1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup

The season 1968-69 of the European Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by Slovan Bratislava in a final victory against FC Barcelona, the first time a side 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.

Contents

First round

Team #1 Agg. Team #2 1st leg 2nd leg
Dunfermline Athletic F.C. 12 - 1 APOEL FC 10 - 1 2 - 0
Olympiacos 4 - 0 KR Reykjavík 2 - 0 2 - 0
Dinamo Bucureşti w/o Vasas ETO Győr - -
Club Brugge K.V. 3 - 3(a) West Bromwich Albion F.C. 3 - 1 0 - 2
Partizani Tirana 2 - 3 Torino 1 - 0 1 - 3
Spartak Sofia withdrawal 1. FC Union Berlin - -
Cardiff City 3 - 4 FC Porto 2 - 2 1 - 2
Slovan Bratislava 3 - 2 FK Bor 3 - 0 0 - 2
ADO Den Haag 6 - 1 Grazer AK 4 - 1 2 - 0
FC Girondins de Bordeaux 2 - 4 1. FC Köln 2 - 1 0 - 3
Randers Freja 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers 1 - 0 2 - 1
US Rumelange 2 - 2(a) Sliema Wanderers 2 - 1 0 - 1
FC Lugano 0 - 4 FC Barcelona 0 - 1 0 - 3
Górnik Zabrze withdrawal FC Dynamo Moscow - -
Altay SK 4 - 5 Lyn 3 - 1 1 - 4
Crusaders F.C. 3 - 6 IFK Norrköping 2 - 2 1 - 4

First Leg

18 September 1968
 Dunfermline Athletic 10 – 1 APOEL FC East End Park
Referee: K Stevaag (Norway)
Robertson  9'
Barry  17'
Gardner  19'
Renton  26'
Edwards  43'
W Callaghan  57'
T Callaghan  63'
W Callaghan  73'
Robertson  78'
Renton  89'		 Stylianou  62'

Second leg

2 October 1968
 APOEL FC 0 – 2 Dunfermline Athletic Cyprus
Attendance: 6,000
Gardner  52'
W Callaghan  85'

Dunfermline Athletic won 12–1 on aggregate.

First leg

18 September 1968
 Partizani Tirana 1 – 0 Torino Tirana
Shaqiri  45'

Second leg

2 October 1968
 Torino 3 – 1 Partizani Tirana Turin
Carelli  22'
Facchin  28'
Mondonico  59'		 Bajko  85'

Torino won 3–2 on aggregate.

Second round

Team #1 Agg. Team #2 1st leg 2nd leg
Dunfermline Athletic F.C. 4 - 3 Olympiacos 4 - 0 0 - 3
Dinamo Bucureşti 1 - 5 West Bromwich Albion F.C. 1 - 1 0 - 4
Torino Bye - -
FC Porto 1 - 4 Slovan Bratislava 1 - 0 0 - 4
ADO Den Haag 0 - 4 1. FC Köln 0 - 1 0 - 3
Randers Freja 8 - 0 Sliema Wanderers 6 - 0 2 - 0
FC Barcelona Bye - -
Lyn 4 - 3 IFK Norrköping 2 - 0 2 - 3

Second round - first leg

13 November 1968
14:15
 Dinamo Bucureşti 1 – 1 West Bromwich Albion Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Hans-Joachim Weyland (West Germany)
Dumitrache  23' Hartford  28'
27 November 1968
20:30
 West Bromwich Albion 4 – 0 Dinamo Bucureşti The Hawthorns, West Bromwich
Attendance: 33,059
Referee: Robert Hélies (France)
Lovett  35'
Brown  44', 52' (pen)
Astle  72'

Quarter-finals

Team #1 Agg. Team #2 1st leg 2nd leg
Dunfermline Athletic 1 - 0 West Bromwich Albion 0 - 0 1 - 0
Torino 1 - 3 Slovan Bratislava 0 - 1 1 - 2
1. FC Köln 5 - 1 Randers Freja 2 - 1 3 - 0
FC Barcelona 5 - 4 Lyn 3 - 2 2 - 2

First leg

15 January 1969
 Dunfermline Athletic 0 – 0 West Bromwich Albion East End Park
Attendance: 26,000
Referee: F Helmut (W Germany)

Second leg

19 February 1969
 West Bromwich Albion 0 – 1 Dunfermline Athletic The Hawthorns, West Bromwich
Attendance: 32,000
Referee: W.A. O'Neill (Ireland)
Gardner  2'

Dunfermline Athletic won 1–0 on aggregate.

First leg

19 February 1969
 Torino 0 – 1 Slovan Bratislava Turin
Jokl  54'

Second leg

5 March 1969
 Slovan Bratislava 2 – 1 Torino Bratislava
Horváth  26'
Hlavenka  62'		 Carelli  89'

Slovan Bratislava won 3–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team #1 Agg. Team #2 1st leg 2nd leg
Dunfermline Athletic F.C. 1 - 2 Slovan Bratislava 1 - 1 0 - 1
1. FC Köln 3 - 6 FC Barcelona 2 - 2 1 - 4

Final

Main article: 1969 European Cup Winners' Cup Final
Team #1 Agg. Team #2
Slovan Bratislava 3 - 2 FC Barcelona

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