1957–58 European Cup

The 1957–58 European Cup was the third season of the European Cup, Europe's premier club football tournament. The competition was won by Real Madrid, who beat Milan 3–2 in the final, following a 2–2 draw after 90 minutes. This was Real Madrid's third European Cup title in a row. However, the 1957–58 season was marred by the air disaster in Munich, when eight Manchester United players lost their lives on their way home from Belgrade, after a 3–3 draw in the quarter-final second leg with Red Star Belgrade. The English champions were ultimately defeated in the semi-finals by the eventual runners-up, AC Milan of Italy.

1957–58 European Cup
The Heysel Stadium in Brussels hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates4 September 1957 – 28 May 1958
Teams24
Final positions
Champions Real Madrid (3rd title)
Runners-up Milan
Tournament statistics
Matches played48
Goals scored189 (3.94 per match)
Attendance1,906,185 (39,712 per match)
Top scorer(s) Alfredo Di Stéfano (10 goals)

It was the first time that teams from the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and East Germany participated, while Turkey could not send any club, since the Turkish FA failed to register Beşiktaş for the draw in time.[1] Sevilla was invited despite having been runners-up in Spain the year before, as Spanish champions Real Madrid had already qualified as holders; the two Spanish sides met in the quarter-finals, the first time two sides from the same country played against each other in the competition.

Preliminary round

The draw for the preliminary round took place at the headquarters of the French Football Federation in Paris on Tuesday, 23 July 1957.[2] As title holders, Real Madrid received a bye, and the remaining 23 teams were grouped geographically into three pots. The first four teams drawn in each pot, and four more teams in pot 1, would play the preliminary round in September, while the remaining clubs received byes.

Pot 1
Western Europe		 Pot 2
Central Europe		 Pot 3
Eastern Europe
Drawn Match 1

Shamrock Rovers

Red Star Belgrade

Gwardia Warsaw

Manchester United

Stade Dudelange

SC Wismut Karl Marx Stadt

Match 2

Sevilla

Milan

CDNA Sofia

Benfica

Rapid Wien

Vasas

Match 3

Aarhus

Glenavon

Match 4

Rangers

Saint-Étienne

Byes

Norrköping

Young Boys

CCA București

Royal Antwerp

Borussia Dortmund

Dukla Prague

Ajax

The calendar was decided by the involved teams, with all matches to be played by 30 September.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
CDNA Sofia 3–7 Vasas 2–1 1–6
Rangers 4–3 Saint-Étienne 3–1 1–2
Stade Dudelange 1–14 Red Star Belgrade 0–5 1–9
AGF 3–0 Glenavon 0–0 3–0
Gwardia Warsaw 4–41 SC Wismut Karl Marx Stadt 3–1 1–3
Sevilla 3–1 Benfica 3–1 0–0
Shamrock Rovers 2–92 Manchester United 0–6 2–3
Milan 6–63 Rapid Wien 4–1 2–5

1 SC Wismut Karl Marx Stadt qualified due to a coin toss, after their play-off against Gwardia Warsaw was abandoned after 100 minutes due to floodlight power failure with the result of 1–1.

2 To allow an evening kick-off at Dalymount Park in Dublin, which had no floodlights, the teams agreed to change over at half-time without a break. Consequently, the Irish part-timers ran out of steam and Manchester United's 1–0 half-time lead increased to 6–0. The second leg, played under lights at Old Trafford with the normal half-time break, produced a closer scoreline.

3 Milan beat Rapid Wien 4–2 in a play-off to qualify.

First leg
CDNA Sofia 2–1 Vasas
Milanov  2', 38' Report Bundzsák  53'
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Erich Steiner (Austria)
Rangers 3–1 Saint-Étienne
Kichenbrand  19'
Scott  47'
Simpson  82'		 Report Mekloufi  14'
Attendance: 85,000
Referee: Leo Helge (Denmark)
Stade Dudelange 0–5 Red Star Belgrade
Report Kostić  11', 16'
Rudinski  47', 55'
Mitić  87'
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Armando Marchetti (Italy)
AGF 0–0 Glenavon
Report
Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Willem Beltman (Netherlands)
Gwardia Warsaw 3–1 SC Wismut Karl Marx Stadt
Baszkiewicz  49'
Lewandowski  59'
Gawroński  88'		 Report S. Kaiser  79'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Jindřich Karas (Czechoslovakia)
Sevilla 3–1 Benfica
Pahuet  46'
Antoniet  59'
Pepillo  79'		 Report Palmeiro  48'
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Jean-Louis Groppi (France)
Shamrock Rovers 0–6 Manchester United
Report T. Taylor  36', 63'
Whelan  51', 57'
Berry  71'
Pegg  72'
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Lucien Van Nuffel (Belgium)
Milan 4–1 Rapid Wien
Grillo  4'
Bean  8'
Höltl  74' (o.g.)
Mariani  82'		 Report Dienst  58'
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: José Blanco Pérez (Spain)

Second leg
Saint-Étienne 2–1 Rangers
Ferrier  18'
Oleksiak  72'		 Report Wilson  61'
Attendance: 29,517
Referee: Aksel Asmussen (Denmark)

Rangers won 4–3 on aggregate.

