1956–57 European Cup

1956–57 European Cup
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates 1 August 1956 – 30 May 1957
Teams 22
Final positions
Champions Spain Real Madrid (2nd title)
Runners-up Italy Fiorentina
Tournament statistics
Matches played 44
Goals scored 170 (3.86 per match)
Top scorer(s) England Dennis Viollet (9 goals)

The 1956–57 European Cup was the second season of the European Cup, Europe's premier club football tournament. The competition was won for the second time by Real Madrid, who beat Fiorentina 2–0 in the final at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid, on 30 May 1957.

After the great success of the first tournament, six new nations entered representatives: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, England, Luxembourg, Romania and Turkey. The English Football Association ("FA") had not allowed Chelsea to enter in 1955, and continued its stance on the European Cup as it being a "distraction". However, against the wishes of the FA, Manchester United entered the competition as English champions, becoming the first English team to play in Europe. An additional place was awarded to Real Madrid as the competition's reigning champions, occupying the free berth left by Saar after its reunification with West Germany.

Preliminary round

The draw for the preliminary round took place in UEFA headquarters in Paris on 29 June 1956.[1] The 21 challengers of Real Madrid were grouped geographically into three pots. The first four teams drawn in each pot would play the preliminary round in September, while the remaining three clubs received byes.

Pot 1
Eastern Europe		 Pot 2
North-Western Europe		 Pot 3
South-Central Europe
Drawn Match 1

Czechoslovakia Slovan UNV Bratislava

France Nice

Portugal Porto

Poland CWKS Warsaw

Denmark AGF Aarhus

Spain Athletic Bilbao

Match 2

Turkey Galatasaray

Belgium Anderlecht

West Germany Borussia Dortmund

Romania Dinamo București

England Manchester United

Luxembourg Spora Luxembourg

Byes

Hungary Budapest Honvéd

Scotland Rangers

Italy Fiorentina

Austria Rapid Wien

Sweden Norrköping

Switzerland Grasshopper

Bulgaria CDNA Sofia

Netherlands Rapid JC

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade

The calendar was decided by the involved teams, with all matches to be played by 1 October.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Borussia Dortmund West Germany 5–51 Luxembourg Spora Luxembourg 4–3 1–2
Dinamo București Romania 4–3 Turkey Galatasaray 3–1 1–2
Slovan UNV Bratislava Czechoslovakia 4–2 Poland CWKS Warsaw 4–0 0–2
Anderlecht Belgium 0–12 England Manchester United 0–2 0–10
AGF Aarhus Denmark 2–6 France Nice 1–1 1–5
Porto Portugal 3–5 Spain Athletic Bilbao 1–2 2–3

1 Borussia Dortmund beat Spora Luxembourg 7–0 in a play-off to qualify for the first round.

First leg

Borussia Dortmund West Germany 4–3 Luxembourg Spora Luxembourg
Bracht  31'
Niepieklo  54'
Preißler  61', 73'		 Report Boreux  25', 34', 88'
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Johan Heinrich Martens (Netherlands)
Dinamo București Romania 3–1 Turkey Galatasaray
Voica  10', 67'
Ene  84'		 Report Oktay  77'
Attendance: 85,000
Referee: Francesco Liverani (Italy)
Anderlecht Belgium 0–2 England Manchester United
Report Viollet  25'
Taylor  75'
Attendance: 33,000
Slovan UNV Bratislava Czechoslovakia 4–0 Poland CWKS Warsaw
Pažický  23', 68'
Kováč  30' (pen.)
Moravčík  40'		 Report
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Friedrich Mayer (Austria)
AGF Aarhus Denmark 1–1 France Nice
Erik Bechmann Jensen  16' Report Foix  61'
Attendance: 12,900
Porto Portugal 1–2 Spain Athletic Bilbao
Matos  54' Report Gaínza  8'
Canito  75'
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Mario Maurelli (Italy)

Second leg

Spora Luxembourg Luxembourg 2–1 West Germany Borussia Dortmund
Fiedler  22'
Letsch  39'		 Report Preißler  28'
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Karl Lescart (Belgium)

Borussia Dortmund 5–5 Spora Luxembourg on aggregate; play-off needed.

CWKS Warsaw Poland 2–0 Czechoslovakia Slovan UNV Bratislava
Kowal  52'
Brychczy  63'		 Report
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Alfred Grill (Austria)

Slovan UNV Bratislava won 4–2 on aggregate.

Manchester United England 10–0 Belgium Anderlecht
Taylor  8', 20', 52'
Viollet  25', 38', 44', 65'
Whelan  61', 82'
Berry  75'		 Report
Attendance: 43,635

Manchester United won 12–0 on aggregate.

Athletic Bilbao Spain 3–2 Portugal Porto
Artetxe  14', 73' (pen.), 82' Report Hernâni  4'
Matos  20'
Attendance: 34,705
Referee: Mario Maurelli (Italy)

Athletic Bilbao won 5–3 on aggregate.

