1956–57 European Cup

1956–57 European Cup
Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates1 August 1956 – 30 May 1957
Teams22 (from 21 associations)
Final positions
Champions Real Madrid (2nd title)
Runners-up Fiorentina
Tournament statistics
Matches played44
Goals scored170 (3.86 per match)
Attendance1,840,978 (41,840 per match)
Top scorer(s)Dennis Viollet (Manchester United)
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, Madrid, on 30 May 1957.[1]

After the great success of the first tournament, six new nations entered representatives: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, England, Luxembourg, Romania and Turkey. The Football League 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.[2] An additional place was awarded to third in 1955–56 La Liga Real Madrid as the competition's reigning champions, occupying the free berth left by Saar after its reunification with West Germany. As a result, Spain became the first association to provide two representatives to the premier European competition and it was only for Manchester United, who had won against Athletic Bilbao in the quarter-finals, that first ever meeting between two sides from the same country in the competition didn't happen.

This edition was the first to utilize play-off matches, after two legs were not enough to decide which team advances to the next round on three occasions: Borussia Dortmund won 7–0 against Spora Luxembourg in the preliminary round, while Nice and Real Madrid won 3–1 and 2–1, respectively, against Rangers and Rapid Wien in the first round.

Teams

A total of 22 teams participated in the competition.

AGF, Anderlecht, Rapid Wien and Real Madrid returned to the competition, after participating in the inaugural edition.

Galatasaray was the only team, other than the title holder, who didn't enter as a national association champion, as Süper Lig was not founded until 1959.

Rapid Wien (1st) Anderlecht (1st) CDNA Sofia (1st) Slovan UNV Bratislava (1st)
AGF (1st) Manchester United (1st) Nice (1st) Budapest Honvéd (1st)
Fiorentina (1st) Spora Luxembourg (1st) Rapid JC (1st) CWKS Warsaw (1st)
Porto (1st) Dinamo București (1st) Rangers (1st) Athletic Bilbao (1st)
Real Madrid (3rd)TH IFK Norrköping (1st) Grasshopper (1st) Galatasaray (1st)[a]
Borussia Dortmund (1st) Red Star Belgrade (1st)

Preliminary round

Location of teams in the 1956–57 European Cup

The draw for the preliminary round took place in UEFA headquarters in Paris on 29 June 1956.[3] 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 Slovan UNV Bratislava Nice Porto
CWKS Warsaw AGF Athletic Bilbao
Galatasaray Anderlecht Borussia Dortmund
Dinamo București Manchester United Spora Luxembourg
Byes Budapest Honvéd Rangers Fiorentina
Rapid Wien IFK Norrköping Grasshopper
CDNA Sofia Rapid JC Red Star Belgrade

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

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg Play-off
Borussia Dortmund 5–5 Spora Luxembourg 4–3 1–2 7–0
Dinamo București 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 2–6 Nice 1–1 1–5
Porto 3–5 Athletic Bilbao 1–2 2–3

First leg

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

Second leg

Spora Luxembourg 2–1 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 2–0 Slovan UNV Bratislava
Kowal 52'
Brychczy 63'		 Report
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Alfred Grill (Austria)

Slovan UNV Bratislava won 4–2 on aggregate.

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

Athletic Bilbao won 5–3 on aggregate.

Manchester United 10–0 Anderlecht
Taylor 8', 20', 52'
Viollet 25', 38', 44', 65'
Whelan 61', 82'
Berry 77'		 Report
Attendance: 43,635

Manchester United won 12–0 on aggregate.

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

Nice won 6–2 on aggregate.

Galatasaray 2–1 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 7–0 Spora Luxembourg
Preissler 24', 36'
Simmer 29'
Kelbassa 40', 49', 63'
Peters 57'		 Report
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Fritz Buchmüller (Switzerland)

Borussia Dortmund won play-off 7–0.

Bracket

First round Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
              
Real Madrid 4 1 5 (2)
Rapid Wien 2 3 5 (0)
Real Madrid 3 3 6
Nice 0 2 2
Rangers 2 1 3 (1)
Nice 1 2 3 (3)
Real Madrid 3 2 5
Manchester United 1 2 3
Athletic Bilbao 3 3 6
Budapest Honvéd 2 3 5
Athletic Bilbao 5 0 5
Manchester United 3 3 6
Manchester United 3 0 3
Borussia Dortmund 2 0 2
Real Madrid 2
Fiorentina 0
Rapid JC 3 0 3
Red Star Belgrade 4 2 6
Red Star Belgrade 3 1 4
CDNA Sofia 1 2 3
CDNA Sofia 8 2 10
Dinamo București 1 3 4
Red Star Belgrade 0 0 0
Fiorentina 1 0 1
Fiorentina 1 1 2
IFK Norrköping 1 0 1
Fiorentina 3 2 5
Grasshopper 1 2 3
Slovan UNV Bratislava 1 0 1
Grasshopper 0 2 2

First round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg Play-off
Manchester United 3–2 Borussia Dortmund 3–2 0–0
CDNA Sofia 10–4 Dinamo București 8–1 2–3
Rangers 3–3 Nice 2–1 1–2 1–3
Slovan UNV Bratislava 1–2 Grasshopper 1–0 0–2
Real Madrid 5–5 Rapid Wien 4–2 1–3 2–0
Rapid JC 3–6 Red Star Belgrade 3–4 0–2
Fiorentina 2–1 IFK Norrköping 1–1 1–0
Athletic Bilbao 6–5 Budapest Honvéd 3–2 3–3

