1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup

European Cup Winners' Cup 1968–69 TCH Slovan Bratislava 1 ESP 1945 Barcelona 51 156 Carl-Heinz Rühl (1. FC Köln) 6 goals 1967–68 1969–70 The 1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup was the ninth season of the European Cup Winners' Cup, a club football competition organised by UEFA for the cup winners from each of its member associations. The tournament was won by Czechoslovak side Slovan Bratislava, who beat Spanish club Barcelona 3–2 in the final in Basel, Switzerland. It was the first time a club from the Eastern Bloc won the title. A number of withdrawals by Eastern European clubs from the first round as a result of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia led to several walkovers and byes that lasted into the second round. Teams ALB 1946 KS Partizani (CW)AUT GAK (CR)BEL Club Brugge KV (CW)BUL 1968 FC Spartak Sofia (CW)CYP 1960 APOEL (CW)TCH Slovan Bratislava (CW)DEN Randers (CW)ENG West Bromwich Albion (CW)FRA Girondins Bordeaux (CR)GDR Union Berlin (CW)FRG 1. FC Köln (CW)GRE old Olympiacos (CW)HUN Raba Vasas ETO (CW)ISL KR Reykjavík (CW)IRL Shamrock Rovers (CW)ITA Torino (CW)LUX US Rumelange (CW)MLT Sliema Wanderers (CW)NED ADO Den Haag (CW)NIR Crusaders (CW)NOR Lyn (CW)POL 1928 Górnik Zabrze (CW)POR Porto (CW)ROU 1965 Dinamo București (CW)SCO Dunfermline Athletic (CW)ESP 1945 Barcelona (CW)SWE IFK Norrköping (CR)SUI Lugano (CW)TUR Altay SK (CR)URS 1955 Dinamo Moscow (CW)WAL Cardiff City (CW)YUG FK Bor (CR) KTP had qualified from Finland after winning the 1967 Finnish Cup, but withdrew without playing a single match.National Cup 1967 http://www.finlandfootball.net/national-cup-1967.html Finnish Football Archive 25 June 2026 Bracket 2/2/2/2/1 y n n 1 n First round Second round Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final NED ADO Den Haag 4 2 6 AUT GAK 1 0 1 FRA Girondins Bordeaux 2 0 2 FRG 1. FC Köln 1 3 4 DEN Randers 1 2 3 IRL Shamrock Rovers 0 1 1 LUX US Rumelange 2 0 2 MLT Sliema Wanderers (a) 1 1 2 SUI Lugano 0 0 0 ESP 1945 Barcelona 1 3 4 TUR Altay SK 3 1 4 NOR Lyn 1 4 5 NIR Crusaders 2 1 3 SWE IFK Norrköping 2 4 6 SCO Dunfermline Athletic 10 2 12 CYP 1960 APOEL 1 0 1 GRE old Olympiacos 2 2 4 ISL KR Reykjavík 0 0 0 ROU 1965 Dinamo București - - w HUN Raba Vasas ETO - - o BEL Club Brugge KV 3 0 3 ENG West Bromwich Albion (a) 1 2 3 ALB 1946 KS Partizani 1 1 2 ITA Torino 0 3 3 WAL Cardiff City 2 1 3 POR Porto 2 2 4 TCH Slovan Bratislava 3 0 3 YUG FK Bor 0 2 2 NED ADO Den Haag 0 0 0 FRG 1. FC Köln 1 3 4 DEN Randers 6 2 8 MLT Sliema Wanderers 0 0 0 ESP 1945 Barcelona - - - Bye - - - NOR Lyn 2 2 4 SWE IFK Norrköping 0 3 3 SCO Dunfermline Athletic 4 0 4 GRE old Olympiacos 0 3 3 ROU 1965 Dinamo București 1 0 1 ENG West Bromwich Albion 1 4 5 ITA Torino - - - Bye - - - POR Porto 1 0 1 TCH Slovan Bratislava 0 4 4 FRG 1. FC Köln 2 3 5 DEN Randers 1 0 1 ESP 1945 Barcelona 3 2 5 NOR Lyn 2 2 4 SCO Dunfermline Athletic 0 1 1 ENG West Bromwich Albion 0 0 0 ITA Torino 0 1 1 TCH Slovan Bratislava 1 2 3 FRG 1. FC Köln 2 1 3 ESP 1945 Barcelona 2 4 6 SCO Dunfermline Athletic 1 0 1 TCH Slovan Bratislava 1 1 2 ESP 1945 Barcelona 2 TCH Slovan Bratislava 3 First round Dunfermline Athletic