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[[Image:Ajaxpanath71a.jpg|frame|The first goal]][[Image:Ajax70_shot_3b.jpg|thumb|250px|Celebrating the first goal]]
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[[Image:PAO-at-Wembley01.jpg|framethumb|300px|left|[[Mimis Domazos]] attempts to dribble]][[Image:Ajaxpanath71a.jpg|frame|The first goal]][[Image:Ajax70_shot_3b.jpg|thumb|250px|Celebrating the first goal]][[Image:Ajax-after.jpg|thumb|250px|Crowds greeting the Ajax team in Amsterdam]]
On [[June 2]], [[1971]], the most glorious page in the history of [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos Football Club]] was written. Panathinaikos having defeated great football clubs of Europe played against the fantastic team of Ajax F.C. in the final of the European Champions' Cup in the Wembley Stadium. Panathinaikos had a good performance but eventually lost by 2 to 0. Regardless of the outcome of the match, the recollection of that unforgetable day remains, and it still does, vivid in all the "green" fans' minds.
Thirty thousand Ajax fans travelled to London for the match. Ajax had never before gone this far in the European competition. They had reached their second European Cup Final in [[1971]].
At the kick-off, the ball was played to Johan Cruyff, who was acknowledged as the best player in Europe between [[1971]] and [[1973]]. The Ajax team produced some dazzling football during the match and took the European Cup for the first time. Ajax, inspired by Cruyff, won 2-0 and the Flying Dutchman became the first player from his country to be voted European Footballer of the Year.
