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1956–57 European Cup
Tournament details
Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid hosted the final.
Dates	1 August 1956 – 30 May 1957
Teams	22 (from 21 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Real Madrid (2nd title)
Runners-up	Fiorentina
Tournament statistics
Matches played	44
Goals scored	170 (3.86 per match)
Attendance	1,840,978 (41,840 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Dennis Viollet (Manchester United) 9 goals
← 1955–56 1957–58 →

International football competition

The 1956–57 European Cup was the second season of the European Cup, Europe's premier club football tournament. The competition was won for the second time by Real Madrid, who beat Fiorentina 2–0 in the final at the Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, on 30 May 1957.

After the great success of the first tournament, six new nations entered representatives: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, England, Luxembourg, Romania and Turkey. The Football League had not allowed Chelsea to enter in 1955, and continued its stance on the European Cup as it being a "distraction". However, against the wishes of the FA, Manchester United entered the competition as English champions, becoming the first English team to play in Europe. An additional place was awarded to third in 1955–56 La Liga Real Madrid as the competition's reigning champions, occupying the free berth left by Saar after its reunification with West Germany. As a result, Spain became the first association to provide two representatives to the premier European competition and it was only for Manchester United, who had won against Athletic Bilbao in the quarter-finals, that first ever meeting between two sides from the same country in the competition didn't happen.

This edition was the first to utilize play-off matches, after two legs were not enough to decide which team advances to the next round on three occasions: Borussia Dortmund won 7–0 against Spora Luxembourg in the preliminary round, while Nice and Real Madrid won 3–1 and 2–1, respectively, against Rangers and Rapid Wien in the first round.

Teams

A total of 22 teams participated in the competition.

AGF, Anderlecht, Rapid Wien and Real Madrid returned to the competition, after participating in the inaugural edition.

Galatasaray was the only team, other than the title holder, who didn't enter as a national association champion, as Süper Lig was not founded until 1959.

Rapid Wien (1st)	Anderlecht (1st)	CDNA Sofia (1st)	Slovan UNV Bratislava (1st)
AGF (1st)	Manchester United (1st)	Nice (1st)	Budapest Honvéd (1st)
Fiorentina (1st)	Spora Luxembourg (1st)	Rapid JC (1st)	CWKS Warsaw (1st)
Porto (1st)	Dinamo București (1st)	Rangers (1st)	Athletic Bilbao (1st)
Real Madrid (3rd)	IFK Norrköping (1st)	Grasshopper (1st)	Galatasaray (1st)
Borussia Dortmund (1st)	Red Star Belgrade (1st)

Preliminary round

Rapid JCclass=notpageimage| Location of teams in the 1956–57 European Cup

The draw for the preliminary round took place in UEFA headquarters in Paris on 29 June 1956. The 21 challengers of Real Madrid were grouped geographically into three pots. The first four teams drawn in each pot would play the preliminary round in September, while the remaining three clubs received byes.

	Pot 1 Eastern Europe	Pot 2 North-Western Europe	Pot 3 South-Central Europe
Drawn	Slovan UNV Bratislava	Nice	Porto
	CWKS Warsaw	AGF	Athletic Bilbao
	Galatasaray	Anderlecht	Borussia Dortmund
	Dinamo București	Manchester United	Spora Luxembourg
Byes	Budapest Honvéd	Rangers	Fiorentina
	Rapid Wien	IFK Norrköping	Grasshopper
	CDNA Sofia	Rapid JC	Red Star Belgrade

The calendar was decided by the involved teams, with all matches to be played by 1 October.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Play-off
Borussia Dortmund	5–5	Spora Luxembourg	4–3	1–2	7–0
Dinamo București	4–3	Galatasaray	3–1	1–2
Slovan UNV Bratislava	4–2	CWKS Warsaw	4–0	0–2
Anderlecht	0–12	Manchester United	0–2	0–10
AGF	2–6	Nice	1–1	1–5
Porto	3–5	Athletic Bilbao	1–2	2–3

First leg

1 August 195620:00 CET

Borussia Dortmund	4–3	Spora Luxembourg
Bracht 31' Niepieklo 54' Preissler 61', 73'	Report	Boreux 25', 34', 88'

