Download Classic Matches
This page features an index of all the classic football matches available for download, both full matches and extended highlights.
Classic Club Matches
FA Cup Final | x Manchester United | Months before the Munich Air Disaster, the Busby Babes, including Bobby Charlton and Duncan Edwards, take on Aston Villa. | |
European Cup Final | x Eintracht Frankfurt | Madrid tries to claim its fifth straight European Cup. Can Puskas and Di Stefano put on another masterclass? | |
European Cup Final | x Benfica | Barcelona have finally knocked out their eternal rival Real Madrid. Now only unknown Benfica stands between the Catalans and the European Cup. | |
Cup Winners Cup Final | x Atletico Madrid | No English club has ever won a European trophy. Tottenham have a great team starring Blanchflower and Greaves, but can they defeat defending champions Atletico Madrid? | |
First Division Season 67/68 | x Liverpool | United have lost their form over the past weeks. Can Liverpool profit? | |
European Cup Final | x Benfica | Ten years after the Munich Air Disaster, Manchester United have built a new team around Bobby Charlton and George Best. But the Benfica of Eusebio are a mighty opponent. | |
European Cup Final | x Ajax | Newcomers Ajax challenge the established might of AC Milan. A clash of young daring against confident experience. | |
European Cup Final | x Panathinaikos | Ajax are back in the final. This time, the Dutch are the experienced favourites. Can they handle the pressure? | |
European Cup Quarter-Final | x Ajax | Ajax have arrived in London to defend a 2-1 lead over Arsenal. Can an inspirational Highbury drive the Gunners to a repeat of their 1970 3-0 win over Ajax? | |
European Cup Quarter-Final | x FC Bayern Munich | Cruyff’s Ajax has dominated European football for the last few years. Can Beckenbauer’s Bayern put a halt to the success of Total Football? | |
La Liga Season 73/74 | x Barcelona | Cruyff's first Clasico. And for many, still the greatest Clasico of them all. | |
Intercontinental Cup | x Flamengo | Liverpool are sure they have the best team on earth. But to prove that, they’ll have to beat Zico’s Flamengo. | |
La Liga Season 82/83 | x Real Madrid | Barcelona are suffering another period of Real Madrid domination. The Catalans have pinned their hopes on their new star player: Diego Armando Maradona | |
European Cup Semi-Final | x Dundee United | The great Roma of Falcão has suffered a shock 2-0 defeat in Scotland. In this return leg, Roma will have to produce a great victory to reach the European Cup Final. | |
European Cup Semi-Final | x Real Madrid | Which side can claim dominance over Europe? The mighty Real Madrid of Butragueño, or the Milan of Rijkaard, Gullit and Van Basten? | |
FA Cup Semi-Final | x Arsenal | The end of the season is approaching, and Arsenal are on course for winning the double. But arch-rivals Tottenham, featuring Gascoigne and Lineker, can still stop them. | |
European Cup Final | x Sampdoria | The last European Cup match in history features two clubs who’ve never won the trophy before. The Sampdoria of Vialli and Mancini, and the Barcelona of Laudrup and Stoichkov. | |
Intercontinental Cup | x São Paulo FC | A clash between the two greatest prophets of attacking football. Telê Santana vs Johan Cruyff. The pinnacle of sophisticated football. | |
Intercontinental Cup | x São Paulo | São Paulo FC returns to Tokyo for a clash with that other great European team of the early 90′s: AC Milan | |
Champions League Final | x Barcelona | The two greatest sides of the early 90's clash in a historic encounter. | |
Champions League Semi-Final | x FC Bayern Munich | Louis van Gaal’s young Ajax side, led by veteran Frank Rijkaard, tries to relive the glory of the 70′s. | |
La Liga Season 96/97 | x Real Madrid | Both Madrid and Barcelona have reinforced their squad. But are Madrid’s newcomers – Roberto Carlos, Suker, Seedorf, Mijatovic – enough to counteract Barcelona’s Ronaldo? | |
Copa del Rey Quarter-Final | x Atletico Madrid | The Barcelona of Ronaldo take on defending La Liga champions Atletico Madrid in a scintillating classic match packed with goals. Not a boring moment here. | |
Cup Winners Cup Final | x Paris Saint-Germain | Raí has captained Paris Saint-Germain to another European final. Can PSG beat Barcelona? | |
Champions League Quarter-Final | x Real Madrid | Zidane, Ronaldo and the other Galacticos look unstoppable. And after beating United 3-1 in the Bernabeu, this tie looks over. Or can United produce a famous comeback? | |
Premier League Season 03/04 | x Liverpool | Arsenal have been invincible all season. But after sudden eliminations from the FA Cup and Champions League, they look vulnerable. Can Liverpool profit? | |
Champions League Round of 16 | x Barcelona | The dramatic and memorable return game of the tie that lay the seeds for the biggest rivalry in European footbal: Mourinho vs Barcelona. | |
Champions League Final | x Liverpool | The one game that proves finals cán be dramatic and exhilarating. The greatest Champions League Final ever played. | |
Champions League Round of 16 | x Arsenal | Milan are the champions of Europe. Arsenal are the underperformers of Europe. Can Wenger's kids cause a upset? | |
Champions League Quarter-Final | x Bayern | Barcelona against Bayern - or how a clash of titans can be a one-sided affair. | |
La Liga Season 08/09 | x Barcelona | Barcelona are wowing the world with wonderful football. But Madrid refuse to give up. The ingredients for a historical Clasico. | |
Champions League Semi-Final | x Barcelona | If there’s one team that seems capable of frustrating Guardiola's Barcelona, it’s Hiddink’s robust, strong and hungry Chelsea. | |
Champions League Final | x Manchester United | Rome is the setting for a clash between undoubtedly the two greatest teams in the world. |
Classic International Matches
Friendly Match | x Hungary | Once called the Match of the Century. England, the inventors of football, challenge the Magical Magyars of Puskas to a duel on Wembley. English football would never be the same. | |
World Cup Semi-Final | x France | Pure football bliss. Didi, Pelé and Garrincha against the France of Kopa and Fontaine. | |
World Cup Final | x Sweden | The Uruguayans had defeated Brazil in the 1950 final. Could the Swedes, with the benefit of home support, achieve a similar feat? | |
World Cup Quarter-Final | x North-Korea | The enigmatic North-Koreans have shocked the world by surviving a group with Italy and the USSR. Now they’re ready to unleash their mysterious abilities on Eusebio's Portugal. | |
World Cup Semi-Final | x Portugal | Home nation England meets its greatest test yet, in the shape of the excellent Portugal. | |
World Cup Final | x West-Germany | 21 years after the War, the Germans have landed in London to contest world dominion. The English are determined to knock them out, again. | |
World Cup Group phase | x England | The clash of champions. The nation with the best defense against the nation with the best attack. Bobby Moore vs Pelé. A game for the ages. | |
World Cup Quarter-Final | x Peru | One of the most entertaining matches of Pelé’s Golden Brazil team. | |
World Cup Quarter-Final | x West-Germany | The repeat of the 1966 World Cup final. This time, the English had no help from Russian linesmen. | |
Euro Final | x USSR | At the height of the Cold War, Russians and Germans fight for dominance over Europe all over again. | |
World Cup Second Group phase | x Argentina | The first group phase is over and the world now knows what to expect from Holland's Total Football. But have they found way to combat it? Argentina is the first to try. | |
World Cup Second Group phase | x Sweden | There was more to the 1974 World Cup than Total Football. Perhaps the most exciting game of the tournament didn’t feature a single shade of orange: West-Germany vs Sweden. | |
Euro Semi-Final | x Holland | The Dutch are close to reaching the final against their rivals Germany. They just have to beat these unfancied Czechs. | |
World Cup Group phase | x France | Both need a win to escape their group. Kempes and Platini are the eye-catching figures. And the referee. | |
World Cup Second Group phase | x Italy | Essentially a semi-final. The winner of this game would face Argentina in the final. | |
World Cup Group phase | x USSR | The first game of Brazil’s beautiful 1982 team. After the spectacular finale, the world fell in love with this team. | |
World Cup Group phase | x Scotland | Zico, Socrates & friends continue their memorable journey. This time a strong Scotland stands in their way. | |
World Cup Group phase | x New Zealand | The world is expecting a show, as the Joga Bonito is set to crush poor New Zealand. | |
World Cup Second Group phase | x Argentina | The beautiful football of Zico and Socrates against the Argentina of Maradona and Kempes. | |
