celtic was the first british team to win the european cup.
who was the first british team to win the european cup?
celtic
scotland's association football clubs have had a relatively high degree of success internationally . in terms of european competitions, rangers, celtic and aberdeen have all won european competitions. rangers, were the first british team to reach a european final, the 1961 european cup winners cup. however, celtic are the only team to have won the european cup (now known as the uefa champions league), europe's premier competition. celtic won this cup in 1967 becoming the first british team to do so. their victory is an important one in football history with the competition being won with a team comprising no players born more than thirty miles (48 km) from the home of the club, celtic park.
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by winning the european cup, they qualified for the european super cup and played the winners of the cup winners' cup, german team hamburg, who had just signed keegan. liverpool won the tie 7–1 on aggregate. liverpool entered the 1977–78 european cup as champions and received a bye in the first round. they defeated dynamo dresden and portuguese team benfica in the second round and quarter-finals, respectively. in the semi-final, the club again met borussia mönchengladbach, who won the first leg 2–1. liverpool won the second leg 3–0, progressing to a second successive european cup final, this time against club brugge at wembley stadium in london. in the final kenny dalglish, who had been signed to replace keegan, scored the winning goal after receiving the ball from a graeme souness pass. the 1–0 victory meant liverpool became the first british team to retain the european cup. they faced anderlecht in the 1978 european super cup, but failed to retain the trophy, losing 4–3 on aggregate against the belgian side. liverpool were eliminated in the first round of the 1978–79 european cup by english champions nottingham forest. nottingham forest won the tie 2–0 on aggregate, and went on to win the competition. liverpool entered the 1979–80 european cup as english champions but were again eliminated in the first round, this time beaten 4–2 on aggregate by dinamo tbilisi of the soviet union.
liverpool f.c. in european football