1975–76 European Cup Winners' Cup

1975–76 European Cup Winners' Cup
Final positions
Champions	Anderlecht (1st title)
Runners-up	West Ham United
	← 1974–75 1976–77 →

The 1975–76 European Cup Winners' Cup was the 16th season of the European Cup Winners' Cup, a club football tournament organised by UEFA for the winners of its member associations' domestic cup competitions. It was won by Anderlecht of Belgium, who beat West Ham United of England in the final. Anderlecht went on to reach the next two finals as well, and won the second of them.

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Spartak Trnava	0–3	Boavista	0–0	0–3
Valur	0–9	Celtic	0–2	0–7
Beşiktaş	0–6	Fiorentina	0–3	0–3
Panathinaikos	0–2	Sachsenring Zwickau	0–0	0–2
Rapid București	1–2	Anderlecht	1–0	0–2
Borac Banja Luka	14–1	Rumelange	9–0	5–1
Wrexham	3–2	Djurgården	2–1	1–1
Skeid	1–8	Stal Rzeszów	1–4	0–4
Sturm Graz	3–2	Slavia Sofia	3–1	0–1
Haladás	8–1	Valletta	7–0	1–1
Basel	2–3	Atlético Madrid	1–2	1–1
Eintracht Frankfurt	11–3	Coleraine	5–1	6–2
Vejle	0–4	Den Haag	0–2	0–2
Home Farm	1–7	Lens	1–1	0–6
Ararat Yerevan	10–1	Anorthosis Famagusta	9–0	1–1
Reipas Lahti	2–5	West Ham United	2–2	0–3

First leg

17 September 1975

Spartak Trnava	0–0	Boavista
	Report

Stadion Spartaka, Trnava

Attendance: 14,890

Referee: Ernst Dörflinger-Buser (Switzerland)

17 September 1975

Rapid București	1–0	Anderlecht
Thissen 20' (o.g.)

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Josef Bucek (Austria)

17 September 1975

Beşiktaş	0–3	Fiorentina
		Caso 42', 49' Casarsa 76'

Istanbul

17 September 1975

20:00

Basel	1 – 2	Atlético Madrid
Schönenberger 3'	FCB Summary	Gárate 65' Ayala 68'

St. Jakob Stadium, Basel

Attendance: 33,000

Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)

17 September 1975

Ararat Yerevan	9–0	Anorthosis Famagusta
Markarov 4' (pen.) Oganesian 52', 84' Petrosyan 72' Bondarenko 87'	Report

Hrazdan Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 12,893

Referee: Béla Nagy (Hungary)

Second leg

1 October 1975

Boavista	3–0	Spartak Trnava
Mané 35' Celso 62' Salvador 79'	Report

Estádio do Bessa, Porto

Attendance: 9,387

Referee: Jacques Van Melkebeeke (Belgium)

Boavista won 3–0 on aggregate.

1 October 1975

Anderlecht	2–0	Rapid București
Van Binst 38' Rensenbrink 50' (pen.)

Émile Versé Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 17,361

Referee: Michal Jursa (Czechoslovakia)

Anderlecht won 2–1 on aggregate.

1 October 1975

Fiorentina	3–0	Beşiktaş
Caso 32', 36' Casarsa 88'

Florence

Fiorentina won 6–0 on aggregate.

1 October 1975

21:00

Atlético Madrid	1 – 1	Basel
Bezerra 74'	Summary	Demarmels 89'

Vicente Calderón Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Paul Schiller (Austria)

Atlético Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.