Scotland 12–1 APOEL Cyprus 1960 10–1 2–0 Olympiacos Greece old 4–0 KR Reykjavík Iceland 2–0 2–01 Dinamo București Romania 1965 w/o Raba Vasas ETO Hungary n/a n/a Club Brugge KV Belgium 3–3 (a) West Bromwich Albion England 3–1 0–2 KS Partizani Albania 1946 2–3 Torino Italy 1–0 1–3 Cardiff City Wales 3–4 Porto Portugal 2–2 1–2 Slovan Bratislava Czechoslovakia 3–2 FK Bor Yugoslavia 3–0 0–2 ADO Den Haag Netherlands 6–1 GAK Austria 4–1 2–0 Girondins Bordeaux France 2–4 1. FC Köln West Germany 2–1 0–3 Randers Denmark 3–1 Shamrock Rovers Ireland 1–0 2–1 US Rumelange Luxembourg 2–2 (a) Sliema Wanderers Malta 2–12 0–1 Lugano Switzerland 0–4 Barcelona Spain 1945 0–1 0–3 Altay Turkey 4–5 Lyn Norway 3–1 1–4 Crusaders Northern Ireland 3–6 IFK Norrköping Sweden 2–2 1–4 |} The following clubs withdrew following UEFA's decision to separate Western and Eastern countries due to troubles in Czechoslovakia: FC Spartak (Sofia), Union Berlin, Górnik Zabrze, Dinamo Moscow, Raba Vasas ETO 1 The match was played in Thessaloniki. 2 The match was played in Esch. Source:https://www.rsssf.org/ec/ec196869.html Cup Winners' Cup 1968-69 James M. Ross 4 June 2015 European Competitions 1968-69 RSSSF 12 October 2015 First leg 18 September 1968 Dunfermline Athletic SCO 10–1 April 2025 CYP APOEL Robertson 9 46Barry 17Gardner 19Renton 26 86Edwards 44Willie Callaghan 57 65Tommy Callaghan 70 Stylianou 74 East End Park, Dunfermline 7,167 Kåre Sirevaag (Norway) 20 September 1968 Olympiacos GRE old 2–0 ISL KR Reykjavík Botinos 45Zanteroglou 90   Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus   22,000 Kostadin Dinov (Bulgaria) 18 September 1968 Club Brugge KV BEL 3–1 ENG West Bromwich Albion Thio 26Lambert 51Bailliu 73 Hartford 34 Klokke Stadion, Bruges Frede Hansen (Denmark) 18 September 1968 KS Partizani ALB 1946 1–0 ITA Torino Shaqiri 46 Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana Milivoje Gugulović (Yugoslavia) 18 September 1968 Cardiff City WAL 2–2 April 2025 POR Porto Toshack 24Bird 50 pen. Custódio Pinto 60 68 Ninian Park, Cardiff 19,202 Gaspar Pintado Viú (Spain) 18 September 1968 Slovan Bratislava TCH 3–0 Report 19 September 1968 Slovan Bratislava-RFK Bor 3:0 8 https://archiv.ucl.cas.cz/index.php?path=RudePravo/1968/9/19/8.png Rudé právo Prague cs 19 August 2024 YUG Bor Jokl 48 69Cvetler 80 Tehelné pole, Bratislava 10,000 Ferdinand Marschall (Austria) 19 September 1968 ADO Den Haag NED 4–1 AUT GAK Giesen 41 69Schoenmaker 53Aarts 57 Hohenwarter 40 Zuiderpark Stadium, The Hague Antoine Queudeville (Luxembourg) 18 September 1968 Girondins Bordeaux FRA 2–1 FRG 1. FC Köln Petyt 19Massé 56 Rühl 26 Stade Lescure, Bordeaux Jef Dorpmans (Netherlands) 18 September 1968   Randers DEN 1–0 IRL Shamrock Rovers Gaardsøe 88   Randers Stadium, Randers   Hans-Joachim Weyland (West Germany) 1968 9 18 y US Rumelange LUX 2–1 https://www.worldfootball.net/report/ec-der-pokalsieger-1968-1969-1-runde-us-rumelange-sliema-wanderers/ MLT Sliema Wanderers Leszczynski 21 48 Cocks 58 Stade de la Frontière, Esch-sur-Alzette 2199 Alfred Ott (West Germany) 18 September 1968   Lugano SUI 0–1 ESP 1945 Barcelona   Zabalza 76 Cornaredo Stadium, Lugano   Roger Machin (France) 18 September 1968   Altay TUR 3–1 NOR Lyn  Öztürk 17Erhanoğlu 83 89 Austnes 62 Alsancak Stadium, İzmir   Iosif Ritter (Romania) 18 September 1968   Crusaders NIR 2–2 SWE IFK Norrköping Jamison 40Parke 77 Hult 42Hultberg 53 Seaview, Belfast   Vital Loraux (Belgium) Second leg 2 October 1968 APOEL CYP 0–2 April 2025 SCO Dunfermline Athletic Gardner 57Callaghan 84 Makario Stadium, Nicosia 3,200 Francesco Francescon (Italy) Dunfermline Athletic won 12-1 on aggregate. 