1956–57 European Cup
The Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid hosted the final. | |
Tournament details | |
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Dates | 1 August 1956 – 30 May 1957 |
Teams | 22 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Real Madrid (2nd title) |
Runners-up | Fiorentina |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 44 |
Goals scored | 170 (3.86 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | 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 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 anyway 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 Friday, 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 | ||
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Drawn | Match 1 | |||
Match 2 | ||||
Byes | ||||
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 |
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Borussia Dortmund | 5–51 | Spora Luxembourg | 4–3 | 1–2 |
Dinamo Bucureşti | 4–3 | Galatasaray | 3–1 | 1–2 |
Slovan UNV Bratislava | 4–2 | CWKS Warsaw | 4–0 | 0–2 |
Anderlecht | 0–12 | Manchester United | 0–2 | 0–10 |
AGF Aarhus | 2–6 | Nice | 1–1 | 1–5 |
Porto | 3–5 | 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
1 August 1956 |
Borussia Dortmund | 4–3 | Spora Luxembourg |
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Bracht 31' Niepieklo 54' Preißler 61', 73' |
Report | Boreux 25', 34', 88' |
12 September 1956 |
Anderlecht | 0–2 | Manchester United |
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Report | Viollet 25' Taylor 75' |
Stade Émile Versé, Anderlecht, Brussels Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Leopold Sylvain Horn (Netherlands) |
12 September 1956 |
Slovan UNV Bratislava | 4–0 | CWKS Warsaw |
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Pažický 23', 68' Kováč 30' (pen.) Moravčík 40' |
Report |
Second leg
Borussia Dortmund 5–5 Spora Luxembourg on aggregate; play-off needed.
Slovan UNV Bratislava won 4–2 on aggregate.
26 September 1956 |
Manchester United | 10–0 | Anderlecht |
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Taylor 8', 20', 52' Viollet 25', 38', 44', 65' Whelan 61', 82' Berry 75' |
Report |
Manchester United won 12–0 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 5–3 on aggregate.
Nice won 6–2 on aggregate.
Dinamo Bucureşti won 4–3 on aggregate.
Play-off
16 September 1956 |
Borussia Dortmund | 7–0 | Spora Luxembourg |
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Preißler 24', 36' Simmer 29' Kelbassa 40', 49', 63' Peters 57' |
Report |
First round
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Manchester United | 3–2 | Borussia Dortmund | 3–2 | 0–0 |
CDNA Sofia | 10–4 | Dinamo Bucureşti | 8–1 | 2–3 |
Rangers | 3–31 | Nice | 2–1 | 1–2 |
Slovan UNV Bratislava | 1–2 | Grasshopper | 1–0 | 0–2 |
Real Madrid | 5–52 | Rapid Wien | 4–2 | 1–3 |
Rapid JC | 3–6 | Red Star Belgrade | 3–4 | 0–2 |
Fiorentina | 2–1 | Norrköping | 1–1 | 1–0 |
Athletic Bilbao | 6–5 | 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
17 October 1956 |
Manchester United | 3–2 | Borussia Dortmund |
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Viollet 10', 25' Pegg 35' |
Report | Kapitulski 68' Preißler 75' |
17 October 1956 |
CDNA Sofia | 8–1 | Dinamo Bucureşti |
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Kolev 12', 56', 63' Milanov 20', 65' Panayotov 36', 66' Dimitrov 80' |
Report | Băcut 71' (pen.) |
1 November 1956 |
Real Madrid | 4–2 | Rapid Wien |
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Di Stéfano 9', 21' Marsal 60', 63' |
Report | Dienst 58' Gießer 90' |
3 November 1956 |
Rapid JC | 3–4 | Red Star Belgrade |
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Janssen 8' Bischops 78' Tasić 81' (og.) |
Report | Kostić 4', 75' Toplak 42' Rudinski 82' |
22 November 1956 |
Athletic Bilbao | 3–2 | Budapest Honvéd |
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Artetxe 16' Marcaida 27' Arieta 82' |
Report | Budai II 75' Kocsis 85' |
Second leg
Red Star Belgrade won 6–3 on aggregate
Nice 3–3 Rangers on aggregate; play-off needed.
Real Madrid 5–5 Rapid Wien on aggregate; play-off needed.
Manchester United won 3–2 on aggregate
Fiorentina won 2–1 on aggregate
Grasshopper won 2–1 on aggregate
20 December 1956 |
Budapest Honvéd | 3–3 | Athletic Bilbao |
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Budai II 6', 82' Puskás 86' |
Report | Merodio 1', 72' Arieta 67' |
Athletic Bilbao won 6–5 on aggregate
30 December 1956 |
Dinamo Bucureşti | 3–2 | CDNA Sofia |
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Nicuşor 58' (pen.) Lăzar 67' Neagu 84' |
Report | Stoyanov 23' Yanev 62' |
CDNA Sofia won 10–4 on aggregate
Play-off
Quarter-finals
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Athletic Bilbao | 5–6 | Manchester United | 5–3 | 0–3 |
Fiorentina | 5–3 | Grasshopper | 3–1 | 2–2 |
Real Madrid | 6–2 | Nice | 3–0 | 3–2 |
Red Star Belgrade | 4–3 | CDNA Sofia | 3–1 | 1–2 |
First leg
16 January 1957 |
Athletic Bilbao | 5–3 | Manchester United |
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Uribe 2', 28' Marcaida 43' Merodio 73' Artetxe 78' |
Report | Taylor 48' Viollet 54' Whelan 85' |
Second leg
Manchester United won 6–5 on aggregate
24 February 1957 |
CDNA Sofia | 2–1 | Red Star Belgrade |
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Bozhkov 22' (pen.) Panayotov 39' |
Report | Tasić 29' (pen.) |
Red Star Belgrade won 4–3 on aggregate
27 February 1957 |
Grasshopper | 2–2 | Fiorentina |
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Ballaman 25' Vukosavljević 85' |
Report | Julinho 7' Montuori 52' |
Fiorentina won 5–3 on aggregate
Real Madrid won 6–2 on aggregate
Semi-finals
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Red Star Belgrade | 0–1 | Fiorentina | 0–1 | 0–0 |
Real Madrid | 5–3 | Manchester United | 3–1 | 2–2 |
First leg
Second leg
Fiorentina won 1–0 on aggregate
Real Madrid won 5–3 on aggregate
Final
Top scorers
The top scorers from the 1956–57 European Cup (including preliminary round) were as follows:[3][4]
Rank | Name | Team | Goals |
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1 | Dennis Viollet | Manchester United | 9 |
2 | Tommy Taylor | Manchester United | 8 |
3 | Alfredo di Stéfano | Real Madrid | 7 |
4 | Alfred Preißler | Borussia Dortmund | 6 |
5 | José Artetxe | Athletic Bilbao | 5 |
Jacques Foix | Nice | 5 | |
Bora Kostić | Red Star Belgrade | 5 | |
8 | Jacky Faivre | Nice | 4 |
Ivan Petkov Kolev | CDNA Sofia | 4 | |
10 | Marc Boreux | Spora Luxembourg | 3 |
Ernst Happel | Rapid Wien | 3 | |
Joseíto | Real Madrid | 3 | |
Alfred Kelbassa | Borussia Dortmund | 3 | |
Enrique Mateos | Real Madrid | 3 | |
Armando Merodio | Athletic Bilbao | 3 | |
Billy Whelan | Manchester United | 3 |
Notes
- ↑ 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
External links
- 1956–57 All matches – season at UEFA website
- All scorers 1956–57 European Cup (excluding qualifying round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers qualifying round
- European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
- 1956-57 European Cup - results and line-ups (archive)
- European Cup 1956-57 – results, protocols, players statistics
- website eurocups-uefa.ru European Cup 1956-57 – results, protocols
- website Football Archive 1956–57 European Cup