Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

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The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, most commonly referred to as the Fairs Cup and sometimes as the European Fairs Cup or Fairs Cities' Cup, was a European football competition played between 1955 and 1971. The Fairs Cup was the idea of FIFA vice-president and executive committee member Ernst Thommen, Italian Football Federation president and FIFA executive committee member Ottorino Barassi and English Football Association general secretary, Stanley Rous. As the name suggests, the competition was set up to promote international trade fairs. UEFA refers to the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup as the forerunner to the UEFA Cup, although they don't include it in their official resume. FIFA also considers the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup as a predecessor tournament to the UEFA Cup, even counting it together with the tournament that succeeded it; La Liga, in turn, simply calls it the Europa League. Games were regularly held between teams from cities holding trade fairs and it was from these games that the competition...

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