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Anglo-Italian Cup
Modena
(2 titles)

The Anglo-Italian Cup (Italian: Coppa Anglo-Italiana, also known as the Anglo-Italian Inter-League Clubs Competition[1] and from 1976 to 1986 as the Alitalia Challenge Cup, Talbot Challenge Cup or Gigi Peronace Memorial) was a European football competition.

The competition was played intermittently between 1970 and 1996 between clubs from England and Italy. It was founded by Gigi Peronace, following the two-team Anglo-Italian League Cup in 1969. The initial Anglo-Italian Cup was played as an annual tournament from 1970 to 1973. The first final was abandoned early due to violence, with Swindon Town declared the winners. During its time the tournament had a reputation for violence between fans, and also between players on the pitch.[2][3] but it returned as a semi-professional tournament from 1976 before it was abolished again in 1986.

In 1992, the Anglo-Italian Cup was re-established as a professional cup for second-tier clubs – it replaced the English

Full Members Cup. The Italian representatives were Serie B teams. This version of the Cup ran for four seasons, until 1996, before being discontinued due to fixture congestion. The trophy was a 22-inch (56 cm) high gold loving cup mounted on a wooden plinth.[4][5]

History

Professional era

Year Winners Runners-up
1970 England Swindon Town
Napoli
1971 England Blackpool
Bologna
1972
Roma
 England Blackpool
1973 England Newcastle United Italy Fiorentina
A match in the 1970 Anglo Italian Cup; Juventus vs Swindon Town

From 1967, a place in the

A.S. Roma, was organised by way of compensation.[2][8] Following the popularity of that event, dubbed the Anglo-Italian League Cup,[2] and as a way to generate income to pay players' wages during the extended close season caused by the 1970 FIFA World Cup, the first Anglo-Italian Cup was inaugurated in 1970.[1]

For the first competition there were six English teams and six Italian teams.

Stadio San Paolo on 28 May 1970. Swindon were 3–0 up after 63 minutes, when violence started to break out. The match was halted and then abandoned after 79 minutes, with Swindon being declared as the first winners of the tournament.[2][9]

Juventus vs Sheffield Wednesday in the group stage of The Anglo-Italian League Cup, a coin toss.

In 1971, the second edition of the tournament,

extra-time, during which Micky Burns scored the winning goal for Blackpool.[4]

Blackpool qualified for the final again in 1972, but were unsuccessful in their defence of the title, with

Stadio Artemio Franchi on 3 June 1973.[13][14] Due to lack of interest the tournament did not continue,[4] and it was not until 1976 that it re-emerged as a semi-professional competition.[3]

Anglo-Italian Semiprofessional Cup

Sources:[15][16]

Year Winner Runner-up
1975
Wycombe Wanderers
Monza
1976
Lecce
 England Scarborough

Semi-professional era

Year Winner Runner-up
1976
Monza
 England Wimbledon
1977
Lecco
 England Bath City
1978 Italy Udinese England Bath City
1979 England Sutton United
Chieti
1980
Triestina
 England Sutton United
1981
Modena
 England Poole Town
1982
Modena
 England Sutton United
1983 Italy Cosenza
Padova
1984
Francavilla
Teramo
1985
Pontedera
Livorno
1986
Piacenza Calcio
Pontedera

In March 1976, the Anglo-Italian Cup was re-introduced as a semi-professional tournament, with six entrants from each country.

Lecco in 1977,[18] and Udinese in 1978,[19] when the tournament was renamed the Alitalia Challenge Cup.[20]

In 1979, each country had four entrants and

Triestina.[22]

In 1981, the tournament was called the Talbot Challenge Cup and

Modena were the winners.[20][23] The following year the tournament was renamed the Gigi Peronace Memorial, after the man who organised the tournament,[20][24] and reduced to four teams. The new format consisted of two Anglo-Italian semi-finals, which meant the final was not necessarily contested by an English and an Italian team. That year, Modena successfully defended their title in a final against Sutton United,[25] who were the last English team to reach the final of the semi-professional tournament.[citation needed
]

From 1983 to 1986, the finals were all-Italian contests, and after the 1986 instalment the tournament was discontinued.[20]

Professional tournament again

Year Winner Runner-up
1992–93
Cremonese
 England Derby County
1993–94 Italy Brescia England Notts County
1994–95 England Notts County
Ascoli
1995–96
Genoa
 England Port Vale

The competition was re-established in 1992–93 as a replacement for the

Full Members Cup.[2][5] It was a professional tournament for teams competing in the second tier of football—the newly renamed First Division in England and Serie B in Italy.[26]

The new version of the tournament began with preliminary rounds – 24 English teams competed in 8 groups of three teams. Each team played the others once, and the eight group winners progressed to the main competition.

