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Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: Lucky Eddie on July 19, 2010, 04:03:43 PM
Malmo
Grasshoppers

Who on earth were European Super Cup Final qualifiers Magdeburg?




1974 EUROPEAN SUPER CUP FINAL - Not played
Qualifying teams:  Bayern Munich v Magdeburg
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Post by: Lucky Eddie on July 19, 2010, 04:04:35 PM
I do realise I'm setting up a bunch of Forest and Leeds quips here!
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Post by: Des Little on July 19, 2010, 04:06:11 PM
Whatever happened to the team from round this way that proudly played in the first Inter City Fairs Cup campaign?  I think they were known as 'The Blues'?
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Post by: TheSandman on July 19, 2010, 04:06:34 PM
Deportivo La Corunya (sp?)
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Post by: Ads on July 19, 2010, 04:07:15 PM
Deportivoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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Post by: ADVILLAFAN on July 19, 2010, 04:07:25 PM
Alaves have sunk without trace since being runners-up to Liverpool in the 2001 UEFA Cup.
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Post by: Lucky Eddie on July 19, 2010, 04:08:14 PM
I really don't remember KV Mechelen winning TWO European finals in the late eighties either! Still; at least it wasn't Coventry or Wimbledon.
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Post by: Lucky Eddie on July 19, 2010, 04:09:34 PM
Quote from: "Ads"
Deportivooooooooooooooooo


Was that the night some bloke had 'the horn' in The Trinity Road? ;-)
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Post by: Small Rodent on July 19, 2010, 04:30:54 PM
Quote from: "Lucky Eddie"
Malmo
Grasshoppers

Who on earth were European Super Cup Final qualifiers Magdeburg?






East German?
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Post by: TaxDodger on July 19, 2010, 04:31:50 PM
Eintracht Frankfurt.
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Post by: Bent Neilsens Screamer on July 19, 2010, 04:36:27 PM
Dynamo Dresden
IFK Gothenberg

What about Excelsior Mousceron (sp) they were big, well as big as you can get, in the Belgium league about 10 years ago.
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Post by: john e on July 19, 2010, 04:43:03 PM
Borussia Monchengladbach
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Post by: Concrete John on July 19, 2010, 04:47:35 PM
Celta Vigo?
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Post by: TheSandman on July 19, 2010, 04:48:51 PM
Quote from: "Kent Neilsens Screamer"
Dynamo Dresden
IFK Gothenberg

What about Excelsior Mousceron (sp) they were big, well as big as you can get, in the Belgium league about 10 years ago.


They have ceased to be.
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Post by: villa `cross the mersey on July 19, 2010, 04:52:15 PM
A certain Aston Villa have hardly set Europe on fire :)
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Post by: curiousorange on July 19, 2010, 04:53:10 PM
Quote from: "Lucky Eddie"
Malmo
Grasshoppers

Who on earth were European Super Cup Final qualifiers Magdeburg?




1974 EUROPEAN SUPER CUP FINAL - Not played
Qualifying teams:  Bayern Munich v Magdeburg


Magdeburg is a city in the former East Germany. To be fair, they did well to even qualify for this final since the favoured team of the Stasi (secret police) were Dynamo Berlin. The next best teams were Dynamo Dresden and Lokomotiv Leipzig. It wasn't uncommon for the Stasi to rip the hearts out of teams that had built up nice little squads in their quest for dominance.

Interestingly, if you like that sort of thing, Dynamo Berlin still exist but in the regional Oberliga, having gone bankrupt a long time ago. They petitioned the DFB to get stars on their shirts for winning more than 10 titles but were refused as the DFB refused to recognise their claim on the now defunct DDR-Oberliga.

There is no surprise the final went unplayed - West German and East German teams rarely met in competition due to the potential for defection and political tension. Also, many in the DDR would have supported Bayern because of their hatred of the DDR regime.
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Post by: curiousorange on July 19, 2010, 04:57:22 PM
And off the top of my head, how about:

Saint Etienne
Lens
Auxerre
Athletic Bilbao
Espanyol
Red Star Belgrade (and Partizan, for that matter)
Aberdeen
PSG
Napoli
Brondby
Young Boys Berne
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Post by: ADVILLAFAN on July 19, 2010, 04:59:27 PM
Oi!! Leave my Bilbao alone, they're still regularly in Europe.
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Post by: curiousorange on July 19, 2010, 05:04:49 PM
Quote from: "ADVILLAFAN"
Oi!! Leave my Bilbao alone, they're still regularly in Europe.