Stadion Rote Erde, DortmundAttendance: 20,000Referee: Johan Heinrich Martens (Netherlands)

26 August 195616:00 CET

Dinamo București	3–1	Galatasaray
Voica 10', 67' Ene 84'	Report	Okay 77'

Stadionul August 23, BucharestAttendance: 85,000Referee: Francesco Liverani (Italy)

12 September 195619:30 CET

Anderlecht	0–2	Manchester United
	Report	Viollet 25' Taylor 75'

Stade Émile Versé, Anderlecht, BrusselsAttendance: 33,000Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands)

12 September 195620:00 CET

Slovan UNV Bratislava	4–0	CWKS Warsaw
Pažický 23', 68' Kováč 30' (pen.) Moravčík 40'	Report

Tehelné pole, BratislavaAttendance: 25,000Referee: Friedrich Mayer (Austria)

19 September 195620:00 CET

AGF	1–1	Nice
Erik Bechmann Jensen 16'	Report	Foix 61'

Idrætsparken, CopenhagenAttendance: 12,900Referee: Arthur Edward Ellis (England)

20 September 195617:30 CET

Porto	1–2	Athletic Bilbao
Matos 54'	Report	Gaínza 8' Canito 75'

Estádio das Antas, PortoAttendance: 35,000Referee: Mario Maurelli (Italy)

Second leg

6 September 195620:00 CET

Spora Luxembourg	2–1	Borussia Dortmund
Fiedler 22' Letsch 39'	Report	Preissler 28'

Stade Municipal, Luxembourg CityAttendance: 7,000Referee: Karl Lescart (Belgium)

Borussia Dortmund 5–5 Spora Luxembourg on aggregate; play-off needed.

19 September 195620:00 CET

CWKS Warsaw	2–0	Slovan UNV Bratislava
Kowal 52' Brychczy 63'	Report

Stadion Wojska Polskiego, WarsawAttendance: 40,000Referee: Alfred Grill (Austria)

Slovan UNV Bratislava won 4–2 on aggregate.

26 September 195617:00 CET

Athletic Bilbao	3–2	Porto
Artetxe 14', 73' (pen.), 82'	Report	Hernâni 4' Jaburú 20'

San Mamés, BilbaoAttendance: 34,705Referee: Mario Maurelli (Italy)

Athletic Bilbao won 5–3 on aggregate.

26 September 195620:30 CET

Manchester United	10–0	Anderlecht
Taylor 8', 20', 52' Viollet 25', 38', 44', 65' Whelan 61', 82' Berry 77'	Report

Maine Road, ManchesterAttendance: 43,635Referee: Sandy Griffiths (Wales)

Manchester United won 12–0 on aggregate.

27 September 195620:00 CET

Nice	5–1	AGF
Foix 2' Milazzo 27', 74' Faivre 45', 60'	Report	Jensen 77'

Stade du Ray, NiceAttendance: 8,144Referee: John Husband (England)

Nice won 6–2 on aggregate.

30 September 195614:15 CET

Galatasaray	2–1	Dinamo București
Aytaç 42' Oktay 89'	Report	Suru 31'

Mithatpaşa Stadyumu, IstanbulAttendance: 23,764Referee: Gustav Jiranek (Austria)

Dinamo București won 4–3 on aggregate.

Play-off

16 September 195620:00 CET

Borussia Dortmund	7–0	Spora Luxembourg
Preissler 24', 36' Simmer 29' Kelbassa 40', 49', 63' Peters 57'	Report

Stadion Rote Erde, DortmundAttendance: 15,000Referee: Fritz Buchmüller (Switzerland)

Borussia Dortmund won play-off 7–0.

Bracket

First round				Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final

Real Madrid	4	1	5 (2)

Rapid Wien	2	3	5 (0)
				Real Madrid	3	3	6

				Nice	0	2	2
Rangers	2	1	3 (1)

Nice	1	2	3 (3)
								Real Madrid	3	2	5

								Manchester United	1	2	3
Athletic Bilbao	3	3	6

Budapest Honvéd	2	3	5
				Athletic Bilbao	5	0	5

				Manchester United	3	3	6
Manchester United	3	0	3

Borussia Dortmund	2	0	2
												Real Madrid	2

												Fiorentina	0
Rapid JC	3	0	3

Red Star Belgrade	4	2	6
				Red Star Belgrade	3	1	4

				CDNA Sofia	1	2	3
CDNA Sofia	8	2	10

Dinamo București	1	3	4
								Red Star Belgrade	0	0	0

								Fiorentina	1	0	1
Fiorentina	1	1	2

IFK Norrköping	1	0	1
				Fiorentina	3	2	5

				Grasshopper	1	2	3
Slovan UNV Bratislava	1	0	1

Grasshopper	0	2	2

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Play-off
Manchester United	3–2	Borussia Dortmund	3–2	0–0
CDNA Sofia	10–4	Dinamo București	8–1	2–3
Rangers	3–3	Nice	2–1	1–2	1–3
Slovan UNV Bratislava	1–2	Grasshopper	1–0	0–2
Real Madrid	5–5	Rapid Wien	4–2	1–3	2–0
Rapid JC	3–6	Red Star Belgrade	3–4	0–2
Fiorentina	2–1	IFK Norrköping	1–1	1–0
Athletic Bilbao	6–5	Budapest Honvéd	3–2	3–3

First leg

17 October 195619:00 CET

CDNA Sofia	8–1	Dinamo București
Kolev 12', 56', 63' Milanov 20', 65' Panayotov 27', 76' Dimitrov 80'	Report	Băcuț 81' (pen.)

Stadion Narodna Armia, SofiaAttendance: 50,000Referee: Vasa Stefanović (Yugoslavia)

17 October 195621:00 CET

Manchester United	3–2	Borussia Dortmund
Viollet 10', 25' Pegg 35'	Report	Kapitulski 68' Preissler 75'

Maine Road, ManchesterAttendance: 75,568Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands)

24 October 195620:00 CET

Slovan UNV Bratislava	1–0	Grasshopper
Moravčík 20'	Report

Tehelné pole, BratislavaAttendance: 30,000Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)

24 October 195621:00 CET

Rangers	2–1	Nice
Murray 40' Simpson 81'	Report	Faivre 23'

Ibrox Park, GlasgowAttendance: 65,000Referee: Arthur Edward Ellis (England)

1 November 195616:00 CET

Real Madrid	4–2	Rapid Wien
Di Stéfano 9', 21' Marsal 60', 63'	Report	Dienst 58' Giesser 90'

Santiago Bernabéu, MadridAttendance: 100,000Referee: Gottfried Dienst (Switzerland)

3 November 195615:00 CET

Rapid JC	3–4	Red Star Belgrade
Janssen 8' Bisschops 78' Tasić 81' (og.)	Report	Kostić 4', 75' Toplak 42' Rudinski 82'

Kaalheide, KerkradeAttendance: 11,500Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

21 November 195614:30 CET

Fiorentina	1–1	IFK Norrköping
Bizzarri 15'	Report	Bild 8'

Comunale, FlorenceAttendance: 6,000Referee: Dean Harzic (France)

22 November 195615:30 CET

Athletic Bilbao	3–2	Budapest Honvéd
Artetxe 16' Markaida 27' Arieta 82'	Report	Budai II 75' Kocsis 85'

San Mamés, BilbaoAttendance: 39,184Referee: John Husband (England)

Second leg

8 November 195614:15 CET

Red Star Belgrade	2–0	Rapid JC
Toplak 32' Kostić 84'	Report

Stadion JNA, BelgradeAttendance: 15,000Referee: Rudolf Roman (Austria)

Red Star Belgrade won 6–3 on aggregate.

14 November 195619:30 CET

Rapid Wien	3–1	Real Madrid
Happel 18', 38' (pen.), 40'	Report	Di Stéfano 60'

Praterstadion, ViennaAttendance: 60,000Referee: Maurice Guigue (France)

Real Madrid 5–5 Rapid Wien on aggregate; play-off needed.