22 September 1968 KR Reykjavík ISL GRE old Olympiacos     0 2     Gioutsos 23Stoligas 60 Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki 8,000 Konstadin Dinov (Bulgaria) Olympiacos won 4-0 on aggregate. 2 October 1968 West Bromwich Albion ENG 2–0 BEL Club Brugge KV Brown 14Hartford 43 The Hawthorns, West Bromwich Johan Einar Boström (Sweden) 3–3 on aggregate; West Bromwich Albion won on away goals. 2 October 1968 Torino ITA 3–1 ALB 1946 KS Partizani Carelli 22Facchin 28Mondonico 59 Bajko 85 Stadio Comunale, Turin Jozef Krňávek (Czechoslovakia) Torino won 3-2 on aggregate. 2 October 1968 Porto POR 2–1   April 2025 WAL Cardiff City Pavão 9Custódio Pinto 76 Toshack 51 Estádio das Antas, Porto  55,000 Robert Héliès (France) Porto won 4–3 on aggregate. 2 October 1968 Bor YUG 2–0 Report 3 October 1968 Náskok stačil 8 https://archiv.ucl.cas.cz/index.php?path=RudePravo/1968/10/3/8.png Rudé právo Prague cs 19 August 2024 TCH Slovan Bratislava Ranković 42Tomić 59 FK Bor Stadium, Bor  Efstathios Papavasiliou (Greece) Slovan Bratislava won 3–2 on aggregate. 3 October 1968 GAK AUT 0–2 NED ADO Den Haag Heijnen 16 89 Liebenauer Stadium, Graz  Othmar Huber (Switzerland) ADO Den Haag won 6–1 on aggregate. 2 October 1968 1. FC Köln FRG 3–0 FRA Girondins Bordeaux Blusch 20Overath 22Rühl 53 pen. Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne Leo Callaghan (Wales) 1. FC Köln won 4–2 on aggregate. 2 October 1968 Shamrock Rovers IRL 1–2 DEN Randers Fullam 53 Gaardsøe 22Andreasen 57 Glenmalure Park, Dublin  Michel Kitabdjian (France) Randers won 3–1 on aggregate. 1968 9 29 y Sliema Wanderers MLT 1–0 https://www.worldfootball.net/report/ec-der-pokalsieger-1968-1969-1-runde-sliema-wanderers-us-rumelange/ LUX US Rumelange Falzon 67 Empire Stadium, Gżira 12929 Alessandro D'Agostini (Italy) 2–2 on aggregate; Sliema Wanderers won on away goals. 2 October 1968 Barcelona ESP 1945 3–0 SUI Lugano Mendonça 75 90Zaldúa 83 Camp Nou, Barcelona John Paterson (Scotland) Barcelona won 4–0 on aggregate. 2 October 1968 Lyn NOR 4–1 TUR Altay Knut Helmer Berg 40Johannessen 44 70Jan Berg 89 Denizli 54 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo Steinn Guðmundsson (Iceland) Lyn won 5–4 on aggregate. 2 October 1968 IFK Norrköping SWE 4–1 NIR Crusaders Norblad 10 37Hultberg 21 54 McPolin 55 Nya Parken, Norrköping Tage Sørensen (Denmark) IFK Norrköping won 6–3 on aggregate. Second round Dunfermline Athletic Scotland 4–3 Olympiacos Greece old 4–0 0–3 Dinamo București Romania 1965 1–5 West Bromwich Albion England 1–1 0–4 Torino Italy Bye n/a n/a Porto Portugal 1–4 Slovan Bratislava Czechoslovakia 1–0 0–4 ADO Den Haag Netherlands 0–4 1. FC Köln West Germany 0–1 0–3 Randers Denmark 8–0 Sliema Wanderers Malta 6–0 2–0 Barcelona Spain 1945 Bye n/a n/a Lyn Norway 4–3 IFK Norrkoping Sweden 2–0 