1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup

1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup

Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 1 August – 12 October 1960 Competition proper: 28 September 1960 – 27 May 1961
Teams	Competition proper: 8 Total: 10 (from 10 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Fiorentina (1st title)
Runners-up	Rangers
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	60 (4.29 per match)
Attendance	431,536 (30,824 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Kurt Hamrin (Fiorentina) 5 goals
1961–62 →

The 1960–61 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup club football tournament was won by Italian club Fiorentina in two-legged final victory against Rangers of Scotland.

Organised by the Mitropa Cup committee, this tournament's edition was recognised by UEFA in 1963, after lobbying by the Italian Football Federation.^[1] This was the first season that the tournament took place for the winners of each European country's domestic cup, and was the only one to be decided in a two-legged final. Only ten sides entered the competition,^[2] partially due to the low expectations for the new tournament among association football fans,^[1] and also to the unofficial nature of this edition.

SC Dynamo Berlin was the winner of the 1959 FDGB-Pokal and should naturally have represented East Germany in the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup. However, the German Football Association of the GDR (German: Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR) (DFV) found army-sponsored local rival and league runners-up ASK Vorwärts Berlin to be a more suitable representative of East Germany in the competition.^[3]

It is a myth that the low number of entrants was due to few countries already having a domestic cup competition:^[1] as happened for the first edition of the European Cup, entrance criteria could be changed by each national federation. Fiorentina entered as runners-up to Juventus in both Coppa Italia and Serie A, Czechoslovakia sent the winners of an unofficial League Cup, and both Hungary and East Germany enrolled their league runners-up.

Teams

Austria Wien (CW)	Rudá Hvězda Brno (CW)	Wolverhampton Wanderers (CW)	ASK Vorwärts Berlin (2nd)
Borussia Mönchengladbach (CW)	Ferencváros (2nd)	Fiorentina (CR)	Rangers (CW)
FC Lucerne (CW)	Dinamo Zagreb (CW)

Bracket

	Preliminary round						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
							Borussia Mönchengladbach	0	0	0
	Rangers	4	1	5			Rangers	3	8	11
	Ferencváros	2	2	4									Rangers	2	1	3
													Wolverhampton	0	1	1
							Austria Wien	2	0	2
							Wolverhampton	0	5	5
																			Rangers	0	1	1
																			Fiorentina	2	2	4
							FC Luzern	0	2	2
							Fiorentina	3	6	9
													Fiorentina	3	1	4
	ASK Vorwärts Berlin	2	0	2									Dinamo Zagreb	0	2	2
	Rudá Hvězda Brno	1	2	3			Rudá Hvězda Brno	0	0	0
							Dinamo Zagreb	0	2	2

Qualifying phase

Preliminary round

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
ASK Vorwärts Berlin	2–3	Rudá Hvězda Brno	2–1	0–2
Rangers	5–4	Ferencváros	4–2	1–2

Matches

1 August 1960 (1960-08-01)

ASK Vorwärts Berlin	2–1	Rudá Hvězda Brno
Kohle 42' Nöldner 48'	Report[4]	Bubník 77'

Stadion der Freundschaft, Frankfurt (Oder)

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)

11 August 1960 (1960-08-11)

Rudá Hvězda Brno	2–0	ASK Vorwärts Berlin
Bubník 31' Koláček 43'	Report[5]

Stadion Za Lužánkami, Brno

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Erich Steiner (Austria)

Rudá Hvězda Brno won 3–2 on aggregate.

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28 September 1960 (1960-09-28)

Rangers	4–2	Ferencváros
Davis 52' Millar 57', 86' Brand 73'	Report[6]	Orosz 17' Friedmanszky 79'

Ibrox Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 36,000

Referee: Václav Korelus (Czechoslovakia)

12 October 1960 (1960-10-12)

Ferencváros	2–1	Rangers
Orosz 18' Friedmanszky 48'	Report[7]	Wilson 61'

Üllői úti stadion, Budapest

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Erich Steiner (Austria)

Rangers won 5–4 on aggregate.

Tournament phase

Quarter-finals

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rudá Hvězda Brno	0–2	Dinamo Zagreb	0–0	0–2
Austria Wien	2–5	Wolverhampton Wanderers	2–0	0–5
Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–11	Rangers	0–3	0–8
FC Lucerne	2–9	Fiorentina	0–3	2–6

Matches

28 September 1960 (1960-09-28)

Rudá Hvězda Brno	0–0	Dinamo Zagreb
	Report[8]

Stadion Za Lužánkami, Brno

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: István Zsolt (Hungary)

30 November 1960 (1960-11-30)

Dinamo Zagreb	2–0	Rudá Hvězda Brno
Matuš 10' Jerković 15'	Report[9]

Gradski Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb

Attendance: 11,500

Referee: Andor Dorogi (Hungary)

Dinamo Zagreb won 2–0 on aggregate.