Nice France 5–1 Denmark AGF Aarhus
Foix  2'
Milazzo  27', 74'
Faivre  45', 60'		 Report Jensen  77'
Attendance: 8,144

Nice won 6–2 on aggregate.

Galatasaray Turkey 2–1 Romania Dinamo București
Aytaç  42'
Oktay  89'		 Report Suru  31'
Attendance: 23,764
Referee: Gustav Jiranek (Austria)

Dinamo București won 4–3 on aggregate.

Play-off

Borussia Dortmund West Germany 7–0 Luxembourg Spora Luxembourg
Preißler  24', 36'
Simmer  29'
Kelbassa  40', 49', 63'
Peters  57'		 Report
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Fritz Buchmüller (Switzerland)

First round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Manchester United England 3–2 West Germany Borussia Dortmund 3–2 0–0
CDNA Sofia Bulgaria 10–4 Romania Dinamo București 8–1 2–3
Rangers Scotland 3–31 France Nice 2–1 1–2
Slovan UNV Bratislava Czechoslovakia 1–2 Switzerland Grasshopper 1–0 0–2
Real Madrid Spain 5–52 Austria Rapid Wien 4–2 1–3
Rapid JC Netherlands 3–6 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade 3–4 0–2
Fiorentina Italy 2–1 Sweden Norrköping 1–1 1–0
Athletic Bilbao Spain 6–5 Hungary Budapest Honvéd 3–2 3–33

1 Nice beat Rangers 3–1 in a play-off to qualify for the quarter-finals.

2 Real Madrid beat Rapid Wien 2–0 in a play-off to qualify for the quarter-finals.

3 Second leg played at Heysel Stadium, Brussels

First leg

Manchester United England 3–2 West Germany Borussia Dortmund
Viollet  10', 25'
Pegg  35'		 Report Kapitulski  68'
Preißler  75'
Attendance: 75,568
CDNA Sofia Bulgaria 8–1 Romania Dinamo București
Kolev  12', 56', 63'
Milanov  20', 65'
Panayotov  36', 66'
Dimitrov  80'		 Report Băcut  71' (pen.)
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Vasa Stefanović (Yugoslavia)
Rangers Scotland 2–1 France Nice
Murray  40'
Simpson  81'		 Report Faivre  23'
Attendance: 65,000
Slovan UNV Bratislava Czechoslovakia 1–0 Switzerland Grasshopper
Moravčík  20' Report
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)
Real Madrid Spain 4–2 Austria Rapid Wien
Di Stéfano  9', 21'
Marsal  60', 63'		 Report Dienst  58'
Gießer  90'
Attendance: 100,000
Rapid JC Netherlands 3–4 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade
Janssen  8'
Bischops  78'
Tasić  81' (og.)		 Report Kostić  4', 75'
Toplak  42'
Rudinski  82'
Attendance: 11,500
Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)
Fiorentina Italy 1–1 Sweden Norrköping
Bizzarri  15' Report Bild  8'
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Dean Harzic (France)
Athletic Bilbao Spain 3–2 Hungary Budapest Honvéd
Artetxe  16'
Marcaida  27'
Arieta  82'		 Report Budai II  75'
Kocsis  85'
Attendance: 39,184

Second leg

Red Star Belgrade Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 2–0 Netherlands Rapid JC
Toplak  32'
Kostić  84'		 Report
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Rudolf Roman (Austria)

Red Star Belgrade won 6–3 on aggregate

Nice France 2–1 Scotland Rangers
Bravo  61'
Foix  64'		 Report Hubbard  40' (pen.)
Attendance: 8,439
Referee: Riccardo Pieri (Italy)

Nice 3–3 Rangers on aggregate; play-off needed.

Rapid Wien Austria 3–1 Spain Real Madrid
Happel  18', 38' (pen.), 40' Report Di Stéfano  60'
Attendance: 60,000

Real Madrid 5–5 Rapid Wien on aggregate; play-off needed.

Borussia Dortmund West Germany 0–0 England Manchester United
Report
Attendance: 44,570
Referee: Johan Heinrich Martens (Netherlands)

Manchester United won 3–2 on aggregate

Norrköping Sweden 0–1 Italy Fiorentina
Report Virgili  16'
Attendance: 10,200
Referee: Michel Devillers (France)

Fiorentina won 2–1 on aggregate

Grasshopper Switzerland 2–0 Czechoslovakia Slovan UNV Bratislava
Vukosavljević  75'
Duret  89'		 Report
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)

Grasshopper won 2–1 on aggregate

Budapest Honvéd Hungary 3–3 Spain Athletic Bilbao
Budai II  6', 82'
Puskás  86'		 Report Merodio  1', 72'
Arieta  67'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

Athletic Bilbao won 6–5 on aggregate

Dinamo București Romania 3–2 Bulgaria CDNA Sofia
Nicușor  58' (pen.)
Lăzar  67'
Neagu  84'		 Report Stoyanov  23'
Yanev  62'
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Gustav Jiranek (Austria)

