Coupe des Nations 1930

The Coupe des Nations 1930 (official name: Tournoi International de Football ), and Le Tournoi des Nations (dt .: Cup of Nations ), was a soccer tournament in the summer of 1930 in Switzerland Geneva , organized by the local club Servette Geneva . The frequently used name Cup of Nations is misleading because no national teams, but only clubs took part in the competition. Servette had previously won the Swiss football championship and organized the tournament as an alternative to the 1930 World Cup , in which only a few European countries ( Belgium , France , Yugoslavia and Romania ) took part. At the same time, the tournament was part of the opening celebrations of the Stade des Charmilles , in which all 15 matches were held.

The tournament is partly considered to be the forerunner of the European Champions Cup , as it was the first organized tournament with national title winners from Europe alongside the Mitropa Cup . The champions of all major European football nations were invited. The British countries were an exception, as they were excluded from FIFA at the time .

The winner of the tournament was the Hungarian club Újpest Budapest , who won all four games and scored 16 goals in them and conceded only one. After winning the Coupe des Nations, the players of Újpest FC nicknamed themselves Champions of the Champions .

In the following years several attempts were made to organize a regular tournament for the national champions. Northern Italian cities had originally planned to host the 1931 tournament, but this plan failed due to financial reasons. The first follow-up tournament was held during the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 , but only two of the invited teams accepted the invitation. The European championship teams met after 1930, with the exception of the Mitropa Cup and the Coupe Latine , only in 1955 when UEFA, founded in 1954 , brought the European Cup into being.

Attendees

•  First Vienna FC 1894 (cup winner; league third 1929/30)
•  Cercle Bruges (National Champion 1929/30)
•  Slavia Prague (National Champion 1929/30)
•  FC Sète (Cup winner 1929/30)
•  SpVgg Fürth (National Champion 1929)
•  Újpest Budapest (National Champion 1929/30)
•  AGC Bologna (National Champion 1928/29)
•  Go Ahead Deventer (National Champion 1929/30)
•  Real Unión Irún (cup winner 1927; league sixth 1929/30)
•  Servette Geneva (National Champion 1929/30)

First round

The games took place on June 28, 29 and 30 and on July 2, 1930.

	Result
Servette Geneva	0: 7	First Vienna FC 1894
SpVgg Fürth	4: 3 a.d.	FC Sète
Slavia Prague	4: 2	Cercle Bruges
Újpest Budapest	3: 1	Real Unión Irún
AGC Bologna	4-0	Go Ahead Deventer

1. ↑ After no goal was scored in the first extra time, the game was extended a second time
   and played until the first goal. This achieved the Fürth Rupprecht in the 140th minute of the game.
2. ↑ Go Ahead Deventer received a bye for the quarterfinals due to the delayed arrival from Bologna despite the defeat.

Relegation round of the losers

The games took place on July 1, 1930.

	Result
Servette Geneva	2: 1	Cercle Bruges
Real Unión Irún	5: 1	FC Sète

(The winners reached the quarter-finals)

Quarter finals

The games took place on July 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 1930.

	Result
First Vienna FC 1894	7: 1	SpVgg Fürth
Újpest Budapest	7-0	Go Ahead Deventer
Slavia Prague	2: 1	Real Unión Irún
Servette Geneva	4: 1	AGC Bologna

Semifinals

The games took place on July 5, 1930.

	Result
Újpest Budapest	3-0	Servette Geneva
Slavia Prague	3: 1	First Vienna FC 1894

3rd place match

The game took place on July 6, 1930.

	Result
First Vienna FC 1894	5: 1	Servette Geneva

final

Újpest Budapest		Slavia Prague
	July 6, 1930 in Geneva ( Stade des Charmilles ) Result: 3: 0 (1: 0) Spectators: 22,000 spectators Referee: Stanley Rous ( England )
	János Aknai - Gyula Dudás , József Fogl - Ferenc Borsányi , Béla Volentik , János Víg - Albert Ströck , Stefan Auer , János Köves , Illés Spitz , Gábor Szabó Trainer: Lajos Bányai ( Hungary )	František Plánička - Antonín Novák , Antonín Vodička - Jindřich Šoltys , Adolf Šimperský , Václav Šubrt - František Junek , Václav Bára , František Svoboda , Antonín Puč , Ladislav Eulik Trainer: John Madden ( Scotland )
	1-0 János Köves (25th) 2-0 János Köves (64th) 3-0 János Köves (77th)

Best goal scorers

rank	player	Gates
1	Stefan Auer ( Újpest Budapest )	8th
2	Josef Adelbrecht ( First Vienna FC 1894 )	6th
	Friedrich Gschweidl (First Vienna FC 1894)
4th	Karl Rupprecht ( SpVgg Fürth )	4th
	Luis Regueiro ( Real Unión Irún )
6th	Gabor Szabo (Újpest Budapest)	3
	Janos Köves (Újpest Budapest)
	Bruno Maini ( AGC Bologna )
	Antonín Puč ( Slavia Prague )
	František Svoboda (Slavia Prague)
	Gustav Tögel (First Vienna FC 1894)

literature

• R. Keifu: La Coupe des Nations . Agon, 1993 ISBN 3-928562-36-3 .

Web links

• Details on the Coupe de Nations on rsssf.com
• Report from the final day in the article  in:  Wiener Sonntags-Zeitung / Wiener Sonn- und Mondags-Zeitung , July 7, 1930, p. 12 (online at ANNO ).