Swans In Europe
Wednesday, 23rd Jun 2004 00:00

The European Cup Winners Cup

In 1960/61, UEFA introduced a new competition called the European Cup Winners Cup. The name provided just what it suggested, a competition for the various cup winners throughout Europe to compete in against each other.

As a member of UEFA, the Welsh FA were allowed to enter the winners of the Welsh Cup into the competition, giving the Swans a route into Europe. On 7 separate occasions they played in the competition, mainly in the preliminary round but on one occasion (1982/83) they did proceed to the last 16 of the competition.

With the founding of the League of Wales in the early 1990s, the Welsh clubs playing in the English pyramid were banished from the Welsh Cup and therefore also from a route into European Football. UEFA disbanded the competition at the end of the 1998/99 season, with the cup winners from the various nations going into the UEFA Cup instead.

The full list of Swans European results is below

16th Oct 1961	ECWC	Motor Jena	N	D 2-2
18th Oct 1961	ECWC	Motor Jena	A	L 1-5
21st Sept 1966	ECWC	Slavia Sofia	H	D 1-1
5th Oct 1966	ECWC	Slavia Sofia	A	L 0-4
16th Sept 1981	ECWC	Lokomotive Leipzig	H	L 0-1
30th Sept 1981	ECWC	Lokomotive Leipzig	A	L 1-2
17th Aug 1982	ECWC	Sporting Braga	H	W 3-0
25th Aug 1982	ECWC	Sporting Braga	A	L 0-1
15th Sept 1982	ECWC	Sliema Wanderers	H	W 12-0
29th Sept 1982	ECWC	Sliema Wanderers	A	W 5-0
20th Oct 1982	ECWC	Paris St Germain	H	L 0-1
3rd Nov 1982	ECWC	Paris St Germain	A	L 0-2
24th Aug 1983	ECWC	FC Magdeburg	H	D 1-1
31st Aug 1983	ECWC	FC Magdeburg	A	L 0-1
13th Sept 1989	ECWC	Panathinaikos	A	L 2-3
27th Sept 1989	ECWC	Panathinaikos	H	D 3-3
17th Sept 1991	ECWC	AS Monaco	H	L 1-2
1st Oct 1991	ECWC	AS Monaco	A	L 0-8