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12 October 1960 (1960-10-12)

Austria Wien	2–0	Wolverhampton Wanderers
Riegler 71' Huschek 86'	Report[10]

České-srdce-Platz, Vienna

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Albert Dusch (West Germany)

30 November 1960 (1960-11-30)

Wolverhampton Wanderers	5–0	Austria Wien
Kirkham 1', 26' Mason 35' Broadbent 70', 72'	Report[11]

Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton

Attendance: 31,699

Referee: Josef Gulde (Switzerland)

Wolverhampton Wanderers won 5–2 on aggregate.

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15 November 1960 (1960-11-15)

Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–3	Rangers
	Report[12]	Millar 23' Scott 25' McMillan 58'

Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Ezio Damiani (Yugoslavia)

30 November 1960 (1960-11-30)

Rangers	8–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Baxter 2' Brand 17', 44', 51' Pfeiffer 31' (o.g.) Millar 45', 53' Davis 65'	Report[13]

Ibrox Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 38,174

Referee: Iginio Rigato (Italy)

Rangers won 11–0 on aggregate.

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23 November 1960 (1960-11-23)

FC Lucerne	0–3	Fiorentina
	Report[14]	Petris 32' Hamrin 35', 81'

Stadion Allmend, Lucerne

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)

28 December 1960 (1960-12-28)

Fiorentina	6–2	FC Lucerne
Antoninho 28', 52', 75' Hamrin 33' (pen.), 46' Milan 38'	Report[15]	Frey 43' Hahn 55'

Stadio Comunale, Florence

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Alojz Obtulovič (Czechoslovakia)

Fiorentina won 9–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Fiorentina	4–2	Dinamo Zagreb	3–0	1–2
Rangers	3–1	Wolverhampton Wanderers	2–0	1–1

Matches

22 March 1961 (1961-03-22)

Fiorentina	3–0	Dinamo Zagreb
Antoninho 40' da Costa 69' Lazzotti 80'	Report[16]

Stadio Comunale, Florence

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Josef Kandlbinder (West Germany)

12 April 1961 (1961-04-12)

Dinamo Zagreb	2–1	Fiorentina
Matuš 15' Haraminčić 18'	Report[17]	Petris 50'

Gradski Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Jan Kment (Czechoslovakia)

Fiorentina won 4–2 on aggregate.

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29 March 1961 (1961-03-29)

Rangers	2–0	Wolverhampton Wanderers
Scott 33' Brand 84'	Report[18]

Ibrox Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Cesare Jonni (Italy)

April 19, 1961 (1961-04-19)

Wolverhampton Wanderers	1–1	Rangers
Broadbent 65'	Report[19]	Scott 45'

Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton

Attendance: 45,163

Referee: Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland)

Rangers won 3–1 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1961 European Cup Winners' Cup final

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rangers	1–4	Fiorentina	0–2	1–2

Matches

17 May 1961 (1961-05-17)

19:30 (UTC)

Rangers	0–2	Fiorentina
	Report[20]	Milan 12', 88'

Ibrox Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Erich Steiner (Austria)

27 May 1961 (1961-05-27)

15:30 (CET)

Fiorentina	2–1	Rangers
Milan 12' Hamrin 86'	Report[21]	Scott 60'

Stadio Comunale, Florence

Attendance: 27,000

Referee: Vilmos Hernádi (Hungary)

Fiorentina won 4–1 on aggregate.

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup (including preliminary round) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Kurt Hamrin	Fiorentina	5
2	Antoninho	Fiorentina	4
	Ralph Brand	Rangers	4
	Luigi Milan	Fiorentina	4
	Alex Scott	Rangers	4
6	Peter Broadbent	Wolverhampton Wanderers	3
	Jimmy Millar	Rangers	3

See also

• 1960–61 European Cup
• 1960–61 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

References

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3. Luther, Jörn; Willmann, Frank (2003). BFC Dynamo – Der Meisterclub (in German) (1st ed.). Berlin: Das Neue Berlin. p. 28. ISBN 3-360-01227-5.
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External links

• 1960-61 season at UEFA website
• Cup Winners' Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
• Cup Winners Cup Seasons 1960-61 – results, protocols
• website History Eurocup (Russian) Cup Winners' Cup 1960/61 - protocols games
• website RS Football Archive 1960–61 Cup Winners Cup