1956–57 European Cup

1956–57 European Cup
Tournament details
The Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid hosted the final.
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 wises 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

Location of teams in 1956–57 European Cup.

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
Drawn	Match 1	Slovan UNV Bratislava	Nice	Porto
	Match 1	CWKS Warsaw	AGF Aarhus	Athletic Bilbao
	Match 2	Galatasaray	Anderlecht	Borussia Dortmund
	Match 2	Dinamo Bucureşti	Manchester United	Spora Luxembourg
Byes		Budapest Honvéd	Rangers	Fiorentina
		Rapid Wien	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.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
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

Borussia Dortmund v Spora Luxembourg

1 August 1956

Borussia Dortmund	4–3	Spora Luxembourg
Bracht 31' Niepieklo 54' Preißler 61', 73'	Report	Boreux 25', 34', 88'

Stadion Rote Erde, Dortmund
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Johan Heinrich Martens (Netherlands)

Dinamo Bucureşti v Galatasaray

26 August 1956

Dinamo Bucureşti	3–1	Galatasaray
Voica 10', 67' Ene 84'	Report	Oktay 77'

23 August Stadium, Bucharest
Attendance: 85,000
Referee: Francesco Liverani (Italy)

Anderlecht v Manchester United

12 September 1956

Anderlecht	0–2	Manchester United
	Report	Viollet 25' Taylor 75'

Stade Émile Versé, Anderlecht, Brussels
Attendance: 33,000
Referee: Leopold Sylvain Horn (Netherlands)

Slovan UNV Bratislava v CWKS Warsaw

12 September 1956

Slovan UNV Bratislava	4–0	CWKS Warsaw
Pažický 23', 68' Kováč 30' (pen.) Moravčík 40'	Report

Tehelné pole, Bratislava
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Friedrich Mayer (Austria)

AGF Aarhus v Nice

19 September 1956

AGF Aarhus	1–1	Nice
Erik Bechmann Jensen 16'	Report	Foix 61'

Idrætsparken, Copenhagen
Attendance: 12,900
Referee: Arthur Edward Ellis (England)

Porto v Athletic Bilbao

20 September 1956

Porto	1–2	Athletic Bilbao
Matos 54'	Report	Gaínza 8' Canito 75'

Estádio das Antas, Porto
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Mario Maurelli (Italy)

Second leg

Spora Luxembourg v Borussia Dortmund

6 September 1956

Spora Luxembourg	2–1	Borussia Dortmund
Fiedler 22' Letsch 39'	Report	Preißler 28'

Stade Municipal, Luxembourg City
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Karl Lescart (Belgium)

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

CWKS Warsaw v Slovan UNV Bratislava

19 September 1956

CWKS Warsaw	2–0	Slovan UNV Bratislava
Kowal 52' Brychczy 63'	Report

Polish Army Stadium, Warsaw
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Alfred Grill (Austria)

Slovan UNV Bratislava won 4–2 on aggregate.

Manchester United v Anderlecht

26 September 1956

Manchester United	10–0	Anderlecht
Taylor 8', 20', 52' Viollet 25', 38', 44', 65' Whelan 61', 82' Berry 75'	Report

Maine Road, Manchester
Attendance: 43,635
Referee: Sandy Griffiths (Wales)

Manchester United won 12–0 on aggregate.

Athletic Bilbao v Porto

26 September 1956

Athletic Bilbao	3–2	Porto
Arteche 14', 73' (pen.), 82'	Report	Hernâni 4' Matos 20'

San Mamés Stadium, Bilbao
Attendance: 34,705
Referee: Mario Maurelli (Italy)

Athletic Bilbao won 5–3 on aggregate.

Nice v AGF Aarhus

27 September 1956

Nice	5–1	AGF Aarhus
Foix 2' Milazzo 27', 74' Faivre 45', 60'	Report	Jensen 77'

Stade du Ray, Nice
Attendance: 8,144
Referee: John Husband (England)

Nice won 6–2 on aggregate.

Galatasaray v Dinamo Bucureşti

30 September 1956

Galatasaray	2–1	Dinamo Bucureşti
Aytaç 42' Oktay 89'	Report	Suru 31'

Ali Sami Yen Stadium, Istanbul
Attendance: 23,764
Referee: Gustav Jiranek (Austria)

Dinamo Bucureşti won 4–3 on aggregate.

