UEFA Cup Winners Cup Winners

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CUP WINNERS' CUP 1961-1999

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While the old European Cup and UEFA Cup both still exist in the guise of the Champions League and the Europa League, UEFA ended the UEFA Cup Winners Cup in 1999, a shame given how many decent finals it produced back in its heyday. As the name suggests, the competition was only open to teams across Europe who'd won their domestic cup competition in the previous season.

The nature of cup competitions, that they tend to throw up more surprise winners than league formats do, meant that the UEFA Cup Winners Cup was often full of more unusual clubs than the European Cup or the UEFA Cup. It also meant that no single club tended to dominate the competition. So, even though Barcelona were the UEFA Cup Winners Cup's most successful club, lifting the trophy four times, only four other clubs won the competition more than once: Anderlecht, Milan, Chelsea and Dynamo Kiev. In classic cup tradition, there were then a whole array of different clubs who won the UEFA Cup Winners Cup once, from traditional footballing giants of Europe, such as Bayern Munich, Juventus and Ajax, through to smaller clubs such as KV Mechelen, 1. FC Magdeburg, Dinamo Tbilisi and Slovan Bratislava.