UEFA Super Cup: The eight British sides to win the trophy

From the three Liverpool triumphs in the competition to the three consecutive victories for British sides in the early 1980s, there is rich Super Cup history on these shores.

Here we take the opportunity to recall each of the eight occasions that saw British sides lift the trophy...

1977 UEFA Super Cup: Liverpool 6 Hamburg 0 (7-1 agg.)

Liverpool became the first British winners of the Super Cup when they defeated Hamburg over two legs in the 1977 final – ruining Kevin Keegan’s Anfield return in spectacular fashion. It was Keegan’s homecoming having left Liverpool the previous season, bowing out in the European Cup final triumph that saw the Reds qualify for this contest.

He came back to find a new King of the Kop in the form of his replacement Kenny Dalglish, although the second leg on Merseyside belonged to Terry McDermott who scored three in a 6-0 thrashing. McDermott himself came to regard the match as the defining performance of his career as he got his opportunity in a central role.

“I was moved in rather than be out wide on the right,” he recalled. “I scored a hat-trick and I always remember John Toshack saying: 'That's your position'. I got the confidence from John Toshack saying a thing like that. He probably won't remember, but I do.” As for Keegan, he barely had a kick and to cap off the evening it was Dalglish who scored the sixth and Liverpool were to go on to become the first British club to retain the European Cup later that season.

1979 UEFA Super Cup: Barcelona 1 Nottingham Forest 1 (1-2 agg.)

Brian Clough had been a target for Barcelona in his Derby County days but the maverick manager was understandably reluctant to go to a club where he couldn’t be guaranteed the same control he so enjoyed when at his most effective. Instead Clough had to settle for going to the Camp Nou and clinching the 1979 Super Cup – confusingly contested in the early months of 1980.

A goal from long-time Clough target Charlie George, at the City Ground for a brief loan spell, separated the sides in Nottingham but left plenty still to do in the Camp Nou cauldron. Fortunately for Forest fans, Clough and assistant boss Peter Taylor were just about the best in the business when it came to orchestrating away efforts in Europe at this time.

The English side did fall behind to a penalty midway through the first half but Kenny Burns restored the aggregate lead just before half-time and Forest held on in front of 80,000 supporters – a crowd figure unsurpassed in the three and a half decades of Super Cup action that have followed. Forest also went on to defend their European Cup just months later.

1982 UEFA Super Cup: Aston Villa 3 Barcelona 0 (3-1 agg.)

“We do not compare in financial terms with a club like Barcelona,” wrote Villa boss Tony Barton in his programme notes for the second leg with his side a goal down from the game in the Camp Nou. “What has been achieved already has come with the financial odds stacked against us. But rest assured, no-one in England is giving up the struggle and we hope to prove that tonight by rubbing out the deficit against Barcelona and winning the European Super Cup.”

His Villa team did exactly that on a memorable night at Villa Park. Admittedly, there was no Diego Maradona in the Barcelona team, with the Argentine superstar laid low with hepatitis, but the brilliant Bernd Schuster was among the opposition ranks of a strong Spanish side that were still leading with 10 minutes of nor