1961–62 European Cup Winners' Cup

The 1961–62 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup club football tournament was won by Atlético Madrid of Spain in a replayed final against holders Fiorentina. It was the first season of the tournament to be directly organised by UEFA.^[1]

1961–62 European Cup Winners' Cup

Tournament details
Teams	23
Final positions
Champions	Atlético Madrid (1st title)
Runners-up	Fiorentina
Tournament statistics
Matches played	44
Goals scored	171 (3.89 per match)
Top scorer(s)	János Göröcs (Újpest Dózsa) 8 goals
← 1960–61 1962–63 →

Teams

Rapid Wien (CW)	Spartak Varna (CR)	Žilina (CR)	Aarhus (CW)
Leicester City (CR)	Sedan (CW)	Carl Zeiss Jena (CW)	Werder Bremen (CW)
Olympiacos (CW)	Újpest (2nd)	St Patrick's Athletic (CW)	Fiorentina (CW)TH
Alliance Dudelange (CW)	Floriana (CW)	Ajax (CW)	Glenavon (CW)
Leixões (CW)	Progresul București (CW)	Dunfermline Athletic (CW)	Atlético Madrid (CW)
La Chaux-de-Fonds (CW)	Swansea (CW)	FK Vardar (CW)

Bracket

	Preliminary round						First round						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Swansea	2	1	3
	Carl Zeiss Jena	2	5	7			Carl Zeiss Jena	7	2	9
							Alliance Dudelange	0	2	2
													Carl Zeiss Jena	1	3	4
	La Chaux-de-Fonds	6	0	6									Leixões	1	1	2
	Leixões	2	5	7			Leixões	1	1	2
							Progresul București	1	0	1
																			Carl Zeiss Jena	0	0	0
																			Atlético Madrid	1	4	5
							Werder Bremen	2	3	5
							Aarhus	0	2	2
													Werder Bremen	1	1	2
	Glenavon	1	1	2									Atlético Madrid	1	3	4
	Leicester City	4	3	7			Leicester City	1	0	1
	Sedan	2	1	3			Atlético Madrid	1	2	3
	Atlético Madrid	3	4	7																					Atlético Madrid	1/3
																									Fiorentina	1/0
							Olympiacos	2	0	2
							Žilina	3	1	4
													Žilina	3	0	3
													Fiorentina	2	2	4
							Fiorentina	3	6	9
	Rapid Wien	0	5	5			Rapid Wien	1	2	3
	Spartak Varna	0	2	2															Fiorentina	2	1	3
																			Újpest	0	0	0
							Ajax	2	1	3
	Floriana	2	2	4			Újpest	1	3	4
	Újpest	5	10	15									Újpest	4	1	5
	Dunfermline Athletic	4	4	8									Dunfermline Athletic	3	0	3
	St Patrick's Athletic	1	0	1			Dunfermline Athletic	5	0	5
							FK Vardar	0	2	2

Qualifying phase

Preliminary round

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Swansea Town	3–7	Motor Jena	2–2 (Report) (Report 2)	1–5 (Report) (Report 2)
La Chaux-de-Fonds	6–7	Leixões	6–2 (Report) (Report 2)	0–5 (Report) (Report 2)
Glenavon	2–7	Leicester City	1–4 (Report) (Report 2)	1–3 (Report) (Report 2)
Sedan	3–7	Atlético Madrid	2–3 (Report) (Report 2)	1–4 (Report) (Report 2)
Rapid Wien	5–2	Spartak Varna	0–0 (Report) (Report 2)	5–2 (Report) (Report 2)
Floriana	4–15	Újpest Dózsa	2–5 (Report) (Report 2)	2–10 (Report) (Report 2)
Dunfermline Athletic	8–1	St Patrick's Athletic	4–1 (Report) (Report 2)	4–0 (Report) (Report 2)

Matches

First leg

16 October 1961

Swansea Town	2–2	Motor Jena
Reynolds 16' Nurse 70' (pen.)		Lange 14' R. Ducke 32'

Linzer Stadion, Linz

Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)

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7 September 1961

La Chaux-de-Fonds	6–2	Leixões
Antenen 8' Sommerlatt 25' Bertschi 51', 67' Jäger 52', 57'	[citation needed]	Oliveirinha 42', 86'

Stade de la Charrière, La Chaux-de-Fonds

Attendance: 3,194

Referee: Pierre Schwinte (France)

