2nd season of the UEFA club football tournament
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 Stadium, 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.[1] 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 [ edit ]
A👍 total of 22 teams participated in the competition.
AGF Aarhus, 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.
^ There was no top-level Turkish champion in the period from👍 1952 to 1955.
Preliminary round [ edit ]
The draw for the preliminary round took place in UEFA headquarters in Paris on👍 29 June 1956.[2] 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.
The calendar was decided👍 by the involved teams, with all matches to be played by 1 October.
First leg [ edit ]
Second leg [ edit👍 ]
Borussia Dortmund 5–5 Spora Luxembourg on aggregate; play-off needed.
Slovan UNV Bratislava won 4–2 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 5–3 on aggregate.
Manchester👍 United won 12–0 on aggregate.
Nice won 6–2 on aggregate.
Dinamo București won 4–3 on aggregate.
Borussia Dortmund won play-off 7–0.
Bracket [ edit👍 ]
First round [ edit ]
First leg [ edit ]
Second leg [ edit ]
Red Star Belgrade won 6–3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid👍 5–5 Rapid Wien on aggregate; play-off needed.
Nice 3–3 Rangers on aggregate; play-off needed.
Manchester United won 3–2 on aggregate.
Fiorentina won 2–1👍 on aggregate.
Grasshopper won 2–1 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 6–5 on aggregate.
CDNA Sofia won 10–4 on aggregate.
Nice won play-off 3–1.
Real Madrid👍 won play-off 2–0.
First leg [ edit ]
Second leg [ edit ]
Manchester United won 6–5 on aggregate.
Red Star Belgrade won 4–3👍 on aggregate.
Fiorentina won 5–3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 6–2 on aggregate.
First leg [ edit ]
Second leg [ edit ]
Fiorentina won👍 1–0 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 5–3 on aggregate.
Final [ edit ]
Top scorers [ edit ]
The top scorers from the 1956–57👍 European Cup (including preliminary round) were as follows:[5][6]
Notes [ edit ]