1 October 1975

Anorthosis Famagusta	1–1	Ararat Yerevan
Vrahimis 66' (pen.)	Report	Bondarenko 65'

GSZ Stadium, Larnaca

Attendance: 1,700

Referee: Constantin Ghita (Romania)

Ararat Yerevan won 9-1 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Boavista	1–3	Celtic	0–0	1–3
Fiorentina	1–1 (4–5p)	Sachsenring Zwickau	1–0	0–1
Anderlecht	3–1	Borac Banja Luka	3–0	0–1
Wrexham	3–1	Stal Rzeszów	2–0	1–1
Sturm Graz	3–1	Haladás VSE	2–0	1–1
Atlético Madrid	1–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–2	0–1
Den Haag	6–3	Lens	3–2	3–1
Ararat Yerevan	2–4	West Ham United	1–1	1–3

First leg

22 October 1975

Boavista	0–0	Celtic
	Report

Estádio do Bessa, Porto

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Edgar Pedersen (Denmark)

22 October 1975

Fiorentina	1–0	Sachsenring Zwickau
Speggiorin 71'	Report

Stadio Comunale Giovanni Berta, Florence

Attendance: 12,871

Referee: Milos Cajićz (Yugoslavia)

22 October 1975

Anderlecht	3–0	Borac Banja Luka
Rensenbrink 11', 54' Coeck 53'	Report

Stade Émile Versé, Brussels

Attendance: 20,789

Referee: Pablo Sánchez Ibáñez (Spain)

22 October 1975

Wrexham	2–0	Stal Rzeszów
Ashcroft 10', 34'	Report

Racecourse Ground, Wrexham

Attendance: 9,613

Referee: Erik Axelryd (Sweden)

22 October 1975

Sturm Graz	2–0	Haladás VSE
Stendal 55' Steiner 67' (pen.)	Report

Liebenauer Stadium, Graz

Attendance: 9,000

Referee: Jack Taylor (England)

22 October 1975

Atlético Madrid	1-2	Eintracht Frankfurt
Capón 50'	Report	Hölzenbein 6', 14'

Estadio Vicente Calderón, Madrid

Attendance: 31,147

Referee: Ken Burns (England)

22 October 1975

Den Haag	3-2	Lens
Schoenmaker 46' van Vliet 49' van Leeuwen 65'	Report	Zuraszek 18' Janković 19'

Zuiderparkstadion, The Hague

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: John Carpenter (Republic of Ireland)

22 October 1975

Ararat Yerevan	1-1	West Ham United
S. Petrosyan 68'	^{[citation needed]}	Taylor 56'

Dinamo Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 66,662

Referee: Hans-Joachim Weyland (West Germany)

Second leg

5 November 1975

Celtic	3–1	Boavista
Dalglish 1' Eðvaldsson 21' Deans 85'	Report	Mané 39'

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 37,000

Referee: Heinz Einbeck (East Germany)

Celtic won 3–1 on aggregate.

5 November 1975

Sachsenring Zwickau	1–0	Fiorentina
J. Schykowski 32'	Report
Penalties
J. Schykowski Leuschner H. Schykowski Lippmann Croy	5–4	Caso Guerini Antognoni Roggi Bresciani

Georgij-Dimitroff-Stadion, Erfurt

Attendance: 36,000

Referee: Nikolaos Zlatanos (Greece)

1–1 on aggregate; Sachsenring Zwickau won 5–4 on penalties.

5 November 1975

Borac Banja Luka	1–0	Anderlecht
Ibrahimbegović 37'	Report

Gradski, Banja Luka

Attendance: 6,740

Referee: Cesare Gussoni (Italy)

Anderlecht won 3–1 on aggregate.

5 November 1975

Stal Rzeszów	1-1	Wrexham
Kozerski 68'	Report	Sutton 82'

Stal Rzeszów Municipal Stadium, Rzeszów

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Antoine Quedeville (Luxembourg)

Wrexham won 3–1 on aggregate.

5 November 1975

Haladás VSE	1-1	Sturm Graz
Horváth 51'	Report	Jurtin 90'

Haladás Stadion, Szombathely

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Doğan Babacan (Turkey)

Sturm Graz won 3–1 on aggregate.

5 November 1975

Eintracht Frankfurt	1-0	Atlético Madrid
Reichel 88'	Report

Waldstadion, Frankfurt

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)

Eintracht Frankfurt won 3–1 on aggregate.

5 November 1975

Lens	1-3	Den Haag
Mujica 40' (pen.)	Report	Schoenmaker 28', 89' van Leeuwen 29'

Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens

Attendance: 26,205

Referee: Thomas Reynolds (Wales)

Den Haag won 6-3 on aggregate.

