The 1981-82 season was
Aston Villa's 82th season in the Football League. As defending First
Division champions for the first time in 71 years, they qualified for
the European Cup for the first time in their history. Their first
game in the competition was against Valur Reykjavík of Iceland,
following by a second round clash with Dynamo Berlin of East Germany,
Dynamo Kiev of the Soviet Union in the quarter-finals and then
Anderlecht of Belgium in the semi-finals before beating Bayern Munich
of West Germany 1–0 in the Final in Rotterdam, with Peter Withe
scoring the winning goal. The season began with Ron Saunders, who had
been the club's manager since 1974, still in charge, but he resigned
on 9 February 1982 following a disagreement with the board over his
contract. He had been in charge for nearly eight years, winning a
league title and two League Cups in the process. His successor was
his assistant manager Tony Barton, who had been in charge for three
months by the time Villa won the European Cup. The 1982 European Cup
Final was a drama !
On 26 May 1982. English champions Aston Villa
defeated West German league winners Bayern Munich 1–0 at De Kuip in
Rotterdam, Netherlands to win the European Cup for the first, and so
far only, time, and continue the streak of English teams winning the
competition, being the sixth consecutive victory by an English side.
One of the most memorable incidents of the final occurred after 10
minutes when veteran goalkeeper Jimmy Rimmer suffered a repeat of a
recurring shoulder injury. His replacement, Nigel Spink, subsequently
made only his second first team appearance for the club. His
performance in helping prevent Bayern from scoring throughout the
match was subsequently highly praised, and is seen by many as the
making of a player who would be Villa's first choice goalkeeper for
the following 10 seasons. Also memorably Bayern Munich did find the
net with three minutes of play remaining, although the goal was ruled
offside. Villa also got the ball in the net for a second time a few
seconds before the end of the match but this goal was also
disallowed. Brian Moore's commentary of the winning goal is displayed
on a giant banner across the North Stand of Villa Park: « Shaw,
Williams, prepared to venture down the left. There's a good ball in
for Tony Morley. Oh, it must be and it is! It's Peter Withe ».
And the only goal of this final in video :
And now the Aston Villa's
roster 1981-82 in Panini stickers :
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