Mitropa Cup 1936

The Mitropapokal 1936 was the 10th edition of the international cup competition of Central European club football. The best teams from Austria , Hungary , Czechoslovakia , Italy and Switzerland took part. It was mostly the champions, runners-up and cup winners of the respective countries. The participants played in a pure cup mode with two legs in the most important continental football competition in the period before the Second World War. In the event of a tie after two games, a playoff was played. Twelve clubs started in the round of 16, eight other clubs played a qualification beforehand. The defending champion Sparta Prague reached the final again, something that no other title holder in the history of the competition had achieved before.

The final took place within a week on September 6th and 13th, 1936 in Vienna and Prague . Defending champion Sparta Prague and the Austrian club FK Austria Wien qualified . At home, the Viennese could not go beyond a 0-0, but secured the trophy for the second time after 1933 with a surprising 1-0 away win , which went to Vienna for the fourth time. The top scorer was Giuseppe Meazza of semi-finalist Ambrosiana Inter with ten goals; it was already Meazza's third title as Mitropa Cup top scorer after 1930 and 1933.

Preliminary round

The first leg took place on the 4th and the second leg on June 14, 1936.

	total		First leg	Return leg
FK Austria Vienna	4: 2	Grasshopper Club Zurich	3: 1	1: 1
SK Židenice	6: 2	Lausanne Sports	5-0	1: 2
FC Bern	02:11	AC Torino	1: 4	1: 7
FC Young Fellows Zurich	2: 9	Phöbus FC Budapest	0: 3	2: 6

Round of 16

The first legs took place on June 20 and 21, the second legs on June 26, 27, 28 and 29, 1936.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Sparta Prague	7: 6	Phöbus FC Budapest	5: 2	2: 4
Hungária FC MTK Budapest	1: 7	First Vienna FC	0: 2	1: 5
Ferencváros Budapest	5: 6	Slavia Prague	5: 2	0: 4
AC Torino	2: 5	Újpest FC	2-0	0: 5
SK Admira Vienna	3: 6	SK Prostějov	0: 4	(1)3: 2 (1)
SK Rapid Vienna	4: 6	AS Roma	3: 1	1: 5
AGC Bologna	2: 5	FK Austria Vienna	2: 1	0: 4
SK Židenice	03:11	AS Ambrosiana Inter Milan	2: 3	1: 8

⁽¹⁾ There were six evictions, five of which were for Admira players and one for SK Prostějov!

Quarter finals

The first legs took place on July 4th and 5th, the second leg on July 12th and 13th, 1936.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Sparta Prague	4: 1	AS Roma	3-0	1: 1
SK Prostějov	0: 3	Újpest FC	0: 1	0: 2
First Vienna FC	3: 4	AS Ambrosiana Inter Milan	2-0	1: 4
FK Austria Vienna	3: 1	Slavia Prague	3-0	0: 1

Semifinals

The first leg took place on July 19, the second leg on July 26, 1936.

	total		First leg	Return leg
AS Ambrosiana Inter Milan	5: 8	Sparta Prague	3: 5	2: 3
Újpest FC	3: 7	FK Austria Vienna	1: 2	2: 5

final

First leg

FK Austria Vienna		Sparta Prague
	September 6, 1936 in Vienna ( Prater Stadium ) Result : 0-0 Spectators: 41,600 Referee: Giuseppe Scarpi ( Italy )
	Rudolf Zöhrer - Karl Andritz , Karl Sesta - Karl Adamek , Johann Mock , Walter Nausch - Bobby Riegler , Josef Stroh , Matthias Sindelar , Camillo Jerusalem , Rudolf Viertl Trainers: Kálmán Konrád ( Hungary ) & Walter Nausch	Bohumil Klenovec - Jaroslav Burgr , Josef Čtyřoký - Josef Košťálek , Jaroslav Bouček , Ludevít Radó - Ferdinand Faczinek , Oldřich Zajíček , Raymond Braine , Oldřich Nejedlý , Géza Kalocsay Trainer: Ferenc Sedláček ( Hungary )

Return leg

Sparta Prague		FK Austria Vienna
	September 13, 1936 in Prague ( Masaryk Stadium ) Result: 0: 1 (0: 0) Spectators: 58,000 Referee: Rinaldo Barlassina ( Italy )
	Bohumil Klenovec - Jaroslav Burgr , Josef Čtyřoký - Josef Košťálek , Jaroslav Bouček , Ludevít Radó - Ferdinand Faczinek , Oldřich Zajíček , Raymond Braine , Oldřich Nejedlý , Géza Kalocsay Trainer: Ferenc Sedláček ( Hungary )	Rudolf Zöhrer - Karl Andritz , Karl Sesta - Karl Adamek , Johann Mock , Walter Nausch - Bobby Riegler , Josef Stroh , Matthias Sindelar , Camillo Jerusalem , Rudolf Viertl Trainers: Kálmán Konrád ( Hungary ) & Walter Nausch
		0: 1 Camillo Jerusalem (67.)

1. ↑ Record attendance of the Mitropa Cup together with the final second leg in 1933

Best goal scorers

rank	player	club	Gates
1	Giuseppe Meazza	AS Ambrosiana Inter Milan	10
2	Camillo Jerusalem	FK Austria Vienna	7th
3	Oldřich Nejedlý	Sparta Prague	6th
4th	Gustav Pollak	First Vienna FC	5
	Oldřich Zajíček	Sparta Prague	5
	Josef Stroh	FK Austria Vienna	5
7th	György Sárosi	Ferencváros Budapest	4th
	Pietro Buscaglia	AC Torino	4th
	Rudolf Drozd	SK Prostějov	4th
	Gábor Szabó	Phöbus FC Budapest	4th
	Gyula Zsengellér	Újpest FC	4th
	Raymond Braine	Sparta Prague	4th
	Matthias Sindelar	FK Austria Vienna	4th

Web links

• statistical details on the 1936 competition at www.iffhs.de