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13 September 1961

Glenavon	1–4	Leicester City
Jones 14'		Walsh 36', 42' Appleton 37' Keyworth 62'

Mourneview Park, Lurgan

Referee: George Bowman (Scotland)

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13 September 1961

Sedan	2–3	Atlético Madrid
Hatchi 51' Fulgenzi 57'		Collar 13' Adelardo 17' Mendonça 38'

Stade Émile Albeau, Sedan

Referee: Johannes Malka (West Germany)

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13 September 1961

Rapid Wien	0–0	Spartak Varna

Praterstadion, Vienna

Referee: Pietro Bonetto (Italy)

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17 September 1961

Floriana	2–5	Újpest Dózsa
Cauchi 63', 87'		Göröcs 7' Rossi 16' Kuharszki 30', 74' Solymosi 85'

Empire Stadium, Gżira

Referee: Raul Righi (Italy)

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12 September 1961 (1961-09-12)

Dunfermline Athletic	4–1	St Patrick's Athletic
Melrose 15' Peebles 23' Dickson 28' McDonald 87'	Report	O'Rourke 38'

East End Park, Dunfermline

Attendance: 18,890

Referee: Arthur Holland (England)

Second leg

18 October 1961

Motor Jena	5–1	Swansea Town
Müller 15', 26' Lange 61' P. Ducke 75' R. Ducke 80'		Reynolds 8'

Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld, Jena

Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands)

Motor Jena won 7–3 on aggregate.

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5 October 1961

Leixões	5–0	La Chaux-de-Fonds
Osvaldo Silva 24', 30' Oliveirinha 46', 71' Ventura 52'	[citation needed]

Campo de Santana, Matosinhos

Attendance: 3,747

Referee: Jean Tricot (France)

Leixões won 7–6 on aggregate.

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27 September 1961

Leicester City	3–1	Glenavon
Wills 55' Keyworth 70' McIlmoyle 82'		Wilson 74'

Filbert Street, Leicester

Referee: Tom Wharton (Scotland)

Leicester City won 7–2 on aggregate.

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27 September 1961

Atlético Madrid	4–1	Sedan
Peiró 25', 38' Mendonça 27' Adelardo 75'		Salaber 89'

Estadio Metropolitano, Madrid

Referee: Albert Dusch (West Germany)

Atlético Madrid won 7–3 on aggregate.

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27 September 1961

Spartak Varna	2–5	Rapid Wien
Kostov 63' (pen.), 68'		Schmid 7', 84' Skocik 30' Flögel 46' Milanović 56'

Yuri Gagarin Stadium, Varna

Referee: Giuseppe Adami (Italy)

Rapid Wien won 5–2 on aggregate.

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27 September 1961

Újpest Dózsa	10–2	Floriana
Göröcs 13', 43', 47', 58' Solymosi 22', 63', 71', 87' Kuharszki 29', 38'		Dalli 41' Cauchi 69'

Népstadion, Budapest

Referee: Panagiotis Nikiforakis (Greece)

Újpest Dózsa won 15–4 on aggregate.

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27 September 1961 (1961-09-27)

St Patrick's Athletic	0–4	Dunfermline Athletic
	Report	Peebles 1' 80' Dickson 25' 31'

Tolka Park, Dublin

Attendance: 6,220

Referee: Arthur Holland (England)

Dunfermline Athletic won 8–1 on aggregate.

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Motor Jena	9–2	Alliance Dudelange	7–0 (Report) (Report 2)	2–2 (Report) (Report 2)
Leixões	2–1	Progresul București	1–1 (Report) (Report 2)	1–0 (Report) (Report 2)
Werder Bremen	5–2	AGF	2–0 (Report) (Report 2)	3–2 (Report) (Report 2)
Leicester City	1–3	Atlético Madrid	1–1 (Report) (Report 2)	0–2 (Report) (Report 2)
Olympiacos	2–4	Dynamo Žilina	2–3 (Report) (Report 2)	0–1 (Report) (Report 2)
Fiorentina	9–3	Rapid Wien	3–1 (Report) (Report 2)	6–2 (Report) (Report 2)
Ajax	3–4	Újpest Dózsa	2–1 (Report) (Report 2)	1–3 (Report) (Report 2)
Dunfermline Athletic	5–2	FK Vardar	5–0 (Report) (Report 2)	0–2 (Report) (Report 2)

First leg

17 December 1961 (1961-12-17)

Motor Jena	7–0	Alliance Dudelange
Kirsch 1', 28' Müller 41' Lange 47', 64' P. Ducke 63' Piccini 72' (o.g.)

Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld, Jena

Referee: Piet Roomer (Netherlands)

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23 November 1961 (1961-11-23)

Leixões	1–1	Progresul București
Silva 52'	Report	Karikaș 19'

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 7,226

Referee: Josef Stoll (Austria)

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25 October 1961 (1961-10-25)

Werder Bremen	2–0	AGF
Barth 7' Schütz 76'

Weserstadion, Bremen

Referee: Erik Johansson (Sweden)

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25 October 1961 (1961-10-25)

Leicester City	1–1	Atlético Madrid
Keyworth 56'		Mendonça 89'

Filbert Street, Leicester

Referee: Pierre Schwinte (France)

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22 November 1961 (1961-11-22)

Olympiacos	2–3	Dynamo Žilina
Sideris 15', 49'		Pisárik 4' Mravec 28' David 87'

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Referee: Andor Dorogi (Hungary)

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25 October 1961

Fiorentina	3–1	Rapid Wien
Milani 12' Hamrin 49' Jonsson 68'		Seitl 81'

Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence

Referee: Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland)

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2 November 1961

Ajax	2–1	Újpest Dózsa
Groot 3', 20'		Kuharszki 81'

Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam

Referee: Werner Treichel (West Germany)

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25 October 1961

Dunfermline Athletic	5–0	FK Vardar
Smith 7' Dickson 28', 43' Melrose 56' Peebles 84'

East End Park, Dunfermline

Referee: Jozef Casteleyn (Belgium)

Second leg

19 December 1961 (1961-12-19)

Alliance Dudelange	2–2	Motor Jena
Cirelli 39' Bellion 53'		Kirsch 72' P. Ducke 76'

Georgij-Dimitroff-Stadion, Erfurt

Referee: Piet Roomer (Netherlands)

Motor Jena won 9–2 on aggregate.

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30 November 1961 (1961-11-30)

Progresul București	0–1	Leixões
	Report	Silva 61'

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Franz Mayer (Austria)

Leixões won 2–1 on aggregate.

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1 November 1961 (1961-11-01)

AGF	2–3	Werder Bremen
Amdisen 66' Jensen 87'		Barth 36' Hänel 49' Lorenz 71'

Aarhus Stadium, Aarhus

Referee: Erik Johansson (Sweden)

Werder Bremen won 5–2 on aggregate.

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15 November 1961 (1961-11-15)

Atlético Madrid	2–0	Leicester City
Collar 60' (pen.) Jones 75'

Estadio Metropolitano, Madrid

Referee: Michel Kitabdjian (France)

Atlético Madrid won 3–1 on aggregate.

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30 November 1961 (1961-11-30)

Dynamo Žilina	1–0	Olympiacos
Pisárik 16'

Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina

Referee: Gyula Gere (Hungary)

Dynamo Žilina won 4–2 on aggregate.

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22 November 1961

Rapid Wien	2–6	Fiorentina
Schmid 85', 89'		Milani 28', 59', 70' Dell'Angelo 42' Jonsson 50' Hamrin 65'

Praterstadion, Vienna

Referee: Daniel Mellet (Switzerland)

Fiorentina won 9–3 on aggregate.

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29 November 1961

Újpest Dózsa	3–1	Ajax
Bene 15' Göröcs 65', 68'		Petersen 82'

Népstadion, Budapest

Referee: Johannes Malka (West Germany)

Újpest Dózsa won 4–3 on aggregate.

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8 November 1961

FK Vardar	2–0	Dunfermline Athletic
Šulinčevski 11' Jakimovski 75'

Gradski Stadion, Skopje

Referee: Dimitar Rumenchev (Bulgaria)

Dunfermline Athletic won 5–2 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Motor Jena	4–2	Leixões	1–1 (Report) (Report 2)	3–11 (Report) (Report 2)
Werder Bremen	2–4	Atlético Madrid	1–1 (Report) (Report 2)	1–3 (Report) (Report 2)
Dynamo Žilina	3–4	Fiorentina	3–2 (Report) (Report 2)	0–2 (Report) (Report 2)
Újpest Dózsa	5–3	Dunfermline Athletic	4–3 (Report) (Report 2)	1–0 (Report) (Report 2)

