Mitropa Cup

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The Mitropa Cup was one of the first major international club football competitions in Europe, featuring top Central European teams in the interwar and early postwar periods.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mitropa Cup canonical 3
Mitropa Cup Committee 1

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf defunct football competition
international club football competition
alsoKnownAs Central European Cup
competitionScope professional clubs
competitionType club competition
continent Europe
dissolved 1992
eligibility champions and top finishers of national leagues
eraOfGreatestImportance 1920s
1930s
format knockout tournament
foundingMemberCountry Austria
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Yugoslavia
governingBodyType national football associations
historicalPeriod early postwar period
interwar period
inception 1927
inspired European Champion Clubs Cup
linked to: European Cup

European club competitions
UEFA Champions League
laterParticipantCountry Bulgaria
East Germany
Italy
Poland
Romania
Soviet Union
Switzerland
West Germany
legacy forerunner of modern European club competitions
level top-level
namedAfter Mitteleuropa
linked to: Central Europe
notableClubParticipant AC Milan
Austria Wien
Ferencvárosi TC
Inter Milan
Juventus
linked to: Juventus FC

MTK Budapest
linked to: MTK Budapest FC

Rapid Wien
Slavia Prague
linked to: SK Slavia Prague

Sparta Prague
linked to: AC Sparta Prague
organizer Central European football associations
precededBy Challenge Cup
region Central Europe
sport association football
statusAfterWWII declining importance
trophy Mitropa Cup trophy

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sándor Kocsis participantIn Mitropa Cup
Ferencvárosi TC wonCompetition Mitropa Cup
International Football Cup organizer Mitropa Cup Committee
linked to: Mitropa Cup