My mistake, I meant Real Sociedad.
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Post by: Charlie8182 on July 19, 2010, 05:04:58 PM
Dukla Prague
CSKA Sofia (we could have played them in Rotterdam- Bayern were 3-0 down in the 1st leg of the Semi at one point before pulling it back)
Honved
Ujpest Dozsa
Antwerp
St. Etienne
Dynamo Berlin
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Post by: curiousorange on July 19, 2010, 05:05:41 PM
Quote from: "Charlie8182"
Dukla Prague
CSKA Sofia
Honved
Ujpest Dozsa
Antwerp
St. Etienne
Dynamo Berlin


That first one reminds me, must get the Christmas list written...
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Post by: Bernie on July 19, 2010, 05:10:20 PM
Munich 1860- didn't they play West Ham in the 1965 Cup-Winners Cup Final?
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Post by: curiousorange on July 19, 2010, 05:20:24 PM
Quote from: "Bernie"
Munich 1860- didn't they play West Ham in the 1965 Cup-Winners Cup Final?


They play in the same stadium as Bayern. That must be like Espanyol being forced to squat in the Nou Camp.

Ever heard of The Slap? Around the time 1860 were playing in this final, a young Franz Beckenbauer was playing in a Munich youth tournament, preparing to sign schoolboy forms for 1860, his favourite team. Then in a game against the Lions, one of their players slapped Beckenbauer. He said at the moment he stopped wanting to play for 1860 and joined Bayern instead. Then went on to win three European Cups and a World Cup, amongst others, while a Bayern player.
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Post by: curiousorange on July 19, 2010, 05:21:35 PM
Anderlecht used to be quite big as well, didn't they? Allegedly, their president was a bit of a dodgy character.
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Post by: bob on July 19, 2010, 05:48:02 PM
Legia Warsaw
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Post by: cdbearsfan on July 19, 2010, 05:58:12 PM
Stade de Reims?
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Post by: JUAN PABLO on July 19, 2010, 05:59:23 PM
Dynamo Berlin was a great name..
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Post by: eastie on July 19, 2010, 06:02:19 PM
St ettiene were huge in the late 70s in France- almost nothing since their golden era.
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Post by: pauliewalnuts on July 19, 2010, 06:05:41 PM
Quote from: "east19"
St ettiene were huge in the late 70s in France- almost nothing since their golden era.


Foxbase Alpha was a very good album, and i quite liked that Turnpike House album the other year.
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Post by: Exeter 77 on July 19, 2010, 06:08:52 PM
Quote from: "Charlie8182"
Dukla Prague


We played them in the 2000/2001 Intertoto under the name Marila Pribram. They hit the skids when the Czech Army withdrew their support.

Anyway... Honved or Kispest Honved as they became
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Post by: nuninho on July 19, 2010, 06:29:24 PM
What happened to Honved?
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Post by: cdbearsfan on July 19, 2010, 06:52:07 PM
Stade de Reims?
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Post by: big 1st serve on July 19, 2010, 07:11:19 PM
Gornik  Zabrze

Being of Polish decent, I always kept an eye out for them,
Remember when we beat them 2-0 in the UEFA cUP 77-78
They had a mountain of a centre -half, Jerzy Gorgon, I think
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Post by: Brazilian Villain on July 19, 2010, 07:37:04 PM
Honved
Ujpest Dozsa
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Post by: Dubrum on July 19, 2010, 07:40:02 PM
Napoli,what happened to those fellas.
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Post by: bobcat on July 19, 2010, 08:32:31 PM
Marseille

Napoli

Ajax

Spartak Moscow

All big European teams that dont get a sniff in the Chumpsn League anymore. Oh and Forest.
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Post by: eric woolban woolban on July 19, 2010, 09:11:20 PM
I was thinking Marseille, but aren't they back on the up.

Who was there dodgy chairman. Bernard Tapin?
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Post by: Dave on July 19, 2010, 10:16:24 PM
Quote from: "bobcat"
Marseille

All big European teams that dont get a sniff in the Chumpsn League anymore. Oh and Forest.

Haven't Marseille been in the Champions for the last three years and just won the French league to qualify again?
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Post by: Grande Pablo on July 19, 2010, 10:25:26 PM
When I was a kid I recall Manure playing Videoton, & thinking what a great name for a club that was.  Chuffed to see them back in Europe this season.
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Post by: peter w on July 19, 2010, 10:30:08 PM
Carl Zeiss Jena
Oester Vaxjo
Nantes
Bastia
Sochaux
Lokomotiv Plovdiv
Matra Racing
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Post by: pauliewalnuts on July 19, 2010, 10:30:38 PM
Quote from: "Grande Pablo"
When I was a kid I recall Manure playing Videoton, & thinking what a great name for a club that was.  Chuffed to see them back in Europe this season.


