European Club Competions 2019 - 20: First Round Replays

European Champions' Cup

Atlético Madrid  3  v Tresnjevka Zagreb  2*  (agg. 6 - 5)

Dynamo Dresden  4   Borussia Monchengladbach  0  (agg. 6 - 2)

Sporting Lisbon  6   Bodø/Glimt  2  (agg. 10 - 6)

European Cup-Winners' Cup

Ararat Yerevan  2   East Fife  1*  (agg. 6 - 5)

Barcelona  2   Servette Geneva  0  (agg. 5 - 3)

Le Havre  3   Crusaders  1  (agg. 5 - 3)

European Comrades' Cup

Glentoran  2   Górnik Zabrze  1*  (agg. 6 - 5)

Rot-Weiss Essen  3   Pakhtakor Tashkent  2*  (agg. 10 - 9)

European Club Competitons 2017 - 18: Quarter-Finals, First Leg

European Champion Clubs' Cup

Barcelona  1   Stromsgodset  1

Karpaty Lvov  2   Kuusysi Lahti  2

Raba ETO Gyor  2   Marine  0

Sporting Lisbon  2   Velez Mostar  3

European Cup-Winners' Cup

Atletico Madrid  3   Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk  1

Bohemians Prague  1   Ajax Amsterdam  1

Borac Banja Luka  1   Northwich Victoria  2

KRC Genk  2   Vojvodina Novi Sad  1

European Club Competitions 2017 - 18: First Round, Second Leg

European Champion Clubs' Cup

Barcelona  2   Trabzonspor  0*   (agg. 3 - 2)

Borussia Monchengladbach  3   Kuusysi Lahti  2*   (agg. 5 - 6)

Dubocica Leskovac  2   Oster Vaxjo  1   (agg. 5 - 4)

Dynamo Minsk  4   Servette Geneva  1   (agg. 5 - 3)

Hajduk Split  5   Cowdenbeath  1   (agg. 5 - 3)

Internazionale  2   Levski-Spartak Sofia  2*   (agg. 3 - 4)

Karpaty Lvov  2   Rapid Bucharest  0   (agg. 4 - 2)

Liverpool St Helens  3   Akademisk Kobenhavn  1   (agg. 6 - 4)

Lokomotive Leipzig  4   Sparta Rotterdam  1*   (agg. 5 - 4)

Marine  4  Kischpelt Welwerwolz  1 (agg. 6 - 3)

Raba ETO Gyor  1   Slavia Prague  1*   (agg. 2 - 1)

RWD Molenbeek  3   Wisla Krakow  2   (agg. 7 - 3)

Saint-Etienne  2   Stromsgodset  1   (agg. 2 - 3)

Sporting Lisbon  2   Rapid Vienna  2   (agg. 4 - 3)

Torpedo Moscow  0   Panathinaikos  2*   (agg. 1 - 2)

Velez Mostar  4   Vlaznia Shkoder  2*   (agg. 6 - 5)

European Cup-Winners' Cup

Ajax Amsterdam  5   MSV Duisburg  2   (agg. 10 - 5)

Atletico Madrid  3   Sportul Studensc  2   (agg. 7 - 3)

Boavista Porto  4   Slavia Sofia  2*   (agg. 4 - 5)

Bohemians Prague  4   St Polten  1   (agg. 7 - 3)

Borac Banja Luka  2   Genclirbirligi SK  1*   (agg. 5 - 4)

Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk  2  Pahktakor Tashkent  2* (agg. 5 - 4)

Dynamo Moscow  0   Hutnik Krakow  1   (agg. 2 - 4)

Ferencvaros TC  7  Jeunesse Hautcharage  2 (agg. 9 - 2)

KRC Genk  5   Bodo/Glimt  1*   (agg. 6 - 5)

Northwich Victoria  3   Brondby IF  1   (agg. 5 - 4)

Racing Club Paris  3   PAOK Salonika  0*  (agg. 4 - 3)

Sachsenring Zwickau  2   SePS Seinajoki  2*   (agg. 4 - 4)

Torino  6   Stromness Celtic  0   (agg. 7 - 3)

Tresnjevka Zagreb  3   Grasshoppers Zurich  3   (agg. 3 - 5)

Vasas Budapest  5   Glentoran  0   (agg. 7 - 0)

Vojvodina Novi Sad  3   Boras Elfsborg  2   (agg. 5 - 2)

European Club Competitions 2016 - 17: First Round Replays

European Champion Clubs' Cup

Atletico Madrid  3   Jeunesse Hautcharage  0   (agg. 6 - 3)
Sporting Lisbon   5   Slavia Sofia  1   (agg. 8 - 4)


European Cup-Winners' Cup

Hajduk Split  5   Austria Klagenfurt  3 (aet) (agg. 8 - 6)
Vitoria Setubal  2   AC Milan  1 (aet) (agg. 5 - 4)

European Cup 2014 - 15: First Round Play-offs

Ajax Amsterdam  3   Dynamo Minsk  2  (aet)  (agg. 6 - 5)
Ferencvaros  2   Rapid Vienna  0  (agg. 6 - 4)
Sporting Lisbon  4   FC Copenhagen  0  (agg. 7 - 3)
Velez Mostar*  1   Fortuna Dusseldorf  1  (aet)  (agg. 5 - 5, *4 - 3 on penalties)

Archive #4: European Cup 2011-12

Realising recently, when posting the list of European Champions' Club Cup Winners/Finals, that I still had three seasons' records-worth of the continental competition to catch up with, here's the first step in rectifying that tardiness, with the 2011-12 edition of the tournament, which, of course, enjoys the same format as the original actual European Cup before it became the UEFA Champions' League, being a straightforward home-and-away-legged knock-out competition ending in a one-off final (with scope for replays in the event of aggregate ties, no account taken of away goals, as with the early years of the European Cup).

The domestic league's representatives, Wrexham, making their debut in the European Cup, made a first round exit (one of only 3 of the seeded teams to do so), failing to recover a hapless 0 - 3 first leg defeat to Levski-Spartak in Sofia, but another newcomer, Yugoslavia's Dubocica Leskovac, reached the semi-finals only to lose narrowly in the second leg and on aggregate to Vasas Budapest, whilst cup-holders Sporting Lisbon defended their title all the way to the final, only to succumb to Vasas, who thus became the first club to win the trophy for a fifth time.

Archive #2: European Cup Finals 1982 - 2011

A second dip into the archives, this time going beyond domestic matters and featuring the history of the European Champion Clubs’ Cup Finals, at least up until 2011 – there are obviously 3 seasons’-worth of the competition I need to catch up with and record before launching this season’s edition, which will of course feature reigning league champions Marlow as England’s representatives.

It quickly becomes apparent that Hungarian teams have dominated matters (winning exactly half of the 30 tournaments recorded so far: the competition between the Budapest clubs, and provincial Raba ETO Gyor’s with them, being expanded onto a continental scale and generating fiercer rivalries yet), making their complete absence from the last 3 finals a notable one, whilst Internazionale are the third club to have triumphed on 4 occasions, with, particularly, Barcelona and Sporting Lisbon also being serial finalists, Sporting finally winning the cup at the sixth (ninth including replays) attempt most recently. Immediately prior to that, Marlow (who have acquired a pronounced French influence over recent seasons) became the first English club to lift the trophy, after losing the previous final, with Gainsborough Trinity also having reached the final twice, without ultimate success.