Thursday, May 9, 2013

Memory Lane: average goals scored in European Cup matches, 1970-79.

Against opposition not including teams from Albania, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Northern Ireland, Norway & Turkey.

Including European Cup, UEFA Cup & Cup winners' Cup. In bold text, teams having played a final in the European Cup during the decade.

2,07 Hamburger SV
2,06 Bor. M'gladbach
1,90 Barcelona
1,89 Wolverhampton
1,76 Köln
1,74 Bayern Munich
1,71 Liverpool
1,70 Derby County
1,68 Twente
1,67 Magdeburg, Honvéd, Arsenal
1,64 Dynamo Berlin
1,63 Újpesti Dózsa, Crvena Zvezda
1,62 Ferencváros
1,59 Anderlecht
1,58 Tottenham
1,56 Club Brugge
1,55 PSV Eindhoven, FC Basel, Ajax
1,54 AEK Athens
1,50 Man City
1,49 Feyenoord
1,48 Dynamo Dresden
1,45 Dinamo Tbilisi
1,44 Servette, Dinamo Zagreb, Valencia
1,43 FC Porto
1,42 Ipswich, Hajduk Split
1,41 Levski Spartak
1,40 Dukla Prague
1,39 Saint-Etienne
1,38 Man United, Juventus
1,33 Lazio
1,32 Athletic Club, Dinamo Kiev
1,31 Atlético de Madrid
1,29 Carl Zeiss Jena
1,28 Milan
1,26 Real Madrid
1,25 Baník Ostrava, Sporting, Grasshoppers
1,24 Benfica
1,19 FC Zürich
1,18 Standard Liège
1,15 Rangers, Leeds
1,14 Olympiakos
1,12 Górnik Zarbrze
1,11 Legia Warsaw
1,10 Celtic
1,04 RWDM, Inter
1,00 Spartak Moscow
0,94 FC Nantes
0,91 Torino
0,89 Panathinaikos, Malmö FF
0,88 Austria Vienna, Wacker Innsbruck, CSKA Sofia
0,85 Napoli
0,75 Marseille

Friday, May 3, 2013

The European Cup season 1971/72.

UEFA Cup (first edition), European Cup & Cup Winners' Cup. 

Total points
1. England : 60
2. Italy : 48
3. Scotland : 43
4. Holland : 40
5. West Germany : 35
6. Hungary : 27
7. Yugoslavia : 26
8. Portugal : 24
9. Romania : 23
10. Belgium : 22
11. Spain : 21
12. East Germany, Soviet Union : 19
14. Austria : 14
15. Poland : 12
16. France : 11
17. Sweden : 9
18. Bulgaria : 8
19. Norway, Switzerland, Greece, Malta : 6
23. Turkey : 5
24. Denmark, Czechoslovakia : 4
26. Iceland : 3
27. Finland, Wales : 2
29. Ireland, Luxembourg, Albania : 1
32. Northern Ireland, Cyprus : 0

Average points*
1. England : 71,4%
2. Holland : 69,0%
3. West Germany : 67,3%
4. Scotland : 65,2%
5. Italy : 61,5%
6. Hungary : 61,4%
7. Soviet Union : 55,9%
8. Portugal : 54,5%
9. Yugoslavia : 54,2%
10. Poland, Belgium : 50,0%
12. Romania : 47,9%
13. Spain : 47,7%
14. East Germany : 47,5%
15. Austria : 43,8%
16. Bulgaria : 40,0%
17. France : 39,3%
18. Sweden : 37,5%
19. Switzerland, Malta : 30,0%
*) minimum 10 matches.

Combined
1. England : 2
2. Holland : 6
3. Italy, Scotland : 7
5. West Germany : 8
6. Hungary : 12
7. Yugoslavia, Portugal : 16
9. Soviet Union : 19
10. Belgium : 20
11. Romania : 21
12. Spain : 24
13. Poland : 25
14. East Germany : 26
15. Austria : 29
16. France : 33
17. Bulgaria : 34
18. Sweden : 35
19. Switzerland, Malta : 38
21. Norway, Greece
23. Turkey
24. Denmark, Czechoslovakia
26. Iceland
27. Finland, Wales
29. Ireland, Luxembourg, Albania
32. Northern Ireland, Cyprus

Zico 1973