Olympiacos F.C. in European football Italian soil. In the next round they faced the competition's defending Champions Tottenham Hotspur. Olympiacos didn't manage to qualify against the Spurs, but they managed to get a 1–0 win in Piraeus, which ended Tottenham's 16-match undefeated streak and marked the first ever victory of a Greek football club against an English side. Two years later, Olympiacos entered the 1974–75 European Cup and they were drawn to face Kenny Dalglish's Celtic F.C., one of the strongest teams in European football at that time and semi-finalists of the previous season. The first leg was played in Celtic Park, where Celtic had
Middlesbrough F.C. in European football Middlesbrough F.C. in European football Middlesbrough Football Club is an English football club based in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire. The club was founded in 1876 and made their European debut in 1970 as a participant in the 1970 Anglo-Italian Cup. In 2004 they qualified for their first major European competition the 2004–05 UEFA Cup. In 2006 they reached the final of the 2005–06 UEFA Cup. Middlesbrough qualified for the first round of the 2004–05 UEFA Cup after winning the 2003–04 Football League Cup. Their first match was at home to Baník Ostrava, winning 3–0 after one goal from Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink,