European Champion Clubs' Cup 1960/61

European Champion Clubs' Cup 1960/61
Cup winners	Benfica Lisbon (1st title)
Beginning	August 31, 1960
final	May 31, 1961
Final stadium	Wankdorf Stadium , Bern
Teams	26th
Games	51
Gates	164  (ø 3.22 per game)
Top scorer	José Aguas (11)
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CF Barcelona prevailed against Hamburger SV in the semifinals

The European Cup of National Champions 1960/61 was the 6th edition of the competition. 28 club teams took part, including 27 national champions from the previous season and the defending champions with Real Madrid . However, in the end only 26 registered clubs competed, two of which waived before the preliminary round.

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, regardless of the number of goals scored away, there was a playoff on a neutral pitch.

In the first round, the teams from German-speaking countries eliminated each other; the victorious teams from Rapid Vienna and Hamburger SV then advanced to the semi-finals. There it came to a scandal in Vienna when angry spectators stormed the second leg against the eventual cup winner on the lawn of the Prater Stadium and a police operation was necessary to protect the referee and the guest players; the match was not kicked off afterwards. In the Volksparkstadion , the Hamburgers were only a few seconds away, then after 1960 a West German club would have made it into the final - had it not been for Sándor Kocsis ( CF Barcelona ) who scored the 1: 2 goal in the last minute in front of over 70,000 spectators and thus forced a play-off .

The final took place without German participation on May 30, 1961 in the Wankdorf stadium in Bern in front of almost 27,000 spectators. It saw a different cup winner than Real Madrid for the first time. The top scorer was José Águas of Benfica Lisbon with eleven goals.

Preliminary round

A bye received:

•  Panathinaikos Athens
•  real Madrid
•  Hamburger SV
•  Burnley FC

The first leg took place from August 31 to September 29, the second leg from September 7 to October 12, 1960.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Fredrikstad FK	4: 3	Ajax Amsterdam	4: 3	0-0
Limerick FC	2: 9	BSC Young Boys	0: 5	2: 4
CCA Bucharest	1	TJ Spartak Hradec Králové
Glenavon FC	2	SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt
Helsingfors IFK	2: 5	IFK Malmö	1: 3	1: 2
Stade Reims	11: 10	Jeunesse Esch	6: 1	5-0
SK Rapid Vienna	4: 1	Beşiktaş Istanbul	4-0	0: 1
Aarhus GF	3: 1	Legia Warsaw	3-0	0: 1
Juventus Turin	3: 4	CDNA Sofia	2-0	1: 4
CF Barcelona	5-0	Lierse SK	2-0	3-0
Red Star Belgrade	1: 5	Újpesti Dózsa SC	1: 2	0: 3
Heart of Midlothian	1: 5	Benfica Lisbon	1: 2	0: 3

¹ The TJ Hradec Králové went on without a fight because Bucharest (it was said, because of weakness) renounced the game.

² Karl-Marx-Stadt continued without a fight because the British authorities did not issue visas to the GDR team and Glenavon did not want to play his home game in a neutral place.

1 round

The first legs took place from October 19 to November 16, the second legs from October 26 to December 7, 1960.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Aarhus GF	4-0	Fredrikstad FK	3-0	1-0
IFK Malmö	2: 1	CDNA Sofia	1-0	1: 1
BSC Young Boys	3: 8	Hamburger SV	0: 5	3: 3
TJ Spartak Hradec Králové	1-0	Panathinaikos Athens	1-0	0-0
Benfica Lisbon	7: 4	Újpesti Dózsa SC	6: 2	1: 2
SK Rapid Vienna	3: 3	SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	3: 1	0: 2
real Madrid	3: 4	CF Barcelona	2: 2	1: 2
Burnley FC	4: 3	Stade Reims	2-0	12: 3 1

¹The game took place in Paris .

Playoff

The game took place on December 21, 1960.

	Result
SK Rapid Vienna	1-0	SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt

Quarter finals

The first legs took place from January 18 to March 22, the second legs from March 15 to April 3, 1961.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Burnley FC	4: 5	Hamburger SV	3: 1	1: 4
SK Rapid Vienna	4-0	IFK Malmö	2-0	2-0
CF Barcelona	5: 1	TJ Spartak Hradec Králové	4-0	1: 1
Benfica Lisbon	7: 2	Aarhus GF	3: 1	4: 1

Semifinals

The first leg took place on 12./26. April, the second legs on April 26th / 4th May 1961.

	total		First leg	Return leg
CF Barcelona	2: 2	Hamburger SV	1-0	1: 2
Benfica Lisbon	4: 1	SK Rapid Vienna	3-0	11: 1 1

¹ The game was abandoned in the 88th minute due to crowd riots

Playoff

The game took place on May 3, 1961 in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels .

	Result
CF Barcelona	1-0	Hamburger SV

final

Benfica Lisbon		CF Barcelona
	final May 31, 1961 in Bern ( Wankdorf Stadium ) Result: 3: 2 (2: 1) Spectators: 26,732 Referee: Gottfried Dienst ( Switzerland )
	Costa Pereira - Mário João , Germano de Figueiredo , Angelo Martins - José Neto , Fernando Cruz - José Augusto , Joaquim Santana , José Águas , Mário Coluna , Domiciano Cavém Trainer: Béla Guttmann ( Hungary )	Antoni Ramallets - Foncho , Jesús Garay , Sígfrid Gràcia - Martín Vergés , Enric Gensana - László Kubala , Luis Suárez , Evaristo , Sándor Kocsis , Zoltán Czibor Trainer: Enrique Orizaola
	1-1 José Águas (30th) 2-1 Antoni Ramallets (32nd, own goal) 3-1 Mário Coluna (55th)	0: 1 Sandor Kocsis (20th) 3: 2 Zoltan Czibor (75th)

Best goal scorers

rank	player	club	Gates
1	José Águas	Benfica Lisbon	11
2	José Augusto	Benfica Lisbon	6th
	Evaristo de Macedo	CF Barcelona	6th
4th	Uwe Seeler	Hamburger SV	5
5	Klaus striker	Hamburger SV	4th
	Luis Suarez	CF Barcelona	4th
	Joaquim Santana	Benfica Lisbon	4th

→ Main article : List of UEFA Champions League top scorer

See also

• European Cup Winners' Cup 1960/61
• Exhibition cities cup 1960/61

Web links

Commons : European Cup of National Champions 1960/61  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official UEFA website for the 1960/61 European Cup
• Game details for the 1960/61 season at rsssf.com
• Sports History: "1960/61: Benfica become the second team to win the European Cup!" (English)