2–3 |} Source: First leg 13 November 1968 Dunfermline Athletic SCO 4–0 GRE old Olympiacos Mitchell 48 Edwards 55 77 Fraser 80 East End Park, Dunfermline Henry Øberg (Norway) 13 November 1968 Dinamo București ROU 1965 1–1 https://www.romaniansoccer.ro/europeancups/1968_69/dinamo_wba_01.shtml ENG West Bromwich Albion Dumitrache 23 Hartford 28 Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest 15,000 Hans-Joachim Weyland (West Germany) 13 November 1968 Porto POR 1–0   April 2025 TCH Slovan Bratislava Custódio Pinto 34 Estádio das Antas, Porto  location 20,748 Malcolm Wright (Northern Ireland) 12 November 1968 ADO Den Haag NED 0–1   FRG 1. FC Köln Jendrossek 88 Zuiderpark Stadium, The Hague location Roger Mâchin (France) 13 November 1968 Randers DEN 6–0   MLT Sliema Wanderers Berg Andersen 3 85Olesen 35Bødker 53Sørensen 55Lykke 65 pen. Randers Stadium, Randers location Jacques Colling (Luxembourg) 31 October 1968 Lyn NOR 2–0   SWE IFK Norrkoping Knut Helmer Berg 40Harald Berg 57 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo location Vital Loraux (Belgium) Second leg 27 November 1968 Olympiacos GRE old 3–0 SCO Dunfermline Athletic Stoligas 10 Botinos 29 Vasiliou 32 Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus Jozef Krňávek (Czechoslovakia) Dunfermline Athletic won 4–3 on aggregate. 27 November 1968 West Bromwich Albion ENG 4–0 https://www.romaniansoccer.ro/europeancups/1968_69/dinamo_wba_02.shtml ROU 1965 Dinamo București Lovett 35 Brown 44 52 pen. Astle 72 The Hawthorns, West Bromwich 33,059 Robert Hélies (France) West Bromwich Albion won 5–1 on aggregate. 27 November 1968 Slovan Bratislava TCH 4–0 April 2025 POR Porto Ján Čapkovič 22Jokl 48 88 pen.Jozef Čapkovič 84 Tehelné pole, Bratislava 7,776 Doğan Babacan (Turkey) Slovan Bratislava won 4–1 on aggregate. 27 November 1968 1. FC Köln FRG 3–0 NED ADO Den Haag Löhr 3 53Blusch 72 Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne Ronald Jones (Wales) 1. FC Köln won 4–0 on aggregate. 27 November 1968 Sliema Wanderers MLT 0–2 DEN Randers Gaardsøe 23 65 Empire Stadium, Gżira Antonio Sbardella (Italy) Randers won 8–0 on aggregate. 17 November 1968 IFK Norrkoping SWE 3–2 NOR Lyn Hultberg 1 51Hesselgren 65 Harald Berg 40Austnes 50 Nya Parken, Norrköping Martti Hirviniemi (Finland) Lyn won 4–3 on aggregate. Quarter-finals Dunfermline Athletic Scotland 1–0 West Bromwich Albion England 0–0 1–0 Torino Italy 1–3 Slovan Bratislava Czechoslovakia 0–1 1–2 1. FC Köln West Germany 5–1 Randers Denmark 2–1 3–0 Barcelona Spain 1945 5–4 Lyn Norway 3–2 2–21 |} 1 The match was played in Barcelona. Source: First leg 15 January 1969 Dunfermline Athletic SCO 0–0 ENG West Bromwich Albion East End Park, Dunfermline Helmut Fritz (West Germany) 19 February 1969 Torino ITA 0–1 https://www.worldfootball.net/match-report/ma1930000/lineup/ Quarter-finals: Torino FC - TJ Slovan ChZJD Bratislava 0:1 Cup Winners Cup 1968/1969 worldfootball.net 1 May 2016 TCH Slovan Bratislava Jokl 54 Stadio Comunale, Turin Antonio Saldanha (Portugal) 8 March 1969 1. FC Köln FRG 2–1 DEN Randers Jendrossek 34Biskup 89 Gaardsøe 42 Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne Jozef Krňávek (Czechoslovakia) 30 January 1969 Barcelona ESP 1945 3–2 NOR Lyn Zaldúa 11Pellicer 24Gallego 60 Berg 38Dybwad-Olsen 78 Camp Nou, Barcelona Jim Finney (England) Second leg 19 February 1969 West Bromwich Albion ENG 0–1 SCO Dunfermline Athletic Gardner 2 The Hawthorns, West Bromwich William O'Neill (Republic of Ireland) Dunfermline Athletic won 1–0 on aggregate. 