14 November 195620:00 CET

Nice	2–1	Rangers
Bravo 61' Foix 64'	Report	Hubbard 40' (pen.)

Stade du Ray, NiceAttendance: 8,439Referee: Riccardo Pieri (Italy)

Nice 3–3 Rangers on aggregate; play-off needed.

21 November 195620:00 CET

Borussia Dortmund	0–0	Manchester United
	Report

Stadion Rote Erde, DortmundAttendance: 44,570Referee: Johan Heinrich Martens (Netherlands)

Manchester United won 3–2 on aggregate.

28 November 195614:30 CET

IFK Norrköping	0–1	Fiorentina
	Report	Virgili 16'

Stadio Olimpico, RomeAttendance: 10,200Referee: Michel Devillers (France)

Fiorentina won 2–1 on aggregate.

12 December 195620:00 CET

Grasshopper	2–0	Slovan UNV Bratislava
Vukosavljević 75' Duret 89'	Report

Grünwalder Stadion, MunichAttendance: 12,000Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)

Grasshopper won 2–1 on aggregate.

20 December 195619:00 CET

Budapest Honvéd	3–3	Athletic Bilbao
Budai II 6' Kocsis 78' Puskás 86'	Report	Merodio 1', 72' Arieta 67'

Heysel Stadium, BrusselsAttendance: 30,000Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

Athletic Bilbao won 6–5 on aggregate.

30 December 195619:00 CET

Dinamo București	3–2	CDNA Sofia
Nicușor 58' (pen.) Lăzar 67' Neagu 84'	Report	Stoyanov 23' Yanev 62'

Stadionul August 23, BucharestAttendance: 20,000Referee: Gustav Jiranek (Austria)

CDNA Sofia won 10–4 on aggregate.

Play-off

28 November 195620:00 CET

Nice	3–1	Rangers
Foix 45' Muro 50' Faivre 75'	Report	Bonvin 51' (o.g.)

Parc des Princes, ParisAttendance: 11,908Referee: Lucien Van Nuffel (Belgium)

Nice won play-off 3–1.

13 December 195615:30 CET

Real Madrid	2–0	Rapid Wien
Joseíto 1' Kopa 23'	Report

Santiago Bernabéu, MadridAttendance: 100,000Referee: Alfred Bond (England)

Real Madrid won play-off 2–0.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Athletic Bilbao	5–6	Manchester United	5–3	0–3
Fiorentina	5–3	Grasshopper	3–1	2–2
Real Madrid	6–2	Nice	3–0	3–2
Red Star Belgrade	4–3	CDNA Sofia	3–1	1–2

First leg

16 January 195715:45 CET

Athletic Bilbao	5–3	Manchester United
Uribe 2', 28' Markaida 43' Merodio 73' Artetxe 78'	Report	Taylor 48' Viollet 54' Whelan 85'

San Mamés, BilbaoAttendance: 36,737Referee: Albert Dusch (West Germany)

6 February 195715:00 CET

Fiorentina	3–1	Grasshopper
Segato 3' Taccola 10', 12'	Report	Ballaman 31'

Comunale, FlorenceAttendance: 10,000Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)

14 February 195716:15 CET

Real Madrid	3–0	Nice
Joseíto 18' Mateos 49', 72'	Report

Santiago Bernabéu, MadridAttendance: 110,000Referee: Gérard Versyp (Belgium)

17 February 195714:30 CET

Red Star Belgrade	3–1	CDNA Sofia
Kostić 6', 25' Popović 53'	Report	Yanev 88'

Stadion Rajko Mitić, BelgradeAttendance: 33,000Referee: Riccardo Pieri (Italy)

Second leg

6 February 195721:30 CET

Manchester United	3–0	Athletic Bilbao
Viollet 42' Taylor 70' Berry 85'	Report

Maine Road, ManchesterAttendance: 70,000Referee: Albert Dusch (West Germany)

Manchester United won 6–5 on aggregate.

24 February 195713:00 CET

CDNA Sofia	2–1	Red Star Belgrade
Bozhkov 22' (pen.) Panayotov 39'	Report	Tasić 29' (pen.)

