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Lisbon Lions - 1967 European Cup final in Lisbon Celtic-Inter 2-1

High energy Scots led by Jock Stein broke the typical Italian defense strategy and Celtic became first team from Great Britain who won a European cup, all 11 players were born within 30 miles of glasgow.The Celtic players were nicknamed the "Lisbon lions"

Billy McNeill Celtic captain

Jock Stein,Celtic trainer 1967

Jimmy Johnstone Celtic

1960 Great football cup match played

1960 Real.Madrid players running at Glasgow

Coupe des clubs champion europeens

A Real Madrid team that had defeated Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3 after going 1-0 behind.Eintracht lost 7–3 to Real Madrid in a final which included a hattrick by Alfredo Di Stéfano and 4 goals by Ferenc Puskás. 130000 Scots enjoyed the match in Glasgow.

Top 10 most expensive soccer players late Summer season transfers 2022 in UK pound

Top 10 most expensive soccer players late Summer season transfers 2022 in UK pound

£85.5m Antony(Ajax to Manchester United)
£72.36m Wesley Fofana(Leicester to Chelsea)
£72m Aurelien Tchouameni(Monaco to Real Madrid)
£67.5m Darwin Nunez (Benfica to Liverpool)
£63.59m Casemiro (Real Madrid to Manchester United)
£63m Alexander Isak (Real Sociedad to Newcastle United)
£60.3m Matthijs De Ligt (Juventus to Bayern Munich)
£58.77m Marc Cucurella(Brighton to Chelsea)
£54m Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund to Manchester City)
£52.2m Richarlison (Everton to Tottenham Hotspur)

-22 year old leftfooted winger Brazilian Antony joined Manchester United on the final day of the transfer window, the Brazilian became the most expensive deadline-day
signing in history, he was 3rd ex-Ajax player to move to Manchester utd. this summer, following Lisandro Martinez & Danish star Christian Eriksen.

Wesley Fofana

-Wesley Fofana a 22 years old French centreback signed a 7 year deal with Chelsea.
- Total earnings by agents=£430.8m during the summer transfer window 2022

Alexander Isak

Matthijs De Ligt

1971 European Cup Final Ajax -Panathinaikos 2–0

Ajax Amsterdam defeated Panathinaikos 2-0, Goals were scored by Dick van Djik after only 5 minutes and Arie Haan(87 min),Panathinaikos reached the final under leadership of trainer Ferenc Puskas.

Ferenc Puskas 1971 Trainer Panathaikos

1978-79 Brian Clough & Peter Taylor led Nottingham Forest to European cup win

Brian Clough,Manager

The first time Nottingham Forest had appeared in the European Cup, they won 1-0 against Malmo FF scored by millionaire man Trevor Francis.

Trevor Francis

1968: Manchester United first English club to win the European Cup

Manchester Utd. 1968 team against Benfica.

After an equal match extra time began,but Alex Stepney, rescued everything that Eusebio unleashed at goal attemtps.Brian Kidd, who had fought to score then powerfully headed Bobby Charlton’s corner for goal. Henrique scooped the ball off the line only for Kidd to celebrate his 19th birthday with a winning goal.