1962–63 European Cup Winners' Cup

1962–63 European Cup Winners' Cup

Final positions
Champions	Tottenham Hotspur (1st title)
Runners-up	Atlético Madrid
← 1961–62 1963–64 →

The 1962–63 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by Tottenham Hotspur in a crushing final victory over holders Atlético Madrid. It was the first time a European cup went to an English club. The so-called "winner's curse" continued as Spurs failed to retain the cup in 1964.

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
OFK Beograd	5–3	Chemie Halle-Leuna	2–0	3–3
Bangor City	3–31	Napoli	2–0	1–3
Lausanne Sports	5–4	Sparta Rotterdam	3–0	2–4
Rangers	4–2	Sevilla	4–0	0–2
Saint-Étienne	4–1	Vitória Setúbal	1–1	3–0
Alliance Dudelange	2–9	B 1909	1–1	1–8
Steaua București	4–7	Botev Plovdiv	3–2	1–5
Újpest	5–0	Zagłębie Sosnowiec	5–0	0–0
Hibernians	(w/o)	Olympiacos	–	–

¹ Won play-off 2–1

First leg

5 September 1962	Bangor City	2 – 0	Napoli	Farrar Road, Bangor
	Matthews  43' Birch  52' (pen.)

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13 September 1962	Steaua Bucureşti	3 – 2	Botev Plovdiv	Bukarest
	Voinea  42' Constantin  67' Krisan  86'		Georgi Asparuhov  33' Georgi Asparuhov  48'

Second leg

19 September 1962	Botev Plovdiv	5 – 1	Steaua Bucureşti	Plovdiv
	Viden Apostolov  7' Georgi Asparuhov  14' Georgi Asparuhov  30' Georgi Asparuhov  44' Dinko Dermendzhiev  60'		Tataru  50'

Botev Plovdiv won 7–4 on aggregate.

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26 September 1962	Napoli	3 – 1	Bangor City	Naples
	Mariani  29' Tacchi  54' Fanello  84'		McAllister  71'

Napoli 3–3 Bangor City on aggregate.

Play-off

10 October 1962	Napoli	2 – 1	Bangor City	London
	Rosa  37', 85'		McAllister  70'

Napoli won 2–1 in play-off.

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
OFK Beograd	7–4	Portadown	5–1	2–3
Újpest Dózsa	2–22	Napoli	1–1	1–1
Lausanne-Sports	1–2	Slovan Bratislava	1–1	0–1
Tottenham Hotspur	8–4	Rangers	5–2	3–2
Saint-Étienne	0–3	Nuremberg	0–0	0–3
Graz	4–6	Boldklubben 1909	1–1	3–5
Shamrock Rovers	0–5	Botev Plovdiv	0–4	0–1
Atlético Madrid	5–0	Hibernians	4–0	1–0

² Won play-off 3–1

First leg

24 October 1962	Shamrock Rovers	0– 4	Botev Plovdiv	Shamrock
			Georgi Asparuhov  2' Peshev  47' Georgi Popov  70' Georgi Popov  78'

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14 November 1962	Újpest Dózsa	1 – 1	Napoli	Budapest
	Bene  1'		Fraschini  60'

Second leg

14 November 1962	Botev Plovdiv	1 – 0	Shamrock Rovers	Plovdiv
	Peshev  2'

Botev Plovdiv won 5–0 on aggregate.

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28 November 1962	Napoli	1 – 1	Újpest Dózsa	Naples
	Tomeazzi  33'		Solymosi  36'

Napoli 2–2 Újpest Dózsa on aggregate.

Play-off

4 December 1962	Napoli	3 – 1	Újpest Dózsa	Lausanne
	Fanello  8' Ronzon  10' Tacchi  34'		Kuharszki  52'

Napoli won 3–1 in play-off.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
OFK Beograd	3–33	Napoli	2–0	1–3
Slovan Bratislava	2–6	Tottenham Hotspur	2–0	0–6
Nuremberg	7–0	Boldklubben 1909	1–0	6–0
Botev Plovdiv	1–5	Atlético Madrid	1–1	0–4

³ Won play-off 3–1

First leg

6 February 1963	OFK Beograd	2 – 0	Napoli	Belgrade
	Samardžić  78' Popov  88'

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27 February 1963	Botev Plovdiv	1 – 1	Atlético Madrid	Plovdiv
	Peshev  16'		Ramiro  74'

Second leg

13 March 1963	Atlético Madrid	4 – 0	Botev Plovdiv	Madrid
	Adelardo Rodríguez  10' Chuzo  25' Enrique Collar  65' Chuzo  85'

Atlético Madrid won 5–1 on aggregate.

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20 March 1963	Napoli	3 – 1	OFK Beograd	Naples
	Cané  12' Fanello  58' Mariani  67'		Samardžić  42'

Napoli 3–3 OFK Beograd on aggregate.

Play-off

3 April 1963	OFK Beograd	3 – 1	Napoli	Marseille
	Samardžić  19', 83' Banović  51'		Cané  23'

OFK Beograd won 3–1 in play-off.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
OFK Beograd	2–5	Tottenham Hotspur	1–2	1–3
Nuremberg	2–3	Atlético Madrid	2–1	0–2

First leg

24 April 1963	OFK Beograd	1 – 2	Tottenham Hotspur	Omladinski stadion, Belgrade
	Popov  36' (pen.)		White  27' Dyson  72'

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10 April 1963 17:00	Nuremberg	2 – 1	Atlético Madrid	Städtisches Stadion, Nuremburg Attendance: 44,140 Referee: Clive Kingston (Wales)
	Wild  31', 70'		Jones  24'

Second leg

1 May 1963	Tottenham Hotspur	3 – 1	OFK Beograd	White Hart Lane, Tottenham
	Mackay  23' Jones  43' Smith  49'		Skoblar  28'

Tottenham Hotspur won 5–2 on aggregate.

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24 April 1963 20:30	Atlético Madrid	2 – 0	Nuremberg	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 86,000 Referee: Othmar Huber (Switzerland)
	Chuzo  45' Mendonça  54'

Atlético Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1963 European Cup Winners' Cup Final

15 May 1963 20:15	Tottenham Hotspur	5 – 1	Atlético Madrid	Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam Attendance: 49,000 Referee: Andries van Leeuwen (Netherlands)
	Greaves  16', 80' White  35' Dyson  67', 85'		Collar  47' (pen.)

External links

• Cup Winners' Cup 1962-63 Results at UEFA.com
• Cup Winners' Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation