The 1982–83 European Cup was the 28th season of the European Cup, UEFA's premier club football competition. The tournament was won for the only time by Hamburg, who beat Juventus 1–0 in the final at Athens' Olympic Stadium. It was the first time since 1976 that the trophy was not won by an English club.
Aston Villa, the defending champions, were eliminated by Juventus in the quarter-finals. Villa's 3–1 first round victory over BeşiktaşRichard Eaton. "Villa descend from surreal to reality." The Times, 16 September 1982: 18. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 24 February 2017. was played behind closed doors due to trouble from the Villa crowd against Anderlecht in the previous season’s semi-final in Brussels.
Liverpool, the other English side in the tournament, were defeated by Polish champions Widzew Lodz, also in the quarter-finals.
Winning the European Cup allowed them to compete for the European Super Cup in December, when Hamburger SV were beaten over two legs, by the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983 by Aberdeen FC
Teams 17 Nëntori Rapid Wien Standard Liège CSKA Sofia Omonia Dukla Prague Hvidovre Liverpool Aston Villa TH HJK Helsinki Monaco BFC Dynamo Hamburg Olympiacos Rába ETO Győr Víkingur Dundalk Juventus Avenir Beggen Hibernians Ajax Linfield Vålerenga Widzew Łódź Sporting CP Dinamo București Celtic Real Sociedad Öster Grasshopper Beşiktaş Dynamo Kyiv Dinamo Zagreb
Preliminary round
First leg
Second leg
Dinamo București won 4–3 on aggregate
Bracket
First round
First leg
Second leg
Hamburg won 3–1 on aggregate
Olympiacos won 2–1 on aggregate
2–2 on aggregate; 17 Nëntori Tirana won on away goals
Dynamo Kyiv won 4–0 on aggregate
Sporting CP won 3–1 on aggregate
CSKA September Flag won 2–0 on aggregate
Celtic won 4–3 on aggregate
Real Sociedad won 4–2 on aggregate
Widzew Łódź won 7–2 on aggregate
Rapid Wien won 13–0 on aggregate
HJK Helsinki won 3–2 on aggregate
Liverpool won 5–1 on aggregate
Aston Villa won 3–1 on aggregate
Dinamo București won 3–2 on aggregate
Standard Liège won 5–3 on aggregate
Juventus won 7–4 on aggregate
Second round
First leg
17 Nëntori Tirana withdrew, Dynamo Kyiv awarded the victory.
Second leg
Hamburg won 5–0 on aggregate
2–2 on aggregate; Sporting CP won on away goals.
Real Sociedad won 3–2 on aggregate
Widzew Łódź won 6–5 on aggregate
Liverpool won 5–1 on aggregate
Aston Villa won 6–2 on aggregate
Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Hamburg won 4–2 on aggregate
Real Sociedad won 2–1 on aggregate
Widzew Łódź won 4–3 on aggregate
Juventus won 5–2 on aggregate
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Hamburg won 3–2 on aggregate
Juventus won 4–2 on aggregate
Final
Top scorers The top scorers from the 1982–83 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:
RankNameTeamGoals1 Paolo Rossi Juventus62 Michel Platini Juventus5 Gary Shaw Aston Villa54 Lars Bastrup Hamburg4 Hans Krankl Rapid Vienna4 Mirosław Tłokiński Widzew Łódź4 Pedro Uralde Real Sociedad48 António Oliveira Sporting CP3 Marek Filipczak Widzew Łódź3 Atik Ismail HJK Helsinki3 Christian Keglevits Rapid Vienna3 Jesús María Satrústegui Real Sociedad3 Krzysztof Surlit Widzew Łódź3 Ronnie Whelan Liverpool3 Gerald Willfurth Rapid Vienna3
Notes
References
External links 1982–83 All matches – season at UEFA website European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation All scorers 1982–83 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA – results and line-ups (archive)