I thought exactly that when I heard them mentioned the other week.

In fact, didn't they dump Man United out of the European Cup? And weren't they the last team to beat them at Old Trafford in European competition for years?

I may have imagined the last bit.

EDIT I'm back from google. They knocked them out of the UEFA cup in 1985 en route to reaching the final, but didn't win at Old Trafford.
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Post by: dave.woodhall on July 19, 2010, 10:31:22 PM
Birmingham City
West Bromwich Albion
Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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Post by: TheSandman on July 19, 2010, 10:32:08 PM
Quote from: "peter w"
Carl Zeiss Jena
Oester Vaxjo
Nantes
Bastia
Sochaux
Lokomotiv Plovdiv
Matra Racing


Wasn't that a shit mid engined sports car?
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Post by: eric woolban woolban on July 19, 2010, 10:44:06 PM
Did I once see Man Utd play Hereford in a European Cup Match, bizarrely played on TV on a weekday afternoon.
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Post by: eric woolban woolban on July 19, 2010, 10:47:22 PM
Close it was Wrexham.

Just checked on Statto.com and it was Wednesday 7th November 1990.

Don't know the time though.
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Post by: TopDeck113 on July 19, 2010, 10:49:46 PM
Castilla (AKA Real Madrid reserves)

In 1980 they managed to get to the Spanish Cup Final, where they were beaten 6-1 by... Real Madrid.

However, the first team also won La Liga, which meant that the following season Castilla were the Spanish representatives in the Cup Winners Cup.  They were beaten in the first round by West Ham.
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Post by: Leighton on July 20, 2010, 12:52:03 AM
Montpellier
Torino
Verona
Pisa
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Post by: Drummond on July 20, 2010, 01:38:40 AM
Monaco.
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Post by: Hillbilly on July 20, 2010, 04:08:01 AM
Hadjuk Split. As pointed out, mnay of those we remember from years ago are eastern block teams who folded or changed name. Red Star Belgrade are now Crvena Zvezda and still turn up in Europe. Tennis Borussia Berlin?
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Post by: Dante Lavelli on July 20, 2010, 04:44:10 AM
I'm not sure whether I am impressed with your collective knowledge or whether you need to get out more.

I remember Villa getting beaten by a Deportivo team containing an unknown (to me) Rivaldo and being absolutely disgusted.

Probably the best ever away performance I have seen at Villa Park was Celta Vigo.  Again a team of unknowns (apart from maybe Salgado) that ripped us a new a-hole.  I vaguely remember villa fans applauding them they were so good.  

Happy days...
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Post by: tremzvillain on July 20, 2010, 06:55:59 AM
Trabzonspor
Slovan Bratislava

;]

Omonia Nicosia
Paris St. Germain
Strasbourg
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Post by: Dave P on July 20, 2010, 08:50:02 AM
Fortuna Sittard

As I was writing this, I was thinking have I made this up ?
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Post by: *shellac* on July 20, 2010, 09:11:22 AM
Dinamo Tbilisi
Aberdeen
Ferencváros
Borussia Monchengladbach
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Post by: The Adventurer on July 20, 2010, 09:45:50 AM
Quote from: "curiousorange"
Quote from: "Charlie8182"
Dukla Prague
CSKA Sofia
Honved
Ujpest Dozsa
Antwerp
St. Etienne
Dynamo Berlin


That first one reminds me, must get the Christmas list written...


The third one reminds me of my teenage years... ;)
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Post by: PaulTheVillan on July 20, 2010, 10:00:57 AM
Quote from: "The Adventurer"
Quote from: "curiousorange"
Quote from: "Charlie8182"
Dukla Prague
CSKA Sofia
Honved
Ujpest Dozsa
Antwerp
St. Etienne
Dynamo Berlin


That first one reminds me, must get the Christmas list written...


The third one reminds me of my teenage years... ;)


The 5th one reminds me of DOL.
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Post by: Pete3206 on July 20, 2010, 10:40:07 AM
Harfjonnefernjadorjamorjnerfherder
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Post by: Charlie8182 on July 20, 2010, 11:10:31 AM
Banik Ostrava
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Post by: Chris Harte on July 20, 2010, 11:12:26 AM
Quote from: "Hillbilly"
Red Star Belgrade are now Crvena Zvezda and still turn up in Europe.