Glenavon 0–3 AGF
Report Kjær Andersen  13', 45'
Jensen  40'
Attendance: 33,000
Referee: Johan Heinrich Martens (Netherlands)

Aarhus won 3–0 on aggregate.

Benfica 0–0 Sevilla
Report
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Pierre Schwinte (France)

Sevilla won 3–1 on aggregate.

Red Star Belgrade 9–1 Stade Dudelange
Cokić  5', 38', 66', 69'
Mitić  10'
Kostić  17', 29', 30', 33'		 Report Rongoni  31'
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Cesare Jonni (Italy)

Red Star Belgrade won 14–1 on aggregate.

Manchester United 3–2 Shamrock Rovers
Viollet  5', 60'
Pegg  20'		 Report McCann  55'
Hamilton  66'
Attendance: 33,754
Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

Manchester United won 9–2 on aggregate.

Vasas 6–1 CDNA Sofia
Csordás  35', 38', 51'
Berendi  48'
Bundzsák  68'
Szilágyi  89'		 Report Panayotov  25'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Alfred Grill (Austria)

Vasas won 7–3 on aggregate.

Rapid Wien 5–2 Milan
A. Körner  1'
Dienst  31'
Bertalan  57'
Riegler  62'
Hanappi  78'		 Report Grillo  19'
Bean  77'
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Daniel Zariquiegui (Spain)

Milan 6–6 Rapid Wien on aggregate.

SC Wismut Karl Marx Stadt 3–1 Gwardia Warsaw
M. Kaiser  10'
S. Kaiser  74', 80'		 Report Baszkiewicz  60'
Attendance: 20,000

Gwardia Warsaw 4–4 SC Wismut Karl Marx Stadt on aggregate.

Play-off
Milan 4–2 Rapid Wien
Bean  6', 82'
Bergamaschi  41'
Schiaffino  54'		 Report Happel  38' (pen.)
Bertalan  72'
Attendance: 26,000

Milan won play-off 4–2.

SC Wismut Karl Marx Stadt 1–1 Gwardia Warsaw
Tröger  90' Report Z. Szarzyński  3'
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Václav Korelus (Czechoslovakia)

Wismut Karl Marx Stadt qualified due to a coin toss, after their play-off against Gwardia Warsaw was abandoned with the result of 1–1 after 100 minutes due to floodlight power failure.

First round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Royal Antwerp 1–8 Real Madrid 1–2 0–6
Norrköping 3–4 Red Star Belgrade 2–2 1–2
SC Wismut Karl Marx Stadt 1–4 Ajax 1–3 0–1
Young Boys 2–3 Vasas 1–1 1–2
Manchester United 3–1 Dukla Prague 3–0 0–1
Sevilla 4–2 AGF 4–0 0–2
Borussia Dortmund 5–51 CCA București 4–2 1–3
Rangers 1–6 Milan 1–4 0–2

1 Borussia Dortmund beat CCA București 3–1 in a play-off to qualify for the quarter-finals.

First leg
Royal Antwerp 1–2 Real Madrid
De Backer  58' Report Di Stéfano  15', 61'
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Dean Harzic (France)
Norrköping 2–2 Red Star Belgrade
Håkansson  75'
Källgren  85'		 Report Toplak  88'
Kostić  90'
Attendance: 10,893
Referee: Józef Kowal (Poland)
SC Wismut Karl Marx Stadt 1–3 Ajax
Müller  87' Report van der Kuil  5', 62'
Bleijenberg  17'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Alfred Grill (Austria)
Young Boys 1–1 Vasas
Wechselberger  7' Report Csordás  90'
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Giulio Campanati (Italy)
Manchester United 3–0 Dukla Prague
Webster  63'
T. Taylor  65'
Pegg  79'		 Report
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Werner Treichel (West Germany)
Sevilla 4–0 AGF
Antoniet  6', 30'
Loren  24', 52'		 Report
Attendance: 40,000
Borussia Dortmund 4–2 CCA București
Peters  35', 62', 64'
Niepieklo  66'		 Report Zavoda I  43'
Bone  50'
Attendance: 42,000
Referee: Jack Mowat (Scotland)
Rangers 1–4 Milan
Murray  31' Report Grillo  75', 83'
Baruffi  81'
Bean  86'
Attendance: 85,000
Referee: Manuel Asensi Martín (Spain)

Second leg
Red Star Belgrade 2–1 Norrköping
Spajić  75', 88' Report Backman  16'
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Włodzimierz Storoniak (Poland)

Red Star Belgrade won 4–3 on aggregate.

Ajax 1–0 SC Wismut Karl Marx Stadt
Ouderland  79' Report
Attendance: 23,000
Referee: Alfred Grill (Austria)

Ajax won 4–1 on aggregate.

