1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup Tournament details Dates Qualifying: 1 August – 12 October 1960Competition proper: 28 September 1960 – 27 May 1961Teams Competition proper: 8Total: 10 (from 10 associations)Final positions Champions Fiorentina (1st title) Runners-up Rangers Tournament statistics Matches played 18 Goals scored 60 (3.33 per match) Attendance 431,536 (23,974 per match) Top scorer(s) Kurt Hamrin (Fiorentina) 5 goals
International football competition
The1960–61 season of theEuropean Cup Winners' Cup clubfootball tournament was won by Italian clubFiorentina in two-legged final victory againstRangers of Scotland.
Organised by theMitropa Cup committee, this tournament's edition was recognised byUEFA in 1963, after lobbying by theItalian 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 the1959 FDGB-Pokal and should naturally have representedEast Germany in the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup. However, theGerman Football Association of the GDR (German :Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR ) (DFV) foundarmy-sponsored local rival and league runners-upASK 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 theEuropean Cup , entrance criteria could be changed by each national federation. Fiorentina entered as runners-up toJuventus in bothCoppa Italia andSerie A ,Czechoslovakia sent the winners of an unofficial League Cup, and bothHungary andEast Germany enrolled their league runners-up.
1 August 1960 (1960-08-01 )
11 August 1960 (1960-08-11 )
Rudá Hvězda Brno 2–0 ASK Vorwärts BerlinReport[ 5]
Rudá Hvězda Brno won 3–2 on aggregate.
28 September 1960 (1960-09-28 )
12 October 1960 (1960-10-12 )
Ferencváros 2–1 RangersReport[ 7]
Rangers won 5–4 on aggregate.
28 September 1960 (1960-09-28 )
30 November 1960 (1960-11-30 )
Dinamo Zagreb 2–0 Rudá Hvězda BrnoReport[ 9]
Dinamo Zagreb won 2–0 on aggregate.
12 October 1960 (1960-10-12 )
30 November 1960 (1960-11-30 )
Wolverhampton Wanderers 5–0 Austria WienReport[ 11]
Wolverhampton Wanderers won 5–2 on aggregate.
15 November 1960 (1960-11-15 )
30 November 1960 (1960-11-30 )
Rangers 8–0 Borussia MönchengladbachReport[ 13]
Attendance: 38,174
Referee: Iginio Rigato (
Italy )
Rangers won 11–0 on aggregate.
23 November 1960 (1960-11-23 )
28 December 1960 (1960-12-28 )
Fiorentina 6–2 FC LucerneReport[ 15]
Fiorentina won 9–2 on aggregate.
22 March 1961 (1961-03-22 )
12 April 1961 (1961-04-12 )
Dinamo Zagreb 2–1 FiorentinaReport[ 17]
Fiorentina won 4–2 on aggregate.
29 March 1961 (1961-03-29 )
April 19, 1961 (1961-04-19 )
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1–1 RangersReport[ 19]
Rangers won 3–1 on aggregate.
Fiorentina 2–1 RangersReport[ 21]
Fiorentina won 4–1 on aggregate.
The top scorers from the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup (including preliminary round) are as follows:
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