1973 Anglo-Italian Cup

The 1973 Anglo-Italian Cup was the fourth Anglo-Italian Cup competition. The European football competition was played between eight clubs from England and eight clubs from Italy and was the last professional Anglo-Italian Cup until it was re-incarnated in 1992.

Format

For the competition, there were eight English teams and eight Italian teams. These teams were split into two groups consisting of four English and four Italian teams each. Each team played against the four teams in their group from the opposing nation. In each group, the best team from each nation progressed to the semi-finals. The semi-finals were two-leg matches played between each nation's group winners. The winner of each nation's semi-final then met in a final.^[1] Two points were awarded for a win and one point for a draw but, unlike the previous tournaments,^[2][3][4] points were no longer awarded for each goal scored.^[1][5] The draw for the group matches took place in Milan on 7 February 1973.^[6]

Group stage

Group[1]	England[1]	Italy[1]
1	Crystal Palace Hull City Luton Town Manchester United	Bari Fiorentina Lazio Verona
2	Newcastle United Blackpool Oxford United Fulham	Bologna Como Roma Torino

Group 1 games

14 February 1973

Crystal Palace	4 – 1	Verona
M. Hinshelwood Bell Whittle	(ref)

Hull City	2 – 1	Lazio

Manchester United	1 – 1	Fiorentina

Luton Town	4 – 0	Bari

Verona	2 – 1	Luton Town

21 March 1973

Bari	0 – 1	Crystal Palace
	(ref)	Possee

Lazio	0 – 0	Manchester United

Fiorentina	1 – 0	Hull City

4 April 1973^[6]

Hull City	2 – 1	Verona

4 April 1973^[6]

Manchester United	3 – 1	Bari

4 April 1973^[6]

Crystal Palace	3 – 1	Lazio
Craven	(ref)

4 April 1973^[6]

Luton Town	1 – 0	Fiorentina

Verona	1 – 4	Manchester United

Bari	0 – 0	Hull City

Luton Town	2 – 2	Lazio

2 May 1973

Fiorentina	2 – 2	Crystal Palace
	(ref)	Possee

Group 1 tables

Italian teams[1] Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts[nb 1] Fiorentina 4 1 2 1 4 4 4 Lazio 4 0 2 2 4 7 2 Verona 4 1 0 3 5 11 2 Bari 4 0 1 3 1 8 1

English teams[1] Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts[nb 1] Crystal Palace 4 3 1 0 10 4 7 Manchester United 4 2 2 0 8 3 6 Luton Town 4 2 1 1 8 4 5 Hull City 4 2 1 1 4 3 5

Group 2 games

Como	0 – 0	Fulham

Bologna	0 – 0	Oxford United

Roma	0 – 2	Newcastle United
		Tudor

Torino	0 – 1	Blackpool

Blackpool	3 – 0	Como

21 March 1973^[6]

Newcastle United	1 – 0	Bologna
Gibb

Fulham	1 – 1	Roma

Oxford United	1 – 1	Torino

4 April 1973^[6]

Como	0 – 2	Newcastle United

4 April 1973^[6]

Bologna	0 – 1	Blackpool

4 April 1973^[6]

Roma	0 – 2	Oxford United

4 April 1973^[6]

Torino	1 – 1	Fulham

Oxford United	1 – 0	Como

Fulham	1 – 1	Bologna

Blackpool	2 – 1	Roma

Newcastle United	5 – 1	Torino

Group 2 tables

Italian teams[1] Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts[nb 1] Bologna 4 0 2 2 1 3 2 Torino 4 0 2 2 3 8 2 Roma 4 0 1 3 2 7 1 Como 4 0 1 3 0 6 1

English teams[1] Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts[nb 1] Newcastle United 4 4 0 0 10 1 8 Blackpool 4 4 0 0 7 1 8 Oxford United 4 2 2 0 4 1 6 Fulham 4 0 4 0 3 3 4

Semi-finals

English semi-final

11 May 1973

Crystal Palace	0 – 0	Newcastle
	(ref)

21 May 1973

Newcastle	5 – 1	Crystal Palace
	(ref)	Cannon

Italian semi-final

17 May 1973

Fiorentina	1 – 1	Bologna

23 May 1973

Bologna	1 – 2	Fiorentina

Final

3 June 1973^[6]

Fiorentina	1 – 2	Newcastle
		Superchi (o.g.) Craig 54'

Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence

Notes

1. Two points were awarded for a win, one point for a draw.^[1][5]