The 1960–61 season of the
European Cup Winners' Cup
The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The cup was, chronologically, the second seasonal inter-European club competition organised by UEFA. The tournam ...
club
football tournament was won by Italian club
Fiorentina
ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as Fiorentina (), is an Italian professional football club based in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The original team was founded by a merger in August 1926, while the actual club was refounded in August 2002 fol ...
in two-legged final victory against
Rangers of Scotland.
Organised by the
Mitropa Cup committee, this tournament's edition was recognised by
UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...
in 1963, after lobbying by the
Italian Football Federation.
This was the first season that the tournament took place for the winners of each European country's domestic cup, and was the only one to be decided in a two-legged final. Only ten sides entered the competition, partially due to the low expectations for the new tournament among association football fans,
and also to the unofficial nature of this edition.
SC Dynamo Berlin was the winner of the
1959 FDGB-Pokal
The 1959 FDGB-Pokal was the eleventh edition of the FDGB-Pokal. The competition started with a qualifying round comprising the 30 finalists of the 15 regional district cups (german: Bezirkspokal), 54 teams from the third tier II. DDR-Liga and 14 ...
and should naturally have represented
East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
in the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup. However, the
German Football Association of the GDR (german: Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR) (DFV) found
local rival and league runners-up
ASK Vorwärts Berlin
1. FC Frankfurt is a German football club based in Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg. The club was founded as the army club SV VP Vorwärts Leipzig in Leipzig in East Germany in 1951. The club won six East German championships as ASK Vorwärts Berl ...
to be a more suitable representative of East Germany in the competition.
It is a myth that the low number of entrants was due to few countries already having a domestic cup competition:
as happened for the first edition of the
European Cup, entrance criteria could be changed by each national federation. Fiorentina entered as runners-up to
Juventus in both
Coppa Italia
The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since.
History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
and
Serie A
The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Cop ...
,
Czechoslovakia
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, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
, image_p1 ...
sent the winners of an unofficial League Cup, and both
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
and
East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
enrolled their league runners-up.
Preliminary round
First leg
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Second leg
''Rangers won 5–4 on aggregate.''
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''Rudá Hvězda Brno won 3–2 on aggregate.''
Quarter-finals
First leg
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Second leg
''Rangers won 11–0 on aggregate.''
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''Wolverhampton Wanderers won 5–2 on aggregate.''
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''Fiorentina won 9–2 on aggregate.''
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''Dinamo Zagreb won 2–0 on aggregate.''
Semi-finals
First leg
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Second leg
''Rangers won 3–1 on aggregate.''
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''Fiorentina won 4–2 on aggregate.''
Final
First leg
Second leg
''Fiorentina won 4–1 on aggregate.''
See also
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1960–61 European Cup
The 1960–61 European Cup was the sixth season of the European Cup, UEFA's premier club football tournament. The competition was won by Benfica, who won 3–2 in the final against Barcelona, who had knocked out Spanish rivals Real Madrid, winne ...
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1960–61 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
The third Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was the first to be played over a single season, namely the 1960–61 season. Birmingham City once again reached the final, but lost again over two legs, this time to Roma
Roma or ROMA may refer to:
Places Aust ...
References
External links
1960-61 season at UEFA website*
ttps://web.archive.org/web/20141129015317/http://www.sharkscores.com/Cups/Default.aspx?id=375&season=1960%2F1961 Cup Winners Cup Seasons 1960-61 – results, protocols* website History Eurocup (Russian
Cup Winners' Cup 1960/61- protocols games
* website RS Football Archiv
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