1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

1969–1970 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
Final positions
Champions	Arsenal (1st title)
Runners-up	Anderlecht
Tournament statistics
Matches played	126
Top scorer	Paul Van Himst (10 goals)
	← 1968–69 1970–71 →

The 1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was the 12th Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. The competition was won by Arsenal over two legs in the final against Anderlecht. It was the first of Arsenal's two European trophies, the other being the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1993–94.

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Valur	0–8	Anderlecht	0–6	0–2
Jeunesse Esch	3–6	Coleraine	3–2	0–4
Dunfermline Athletic	4–2	Bordeaux	4–0	0–2
Vojvodina	1–2	Gwardia Warszawa	0–1	1–1
Hvidovre	1–4	Porto	1–2	0–2
Dundee United	1–3	Newcastle United	1–2	0–1
Vitória de Guimarães	2–1	Baník Ostrava	1–0	1–1
Rosenborg	1–2	Southampton	1–0	0–2
Vitória de Setúbal	7–2	Rapid București	3–1	4–1
Liverpool	14–0	Dundalk	10–0	4–0
Las Palmas	0–1	Hertha BSC	0–0	0–1
Juventus	5–2	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	3–1	2–1
Lausanne-Sport	2–4	Győr	1–2	1–2
Barcelona	6–0	B 1913	4–0	2–0
Hansa Rostock	3–2	Panionios	3–0	0–2
Internazionale	4–0	Sparta Prague	3–0	1–0
Zürich	4–5	Kilmarnock	3–2	1–3
Slavia Sofia	3–1	Valencia	2–0	1–1
1860 Munich	3–4	Skeid	2–2	1–2
Dinamo Bacău	7–0	Floriana	6–0	1–0
Charleroi	5–2	Zagreb	2–1	3–1
Rouen	2–1	Twente	2–0	0–1
Sporting CP	6–2	LASK Linz	4–0	2–2
Arsenal	3–1	Glentoran	3–0	0–1
Carl Zeiss Jena	1–0	Altay	1–0	0–0
Aris	1–4	Cagliari	1–1	0–3
Sabadell	3–5	Club Brugge	2–0	1–5
Partizan	2–3	Újpest	2–1	0–2
Stuttgart	4–1	Malmö FF	3–0	1–1
Metz	2–3	Napoli	1–1	1–2
Hannover 96	2–4	Ajax	2–1	0–3
Wiener SC	5–6	Ruch Chorzów	4–2	1–4

First leg

10 September 1969

Vitória de Guimarães	1–0	Baník Ostrava
Manuel 10'	^{[citation needed]}

Estádio D. Afonso Henriques, Guimarães

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Adolfo Bueno Perales (Spain)

15 September 1969

Dundee United	1–2	Newcastle United
Mitchell 76'	Report	Davies 56', 62'

Tannadice Park, Dundee

Attendance: 21,000

Referee: Peter Coates (Ireland)

16 September 1969

Liverpool	10–0	Dundalk
Evans 1', 38' Lawler 10' Smith 24', 67' Graham 36', 82' Lindsay 56' Thompson 69' Callaghan 76'	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 32,656

Referee: John Lewis (Wales)

17 September 1969

Juventus	3–1	Lokomotiv Plovdiv
Vieri 27' (pen.) Leonardi 31' Castano 71'		Vasilev 1'

Turin

17 September 1969

Internazionale	3–0	Sparta Prague
Boninsegna 68', 79' Reif 84'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 20,000^{[citation needed]}

Referee: János Biróczky (Hungary)

17 September 1969

Dinamo Bacău	6–0	Floriana
Grima 1' (o.g.) Dembrovschi 11', 73' (pen.), 86' Băluță 24' Ene 87'	Report

Stadionul 23 August, Bacău

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Kostas Xanthos (Greece)

17 September 1969

Aris	1–1	Cagliari
Spiridon 12'		Martiradonna 82'

Thessaloniki

17 September 1969

Metz	1–1	Napoli
Szczepaniak 67'		Bosdaves 8'

Metz

17 September 1969

Slavia Sofia	2–0	Valencia
Grigorov 42' T. Kolev 68' (pen.)	Report

Stadion Slavia, Sofia

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Tibor Wotava (Hungary)

17 September 1969

VfB Stuttgart	3–0	Malmö FF
Björklund 36' (o.g.) Olsson 50' Haug 87'

Neckarstadion, Stuttgart

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Robert Frauciel (France)

18 September 1969

Vitória de Setúbal	3–1	Rapid București
José Maria 41', 87' Guerreiro 64'	^{[citation needed]}	Neagu 71'

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Daniel Zariquiegi (Spain)

