jurkemik 79'
MF16František Veselý 94'
Manager:
Václav Ježek
GK1Sepp Maier
SW5Franz Beckenbauer (c)
CB2Berti Vogts
CB4Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck
CB3Bernard Dietz
CM7Rainer Bonhof
CM6Herbert Wimmer 46'
AM10Erich Beer 80'
RW8Uli Hoeneß
CF9Dieter Müller
LW11Bernd Hölzenbein
Substitutions:
MF15Heinz Flohe 46'
MF14Hans Bongartz 80'
Manager:
Helmut Schön

Match rules

References
  1. "European Football Championship 1976 FINAL". euro2000.org. Union of European Football Associations. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  2. "European Championship Stories: 1976 – The Birth Of The Penalty Shoot-Out". Twohundredpercent.net. 16 February 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  3. Scott Murray, Tom Bryant and Tom Henry (31 October 2007). "The footballers who have moves named after them". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
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