1964–66 Balkans Cup

The 1964–66 Balkans Cup was an edition of the Balkans Cup, a football competition for representative clubs from the Balkan states. It was contested by 8 teams and Rapid București won the trophy.

1964–66 Balkans Cup

Tournament details
Country	Balkans
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Rapid București
Runner-up	Farul Constanța
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	70 (2.69 per match)

Group Stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Farul Constanța (A)	6	4	1	1	10	2	5.000	9	Advances to finals
2	Olympiacos	6	4	1	1	10	8	1.250	9
3	Spartak Plovdiv	6	2	1	3	11	9	1.222	5
4	FK Vardar	6	0	1	5	3	15	0.200	1

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal average; 3) number of goals scored
(A) Advance to a further round

10 March 1965 (1965-03-10)

Olympiacos	3–1	Spartak Plovdiv
Vasiliou 34' Papazoglou 58' Botinos 66'		Velev 13'

Karaiskakis, Piraeus

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14 March 1965 (1965-03-14)

Spartak Plovdiv	2–3	Olympiacos

Karaiskakis, Piraeus

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28 April 1965 (1965-04-28)

Spartak Plovdiv	1–1	Farul Constanța

Spartak, Plovdiv

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12 May 1965 (1965-05-12)

Farul Constanța	1–0	Spartak Plovdiv

Farul, Constanța

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2 June 1965 (1965-06-02)

Spartak Plovdiv	4–1	FK Vardar

Spartak, Plovdiv

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16 June 1965 (1965-06-16)

FK Vardar	0–4	Farul Constanța

Gradski, Skopje

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23 June 1965 (1965-06-23)

Farul Constanța	1–0	FK Vardar

Farul, Constanța

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30 June 1965 (1965-06-30)

FK Vardar	0–3	Spartak Plovdiv

Gradski, Skopje

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5 September 1965 (1965-09-05)

Olympiacos	1–0	FK Vardar
Vasiliou 48'

Karaiskakis, Piraeus

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19 September 1965 (1965-09-19)

FK Vardar	2–2	Olympiacos
Pecovski 60' Milissis 73' (o.g.)		Dermatis 8', 70'

Gradski, Skopje

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20 October 1965 (1965-10-20)

Olympiacos	1–0	Farul Constanța

Karaiskakis, Piraeus

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1 June 1966 (1966-06-01)

Farul Constanța	3–0	Olympiacos

Farul, Constanța

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Rapid București (A)	6	5	0	1	14	5	2.800	10	Advances to finals
2	Cherno More Varna	6	3	2	1	7	4	1.750	8
3	17 Nëntori Tirana	6	1	2	3	5	7	0.714	4
4	Beşiktaş	6	0	2	4	2	12	0.167	2

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal average; 3) number of goals scored
(A) Advance to a further round

16 December 1964 (1964-12-16)

17 Nëntori Tirana	0–0	Cherno More Varna

Qemal Stafa, Tirana

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1965 (1965)

Rapid București	3–0 Awarded	Beşiktaş

Rapid, Bucharest

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7 April 1965 (1965-04-07)

Rapid București	2–0	Cherno More Varna
Ionescu 17' Codreanu 36'

23rd August, Bucharest

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9 May 1965 (1965-05-09)

Beşiktaş	1–1	Cherno More Varna
Arbay 61'		Genov 51'

Mithat Paşa Stadium, Istanbul

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26 May 1965 (1965-05-26)

Cherno More Varna	1–0	17 Nëntori Tirana
Atanasov 82'

Yuri Gagarin, Varna

Attendance: 12,000

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2 June 1965 (1965-06-02)

Beşiktaş	1–1	17 Nëntori Tirana
Ehlidil 56'		Pavlo 24'

Mithat Paşa Stadium, Istanbul

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23 June 1965 (1965-06-23)

Cherno More Varna	3–1	Rapid București
N. Dimitrov 3' Bogomilov 51' N. Dimitrov 62'		Dumitriu 65'

Yuri Gagarin, Varna

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14 July 1965 (1965-07-14)

Rapid București	3–1	17 Nëntori Tirana

Rapid, Bucharest

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27 October 1965 (1965-10-27)

Beşiktaş	0–3 Awarded	Rapid București

Mithat Paşa Stadium, Istanbul

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20 November 1965 (1965-11-20)

Cherno More Varna	2–0	Beşiktaş
Bilyalov 18' Stoyanov 51'

Yuri Gagarin, Varna

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26 November 1965 (1965-11-26)

17 Nëntori Tirana	2–0	Beşiktaş
Flaçer 16' Gaçka 55'

Dinamo, Tirana

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19 May 1966 (1966-05-19)

17 Nëntori Tirana	1–2	Rapid București

Dinamo, Tirana

Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rapid București	5–3	Farul Constanța	3–3	2–0

First leg

17 July 1966 (1966-07-17)

Rapid București	3–3	Farul Constanța

Rapid, Bucharest

Second leg

21 July 1966 (1966-07-21)

Farul Constanța	0–2	Rapid București

Farul, Constanța

Rapid București won 5–3 on aggregate.

External links

• RSSSF Archive → Balkans Cup
• Romeo Ionescu (28 September 2003). "Balkan Cup 1960-1969". RSSSF.
• Mehmet Çelik. "Balkan Cup". Turkish Soccer