European Railways Cup

European Railways Cup

Sport	Football
Founded	1947 [1]
No. of teams	Various
Most recent champion(s)	Lokomotiv Mezdra (1 title)
Most titles	Lokomotiv Moscow (5 titles)

European Railways Cup or European Railworks Cup or International Sports Railway Workers Union Cup or Cup of the European Sport Union of Railway Workers is a defunct friendly football club tournament.

Winners

Years	Winners	Runners-up	Score	Source
1947[1]	Yugoslavia	Hungary	2 – 1
1951[1]	Yugoslavia	France	7 – 0
1953–1955[1]	Austria	Germany	3 – 2
1956–1958[1]	Yugoslavia	Germany	2 – 2 ^1
1959–1961[1]	Lokomotiv Sofia	Rapid București	1 – 0
1962–1963[1]	Lokomotiv Sofia	Lokomotiv Moscow	3 – 0, 0 – 1
1966–1968[1]	Rapid București	Lokomotiv Sofia	3 – 1, 0 – 1
1969–1971[1]	Kairat Almaty ^2	Rapid București	1 – 1, 1 – 0
1974[2]	Lokomotiv Moscow	Lokomotiv Sofia
1976[2]	Lokomotiv Moscow	Lokomotíva Košice	5 – 1
1979[2]	Lokomotiv Moscow	Lokomotíva Košice
1983[2]	Lokomotiv Moscow	Lokomotíva Košice
1987[2]	Lokomotiv Moscow
2003	Lokomotiv Mezdra

Notes:

• Note 1: Victory awarded to Yugoslavia who had more corner kicks.
• Note 2: Kairat Almaty was the first Soviet Team to win a European Cup. It happened in 1971 in Almaty, when Kairat beat Rapid Bucharest with 2–1 and clinched European Railways Cup.

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Performances

By club

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning Seasons	Runners-up Seasons
Lokomotiv Moscow	5	1	1974, 1976, 1979, 1983, 1987	1963
Lokomotiv Sofia	2	2	1961, 1963	1968, 1974
Rapid București	1	2	1968	1961, 1971
Lokomotiv Mezdra	1	–	2003	–
Kairat Almaty	1	–	1971	–
Lokomotíva Košice	–	3	–	1976, 1979, 1983

See also

• Latin Cup
• Mitropa Cup
• Balkans Cup
• Challenge Cup

References

1. Кубок международного спортивного союза железнодорожников. (Russian)
2. История Локомотива.
3. Football Federation of Kazakhstan: The main milestones in the history of Kazakhstani football 1971-1989.
4. FC Kairat: «40 лет исторической победе!». 14.11.2011 (Russian)
5. UEFA: Bayshakov emerges. Published: 12 July 2002