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Also known as European Cup Winners' Cup, UCWC

former European association football tournament for clubs

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The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European soccer tournament that ran for several decades, featuring clubs that had won their national cup competitions. It was an important international competition that gave successful cup-winning teams the chance to compete against similar clubs from across Europe.

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Official website
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season starts
autumn
number of participants
97
end time
1999-00-00
inception
1960-00-00
month of the year
August
Commons category
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
topic's main category
Category:UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
event interval
1
edition number
39
season ends
spring
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Encyclopedic overview

The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The competition's official name was originally the European Cup Winners' Cup; it was renamed the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1994. Chronologically, the Cup Winners' Cup was the second inter-European club competition organised by UEFA.

The first tournament was held in 1960–61, but it was organised by the Mitropa Cup's Organising Committee and not recognised by the governing body of European football until 1963, when it was accepted as a UEFA competition on the initiative of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). From 1972 onwards, the winner of the tournament progressed to play the winner of the European Cup (later the UEFA Champions League) in the European Super Cup.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “UEFA Cup Winners' Cup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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