European Cup for the National Football Teams 1955 to 1960

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The sixth edition of the European National Football Team Cup took place from March 1955 to January 1960, which means that it spanned almost five years. The national teams of Austria , Italy , Yugoslavia , Switzerland , Hungary and Czechoslovakia took part. After ten rounds of play, Czechoslovakia was the winner. It was the last competition of its kind and in 1960 it was replaced by the European Football Championship .

Game results and table

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia  10  7th  2  1 024:140 +10 16
 2. Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary  10  6th  3  1 034:160 +18 15th
 3. AustriaAustria Austria  10  4th  3  3 021: 200 +19 11
 4th Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia  10  3  3  4th 021:130  +8 09
 5. ItalyItaly Italy  10  2  3  5 012: 200 +10 07th
 6th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland  10  0  2  8th 010:370 −27 02
March 27, 1955 in Brno
Czechoslovakia - Austria 3: 2
April 24, 1955 in Vienna
Austria - Hungary 2: 2
May 1, 1955 in Bern
Switzerland - Austria 2: 3
May 29, 1955 in Turin
Italy - Yugoslavia 0: 4
June 26, 1955 in Belgrade
Yugoslavia - Switzerland 0-0
September 17, 1955 in La Pontaise , Lausanne
Switzerland - Hungary 4: 5
October 2, 1955 in Prague
Czechoslovakia - Hungary 1: 3
October 16, 1955 in Budapest
Hungary - Austria 6: 1
October 30, 1955 in Vienna
Austria - Yugoslavia 2: 1
November 27, 1955 in Budapest
Hungary - Italy 2-0
April 29, 1956 in Budapest
Hungary - Yugoslavia 2: 2
May 10, 1956 in Geneva
Switzerland - Czechoslovakia 1: 6
May 20, 1956 in Budapest
Hungary - Czechoslovakia 2: 4
June 17, 1956 in Zagreb
Yugoslavia - Austria 1: 1
September 16, 1956 in Belgrade
Yugoslavia - Hungary 1: 3
September 30, 1956 in Belgrade
Yugoslavia - Czechoslovakia 1: 2
November 11, 1956 in Bern
Switzerland - Italy 1: 1
December 9, 1956 in Genoa
Italy - Austria 2: 1
April 14, 1957 in Vienna
Austria - Switzerland 4-0
May 12, 1957 in Zagreb
Yugoslavia - Italy 6: 1
May 18, 1957 in Bratislava
Czechoslovakia - Yugoslavia 1-0
October 13, 1957 in Vienna
Austria - Czechoslovakia 2: 2
March 23, 1958 in Vienna
Austria - Italy 3: 2
September 20, 1958 in Bratislava
Czechoslovakia - Switzerland 2: 1
December 13, 1958 in Genoa
Italy - Czechoslovakia 1: 1
April 26, 1959 in Basel
Switzerland - Yugoslavia 1: 5
October 25, 1959 in Budapest
Hungary - Switzerland 8-0
November 1, 1959 in Prague
Czechoslovakia - Italy 2: 1
November 29, 1959 in Florence
Italy - Hungary 1: 1
January 6, 1960 in Naples
Italy - Switzerland 3-0

Winning team

Anton Bily , Jaroslav Borovička , January Brumovský , Titus Buberník , Vlastimil Bubník , Josef Crha , Břetislav Dolejší , Milan Dolinský , Milan Dvořák , Jiří Feureisl , Kazimír Gajdoš , Jiří Hejský , January Hertl , Jiří Hledík , André Houška , Vojtech Jankovič , Jiří Ječný , Ladislav Kacani , Tadeáš Kraus , Jiří Křižák , Ladislav Koubek , Josef Masopust , Oldřich Menclík , Pavol Molnár , Anton Moravčík , Gustáv Mráz , Ladislav Novák , Jozef Obert , Jiří Pešek , Ladislav Pavlovič , Arnost Pazdera , Emil Pažický , Svatopluk Pluskal , Ján Popluhár , Ladislav Přáda , Zdeněk Procházka , František Šafránek , Adolf Scherer , Viliam Schrojf , Imrich Stacho , Emil Svoboda , Jiří Tichý , Miroslav Zuzánek

Best goal scorers

player country Gates
Lajos Tichy Hungary 7th
Jiří Feureisl Czechoslovakia 5
Anton Moravčík Czechoslovakia
Ferenc Puskás Hungary
Zoltán Czibor Hungary 4th
Sándor Kocsis Hungary
Erich Probst Austria
Todor Veselinović Yugoslavia