Nordic Cup Dates 19 June 1959 – 31 July 1962 Teams 16 (from 4 associations) Champions Helsinki-Alliance Runners-up Djurgården Matches played 30 Goals scored 112 (3.73 per match)
International football competition
The Nordic Cup (Danish : Nordisk cup ; Swedish : Nordisk cup ) was a cup competition for club teams from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden staged on one occasion, starting in June 1959 and ending on 31 July 1962.
Summary [ edit ] In December 1958, the group Stævnet proposed a cup competition for club teams from the Nordic countries at a Scandinavian football conference in Copenhagen , which was decided and 16 teams were invited.[1] The teams responding to the invitation were IFK Norrköping , Djurgården , IFK Göteborg , GAIS , Malmö FF , Hälsingborg , and AIK from Sweden, Viking FK , Skeid , and Fredrikstad from Norway, and Vejle , KB , AB , Frem , and Skovshoved from Denmark, while the Finnish teams only wanted to join as a combination team, which initially was rejected.[2]
Initially the final was scheduled to be played in autumn 1960, but the participating team had problems finding match days and the semi-finals were rescheduled to spring 1961.[3]
The Nordic cup saw low attendances.[3]
On 31 July 1962, the first edition of the cup ended with a final on Stockholm Olympic Stadium between Djurgården of Stockholm and the Helsinki-Alliance , which the Helsinki team won with 1–0 on a penalty in first half, and won the trophy donated by Scandinavian Airlines .[4]
Results [ edit ] Round of 16 [ edit ] Matches [ edit ] Örgryte won 4–2 on aggregate.
KB won 4–3 on aggregate.
IFK Norrköping won 9–3 on aggregate.
AIK won 6–2 on aggregate.
Helsinki-Alliance won 3–2 on aggregate.
Malmö FF won 5–1 on aggregate.
Frem won 5–1 on aggregate.
Djurgården won 8–1 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals [ edit ] Originally, the matches were supposed to be played before 15 November 1959.[22]
Matches [ edit ] Helsinki-Alliance won on coin flipping.
Djurgården won 2–0 on aggregate.
IFK Norrköping won 11–4 on aggregate.
Frem won 4–2 on aggregate.
Semi-finals [ edit ] Matches [ edit ] Djurgården won 7–3 on aggregate.
Helsinki-Alliance won 5–2 on aggregate.
See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ "16 lag deltar i Nordisk cup" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 22, 19 December 1958 ^ UP (16 January 1959), "Åtta svenska lag i Nordisk cup" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 17 ^ a b BEN (7 April 1961), "Norrköping har problem med sviktande försvar" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 22 ^ a b BEN (1 August 1962), "Finsk seger på straff mot Djurgården i cupen" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 13 ^ "ÖIS-seger 1–0 i Nordisk cup" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 17, 10 June 1959 ^ "Örgryteseger 3–2 över Skeid" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 12, 12 August 1959 ^ "Bara oavgjort för mästarlaget" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 20, 11 June 1959 ^ "Göteborg åkte ur cupen, 2–3" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 14, 13 August 1959 ^ "Norrköping 3–3 mot danska Vejle" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 19, 17 June 1959 ^ "Norrköping vann stort" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 11, 30 July 1959 ^ "AIK 2–2 i Norge" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 17, 25 June 1959 ^ "AIK lekte för mycket" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 11, 30 July 1960 ^ "Helsingfors-alliansen besegrade på onsdagen GAIS" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 13, 2 July 1959 ^ "GAIS ur cupen 1–1 mot H-fors" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 12, 29 July 1959 ^ "MFF slog AB" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 12, 29 July 1959 ^ "MFF vidare i Nordisk cup" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 11, 5 August 1959 ^ "Stor HIF-förlust" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 13, 31 July 1959 ^ a b "Boldklubben FREM" . www.bkfrem.dk . ^ "Hälsingborgs cupsaga slut" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 13, 6 August 1959 ^ "DIF vann med 3–0 i Köpenhamn" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 11, 5 August 1959 ^ "Djurgården i lektagen" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 15, 9 September 1959 ^ "Norrköping–AIK i Nordiska cupen" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 14, 13 August 1959 ^ "ÖIS och IFK Göteborg båda slagna i cupspel" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 17, 10 September 1959 ^ "Örgryte får spela en tredje match" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 19, 14 October 1959 ^ "Lotten gav ÖIS respass" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 18, 29 June 1960 ^ STRONG (21 October 1959), "Djurgården vann 1–0 inför 1 098 åskådare" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 21 ^ DAN (2 June 1960), "Djurgården besegrade danska div. I-ledarna" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 23 ^ "AIK–Norrköping i Nordisk cup" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 19, 22 October 1959 ^ BEN (23 October 1959), "Torbjörn Jonsson glänste när Norrköping slog AIK" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 25 ^ "Pekings Ulf Jansson stort framtidslöfte" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 19, 9 November 1949 ^ "MFF besegrat 0–2 mot Frem" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 26, 1 April 1960 ^ a b "Boldklubben FREM" . www.bkfrem.dk . ^ "2–2 även i Malmö" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 18, 29 June 1960 ^ BEN (10 April 1961), " "Leffe" Skiöld glänste – Mästarlaget ej i form" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 17 ^ D. (26 June 1962), "Äkta hat trick av Leif Eriksson" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 15 ^ a b "Boldklubben FREM" . www.bkfrem.dk . ^ BEN (16 August 1961), "Helsingfors-Alliansen besegrade danska Frem" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 14 ^ "Nordisk cupfinal DIF–Helsingfors" , Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm, p. 11, 31 July 1962
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