1968–69 European Cup
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid hosted the final. | |
Tournament details | |
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Dates | 18 September 1968 – 28 May 1969 |
Teams | 32 (27 competed) |
Final positions | |
Champions | |
Runners-up | |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 52 |
Goals scored | 176 (3.38 per match) |
Attendance | 1,738,847 (33,439 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Denis Law (Manchester United) 9 goals |
← 1967–68 1969–70 → |
The 1968–69 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won by AC Milan, who beat Ajax 4–1 in the final, giving Milan its first European Cup title since 1963, and its second overall. A number of Eastern Bloc clubs withdrew from the first two rounds when UEFA paired up all of the Eastern Bloc clubs against one another in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Substitutions of two players at any game time were allowed; obligatory match dates were introduced (two weeks between the legs) and fixed on Wednesdays; the away goal rule was extended to the first and second rounds.[1]
Manchester United were the defending champions, but were eliminated by eventual champions Milan in the semi-finals.
Teams
[edit]A total of 32 teams participated in the competition.
Thirty-one leagues were represented, with England being represented by its most recent champion, Manchester City, as well as defending European champion, Manchester United.
Real Madrid made their 14th consecutive appearance in the competition, while Anderlecht and Benfica each made their ninth appearances. Nürnberg and Steaua București both made their first appearances in the competition since the 1961-62 European Cup.
This year's competition included only five debutants: Denmark's AB, Cyprus's AEL Limassol, England's Manchester City, Norway's Rosenborg, and Czechoslovakia's Spartak Trnava. This was the smallest number to date.
Bracket
[edit]First round
[edit]Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Malmö FF |
3–5 | 2–1 | 1–4 | |
Dynamo Kyiv |
(w/o) | – | – | |
Saint-Étienne |
2–4 | 2–0 | 0–4 | |
Red Star Belgrade |
(w/o) | – | – | |
Waterford |
2–10 | 1–3 | 1–7 | |
Anderlecht |
5–2 | 3–0 | 2–2 | |
Rosenborg |
4–6 | 1–3 | 3–3 | |
Real Madrid |
12–0 | 6–0 | 6–0 | |
Nürnberg |
1–5 | 1–1 | 0–4 | |
Manchester City |
1–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | |
Valur |
1–8 | 0–0 | 1–8 | |
Levski-Spartak |
(w/o) | – | – | |
Floriana |
1–3 | 1–1 | 0–2 | |
Steaua București |
3–5 | 3–1 | 0–4 | |
AEK Athens |
5–3 | 3–0 | 2–3 | |
Zürich |
3–4 | 1–3 | 2–1 |
First leg
[edit]Saint-Étienne | 2–0 | |
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Keïta H. Revelli |
Report |
Waterford | 1–3 | |
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Matthews |
Report | Law |
Rosenborg | 1–3 | |
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Iversen |
Report | Bjerregaard Kaltenbrunner Grausam |
Real Madrid | 6–0 | |
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Pirri Amancio Pérez Bueno |
Report |
Steaua București | 3–1 | |
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Creiniceanu Voinea Constantin |
Report | Kuna |
AEK Athens | 3–0 | |
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Papaioannou Papageorgiou Karafeskos |
Report |
Second leg
[edit]Milan won 5–3 on aggregate.
Celtic won 4–2 on aggregate.
Manchester United | 7–1 | |
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Stiles Law Burns Charlton |
Report | Casey |
Manchester United won 10–2 on aggregate.
Anderlecht won 5–2 on aggregate.
Rapid Wien | 3–3 | |
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Lindman Kaltenbrunner |
Report | Iversen |
Rapid Wien won 6–4 on aggregate.
AEL Limassol | 0–6 | |
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Report | Velázquez José Luis Veloso Ortega Zunzunegui |
Real Madrid won 12–0 on aggregate.
Ajax won 5–1 on aggregate.
Fenerbahçe | 2–1 | |
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Çevrim Altıparmak |
Report | Coleman |
Fenerbahçe won 2–1 on aggregate.
Benfica | 8–1 | |
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Simões Jacinto Torres Eusébio Coluna José Augusto |
Report | Gunnarsson |
Benfica won 8–1 on aggregate.
Reipas Lahti | 2–0 | |
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Holtari |
Report |
Reipas Lahti won 3–1 on aggregate.
Spartak Trnava | 4–0 | |
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Švec Adamec |
Report |
Spartak Trnava won 5–3 on aggregate.
Jeunesse Esch | 3–2 | |
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Hoffmann Drouet Langer |
Report | Ventouris |
AEK Athens won 5–3 on aggregate.
AB won 4–3 on aggregate.
