1973 Anglo-Italian Cup

The 1973 Anglo-Italian Cup was the fourth Anglo-Italian Cup competition. The European football competition was played between eight clubs from England and eight clubs from Italy and was the last professional Anglo-Italian Cup until it was re-incarnated in 1992.

Format

For the competition there were eight English teams and eight Italian teams. These teams were split into two groups consisting of four English and four Italian teams each. Each team played against the four teams in their group from the opposing nation. In each group, the best team from each nation progressed to the semi-finals. The semi-finals were two-leg matches played between each nation's group winners. The winner of each nation's semi-final then met in a final.[1] Two points were awarded for a win and one point for a draw but, unlike the previous tournaments,[2][3][4] points were no longer awarded for each goal scored.[1][5] The draw for the group matches took place in Milan on 7 February 1973.[6]

Group stage

Group[1]  England[1]  Italy[1]
1 Crystal Palace
Hull City
Luton Town
Manchester United		 Bari
Fiorentina
Lazio
Verona
2 Newcastle United
Blackpool
Oxford United
Fulham		 Bologna
Como
Roma
Torino

Group 1 games

14 February 1973
Crystal Palace 4 – 1 Verona
M. Hinshelwood
Bell
Whittle 		(ref)


Luton Town 4 – 0 Bari

21 March 1973
Bari 0 – 1 Crystal Palace
(ref) Possee

4 April 1973[6]
Hull City 2 – 1 Verona

4 April 1973[6]
Manchester United 3 – 1 Bari


Bari 0 – 0 Hull City

Group 1 tables

Italian teams[1]
Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts[nb 1]
Fiorentina 4 1 2 1 4 4 4
Lazio 4 0 2 2 4 7 2
Verona 4 1 0 3 5 11 2
Bari 4 0 1 3 1 8 1
English teams[1]
Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts[nb 1]
Crystal Palace 4 3 1 0 10 4 7
Manchester United 4 2 2 0 8 3 6
Luton Town 4 2 1 1 8 4 5
Hull City 4 2 1 1 4 3 5

Group 2 games


Como 0 – 0 Fulham


Fulham 1 – 1 Roma

4 April 1973[6]
Bologna 0 – 1 Blackpool

4 April 1973[6]
Roma 0 – 2 Oxford United

4 April 1973[6]
Torino 1 – 1 Fulham


Blackpool 2 – 1 Roma

Group 2 tables

Italian teams[1]
Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts[nb 1]
Bologna 4 0 2 2 1 3 2
Torino 4 0 2 2 3 8 2
Roma 4 0 1 3 2 7 1
Como 4 0 1 3 0 6 1
English teams[1]
Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts[nb 1]
Newcastle United 4 4 0 0 10 1 8
Blackpool 4 4 0 0 7 1 8
Oxford United 4 2 2 0 4 1 6
Fulham 4 0 4 0 3 3 4

Semi-finals

English semi-final

11 May 1973
Crystal Palace 0 – 0 Newcastle
(ref)

21 May 1973
Newcastle 5 – 1 Crystal Palace
(ref) Cannon
Italian semi-final

17 May 1973
Fiorentina 1 – 1 Bologna

23 May 1973
Bologna 1 – 2 Fiorentina

Final

3 June 1973[6]
Fiorentina 1 – 2 Newcastle
Superchi
Craig  54'
Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Two points were awarded for a win, one point for a draw.[1][5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 "Anglo-Italian Cup 1973". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
  2. ↑ "When Palace humbled Inter". The Holmesdale Online. 25 February 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2009.
  3. ↑ "Blackpool 10 LANEROSSI VICENZA 0 Anglo-Italian Cup, June 10, 1972". Blackpool Gazette. 6 November 2006. Retrieved 2 September 2009.
  4. ↑ "UP WITH THE CUP! Passports at the ready as Town tune up for Italian job". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. 12 May 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2009.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "I've had countless drinks for my goal against Sunderland". Evening Chronicle. 15 January 2002. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9 6.10 Vernon, Leslie; Rollin, Jack, eds. (1973). Rothman's Football Yearbook 1973–74. London: Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0-362-00142-1.