The 1961–62 season of the
European Cup Winners' Cup
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 tournam ...
club
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...
tournament was won by
Atlético Madrid
Club Atlético de Madrid, S.A.D. (; meaning "Athletic Club of Madrid"), known simply as Atleti in the Spanish-speaking world and commonly referred to at international level as Atlético Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based i ...
of Spain in a replayed final against holders
Fiorentina
ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as Fiorentina (), is an Italian professional football club based in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The original team was founded by a merger in August 1926, while the actual club was refounded in August 2002 fol ...
. It was the first season of the tournament to be directly organised by
UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs fo ...
.
Bracket
Preliminary round
First leg
Second leg
''Dunfermline Athletic won 8–1 on aggregate.''
First round
First leg
----
Second leg
''Fiorentina won 9–3 on aggregate.''
----
''Leixões won 2–1 on aggregate.''
Quarter-finals
Notes
* Note 1: Second leg played in
Gera
Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of cit ...
after visas denied to the East German players.
First leg
Second leg
''Fiorentina won 4–2 on aggregate.''
Semi-finals
First leg
----
Second leg
''Atlético Madrid won 5–0 on aggregate.''
----
''Fiorentina won 3–0 on aggregate.''
Final
Replay
See also
*
1961–62 European Cup
The 1961–62 European Cup was the seventh season of the European Cup. The competition was won by Benfica for the second time in a row, beating Real Madrid 5–3 in the final at the Olympisch Stadion in Amsterdam.
Malta entered its champion fo ...
*
1961–62 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
The fourth Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 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 ...
References
External links
Cup Winners' Cup 1961-62 Results at UEFA.com*
ttps://web.archive.org/web/20141129020202/http://www.sharkscores.com/Cups/Default.aspx?id=375&season=1961%2F1962 Cup Winners Cup Seasons 1961-62 – results, protocols* website Football Archive
1961–62 Cup Winners Cup
{{DEFAULTSORT:1961-62 European Cup Winners' Cup
3
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup seasons