The 1985–86 European Cup was the 31st season of the European Cup, UEFA's premier club football competition. The European Champion Clubs' Cup was won by Steaua București on penalties in the final against Barcelona. Steaua became the first Eastern Bloc side to win the tournament. The final was decided mainly by goalkeeper Helmut Duckadam, who (after keeping a clean sheet in the final) saved all four of Barcelona's penalties to secure the cup.
Juventus, the defending champions, were eliminated by Barcelona in the quarter-finals.
No clubs from England were entered into the competition during this year, owing to a ban from European competition in light of the Heysel Stadium disaster. Had the ban not been imposed, Everton would have represented England. The Albanian champions 17 Nëntori were disqualified following a ban in the previous CWC edition.
Teams Austria Wien Anderlecht Botev Plovdiv Omonia Sparta Praha Vejle Kuusysi Bordeaux BFC Dynamo Bayern Munich PAOK Budapesti Honvéd ÍA Shamrock Rovers Hellas Verona Juventus TH Jeunesse Esch Rabat Ajax Ajax Linfield Vålerenga Górnik Zabrze Porto Steaua București Aberdeen Barcelona Gothenburg Servette Fenerbahçe Zenit Leningrad Sarajevo The draw for the first round of the European competitions took place in Geneva on Thursday 4 July 1985 at 12 CEST. Restrictions based on seedings and geography were unilaterally decided by the UEFA.
Bracket
First round
The Belgian club Anderlecht received a bye from the first round.As the Champions of England and Albania were disqualified, a bye should be given to Juventus. However, as the Italian side was also partially punished for the Heysel disaster with two home-matches ban, they asked to play the first round (arguably against a weak opponent) to be free from any punishment for the eventual quarterfinals. So, the Champions of Belgium were drawn to receive the bye. [www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,22/articleid,1005_01_1985_0141_0024_22870660/ (it.)]
First leg
Second leg
Bayern Munich won 6–2 on aggregate.
Austria Wien won 4–1 on aggregate.
Omonia won 10–0 on aggregate.
Budapest Honvéd won 5–1 on aggregate.
Steaua București won 5–2 on aggregate.
Zenit Leningrad won 4–0 on aggregate.
Kuusysi won 4–2 on aggregate.
Servette won 4–3 on aggregate.
Aberdeen won 7–2 on aggregate.
IFK Göteborg won 5–3 on aggregate.
Fenerbahçe won 3–2 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Barcelona won on away goals.
Porto won 2–0 on aggregate.
Hellas Verona won 5–2 on aggregate.
Juventus won 9–1 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
Second leg
Bayern Munich won 7–5 on aggregate.
Anderlecht won 4–1 on aggregate.
Steaua București won 4–2 on aggregate.
Kuusysi won 4–3 on aggregate.
Aberdeen won 1–0 on aggregate.
IFK Göteborg won 5–2 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; Barcelona won on away goals.
Juventus won 2–0 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Anderlecht won 3–2 on aggregate.
Steaua București won 1–0 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; IFK Göteborg won on away goals.
Barcelona won 2–1 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Steaua București won 3–1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; Barcelona won on penalties.
Final
Top scorers The top scorers from the 1985–86 European Cup are as follows:
RankNameTeamGoals1 Torbjörn Nilsson IFK Göteborg72 Lajos Détári Budapest Honvéd5 Ismo Lius Kuusysi5 Victor Pițurcă Steaua București5 Aldo Serena Juventus56 Preben Elkjær Hellas Verona4 Andreas Andreou Omonia4 Toni Polster Austria Wien49 Pichi Alonso Barcelona3 Per Frimann Anderlecht3 John Hewitt Aberdeen3 Dieter Hoeneß Bayern Munich3 Juary Porto3 Mats Magnusson Servette3 Reinhold Mathy Bayern Munich3 Michel Platini Juventus3 Roland Wohlfarth Bayern Munich3 Yuri Zheludkov Zenit Leningrad3
References
External links 1985–86 All matches – season at UEFA website European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation All scorers 1985–86 European Cup according to protocols UEFA - results and line-ups (archive)