11 June 1967 it’s a day that all football fans around Romania know very well. Particularly, those of Rapid Bucharest. That date marked the first title in the history of the team from Giulești and one of the only three such trophies that Rapid achieved so far.

1967, a year to remember!

I don’t want to bore you so I won’t discuss too much about this day. Many stories are told often about it, but few people know the other things that happened then. But it’s not so complicated, because I’m referring only of the teams in Europe that managed to win their leagues in the same year. Therefore, you can see bellow a list of the clubs that got ahead in their championship in 1967:

England – Manchester United
Spain – Real Madrid
Italy – Juventus Turin
Germany – Eintracht Braunschweig
France – AS Saint-Etienne
Holland – Ajax Amsterdam
Portugal – Benfica Lisabona
Belgium – Anderlecht Bruxelles
Greece – Olimpiacos Piraeus
URSS – Dinamo Kiev
Turkey – Besiktas Istanbul
Sweden – Malmo FF
Switzerland – FC Basel
Austria – Rapid Wien
Hungary – Ferencvaros Budapest
Denmark – AB Copenhagen
Norway – Rosenborg Trondheim
Scotland – Celtic Glasgow
Poland – Gornik Zabrze
Czechoslovakia – Sparta Prague
Yugoslavia – FK Sarajevo
Bulgaria – Botev Plovdiv