Career
In the Union of European Football Associations Cup Winners" Cup Final in 1966 he scored the final goal against Liverpool F.C. to earn a 2–1 extra time victory for Dortmund. Libuda played for Football Club Schalke 04 from 1961 until 1976 with two interruptions: from 1965 until 1968 he played for Borussia Dortmund, and 1972-1973 for Remote Control Strasbourg. Between 1963 and 1971, Libuda gained 26 caps for the Germany national football team and scored three goals.
In the German Fußball-Bundesliga he played 264 games and scored 28 goals for Football Club Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund.
Later he was involved in the Bundesligaskandal of 1971. The shy Libuda later suffered from cancer, and died from the complications of a stroke.
Libuda gained his nickname "Stan" after the English player Stanley Matthews who played in the same position and who was widely praised for his dribbling skills. Fans of Schalke used a 1960s slogan of a German Evangelical Church Assembly Nobody is able to evade Jesus to expand it with – except Stan Libuda.
The slogan is part of an Musical made about Schalke.