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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(s)	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' Cupin1993–94.

First round[edit]

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[edit]

Vitória de Guimarães	1 – 0	Baník Ostrava
Manuel 10'	(Report)

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Adolfo Bueno Perales (Spain)

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

Attendance: 21,000

Referee: Peter Coates (Ireland)

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

Attendance: 32,656

Referee: John Lewis (Wales)

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

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

Attendance: 20,000^[1]

Referee: János Biróczky (Hungary)

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

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Kostas Xanthos (Greece)

Aris	1–1	Cagliari
Spiridon 12'		Martiradonna 82'

Metz	1–1	Napoli
Szczepaniak 67'		Bosdaves 8'

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

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Tibor Wotava (Hungary)

Vitória de Setúbal	3–1	Rapid București
José Maria 41', 87' Guerreiro 64'	(Report)	Neagu 71'

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Daniel Zariquiegi (Spain)

Hvidovre	1–2	Porto
Sørensen 29' (pen.)	(Report)	Ernesto 62', 70'

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Karl Keller (Switzerland)

Sporting CP	4–0	LASK Linz
Pedras 8' Gonçalves 60' Peres 72' (pen.) Lourenço 75'	(Report)

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: David Smith (England)

Second leg[edit]

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

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Tom Wharton (Scotland)

Liverpool won 14–0 on aggregate.

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

Juventus won 5–2 on aggregate.

Sparta Prague	0–1	Internazionale
		Boninsegna 6'

Attendance: 25,000^[2]

Referee: Eugen Boller (Switzerland)

Internazionale won 4–0 on aggregate.

Floriana	0–1	Dinamo Bacău
	Report	Ene 32'

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Fabio Monti (Italy)

Dinamo Bacău won 7–0 on aggregate.

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

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.

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

Napoli won 3–2 on aggregate.

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

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Roger Mouton (France)

Slavia Sofia won 3–1 on aggregate.

Rapid București	1–4	Vitória de Setúbal
Stelian 78'	(Report)	Wágner 23' (pen.), 61' (pen.) José Maria 34' Figueiredo 64'

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Muzaffer Sarvan (Turkey)

Vitória de Setúbal won 7–2 on aggregate.

Porto	2–0	Hvidovre
Salim 24' Rolando 74'	(Report)

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Mariano Medina Iglesias (Spain)

Porto won 4–1 on aggregate.

LASK Linz	2–2	Sporting CP
Leitner 81'	(Report)	Gonçalves 40' Lourenço 77'

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Helmut Bader (East Germany)

Sporting CP won 6–2 on aggregate.

Newcastle United	1–0	Dundee United
Dyson 90'	(Report)

Attendance: 37,470

Referee: Leo Callaghan (Wales)

Newcastle United won 3–1 on aggregate.

Baník Ostrava	1–1	Vitória de Guimarães
Guzik 73'	(Report)	Artur 80'

Attendance: 9,000

Referee: Constantin Bărbulescu (Romania)

Vitória de Guimarães won 2–1 on aggregate.

Second round[edit]

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	(a) 3–3	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[edit]

Sporting CP	0–0	Arsenal
	(Report)

Attendance: 32,000

Referee: Dittmar Huber (Switzerland)

Vitória de Guimarães	3–3	Southampton
Mendes 12', 58' Pinto 88' (pen.)	(Report)	Channon 13' Davies 63' Paine 83'

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Pius Kamber (Switzerland)

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

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

Attendance: 30,000^[3]

Referee: Arie van Gemert (Netherland)

Skeid	0–0	Dinamo Bacău
	Report

Attendance: 7,250

Referee: Ejner Espersen (Denmark)

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

Stuttgart	0–0	Napoli

Vitória de Setúbal	1–0	Liverpool
Tomé 40'	(Report)

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Antonio Sbardella (Italy)

Porto	0–0	Newcastle United
	(Report)

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Roland Marendaz (Switzerland)

Second leg[edit]

Southampton	5–1	Vitória de Guimarães
Costeado 13' (o.g.) Davies 54', pen.', 87' Gabriel 55' Channon 85'	(Report)	Ademir 68'

Attendance: 21,414

Referee: Robert Frauciel (France)

Southampton won 8–4 on aggregate.