The main competition consisted of two groups, each with four English, and four Italian teams. Each team would play four group games – against every team in its group from the other nation. Then, the top team in each group from each nation competed in semi-finals: an all-English semi-final, and an all-Italian semi-final.[27] The final was a single match played at Wembley.

In the 1992–93 tournament,

Genoa triumphed 5–2 over Port Vale in the final on 17 March 1996.[29] The competition was abandoned in 1996 because the two leagues could not agree on dates for fixtures,[30][3]

Participants

For the original professional tournament in the 1970s, the English entrants were either First Division or Second Division sides. (The First Division sides had generally finished the previous season in the lower half of the table, while the Second Division sides were generally mid-table or better.) With the exception of Bari and Como in 1973, all Italian teams playing in the 1970s tournament had just competed in the previous Serie A season. The Italian clubs were often mid-table or higher finishers who had sometimes also qualified for the European competitions.

When the competition was revived in the 1990s, for the first two seasons all English sides playing in the First Division (2nd level) participated, but in the last two tournaments only 8 English teams played. In 1994/95, two of the clubs relegated from the Premiership were joined by six teams that had just missed out on promotion. For 1995/96, only one relegated Premiership team competed – most of the remaining teams had finished in mid-table or lower table in the previous First Division campaign, and Birmingham City had just been promoted from Division Two.[31]

The Italian participants in the revived 1990s tournament were the four teams that had just been relegated from Serie A and the four teams that had finished highest but not been promoted in Serie B. The exception to this was Verona, who were relegated in 1991/92, but did not play in the 1992/93 cup.[32]

Table of participants and performance by season

Country Club 1970[11] 1971[33] 1972[34] 1973[35] 1992–93[36] 1993–94[37][nb 1] 1994–95[38] 1995–96[39]
England Middlesbrough GS GS GS
England Sheffield Wednesday GS
England Sunderland GS GS Q Q
England Swindon Town W GS Q GS
England West Bromwich Albion GS GS GS SF
England Wolverhampton Wanderers GS Q Q GS
Italy Fiorentina GS RU GS
Italy Juventus GS
Italy
Lazio
 GS GS
Italy
Napoli
 RU
Italy
Roma
 GS GS W GS
Italy
Lanerossi Vicenza
 GS GS
England Blackpool W RU GS
England Crystal Palace GS SF Q
England Huddersfield Town GS
England Stoke City GS GS GS SF GS
Italy
Bologna
 RU SF
Italy Cagliari GS GS
Italy
Internazionale
 GS
Italy
Sampdoria
 GS GS
Italy
Verona
 GS GS
England Birmingham City GS GS Q QF
England Carlisle United GS
England Leicester City GS Q Q
Italy
Atalanta
 GS GS
Italy
Catanzaro
 GS
England Fulham GS
England Hull City GS
England Luton Town GS Q Q GS
England Manchester United GS
England Newcastle United W GS
England Oxford United GS Q Q
Italy
Bari
 GS SF
Italy Como GS
Italy
Torino
 GS
England West Ham United GS
England Portsmouth GS GS
England Tranmere Rovers GS Q GS
England Millwall Q Q
England Derby County RU Q GS
England Grimsby Town Q Q
England Peterborough United Q Q
England Charlton Athletic Q GS
England Barnsley Q Q
England Bristol City GS Q
England Watford Q Q
England Notts County Q RU W
England Southend United Q SF GS
England Brentford SF
England Cambridge United Q
England Bristol Rovers Q
Italy
Ascoli
 GS GS RU
Italy
Cesena
 GS GS SF
Italy Cosenza GS GS
Italy
Cremonese
 W
Italy
Lucchese
 GS
Italy
Pisa
 GS GS
Italy
Reggiana
 GS GS
England Bolton Wanderers GS
England Nottingham Forest Q
Italy
Ancona
 GS SF GS
Italy Brescia W GS
Italy Padova GS
Italy
Pescara
 SF
England Sheffield United GS
Italy
Lecce
 GS
Italy
Piacenza
 GS
Italy Udinese GS
Italy
Venezia
 GS
England Ipswich Town QF
England
Oldham Athletic
 GS
England Port Vale RU
Italy
Foggia
 QF
Italy
Genoa
 W
Italy
Perugia
 GS
Italy
Salernitana
 QF
Key
W RU SF QF GS Q

Won tournament; runner-up; lost in semi-final (English or Italian final); lost in quarter-final (English or Italian semi-final); eliminated in group stage; eliminated in preliminary qualifying.

Performance by nation

Nation Winners
 Italy 15
 England 6

See also

Notes

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