18 September 1969

Jeunesse Esch	3–2	Coleraine
Allamano 48', 53', 89'	Report	Curley 16' Murray 60'

Stade de la Frontière, Esch-sur-Alzette

Attendance: 1,400

Referee: Joseph Minnoy (Belgium)

24 September 1969

Hvidovre	1–2	Porto
Sørensen 29' (pen.)	^{[citation needed]}	Ernesto 62', 70'

Hvidovre Stadion, Copenhagen

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Karl Keller (Switzerland)

24 September 1969

Sporting CP	4–0	LASK Linz
Pedras 8' Gonçalves 60' Peres 72' (pen.) Lourenço 75'	^{[citation needed]}

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: David Smith (England)

Second leg

30 September 1969

Dundalk	0–4	Liverpool
	Report	Thompson 13', 31' Graham 48' Callaghan 81'

Oriel Park, Dundalk

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Tom Wharton (Scotland)

Liverpool won 14–0 on aggregate.

1 October 1969

Lokomotiv Plovdiv	1–2	Juventus
Vasilev 62'		Leonardi 21' Anastasi 75'

Plovdiv

Juventus won 5–2 on aggregate.

1 October 1969

Sparta Prague	0–1	Internazionale
		Boninsegna 6'

Letná Stadium, Prague

Attendance: 25,000^{[citation needed]}

Referee: Eugen Boller (Switzerland)

Internazionale won 4–0 on aggregate.

28 September 1969

Floriana	0–1	Dinamo Bacău
	Report	Ene 32'

Empire Stadium, Gżira

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Fabio Monti (Italy)

Dinamo Bacău won 7–0 on aggregate.

1 October 1969

Cagliari	3–0	Aris
Domenghini 10' Riva 13' Gori 76' (pen.)

Cagliari

The game was abandoned after Cagliari's third goal because three Greek players refused to return to the pitch after they were expelled by the police. UEFA ruled the 3–0 score as final.

Cagliari won 4–1 on aggregate.

1 October 1969

Napoli	2–1	Metz
Bianchi 41' Improta 60' (pen.)		Hausser 70'

Naples

Napoli won 3–2 on aggregate.

1 October 1969

Valencia	1–1	Slavia Sofia
Ansola 75'	Report	Grigorov 33'

Estadio Luis Casanova, Valencia

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Roger Mouton (France)

Slavia Sofia won 3–1 on aggregate.

1 October 1969

Rapid București	1–4	Vitória de Setúbal
Stelian 78'	^{[citation needed]}	Wágner 23' (pen.), 61' (pen.) José Maria 34' Figueiredo 64'

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Muzaffer Sarvan (Turkey)

Vitória de Setúbal won 7–2 on aggregate.

1 October 1969

Porto	2–0	Hvidovre
Salim 24' Rolando 74'	^{[citation needed]}

Estádio das Antas, Porto

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Mariano Medina Iglesias (Spain)

Porto won 4–1 on aggregate.

1 October 1969

LASK Linz	2–2	Sporting CP
Leitner 81'	^{[citation needed]}	Gonçalves 40' Lourenço 77'

Linzer Stadion, Linz

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Helmut Bader (East Germany)

Sporting CP won 6–2 on aggregate.

1 October 1969

Newcastle United	1–0	Dundee United
Dyson 90'	Report

St James' Park, Newcastle upon Tyne

Attendance: 37,470

Referee: Leo Callaghan (Wales)

Newcastle United won 3–1 on aggregate.

1 October 1969

Coleraine	4–0	Jeunesse Esch
Wilson 11' Dickson 73', 85' Jennings 87'	Report

Coleraine Showgrounds, Coleraine

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: William O'Neill (Republic of Ireland)

Coleraine won 6–3 on aggregate.

1 October 1969

Malmö FF	1–1	VfB Stuttgart
Larsson 65'		Weidmann 15'

Eleda Stadion, Malmö

Attendance: 2,500

Referee: Tage Sørensen (Denmark)

Stuttgart won 4–1 on aggregate.

2 October 1969

Baník Ostrava	1–1	Vitória de Guimarães
Guzik 73'	^{[citation needed]}	Artur 80'

Bazaly, Ostrava

Attendance: 9,000

Referee: Constantin Bărbulescu (Romania)

