1955 Mitropa Cup

1955 Mitropa Cup
Tournament details
Dates 29 June – 4 August 1955
Teams 10
Final positions
Champions Vörös Lobogó (1st title)
Runners-up ÚDA Praha
Tournament statistics
Matches played 20
Goals scored 78 (3.9 per match)
← 1951
1956 →

The 1955 Mitropa Cup was the 15th season of the Mitropa football club tournament. It was won by Vörös Lobogó who beat ÚDA Praha in the two-legged final 8–1 on aggregate.

Contents

Preliminary round

Matches played between 29 June and 5 July 1955.

Team 1   Agg.   Team 2   1st leg     2nd leg  
Vörös Lobogó 5–51 Wacker Wien 3–3 2–2
Vojvodina 9–5 Roma 4–1 5–4

1 Vörös Lobogó beat Wacker Wien 5–1 in a play-off to qualify for the Quarter-finals.

First leg

29 June 1955
 Vörös Lobogó 3 – 3 Wacker Wien Népstadion, Budapest
Attendance: 45,000
Arató  8'
Kárász  53', 58'		 Report Kaubek  10', 66'
Haummer  17'

Second leg

2 July 1955
 Wacker Wien 2 – 2 Vörös Lobogó Praterstadion, Vienna
Attendance: 22,000
Kovács  20' (o.g.)
Kaubek  40'		 Report Chalupetzky  1' (o.g.)
Hidegkuti  42'
Play-off
5 July 1955
 Wacker Wien 1 – 5 Vörös Lobogó Praterstadion, Vienna
Attendance: 15,000
Brousek  20' (pen.) Report Hidegkuti  13', 70'
Molnár  14', 39', 50'

Quarter-finals

Matches played between 6 and 13 July 1955.

Team 1   Agg.   Team 2   1st leg     2nd leg  
Honvéd Budapest 10–6 Wiener Sport-Club 5–2 5–4
Bologna 2–7 ÚDA Praha 2–4 0–3
Vojvodina 0–3 Slovan Bratislava 0–0 0–3
Vörös Lobogó 8–3 Hajduk Split 6–0 2–3

First leg

6 July 1955
 Honvéd Budapest 5 – 2 Wiener Sport-Club Népstadion, Budapest
Attendance: 50,000
Tichy  11'
Kocsis  13', 72', 81'
Puskás  23' (pen.)		 Report Miessler  3', 18'
9 July 1955
 Vörös Lobogó 6 – 0 Hajduk Split Népstadion, Budapest
Attendance: 15,000
Molnár  4'
Szimcsák  12'
Sándor  32', 51'
Kárász  37'
Hidegkuti  70'		 Report

Second leg

9 July 1955
 Wiener Sport-Club 4 – 5 Honvéd Budapest Wiener Sportclub-Platz, Vienna
Attendance: 13,000
Horak  22'
Szokol  60'
Miessler  63' (pen.)
Hof  90'		 Report Czibor  24', 78'
Kocsis  26'
Puskás  54'
Bozsik  61'
13 July 1955
 Hajduk Split 3 – 2 Vörös Lobogó Stari plac, Split
Attendance: 20,000
Matošić  49'
Vukas  70'
Vidošević  79'		 Report Hidegkuti  64'
Sándor  66'

Semi-finals

Matches played between 18 and 23 July 1955.

Team 1   Agg.   Team 2   1st leg     2nd leg  
Honvéd Budapest 6–7 Vörös Lobogó 5–2 1–5
ÚDA Praha 2–21 Slovan Bratislava 0–0 2–2

1 ÚDA Praha beat Slovan Bratislava 2–1 in a play-off to qualify for the Final.

First leg

18 July 1955
 Honvéd Budapest 5 – 2 Vörös Lobogó Népstadion, Budapest
Attendance: 75,000
Machos  10', 79'
Czibor  12'
Kocsis  14', 53'		 Report Molnár  16'
Kárász  40'

Second leg

23 July 1955
 Vörös Lobogó 5 – 1 Honvéd Budapest Népstadion, Budapest
Attendance: 50,000
Molnár  4', 37', 42'
Kovács  22' (pen.), 66'		 Report Puskás  44'

Final

Team 1   Agg.   Team 2   1st leg     2nd leg  
Vörös Lobogó 8–1 ÚDA Praha 6–0 2–1

First leg

30 July 1955
 Vörös Lobogó 6 – 0 ÚDA Praha Népstadion, Budapest
Attendance: 70,000
Hidegkuti  4', 14', 43'
Kárász  12'
Novák  71' (o.g.)
Molnár  76'		 Report

Second leg

4 August 1955
 ÚDA Praha 1 – 2 Vörös Lobogó Československé armády-Strahov, Prague
Attendance: 50,000
Přáda  31' Report Hidegkuti  55'
Palotás  88'

See also

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