Heinz Aldinger (7 January 1933 – 18 October 2024) was a German
football
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referee. He was a linesman at the
1974 FIFA World Cup
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and refereed one match in the
1980 UEFA European Football Championship in Italy.
Aldinger also refereed the 1978
European Cup Winners' Cup
The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European association football, football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The competition's official name was originally the European Cup Winners' Cup; it was renam ...
final between
Anderlecht
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and
Austria Vienna in
Paris
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.
On 18 October 2024, the
German Football Association
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announced that Aldinger had died. He was 91.
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1933 births
2024 deaths
German football referees
UEFA Euro 1980 referees
20th-century German sportsmen
People from Waiblingen
Sportspeople from Stuttgart (region)
West German sportsmen
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