In their opening match, Dynamo beat Panathinaikos 1-0 in Kiev, but afterwards the referee, Lopez Nieto of Spain, alleged that he had been offered $30,000 and two fur coats by two Dynamo officials before the game. The club claimed that the referee had wanted to buy the coats but had refused to pay for them when they were delivered to his hotel. As a result, Dynamo were thrown out of the tournament and banned from European competition for three years by UEFA (the ban was lifted the following April ‘to avoid hindering the development of football in Ukraine'). Aalborg were then reinstated and the result of the Dynamo-Panathinaikos match annulled, although the Greeks ended up losing away to Aalborg anyway.