UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

"Cup Winners' Cup" redirects here. For other uses, see Cup Winners' Cup (disambiguation).

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
Organising bodyUEFA
Founded1960 (rebranded in 1994)
Abolished1999
RegionEurope
Number of teams32 (first round)
Related competitionsEuropean Cup (1st tier)
UEFA Cup (3rd tier; merged with)
Last championsItaly Lazio
(1st title)
Most successful club(s)Spain Barcelona
(4 titles)
Winners
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
Season Winning club
1960–61 Italy Fiorentina
1961–62 Spain Atlético Madrid
1962–63 England Tottenham Hotspur
1963–64 Portugal Sporting CP
1964–65 England West Ham United
1965–66 West Germany Borussia Dortmund
1966–67 West Germany Bayern Munich
1967–68 Italy Milan
1968–69 Czechoslovakia Slovan Bratislava
1969–70 England Manchester City
1970–71 England Chelsea
1971–72 Scotland Rangers
1972–73 Italy Milan (2)
1973–74 East Germany 1. FC Magdeburg
1974–75 Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv
1975–76 Belgium Anderlecht
1976–77 West Germany Hamburger SV
1977–78 Belgium Anderlecht (2)
1978–79 Spain Barcelona
1979–80 Spain Valencia
1980–81 Soviet Union Dinamo Tbilisi
1981–82 Spain Barcelona (2)
1982–83 Scotland Aberdeen
1983–84 Italy Juventus
1984–85 England Everton
1985–86 Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv (2)
1986–87 Netherlands Ajax Amsterdam
1987–88 Belgium Mechelen
1988–89 Spain Barcelona (3)
1989–90 Italy Sampdoria
1990–91 England Manchester United
1991–92 Germany Werder Bremen
1992–93 Italy Parma
1993–94 England Arsenal
1994–95 Spain Real Zaragoza
1995–96 France Paris Saint-Germain
1996–97 Spain Barcelona (4)
1997–98 England Chelsea (2)
1998–99 Italy Lazio

The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The cup was, chronologically, the second seasonal inter-European club competition organised by UEFA. The tournament ran for 39 seasons, with the final edition held in 1998–99, after which it was discontinued.

The first tournament was held in 1960–61, but it was organised by the Mitropa Cup's Organising Committee and not recognised by the governing body of European football until 1963, when it was accepted as a UEFA competition on the initiative of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC).[1]

From 1972 onwards, the winner of the tournament progressed to play the winner of the European Cup (later the UEFA Champions League) in the European Super Cup. Since the abolition of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, the UEFA Super Cup place previously reserved for the Cup Winners' Cup winner has been taken by the winner of the UEFA Cup, now the UEFA Europa League. The competition's official name was originally the European Cup Winners' Cup; it was renamed the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1994.

  1. ^ "European Cup Winners' Cup makes its debut" (PDF). uefadirect. No. 100. August 2010. p. 15. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 August 2011.