They were always Crvena Zvezda, I believe. It was just that in the past the English media used to anglicise their name but now they tend not to.
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Post by: Dave Javu on July 20, 2010, 11:14:54 AM
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
CCCP
FRG
DDR
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Post by: Dave P on July 20, 2010, 11:26:25 AM
Quote from: "Dante Lavelli"

I remember Villa getting beaten by a Deportivo team containing an unknown (to me) Rivaldo and being absolutely disgusted.



I know Bebeto played but I didn't know Rivaldo did ?
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Post by: Small Rodent on July 20, 2010, 11:49:49 AM
Newport County - Cup Winners Cup Quarter Finalists 1981

Llansantfraid (now TNS) - Welsh Cup Winners 1996 and Cup Winners Cup qualifiers
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Post by: Clampy on July 20, 2010, 12:07:19 PM
Quote from: "eric woolban woolban"
Who was there dodgy chairman. Bernard Tapin?


Did'nt he write for Elton John?
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Post by: The Man With A Stick on July 20, 2010, 12:09:03 PM
Quote from: "Dave P"
Quote from: "Dante Lavelli"

I remember Villa getting beaten by a Deportivo team containing an unknown (to me) Rivaldo and being absolutely disgusted.



I know Bebeto played but I didn't know Rivaldo did ?


That's right, Rivaldo wasn't there when we played them but they had a few other Brazillians such as that bloke who played til he was about 40, Mauro Silva was it?
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Post by: Chico Hamilton III on July 20, 2010, 12:13:07 PM
Vitoria Guimaraes.

Remember seeing Peter Withe score a hattrick against them in a 5-0 win (1983?)

Never heard of them before or since
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Post by: TopDeck113 on July 20, 2010, 12:45:06 PM
Quote from: "Small Rodent"
Newport County - Cup Winners Cup Quarter Finalists 1981

Llansantfraid (now TNS) - Welsh Cup Winners 1996 and Cup Winners Cup qualifiers


I only recently learnt about another Welsh side  Borough United (http://www.nonleaguefootballhistory.co.uk/Borough-United.html)
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Post by: ADVILLAFAN on July 20, 2010, 12:48:53 PM
Quote from: "Pete3206"
Harfjonnefernjadorjamorjnerfherder


Hafnarfjordur are in the Champion's League qualifiers I think, won their league.

As did MSK Zilina.

Newport County don't enter the Welsh Cup anymore, but have just been promoted to the Conference (Blue Square Premier).
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Post by: VillaZogmariner on July 20, 2010, 01:19:58 PM
Real Oviedo
Boavista
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Post by: Astral Weeks on July 20, 2010, 01:23:07 PM
Standard Liege
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Post by: PaulTheVillan on July 20, 2010, 01:23:24 PM
Celta Vigo
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Post by: UK Redsox on July 20, 2010, 01:32:14 PM
Quote from: "Leighton"
Montpellier
Torino
Verona
Pisa


"Yer just a small part of Cheltenham, a small part of Cheltenhammmmmmmmmm"
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Post by: peter w on July 20, 2010, 01:46:14 PM
Quote from: "TheSandman"
Quote from: "peter w"
Carl Zeiss Jena
Oester Vaxjo
Nantes
Bastia
Sochaux
Lokomotiv Plovdiv
Matra Racing


Wasn't that a shit mid engined sports car?


As I vaguely recall they were another paris team. Were big with pots of cash for a year or two. I think they had another name as well before - I guess - Matra Racing sponsored them. Weren't they Red Star or somthing? I'll have a look now.
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Post by: peter w on July 20, 2010, 01:53:42 PM
Quote from: "peter w"
Quote from: "TheSandman"
Quote from: "peter w"
Carl Zeiss Jena
Oester Vaxjo
Nantes
Bastia
Sochaux
Lokomotiv Plovdiv
Matra Racing


Wasn't that a shit mid engined sports car?


As I vaguely recall they were another paris team. Were big with pots of cash for a year or two. I think they had another name as well before - I guess - Matra Racing sponsored them. Weren't they Red Star or somthing? I'll have a look now.


Sous une tutelle plus ou moins marquée de la part du Racing club de France depuis la création de la section football en 1896, le Racing a surtout connu deux périodes de professionnalisme.