World Cup Second Group phase | x Italy | Futebol Arte’s greatest test yet. As brilliant as Brazil have been, and as dull the Italians, the latter know that things really only start now. | |
World Cup Semi-Final | x France | An epic game for the ages that would respark the old tensions between France and Germany. |
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Euro Group phase | x Denmark | Platini’s France tries to dismantle the Danish Dynamite. | |
Euro Semi-final | x Portugal | One of the best games in Euro history, packed with drama and action. | |
Qualifying Round for 1986 World Cup | x USSR | After a successful Euro 1984, Denmark’s dribbling masters Laudrup and Elkjaer now take on the giant Soviet-Union. | |
World Cup Quarter-Final | x Brazil | Futebol Arte and Platini’s France. Perhaps the most beautiful game in World Cup history. |
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World Cup Quarter-Final | x England | The most controversial game of all time. | |
World Cup Quarter-Final | x USSR | The brave Belgians meet the USSR in one of the finest games in World Cup history. | |
Euro Semi-Final | x Holland | Fourteen years after the 1974 final, Holland are desperate for revenge | |
Euro Final | x USSR | A repeat of the group match, two weeks earlier. Then, it had been the Soviets who won. But, then again, the Dutch were without Marco van Basten in that match. | |
World Cup Round of 16 | x Holland | A rugged clash at the height of the Dutch-German rivalry that defined a generation. | |
World Cup Round of 16 | x Argentina | Brazil have a poor side, but they are desperate to stop Maradona from winning Argentina a third World Cup. Rivalry brings out the best in both. | |
World Cup Quarter-Final | x Cameroon | Cameroon and their talismanic striker Roger Milla have surprised the world by making it farther than any African side before. Can they also beat England? | |
World Cup Group phase | x Belgium | The old rivals Holland and Belgium finally meet on the World Cup stage. | |
World Cup Round of 16 | x Argentina | Without the banned Diego Maradona, Argentina confront the Romania of Gheorghe Hagi: ‘the Maradona of the Carpathians’. | |
Euro Group phase | x Holland | England are on the hunt to replicate their 1966 home soil triumph. They take on a talented, but internally divided Dutch side. | |
Tournoi de France Last match | x England | Which legendary striker duo is the deadliest? Brazil's Ronaldo and Romario, or England's Shearer and Sheringham? | |
World Cup Round of 16 | x Argentina | The first World Cup clash between England and Argentina since the famous 1986 encounter. Now starring Beckham, Owen, Batistuta and Veron, this match would live up to the hype. | |
World Cup Quarter-Final | x Denmark | The Denmark of the Laudrup brothers takes on Ronaldo’s Brazil in an exhilarating KO game. | |
World Cup Quarter-Final | x Argentina | Two closely-matched sides packed with talent. The type of encounter that asks for one genius player to rise to the occassion. | |
Euro Semi-Final | x Portugal | The Portugal of Figo and Rui Costa has beaten Germany and England. Now they're up against world champions France, with Zinedine Zidane in the best form of his career. | |
World Cup Quarter-Final | x Italy | Hiddink’s South Korea has already impressed by beating Portugal. Can their home advantage also lift them passed the Italy of Totti and Vieri? | |
Euro Group phase | x Czech Republic | Spectacular classic match. Two great sides neglecting defensive duties to play all out attacking football. One of the finer games in football history. | |
World Cup Group phase | x Ghana | Czech’s golden generation is past its prime. Nedved & Co are well in their 30′s and physically weakened. Is their sheer talent enough to deal with the mighty athletes of Ghana? | |
Euro Group phase | x France | Without the retired Zidane, the French look vulnerable. A revitalized Holland looks to take advantage. | |
World Cup Group phase | x Italy | The spectacle that made up for the dire group stage of the 2010 World Cup | |
World Cup Round of 16 | x USA | The fighting spirit of the United States against the physical might of Ghana. An epic battle. | |
World Cup Round of 16 | x Germany | Ever since the 1966 triumph, the English have built a tradition of failure against the Germans. Can they now change this pattern? |
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