5 March 1969 Slovan Bratislava TCH 2–1 Report 6 March 1969 Kopaná v pravém slova smyslu Sn Bratislava-Torino 2:1 8 https://archiv.ucl.cas.cz/index.php?path=RudePravo/1969/3/6/8.png Rudé právo Prague cs 19 August 2024 ITA Torino Horváth 25Hlavenka 62 Carelli 88 Tehelné pole, Bratislava 30,000 Paul Schiller (referee) de Paul Schiller (Schiedsrichter) Paul Schiller (Austria) Slovan Bratislava won 3–1 on aggregate. 12 March 1969 Randers DEN 0–3 FRG 1. FC Köln Biskup 24Rühl 70 83 Randers Stadium, Randers Hubert Burguet (Belgium) 1. FC Köln won 5–1 on aggregate. 8 February 1969 Lyn NOR 2–2 ESP 1945 Barcelona Johannessen 29 54 Gallego 75 83 Camp Nou, Barcelona Robert Héliès (France) Barcelona won 5–4 on aggregate. Semi-finals Dunfermline Athletic SCO 1–2 Slovan Bratislava TCH 1–1 0–1 1. FC Köln FRG 3–6 Barcelona ESP 1945 2–2 1–4 |} Source: First leg 9 April 1969 Dunfermline Athletic SCO 1–1 Report 10 April 1969 Naděje pro odvetu Dunfermline–Slovan Bratislava 1:1 (1:0) 8 https://archiv.ucl.cas.cz/index.php?path=RudePravo/1969/4/10/8.png Rudé právo Prague cs 19 August 2024 TCH Slovan Bratislava Fraser 44 Ján Čapkovič 83 East End Park, Dunfermline 25,000 Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany) 2 April 1969 1. FC Köln FRG 2–2 ESP 1945 Barcelona Löhr 7Rühl 75 Zabalza 23Fusté 79 Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne Leo Callaghan (Wales) Second leg 23 April 1969 Slovan Bratislava TCH 1–0 Report 24 April 1969 Fotbalová středa se vydařila, jaký bude čtvrtek? 8 https://archiv.ucl.cas.cz/index.php?path=RudePravo/1969/4/24/8.png Rudé právo Prague cs 19 August 2024 SCO Dunfermline Athletic Ján Čapkovič 24 Tehelné pole, Bratislava 30,000 Joszip Horvat hu (Yugoslavia) Slovan Bratislava won 2–1 on aggregate. 19 April 1969 Barcelona ESP 1945 4–1 FRG 1. FC Köln Martí Filosia 6Fusté 53 67 80 Rühl 17 Camp Nou, Barcelona Antonio Sbardella (Italy) Barcelona won 6–3 on aggregate. Final 1969 European Cup Winners' Cup final 21 May 1969 19:00 Barcelona ESP 1945 2–3 Reporthttp://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/ecwc/history/season%3D1968/intro.html https://web.archive.org/web/20101225035307/http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/ecwc/history/season%3D1968/intro.html 1968/69: Slovan shine despite political clouds UEFA 1 June 1969 25 December 2010Report 2 TCH Slovan Bratislava Zaldúa 16Rexach 52 Cvetler 2Hrivnák 30Ján Čapkovič 42 St. Jakob Stadium, Basel 19,478 Laurens van Ravens (Netherlands) Top scorers The top scorers from the 1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup are as follows: RankNameTeamGoals1FRG Carl-Heinz RühlFRG 1. FC Köln62DEN Per GaardsøeDEN Randers5SWE Ulf HultbergSWE IFK Norrköping5TCH Karol JoklTCH Slovan Bratislava54TCH Ján ČapkovičTCH Slovan Bratislava4ESP 1945 Josep Maria FustéESP 1945 Barcelona4NOR Karl Johan JohannessenNOR Lyn4POR Custódio PintoPOR Porto4 References 1968-69 Cup Winners' Cup