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Each club needed to progress through three rounds to reach the final. Matches were contested over two legs, with one leg at each team's home ground. Birmingham won all but one of their six legs. They defeated [[Inter Milan]] home and away: no other English team was to defeat Inter in the [[San Siro]] stadium for another 40 years.<ref name=ReutersInter/> Roma took a lengthier route to the final: they required a [[replay (sports)|replay]] in both quarter-final and semi-final, although won each replay by a comfortable margin.
In the first leg of the final, played in front of a crowd of only 21,000 at [[St Andrew's (stadium)|St Andrew's]], [[Pedro Manfredini]] scored twice for Roma, and goalkeeper [[Fabio Cudicini]] made several high-class saves, before [[Mike Hellawell]] and [[Bryan Orritt]] scored late in the game to equalise the scores. In the second leg, watched by 60,000 spectators, Roma won by two goals to nil – an [[own goal]] when an attempted clearance rebounded off [[Brian Farmer]]'s shin, and a shot from distance by [[Paolo Pestrin]] very late in the game while Birmingham's players were all upfield attacking – in the [[Stadio Olimpico]] to win their first and, {{asof|2020|lc=y}}, only trophy in
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