Mitropa Cup 1932

The Mitropapokal 1932 was the 6th edition of the international cup competition. The best teams from Austria , Hungary , Czechoslovakia and Italy took part. It was mostly the champions 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. All eight clubs started in the preliminary round or in the quarter-finals. The defending champion First Vienna FC finished the tournament in second place.

At the Mitropapokal in 1932, however, there was no final of its own, as there were serious tumults in the semifinal game between Slavia Prague and Juventus Turin, so the game was canceled and both teams were disqualified. The committee agreed to recognize the other semi-final game between First Vienna FC and AGC Bologna as the final game and to present the trophy to the winner of this duel. The early final was thus held within a week on July 10 and 17, 1932 in Bologna and Vienna as a semi-final. With a 2-0 home game and a 1-0 away defeat, Bologna became the first Italian Mitropa Cup winner. The top scorer was Renato Cesarini from semi-finalists Juventus with five goals.

Quarter finals

The first legs took place on June 10, 18, 25 and 29, the second legs on June 28, 26 and 29 and July 3, 1932.

	total		First leg	Return leg
AGC Bologna	5: 3	Sparta Prague	5-0	0: 3
Slavia Prague	3: 1	SK Admira Vienna	3-0	0: 1
First Vienna FC	6: 4	Újpest FC	5: 3	1: 1
Juventus Turin	7: 3	Ferencváros Budapest	4-0	3: 3

Semifinals

The first leg took place on July 6th and 10th, the second leg on July 10th and 17th, 1932.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Slavia Prague	4: 2	Juventus Turin	4-0	000: 2 (1)
AGC Bologna	2: 1	First Vienna FC	2-0	0: 1

¹ After the first leg in Prague suffered from the assaults of the players and spectator riots, the Prague goalkeeper collapsed shortly after the restart in the semi-final second leg in Turin, obviously hit by a stone. The Prague team then left the field and triggered the game to be abandoned.

According to the Mitropa Cup rules, the opponent of the game would have been awarded a result of 3: 0 if a team had left. After that, Juventus would have won the second leg 3-0, but would still have been eliminated. Since an attempt to have both teams play a third match on neutral ground failed, the Mitropa Cup committee should have confirmed the finalist Slavia.

But the Mitropa Cup committee made a Solomonic judgment . Both teams were disqualified; neither of the two received the right to contest the final in 1932. Thus, the overall winner of the other semi-final pairing was almost without a fight Mitropa Cup winner 1932.

The following match line-ups are therefore the second semi-finals.

First leg

AGC Bologna		First Vienna FC
	July 10, 1932 in Bologna ( Stadio Littoriale ) Result: 2: 0 (0: 0) Spectators: 18,000 Referee: František Cejnar ( Czechoslovakia )
	Mario Gianni - Eraldo Monzeglio , Felice Gasperi - Gastone Martelli , Gastone Baldi , Mario Montesanto - Bruno Maini , Raffaele Sansone , Angelo Schiavio , Francisco Fedullo , Carlo Reguzzoni Trainer: Gyula Lelovics ( Hungary )	Karl Horeschofsky - Karl Rainer , Josef Blum - Otto Kaller , Leopold Hofmann , Willibald Schmaus - Anton Brosenbauer , Josef Adelbrecht , Friedrich Gschweidl , Gustav Tögel , Franz Schönwetter Trainer: Ferdinand Frithum
	1: 0 Bruno Maini (60.) 2: 0 Raffaele Sansone (89.)

Return leg

First Vienna FC		AGC Bologna
	July 17, 1932 in Vienna ( Hohe Warte ) Result: 1: 0 (1: 0) Spectators: 15,000 Referee: René Mercet ( Switzerland )
	Karl Horeschofsky - Karl Rainer , Josef Blum - Otto Kaller , Leopold Hofmann , Leonhard Machu - Anton Brose Bauer , Josef Adelbrecht , Fritz Gschweidl , Gustav Tögel , Franz Schönwetter Coach: Ferdinand Frithum	Mario Gianni - Eraldo Monzeglio , Felice Gasperi - Gastone Martelli , Gastone Baldi , Mario Montesanto - Bruno Maini , Raffaele Sansone , Angelo Schiavio , Francisco Fedullo , Carlo Reguzzoni Trainer: Gyula Lelovics ( Hungary )
	1: 0 Franz Schönwetter (13th, Penalty)

Best goal scorers

rank	player	club	Gates
1	Renato Cesarini	Juventus Turin	5
2	Franz fair weather	First Vienna FC	4th
3	György Sárosi	Ferencváros Budapest	3
	Vlastimil Kopecký	Slavia Prague	3
	Bruno Maini	AGC Bologna	3
	Raimundo Orsi	Juventus Turin	3
	František Svoboda	Slavia Prague	3

Web links

• statistical details on the 1932 competition at www.iffhs.de