European Railways Cup

European Railways Cup

Sport	Football
Founded	1947 [1]
Ceased	2003
No. of teams	Various
Last 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

National team tournament

#	Years	City	Winners	Score	Runners-up
1	1947	Budapest [2]	Yugoslavia	2 – 1 [1]	Hungary
2	1951	Brussel [2]	Yugoslavia	7 – 0 [1]	France
3	1955	Weiden [2]	Austria	3 – 2 [1]	Germany
4	1958	Brussel [2]	Yugoslavia	2 – 2 1 [1]	Germany

Club tournament

#	Years	City	Winners	Score	Runners-up
5	1961 [1]	Sofia [2]	Lokomotiv Sofia	1 – 0	Rapid București
6	1963 [1]	Moscow & Sofia [2]	Lokomotiv Sofia	3 – 0 0 – 1	Lokomotiv Moscow
7	1968 [1]	Sofia [2]	Rapid București	3 – 1 0 – 1	Lokomotiv Sofia
8	1971 [1]	in various countries [2]	Kairat Almaty 2	1 – 1 1 – 0	Rapid București
9	1974 [3]	in various countries [2]	Lokomotiv Moscow	1 – 4 3 – 0 [4]	Lokomotiv Sofia
10	1976 [3]	Kosice [2]	Lokomotiv Moscow	5 – 1	Lokomotíva Košice
11	1979 [3]	Regensburg [2]	Lokomotiv Moscow	1 – 0 [5]	Lokomotíva Košice
12	1983 [3]	Regensburg [2]	Lokomotiv Moscow	2 – 1 [6]	Lokomotíva Košice
13	1987 [3]	Hissarja & Parvomaj & Plovdiv [2]	Lokomotiv Moscow	3 – 1 [7]	Lokomotiv Plovdiv
14	1991 [3]	Duisburg [2]	FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod
15	1995 [3]	Haarlem [2]
16	1999 [3]	St Brevin les Pins & St Michel-Chef-Chef [2]
17	2003	Varna [2]	Lokomotiv Mezdra
18	2007 [3]	Trutnov [2]
19	2011 [3]	Le Verdon [2]
20	2015 [3]	Sochi [2]
21	2019 [3]	Saint Mandrier [2]
22	2023 [3]	Albena [2]		2 – 1

Source: Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2014-03-25 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2014-03-25 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine

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.

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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	–
FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod	1	–	1991	–
Lokomotíva Košice	–	3	–	1976, 1979, 1983
Lokomotiv Plovdiv	–	1	–	1987

See also

• Cup of the Alps

References

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