During the eight years of Miljanić's leadership, seven times it was the top-scoring club in Yugoslavia (in 1972 Velež scored one goal more), and in the last two seasons Red Star won the league title first by 12, and then by 18 points advantage over its closest rivals in the table. In the 1973–74 European Cup, Red Star eliminated Liverpool (the reigning champions at the time). By defeating Liverpool, Red Star became only the second foreign team that could beat Liverpool on the Anfield Road (after Ferencváros in the 1967–68 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup) and the only side to defeat Liverpool at home in the European Cup in the entire 20th century.F.C. Liverpool - Red Star Belgrade 1-2 However, Red Star lost the following quarter-final fixture against Atlético Madrid 0–2 on aggregate. Next season, in 1975, Red Star faced Real Madrid. The match was declared to be the Džajić vs. Camacho game by the press, because Dragan Džajić was the best left winger in the world at that time and Camacho was one of the best defenders. In the first leg, Red Star was awaited at the Santiago Bernabeu by Miljan Miljanić, now coaching Real, as well as by 125,000 fans, and was defeated by a score of 2–0. In Belgrade, Red Star managed to level the score on aggregate in front of 100,000 spectators by goals from Džajić and goalkeeper Petrović. Red Star finally won 6–5 on penalties and achieved for the first time the semi-final of the European Cup Winners' Cup. There, the team played against Ferencváros from Budapest. Red Star lost to Ferencváros by a score of 2–1, and the return game will always being remembered as the game with the biggest attendance at Red Star Stadium. Although 96,070 tickets were sold, it is estimated that about 110,000 people were in attendance. All of them went home disappointed, as a penalty-kick converted in the 83rd minute placed the scoreline at 2–2 and put Ferencváros into the final.crvenazvezdafk.com - The seventies – the birth of the European giant
