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
1955–56 European Cup 1955–56 European Cup The 1955–56 European Cup was the first season of the European Cup, UEFA's premier club football tournament. The tournament was won by Real Madrid, who defeated Reims 4–3 in the final at Parc des Princes, Paris, on 13 June 1956. The participating clubs in the first five seasons of the European Cup were selected by French football magazine "L'Equipe" on the basis that they were representative and prestigious clubs in Europe. Of the originally selected teams, Chelsea of England were barred from participation by The Football Association, who saw the tournament as a distraction to domestic football.