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Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in
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Tournament details | |
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Dates | 18 September 1968 – 28 May 1969 |
Teams | 32 (27 competed) |
Final positions | |
Champions |
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Runners-up |
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Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 52 |
Goals scored | 176 (3.38 per match) |
Attendance | 1,738,847 (33,439 per match) |
Top scorer(s) |
Denis Law (Manchester United) 9 goals |
The 1968–69 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won by Milan, who beat Ajax 4–1 in the final, giving Milan its first European Cup title since 1963, and its second overall. A number of Eastern Bloc clubs withdrew from the first two rounds when UEFA paired up all of the Eastern Bloc clubs against one another in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Substitutions of two players at any game time were allowed; obligatory match dates were introduced (two weeks between the legs) and fixed on Wednesdays; the away goal rule was extended to the first and second rounds. [1]
Manchester United were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Eventual Champions Milan in the semi-finals.
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Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Malmö FF
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3–5 |
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2–1 | 1–4 |
Dynamo Kyiv
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(w/o) |
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– | – |
Saint-Étienne
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2–4 |
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2–0 | 0–4 |
Red Star Belgrade
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(w/o) |
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– | – |
Waterford F.C.
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2–10 |
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1–3 | 1–7 |
Anderlecht
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5–2 |
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3–0 | 2–2 |
Rosenborg
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4–6 |
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1–3 | 3–3 |
Real Madrid
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12–0 |
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6–0 | 6–0 |
Nürnberg
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1–5 |
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1–1 | 0–4 |
Manchester City
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1–2 |
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0–0 | 1–2 |
Valur
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1–8 |
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0–0 | 1–8 |
Levski-Spartak
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(w/o) |
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– | – |
Floriana
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1–3 |
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1–1 | 0–2 |
Steaua București
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3–5 |
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3–1 | 0–4 |
AEK Athens
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5–3 |
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3–0 | 2–3 |
Zürich
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3–4 |
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1–3 | 2–1 |
Saint-Étienne
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Keïta ![]() H. Revelli ![]() |
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Waterford United
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Matthews ![]() |
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Law ![]() |
Rosenborg
![]() | 1–3 |
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Iversen ![]() |
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Bjerregaard ![]() Kaltenbrunner ![]() Grausam ![]() |
Real Madrid
![]() | 6–0 |
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Pirri ![]() Amancio ![]() Pérez ![]() Bueno ![]() |
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Steaua București
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Creiniceanu ![]() Voinea ![]() Constantin ![]() |
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Kuna ![]() |
AEK Athens
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Papaioannou ![]() Papageorgiou ![]() Karafeskos ![]() |
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Milan won 5–3 on aggregate.
Celtic won 4–2 on aggregate.
Manchester United
![]() | 7–1 |
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Stiles ![]() Law ![]() Burns ![]() Charlton ![]() |
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Casey ![]() |
Manchester United won 10–2 on aggregate.
Anderlecht won 5–2 on aggregate.
Rapid Wien
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Lindman ![]() Kaltenbrunner ![]() |
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Iversen ![]() |
Rapid Wien won 6–4 on aggregate.
AEL Limassol
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Velázquez ![]() José Luis ![]() Veloso ![]() Ortega ![]() Zunzunegui ![]() |
Real Madrid won 12–0 on aggregate.
Ajax won 5–1 on aggregate.
Fenerbahçe
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Çevrim ![]() Altıparmak ![]() |
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Coleman ![]() |
Fenerbahçe won 2–1 on aggregate.
Benfica
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Simões ![]() Jacinto ![]() Torres ![]() Eusébio ![]() Coluna ![]() José Augusto ![]() |
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Gunnarsson ![]() |
Benfica won 8–1 on aggregate.
Reipas Lahti
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Holtari ![]() |
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Reipas Lahti won 3–1 on aggregate.
Spartak Trnava
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Švec ![]() Adamec ![]() |
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Spartak Trnava won 5–3 on aggregate.
Jeunesse Esch
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Hoffmann ![]() Drouet ![]() Langer ![]() |
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Ventouris ![]() |
AEK Athens won 5–3 on aggregate.
AB won 4–3 on aggregate.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Milan
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Bye | – | – | – |
Celtic
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6–2 |
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5–1 | 1–1 |
Manchester United
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4–3 |
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3–0 | 1–3 |
Rapid Wien
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2–2 ( a) |
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1–0 | 1–2 |
Ajax
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4–0 |
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2–0 | 2–0 |
Benfica
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Bye | – | – | – |
Reipas Lahti
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2–16 |
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1–9 | 1–7 |
AEK Athens
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2–0 |
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0–0 | 2–0 |
Celtic
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Murdoch ![]() Johnstone ![]() Lennox ![]() Wallace ![]() |
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Lazarević ![]() |
Manchester United
![]() | 3–0 |
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Kidd ![]() Law ![]() |
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Rapid Wien
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Kaltenbrunner ![]() |
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Ajax
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Nuninga ![]() Muller ![]() |
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Reipas Lahti
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Hyvärinen ![]() |
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Hagara ![]() Kabát ![]() Švec ![]() Kuna ![]() Martinkovič ![]() Adamec ![]() |
The home leg of Reipas Lahti was played in Vienna just before the Rapid Wien– Real Madrid match. [7]
AEK Athens
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Red Star Belgrade
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Ostojić ![]() |
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Wallace ![]() |
Celtic won 6–2 on aggregate.
Anderlecht
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Mulder ![]() Bergholtz ![]() |
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Sartori ![]() |
Manchester United won 4–3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid
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Velázquez ![]() Pirri ![]() |
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Bjerregaard ![]() |
Rapid Wien won 2–2 on away goals.
Fenerbahçe
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Keizer ![]() Nuninga ![]() |
Ajax won 4–0 on aggregate.
Spartak Trnava
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Hagara ![]() Dobiaš ![]() Kuna ![]() Adamec ![]() Hrušecký ![]() |
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Niskakoski ![]() |
Spartak Trnava won 16–2 on aggregate.
AB
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Stamatiadis ![]() Papaioannou ![]() |
AEK Athens won 2–0 on aggregate.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Milan
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1–0 |
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0–0 | 1–0 |
Manchester United
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3–0 |
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3–0 | 0–0 |
Ajax
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4–41 |
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1–3 | 3–1 |
Spartak Trnava
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3–2 |
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2–1 | 1–1 |
1 Ajax beat Benfica 3–0 in a play-off.
Manchester United
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Best ![]() Morgan ![]() |
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Ajax
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Danielsson ![]() |
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Santos ![]() Torres ![]() José Augusto ![]() |
Spartak Trnava
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Jarábek ![]() Kabát ![]() |
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Sevastopoulos ![]() |
Milan won 1–0 on aggregate.
Manchester United won 3–0 on aggregate.
4–4 on aggregate. Tie is decided by a tie-breaker match on neutral ground.
AEK Athens
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Papaioannou ![]() |
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Švec ![]() |
Spartak Trnava won 3–2 on aggregate.
Ajax win the tie-breaker.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Milan
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2–1 |
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2–0 | 0–1 |
Ajax
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3–2 |
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3–0 | 0–2 |
Milan
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Sormani ![]() Hamrin ![]() |
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Manchester United
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Charlton ![]() |
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Milan won 2–1 on aggregate.
Spartak Trnava
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Kuna ![]() |
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Ajax won 3–2 on aggregate.
The top scorers from the 1968–69 European Cup are as follows:
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1 |
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9 |
2 |
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6 |
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4 |
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7 |
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