The full campaign
Quarter-finalists · Arsenal qualified 9–1 on aggregate
Match cassette · results and dates
Romanian club’s score first.
- 17 September 1969 · HomeDinamo Bacău 6–0 Floriana (Malta)
- 28 September 1969 · AwayDinamo Bacău 1–0 Floriana (Malta)
- 22 October 1969 · AwayDinamo Bacău 0–0 Skeid Oslo (Norway)
- 29 October 1969 · HomeDinamo Bacău 2–0 Skeid Oslo (Norway)
- 17 December 1969 · AwayDinamo Bacău 1–1 Kilmarnock (Scotland)
- 3 January 1970 · HomeDinamo Bacău 2–0 Kilmarnock (Scotland)
- 11 March 1970 · HomeDinamo Bacău 0–2 Arsenal FC (England)
- 18 March 1970 · AwayDinamo Bacău 1–7 Arsenal FC (England)
Seven without reply against Floriana
Dinamo Bacău opened the 1969/70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup with a 6–0 home win over Floriana and won the return 1–0. Against Skeid Oslo, a goalless draw in Norway was followed by a 2–0 home win. Four matches into the campaign, Bacău had not conceded.
Ene puts Bacău in the quarter-finals
The next tie brought Kilmarnock. Bacău drew 1–1 away, then won 2–0 at the 23 August stadium on 13 January 1970. Daniel Ene scored both goals. Valeriu Neagu and Constantin Rădulescu’s team had beaten three opponents and reached the last eight. Arsenal were next.
Arsenal prove too strong
Arsenal won 2–0 in Bacău and 7–1 at Highbury in March. They went through 9–1 on aggregate and went on to win the competition. Bacău’s eight-match campaign ended with four wins, two draws and two defeats, 13 goals scored and ten conceded. The quarter-final was a heavy defeat, after three rounds in which Dinamo had earned their progress.
Team line-ups
Starting players; substitutes are included where recorded · GK = goalkeeper · C = captain.
Dinamo Bacău 2–0 Kilmarnock · 13 January 1970
- Dinamo Bacău · starting XI
- Aristide Ghiță; Alexandru Comănescu, Mircea Nedelcu, Laurențiu Velicu, Madocsa Kiss, Nicolae Vătafu, Constantin Duțan, Mircea Pană, Emeric Dembroschi, Daniel Ene, Petre Băluță.
- Substitute used
- Francisc Neumayer for Petre Băluță.
- Coaches
- Valeriu Neagu and Constantin Rădulescu.
Line-ups follow the match reports linked in Sources & image credits.
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Sources & image credits
Match results and dates follow the archive records. Reference pages:
- RomanianSoccer · Romanian clubs in the Fairs Cup ↗
- Wildstat · Bacău’s complete 1969/70 campaign ↗
- RSSSF · European competitions 1969/70 ↗
- Club milestone · historical reference ↗
Club crest: the image already stored in the club archive, used as a visual identifier rather than a photograph of this encounter.
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