Play-off

Borussia Dortmund v Spora Luxembourg

16 September 1956

Borussia Dortmund	7–0	Spora Luxembourg
Preißler 24', 36' Simmer 29' Kelbassa 40', 49', 63' Peters 57'	Report

Stadion Rote Erde, Dortmund
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Fritz Buchmüller (Switzerland)

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
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

Manchester United v Borussia Dortmund

17 October 1956

Manchester United	3–2	Borussia Dortmund
Viollet 10', 25' Pegg 35'	Report	Kapitulski 68' Preißler 75'

Maine Road, Manchester
Attendance: 75,568
Referee: Leopold Sylvain Horn (Netherlands)

CDNA Sofia v Dinamo Bucureşti

17 October 1956

CDNA Sofia	8–1	Dinamo Bucureşti
Kolev 12', 56', 63' Milanov 20', 65' Panayotov 36', 66' Dimitrov 80'	Report	Băcut 71' (pen.)

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Vasa Stefanović (Yugoslavia)

Rangers v Nice

24 October 1956

Rangers	2–1	Nice
Murray 40' Simpson 81'	Report	Faivre 23'

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow
Attendance: 65,000
Referee: Arthur Edward Ellis (England)

Slovan UNV Bratislava v Grasshopper

24 October 1956

Slovan UNV Bratislava	1–0	Grasshopper
Moravčík 20'	Report

Tehelné pole, Bratislava
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)

Real Madrid v Rapid Wien

1 November 1956

Real Madrid	4–2	Rapid Wien
Di Stéfano 9', 21' Marsal 60', 63'	Report	Dienst 58' Gießer 90'

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland)

Rapid JC v Red Star Belgrade

3 November 1956

Rapid JC	3–4	Red Star Belgrade
Janssen 8' Bischops 78' Tasić 81' (og.)	Report	Kostić 4', 75' Toplak 42' Rudinski 82'

Gemeentelijk, Kerkrade
Attendance: 11,500
Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

Fiorentina v Norrköping

21 November 1956

Fiorentina	1–1	Norrköping
Bizzarri 15'	Report	Bild 8'

Comunale, Florence
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Dean Harzic (France)

Athletic Bilbao v Budapest Honvéd

22 November 1956

Athletic Bilbao	3–2	Budapest Honvéd
Arteche 16' Marcaida 27' Arieta 82'	Report	Budai II 75' Kocsis 85'

San Mamés, Bilbao
Attendance: 39,184
Referee: John Husband (England)

Second leg

Red Star Belgrade v Rapid JC

8 November 1956

Red Star Belgrade	2–0	Rapid JC
Toplak 32' Kostić 84'	Report

JNA Stadion, Belgrade
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Rudolf Roman (Austria)

Red Star Belgrade won 6–3 on aggregate

Nice v Rangers

14 November 1956

Nice	2–1	Rangers
Bravo 61' Foix 64'	Report	Hubbard 40' (pen.)

Stade du Ray, Nice
Attendance: 8,439
Referee: Riccardo Pieri (Italy)

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

Rapid Wien v Real Madrid

14 November 1956

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

Praterstadion, Vienna
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Maurice Guigue (France)

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

Borussia Dortmund v Manchester United

21 November 1956

Borussia Dortmund	0–0	Manchester United
	Report

Stadion Rote Erde, Dortmund
Attendance: 44,570
Referee: Johan Heinrich Martens (Netherlands)

Manchester United won 3–2 on aggregate

Norrköping v Fiorentina

28 November 1956

Norrköping	0–1	Fiorentina
	Report	Virgili 16'

Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Attendance: 10,200
Referee: Michel Devillers (France)

Fiorentina won 2–1 on aggregate

Grasshopper v Slovan UNV Bratislava

12 December 1956

Grasshopper	2–0	Slovan UNV Bratislava
Vukosavljević 75' Duret 89'	Report

Grünwalder St., Munich^{[nb 1]}
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)

Grasshopper won 2–1 on aggregate

Budapest Honvéd v Athletic Bilbao

20 December 1956

Budapest Honvéd	3–3	Athletic Bilbao
Budai II 6', 82' Puskás 86'	Report	Merodio 1', 72' Arieta 67'

Heysel Stadium, Brussels
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

Athletic Bilbao won 6–5 on aggregate

Dinamo Bucureşti v CDNA Sofia

30 December 1956

Dinamo Bucureşti	3–2	CDNA Sofia
Nicuşor 58' (pen.) Lăzar 67' Neagu 84'	Report	Stoyanov 23' Yanev 62'

Stadionul Republicii, Bucharest
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Gustav Jiranek (Austria)

CDNA Sofia won 10–4 on aggregate

Play-off

Nice v Rangers

28 November 1956

Nice	3–1	Rangers
Foix 45' Muro 50' Faivre 75'	Report	Bonvin 51' (o.g.)

