Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

The **Inter-Cities Fairs Cup**, most commonly referred to as the **Fairs Cup** and sometimes as the **European Fairs Cup** or **Fairs Cities' Cup**, was a European football tournament that was played between 1955 and 1971.

The tournament was created to promote international trade fairs. During early seasons of the tournament, only cities that hosted fairs could enter, and the tournament had a "one city, one team" rule, with some teams made up of players from multiple clubs in a city. One notable example is the London XI, made up of players from clubs in London, who made the final of the 1955–1958 season.

The tournament was played until 1971, when it was superseded by the UEFA Cup.

## Finals

|width= px|Ed.|width= px|Season|width= 150px|Champion|width= 150px|Runner-up|width= px||width= 150px|Venue|width= 100px|City|width= px|Attend.|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||1955–58|**Barcelona XI**|London XI||Stamford Bridge|London|45,466|||||||||
||Camp Nou|Barcelona|70,000|||||||||||||
||1958–60|**Barcelona**|Birmingham City||St Andrew's|Birmingham|40,524|||||||||
||Camp Nou|Barcelona|70,000|||||||||||||
||1960–61|**Roma**|Birmingham City||St Andrew's|Birmingham|21,000|||||||||
||Stadio Olimpico|Rome|60,000|||||||||||||
||1961–62|**Valencia**|Barcelona||Mestalla Stadium|Valencia|65,000|||||||||
||Camp Nou|Barcelona|60,000|||||||||||||
||1962–63|**Valencia**|Dinamo Zagreb||Stadion Maksimir|Zagreb|40,000|||||||||
||Mestalla Stadium|Valencia|55,000|||||||||||||
||1963–64|**Zaragoza**|Valencia||Camp Nou|Barcelona|50,000|||||||||
||1964–65|**Ferencváros**|Juventus||Stadio Comunale|Turin|40,000|||||||||
||1965–66|**Barcelona**|Zaragoza||Camp Nou|Barcelona|50,000|||||||||
||La Romareda|Zaragoza|33,000|||||||||||||
||1966–67|**Dinamo Zagreb**|Leeds United||Stadion Maksimir|Zagreb|32,000|||||||||
||Elland Road|Leeds|35,604|||||||||||||
||1967–68|**Leeds United**|Ferencváros||Elland Road|Leeds|25,268|||||||||
||Népstadion|Budapest|76,000|||||||||||||
||1968–69|**Newcastle United**|Újpest||St James' Park|Newcastle|60,000|||||||||
||Megyeri út|Budapest|37,000|||||||||||||
||1969–70|**Arsenal**|Anderlecht||Constant Vanden Stock|Anderlecht|37,000|||||||||
||Highbury|London|51,612|||||||||||||
||1970–71|**Leeds United**|Juventus||Stadio Comunale|Turin|58,555|||||||||
||Elland Road|Leeds|42,483|||||||||||||
- Notes

### Trophy play-off match

After the 1970–71 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, the tournament was replaced with the UEFA Cup. Because the Fairs Cup trophy had not been won by any club permanently, a play-off match was organised to decide who would keep the original trophy. It was played on 22 September 1971, between the first Fairs Cup winners, Barcelona, and the last winners, Leeds United.

|width= 50px|Year|width= 150px|Champion|width= px|Score|width= 150px|Runner-up|width= 120px|Venue|width= 100px|City|width= px|Attend.|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1971|**Barcelona**||Leeds United|Camp Nou|Barcelona|45,000||||||||

### By club

|scope=col|Club|scope=col|Winners|scope=col|Runners-up|scope=col class="unsortable"|Winning years|scope=col class="unsortable"|Runner-up years|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=center|3|align=center|1|1958, 1960, 1966|1962|||||
|align=center|2|align=center|1|1962, 1963|1964|||||
|align=center|2|align=center|1|1968, 1971|1967|||||
|align=center|1|align=center|1|1964|1966|||||
|align=center|1|align=center|1|1965|1968|||||
|align=center|1|align=center|1|1967|1963|||||
|align=center|1|align=center|0|1961||||||
|align=center|1|align=center|0|1969||||||
|align=center|1|align=center|0|1970||||||
|align=center|0|align=center|2||1960, 1961|||||
|align=center|0|align=center|2||1965, 1971|||||
|align=center|0|align=center|1||1958|||||
|align=center|0|align=center|1||1969|||||
|align=center|0|align=center|1||1970|||||

