1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
Final positions
Champions	Newcastle United (1st title)
Runners-up	Újpest
Tournament statistics
Matches played	120
	← 1967–68 1969–70 →

The eleventh Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was played over the 1968–1969 season. The competition was won by Newcastle United over two legs in the final against Újpest. It was the second consecutive time that a Hungarian side finished runners-up in the competition, and the first time Newcastle United had competed in a European competition. Newcastle did not win a major trophy again until the 2024–25 EFL Cup.^[1]^[2]

Champions

Newcastle United (1st title)

Runners-up

Újpest

Matchesplayed120

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Chelsea	9–3	Morton	5–0	4–3
K. Beerschot V.A.C.	2–3	DWS	1–1	1–2
Rangers	2–1	FK Vojvodina	2–0	0–1
DOS Utrecht	2–3	Dundalk	1–1	1 – 2(aet)
R. Daring Club Molenbeek	2–3	Panathinaikos	2–1	0–2
Athletic Bilbao	3–3 (c)	Liverpool	2–1	1 – 2(aet)
Lausanne-Sport	0–4	Juventus	0–2	0–2
Wacker Innsbruck	2–5	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–2	0–3
Slavia Sofia	0–2	Aberdeen	0–0	0–2
Botev Plovdiv	3–3 (a)	Zaragoza	3–1	0–2
Sporting Clube de Portugal	5–4	Valencia CF	4–0	1–4
Newcastle United	4–2	Feyenoord Rotterdam	4–0	0–2
Vitória de Setúbal	6–1	Linfield	3–0	3–1
Olympique Lyonnais	1–1 (c)	Académica	1–0	0 – 1(aet)
Hansa Rostock	4–2	OGC Nice	3–0	1–2
Dinamo Zagreb	2–3	Fiorentina	1–1	1–2
Rapid București	4–7	OFK Beograd	3–1	1 – 6(aet)
Bologna	6–2	Basel	4–1	2–1
Göztepe	2–2 (c)	Olympique de Marseille	2–0	0 – 2(aet)
Leixões SC	1–1 (a)	Argeş Piteşti	1–1	0–0
Metz	3–7	Hamburger SV	1–4	2–3
Wiener Sportclub	1–5	Slavia Prague	1–0	0–5
Olimpija Ljubljana	1–5	Hibernian	0–3	1–2
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	w/o	KB	–	–
Standard Liège	2–3	Leeds United	0–0	2–3
Napoli	3–2	Grasshopper	3–1	0–1
FK Skeid	2–3	AIK	1–1	1–2
Hannover 96	4–2	B1909	3–2	1–0
Atlético Madrid	2–2 (a)	K.S.V. Waregem	2–1	0–1
Legia Warszawa	9–2	TSV 1860 München	6–0	3–2
Aris Thessaloniki	7–0	Hibernians	1–0	6–0
Újpest	w/o	US Luxembourg	–	–

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Chelsea	0–0 (c)	DWS	0–0	0 – 0(aet)
Rangers	9–1	Dundalk FC	6–1	3–0
Panathinaikos	0–1	Athletic Bilbao	0–0	0–1
Juventus	0–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–0	0 – 1(aet)
Aberdeen	2–4	Zaragoza	2–1	0–3
Sporting Clube de Portugal	1–2	Newcastle United	1–1	0–1
Vitória de Setúbal	7–1	Olympique Lyonnais	5–0	2–1
Hansa Rostock	4–4 (a)	Fiorentina	3–2	1–2
OFK Beograd	2–1	Bologna	1–0	1–1
Göztepe	5–3	Argeş Piteşti	3–0	2–3
Hamburger SV	5–4	SK Slavia Prague	4–1	1–3
Hibernian	4–1	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	3–1	1–0
Leeds United	2–2 (c)	Napoli	2–0	0 – 2(aet)
AIK	6–7	Hannover 96	4–2	2–5
K.S.V. Waregem	1–2	Legia Warsaw	1–0	0–2
Aris Thessaloniki	2–11	Újpest	1–2	1–9

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
DWS	1–4	Rangers	0–2	1–2
Athletic Bilbao	2–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	1–1
Zaragoza	4 – 4(a)	Newcastle United	3–2	1–2
Vitória de Setúbal	4–2	Fiorentina	3–0	1–2
OFK Beograd	3 – 3(a)	Göztepe	3–1	0–2
Hamburger SV	2(a) – 2	Hibernian	1–0	1–2
Leeds United	7–2	Hannover 96	5–1	2–1
Legia Warsaw	2–3	Újpest	0–1	2–2

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rangers	4–3	Athletic Bilbao	4–1	0–2
Newcastle United	6–4	Vitória de Setúbal	5–1	1–3
Göztepe	w/o	Hamburger SV(withdrew)	–	–
Leeds United	0–3	Újpest	0–1	0–2

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rangers	0–2	Newcastle United	0–0	0–2
Göztepe	1–8	Újpest	1–4	0–4

1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

First round

First leg

Second leg

Second round

First leg

Second leg

Third round

First leg

Second leg

Quarter-finals

First leg

Second leg

Semi-finals

First leg

Second leg

Final

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