La première, la plus longue, de 1932 à 1966, sous le nom de Racing Club de Paris, voit ce dernier compter parmi les clubs les plus redoutables du championnat de France, grâce à ses joueurs vedettes et à son jeu spectaculaire : cette période se solde par un doublé coupe-championnat en 1936, et par quatre autres coupes de France. 17 septembre 1950, 39 448 spectateurs assistent à la réception du Stade rennais, ce qui constitue le record d'affluence du club.

Le Racing renaît sous le nom de Racing Paris 1 puis de Matra Racing, sous l'impulsion de Jean-Luc Lagardère, dans les années 1980. Mais il ne parvient pas à s'installer en première division, après une promotion en 1984, et lâchée par son investisseur l'équipe est reléguée tout en guise d'adieux la finale de coupe de France en 1990. Touché par des déboires financiers chroniques, le club est depuis resté dans l'amateurisme.


You get the drift.
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Post by: peter w on July 20, 2010, 01:54:37 PM
Colne Dynamoes
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Post by: Goldstone Villa on July 20, 2010, 02:18:10 PM
I hadn't heard any mention of Lech Poznan for ages but I've just Googled them and it seems that they have regularly qualified for the UEFA Cup/ Europa League in recent years.
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Post by: TheSandman on July 20, 2010, 02:31:32 PM
Quote from: "Dave P"
Fortuna Sittard

As I was writing this, I was thinking have I made this up ?


Freddie used to play for them if I recall. So did a few other big stars who played for PSV when they were young.

A few people have mentioned Aberdeen. They were in the Europa last year (Knocked out by some jokers early on) and the year before they beat FC Copenhagen 4-0 to get in the knockout stages where they drew with Bayern Munich before being absolutely thrashed in the second leg.
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Post by: Astral Weeks on July 20, 2010, 02:34:04 PM
Vitoria Setubal
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Post by: 144 Hard Boiled Eggs on July 20, 2010, 02:44:33 PM
I remember most of these teams from my excellent fold out subbuteo catalogue from the 70's illustrated with all the teams you could buy - oh and Racing White, PAOK Athens, AEK Athens, Fortuna Dusseldorf and Cagliari (Anglo Italian cup regulars) were probably included.
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Post by: ADVILLAFAN on July 20, 2010, 02:59:37 PM
Quote from: "144 Hard Boiled Eggs"
I remember most of these teams from my excellent fold out subbuteo catalogue from the 70's illustrated with all the teams you could buy - oh and Racing White, PAOK Athens, AEK Athens, Fortuna Dusseldorf and Cagliari (Anglo Italian cup regulars) were probably included.


I think PAOK (Salonika) and AEK Athens are still considered part of the 'Big Four' in Greece. Olympiacos have tended to win the Greek league over the last decade, but I think Panathinaikos won this year.

Think Cagliari are top flight?

Dusseldorf aren't and I've never heard of Racing White.
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Post by: TheBarneyArmy on July 20, 2010, 03:03:39 PM
FC Valur (icelandic) in 1981, my first ever experience of a european tie at B6.
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Post by: 144 Hard Boiled Eggs on July 20, 2010, 04:29:04 PM
Quote
FC Valur (icelandic) in 1981, my first ever experience of a european tie at B6.

Royal Antwerp was mine
Quote
I've never heard of Racing White.

A Belgian team who I think played in Europe a few times in the 70's.
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Post by: Dave Cooper please on July 20, 2010, 06:11:52 PM
Quote from: "ADVILLAFAN"


Dusseldorf aren't and I've never heard of Racing White.


Fortuna Dusseldorf are in the second division, but they have slipped as low as level four (Oberliga Nordrhein).
Little known fact, Fortuna Dusseldorf were once sponsored by German punk band Die Toten Hosen.

Didn't Racing White rename themselves as Molenbeek?
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Post by: ChrissyPrice on July 20, 2010, 07:22:44 PM
Quote from: "Chico Hamilton III"
Vitoria Guimaraes.

Remember seeing Peter Withe score a hattrick against them in a 5-0 win (1983?)

Never heard of them before or since


Portugal's 4th biggest team, although there is quite a gap to the big 3. And Boavista, which gets a mention from somebody, went under a few years ago.

There was a great run of teams in my formative Eoropean Cup final years of the late 70s. Borussia Monchengladbach (sp?), Bruges and Malmo.
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Post by: SoccerHQ on July 20, 2010, 11:29:17 PM
Quote from: "Dante Lavelli"
I'm not sure whether I am impressed with your collective knowledge or whether you need to get out more.

