The Cup final was unique: the only time ever it was played in two legs. FC Utrecht and AZ’67 reached the final. In the first leg, played in Utrecht, the hosts won 1-0. It was fragile lead, considering the team AZ’67 had. In Alkmaar Utrecht was utterly destroyed – AZ’67 won 5-1. Once again the Cup was theirs.
Although FC Utrecht enjoyed a good spell at that time, it still had quite insignificant and limited squad. Nothing to be done about it… a small club had no chance. Hans van Breukelen and Jan Wouters were going to be snatched by the big clubs. Playing at the final was the highest FC Utrecht could climb.
AZ’67 (Alkmaar) was still in great shape – far stronger than FC Utrecht, they won second consecutive cup, making it their third. In short time this team won 1 championship and 3 cups, an excellent achievement. However, the greatest period in AZ’67’s history was coming to an end. Money was the big reason: it was clearly impossible to keep Metgod, Spelbos, Kift, Peters, Hovenkamp, Arnz, Tol, Nygaard (Denmark) for long. Simply no way to compete with the big three of Holland and Italian, English, and Spanish clubs. Eddy Treytel was not to last either – too old already. But so far the boys were great, establishing the club among the best in the country. A lovely team, arguably the brightest Dutch team at that time.