Second round
[edit]Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Milan |
Bye | – | – | – |
Celtic |
6–2 | 5–1 | 1–1 | |
Manchester United |
4–3 | 3–0 | 1–3 | |
Rapid Wien |
2–2 (a) | 1–0 | 1–2 | |
Ajax |
4–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | |
Benfica |
Bye | – | – | – |
Reipas Lahti |
2–16 | 1–9 | 1–7 | |
AEK Athens |
2–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 |
First leg
[edit]Manchester United | 3–0 | |
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Kidd Law |
Report |
Rapid Wien | 1–0 | |
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Kaltenbrunner |
Report |
Ajax | 2–0 | |
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Nuninga Muller |
Report |
Reipas Lahti | 1–9 | |
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Hyvärinen |
Report | Hagara Kabát Švec Kuna Martinkovič Adamec |
The home leg of Reipas Lahti was played in Vienna just before the Rapid Wien–Real Madrid match.[7]
AEK Athens | 0–0 | |
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Report |
Second leg
[edit]Red Star Belgrade | 1–1 | |
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Ostojić |
Report | Wallace |
Celtic won 6–2 on aggregate.
Anderlecht | 3–1 | |
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Mulder Bergholtz |
Report | Sartori |
Manchester United won 4–3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid | 2–1 | |
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Velázquez Pirri |
Report | Bjerregaard |
Rapid Wien won 2–2 on away goals.
Fenerbahçe | 0–2 | |
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Report | Keizer Nuninga |
Ajax won 4–0 on aggregate.
Spartak Trnava | 7–1 | |
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Hagara Dobiaš Kuna Adamec Hrušecký |
Report | Niskakoski |
Spartak Trnava won 16–2 on aggregate.
AB | 0–2 | |
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Report | Stamatiadis Papaioannou |
AEK Athens won 2–0 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
[edit]Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg | Play-off |
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Milan |
1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | ||
Manchester United |
3–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | ||
Ajax |
4–4 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 3–0 | |
Spartak Trnava |
3–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 |
First leg
[edit]Manchester United | 3–0 | |
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Best Morgan |
Report |
Ajax | 1–3 | |
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Danielsson |
Report | Santos Torres José Augusto |
Spartak Trnava | 2–1 | |
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Jarábek Kabát |
Report | Sevastopoulos |
Second leg
[edit]Milan won 1–0 on aggregate.
Manchester United won 3–0 on aggregate.
4–4 on aggregate. Tie is decided by a tie-breaker match on neutral ground.
AEK Athens | 1–1 | |
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Papaioannou |
Report | Švec |
Spartak Trnava won 3–2 on aggregate.
Tie-breakers
[edit]Ajax win the tie-breaker.
Semi-finals
[edit]Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Milan |
2–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | |
Ajax |
3–2 | 3–0 | 0–2 |
First leg
[edit]Milan | 2–0 | |
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Sormani Hamrin |
Report |
Second leg
[edit]Manchester United | 1–0 | |
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Charlton |
Report |
Milan won 2–1 on aggregate.
Spartak Trnava | 2–0 | |
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Kuna |
Report |
Ajax won 3–2 on aggregate.
Final
[edit]Top scorers
[edit]The top scorers from the 1968–69 European Cup are as follows:
Rank | Name | Team | Goals |
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1 | 9 | ||
2 | 6 | ||
6 | |||
4 | 5 | ||
5 | |||
5 | |||
7 | 4 | ||
4 | |||
4 | |||
4 | |||
4 |
References
[edit]- ^ UEFA.com (5 June 2018). "How the European calendar took shape". UEFA. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
- ^ "Nürnberg v Ajax, 18 September 1968" (JSON). UEFA. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Steaua București v Spartak Trnava, 18 September 1968" (JSON). UEFA. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Manchester United v Anderlecht, 13 November 1968" (JSON). UEFA. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Rapid Wien v Real Madrid, 20 November 1968" (JSON). UEFA. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Reipas Lahti v Spartak Trnava, 20 November 1968" (JSON). UEFA. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
- ^ "Kerran näinkin: Suomalaisjalkapalloilijat tekemässä lajinsa historiaa" [For once: Finnish footballers about to make history in their sport]. Helsingin Sanomat. 21 November 1968. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
- ^ "Real Madrid v Rapid Wien, 4 December 1968" (JSON). UEFA. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Benfica v Ajax, 19 February 1969" (JSON). UEFA. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
External links
[edit]- 1968–69 All matches – season at UEFA website
- European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
- All scorers 1968–69 European Cup according to protocols UEFA
- 1968-69 European Cup – results and line-ups (archive)