Football tournament season
1968 Coppa delle AlpiAlpencup, Coupe des Alpes |
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Tournament details |
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Country | Switzerland and Germany |
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Teams | 12 |
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Defending champions | Eintracht Frankfurt |
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Final positions |
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Champions | FC Schalke 04 |
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Runner-up | FC Basel |
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Tournament statistics |
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Matches played | 31 |
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Goals scored | 109 (3.52 per match) |
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1968 Coppa delle Alpi shows the results of the 1968 tournament that was held mainly in Switzerland in the preseason 1968/69. The Coppa delle Alpi (translated as Cup of the Alps) was a football tournament, jointly organized by the Italian national league and the Swiss League as a pre-season event.
Most of the games in the 1968 competition were played in Switzerland. There were four teams taking part from Italy A.S. Roma, ACF Fiorentina, Cagliari and Juventus, four from Germany 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 1. FC Köln, Eintracht Frankfurt and FC Schalke 04 as well as four from Switzerland Luzern, Servette FC Genève, Young Boys and FC Basel. The teams were drawn into two groups, two teams from each country in either group. The winners of the two groups were matched in the final.
Group A
Matches
- Round 1
Attendance: 3,500
Referee:
![Germany](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png)
Tschentcher
- Round 2
Referee:
![Germany](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png)
Ott
- Round 3
Referee:
![Germany](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png)
Siebert
- Round 4
- Round 5
Table
Group B
Matches
- Round 1
Referee:
![Switzerland](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/16px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png)
Anton Bucheli
Attendance: 6,000
Referee:
![Germany](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png)
Helmut Fritz
- Round 2
Attendance: 2,918
Referee:
![Italy](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png)
Francescon
Referee:
![Switzerland](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/16px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png)
Joseph Heymann
- Round 3
Attendance: 10,000
Referee:
![Switzerland](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg/16px-Flag_of_Switzerland_%28Pantone%29.svg.png)
Schneuwly
- Round 4
- Round 5
Referee:
![Germany](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png)
Heinz Siebert
Table
Final
Attendance: 13,000
Referee:
![Italy](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png)
Mario Carminati
Sources and References
- Cup of the Alps 1968 at RSSSF
- Coppa delle Alpi 1968 at myjuve.it Archived 2016-11-14 at the Wayback Machine