The 1960 final
Among the most famous matches in football history.
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Because it was the European Cup final between Real Madrid and Eintracht at Glasgow, ending 7-3 to Real before over a hundred and thirty thousand spectators — a record attendance for a European final. The match is counted among the highest-quality finals ever played despite the score, and it did much to spread Real Madrid's global fame and to introduce British audiences to continental football.
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The Eintracht Frankfurt museum sits inside the club's stadium in the Stadtwald south of the city, covering over a hundred and twenty years of a club that occupies a particular place in German football: big enough to win European trophies, and erratic enough to have been relegated to the second division repeatedly. The exhibits cover the great moments: the 1960 European Cup final the club lost to Real Madrid in a match counted among the most famous ever played, the 1980 UEFA Cup, and the 2022 Europa League win, for which tens of thousands of its supporters travelled to Seville. But the most important part is historical rather than sporting: a section on the club's role under the Nazis — how its Jewish members were expelled and how the club later reckoned with that. Eintracht is among the few German clubs to have documented this chapter openly rather than ignoring it, and that lifts the museum above being a display of trophies.
Among the most famous matches in football history.
Documenting the expulsion of Jewish members.
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