European Champion Clubs' Cup 1956/57

European Champion Clubs' Cup 1956/57
Cup winners	Real Madrid (2nd title)
Beginning	August 1, 1956
final	May 30, 1957
Final stadium	Estadio Santiago Bernabéu , Madrid
Teams	22nd
Games	44
Gates	170  (ø 3.86 per game)
Top scorer	Dennis Viollet (9)
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The European Cup of National Champions 1956/57 was the second edition of the competition. 22 club teams took part, including 21 national champions from the previous season and the defending champions with Real Madrid .

The participants played in a pure cup mode with (except for the finals) back and forth games for the crown of European club football. In the event of a tie, there was a playoff in a neutral place. Twelve clubs had to start in the preliminary round, another ten started in the round of 16.

The final took place on May 30, 1957 at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid in front of 120,000 spectators. Real Madrid also won the second edition of the competition 2-0 against Fiorentina . Scorer was Dennis Viollet by Manchester United with nine goals.

Preliminary round

The first legs took place from August 1 to September 20, the second legs from September 6 to 30, 1956.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Borussia Dortmund	5: 5	Spora Luxembourg	4: 3	1: 2
Dinamo Bucharest	4: 3	Galatasaray Istanbul	3: 1	1: 2
Slovan Bratislava	4: 2	CWKS Warsaw	4-0	0: 2
RSC Anderlecht	00:12	Manchester United	0: 2	00:10
Aarhus GF	2: 6	OGC Nice	1: 1	1: 5
FC Porto	3: 5	Atlético Bilbao	1: 2	2: 3

Playoff

The game took place on September 16, 1956.

	Result
Borussia Dortmund	7-0	Spora Luxembourg

1 round

The first legs took place from October 17 to November 22, 1956, the second legs from November 8 to December 20, 1956.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Manchester United	3: 2	Borussia Dortmund	3: 2	0-0
ZDNA Sofia	10: 40	Dinamo Bucharest	8: 1	2: 3
Glasgow Rangers	3: 3	OGC Nice	2: 1	1: 2
Slovan Bratislava	1: 2	Grasshopper Club Zurich	1-0	10: 2 1
real Madrid	5: 5	SK Rapid Vienna	4: 2	1: 3
Rapid JC Heerlen	3: 6	Red Star Belgrade	3: 4	0: 2
AC Florence	2: 1	IFK Norrköping	1: 1	1-0
Atlético Bilbao	6: 5	Honvéd Budapest	3: 2	23: 3 2

¹The second leg scheduled for November 14 in Zurich fell victim to political reasons. After the outbreak of the Hungarian uprising, Switzerland had banned the appearance of teams from the Eastern Bloc in Switzerland. The second leg was postponed by four weeks. The game was played on December 12, 1956 on neutral ground in the Munich stadium on Grünwalder Strasse.

²The second leg took place in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels because of the uprising in Hungary . The Honvéd players refused to return to Budapest at the time .

Playoffs

The games took place as follows: on November 28, 1956, Nice against Glasgow in Paris ; Real versus Rapid in Madrid on December 13, 1956. There were several options for the Rapid Wien match, but the Viennese opted for the financially most lucrative offer from the Madrilenians. The presidium of the ÖFB forbade the event in Madrid on November 22nd, as the play-offs would have to take place on neutral ground, whereby the statutes do not object to the event in Barcelona . After UEFA asked the ÖFB to agree to the event in Madrid "due to technical difficulties", the ÖFB gave its permission on November 30th

	Result
OGC Nice	3: 1	Glasgow Rangers
real Madrid	2-0	SK Rapid Vienna

Quarter finals

The first legs took place from January 16 to February 17, the second legs from February 6 to March 14, 1957.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Atlético Bilbao	5: 6	Manchester United	5: 3	0: 3
AC Florence	5: 3	Grasshopper Club Zurich	3: 1	2: 2
real Madrid	6: 3	OGC Nice	3: 1	3: 2
Red Star Belgrade	4: 3	ZDNA Sofia	3: 1	1: 2

Semifinals

The first legs took place on April 3 and 11, the second legs on April 18 and 25, 1957.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Red Star Belgrade	0: 1	AC Florence	0: 1	0-0
real Madrid	5: 3	Manchester United	3: 1	2: 2

final

real Madrid		AC Florence
	final May 30, 1957 in Madrid ( Estadio Santiago Bernabéu ) Result: 2: 0 (0: 0) Spectators: 124,000 Referee: Leo Horn ( Netherlands )
	Juan Alonso - Manuel Torres , Marquitos , Rafael Lesmes - Miguel Muñoz , José María Zárraga - Raymond Kopa , Enrique Mateos , Alfredo Di Stéfano , Héctor Rial , Francisco Gento Trainers: José Villalonga Llorente	Giuliano Sarti - Ardico Magnini , Sergio Cervato - Aldo Scaramucci , Alberto Orzan , Armando Segato - Julinho , Guido Gratton , Giuseppe Virgili , Miguel Montuori , Maurilio Prini Trainer: Fulvio Bernardini
	1-0 Alfredo Di Stéfano (70th, penalty) 2-0 Francisco Gento (76th)

Best goal scorers

rank	player	club	Gates
1	Dennis Viollet	Manchester United	9
2	Tommy Taylor	Manchester United	8th
3	Alfredo Di Stéfano	real Madrid	7th
4th	Alfred Preissler	Borussia Dortmund	6th
5	José Luis Arteche	Atlético Bilbao	5
	Bora Kostic	Red Star Belgrade	5
	Jacques Foix	OGC Nice	4th
8th	Jacques Faivre	OGC Nice	4th

→ Main article : List of UEFA Champions League top scorer

See also

• Exhibition Cities Cup 1955–1958

literature

• IFFHS : European Cup Book Series [1], Wiesbaden

Web links

• Official UEFA website for the 1956/57 European Cup
• Game details for the 1956/57 season at rsssf.com
• Sports History: "1956/57: The European Cup stays in Madrid" (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rapid eliminated from the European Cup . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 14, 1956, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ Real - Rapid in Madrid . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 22, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ Rapid - Real not in Madrid . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 23, 1956, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ↑ Rapid - Real in Madrid . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 29, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
5. ↑ Rapid - Real in Madrid . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 1, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).