The 1965–66 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup club football tournament was won by Borussia Dortmund in an extra-time final victory over Liverpool at Hampden Park in Glasgow. West Ham United were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the semi-finals by Borussia Dortmund. This season of the Cup Winners' Cup was the first instance of the away goals rule being applied in football history.
Teams
Wiener Neustadt Standard Liège CSKA Cherveno Zname Omonia Dukla Prague AGF Liverpool West Ham United TH Reipas Lahti Rennes 1. FC Magdeburg Borussia Dortmund Olympiacos Budapest Honvéd KR Limerick Juventus Spora Luxembourg Floriana Go Ahead Eagles Coleraine Rosenborg Czarni Żagań Vitória de Setúbal Știința Cluj Celtic Atlético Madrid Sion Galatasaray Dynamo Kiev Cardiff City Dinamo Zagreb
Bracket
First round
First leg
Second leg
Olympiakos won 2–1 on aggregate.
1. FC Magdeburg won 3–0 on aggregate.
Sion won 6–3 on aggregate.
Știința Cluj won 3–0 on aggregate.
Atlético Madrid won 5–0 on aggregate.
Borussia Dortmund won 13–1 on aggregate.
CSKA Cherveno Zname won 4–1 on aggregate.
AGF won 4–2 on aggregate.
Celtic won 7–0 on aggregate.
Rosenborg won 6–2 on aggregate.
Dynamo Kiev won 10–1 on aggregate.
Dukla Prague won 2–0 on aggregate.
Budapest Honvéd won 16–2 on aggregate.
Liverpool won 2–1 on aggregate.
Standard Liège won 3–1 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
Second leg
West Ham United won 6–2 on aggregate.
1. FC Magdeburg won 10–3 on aggregate.
Atlético Madrid won 6–0 on aggregate.
Borussia Dortmund won 5–4 on aggregate.
Celtic won 3–0 on aggregate.
Dynamo Kiev won 6–1 on aggregate.
4–4 on aggregate; Budapest Honvéd won on away goals.
Liverpool won 5–2 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
West Ham United won 2–1 on aggregate.
Borussia Dortmund won 2–1 on aggregate.
Celtic won 4–1 on aggregate.
Liverpool won 2–0 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Borussia Dortmund won 5–2 on aggregate.
Liverpool won 2–1 on aggregate.
Final
Top scorers The top scorers from the 1965–66 European Cup Winners' Cup are as follows:
RankNameTeamGoals1 Lothar Emmerich Borussia Dortmund142 Lajos Tichy Budapest Honvéd73 Jorge Mendonça Atlético Madrid64 Sigfried Held Borussia Dortmund5 Kálmán Tóth Budapest Honvéd56 Oleh Bazylevych Dynamo Kiev4 Andriy Biba Dynamo Kiev4 Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi Dynamo Kiev4 Chris Lawler Liverpool4 Bobby Lennox Celtic4
See also 1965–66 European Cup 1965–66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
Notes
References
External links 1965-66 competition at UEFA website Cup Winners' Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Cup Winners Cup Seasons 1965-66–results, protocols website Football Archive