1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup

The 1960–61 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup club football tournament was won by Italian club Fiorentina in two-legged final victory against Rangers of Scotland.

1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup
Tournament details
DatesQualifying:
1 August – 12 October 1960
Competition proper:
28 September 1960 – 27 May 1961
TeamsCompetition proper: 8
Total: 10 (from 10 associations)
Final positions
ChampionsItaly Fiorentina (1st title)
Runners-upScotland Rangers
Tournament statistics
Matches played14
Goals scored60 (4.29 per match)
Attendance431,536 (30,824 per match)
Top scorer(s)Kurt Hamrin (Fiorentina)
5 goals

Organised by the Mitropa Cup committee, this tournament's edition was recognised by UEFA in 1963, after lobbying by the Italian Football Federation.[1] 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,[2] partially due to the low expectations for the new tournament among association football fans,[1] and also to the unofficial nature of this edition.

SC Dynamo Berlin was the winner of the 1959 FDGB-Pokal and should naturally have represented East Germany in the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup. However, the German Football Association of the GDR (German: Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR) (DFV) found army-sponsored local rival and league runners-up ASK Vorwärts Berlin to be a more suitable representative of East Germany in the competition.[3]

It is a myth that the low number of entrants was due to few countries already having a domestic cup competition:[1] 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 and Serie A, Czechoslovakia sent the winners of an unofficial League Cup, and both Hungary and East Germany enrolled their league runners-up.

Teams

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  Austria Wien (CW)   Rudá Hvězda Brno (CW)   Wolverhampton Wanderers (CW)   ASK Vorwärts Berlin (2nd)
  Borussia Mönchengladbach (CW)   Ferencváros (2nd)   Fiorentina (CR)   Rangers (CW)
  FC Lucerne (CW)   Dinamo Zagreb (CW)

Bracket

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Preliminary round Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
  Borussia Mönchengladbach 0 0 0
  Rangers 4 1 5   Rangers 3 8 11
  Ferencváros 2 2 4   Rangers 2 1 3
  Wolverhampton 0 1 1
  Austria Wien 2 0 2
  Wolverhampton 0 5 5
  Rangers 0 1 1
  Fiorentina 2 2 4
  FC Luzern 0 2 2
  Fiorentina 3 6 9
  Fiorentina 3 1 4
  ASK Vorwärts Berlin 2 0 2   Dinamo Zagreb 0 2 2
  Rudá Hvězda Brno 1 2 3   Rudá Hvězda Brno 0 0 0
  Dinamo Zagreb 0 2 2

Qualifying phase

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Preliminary round

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Summary

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
ASK Vorwärts Berlin   2–3   Rudá Hvězda Brno 2–1 0–2
Rangers   5–4   Ferencváros 4–2 1–2

Matches

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ASK Vorwärts Berlin  2–1  Rudá Hvězda Brno
Report[4]
Rudá Hvězda Brno  2–0  ASK Vorwärts Berlin
Report[5]
Attendance: 15,000

Rudá Hvězda Brno won 3–2 on aggregate.


Rangers  4–2  Ferencváros
Report[6]
Attendance: 36,000
Referee: Václav Korelus (Czechoslovakia)
Ferencváros  2–1  Rangers
Report[7]
Attendance: 25,000

Rangers won 5–4 on aggregate.

Tournament phase

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Quarter-finals

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Summary

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Rudá Hvězda Brno   0–2   Dinamo Zagreb 0–0 0–2
Austria Wien   2–5   Wolverhampton Wanderers 2–0 0–5
Borussia Mönchengladbach   0–11   Rangers 0–3 0–8
FC Lucerne   2–9   Fiorentina 0–3 2–6

Matches

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Rudá Hvězda Brno  0–0  Dinamo Zagreb
Report[8]
Attendance: 7,000
Dinamo Zagreb  2–0  Rudá Hvězda Brno
Report[9]

Dinamo Zagreb won 2–0 on aggregate.


Austria Wien  2–0  Wolverhampton Wanderers
Report[10]
Wolverhampton Wanderers  5–0  Austria Wien
Report[11]
Attendance: 31,699
Referee: Josef Gulde (Switzerland)

Wolverhampton Wanderers won 5–2 on aggregate.


Borussia Mönchengladbach  0–3  Rangers
Report[12]
Attendance: 50,000
Rangers  8–0  Borussia Mönchengladbach
Report[13]
Attendance: 38,174
Referee: Iginio Rigato (Italy)

Rangers won 11–0 on aggregate.


FC Lucerne  0–3  Fiorentina
Report[14]
Fiorentina  6–2  FC Lucerne
Report[15]

Fiorentina won 9–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

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Summary

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Fiorentina   4–2   Dinamo Zagreb 3–0 1–2
Rangers   3–1   Wolverhampton Wanderers 2–0 1–1

Matches

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Fiorentina  3–0  Dinamo Zagreb
Report[16]
Dinamo Zagreb  2–1  Fiorentina
Report[17]

Fiorentina won 4–2 on aggregate.


Rangers  2–0  Wolverhampton Wanderers
Report[18]
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Cesare Jonni (Italy)
Wolverhampton Wanderers  1–1  Rangers
Report[19]

Rangers won 3–1 on aggregate.

Final

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Summary

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Rangers   1–4   Fiorentina 0–2 1–2

Matches

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Rangers  0–2  Fiorentina
Report[20]
Attendance: 80,000
Fiorentina  2–1  Rangers
Report[21]
Attendance: 27,000

Fiorentina won 4–1 on aggregate.

Top scorers

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The top scorers from the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup (including preliminary round) are as follows:

Rank Name Team Goals
1   Kurt Hamrin   Fiorentina 5
2   Antoninho   Fiorentina 4
  Ralph Brand   Rangers 4
  Luigi Milan   Fiorentina 4
  Alex Scott   Rangers 4
6   Peter Broadbent   Wolverhampton Wanderers 3
  Jimmy Millar   Rangers 3

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Vieli, André, ed. (August 2010). "European Cup Winners' Cup makes its debut" (PDF). uefa.direct (100). Nyon: Union of European Football Associations: 15. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
  2. ^ The two German nations and the two major British nations were the sole non-Mitropa members to join the competition.
  3. ^ Luther, Jörn; Willmann, Frank (2003). BFC Dynamo – Der Meisterclub (in German) (1st ed.). Berlin: Das Neue Berlin. p. 28. ISBN 3-360-01227-5.
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