1972 Anglo-Italian Cup

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1972 Anglo-Italian Cup
Country England and Italy
Teams 12
Champions Roma
Runners-up Blackpool
1971
1973

The 1972 Anglo-Italian Cup was the third staging of the Anglo-Italian Cup, an annual association football tournament between clubs from England and Italy. It featured twelve teams — six from each country.

The Anglo-Italian Cup is a defunct European football competition.

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The competition started on 1 June 1972 and concluded on 24 June 1972 with the final match between the winners of the English and Italian sections of the competition. Roma beat the 1971 winners, Blackpool, by three goals to one in the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.

A.S. Roma professional Italian association football club

Associazione Sportiva Roma, commonly referred to as Roma[ˈroːma], is an Italian professional football club based in Rome. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma have participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence except for 1951–52.

The 1971 Anglo-Italian Cup was the second staging of the annual association football tournament. It featured twelve teams — six from England and six from Italy.

Blackpool F.C. association football club

Blackpool F.C. is a professional association football club in the seaside town of Blackpool, Lancashire, England, which competes in League One, the third tier of English football. Founded in 1887, Blackpool's home ground since 1901 has been Bloomfield Road.

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The twelve participating teams were divided into three groups of four, each group comprising two teams from England and two from Italy. Each team played the two teams from the other country, once at home and once away. The teams were then ranked against teams from their own country on a league basis, and the top ranked teams from each country played off in a final for the trophy.

Participating teams

England
Sunderland A.F.C. association football club

Sunderland Association Football Club is an English professional football club based in the city of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. Sunderland play in League One, the third tier of English football. Since its formation in 1879, the club has won six top-flight titles, a total only bettered by five other clubs, and has finished runners-up five times. The club has also won the FA Cup twice and been runners-up twice, as well as winning the FA Community Shield in 1936 and being finalists the following year. Sunderland have also been Football League Cup finalists in 1985 and 2014.

Italy
Atalanta B.C. Italian association football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy

Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, commonly referred to as Atalanta, is an Italian football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy. It currently plays in Serie A, having gained promotion from Serie B in 2010–11.

Cagliari Calcio Italian association football club

Cagliari Calcio, commonly referred to as Cagliari, is an Italian football club based in Cagliari, Sardinia. The club currently plays in Serie A.

U.C. Sampdoria association football club from Italy

Unione Calcio Sampdoria, commonly referred to as Sampdoria, is an Italian professional football club based in Genoa, Liguria.

Group results

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Final rankings

Total points were determined by points gained (two for a win, one for a draw) plus goals scored.

English rankings

TeamPldWDLGFGAPtsTotal
Blackpool 4400181826
Carlisle United 4310116718
Leicester City 4202117415
Birmingham City 421185513
Sunderland 412187412
Stoke City 420264410

Italian rankings

TeamPldWDLGFGAPtsTotal
Roma 421197514
Atalanta 4211811513
Cagliari 41126839
Sampdoria 41033925
Lanerossi Vicenza 401331714
Catanzaro 400411001

Final

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