The fourth Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was a European football competition played between 1955 and 1971. The competition was the idea of Swiss pools supremo Ernst Thommen, Ottorino Barassi from Italy, and the English Football Association general secretary Stanley Rous, all of whom later became senior officials...

 was played over the 1961–62 season. There were five representative teams for some major European cities, three of which lost out in the first round. The final was the first European final to be contested between two clubs from the same country, namely Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

. Valencia

Valencia CF

Valencia Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football club based in Valencia, Spain. They play in La Liga and are one of the most successful and biggest clubs in Spanish Football and European Football. Valencia have won six La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey trophies, two Fairs Cups which was the...

 beat Barcelona

FC Barcelona

Futbol Club Barcelona , also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....

 7–3 over two legs, and also reached the next two finals in the competition.

First round

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¹Internazionale progressed to the Second round after winning a play-off match 5–3.

First leg

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Second leg

Valencia won 7–1 on aggregate.
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Hearts won 5–1 on aggregate.
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Internazionale 4–4 Köln on aggregate.
Internazionale won 5–3 in play-off.
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Novi Sad XI won 2–0 on aggregate.
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MTK won 13–3 on aggregate.
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Leipzig XI won 6–3 on aggregate.
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Espanyol won 3–0 on aggregate.
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Red Star won 5–2 on aggregate.
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Hibernian won 6–4 on aggregate.
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Sheffield Wednesday won 7–6 on aggregate.
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Barcelona won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Dinamo Zagreb won 9–4 on aggregate.

Second round

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¹ MTK progressed to the Quarter finals after winning a play-off match 2–0.

First leg

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Second leg

Valencia won 4–3 on aggregate.
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Internazionale won 5–0 on aggregate.
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Novi Sad XI won 10–3 on aggregate.
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Leipzig XI 3–3 MTK on aggregate.
MTK won won 2–0 in play-off.
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Espanyol won 5–3 on aggregate.
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Red Star won 5–0 on aggregate.
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Sheffield Wednesday won 4–1 on aggregate.
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Barcelona won 7–3 on aggregate.

Quarter finals

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First leg

Second leg

Internazionale goalkeeper Lorenzo Buffon

Lorenzo Buffon

Lorenzo Buffon is an Italian former football goalkeeper. He played 277 times for A.C. Milan, and also played for their city rivals Internazionale. He was also capped 15 times for the Italian national team....

 complained of an injury at halftime and was replaced by Ottavio Bugatti

Ottavio Bugatti

Ottavio Bugatti is an Italian former football player from Lentate sul Seveso, in the province of Milan. He played club football for Napoli and Inter; while at Napoli he played himself into the appearance records books at the club, today he is seventh in the clubs all-time appearance records for...

, substitutions were not officially allowed at the time.

Valencia won 5–3 on aggregate.

Semifinals

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Final

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Winner of Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1961-62
Valencia Valencia CF Valencia Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football club based in Valencia, Spain. They play in La Liga and are one of the most successful and biggest clubs in Spanish Football and European Football. Valencia have won six La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey trophies, two Fairs Cups which was the... 1st Title

External links

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