Nordic Cup
Tournament details
The Stockholm Olympic Stadium in Stockholm hosted the final
Dates	19 June 1959 – 31 July 1962
Teams	16 (from 4 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Helsinki-Alliance
Runners-up	Djurgården
Tournament statistics
Matches played	30
Goals scored	112 (3.73 per match)

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

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]

Teams

AB	Vejle	AIK	IFK Göteborg
Frem	Helsinki-Alliance	Djurgården	IFK Norrköping
KB	Fredrikstad	GAIS	Malmö FF
Skovshoved	Skeid	Hälsingborg	Örgryte

Results

Round of 16				Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final



Fredrikstad	2	0	2

AIK	2	4	6
				AIK	2	2	4

				IFK Norrköping	5	6	11
Vejle	3	0	3

IFK Norrköping	3	6	9
								IFK Norrköping	0	3	3

								Djurgården	2	5	7
Skovshoved	0	1	1

Djurgården	3	5	8
				Djurgården	1	1	2

				KB	0	0	0
IFK Göteborg	1	2	3
												31 July 1962 – Stockholm
KB	1	3	4
												Djurgården	0

												Helsinki-Alliance	1
GAIS	1	1	2

Helsinki-Alliance	2	1	3
				Helsinki-Alliance (ct)	1	3 (2)	6

				Örgryte	0	4 (2)	6
Skeid	0	2	2

Örgryte	1	3	4
								Helsinki-Alliance	2	3	5

								Frem	1	1	2
Frem	5	0	5

Hälsingborg	1	0	1
				Frem	2	2	4

				Malmö FF	0	2	2
AB	1	0	1

Malmö FF	3	2	5

Round of 16

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Skeid	2–4	Örgryte	0–1	2–3
IFK Göteborg	3–4	KB	1–1	2–3
Vejle	3–9	IFK Norrköping	3–3	0–6
Fredrikstad	2–6	AIK	2–2	0–4
GAIS	2–3	Helsinki-Alliance	1–2	1–1
AB	1–5	Malmö FF	1–3	0–2
Frem	5–1	Hälsingborg	5–1	0–0
Skovshoved	1–8	Djurgården	0–3	1–5

Matches

9 June 1959

Skeid	0–1	Örgryte
	^[5]	Wetterlind

Oslo

Attendance: 7,213

11 August 1959

Örgryte	3–2	Skeid
Börjesson (2) Simonsson	^[6]	Langhus

Nya Ullevi, Gothenburg

Attendance: 2,845

Örgryte won 4–2 on aggregate.

10 June 1959

IFK Göteborg	1–1	KB
	^[7]

Nya Ullevi, Gothenburg

Attendance: 5,525

12 August 1959

KB	3–2	IFK Göteborg
Jensen (2) Krahmer	^[8]	Berndtsson Andersson

Copenhagen

KB won 4–3 on aggregate.

16 June 1959

Vejle	3–3	IFK Norrköping
Enoksen (3)	^[9]	Holmqvist (2) Bild

Vejle

29 July 1959

IFK Norrköping	6–0	Vejle
Holmqvist (2) Johnsson Källgren Bild Eriksson	^[10]

Norrköping

Attendance: 3,856

IFK Norrköping won 9–3 on aggregate.

24 June 1959

Fredrikstad	2–2	AIK
	^[11]	Mellberg (2)

Fredrikstad

29 July 1959

AIK	4–0	Fredrikstad
Backman (2) Andersson Skiöld	^[12]

Råsunda Stadium, Solna

Attendance: 1,829

Referee: Tore Sjöberg (Sweden)

AIK won 6–2 on aggregate.

1 July 1959

GAIS	1–2	Helsinki-Alliance
	^[13]

28 July 1959

Helsinki-Alliance	1–1	GAIS
Rosquist	^[14]	Jakobsson

Helsinki

Helsinki-Alliance won 3–2 on aggregate.

28 July 1959

AB	1–3	Malmö FF
Madsen	^[15]	Nilsson (2) Svensson

Copenhagen

4 August 1959

Malmö FF	2–0	AB
Svahn Svensson	^[16]

Malmö

Attendance: 2,972

Malmö FF won 5–1 on aggregate.

30 July 1959

Frem	5–1	Hälsingborg
Andersen (2) Hansen (2) Petersen	^[17]^[18]	Ahlberg

Frederiksberg Stadium, Copenhagen

Attendance: 4,500

Referee: Frede Hansen (Denmark)

5 August 1959

Hälsingborg	0–0	Frem
	^[19]^[18]

Olympia, Hälsingborg

Attendance: 2,697

Referee: Evert Månsson (Sweden)

Frem won 5–1 on aggregate.