Real Madrid 6–0 Royal Antwerp
Rial  2', 4', 41'
Marsal  52'
Kopa  79'
Gento  89'		 Report
Attendance: 72,245
Referee: Louis Fauquembergue (France)

Real Madrid won 8–1 on aggregate.

Vasas 2–1 Young Boys
Csordás  8', 12' Report Schneiter  89'
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Francesco Liverani (Italy)

Vasas won 3–2 on aggregate.

Dukla Prague 1–0 Manchester United
Dvořák  17' Report
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Werner Treichel (West Germany)

Manchester United won 3–1 on aggregate.

AGF 2–0 Sevilla
Jensen  41', 86' Report
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Aloïs Smidts (Belgium)

Sevilla won 4–2 on aggregate.

CCA București 3–1 Borussia Dortmund
Tătaru  17'
Constantin  25'
Alecsandrescu  45'		 Report Niepieklo  12'
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Janos Posa-polareczky (Hungary)

Borussia Dortmund 5–5 CCA București on aggregate.

Milan2–0Rangers
Baruffi  37'
Galli  48'		 Report
Attendance: 5,000

Milan won 6–1 on aggregate.

Play-off
Borussia Dortmund 3–1 CCA București
Dulz  15'
Kelbassa  62'
Preißler  79'		 Report Cacoveanu  35'
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Cesare Jonni (Italy)

Borussia Dormund won the play-off 3–1.

Quarter-finals
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Manchester United 5–4 Red Star Belgrade 2–1 3–3
Real Madrid 10–2 Sevilla 8–0 2–2
Ajax 2–6 Vasas 2–2 0–4
Borussia Dortmund 2–5 Milan 1–1 1–4

First leg
Manchester United 2–1 Red Star Belgrade
Charlton  65'
Colman  81'		 Report Tasić  35'
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Marcel Lequesne (France)
Real Madrid 8–0 Sevilla
Di Stéfano  10', 54' (pen.), 85', 88'
Kopa  37', 73'
Marsal  48'
Gento  81'		 Report
Attendance: 76,796
Referee: Lucien Van Nuffel (Belgium)
Ajax 2–2 Vasas
Ouderland  31', 42' Report Bundzsák  73', 82'
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Günther Ternieden (West Germany)
Borussia Dortmund 1–1 Milan
Bergamaschi  90' (o.g.) Report Galli  45'
Attendance: 28,000

Second leg
See also: Munich air disaster
Red Star Belgrade 3–3 Manchester United
Kostić  46', 58'
Tasić  50' (pen.)		 Report Viollet  2'
Charlton  30', 31'
Attendance: 52,000
Referee: Karl Kainer (Austria)

Manchester United won 5–4 on aggregate.

Sevilla 2–2 Real Madrid
Payá  22'
Pahuet  29'		 Report Pereda  48', 62'
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

Real Madrid won 10–2 on aggregate.

Vasas 4–0 Ajax
Bundzsák  7'
Szilágyi  9', 39'
Csordás  29'		 Report
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Borče Nedelkovski (SFR Yugoslavia)

Vasas won 6–2 on aggregate.

Milan 4–1 Borussia Dortmund
Cucchiaroni  11'
Liedholm  21'
Galli  63'
Grillo  86'		 Report Preißler  37'
Attendance: 25,000

Milan won 5–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Real Madrid 4–2 Vasas 4–0 0–2
Manchester United 2–5 Milan 2–1 0–4

First leg
Real Madrid 4–0 Vasas
Di Stéfano  9', 42', 50' (pen.)
Marsal  46'		 Report
Attendance: 120,000
Manchester United 2–1 Milan
Viollet  39'
E. Taylor  80' (pen.)		 Report Schiaffino  24'
Attendance: 44,480
Referee: Leo Helge (Denmark)

Second leg
Vasas 2–0 Real Madrid
Bundzsák  25'
Csordás  53' (pen.)		 Report
Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Pierre Schwinte (France)

Real Madrid won 4–2 on aggregate.

Milan 4–0 Manchester United
Schiaffino  2', 76'
Liedholm  51' (pen.)
Danova  67'		 Report
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Albert Dusch (West Germany)

Milan won 5–2 on aggregate.

Final
Main article: 1958 European Cup Final
Real Madrid 3–2 (a.e.t.) Milan
Di Stéfano  74'
Rial  79'
Gento  107'		 Report Schiaffino  59'
Grillo  77'
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1957–58 European Cup were as follows:

Rank Name Team Goals
1 Alfredo Di Stéfano Real Madrid 10
2 Bora Kostić Red Star Belgrade 9
3 Lajos Csordás Vasas 8
4 Dezső Bundzsák Vasas 6
Ernesto Grillo Milan 6
6 Gastone Bean Milan 5
Juan Alberto Schiaffino Milan 5
8 Jovan Cokić Red Star Belgrade 4
Héctor Rial Real Madrid 4
Dennis Viollet Manchester United 4

References
  1. "Turkey – List of Champions". www.rsssf.com. RSSSF. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  2. Corriere dello Sport, 24 July 1957.
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