The birth of European football
On June 4, 1955, the Fulham and England star Johnny Haynes was captain of the London XI that travelled to Switzerland to face a Basel Select XI in the first major game between two European teams.
In front of 12,500 at Basel's St Jakob Stadium, London won 5-0 with Arsenal's Cliff Holton claiming a hat-trick and Charlton Athletic's South African forward Eddie Firmani also amongst the goals.
The London XI completed a 6-0 aggregate victory with a 1-0 win in the second leg before qualifying from a group that also included a Frankfurt XI and then beating Lausanne in the semi-finals.
Thumping
Awaiting them in the final - three years after the competition had first kicked-off in Basel - were Barcelona.
The first leg, at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground, was drawn 2-2 with Jimmy Greaves and Jim Langley each on target for the home team.
But any hopes that London had of becoming the inaugural winners of the competition were shattered by a thumping 6-0 second leg drubbing in Spain.
The tournament was termed the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup because it was initially open only to cities that hosted trade fairs; cities with more than one club entered representative teams.
Soon after its inception UEFA also launched the European Cup - a competition which soon became the continent's most prestigious club tournament - and in 1971 the Fairs Cup was re-named the UEFA Cup.