First leg

CDNA Sofia 8–1 Dinamo București
Kolev 12', 56', 63'
Milanov 20', 65'
Panayotov 27', 76'
Dimitrov 80'		 Report Băcuț 81' (pen.)
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Vasa Stefanović (Yugoslavia)
Manchester United 3–2 Borussia Dortmund
Viollet 10', 25'
Pegg 35'		 Report Kapitulski 68'
Preissler 75'
Attendance: 75,568
Slovan UNV Bratislava 1–0 Grasshopper
Moravčík 20' Report
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)
Rangers 2–1 Nice
Murray 40'
Simpson 81'		 Report Faivre 23'
Attendance: 65,000
Real Madrid 4–2 Rapid Wien
Di Stéfano 9', 21'
Marsal 60', 63'		 Report Dienst 58'
Giesser 90'
Attendance: 100,000
Rapid JC 3–4 Red Star Belgrade
Janssen 8'
Bisschops 78'
Tasić 81' (og.)		 Report Kostić 4', 75'
Toplak 42'
Rudinski 82'
Attendance: 11,500
Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)
Fiorentina 1–1 IFK Norrköping
Bizzarri 15' Report Bild 8'
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Dean Harzic (France)
Athletic Bilbao 3–2 Budapest Honvéd
Artetxe 16'
Markaida 27'
Arieta 82'		 Report Budai II 75'
Kocsis 85'
Attendance: 39,184

Second leg

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

Red Star Belgrade won 6–3 on aggregate.

Rapid Wien 3–1 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.

Nice 2–1 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.

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

Manchester United won 3–2 on aggregate.

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

Fiorentina won 2–1 on aggregate.

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

Grasshopper won 2–1 on aggregate.

Budapest Honvéd 3–3 Athletic Bilbao
Budai II 6'
Kocsis 78'
Puskás 86'		 Report Merodio 1', 72'
Arieta 67'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

Athletic Bilbao won 6–5 on aggregate.

Dinamo București 3–2 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 3–1 Rangers
Foix 45'
Muro 50'
Faivre 75'		 Report Bonvin 51' (o.g.)
Attendance: 11,908
Referee: Lucien Van Nuffel (Belgium)

Nice won play-off 3–1.

Real Madrid 2–0 Rapid Wien
Joseíto 1'
Kopa 23'		 Report
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Alfred Bond (England)

Real Madrid won play-off 2–0.

Quarter-finals

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
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

Athletic Bilbao 5–3 Manchester United
Uribe 2', 28'
Markaida 43'
Merodio 73'
Artetxe 78'		 Report Taylor 48'
Viollet 54'
Whelan 85'
Attendance: 36,737
Fiorentina 3–1 Grasshopper
Segato 3'
Taccola 10', 12'		 Report Ballaman 31'
Attendance: 10,000
Real Madrid 3–0 Nice
Joseíto 18'
Mateos 49', 72'		 Report
Attendance: 110,000
Referee: Gérard Versyp (Belgium)
Red Star Belgrade 3–1 CDNA Sofia
Kostić 6', 25'
Popović 53'		 Report Yanev 88'
Attendance: 33,000

Second leg

Manchester United 3–0 Athletic Bilbao
Viollet 42'
Taylor 70'
Berry 85'		 Report
Attendance: 70,000

Manchester United won 6–5 on aggregate.

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

Red Star Belgrade won 4–3 on aggregate.

Grasshopper 2–2 Fiorentina
Ballaman 25'
Vukosavljević 85'		 Report Julinho 7'
Montuori 52'
Attendance: 18,000

Fiorentina won 5–3 on aggregate.

Nice 2–3 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.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Red Star Belgrade 0–1 Fiorentina 0–1 0–0
Real Madrid 5–3 Manchester United 3–1 2–2

First leg

Red Star Belgrade 0–1 Fiorentina
Report Prini 88'
Attendance: 40,000
Real Madrid 3–1 Manchester United
Rial 61'
Di Stéfano 73'
Mateos 83'		 Report Taylor 82'
Attendance: 120,000

Second leg

Fiorentina 0–0 Red Star Belgrade
Report
Attendance: 70,000

Fiorentina won 1–0 on aggregate.

Manchester United 2–2 Real Madrid
Taylor 52'
Charlton 85'		 Report Kopa 25'
Rial 33'
Attendance: 65,000

Real Madrid won 5–3 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1957 European Cup final
Real Madrid 2–0 Fiorentina
Di Stéfano 69' (pen.)
Gento 75'		 Report
Attendance: 124,000[5]

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 1956–57 European Cup (including preliminary round) were as follows:[6][7]

Rank Player Team Goals
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 Luis Artetxe Athletic Bilbao 5
Jacques Foix Nice
Bora Kostić Red Star Belgrade
8 Jacques Faivre Nice 4
9 Marc Boreux Spora Luxembourg 3
Ernst Happel Rapid Wien
Joseíto Real Madrid
Alfred Kelbassa Borussia Dortmund
Enrique Mateos Real Madrid
Armando Merodio Athletic Bilbao
Panayot Panayotov CDNA Sofia
Ivan Kolev CDNA Sofia
Billy Whelan Manchester United

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.[4]
  2. ^ Played at Heysel Stadium, Brussels due to Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
  1. ^ There was no top-level Turkish champion in the period from 1952 to 1955.

References

  1. ^ "Home comforts bring second title for Madrid". UEFA. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  2. ^ Woodward, Hamish (2021-06-20). "Why are Manchester United Called the Red Devils?". Atletifo Sports. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  3. ^ Corriere dello Sport, June 30, 1956.
  4. ^ Melbourne/Stockholm 1956 (All facts) Olympic.org
  5. ^ "Real Madrid vs. Fiorentina" (JSON). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  6. ^ 1956/57 European Champion Clubs' Cup - Tournament phase - Goals scored
  7. ^ 1956/57 European Champion Clubs' Cup - Qualifying phase - Goals scored
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