5 November 1975

West Ham United	3-1	Ararat Yerevan
Paddon 16' Robson 27' Taylor 59'		N. Petrosyan 48'

Boleyn Ground, London

Attendance: 30,399

Referee: Robert Héliès (France)

West Ham United won 4-2 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Celtic	1–2	Sachsenring Zwickau	1–1	0–1
Anderlecht	2–1	Wrexham	1–0	1–1
Sturm Graz	0–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–2	0–1
Den Haag	5–5(a)	West Ham United	4–2	1–3

First leg

3 March 1976

Celtic	1-1	Sachsenring Zwickau
Dalglish 41'	Report	Blank 89'

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 46,000

Referee: Erik Axelryd (Sweden)

3 March 1976

Anderlecht	1-0	Wrexham
Van Binst 10'	Report

Stade Émile Versé, Brussels

Attendance: 23,055

Referee: Marijan Rauš (Yugoslavia)

2 March 1976

Sturm Graz	0-2	Eintracht Frankfurt
	Report	Hölzenbein 74' Wenzel 87'

Liebenauer Stadium, Graz

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Cesare Gussoni (Italy)

3 March 1976

Den Haag	4-2	West Ham United
Mansveld 12', 16' (pen.), 39' Schoenmaker 44'	Report	Jennings 51', 59'

Zuiderparkstadion, The Hague

Attendance: 26,000

Referee: Rudi Glöckner (East Germany)

Second leg

17 March 1976

Sachsenring Zwickau	1-0	Celtic
Blank 4'	Report

Georgij-Dimitroff-Stadion, Erfurt

Attendance: 40,024

Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)

Sachsenring Zwickau won 2–1 on aggregate.

17 March 1976

Wrexham	1-1	Anderlecht
Lee 60'	Report	Rensenbrink 76'

Racecourse Ground, Wrexham

Attendance: 19,668

Referee: Ferdinand Biwersi (West Germany)

Anderlecht won 2–1 on aggregate.

16 March 1976

Eintracht Frankfurt	1-0	Sturm Graz
Hölzenbein 85'	Report

Waldstadion, Frankfurt

Attendance: 17,022

Referee: António Garrido (Portugal)

Eintracht Frankfurt won 3-0 on aggregate.

17 March 1976

West Ham United	3-1	Den Haag
Taylor 29' Lampard 32' Bonds 35' (pen.)	Report	Schoenmaker 59'

Boleyn Ground, London

Attendance: 29,829

Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)

5-5 draw on aggregate, West Ham United advance on away goals.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sachsenring Zwickau	0–5	Anderlecht	0–3	0–2
Eintracht Frankfurt	3–4	West Ham United	2–1	1–3

First leg

31 March 1976

Sachsenring Zwickau	0-3	Anderlecht
	Report	van der Elst 26', 38' Rensenbrink 67'

Georgij-Dimitroff-Stadion, Erfurt

Attendance: 36,246

Referee: Robert Héliès (France)

31 March 1976

Eintracht Frankfurt	2-1	West Ham United
Neuberger 29' Kraus 47'	Report	Paddon 9'

Waldstadion, Frankfurt

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Vladimir Rudnev (Soviet Union)

Second leg

14 April 1976

Anderlecht	2-0	Sachsenring Zwickau
Rensenbrink 43' van der Elst 58'	Report

Stade Émile Versé, Brussels

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Pablo Sánchez Ibáñez (Spain)

Anderlecht won 5-0 on aggregate.

14 April 1976

West Ham United	3-1	Eintracht Frankfurt
Brooking 49', 77' Robson 68'	Report	Beverungen 88'

Boleyn Ground, London

Attendance: 39,202

Referee: Walter Hungerbühler (Switzerland)

West Ham United won 4-3 on aggregate.

Final

5 May 1976

West Ham United	2–4	Anderlecht
Holland 28' Robson 68'		Rensenbrink 42', 73' Van der Elst 48', 88'

Heysel Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 51,296

Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)

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Second round

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Quarter-finals

First leg

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Semi-finals

First leg

Second leg

Final

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