Anglo-Italian Cup
English- Italian Cup competitions took place intermittently until the 1990s into between English and Italian football clubs, from the late 1960s. These included mainly the Anglo- Italian Cup (English " Anglo-Italian Cup," Italian for " Torneo Anglo - Italiano " ) and the Anglo- Italian League Cup (English " Anglo-Italian League Cup ," Italian for " Coppa di Lega Italo - Tedesco ").
- 2.1 English- Italian Cup
- 2.2 Anglo-Italian Cup Semi Professional
- 2.3 English- Italian League Cup
History
English- Italian Cup
Cause for this competition was the League Cup winning the English club Swindon Town in 1969, after the European football body UEFA the club but as members of the only third-rate Third Division refused to participate in the European Fairs Cup. The tournament was initially set at six English and Italian teams, whose members did not belong to the respective top domestic league. The first edition should eventually even Swindon Town to decide for himself and the club defeated - after the success in the Anglo-Italian League Cup in the previous year - in the final Napoli 3-0. Here, the final in front of 55,000 spectators in Naples had to be canceled after 79 minutes, as many local supporters had stormed the square.
After 1973 Newcastle United could win the competition in its fourth edition, the Anglo-Italian League Cup was initially declared over until it was reissued in 1975. Now Until 1987 both countries joined semi-professional teams against each other, which ultimately the Italian Serie C clubs were clearly dominated over their mostly unterklassigeren English counterparts. During this time, the competition often changed its official name and received by the respective sponsors successively as " Alitalia Challenge Cup ", " Talbot Challenge Cup " and " Gigi Peronace Memorial".
A new revival took place in 1992, when even again took part second-rate English and Italian professional clubs. The planned in England as successor to the Full Members Cup tournament, however, should only last for four seasons. As a major base for the final out of the contest in 1996, the very low priority in both countries was mentioned, but also the increasing violence between the supporters of the clubs in this in public only little attention tournament.
English- Italian League Cup
Simultaneously with the similar -sounding competition Anglo-Italian Cup the Anglo-Italian League Cup was launched in 1969 to life. In contrast to his " namesake " met in the Anglo-Italian League Cup successive Only the English League Cup winners and the Italian Coppa Italia winners in return game. After only three rounds of the competition was ended again, but in 1975 he underwent a revival in the Coppa Italia winners now acted against the FA Cup winners. The duel between the Southampton FC and SSC Napoli in 1976 was the last meeting.