1968–69 European Cup Winners' Cup

The season 1968-69 of the European Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by Slovan Bratislava in a final victory against FC Barcelona, the first time a side from the Eastern Bloc won the title. A number of withdrawals by Eastern European clubs from the first round as a result of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia led to several walkovers and byes that lasted into the second round.

First round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dunfermline Athletic F.C.	12 - 1	APOEL FC	10 - 1	2 - 0
Olympiacos	4 - 0	KR Reykjavík	2 - 0	2 - 0
Dinamo Bucureşti	w/o	Vasas ETO Győr	-	-
Club Brugge K.V.	3 - 3(a)	West Bromwich Albion F.C.	3 - 1	0 - 2
Partizani Tirana	2 - 3	Torino	1 - 0	1 - 3
Spartak Sofia	withdrew	1. FC Union Berlin	-	-
Cardiff City	3 - 4	FC Porto	2 - 2	1 - 2
Slovan Bratislava	3 - 2	FK Bor	3 - 0	0 - 2
ADO Den Haag	6 - 1	Grazer AK	4 - 1	2 - 0
FC Girondins de Bordeaux	2 - 4	1. FC Köln	2 - 1	0 - 3
Randers Freja	3 - 1	Shamrock Rovers	1 - 0	2 - 1
US Rumelange	2 - 2(a)	Sliema Wanderers	2 - 1	0 - 1
FC Lugano	0 - 4	FC Barcelona	0 - 1	0 - 3
Górnik Zabrze	withdrew	FC Dynamo Moscow	-	-
Altay SK	4 - 5	Lyn	3 - 1	1 - 4
Crusaders F.C.	3 - 6	IFK Norrköping	2 - 2	1 - 4

First Leg

18 September 1968	Dunfermline Athletic	10 – 1	APOEL FC	East End Park Referee: K Stevaag (Norway)
	Robertson  9' Barry  17' Gardner  19' Renton  26' Edwards  43' W Callaghan  57' T Callaghan  63' W Callaghan  73' Robertson  78' Renton  89'		Stylianou  62'

18 September 1968	Partizani Tirana	1 – 0	Torino	Tirana
	Shaqiri  45'

Second leg

2 October 1968	APOEL FC	0 – 2	Dunfermline Athletic	Cyprus Attendance: 6,000
			Gardner  52' W Callaghan  85'

Dunfermline Athletic won 12–1 on aggregate.

2 October 1968	Torino	3 – 1	Partizani Tirana	Turin
	Carelli  22' Facchin  28' Mondonico  59'		Bajko  85'

Torino won 3–2 on aggregate.

Second round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dunfermline Athletic F.C.	4 - 3	Olympiacos	4 - 0	0 - 3
Dinamo Bucureşti	1 - 5	West Bromwich Albion F.C.	1 - 1	0 - 4
Torino	Bye		-	-
FC Porto	1 - 4	Slovan Bratislava	1 - 0	0 - 4
ADO Den Haag	0 - 4	1. FC Köln	0 - 1	0 - 3
Randers Freja	8 - 0	Sliema Wanderers	6 - 0	2 - 0
FC Barcelona	Bye		-	-
Lyn	4 - 3	IFK Norrköping	2 - 0	2 - 3

First leg

13 November 1968 14:15	Dinamo Bucureşti	1 – 1	West Bromwich Albion	Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Hans-Joachim Weyland (West Germany)
	Dumitrache  23'		Hartford  28'

Second leg

27 November 1968 20:30	West Bromwich Albion	4 – 0	Dinamo Bucureşti	The Hawthorns, West Bromwich Attendance: 33,059 Referee: Robert Hélies (France)
	Lovett  35' Brown  44', 52' (pen) Astle  72'

West Bromwich Albion won 5–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dunfermline Athletic	1 - 0	West Bromwich Albion	0 - 0	1 - 0
Torino	1 - 3	Slovan Bratislava	0 - 1	1 - 2
1. FC Köln	5 - 1	Randers Freja	2 - 1	3 - 0
FC Barcelona	5 - 4	Lyn	3 - 2	2 - 2

First leg

15 January 1969	Dunfermline Athletic	0 – 0	West Bromwich Albion	East End Park Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Helmut Fritz (West Germany)

19 February 1969	Torino	0 – 1	Slovan Bratislava	Turin
			Jokl  54'

Second leg

19 February 1969	West Bromwich Albion	0 – 1	Dunfermline Athletic	The Hawthorns, West Bromwich Attendance: 32,000 Referee: William O'Neill (Ireland)
			Gardner  2'

Dunfermline Athletic won 1–0 on aggregate.

5 March 1969	Slovan Bratislava	2 – 1	Torino	Bratislava
	Horváth  26' Hlavenka  62'		Carelli  89'

Slovan Bratislava won 3–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dunfermline Athletic	1 - 2	Slovan Bratislava	1 - 1	0 - 1
1. FC Köln	3 - 6	Barcelona	2 - 2	1 - 4

First leg

9 April 1969	Dunfermline Athletic	1 – 1	Slovan Bratislava	East End Park, Dunfermline Attendance: 16,559 Referee: Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)
	Fraser  44'		Čapkovič  83'

2 April 1969 20:00	1. FC Köln	2 – 2	Barcelona	Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Leo Callaghan (Wales)
	Löhr  8' Rühl  76'		Zabalza  23' Fusté  81'

Second leg

23 April 1969	Slovan Bratislava	1 – 0	Dunfermline Athletic	Tehelné pole, Bratislava Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Josip Drago Horvat (Yugoslavia)
	Čapkovič  24'

Slovan Bratislava won 2–1 on aggregate.

19 April 1969 22:15	Barcelona	4 – 1	1. FC Köln	Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Antonio Sbardella (Italy)
	Martí Filosia  7' Fusté  54', 68', 80'		Rühl  17'

Barcelona won 6–3 on aggregate.

Final

21 May 1969 20:00	Slovan Bratislava	3 – 2	Barcelona	St. Jakob Stadium, Basel Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Laurens van Ravens (Netherlands)
	Cvetler  2' Hrivnák  30' Ján Čapkovič  42'		Zaldúa  16' Rexach  52'

External links

• 1968-69 competition at UEFA website
• Cup Winners' Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation