UEFA Euro 1976 Final

UEFA Euro 1976 Final

The Crvena Zvezda Stadium held the final
Event	UEFA Euro 1976
Czechoslovakia West Germany 2 2
Czechoslovakia won 5–3 on penalties
Date	20 June 1976
Venue	Crvena Zvezda Stadium, Belgrade
Referee	Sergio Gonella (Italy)
Attendance	30,790

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.

After extra time, the result was 2–2, and so the first penalty shootout in a European Championships final ensued. 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 to take the fifth Czechoslovakian penalty, to win the match under immense pressure. German goalkeeper Sepp Maier dived to his left, while Panenka chipped the ball straight in the middle of the net. 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.

Match details

Czechoslovakia v West Germany

20 June 1976 20:15 CET

Czechoslovakia	2–2 (a.e.t.)	West Germany
Švehlík  8' Dobiaš  25'	Report	Müller  29' Hölzenbein  90'
	Penalties
Masný Nehoda Ondruš Jurkemik Panenka	5–3	Bonhof Flohe Bongartz Hoeneß

Crvena Zvezda Stadium, Belgrade Attendance: 30,790 Referee: Sergio Gonella (Italy)

Czechoslovakia

West Germany

GK 1 Ivo Viktor DF 2 Karol Dobiaš  55'  94' DF 3 Jozef Čapkovič DF 4 Anton Ondruš (c) DF 5 Ján Pivarník DF 12 Koloman Gögh MF 7 Antonín Panenka MF 8 Jozef Móder  59' MF 17 Ján Švehlík  79' FW 10 Marián Masný FW 11 Zdeněk Nehoda Substitutions: DF 6 Ladislav Jurkemik  79' MF 16 František Veselý  94' Manager: Václav Ježek

GK 1 Sepp Maier SW 5 Franz Beckenbauer (c) CB 2 Berti Vogts CB 3 Bernard Dietz CB 4 Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck CM 6 Herbert Wimmer  46' CM 7 Rainer Bonhof CM 8 Uli Hoeneß AM 10 Erich Beer  80' CF 9 Dieter Müller CF 11 Bernd Hölzenbein Substitutions: MF 15 Heinz Flohe  46' MF 14 Hans Bongartz  80' Manager: Helmut Schön

Euro 1976 Champions
Czechoslovakia First title

External links

• UEFA Euro 1976 Final Official Report at uefa.com