1960–61 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

The third Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was the first to be played over a single season, namely the 1960–61 season. Birmingham City once again reached the final, but lost again over two legs, this time to Roma. Once again, a number of countries sent a representative team for one of their main cities.

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Internazionale	14–3	Hannover	8–2	6–1
Leipzig XI	6–61	OFK Beograd	5–2	1–4
KB	11–4	Basel XI	8–1	3–3
Birmingham City	5–3	Újpesti Dózsa	3–2	2–1
Zagreb XI	4–5	Barcelona	1–1	3–4
Hibernian	(w/o)	Lausanne Sports	–	–
Lyon	3–4	Cologne XI	1–3	2–1
Union Saint-Gilloise	1–4	Roma	0–0	1–4

¹ Belgrade XI progressed to the Quarter finals after beating Leipzig XI 2–0 on a play-off match.

First leg

13 September 1960	Internazionale	8 - 2	Hannover	Nuovo Stadio Calcistico San Siro, Milan
	Bicicli  21' Zaglio  55' Lindskog  63' (pen.)  73' Corso  70'  76' Firmani  79' Angelillo  90'		Heiser  49' Fischer  61'

---

11 September 1960	Leipzig XI	5 - 2	OFK Beograd	Bruno-Plache-Stadion, Leipzig
	Heydenreich  29', 38' Frenzel  34' Krause  76' Trolitzsch  87'		Kovacevic  33' Mihajlovic  73'

---

19 October 1960	KB	8 - 1	Basel XI	Frederiksberg I P Opvisning, Copenhagen
	Petersen  18', 44', 60' Clausen  62' J. Sørensen  72', 76', 86' O. Sørensen  80'		Hügi II  34'

---

16 October 1960	Birmingham City	3 - 2	Újpesti Dózsa	St Andrew's, Birmingham
	Gordon  29', 83' Astall  62'		Göröcs  15', 49'

---

12 October 1960	Zagreb XI	1 - 1	Barcelona	Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb
	Gensana  61' (o.g.)		Villaverde  25'

---

12 October 1960	Lyon	1 - 3	Cologne XI	Stade de Gerland, Lyon
	Roubaud  4' (pen.)		Müller  55' Rühl  70' Schwier  76'

---

4 October 1960	Union Saint-Gilloise	0 - 0	Roma	Stade Joseph Marien, Brussels

Second leg

5 October 1960	Hannover	1 – 6	Internazionale	Niedersachsenstadion, Hannover
	Heiser  4'		Angelillo  25' Corso  40' Lindskog  55' Bicchierai  75' Wieczorek  77' (o.g.) Firmani  85'

Internazionale won 14-3 on aggregate.

---

19 October 1960	OFK Beograd	4 - 1	Leipzig XI	Omladinski Stadion, Belgrade
	Tasić  12' Mihajlović  60', 90' Prljincević  73' (pen.)		Stiller  24'

Leipzig XI drew 6-6 with OFK Beograd on aggregate.

---

9 November 1960	OFK Beograd	2 - 0	Leipzig XI
	Skoblar  10' Kostić  49'	Play-off

OFK Beograd won the play-off 2-0.

---

26 October 1960	Basel XI	3 - 3	KB	St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
	Hügi II Kirchhofer Siedl		Ravn  (2)' Sørensen

KB won 11-4 on aggregate.

---

26 October 1960	Újpesti Dósza	1 - 2	Birmingham City	Megyeri úti Stadium, Budapest
	Szusza  63'		Rudd  87' Singer  90'

Birmingham City won 5-3 on aggregate.

---

1 November 1960	Roma	4 - 1	Union Saint-Gilloise	Rome
	Giuliano  6' Menichelli  21' Manfredini  39' Lojacono  76'		Dirickx  81' (pen.)

Roma won 4-1 on aggregate.

Quarter finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Internazionale	5–1	OFK Beograd	5–0	0–1
KB	4–9	Birmingham City	4–4	0–5
Barcelona	6–7	Hibernian	4–4	2–3
Cologne XI	2–21	Roma	0–2	2–0

¹ Roma progressed to the Semifinals after beating Cologne XI 4–1 on a play-off match.

First leg

1 March 1961	Internazionale	5 – 0	OFK Beograd	San Siro, Milan
	Morbello  8' Bicicli  51'  80' Firmani  74'  87'

---

23 November 1960	KB	4 – 4	Birmingham City	Idrætsparken, Copenhagen
	Ravn  34' Clausen  65', 79' Torstensen  84'		Gordon  36', 57' Singer  49', 61'

---

27 December 1960	Barcelona	4 – 4	Hibernian	Camp Nou, Barcelona
	Kocsis  36', 53', 83' Evaristo  89'		Baker  7', 74' MacLeod  18' Preston  72'

---

18 January 1961	Cologne XI	0 – 2	Roma	Cologne
			Manfredini  51' Stollenwerk  70' (o.g.)

Second leg

8 March 1961	OFK Beograd	1 – 0	Internazionale	Omladinski Stadion, Belgrade
	Skoblar  54'

Internazionale won 5–1 on aggregate.

---

7 December 1960	Birmingham City F.C.	5 – 0	KB	St Andrew's, Birmingham
	Stubbs  4', 67' Harris  48' Hellawell  50' Bloomfield  53'

Birmingham City won 9–4 on aggregate.

---

22 February 1961	Hibernian	3 – 2	Barcelona	Easter Road, Edinburgh
	Baker  10' Preston  74' Kinloch  85' (pen.)		Martinez  29' Kocsis  44'

Hibernian won 7–6 on aggregate.

---

8 February 1961	Roma	0 – 2	Cologne XI	Stadio Olimpico, Rome
			Kremer  58' Schnellinger  82'

Roma 2–2 Cologne XI on aggregate.

1 March 1961	Roma	4 – 1	Cologne XI	Rome
	Manfredini  42'  70' Lojacono  60' Pestrin  71'		Müller  84'

Roma won 4–1 in play-off.

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Internazionale	2–4	Birmingham City	1–2	1–2
Hibernian	5–51	Roma	2–2	3–3

¹ Roma progressed to the Final after beating Hibernian 6–0 on a play-off match.

First leg

19 April 1961	Internazionale	1 – 2	Birmingham City	Milan
	Firmani  67'		Harris  12' Balleri  41' (o.g.)

---

19 April 1961	Hibernian	2 – 2	Roma	Easter Road, Edinburgh
	Baker  47' MacLeod  82'		Lojacono  14'  63'

Second leg

3 May 1961	Birmingham City	2 – 1	Internazionale	St Andrew's, Birmingham
	Harris  4'  62'		Masiero  66'

Birmingham City won 4–2 on aggregate.

---

26 April 1961	Roma	3 – 3	Hibernian	Rome
	Manfredini  23'  67' Lojacono  72'		Kinloch  31'  64' Baker  81'

Roma 5–5 Hibernian on aggregate.

27 May 1961	Roma	6 – 0	Hibernian	Rome
	Manfredini  1'  9'  35'  57' Menichelli  69' Selmosson  72'

Roma won 6–0 in play-off.

Final

Main article: 1961 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final

First leg

27 September 1961	Birmingham City	2 – 2	Roma	St Andrew's, Birmingham Attendance: 21,005 Referee: Bob Davidson (Scotland)
	Hellawell  78' Orritt  85'		Manfredini  30'  56'

Second leg

11 October 1961	Roma	2 – 0	Birmingham City	Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Pierre Schwinte (France)
	Farmer  56' (o.g.) Pestrin  90'

Roma won 4–2 on aggregate.

External links

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