During the 1961–62 season Inter Milan competed in Serie A, Coppa Italia and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.
Summary During summer oil tycoon and President Angelo Moratti in his 7th campaign as chairman transferred in several players to reinforce the club such as: Welsh forward Gerry Hitchens from Aston Villa and Spanish midfielder Luis Suarez from FC Barcelona after paid 25 million Spanish pesetas (£152,000).
Hitchens arrived to the team after a failed bid on Scottish Forward Denis Law who moved to Torino for a fee of £110,000,This was roughly equivalent to £1.65 million at 2004 values, according to the retail price conversion utility at measuringworth.com. (a record fee for a transfer involving a British player) included claims by Inter Milan that he had signed a pre-contract agreement with them, although they dropped this claim before the season started.
The club finished in 2nd place just 5 points below of league Champions AC Milan. In Coppa Italia the team was early eliminated by Novara in Eightfinals. In the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup the squad advanced to the quarterfinals and lost the series to Valencia CF.
Squad Source:http://calcio-seriea.net/rose/1960/501/
Transfers
In Pos. Name from TypeFWLorenzo Bettini Udinese FWGerry HitchensAston Villa MFLuis Suárez FC Barcelona FWMario Mereghetti Udinese loan endedGKOttavio BugattiSSC Napoli FWHumberto Academica MFGuido Gratton SSC Napoli Out Pos. Name To TypeDFMauro Gatti SSC Napoli MFBengt Lindskog Lecco FWEddie Firmani Genoa GKMario Da Pozzo Genoa FWAntonio Angelillo AS Roma DFLivio Fongaro Genoa FWLuigi Mascalaito US Catanzaro
Winter
In Pos. Name from Type Out Pos. Name To TypeMFGuido Gratton SS Lazio
Competitions Serie A
League table
Results by round
Matches
Coppa Italia
Eightfinals
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
Round of 32
Eightfinals
Quarterfinals
Statistics Players statistics
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