1968 Cup of the Alps
Alpencup, Coupe des Alpes | |
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Tournament details | |
Country | Switzerland and Germany |
Teams | 12 |
Defending champions | Eintracht Frankfurt |
Final positions | |
Champions | FC Schalke 04 |
Runner-up | FC Basel |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 31 |
Goals scored | 109 (3.52 per match) |
1968 Coppa delle Alpi shows the results of the 1968 tournament that was held mainly in Switzerland in the preseason 1968/69. The Coppa delle Alpi (translated as Cup of the Alps) was a football tournament, jointly organized by the Italian national league and the Swiss League as a pre-season event.
Most of the games in the 1968 competition were played in Switzerland. There were four teams taking part from Italy A.S. Roma, ACF Fiorentina, Cagliari and Juventus, four from Germany 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 1. FC Köln, Eintracht Frankfurt and FC Schalke 04 as well as four from Switzerland Luzern, Servette FC Genève, Young Boys and FC Basel. The teams were drawn into two groups, two teams from each country in either group. The winners of the two groups were matched in the final.
Group A
[edit]Matches
[edit]- Round 1
Roma ![]() | 1 – 0 | ![]() |
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Taccola ![]() |
Kaiserslautern ![]() | 1 – 0 | ![]() |
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- Round 2
Kaiserslautern ![]() | 2 – 2 | ![]() |
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- Round 3
Fiorentina ![]() | 1 – 0 | ![]() |
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- Round 4
Servette ![]() | 1 – 4 | ![]() |
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1. FC Kaiserslautern ![]() | 3 – 0 | ![]() |
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- Round 5
A.S. Roma ![]() | 2 – 0 | ![]() |
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Servette ![]() | 1 – 0 | ![]() |
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Table
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts |
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1 | FC Basel | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 7 |
2 | A.S. Roma | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
3 | Fiorentina | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 |
4 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
5 | Servette FC Genève | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 4 |
6 | 1. FC Köln | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 2 |
Group B
[edit]Matches
[edit]- Round 1
Cagliari ![]() | 1 – 0 | ![]() |
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Cera ![]() |
Summary Juventus |
Young Boys ![]() | 3 – 2 | ![]() |
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Eintracht Frankfurt ![]() | 1 – 1 | ![]() |
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Solz ![]() |
(Report Eintracht Frankfurt) | Słomiany ![]() |
- Round 2
Young Boys ![]() | 2 – 2 | ![]() |
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Grosser ![]() |
(Report Eintracht Frankfurt) | Lotz ![]() Schämer ![]() |
FC Schalke 04 ![]() | 3 – 1 | ![]() |
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Pohlschmidt ![]() Wittkamp ![]() Hans-Jürgen Becher ![]() |
Summary Juventus | ![]() |
- Round 3
Eintracht Frankfurt ![]() | 2 – 1 | ![]() |
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Blusch![]() |
Summary Juventus | ![]() |
Young Boys ![]() | 2 – 3 | ![]() |
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Luzern ![]() | 0 – 4 | ![]() |
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- Round 4
Young Boys ![]() | 3 – 1 | ![]() |
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Allemann![]() Guggisberg ![]() |
Summary Juventus | ![]() |
![Germany](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png)
Luzern ![]() | 4 – 9 | ![]() |
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Richter ![]() Meier ![]() Flury ![]() |
(Report Eintracht Frankfurt) | Lothar Schämer ![]() Abbé ![]() Huberts ![]() Friedrich ![]() Lotz ![]() |
FC Schalke 04 ![]() | 2 – 2 | ![]() |
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- Round 5
Young Boys ![]() | 0 – 3 | ![]() |
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Luzern ![]() | 2 – 5 | ![]() |
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Richter![]() Trivellin ![]() |
Summary Juventus | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![Germany](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png)
Eintracht Frankfurt ![]() | 2 – 2 | ![]() |
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Grabowski ![]() Huberts ![]() |
(Report Eintracht Frankfurt) | ![]() ![]() |
Table
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts |
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1 | FC Schalke 04 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 8 |
2 | Cagliari | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 8 |
3 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
4 | Young Boys | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 5 |
5 | Juventus | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 2 |
6 | Luzern | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 23 | 0 |
Final
[edit]FC Basel ![]() | 1 – 3 (a.e.t.) | ![]() |
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Helmut Hauser ![]() |
Report FC Schalke 04 | ![]() |
Sources and References
[edit]- Cup of the Alps 1968 at RSSSF
- Coppa delle Alpi 1968 at myjuve.it Archived 2016-11-14 at the Wayback Machine