1968–69 European Cup
Milan (2nd title) | |
Runners-up | Ajax |
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Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 52 |
Goals scored | 176 (3.38 per match) |
Attendance | 1,738,847 (33,439 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Denis Law (Manchester United) 9 goals |
The 1968–69 season of the
Substitutions of two players at any game time were allowed; obligatory match dates were introduced (two weeks between the legs) and fixed on Wednesdays; the away goal rule was extended to the first and second rounds.[1]
Teams
Rapid Wien (1st) | Anderlecht (1st) | Levski-Spartak (1st) | AEL Limassol (1st) |
Spartak Trnava (1st) | AB (1st) | Manchester City (1st) | Manchester United (2nd)TH |
Reipas Lahti (1st) | Saint-Étienne (1st) | Carl Zeiss Jena (1st) | Nürnberg (1st) |
AEK Athens (1st) | Ferencváros (1st) | Valur (1st) | Waterford F.C. (1st) |
Milan (1st )
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Jeunesse Esch (1st) | Floriana (1st) | Ajax (1st) |
Glentoran (1st) | Rosenborg (1st) | Ruch Chorzów (1st) | Benfica (1st) |
Steaua București (1st )
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Celtic (1st) | Real Madrid (1st) | Malmö FF (1st) |
Zürich (1st) | Fenerbahçe (1st) | Dynamo Kyiv (1st) | Red Star Belgrade (1st) |
Bracket
First round
Team 1 | Agg.
|
Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Malmö FF | 3–5 | Milan
|
2–1 | 1–4 |
Dynamo Kyiv | (w/o) | Ruch Chorzów | – | – |
Saint-Étienne | 2–4 | Celtic | 2–0 | 0–4 |
Red Star Belgrade | (w/o) | Carl Zeiss Jena | – | – |
Waterford F.C. | 2–10 | Manchester United | 1–3 | 1–7 |
Anderlecht | 5–2 | Glentoran | 3–0 | 2–2 |
Rosenborg | 4–6 | Rapid Wien | 1–3 | 3–3 |
12–0 | AEL Limassol | 6–0 | 6–0 | |
Nürnberg | 1–5 | Ajax | 1–1 | 0–4 |
Manchester City | 1–2 | Fenerbahçe | 0–0 | 1–2 |
Valur | 1–8 | Benfica | 0–0 | 1–8 |
Levski-Spartak | (w/o) | Ferencváros | – | – |
Floriana | 1–3 | Reipas Lahti | 1–1 | 0–2 |
3–5 | Spartak Trnava | 3–1 | 0–4 | |
AEK Athens | 5–3 | Jeunesse Esch | 3–0 | 2–3 |
Zürich | 3–4 | AB | 1–3 | 2–1 |
First leg
Saint-Étienne | 2–0 | Celtic |
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Keïta 15' H. Revelli 36' |
Report |
1–3 | Manchester United | |
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Matthews 65' | Report | Law 8', 41', 55' |
Anderlecht | 3–0 | Glentoran |
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Nordahl 87' |
Report |
Rosenborg | 1–3 | Rapid Wien |
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Iversen 16' | Report | 86' |
6–0 | AEL Limassol | |
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75' | Report |
Nürnberg | 1–1 | Ajax |
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Volkert 6' | Report | Cruyff 80' |
Manchester City | 0–0 | Fenerbahçe |
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Report |
Floriana | 1–1 | Reipas Lahti |
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Galea 37' (pen.) | Report | Aalto 28' |
3–1 | Spartak Trnava | |
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Creiniceanu 18' Voinea 30' Constantin 51' |
Report | Kuna 75' |
AEK Athens | 3–0 | Jeunesse Esch |
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Papaioannou 27' Papageorgiou 58' Karafeskos 60' (pen.) |
Report |
Second leg
Milan won 5–3 on aggregate.
Celtic won 4–2 on aggregate.
Manchester United won 10–2 on aggregate.
Anderlecht won 5–2 on aggregate.
Rapid Wien | 3–3 | Rosenborg |
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Lindman 10', 80' Kaltenbrunner 17' |
Report | Iversen 21', 34', 87' |
Rapid Wien won 6–4 on aggregate.
Real Madrid | ||
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Report | 87' |
Real Madrid won 12–0 on aggregate.
Ajax | 4–0 | Nürnberg |
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Swart 22', 51' Groot 86' (pen.) Cruyff 89' |
Report |
Ajax won 5–1 on aggregate.
Fenerbahçe | 2–1 | Manchester City |
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Çevrim 48' Altıparmak 76' |
Report | Coleman 11' |
Fenerbahçe won 2–1 on aggregate.
Benfica won 8–1 on aggregate.
Reipas Lahti | 2–0 | Floriana |
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Holtari 56' (57) | Report |
Reipas Lahti won 3–1 on aggregate.
Steaua București | ||
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Švec 4' Adamec 58', 76', 80' |
Report |
Spartak Trnava won 5–3 on aggregate.
Jeunesse Esch | 3–2 | AEK Athens |
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Hoffmann 6' Drouet 40' Langer 77' |
Report | Ventouris 16', 33' |
AEK Athens won 5–3 on aggregate.
AB | 1–2 | Zürich |
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Petersen 53' | Report | Künzli 42', 80' |
AB won 4–3 on aggregate.
