The 1981 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was a

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

match contested on 13 May 1981 between

Dinamo Tbilisi Dinamo Tbilisi is a sports club from Tbilisi, Georgia. It was founded in 1925. Among its highest honors, is the European trophy earned by its football team which won the Cup Winners' Cup in 1981, beating FC Carl Zeiss Jena of East Germany 2–1 ...

of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

and Carl Zeiss Jena of

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. It was the final game of the 1980–81 European Cup Winners' Cup, and the 21st

European Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The cup was, chronologically, the second seasonal inter-European club competition organised by UEFA. The tournam ...

final, held at

Rheinstadion The Rheinstadion () was a multi-purpose stadium, in Düsseldorf, Germany. The stadium was built, near the Rhine, in 1926 and held 54,000 people at the end of its life. It was the home ground for Fortuna Düsseldorf from 1953 to 1970 and 1972– ...

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. Only 4,750 people attended the match, though some sources claim there were 9,000 people. Dinamo Tbilisi won the match 2–1 thanks to goals by

Vladimir Gutsaev Vladimir Gutsaev ( ka, ვლადიმერ გუცაევი, russian: Владимир Гаврилович Гуцаев, ''Vladimir Gavrilovich Gutsayev''; born 21 December 1952) is a retired Soviet and Georgian footballer and coach ...

and

Vitaly Daraselia Vitaly Kukhinovich Daraselia ( ka, ვიტალი დარასელია; 9 January 1957 – 13 December 1982) was a Georgian football player. Playing career Club Daraselia was born to a Georgian father and Abkhaz mother on 9 January 1 ...

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1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...

1980–81 in East German football 1981 in Soviet football May 1981 sports events in Europe 1981 in West German sport 1980s in Düsseldorf Football in North Rhine-Westphalia Sports competitions in Düsseldorf

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