1955–56 European Cup
The Parc des Princes in Paris hosted the final. | |
Tournament details | |
---|---|
Dates | 4 September 1955 – 13 June 1956 |
Teams | 16 |
Final positions | |
Champions |
|
Runners-up |
|
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 29 |
Goals scored | 127 (4.38 per match) |
Top scorer(s) |
|
The 1955–56 European Cup was the first season of the European Cup, UEFA's premier club football tournament. The tournament was won by Real Madrid, who defeated Reims 4–3 in the final at Parc des Princes, Paris, on 13 June 1956.
The participating clubs in the first five seasons of the European Cup were selected by French football magazine L'Equipe on the basis that they were representative and prestigious clubs in Europe.[1] Of the originally selected teams, Chelsea of England were barred from participation by The Football Association, who saw the tournament as a distraction to domestic football. Chelsea were replaced by Gwardia Warszawa of Poland. In addition, Holland Sport, Honvéd and BK Copenhagen rejected the opportunity to represent the Netherlands, Hungary and Denmark respectively, being replaced by PSV Eindhoven, Vörös Lobogó and AGF Aarhus. This was also the only UEFA tournament to include a representative of Saarland, unified into West Germany in 1957.
The first round pairings were fixed by the organisers and not drawn as would be the case for all future European Cup matches.
Teams
Bracket
First round | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||||||||
|
0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
2 | 5 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
|
4 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
|
0 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
|
3 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
|
3 | 5 | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
|
4 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
|
2 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
|
6 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
|
1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
|
1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
|
1 | 7 | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
|
3 | 4 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
|
4 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
|
4 | |||||||||||||||||||
|
3 | |||||||||||||||||||
|
0 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
|
2 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
|
4 | 4 | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
|
2 | 4 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
|
6 | 4 | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
|
3 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
|
2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
|
0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
|
0 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
|
0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
|
1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
|
3 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
|
0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
|
4 | 1 | 5 |
First round
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sporting CP |
5–8 | 3–3 | 2–5 | |
Vörös Lobogó |
10–4 | 6–3 | 4–1 | |
Servette |
0–7 | 0–2 | 0–5 | |
Rot-Weiss Essen |
1–5 | 0–4 | 1–1 | |
Djurgården |
4–1 | 0–0 | 4–1 | |
AGF Aarhus |
2–4 | 0–2 | 2–2 | |
Rapid Wien |
6–2 | 6–1 | 0–1 | |
Milan |
7–5 | 3–4 | 4–1 |
First leg
Sporting CP |
3–3 | |
---|---|---|
Martins Quim |
Report | M. Milutinović Bobek |
Vörös Lobogó |
6–3 | |
---|---|---|
Szimcsák I Palotás Hidegkuti Sándor |
Report | Vanderwilt Van Den Bosch |
Servette |
0–2 | |
---|---|---|
Report | Muñoz Rial |
AGF Aarhus |
0–2 | |
---|---|---|
Report | Glovacki |
Rapid Wien |
6–1 | |
---|---|---|
A. Körner Mehsarosch Hanappi Probst |
Report | Fransen |
Milan |
3–4 | |
---|---|---|
Frignani Schiaffino Dal Monte |
Report | Krieger Philippi Schirra Martin |
Second leg
Real Madrid |
5–0 | |
---|---|---|
Di Stéfano Iglesias Rial Molowny |
Report |
Real Madrid won 7–0 on aggregate.
Partizan |
5–2 | |
---|---|---|
M. Milutinović Jocić |
Report | Brandão |
Partizan won 8–5 on aggregate.
Hibernian |
1–1 | |
---|---|---|
Buchanan |
Report | Abromeit |
Hibernian won 5–1 on aggregate.
Gwardia Warszawa |
1–4 | |
---|---|---|
Baszkiewicz |
Report | Eriksson Sandberg |
Djurgården won 4–1 on aggregate.
Anderlecht |
1–4 | |
---|---|---|
Van Den Bosch |
Report | Hidegkuti Lantos Palotás Kovács I |
Vörös Lobogó won 10–4 on aggregate.
Reims |
2–2 | |
---|---|---|
Glovacki Bliard |
Report | Erik Bechmann Jensen Bjerregaard |
Reims won 4–2 on aggregate.
PSV Eindhoven |
1–0 | |
---|---|---|
Fransen |
Report |
Rapid Wien won 6–2 on aggregate.
Milan won 7–5 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
---|---|---|---|---|
Djurgården |
1–4 | 1–3 | 0–1 | |
Reims |
8–6 | 4–2 | 4–4 | |
Real Madrid |
4–3 | 4–0 | 0–3 | |
Rapid Wien |
3–8 | 1–1 | 2–7 |
First leg
Real Madrid |
4–0 | |
---|---|---|
Castaño Gento Di Stéfano |
Report |
Note - differences in information: website RSSSF writes that goal on 26 minute scored Robert Körner, website UEFA writes that goal on 26 minute scored Alfred Körner
Second leg
Hibernian |
1–0 | |
---|---|---|
Turnbull |
Report |
Hibernian won 4–1 on aggregate.
Vörös Lobogó |
4–4 | |
---|---|---|
Lantos Palotás |
Report | Glovacki Bliard Templin |
Reims won 8–6 on aggregate.
Partizan |
3–0 | |
---|---|---|
Milutinović Mihajlović |
Report |
Real Madrid won 4–3 on aggregate.
Milan |
7–2 | |
---|---|---|
Mariani Nordahl Ricagni Frignani Schiaffino |
Report | Golobic Dienst |
Milan won 8–3 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
---|---|---|---|---|
Reims |
3–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | |
Real Madrid |
5–4 | 4–2 | 1–2 |
First leg
Real Madrid |
4–2 | |
---|---|---|
Rial Iglesias Olsen Di Stéfano |
Report | Nordahl Schiaffino |
Second leg
Reims won 3–0 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 5–4 on aggregate.
Final
Real Madrid |
4–3 | |
---|---|---|
Di Stéfano Rial Marquitos |
Report | Leblond Templin Hidalgo |
Top goalscorers
- 8 goals
Miloš Milutinović (Partizan)
- 6 goals
Péter Palotás (Vörös Lobogó) Léon Glovacki (Stade Reims)
- 5 goals
René Bliard (Stade Reims) Héctor Rial (Real Madrid) Alfredo Di Stéfano (Real Madrid)
- 4 goals
Mihály Lantos (Vörös Lobogó) Gunnar Nordahl (Milan) Michel Leblond (Stade Reims)
- 3 goals
Alfred Körner (Rapid Wien) Hippolyte Van Den Bosch (Anderlecht) John Eriksson (Djurgården) Eddie Turnbull (Hibernian) Juan Alberto Schiaffino (Milan) Giorgio Dal Monte (Milan) Joseíto (Real Madrid)
Notes
- ↑ https://blog.lequipe.fr/histoire/2-avril-1955-lequipe-cree-la-coupe-deurope-de-football/
- ↑ Match switched to Glasgow due to a frozen pitch in Sweden ("Hibernian reach the first European Cup semi-finals 1956". A Sporting Nation: Rock 'n' Roll Era 1950–1959. BBC. November 2005. Retrieved 18 April 2010. )
External links
- 1955–56 season at UEFA website
- 1955–56 All matches – season at UEFA website
- All scorers 1955–56 European Cup according to protocols UEFA
- European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
- European Cup 1955-56 – results, protocols, players statistics
- "50 years of the European Cup" (PDF). UEFA. October 2004. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
- 1955-56 European Cup - results and line-ups (archive)