First leg

22 February 1962

Motor Jena	1–1	Leixões
Marx 89'	[citation needed]	M. Oliveira 44'

Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld, Jena

Attendance: 14,273

Referee: Milan Kusák (Czechoslovakia)

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17 January 1962

Werder Bremen	1–1	Atlético Madrid
Soya 85'		Jones 71'

Weserstadion, Bremen

Referee: Marcel Raeymaeckers (Belgium)

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21 February 1962

Dynamo Žilina	3–2	Fiorentina
Jakubčík 11', 63' Majerník 42'		Milani 47' Dell'Angelo 85'

Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina

Referee: Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)

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13 February 1962

Újpest Dózsa	4–3	Dunfermline Athletic
Bene 1' Lenkei 30' Solymosi 74' (pen.) Göröcs 81'		Smith 1' McDonald 8', 85'

Népstadion, Budapest

Referee: Trajan Ivanovski (Yugoslavia)

Second leg

25 February 1962

Leixões	1–3	Motor Jena
Osvaldo Silva 56'	[citation needed]	Kirsch 8' Lange 59' Schreier 80'

Stadion der Freundschaft, Gera

Attendance: 9,738

Referee: Stanislav Fencl (Czechoslovakia)

Motor Jena won 4–2 on aggregate.

Note: Second leg played in Gera after visas denied to the East German players.

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28 February 1962

Atlético Madrid	3–1	Werder Bremen
Jagielski 2' (o.g.) Peiró 30' Adelardo 61'		Schröder 37'

Estadio Metropolitano, Madrid

Referee: Josef Gulde (Switzerland)

Atlético Madrid won 4–2 on aggregate.

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27 February 1962

Fiorentina	2–0	Dynamo Žilina
Ferretti 38' Hamrin 40'

Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence

Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)

Fiorentina won 4–3 on aggregate.

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20 February 1962

Dunfermline Athletic	0–1	Újpest Dózsa
		Bene 51'

East End Park, Dunfermline

Referee: Tage Sørensen (Denmark)

Újpest Dózsa won 5–3 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Motor Jena	0–5	Atlético Madrid	0–1	0–4
Fiorentina	3–0	Újpest Dózsa	2–0	1–0

First leg

28 March 1962

15:30

Motor Jena	0–1	Atlético Madrid
	Report Report 2	Peiró 61'

Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld, Jena

Attendance: 27,500

Referee: Bengt Lundell (Sweden)

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21 March 1962

Fiorentina	2–0	Újpest Dózsa
Hamrin 6', 47'	Report Report 2

Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence

Attendance: 4,143

Referee: John Kelly (England)

Second leg

11 April 1962

19:00

Atlético Madrid	4–0	Motor Jena
Mendonça 14', 60' Jones 18', 54'	Report Report 2

Malmö Stadion, Malmö^[2]

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Lucien van Nuffel (Belgium)

Atlético Madrid won 5–0 on aggregate.

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11 April 1962

Újpest Dózsa	0–1	Fiorentina
	Report Report 2	Bartu 56'

Megyeri úti stadion, Budapest

Attendance: 21,277

Referee: Friedrich Mayer (Austria)

Fiorentina won 3–0 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1962 European Cup Winners' Cup final

10 May 1962

19:00

Atlético Madrid	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Fiorentina
Peiró 11'	Report Report 2	Hamrin 27'

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 27,000

Referee: Tom Wharton (Scotland)

Replay

5 September 1962

16:30

Atlético Madrid	3–0	Fiorentina
Jones 8' Mendonça 27' Peiró 59'	Report Report 2

Neckarstadion, Stuttgart

Attendance: 38,000

Referee: Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1961–62 European Cup Winners' Cup (including preliminary round) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	János Göröcs	Újpest Dózsa	8
2	Kurt Hamrin	Fiorentina	6
	Jorge Mendonça	Atlético Madrid	6
	Joaquín Peiró	Atlético Madrid	6
	Ernő Solymosi	Újpest Dózsa	6
6	Charlie Dickson	Dunfermline Athletic	5
	Miguel Jones	Atlético Madrid	5
	Béla Kuharszki	Újpest Dózsa	5
	Dieter Lange	Carl Zeiss Jena	5
	Oliveirinha	Leixões	5
	Osvaldo Silva	Leixões	5

See also

• 1961–62 European Cup
• 1961–62 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup