Lisbon Lions

The Lisbon Lions (German: Lisbon Lion ) is the nickname given to the team from Celtic Glasgow , which won the European Cup at the Estádio Nacional in Lisbon, Portugal on May 25, 1967 against Inter Milan 2-1. All players are within a radius of 30 miles (48 km) to Glasgow ( Scotland born). This makes Celtic, together with the European Cup team of 1. FC Magdeburg 1974, the only club in European football history that was able to win the cup with a completely local team.

Celtic's style was the antithesis of the cynical but highly effective defensively oriented style known as " Catenaccio " that Inter was practicing at the time. Jimmy Johnstone described the Scots' style of play as "like the Dutch speeded-up", comparing them to an accelerated version of Dutch total football .

The way to the final

European Champion Clubs' Cup 1966/67
date	Venue	opponent	Result	round	Goalscorers for Celtic
September 28, 1966	Celtic Park , Glasgow (H)	Switzerland FC Zurich	2-0	First round, first leg	Gemmell , McBride
5th October 1966	Letzigrund , Zurich (A)	Switzerland FC Zurich	3-0	First round, second leg	Gemmell (2, including 1 penalty), Chalmers
November 30, 1966	Stade Marcel Saupin , Nantes (A)	France FC Nantes	3: 1	Second round, first leg	McBride , Lennox , Chalmers
7th December 1966	Celtic Park , Glasgow (H)	France FC Nantes	3: 1	Second round, second leg	Johnstone , Chalmers , Lennox
March 1, 1967	Gradski stadium Novi Sad , Novi Sad (A)	Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic FK Vojvodina Novi Sad	0: 1	Quarter-finals, first leg	-
March 8, 1967	Celtic Park , Glasgow (H)	Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic FK Vojvodina Novi Sad	2-0	Quarter-finals, second leg	Chalmers , McNeill
April 12, 1967	Celtic Park , Glasgow (H)	Czechoslovakia FK Dukla Prague	3: 1	Semi-finals, first leg	Johnstone , Wallace (2)
April 25, 1967	Stadium na Julisce , Prague (A)	Czechoslovakia FK Dukla Prague	0-0	Semi-finals, second leg	-
May 25, 1967	Estádio Nacional , Lisbon (N)	Italy Inter Milan	2: 1	final	Gemmell , Chalmers

The team

Jock Stein (trainer)
Sean Fallon (Assistant Trainer)
Neil Mochan ( Assistant Trainer)

Note: Celtic did not wear jersey numbers. The numbers were only sewn onto the pants. The second goalkeeper was the only bench player allowed at the time.