1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup

The 1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup was the ninth season of the European Cup Winners' Cup, a club football competition organised by UEFA for the cup winners from each of its member associations. The tournament was won by Czechoslovakian side Slovan Bratislava, who beat Spanish club Barcelona 3–2 in the final in Basel, Switzerland. It was the first time a club 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.

1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup

Final positions
Champions	Slovan Bratislava (1st title)
Runners-up	Barcelona
Tournament statistics
Matches played	51
Goals scored	156 (3.06 per match)
← 1967–68 1969–70 →

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dunfermline Athletic	12–1	APOEL	10–1	2–0
Olympiacos	4–0	KR Reykjavík	2–0	2–01
Dinamo București	w/o	Raba Vasas ETO	n/a	n/a
Club Brugge KV	3–3 (a)	West Bromwich Albion	3–1	0–2
KS Partizani	2–3	Torino	1–0	1–3
Cardiff City	3–4	Porto	2–2	1–2
Slovan Bratislava	3–2	FK Bor	3–0	0–2
ADO Den Haag	6–1	GAK	4–1	2–0
Girondins Bordeaux	2–4	1. FC Köln	2–1	0–3
Randers	3–1	Shamrock Rovers	1–0	2–1
US Rumelange	2–2 (a)	Sliema Wanderers	2–12	0–1
Lugano	0–4	Barcelona	0–1	0–3
Altay	4–5	Lyn	3–1	1–4
Crusaders	3–6	IFK Norrköping	2–2	1–4

The following clubs withdrew following UEFA's decision to separate western and Eastern countries due to troubles in Czechoslovakia:
FC Spartak (Sofia), Union Berlin, Górnik Zabrze, Dinamo Moscow, Raba Vasas ETO

¹ The match was played in Thessaloniki.

² The match was played in Esch.

Source:^[1]

First leg

18 September 1968

Dunfermline Athletic	10–1	APOEL
Robertson 9', 46' Barry 17' Gardner 19' Renton 26', 86' Edwards 44' Willie Callaghan 57', 65' Tom Callaghan 70'	[citation needed]	Stylianou 74'

East End Park, Dunfermline

Attendance: 7,167

Referee: Kåre Sirevaag (Norway)

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18 September 1968

Cardiff City	2–2	Porto
Toshack 24' Bird 50' (pen.)	[citation needed]	Custódio Pinto 60', 68'

Ninian Park, Cardiff

Attendance: 19,202

Referee: Gaspar Pintado Viú (Spain)

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18 September 1968

Slovan Bratislava	3–0	Bor
Jokl 48', 69' Cvetler 80'	Report[2]

Tehelné pole, Bratislava

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Ferdinand Marschall (Austria)

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20 September 1968

Olympiacos	2–0	KR Reykjavík
Botinos 45' Zanteroglou 90'

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Konstadin Dinov (Bulgaria)

Second leg

22 September 1968

KR Reykjavík	0–2	Olympiacos
		Gioutsos 23' Stoligas 60'

Kaftanzoglio Stadium,Thessaloniki

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Konstadin Dinov (Bulgaria)

Olympiacos won 4-0 on aggregate.

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2 October 1968

APOEL	0–2	Dunfermline Athletic
	[citation needed]	Gardner 57' Willie Callaghan 84'

Makario Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 3,200

Referee: Francesco Francescon (Italy)

Dunfermline Athletic won 12-1 on aggregate.

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2 October 1968

Porto	2–1	Cardiff City
Pavão 9' Custódio Pinto 76'	[citation needed]	Toshack 51'

Estádio das Antas, Porto

Attendance: 55,000

Referee: Robert Héliès (France)

Porto won 4–3 on aggregate.

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2 October 1968

Bor	2–0	Slovan Bratislava
Ranković 42' Tomić 59'	Report[3]

FK Bor Stadium, Bor

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Papavasilev (Greece)

Slovan Bratislava won 3–2 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dunfermline Athletic	4–3	Olympiacos	4–0	0–3
Dinamo București	1–5	West Bromwich Albion	1–1	0–4
Torino	Bye		n/a	n/a
Porto	1–4	Slovan Bratislava	1–0	0–4
ADO Den Haag	0–4	1. FC Köln	0–1	0–3
Randers	8–0	Sliema Wanderers	6–0	2–0
Barcelona	Bye		n/a	n/a
Lyn	4–3	IFK Norrkoping	2–0	2–3

Source:^[1]

First leg

13 November 1968

Dinamo București	1–1	West Bromwich Albion
Dumitrache 23'	Report	Hartford 28'

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Hans-Joachim Weyland (West Germany)

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13 November 1968

Porto	1–0	Slovan Bratislava
Custódio Pinto 34'	[citation needed]

Estádio das Antas, Porto

Attendance: 20,748

Referee: Malcolm Wright (Northern Ireland)

Second leg

27 November 1968

West Bromwich Albion	4–0	Dinamo București
Lovett 35' Brown 44', 52' (pen.) Astle 72'	Report

The Hawthorns, West Bromwich

Attendance: 33,059

Referee: Robert Hélies (France)

West Bromwich Albion won 5–1 on aggregate.

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27 November 1968

Slovan Bratislava	4–0	Porto
Ján Čapkovič 22' Jokl 48', 88' (pen.) Jozef Čapkovič 84'	[citation needed]

Tehelné pole, Bratislava

Attendance: 7,776

Referee: Doğan Babacan (Turkey)

Slovan Bratislava won 4–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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	2–1	3–0
Barcelona	5–4	Lyn	3–2	2–21

¹ The match was played in Barcelona.

Source:^[1]

First leg

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19 February 1969

Torino	0–1	Slovan Bratislava
	[4]	Jokl 54'

Torino

Second leg

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5 March 1969

Slovan Bratislava	2–1	Torino
Horváth 25' Hlavenka 62'	Report[5]	Carelli 88'

Tehelné pole, Bratislava

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Paul Schiller [de] (Austria)

Slovan Bratislava won 3–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dunfermline Athletic	1–2	Slovan Bratislava	1–1	0–1
1. FC Köln	3–6	Barcelona	2–2	1–4

Source:^[1]

First leg

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9 April 1969

Dunfermline Athletic	1–1	Slovan Bratislava
Fraser 44'	Report[6]	Ján Čapkovič 83'

East End Park, Dunfermline

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)

Second leg

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23 April 1969

Slovan Bratislava	1–0	Dunfermline Athletic
Ján Čapkovič 24'	Report[7]

Tehelné pole, Bratislava

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Joszip Horvat [hu] (Yugoslavia)

Slovan Bratislava won 2–1 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1969 European Cup Winners' Cup final

21 May 1969

19:00

Slovan Bratislava	3–2	Barcelona
Cvetler 2' Hrivnák 30' Ján Čapkovič 42'	Report[8] Report 2	Zaldúa 16' Rexach 52'

St. Jakob Stadium, Basel

Attendance: 19,478

Referee: Laurens van Ravens (Netherlands)