1955–56 European Cup

1st season of the UEFA club football tournament

The 1955–56 European Cup was the first season of the European Cup. The tournament was won by Real Madrid. They beat Reims 4–3 in the final at the Parc des Princes, Paris, on June 13, 1956.

1955–56 European Cup
Tournament details
Dates4 September 1955 – 13 June 1956
Teams16
Final positions
ChampionsSpain Real Madrid (1st title)
Runners-upFrance Reims
Tournament statistics
Matches played29
Goals scored127 (4.38 per match)
Attendance900,021 (31,035 per match)
Top scorer(s)Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Miloš Milutinović (8 goals)

The participating clubs in the first five seasons of the European Cup were selected by French football magazine L'Equipe.[1] Of the originally selected teams were English champions Chelsea and Scottish champion Aberdeen. This was the only UEFA tournament to include a team from Saarland, before it was unified into West Germany in 1957.

Teams change

  Rapid Wien   Anderlecht   AGF Aarhus   Reims
  Vörös Lobogó   Milan   PSV Eindhoven   Gwardia Warszawa
  Sporting CP   Saarbrücken   Hibernian   Real Madrid
  Djurgården   Servette   Rot-Weiss Essen   Partizan

First Round change

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg Sporting CP   5–8   Partizan 3–3 2–5
Vörös Lobogó   10–4   Anderlecht 6–3 4–1
Servette   0–7   Real Madrid 0–2 0–5
Rot-Weiss Essen   1–5   Hibernian 0–4 1–1
Djurgården   4–1   Gwardia Warszawa 0–0 4–1
AGF Aarhus   2–4   Reims 0–2 2–2
Rapid Wien   6–2   PSV Eindhoven 6–1 0–1
Milan   7–5   Saarbrücken 3–4 4–1

Quarter-finals change

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg Djurgården   1–4   Hibernian 1–3 0–1
Reims   8–6   Vörös Lobogó 4–2 4–4
Real Madrid   4–3   Partizan 4–0 0–3
Rapid Wien   3–8   Milan 1–1 2–7

Semi-finals change

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg Reims   3–0   Hibernian 2–0 1–0
Real Madrid   5–4   Milan 4–2 1–2

First leg change

Reims  2–0  Hibernian
Leblond   67'
Bliard   89'
Report
Attendance: 35,486

Real Madrid  4–2  Milan
Rial   6'
Iglesias   25'
Olsen   40'
Di Stéfano   62'
Report Nordahl   9'
Schiaffino   30'
Attendance: 129,690
Referee: Dean Harzic (France)

Second leg change

Hibernian  0–1  Reims
Report Glovacki   57'
Attendance: 44,941

Reims won 3–0 on aggregate.


Milan  2–1  Real Madrid
Dal Monte   69' (pen.)86' (pen.) Report Iglesias   65'
Attendance: 30,000

Real Madrid won 5–4 on aggregate.

Final change

Real Madrid  4–3  Reims
Di Stéfano   14'
Rial   30'79'
Marquitos   67'
Report Leblond   6'
Templin   10'
Hidalgo   62'
Attendance: 38,239

References change

  1. "L'ÉQUIPE créé la Coupe d'Europe de football - l'ÉQUIPE - le blog". 21 July 2014.

Other websites change