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, A.C. Milan of Italy, after being highly touted to win the competition and dominate European football for many years like Real Madrid before them, with the “ Busby Babes” having an average age of only 22.

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)
Attendance1,883,587 (39,241 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.

Shamrock Rovers, Stade Dudelange, Wismut Karl Marx Stadt, Sevilla, Benfica, Vasas, Glenavon, Saint-Étienne, Young Boys, CCA București, Royal Antwerp, Dukla Prague and Ajax made their debut appearances in the European Cup while Rapid Wien, AGF Aarhus and Real Madrid marked their third.

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
Manchester United 3–0 Dukla Prague
Webster 63'
T. Taylor 65'
Pegg 79'		 Report
Attendance: 62,000
Referee: Werner Treichel (West Germany)
Sevilla 4–0 AGF
Antoniet 6', 30'
Loren 24', 52'		 Report
Attendance: 18,000
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: 44,882
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: 67,000
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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