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Match summary

First half

Favourites Rangers had a two goal lead by half time with goals from Colin Stein and a header from Willie Johnston.

Second half

Rangers went 3–0 up minutes into the second half as Willie Johnston scored his second. Dynamo Moscow came back into the match when with thirty minutes left for play Eshtrekov scored. They continued to pressure Rangers and scored again with three minutes left with a goal from Makhovikov. Rangers held on to secure their only trophy in Europe in front of 24,000 people.

Pitch invasion

The end of the contest was overshadowed by a pitch invasion of Rangers support celebrating the famous win which resulted in the cup being awarded behind closed doors. Rangers lost the possibility to defend the trophy as they were handed a two year ban from European competition following their fans behavior, which was later reduced to a one year ban. This was the first time in the history of the competition that the winners have been banned from playing the following year, the second being Everton, who were unable to defend their title in 1985-6 because of UEFA's ban of English clubs.

Match details


RANGERS:
GK	1	Peter McCloy
DF	2	Sandy Jardine
DF	3	John Greig (c)
DF	4	Derek Johnstone
DF	5	Willie Mathieson
MF	6	David Smith
MF	7	Alfie Conn, Jr.
MF	8	Alex MacDonald
MF	9	Tommy McLean
FW	10	Colin Stein
FW	11	Willie Johnston
Manager:
William Waddell


DYNAMO MOSCOW:
GK	1	Vladimir Pilguy
DF	2	Vladimir Basalev
DF	3	Yozhef Sabo (c)
DF	4	Valeri Zykov
DF	5	Vladimir Dolbonosov
MF	6	Evgeny Zhukov
MF	7	Oleg Dolmatov
MF	8	Aleksandr Makhovikov
MF	9	Anatoly Baidachny
FW	10	Andrei Yakubik
FW	11	Gennady Yevriuzhikin
Substitutes:
MF	12	Vladimir Eshtrekov
FW	13	Mikhail Gershkovich
Manager:
Konstantin Beskov