4 August 1959

Skovshoved	0–3	Djurgården
	^[20]	Eriksson Hellström Nilsson

Parken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 3,500

8 September 1959

Djurgården	5–1	Skovshoved
Tumba (2) Rydberg Karlsson Hellström	^[21]	Wollertsen

Råsunda Stadium, Solna

Attendance: 2,206

Djurgården won 8–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Originally, the matches were supposed to be played before 15 November 1959.^[22]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Replay
Helsinki-Alliance	6–6 (ct)	Örgryte	1–0	3–4	2–2
Djurgården	2–0	KB	1–0	1–0
AIK	4–11	IFK Norrköping	2–5	2–6
Frem	4–2	Malmö FF	2–0	2–2

Matches

9 September 1959

Helsinki-Alliance	1–0	Örgryte
Ekman	^[23]

Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki

13 October 1959

Örgryte	4–3	Helsinki-Alliance
Börjesson (2) Simonsson Wetterlind	^[24]	Kankkonen (2) Nevalainen

Nya Ullevi, Gothenburg

Attendance: 3,744

28 June 1960

Helsinki-Alliance	2–2	Örgryte
Pärnänen Kankkonen (p)	^[25]	Lindkvist Simonsson

Helsinki

Attendance: 6,000

Helsinki-Alliance won on coin flipping.

20 October 1959

Djurgården	1–0	KB
Hellström	^[26]

Råsunda Stadium, Solna

Attendance: 1,098

1 June 1960

KB	0–1	Djurgården
	^[27]	Eklund

Parken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 5,500

Djurgården won 2–0 on aggregate.

22 October 1959

AIK	2–5	IFK Norrköping
Mellberg Johansson	^[28]^[29]	Martinsson (2) Jonsson Bild Eriksson

Råsunda Stadium, Solna

Attendance: 1,022

Referee: Yngve Johansson (Sweden)

8 November 1959

IFK Norrköping	6–2	AIK
Källgren (3) Bild (2) Martinsson	^[30]	Bengtsson Johansson

Idrottsparken, Norrköping

Attendance: 1,319

Referee: Hans Olsson (Sweden)

IFK Norrköping won 11–4 on aggregate.

31 March 1960

Frem	2–0	Malmö FF
Andersen (1, 1p)	^[31]^[32]

Parken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Valdemar Hansen (Denmark)

28 June 1960

Malmö FF	2–2	Frem
Tillberg Svensson	^[33]^[32]	Nielsen (p) Johansen

Malmö Stadium, Malmö

Attendance: 2,700

Referee: Edvin Mårtensson (Sweden)

Frem won 4–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
IFK Norrköping	3–7	Djurgården	0–2	3–5
Helsinki-Alliance	5–2	Frem	2–1	3–1

Matches

9 April 1961

IFK Norrköping	0–2	Djurgården
	^[34]	Skiöld Karlsson

Idrottsparken, Norrköping

Attendance: 4,156

25 June 1962

Djurgården	5–3	IFK Norrköping
Eriksson (4) Karlsson	^[35]	Lagerlund (2) Löfgren

Råsunda Stadium, Solna

Attendance: 4,230

Djurgården won 7–3 on aggregate.

4 August 1961

Helsinki-Alliance	2–1	Frem
Kankkonen (2)	^[36]	Gronemann

Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Hirviniemi (Finland)

15 August 1961

Frem	1–3	Helsinki-Alliance
Petersen	^[37]^[36]	Stück (3)

Østerbro Stadium, Copenhagen

Attendance: 3,400

Referee: Ejner Poulsen (Denmark)

Helsinki-Alliance won 5–2 on aggregate.

Final

31 July 1962

18:30

Djurgården	0–1	Helsinki-Alliance
	^[38]^[4]	(p)

Stockholm Olympic Stadium, Stockholm

Attendance: 1,761

Referee: Jarl Hansen (Denmark)

Djurgården
1	Arne Arvidsson
2	Jan Karlsson
3	Lars Arnesson
4	Gösta Sandberg
5	Lars Broström
6	Hans Mild
7	Hans Karlsson
8	Leif Skiöld
9	Leif Eriksson
10	Lars-Olof Sandberg
11	Jan Åslund

Helsinki-Alliance
1	Anders Westerholm
2	Reijo Jalava
3	Karl Ström
4	Stig Holmqvist
5	Pertti Hartikainen
6	Sakari Pihlamo
7	Eero Rauniola
8	Hannu Kankkonen
9	Raimo Kauppinen
10	Paavo Lyytikäinen
11	Ilka Hayla

References

^ "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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Summary

Teams

Results

Round of 16

Matches

Quarter-finals

Matches

Semi-finals

Matches

Final

See also

References