I remember Villa getting beaten by a Deportivo team containing an unknown (to me) Rivaldo and being absolutely disgusted.

Probably the best ever away performance I have seen at Villa Park was Celta Vigo.  Again a team of unknowns (apart from maybe Salgado) that ripped us a new a-hole.  I vaguely remember villa fans applauding them they were so good.  

Happy days...


Ahh yes Mostovoi and Karpin led us a merry dance that night. Think Makelele also played for them at the time and Haim Revivo upfront who Gregory then became obbssesed with buying for the next 6 months.

We played them again in the Intertoto in 2000 (remember the ref?!) and Gregory then became obbsessed with signing Benni McCarthy for the next year.

They were in the champions league in 03-04 but the money run out and they're now yo-yoing between La Liga and Segunda.

In the 90s Paris St Germain were quite a major european team but I can't remember them being in any major euro competition lately.
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Post by: eamonn on July 21, 2010, 03:34:30 AM
I lived halfway between Coruna and Vigo in 05/06 and though I regularly went to Depor games, I bought a Celta shirt in admiration of their performance against us in the Uefa Cup. They finished 6th that season but have sadly been in decline since, finishing just above the relegation zone of La Segunda the season just gone.


Oh, and from Channel 4's early 90's Serie A coverage I do miss Igor Shalimov's Foggia, Thomas Skurahvy's Genoa (wiki says he owns a nightclub there now, fair play) and Cremonese's...whatever
good player they had.

Oh and the C.I.S at Euro '92 with Dmitri Kharine in those fecking tracksuit bottoms (not as bad as Kiraly's jim-jams but still..)
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: eamonn on July 21, 2010, 03:40:21 AM
Quote from: "Dubrum"
Napoli,what happened to those fellas.


Maradona left.
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: eamonn on July 21, 2010, 03:43:10 AM
Kinda sad that on any one forum of the clubs mentioned in this thread, they could well be wondering the same thing about us.  




Except for blose, the baggies and the dingles obviously.
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: *shellac* on July 21, 2010, 04:15:15 AM
Torpedo Moscow
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: UK Redsox on July 21, 2010, 07:47:53 AM
Quote from: "*shellac*"
Torpedo Moscow


Calm down, the Cold War's over !
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: Rip Van We Go Again on July 21, 2010, 08:00:24 AM
Anybody Mention Swiss side Young Boys yet?
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: *shellac* on July 21, 2010, 08:13:36 AM
R. Union Saint-Gilloise of Belgium.

It had a brief spell of European success, playing the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup between 1958 and 1965.  

Now languishing in Belgian Third Division B.
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: Chris Harte on July 21, 2010, 08:29:54 AM
Quote from: "eamonn"
Oh and the C.I.S at Euro '92 with Dmitri Kharine in those fecking tracksuit bottoms (not as bad as Kiraly's jim-jams but still..)

Commonwealth of Independent States? It was Russia and all the other nations that had broken away from the old Soviet Union. I can't remember how far they got.
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: Bent Neilsens Screamer on July 21, 2010, 08:36:20 AM
Legia Warsaw
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: pestria on July 21, 2010, 08:43:19 AM
Malmo
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: peter w on July 21, 2010, 12:47:48 PM
Pisa
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on July 21, 2010, 12:53:55 PM
Quote from: "*shellac*"
Torpedo Moscow


Think they became FC Moscow but folded this year, or were demoted due to financial irregularities.
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on July 21, 2010, 12:54:31 PM
Didn't Racing White rename themselves as Molenbeek?[/quote]

I think RWD Molenbeek became FC Brussels?
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: peter w on July 21, 2010, 01:34:50 PM
Valenciennes
Dnepr Dneprpropotovsk
Widzew Lodz
Rosenborg
Banik Ostrava
Borussia Dortmund
Bari
Rayo Vallecano
Verona
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: Dave P on July 21, 2010, 01:53:56 PM
Quote from: "Mark Fletcher"
Anybody Mention Swiss side Young Boys yet?


Playing at the amazingly named Wankdorf Stadium.
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: PaulTheVillan on July 21, 2010, 03:11:56 PM
Celtic
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: The Man With A Stick on July 21, 2010, 04:02:22 PM
Dundee United, unfortunately.
Title: 0% Villa - European Teams you no longer hear of?
Post by: TheSandman on July 21, 2010, 04:09:06 PM
Back in European competition this season!

With the way Rangers are losing players I wouldn't put it past them to get CL football next season.
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