Vitória de Guimarães won 2–1 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Anderlecht	13–4	Coleraine	6–1	7–3
Dunfermline Athletic	3–1	Gwardia Warszawa	2–1	1–0
Porto	0–1	Newcastle United	0–0	0–1
Vitória de Guimarães	4–8	Southampton	3–3	1–5
Vitória de Setúbal	3–3 (a)	Liverpool	1–0	2–3
Hertha BSC	3–1	Juventus	3–1	0–0
Győr	2–5	Barcelona	2–3	0–2
Hansa Rostock	2–4	Internazionale	2–1	0–3
Kilmarnock	4–3	Slavia Sofia	4–1	0–2
Skeid	0–2	Dinamo Bacău	0–0	0–2
Charleroi	3–3 (a)	Rouen	3–1	0–2
Sporting CP	0–3	Arsenal	0–0	0–3
Carl Zeiss Jena	3–0	Cagliari	2–0	1–0
Club Brugge	5–5 (a)	Újpest	5–2	0–3
Stuttgart	0–1	Napoli	0–0	0–1
Ajax	9–1	Ruch Chorzów	7–0	2–1

First leg

29 October 1969

Sporting CP	0–0	Arsenal
	^{[citation needed]}

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 32,000

Referee: Dittmar Huber (Switzerland)

4 November 1969

Vitória de Guimarães	3–3	Southampton
Mendes 12', 58' Pinto 88' (pen.)	^{[citation needed]}	Channon 13' Davies 63' Paine 83'

Estádio D. Afonso Henriques, Guimarães

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Pius Kamber (Switzerland)

12 November 1969

Hertha BSC	3–1	Juventus
Gayer 16' Wild 31' Steffenhagen 79'		Anastasi 14'

Berlin

12 November 1969

Hansa Rostock	2–1	Internazionale
Hergesell 63' Sackritz 89'		Boninsegna 1'

Ostseestadion, Rostock

Attendance: 30,000^[1]

Referee: Arie van Gemert (Netherland)

22 October 1969

Skeid	0–0	Dinamo Bacău
	Report

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 7,250

Referee: Ejner Espersen (Denmark)

12 November 1969

Carl Zeiss Jena	2–0	Cagliari
Rock 63' Irmscher 73' (pen.)

Jena

12 November 1969

Stuttgart	0–0	Napoli

Stuttgart

12 November 1969

Vitória de Setúbal	1–0	Liverpool
Tomé 40'	^{[citation needed]}

Estádio do Bonfim, Setúbal

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Antonio Sbardella (Italy)

19 November 1969

Porto	0–0	Newcastle United
	^{[citation needed]}

Estádio das Antas, Porto

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Roland Marendaz (Switzerland)

Second leg

12 November 1969

Southampton	5–1	Vitória de Guimarães
Costeado 13' (o.g.) Davies 54' (pen.), 87' Gabriel 55' Channon 85'	^{[citation needed]}	Ademir 68'

The Dell, Southampton

Attendance: 21,414

Referee: Robert Frauciel (France)

Southampton won 8–4 on aggregate.

26 November 1969

Juventus	0–0	Hertha BSC

Turin

Hertha BSC won 3–1 on aggregate.

26 November 1969

Internazionale	3–0	Hansa Rostock
Jair 5' Suárez 23' Mazzola 32'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 48,000^{[citation needed]}

Referee: Norman Burtenshaw (England)

Internazionale won 4–2 on aggregate.

29 October 1969

Dinamo Bacău	2–0	Skeid
Dembrovschi 47' (pen.), 68'	Report

Stadionul 23 August, Bacău

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: János Almási (Hungary)

Dinamo Bacău won 2–0 on aggregate.

26 November 1969

Cagliari	0–1	Carl Zeiss Jena
		Stein 8'

Cagliari

Carl Zeiss Jena won 3–0 on aggregate.

26 November 1969

Napoli	1–0	Stuttgart
Canzi 75'

Naples

Napoli won 1–0 on aggregate.

26 November 1969

Newcastle United	1–0	Porto
Scott 22'	^{[citation needed]}

St James' Park, Newcastle upon Tyne

Attendance: 44,800

Referee: Wolfgang Riedel (East Germany)

Newcastle United won 1–0 on aggregate.

26 November 1969

Arsenal	3–0	Sporting CP
Graham 43', 53' Radford 20'	^{[citation needed]}

Arsenal Stadium, London

Attendance: 35,253

Referee: Heinz Siebert (West Germany)

Arsenal won 3–0 on aggregate.

26 November 1969

Liverpool	3–2	Vitória de Setúbal
Smith 60' (pen.) Evans 88' Hunt 90'	^{[citation needed]}	Wágner 23' (pen.) Strong 56' (o.g.)

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 41,633

Referee: Alfred Delcourt (Belgium)

Vitória de Setúbal won on the away goals rule.

Third round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Anderlecht	3–3 (a)	Dunfermline Athletic	1–0	2–3
Newcastle United	1–1 (a)	Southampton	0–0	1–1
Vitória de Setúbal	1–2	Hertha BSC	1–1	0–1
Barcelona	2–3	Internazionale	1–2	1–1
Kilmarnock	1–3	Dinamo Bacău	1–1	0–2
Rouen	0–1	Arsenal	0–0	0–1
Carl Zeiss Jena	4–0	Újpest	1–0	3–0
Napoli	1–4	Ajax	1–0	0–4 (a.e.t.)

First leg

10 December 1969

Napoli	1–0	Ajax
Manservisi 37'

Naples

17 December 1969

Kilmarnock	1–1	Dinamo Bacău
Mathie 50'	Report	Băluță 73'

Rugby Park, Kilmarnock

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Francis Rion (Belgium)

30 December 1969

Vitória de Setúbal	1–1	Hertha BSC
Tomé 10'	^{[citation needed]}	Horr 3'

Estádio do Bonfim, Setúbal

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Anton Bucheli (Switzerland)

14 January 1970

Barcelona	1–2	Internazionale
Fusté 21'		Boninsegna 9' Bertini 34'

Camp Nou, Barcelona

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Jack Taylor (England)

Second leg

7 January 1970

Hertha BSC	1–0	Vitória de Setúbal
Steffenhagen 59'	^{[citation needed]}

Olympiastadion, Berlin

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Jim Finney (England)

Hertha BSC won 2–1 on aggregate.

13 January 1970

Dinamo Bacău	2–0	Kilmarnock
Ene 27', 79'	Report

Stadionul 23 August, Bacău

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: István Zsolt (Hungary)

Dinamo Bacău won 3–1 on aggregate.

28 January 1970

Internazionale	1–0	Barcelona
Boninsegna 15'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)

The game was abandoned in the 33rd minute due to low visibility and fog. It was replayed.

4 February 1970

Internazionale	1–1	Barcelona
Boninsegna 18'		Rexach 29'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)

Internazionale won 3–2 on aggregate.

21 January 1970

Ajax	4–0 (a.e.t.)	Napoli
Swart 35' Suurendonk 109', 113', 116'

Amsterdam

The game was originally scheduled for 7 January, but was postponed due to fog in Amsterdam.

Ajax won 4–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Anderlecht	3–3 (a)	Newcastle United	2–0	1–3
Hertha BSC	1–2	Internazionale	1–0	0–2
Dinamo Bacău	1–9	Arsenal	0–2	1–7
Carl Zeiss Jena	4–6	Ajax	3–1	1–5

First leg

4 March 1970

Hertha BSC	1–0	Internazionale
Horr 22'

Olympic Stadium, Berlin

Attendance: 40,000^[2]

Referee: Gilbert Droz (Switzerland)

11 March 1970

Dinamo Bacău	0–2	Arsenal
	Report	Sammels 58' Radford 81'

Stadionul 23 August, Bacău

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Gyula Emsberger (Hungary)

Second leg

18 March 1970

Internazionale	2–0	Hertha BSC
Boninsegna 47', 60' (pen.)

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 15,000^{[citation needed]}

Referee: Georges Uhlen (France)

Internazionale won 2–1 on aggregate.

18 March 1970

Arsenal	7–1	Dinamo Bacău
Radford 7', 77' George 24', 26' Graham 45' Sammels 59', 83'	Report	Băluță 33'

Arsenal Stadium, London

Attendance: 35,342

Referee: Willem Schalks (Netherlands)

Arsenal won 9–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Anderlecht	2–1	Internazionale	0–1	2–0
Arsenal	3–1	Ajax	3–0	0–1

First leg

1 April 1970

Anderlecht	0–1	Internazionale
		Boninsegna 49'

Émile Versé Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 31,500^{[citation needed]}

Referee: Thomas Wharton (Scotland)

8 April 1970

Arsenal	3-0	Ajax
George 16', 80' (pen.) Sammels 77'

Second leg

15 April 1970

Internazionale	0–2	Anderlecht
		Bergholtz 3', 45'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 25,000^{[citation needed]}

Referee: Rudi Glöckner (East Germany)

Anderlecht won 2–1 on aggregate.

Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Anderlecht	3–4	Arsenal	3–1	0–3

First leg

22 April 1970

Anderlecht	3–1	Arsenal
Devrindt 25' Mulder 30', 74'		Kennedy 82'

Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Anderlecht

Attendance: 37,000

Referee: Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland)

Second leg

28 April 1970

Arsenal	3–0	Anderlecht
Kelly 25' Radford 75' Sammels 76'

Highbury, London

Attendance: 51,612

Referee: Gerhard Kunze (East Germany)

Arsenal won 4–3 on aggregate.

References

External links

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

[1] "Spielinfo | Hansa Rostock - Inter Mailand 2:1 | 2. Runde | Messepokal 1969/70".

[2] "Spielereignisse | Hertha BSC - Inter Mailand 1:0 | Viertelfinale | Messepokal 1969/70".

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