Juventus	0–0	Hertha BSC

Hertha BSC won 3–1 on aggregate.

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

Attendance: 48,000^[4]

Referee: Norman Burtenshaw (England)

Internazionale won 4–2 on aggregate.

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

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: János Almási (Hungary)

Dinamo Bacău won 2–0 on aggregate.

Cagliari	0–1	Carl Zeiss Jena
		Stein 8'

Carl Zeiss Jena won 3–0 on aggregate.

Napoli	1–0	Stuttgart
Canzi 75'

Napoli won 1–0 on aggregate.

Newcastle United	1–0	Porto
Scott 22'	(Report)

Attendance: 44,800

Referee: Wolfgang Riedel (East Germany)

Newcastle United won 1–0 on aggregate.

Arsenal	3–0	Sporting CP
Graham 43' (53) Radford 20'	(Report)

Attendance: 35,253

Referee: Heinz Siebert (West Germany)

Arsenal won 3–0 on aggregate.

Liverpool	3 – 2	Vitória de Setúbal
Smith 60' (pen.) Evans 88' Hunt 90'	(Report)	Wágner 23' (pen.) Strong 56' (o.g.)

Attendance: 41,633

Referee: Alfred Delcourt (Belgium)

Vitória de Setúbal won on the away goals rule.

Third round[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Anderlecht	(a) 3–3	Dunfermline Athletic	1–0	2–3
Newcastle United	(a) 1–1	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 (aet)

First leg[edit]

Napoli	1–0	Ajax
Manservisi 37'

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

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Francis Rion (Belgium)

Vitória de Setúbal	1–1	Hertha BSC
Tomé 10'	(Report)	Horr 3'

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Anton Bucheli (Switzerland)

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

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Jack Taylor (England)

Second leg[edit]

Hertha BSC	1–0	Vitória de Setúbal
Steffenhagen 59'	(Report)

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Jim Finney (England)

Hertha BSC won 2–1 on aggregate.

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

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: István Zsolt (Hungary)

Dinamo Bacău won 3–1 on aggregate.

Internazionale	1–0	Barcelona
Boninsegna 15'

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.

Internazionale	1–1	Barcelona
Boninsegna 18'		Rexach 29'

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Kurt Tschenscher (West Germany)

Internazionale won 3–2 on aggregate.

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

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

Ajax won 4–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Anderlecht	(a) 3–3	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[edit]

Hertha BSC	1–0	Internazionale
Horr 22'

Attendance: 40,000^[5]

Referee: Gilbert Droz (Switzerland)

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

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Gyula Emsberger (Hungary)

Second leg[edit]

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

Attendance: 15,000^[6]

Referee: Georges Uhlen (France)

Internazionale won 2–1 on aggregate.

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

Attendance: 35,342

Referee: Willem Schalks (Netherlands)

Arsenal won 9–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals[edit]

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[edit]

Anderlecht	0–1	Internazionale
		Boninsegna 49'

Attendance: 31,500^[7]

Referee: Thomas Wharton (Scotland)

Second leg[edit]

Internazionale	0–2	Anderlecht
		Bergholtz 3', 45'

Attendance: 25,000^[8]

Referee: Rudi Glöckner (East Germany)

Anderlecht won 2–1 on aggregate.

Final[edit]

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

First leg[edit]

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

Attendance: 37,000

Referee: Rudolf Scheurer (Switzerland)

Second leg[edit]

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

Attendance: 51,612

Referee: Gerhard Kunze (East Germany)

Arsenal won 4–3 on aggregate.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Inter Cities Fairs Cup 1969-70.

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