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1969 Balkans Cup

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ12874434 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1969 Balkans Cup was an edition of the Balkans Cup, a football competition for representative clubs from the Balkan states. It was contested by 6 teams and Beroe Stara Zagora won the trophy.

Group Stage

Group A

Group B

Finals

First leg

Second leg

Beroe Stara Zagora won 3–1 on aggregate.

Notes

Note 1: Dinamo Tirana walked off when a penalty was awarded to Beroe Stara Zagora, while the score was at 1–0.

References

External links

RSSSF Archive → Balkans Cup

Romeo Ionescu (28 September 2003). "Balkan Cup 1960-1969". RSSSF.

Mehmet Çelik. "Balkan Cup".

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The public source identifies “1969 Balkans Cup” as football tournament season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Balkans, football and tournament.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 2003, 1960—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Balkans, football and tournament providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1969 Balkans Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.