Balkan Cup

This article describes the soccer competition for national teams. For the club competition of the same name in football, see Balkan Cup .

The Balkan Cup was a competition between 1929 and 1980 for national football teams in the Balkan region . Until 1948 the tournament was played in the league system, the tournaments 1973/1976 and 1977/1980 in the knockout system . The competition is not to be confused with the Balkan Cup for club teams, which was played from 1960 to 1994.

The tournaments at a glance

year	host	final			3rd place match
		winner	Results	2nd place	3rd place	Results	4th Place
1929-31 details	not a host	Romania	League system	Yugoslavia	Greece	League system	Bulgaria
1931 details	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	League system	Turkey	Yugoslavia	League system	only three teams
1932 details	Yugoslavia	Bulgaria	League system	Yugoslavia	Romania	League system	Greece
1933 details	Romania	Romania	League system	Yugoslavia	Bulgaria	League system	Greece
1934/35 details	Greece	Yugoslavia	League system	Greece	Romania	League system	Bulgaria
1935 details	Bulgaria	Yugoslavia	League system	Bulgaria	Greece	League system	Romania
1936 details	Romania	Romania	League system	Bulgaria	Greece	League system	only three teams
1946 details	Albania	Albania	League system	Yugoslavia	Romania	League system	Bulgaria
1947 details	not a host	Hungary	League system	Yugoslavia	Romania	League system	Bulgaria
1948 details	Tournament canceled (played as Balkan and Central European Championship with 7 participants)
1973/76 details	not a host	Bulgaria	1: 0/2: 3	Romania	not carried out
1977/80 details	not a host	Romania	0: 2/4: 1	Yugoslavia	not carried out

Ranking list of winners

rank	country	title	Year (s)
1	/ Romania	4th	1929-31, 1933, 1936, 1980
2	/ Bulgaria	3	1931, 1932, 1976
3	Yugoslavia	2	1934/35, 1935
4th	Albania	1	1946
	Hungary	1	1947

Web links

• Results at rsssf.com (English)