Santiago Bernabéu Stadium inMadrid 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 |
1969–70 → | |
The1968–69 season of theEuropean Cupfootball club tournament was won byAC Milan, who beatAjax 4–1 in thefinal, giving Milan its first European Cup title since 1963, and its second overall. A number ofEastern Bloc clubs withdrew from the first two rounds whenUEFA paired up all of the Eastern Bloc clubs against one another in the aftermath of theSoviet 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 thedefending champions, but were eliminated by eventual champions Milan in the semi-finals.
A total of 32 teams participated in the competition.
Thirty-one leagues were represented, with England being represented by itsmost recent champion,Manchester City, as well as defending European champion,Manchester United.
Real Madrid made their 14th consecutive appearance in the competition, whileAnderlecht andBenfica each made their ninth appearances.Nürnberg andSteaua București both made their first appearances in the competition since the1961-62 European Cup.
This year's competition included only five debutants: Denmark'sAB, Cyprus'sAEL Limassol, England'sManchester City, Norway'sRosenborg, and Czechoslovakia'sSpartak Trnava. This was the smallest number to date.
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| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | 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 |
| 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 |
Milan won 5–3 on aggregate.
Celtic won 4–2 on aggregate.
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.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | 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 |
| Manchester United | 3–0 | |
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| Kidd Law | 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 ofReipas Lahti was played inVienna just before theRapid Wien–Real Madrid match.[7]
| 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.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | 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 |
| 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 |
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.
Spartak Trnava won 3–2 on aggregate.
Ajax win the tie-breaker.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Milan | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | |
| Ajax | 3–2 | 3–0 | 0–2 |
| Milan | 2–0 | |
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| Sormani Hamrin | Report |
Milan won 2–1 on aggregate.
| Spartak Trnava | 2–0 | |
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| Kuna | Report |
Ajax won 3–2 on aggregate.
The top scorers from the 1968–69 European Cup are as follows: