UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

Organising body	UEFA
Founded	1960 (rebranded in 1994)
Abolished	1999
Region	Europe
Number of teams	32 (first round)
Related competitions	European Cup (1st tier) UEFA Cup (3rd tier; merged with)
Last champions	Lazio (1st title)
Most successful club(s)	Barcelona (4 titles)

Winners
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

Season	Winning club
1960–61	Fiorentina
1961–62	Atlético Madrid
1962–63	Tottenham Hotspur
1963–64	Sporting CP
1964–65	West Ham United
1965–66	Borussia Dortmund
1966–67	Bayern Munich
1967–68	Milan
1968–69	Slovan Bratislava
1969–70	Manchester City
1970–71	Chelsea
1971–72	Rangers
1972–73	Milan (2)
1973–74	1. FC Magdeburg
1974–75	Dynamo Kyiv
1975–76	Anderlecht
1976–77	Hamburger SV
1977–78	Anderlecht (2)
1978–79	Barcelona
1979–80	Valencia
1980–81	Dinamo Tbilisi
1981–82	Barcelona (2)
1982–83	Aberdeen
1983–84	Juventus
1984–85	Everton
1985–86	Dynamo Kyiv (2)
1986–87	Ajax Amsterdam
1987–88	Mechelen
1988–89	Barcelona (3)
1989–90	Sampdoria
1990–91	Manchester United
1991–92	Werder Bremen
1992–93	Parma
1993–94	Arsenal
1994–95	Zaragoza
1995–96	Paris Saint-Germain
1996–97	Barcelona (4)
1997–98	Chelsea (2)
1998–99	Lazio

The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The cup was, chronologically, the second seasonal inter-European club competition organised by UEFA. The tournament ran for 39 seasons, with the final edition held in 1998–99, after which it was discontinued.

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).^[1]

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. Since the abolition of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, the UEFA Super Cup place previously reserved for the Cup Winners' Cup winner has been taken by the winner of the UEFA Cup, now the UEFA Europa League. The competition's official name was originally the European Cup Winners' Cup; it was renamed the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1994.