1963–64 Balkans Cup

1963–64 Balkans Cup

Tournament details
Country	Balkans
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Rapid București
Runner-up	Spartak Plovdiv
Tournament statistics
Matches played	17
Goals scored	41 (2.41 per match)

The 1963–64 Balkans Cup was an edition of the Balkans Cup, a football competition for representative clubs from the Balkan states. It was contested by 8 teams and Rapid București won the trophy.^[1]

Group Stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Rapid București (A)	6	4	2	0	9	2	4.500	10	Advances to finals
2	Levski Sofia	6	1	3	2	7	6	1.167	5
3	Dinamo Tirana	6	1	3	2	6	6	1.000	5
4	Beşiktaş	6	1	2	3	2	10	0.200	4

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal average; 3) number of goals scored
(A) Advance to a further round

30 August 1963 (1963-08-30)

Beşiktaş	1–0	Dinamo Tirana
Önüt 39'

Mithat Paşa Stadium, Istanbul

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4 September 1963 (1963-09-04)

Beşiktaş	0–0	Rapid București

Mithat Paşa Stadium, Istanbul

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17 October 1963 (1963-10-17)

Dinamo Tirana	2–0^1	Beşiktaş (B)
Aleko Pilika 5' Vorfi 41'

Dinamo, Tirana

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17 October 1963 (1963-10-17)

Rapid București	3–0^1	Beşiktaş
Georgescu 32' Dinu 65' Ionescu 82'

Rapid, Bucharest

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6 November 1963 (1963-11-06)

Beşiktaş	1–1	Levski Sofia
Özacar 21'		Abadjev 69'

Mithat Paşa Stadium, Istanbul

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15 December 1963 (1963-12-15)

Dinamo Tirana	1–1	Rapid București

Dinamo, Tirana

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8 April 1964 (1964-04-08)

Dinamo Tirana	1–1	Levski Sofia

Dinamo, Tirana

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8 July 1964 (1964-07-08)

Rapid București	2–0	Levski Sofia

Rapid, Bucharest

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14 July 1964 (1964-07-14)

Levski Sofia	1–1	Dinamo Tirana

Rakovski, Sofia

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15 July 1964 (1964-07-15)

Rapid București	2–1	Dinamo Tirana

Rapid, Bucharest

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7 August 1964 (1964-08-07)

Levski Sofia	4–0	Beşiktaş
Sokolov 17' Iliev 20' Manolov 67' Gergide 80'

Rakovski, Sofia

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3 September 1964 (1964-09-03)

Levski Sofia	0–1	Rapid București

Rakovski, Sofia

Notes

• Note 1: Beşiktaş originally requested that their two away games in Tirana and Bucharest be played one day apart. But as the dates get closer, they noticed it was almost impossible for the team to play the two games at those dates. They decided to send the substitute players to Tirana together with some youth team players. Their travel took longer than expected and the game was moved from 16 October to 17 October. Team A played in Bucharest and Team B played in Tiranë the same day.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Spartak Plovdiv (A)	4	4	0	0	12	6	2.000	8	Advances to finals
2	Olympiacos[a]	2	0	0	2	4	7	0.571	0
3	Radnički Niš[b]	2	0	0	2	2	5	0.400	0
4	Fenerbahçe[c]	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal average; 3) number of goals scored
(A) Advance to a further round
Notes:

1. Olympiacos withdrew after their second loss to Spartak Plovdiv.
2. Radnički Niš withdrew after their loss to Spartak Plovdiv.
3. Fenerbahçe withdrew before the tournament's beginning.

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12 May 1963 (1963-05-12)

Spartak Plovdiv	5–3	Olympiacos

Spartak, Plovdiv

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26 December 1963 (1963-12-26)

Olympiacos	1–2	Spartak Plovdiv

Karaiskakis, Piraeus

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March 1964 (1964-03)

Spartak Plovdiv	2–0	Radnički Niš

Spartak, Plovdiv

Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Spartak Plovdiv	1–3	Rapid București	1–1	0–2

First leg

9 September 1964 (1964-09-09)

Spartak Plovdiv	1–1	Rapid București

Spartak, Plovdiv

Second leg

16 September 1964 (1964-09-16)

Rapid București	2–0	Spartak Plovdiv

Rapid, Bucharest

Rapid București won 3–1 on aggregate.

References

1. "Balkans Cup 1963–64 season". RSSSF.

External links

• RSSSF Archive → Balkans Cup
• Romeo Ionescu (28 September 2003). "Balkan Cup 1960-1969". RSSSF.
• Mehmet Çelik. "Balkan Cup". Turkish Soccer