CDNA Sofia won 10–4 on aggregate

Play-off

Nice France 3–1 Scotland Rangers
Foix  45'
Muro  50'
Faivre  75'		 Report Bonvin  51' (o.g.)
Attendance: 11,908
Referee: Lucien Van Nuffel (Belgium)
Real Madrid Spain 2–0 Austria Rapid Wien
Joseíto  1'
Kopa  23'		 Report
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Alfred Bond (England)

Quarter-finals

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Athletic Bilbao Spain 5–6 England Manchester United 5–3 0–3
Fiorentina Italy 5–3 Switzerland Grasshopper 3–1 2–2
Real Madrid Spain 6–2 France Nice 3–0 3–2
Red Star Belgrade Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 4–3 Bulgaria CDNA Sofia 3–1 1–2

First leg

Athletic Bilbao Spain 5–3 England Manchester United
Uribe  2', 28'
Marcaida  43'
Merodio  73'
Artetxe  78'		 Report Taylor  48'
Viollet  54'
Whelan  85'
Attendance: 36,737
Referee: Albert Dusch (West Germany)
Fiorentina Italy 3–1 Switzerland Grasshopper
Segato  3'
Taccola  10', 12'		 Report Ballaman  31'
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)
Real Madrid Spain 3–0 France Nice
Joseíto  18'
Mateos  49', 72'		 Report
Attendance: 110,000
Referee: Gérard Versyp (Belgium)
Red Star Belgrade Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 3–1 Bulgaria CDNA Sofia
Kostić  6', 25'
Popović  53'		 Report Yanev  88'
Attendance: 33,000
Referee: Riccardo Pieri (Italy)

Second leg

Manchester United England 3–0 Spain Athletic Bilbao
Viollet  42'
Taylor  70'
Berry  85'		 Report
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Albert Dusch (West Germany)

Manchester United won 6–5 on aggregate

CDNA Sofia Bulgaria 2–1 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade
Bozhkov  22' (pen.)
Panayotov  39'		 Report Tasić  29' (pen.)
Attendance: 50,000

Red Star Belgrade won 4–3 on aggregate

Grasshopper Switzerland 2–2 Italy Fiorentina
Ballaman  25'
Vukosavljević  85'		 Report Julinho  7'
Montuori  52'
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)

Fiorentina won 5–3 on aggregate

Nice France 2–3 Spain Real Madrid
Foix  15'
Ferry  82' (pen.)		 Report Joseíto  45'
Di Stéfano  50', 79'
Attendance: 21,724

Real Madrid won 6–2 on aggregate

Semi-finals

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Red Star Belgrade Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 0–1 Italy Fiorentina 0–1 0–0
Real Madrid Spain 5–3 England Manchester United 3–1 2–2

First leg

Red Star Belgrade Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 0–1 Italy Fiorentina
Report Prini  88'
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)
Real Madrid Spain 3–1 England Manchester United
Rial  61'
Di Stéfano  63'
Mateos  83'		 Report Taylor  82'
Attendance: 120,000

Second leg

Fiorentina Italy 0–0 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade
Report
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Klaas Schipper (Netherlands)

Fiorentina won 1–0 on aggregate

Manchester United England 2–2 Spain Real Madrid
Taylor  62'
Charlton  85'		 Report Kopa  25'
Rial  33'
Attendance: 65,000
Referee: Marcel Lequesne (France)

Real Madrid won 5–3 on aggregate

Final

Real Madrid Spain 2–0 Italy Fiorentina
Di Stéfano  69' (pen.)
Gento  75'		 Report
Attendance: 120,000

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1956–57 European Cup (including preliminary round) were as follows:[3][4]

Rank Name Team Goals
1 England Dennis Viollet England Manchester United 9
2 England Tommy Taylor England Manchester United 8
3 Spain Alfredo Di Stéfano Spain Real Madrid 7
4 West Germany Alfred Preißler West Germany Borussia Dortmund 6
5 Spain José Artetxe Spain Athletic Bilbao 5
France Jacques Foix France Nice 5
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Bora Kostić Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade 5
8 France Jacky Faivre France Nice 4
Bulgaria Ivan Petkov Kolev Bulgaria CDNA Sofia 4
10 Luxembourg Marc Boreux Luxembourg Spora Luxembourg 3
Austria Ernst Happel Austria Rapid Wien 3
Spain Joseíto Spain Real Madrid 3
West Germany Alfred Kelbassa West Germany Borussia Dortmund 3
Spain Enrique Mateos Spain Real Madrid 3
Spain Armando Merodio Spain Athletic Bilbao 3
Republic of Ireland Billy Whelan England Manchester United 3

Notes

  1. ↑ It is assumed this match was played in Munich as a result of Swiss protests regarding the outcome of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 which also led to them boycotting the 1956 Olympic Games.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Corriere dello Sport, June 30, 1956.
  2. ↑ Melbourne/Stockholm 1956 (All facts) Olympic.org
  3. ↑ 1956/57 European Champion Clubs' Cup - Tournament phase - Goals scored
  4. ↑ 1956/57 European Champion Clubs' Cup - Qualifying phase - Goals scored
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