The 1984–85 European Cup was the 30th season of the European Cup, UEFA's premier club football competition. The tournament was won for the first time by Juventus in a 1–0 win against defending champions Liverpool. Juventus became the first club to have won all three major European trophies at the time (European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, and the Cup Winners' Cup), as well a posteriori as the one that needed the shortest amount of time to complete this (8 years).
This edition of the tournament was overshadowed by the Heysel Stadium disaster that happened prior to the final match. Following the disaster, English clubs received a five-year ban from entering any European competition, thus ending a period of great success for English clubs in the European Cup which had seen three clubs winning seven finals since 1977, including six successive finals up to 1982. Liverpool, English champions in 1989–90, were given an extra year's ban.
Teams Labinoti Austria Wien Beveren Levski-Spartak Omonia Sparta Praha Lyngby Liverpool TH Ilves Bordeaux BFC Dynamo VfB Stuttgart Panathinaikos Budapesti Honvéd ÍA Shamrock Rovers Juventus Avenir Beggen Valletta Feyenoord Linfield Vålerenga Lech Poznań Benfica Dinamo București Aberdeen Athletic Bilbao Gothenburg Grasshopper Trabzonspor Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Red Star Belgrade
Bracket
First round
First leg
Second leg
Grasshopper won 4–3 on aggregate.
Austria Wien won 8–0 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Linfield won on away goals.
Sparta Praha won 5–3 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; BFC Dynamo won 5–4 on penalties.
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk won 3–1 on aggregate.
Lyngby won 6–0 on aggregate.
IFK Göteborg won 17–0 on aggregate.
Dinamo Bucharest won 5–3 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; Levski-Spartak won on away goals.
Beveren won 7–2 on aggregate.
Panathinaikos won 2–1 on aggregate.
Juventus won 6–1 on aggregate.
Bordeaux won 3–2 on aggregate.
Liverpool won 5–0 on aggregate.
Benfica won 4–3 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
Second leg
3–3 on aggregate; Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk won on away goals.
Bordeaux won 2–1 on aggregate.
Sparta Praha won 2–1 on aggregate.
Austria Wien won 5–4 on aggregate.
Juventus won 6–2 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; IFK Göteborg won on away goals.
Panathinaikos won 5–4 on aggregate.
Liverpool won 3–2 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Bordeaux won 5–3 on penalties.
Panathinaikos won 3–2 on aggregate.
Liverpool won 5–2 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Juventus won 3–2 on aggregate.
Liverpool won 5–0 on aggregate.
Final
Top scorers RankNameTeamGoals1 Torbjörn Nilsson IFK Göteborg7 Michel Platini Juventus73 Paolo Rossi Juventus5 Ian Rush Liverpool5 John Wark Liverpool56 Massimo Briaschi Juventus3 Jerry Carlsson IFK Göteborg3 Stig Fredriksson IFK Göteborg3 Rajko Janjanin Red Star Belgrade3 Bernard Lacombe Bordeaux3 Hennadiy Lytovchenko Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk3 Dieter Müller Bordeaux3 Stefan Pettersson IFK Göteborg3 Toni Polster Austria Vienna3 Zdeněk Procházka Sparta Praha3 Herbert Prohaska Austria Vienna3 Dimitris Saravakos Panathinaikos3 Andreas Thom BFC Dynamo3 Paul Walsh Liverpool3
Notes
References
External links 1984–85 All matches – season at UEFA website European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation All scorers 1984–85 European Cup according to protocols UEFA – results and line-ups (archive)