Vasil Levski National Stadium, SofiaAttendance: 50,000Referee: Nikolai Latyshev (Soviet Union)

Red Star Belgrade won 4–3 on aggregate.

27 February 195720:00 CET

Grasshopper	2–2	Fiorentina
Ballaman 25' Vukosavljević 85'	Report	Julinho 7' Montuori 52'

Stadion Hardturm, ZürichAttendance: 18,000Referee: Fritz Seipelt (Austria)

Fiorentina won 5–3 on aggregate.

14 March 195715:00 CET

Nice	2–3	Real Madrid
Foix 15' Ferry 82' (pen.)	Report	Joseíto 45' Di Stéfano 50', 79'

Stade du Ray, NiceAttendance: 21,724Referee: John Husband (England)

Real Madrid won 6–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Red Star Belgrade	0–1	Fiorentina	0–1	0–0
Real Madrid	5–3	Manchester United	3–1	2–2

First leg

3 April 195715:45 CET

Red Star Belgrade	0–1	Fiorentina
	Report	Prini 88'

Stadion JNA, BelgradeAttendance: 40,000Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

11 April 195716:30 CET

Real Madrid	3–1	Manchester United
Rial 61' Di Stéfano 63' Mateos 83'	Report	Taylor 82'

Santiago Bernabéu, MadridAttendance: 120,000Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands)

Second leg

18 April 195716:15 CET

Fiorentina	0–0	Red Star Belgrade
	Report

Comunale, FlorenceAttendance: 70,000Referee: Klaas Schipper (Netherlands)

Fiorentina won 1–0 on aggregate.

25 April 195720:15 CET

Manchester United	2–2	Real Madrid
Taylor 52' Charlton 85'	Report	Kopa 25' Rial 33'

Old Trafford, ManchesterAttendance: 65,000Referee: Marcel Lequesne (France)

Real Madrid won 5–3 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1957 European Cup final 30 May 195717:30 CET

Real Madrid	2–0	Fiorentina
Di Stéfano 69' (pen.) Gento 75'	Report

Santiago Bernabéu, MadridAttendance: 124,000Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands)

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 1956–57 European Cup (including preliminary round) were as follows:

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Dennis Viollet	Manchester United	9
2	Tommy Taylor	Manchester United	8
3	Alfredo Di Stéfano	Real Madrid	7
4	Alfred Preissler	Borussia Dortmund	6
5	José Luis Artetxe	Athletic Bilbao	5
	Jacques Foix	Nice
	Bora Kostić	Red Star Belgrade
8	Jacques Faivre	Nice	4
9	Marc Boreux	Spora Luxembourg	3
	Ernst Happel	Rapid Wien
	Joseíto	Real Madrid
	Alfred Kelbassa	Borussia Dortmund
	Enrique Mateos	Real Madrid
	Armando Merodio	Athletic Bilbao
	Panayot Panayotov	CDNA Sofia
	Ivan Kolev	CDNA Sofia
	Billy Whelan	Manchester United

Notes

It is assumed this match was played in Munich as a result of Swiss protests regarding the outcome of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 which also led to them boycotting the 1956 Olympic Games.
Played at Heysel Stadium, Brussels due to Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

There was no top-level Turkish champion in the period from 1952 to 1955.

References

"Home comforts bring second title for Madrid". UEFA.com. UEFA. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
Woodward, Hamish (2021-06-20). "Why are Manchester United Called the Red Devils?". Atletifo Sports. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
Corriere dello Sport, June 30, 1956.
Melbourne/Stockholm 1956 (All facts) Olympic.org
"Real Madrid vs. Fiorentina" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
1956/57 European Champion Clubs' Cup - Tournament phase - Goals scored
1956/57 European Champion Clubs' Cup - Qualifying phase - Goals scored

External links

1956–57 All matches – season at UEFA website
All scorers 1956–57 European Cup (excluding qualifying round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers qualifying round
European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
1956-57 European Cup – results and line-ups (archive)

European Cup and UEFA Champions League

European Cup era, 1955–1992
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