Parc des Princes, Paris
Attendance: 11,908
Referee: Lucien Van Nuffel (Belgium)

Real Madrid v Rapid Wien

13 December 1956

Real Madrid	2–0	Rapid Wien
Joseíto 1' Kopa 23'	Report

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Alfred Bond (England)

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	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 v Manchester United

16 January 1957

Athletic Bilbao	5–3	Manchester United
Uribe 2', 28' Marcaida 43' Merodio 73' Arteche 78'	Report	Taylor 48' Viollet 54' Whelan 85'

San Mamés, Bilbao
Attendance: 36,737
Referee: Albert Dusch (West Germany)

Fiorentina v Grasshopper

6 February 1957

Fiorentina	3–1	Grasshopper
Segato 3' Taccola 10', 12'	Report	Ballaman 31'

Comunale, Florence
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)

Real Madrid v Nice

14 February 1957

Real Madrid	3–0	Nice
Joseíto 18' Mateos 49', 72'	Report

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid
Attendance: 110,000
Referee: Gérard Versyp (Belgium)

Red Star Belgrade v CDNA Sofia

17 February 1957

Red Star Belgrade	3–1	CDNA Sofia
Kostić 6', 25' Popović 53'	Report	Yanev 88'

JNA Stadion, Belgrade
Attendance: 33,000
Referee: Riccardo Pieri (Italy)

Second leg

Manchester United v Athletic Bilbao

6 February 1957

Manchester United	3–0	Athletic Bilbao
Viollet 42' Taylor 70' Berry 85'	Report

Maine Road, Manchester
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Albert Dusch (West Germany)

Manchester United won 6–5 on aggregate

CDNA Sofia v Red Star Belgrade

24 February 1957

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

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Nikolai Latyshev (Soviet Union)

Red Star Belgrade won 4–3 on aggregate

Grasshopper v Fiorentina

27 February 1957

Grasshopper	2–2	Fiorentina
Ballaman 25' Vukosavljević 85'	Report	Julinho 7' Montuori 52'

Stadion Hardturm, Zürich
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)

Fiorentina won 5–3 on aggregate

Nice v Real Madrid

14 March 1957

Nice	2–3	Real Madrid
Foix 15' Ferry 82' (pen.)	Report	Joseíto 45' Di Stéfano 50', 79'

Stade du Ray, Nice
Attendance: 21,724
Referee: John Husband (England)

Real Madrid won 6–2 on aggregate

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	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 v Fiorentina

3 April 1957

Red Star Belgrade	0–1	Fiorentina
	Report	Prini 88'

JNA Stadion, Belgrade
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

Real Madrid v Manchester United

11 April 1957

Real Madrid	3–1	Manchester United
Rial 61' Di Stéfano 63' Mateos 83'	Report	Taylor 82'

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid
Attendance: 120,000
Referee: Leopold Sylvain Horn (Netherlands)

Second leg

Fiorentina v Red Star Belgrade

18 April 1957

Fiorentina	0–0	Red Star Belgrade
	Report

Comunale, Florence
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Klaas Schipper (Netherlands)

Fiorentina won 1–0 on aggregate

Manchester United v Real Madrid

25 April 1957

Manchester United	2–2	Real Madrid
Taylor 62' Charlton 85'	Report	Kopa 25' Rial 33'

Old Trafford, Manchester
Attendance: 65,000
Referee: Marcel Lequesne (France)

Real Madrid won 5–3 on aggregate

Final

Main article: 1957 European Cup Final

Real Madrid v Fiorentina

30 May 1957

Real Madrid	2–0	Fiorentina
Di Stéfano 69' (pen.) Gento 75'	Report

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid
Attendance: 120,000
Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands)

Top scorers

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

Rank	Name	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 Artetxe	Athletic Bilbao	5
	Jacques Foix	Nice	5
	Bora Kostić	Red Star Belgrade	5
8	Jacky Faivre	Nice	4
8	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

European Cup and UEFA Champions League

European Cup era, 1955–1992

Seasons	1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92

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Seasons	1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18

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League cups	Scotland

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International club football

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See also: International women's club football

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