### By nation

|scope=col|Nation|scope=col|Winners|scope=col|Runners-up|scope=col|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=center|6|align=center|3|align=center|9|||
|align=center|4|align=center|4|align=center|8|||
|align=center|1|align=center|2|align=center|3|||
|align=center|1|align=center|2|align=center|3|||
|align=center|1|align=center|1|align=center|2|||
|align=center|0|align=center|1|align=center|1|||

### All-time top goalscorers

|Rank|Player|Goals|Club(s)|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="left"|Waldo|**31**|align="left"|Valencia||
|align="left"|Peter Lorimer|**20**|align="left"|Leeds United||
|align="left"|Flórián Albert|rowspan="3"|**19**|align="left"|Ferencváros|
|align="left"|Ferenc Bene|align="left"|Újpest|||
|align="left"|José Antonio Zaldúa|align="left"|Barcelona|||
|align="left"|Pedro Manfredini|**18**|align="left"|Roma||
|align="left"|Evaristo|**17**|align="left"|Barcelona||
|align="left"|Vicente Guillot|**16**|align="left"|Valencia||
|align="left"|Marcelino|**15**|align="left"|Zaragoza||
|align="left"|Héctor Núñez|**14**|align="left"|Valencia||

### Top scorers by season

|Season|Player(s)|Goals|Club(s)|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="5"|1955–58|align="left"|Evaristo|rowspan="5"|**4**|align="left" rowspan="2"|Barcelona|
|align="left"|Justo Tejada|||||||
|align="left"|Peter Murphy|align="left"|Birmingham City|||||
|align="left"|Cliff Holton|align="left"|London XI|||||
|align="left"|Norbert Eschmann|align="left"|Lausanne-Sport|||||
|1958–60|align="left"|Bora Kostić|**6**|align="left"|Belgrade XI|||
|1960–61|align="left"|Pedro Manfredini|**12**|align="left"|Roma|||
|1961–62|align="left"|Waldo|**9**|align="left"|Valencia|||
|rowspan="3"|1962–63|align="left"|Francisco Lojacono|rowspan="3"|**6**|rowspan="2" align="left"|Roma|
|align="left"|Pedro Manfredini|||||||
|align="left"|Waldo|align="left"|Valencia|||||
|1963–64|align="left"|Waldo|**6**|align="left"|Valencia|||
|rowspan="2"|1964–65|align="left"|Bobby Charlton|rowspan="2"|**8**|rowspan="2" align="left"|Manchester United|
|align="left"|Denis Law|||||||
|1965–66|align="left"|José Antonio Zaldúa|**8**|align="left"|Barcelona|||
|1966–67|align="left"|Flórián Albert|**8**|align="left"|Ferencváros|||
|1967–68|align="left"|Peter Lorimer|**8**|align="left"|Leeds United|||
|1968–69|align="left"|Antal Dunai|**10**|align="left"|Újpest|||
|1969–70|align="left"|Paul Van Himst|**10**|align="left"|Anderlecht|||
|1970–71|align="left"|Pietro Anastasi|**10**|align="left"|Juventus|||
- Source: rsssf.com

## Other websites

- Inter-Cities Fairs Cup at the RSSSF

## Infobox (football tournament)

- **name**: Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
- **organiser**: Fairs Cup Committee
- **region**: Europe
- **number of teams**: 12 (first edition)
64 (last edition)
- **current champions**: Leeds United F.C., Leeds United
(2nd title)
- **most successful club**: FC Barcelona, Barcelona
(3 titles)