Second round
Team 1 | Agg.
|
Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Bye | – | – | – | |
Celtic | 6–2 | Red Star Belgrade | 5–1 | 1–1 |
Manchester United | 4–3 | Anderlecht | 3–0 | 1–3 |
Rapid Wien | 2–2 (a) | Real Madrid
|
1–0 | 1–2 |
Ajax | 4–0 | Fenerbahçe | 2–0 | 2–0 |
Benfica | Bye | – | – | – |
Reipas Lahti | 2–16 | Spartak Trnava | 1–9 | 1–7 |
AEK Athens | 2–0 | AB | 0–0 | 2–0 |
First leg
Manchester United | 3–0 | Anderlecht |
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Kidd 52' Law 70', 78' |
Report |
Real Madrid | ||
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Kaltenbrunner 55' | Report |
Ajax | 2–0 | Fenerbahçe |
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Nuninga 14' Muller 74' |
Report |
Reipas Lahti | 1–9 | Spartak Trnava |
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Hyvärinen 88' | Report | Hagara 14' Kabát 20', 80' Švec 23', 61' Kuna 52' Martinkovič 57', 65' Adamec 64' |
The home leg of
AEK Athens | 0–0 | AB |
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Report |
Second leg
Red Star Belgrade | 1–1 | Celtic |
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Ostojić 90' | Report | Wallace 72' |
Celtic won 6–2 on aggregate.
Anderlecht | 3–1 | Manchester United |
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Mulder 18' Bergholtz 38', 78' |
Report | Sartori 8' |
Manchester United won 4–3 on aggregate.
2–1 | Rapid Wien | |
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Velázquez 41' Pirri 83' |
Report | Bjerregaard 48' |
Rapid Wien won 2–2 on away goals.
Fenerbahçe | 0–2 | Ajax |
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Report | Keizer 55' Nuninga 88' |
Ajax won 4–0 on aggregate.
Spartak Trnava | 7–1 | Reipas Lahti |
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Hagara 15' Dobiaš 20', 49' (pen.), 64' Kuna 27' Adamec 37' Hrušecký 53' |
Report | Niskakoski 75' |
Spartak Trnava won 16–2 on aggregate.
AB | 0–2 | AEK Athens |
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Report | Stamatiadis 25' Papaioannou 81' |
AEK Athens won 2–0 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
Team 1 | Agg.
|
Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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1–0 | Celtic | 0–0 | 1–0 | |
Manchester United | 3–0 | Rapid Wien | 3–0 | 0–0 |
Ajax | 4–41 | Benfica | 1–3 | 3–1 |
Spartak Trnava | 3–2 | AEK Athens | 2–1 | 1–1 |
1 Ajax beat Benfica 3–0 in a play-off.
First leg
0–0 | Celtic | |
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Report |
Manchester United | 3–0 | Rapid Wien |
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Best 44', 70' Morgan 70' |
Report |
Ajax | 1–3 | Benfica |
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Danielsson 48' | Report | José Augusto 61' |
Spartak Trnava | 2–1 | AEK Athens |
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Jarábek 25' Kabát 44' |
Report | Sevastopoulos 60' |
Second leg
Milan won 1–0 on aggregate.
Rapid Wien | 0–0 | Manchester United |
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Report |
Manchester United won 3–0 on aggregate.
Benfica | 1–3 | Ajax |
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Torres 70' |
Report | Danielsson 9' Cruyff 12', 32' |
4–4 on aggregate. Tie is decided by a tie-breaker match on neutral ground.
AEK Athens | 1–1 | Spartak Trnava |
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Papaioannou 77' | Report | Švec 23' |
Spartak Trnava won 3–2 on aggregate.
Tie-breakers
a.e.t.) | Benfica | |
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Cruyff 93' Danielsson 105', 108' |
Report |
Ajax win the tie-breaker.
Semi-finals
Team 1 | Agg.
|
Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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2–1 | Manchester United | 2–0 | 0–1 | |
Ajax | 3–2 | Spartak Trnava | 3–0 | 0–2 |
First leg
2–0 | Manchester United | |
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Sormani 33' Hamrin 49' |
Report |
Ajax | 3–0 | Spartak Trnava |
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Cruyff 27' Swart 52' Keizer 60' |
Report |
Second leg
Milan won 2–1 on aggregate.
Spartak Trnava | 2–0 | Ajax |
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Kuna 27', 49' | Report |
Ajax won 3–2 on aggregate.
Final
Top scorers
The top scorers from the 1968–69 European Cup are as follows:
Rank | Name | Team | Goals |
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1 | Denis Law | Manchester United | 9 |
2 | Johan Cruyff | Ajax | 6 |
Pierino Prati | Milan
|
6 | |
4 | Jozef Adamec | Spartak Trnava | 5 |
Ladislav Kuna | Spartak Trnava | 5 | |
José Augusto Torres
|
Benfica | 5 | |
7 | Gerard Bergholtz | Anderlecht | 4 |
Inge Danielsson | Ajax | 4 | |
Odd Iversen | Rosenborg | 4 | |
Pirri | Real Madrid
|
4 | |
Valér Švec | Spartak Trnava | 4 |
References
- ^ UEFA.com (5 June 2018). "How the European calendar took shape | Inside UEFA". UEFA.com. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
- ^ "Nürnberg v Ajax, 18 September 1968" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Steaua București v Spartak Trnava, 18 September 1968" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Manchester United v Anderlecht, 13 November 1968" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Rapid Wien v Real Madrid, 20 November 1968" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Reipas Lahti v Spartak Trnava, 20 November 1968" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
- ^ "Kerran näinkin: Suomalaisjalkapalloilijat tekemässä lajinsa historiaa" [For once: Finnish footballers about to make history in their sport]. Helsingin Sanomat. 21 November 1968. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
- ^ "Real Madrid v Rapid Wien, 4 December 1968" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Benfica v Ajax, 19 February 1969" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
External links
- 1968–69 All matches – season at UEFA website
- European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
- All scorers 1968–69 European Cup according to protocols UEFA
- 1968-69 European Cup – results and line-ups (archive)