1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup

1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup

Tournament details
Dates	1 August 1960 – 27 May 1961
Teams	10
Final positions
Champions	Fiorentina (1st title)
Runners-up	Rangers
Tournament statistics
Matches played	18
Goals scored	60 (3.33 per match)
Attendance	511,459 (28,414 per match)

The 1960–61 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup club football tournament was won by Italian club Fiorentina in two-legged final victory against Rangers of Scotland.

Organised by the Mitropa Cup committee, this tournament's edition was recognised by UEFA in 1963, after lobbying by the Italian Football Federation. This was the first season that the tournament took place for the winners of each European country's domestic cup, and was the only one to be decided in a two-legged final. Only ten sides entered the competition, partially due to the low expectations for the new tournament among association football fans, and also to the unofficial nature of this edition.

SC Dynamo Berlin was the winner of the 1959 FDGB-Pokal and should naturally have represented East Germany in the 1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup. However, the German Football Association of the GDR (German: Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR) (DFV) found local rival and league runners-up ASK Vorwärts Berlin to be a more suitable representative of East Germany in the competition.

It is a myth that the low number of entrants was due to few countries already having a domestic cup competition: as happened for the first edition of the European Cup, entrance criteria could be changed by each national federation. Fiorentina entered as runners-up to Juventus in both Coppa Italia and Serie A, Czechoslovakia sent the winners of an unofficial League Cup, and both Hungary and East Germany enrolled their league runners-up.

Bracket

	Preliminary round						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
							Borussia Mönchengladbach	0	0	0
	Rangers	4	1	5			Rangers	3	8	11
	Ferencváros	2	2	4									Rangers	2	1	3
													Wolverhampton	0	1	1
							Austria Wien	2	0	2
							Wolverhampton	0	5	5
																			Rangers	0	1	1
																			Fiorentina	2	2	4
							FC Luzern	0	2	2
							Fiorentina	3	6	9
													Fiorentina	3	1	4
	ASK Vorwärts Berlin	2	0	2									Dinamo Zagreb	0	2	2
	Rudá Hvězda Brno	1	2	3			Rudá Hvězda Brno	0	0	0
							Dinamo Zagreb	0	2	2

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rangers	5–4	Ferencváros	4–2	1–2
ASK Vorwärts Berlin	2–3	Rudá Hvězda Brno	2–1	0–2

First leg

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Second leg

Rangers won 5–4 on aggregate.

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Rudá Hvězda Brno won 3–2 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–11	Rangers	0–3	0–8
Austria Wien	2–5	Wolverhampton Wanderers	2–0	0–5
FC Lucerne	2–9	Fiorentina	0–3	2–6
Rudá Hvězda Brno	0–2	Dinamo Zagreb	0–0	0–2

First leg

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Second leg

Rangers won 11–0 on aggregate.

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Wolverhampton Wanderers won 5–2 on aggregate.

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Fiorentina won 9–2 on aggregate.

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Dinamo Zagreb won 2–0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rangers	3–1	Wolverhampton Wanderers	2–0	1–1
Fiorentina	4–2	Dinamo Zagreb	3–0	1–2

First leg

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Second leg

Rangers won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Fiorentina won 4–2 on aggregate.

Final

First leg

Second leg

Fiorentina won 4–1 on aggregate.

See also

• 1960–61 European Cup
• 1960–61 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup