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, in extra time following a 2–2 draw after 90 minutes.^[1] 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 died 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, 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
Dates	4 September 1957 – 28 May 1958
Teams	24 (from 23 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Real Madrid (3rd title)
Runners-up	Milan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	48
Goals scored	189 (3.94 per match)
Attendance	1,883,587 (39,241 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Alfredo Di Stéfano (Real Madrid) 10 goals
← 1956–57 1958–59 →

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.^[2] 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.

Teams

A total of 24 teams participated in the competition.

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

All participants were their respective associations champions, except for Sevilla and Gwardia Warsaw.

Rapid Wien (1st)	Royal Antwerp (1st)	CDNA Sofia (1st)	Dukla Prague (1st)
AGF (1st)	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (1st)	Manchester United (1st)	Saint-Étienne (1st)
Vasas (1st)	Milan (1st)	Stade Dudelange (1st)	Ajax (1st)
Glenavon (1st)	Gwardia Warsaw (2nd)	Benfica (1st)	Shamrock Rovers (1st)
CCA București (1st)	Rangers (1st)	Real Madrid (1st)TH	Sevilla (2nd)
IFK Norrköping (1st)	Young Boys (1st)	Borussia Dortmund (1st)	Red Star Belgrade (1st)

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.^[3] 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.

Antwerp

Red Star

Vasas

Gwardia Warsaw

AGF

Rapid

Real Madrid

Dukla

Saint-Étienne

Benfica

Sevilla

Dortmund

Man. United

CCA

Dudelange

Rangers

Milan

IFK Norrköping

Young Boys

CDNA Sofia

Ajax

Shamrock Rovers

Glenavon

Wismut

Location of teams in the 1957–58 European Cup

	Pot 1 Western Europe	Pot 2 Central Europe	Pot 3 Eastern Europe
Drawn	Shamrock Rovers	Red Star Belgrade	Gwardia Warsaw
	Manchester United	Stade Dudelange	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt
	Sevilla	Milan	CDNA Sofia
	Benfica	Rapid Wien	Vasas
	AGF
	Glenavon
	Rangers
	Saint-Étienne
Byes	IFK 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 October.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Play-off
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	4–4 (ct)	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	3–1	1–3	1–1[a] (a.e.t.)
Sevilla	3–1	Benfica	3–1	0–0
Shamrock Rovers	2–9[b]	Manchester United	0–6	2–3
Milan	6–6	Rapid Wien	4–1	2–5	4–2

First leg

4 September 1957

20:00 CET

CDNA Sofia	2–1	Vasas
Milanov 2', 38'	Report	Bundzsák 53'

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Erich Steiner (Austria)

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4 September 1957

21:15 CET

Rangers	3–1	Saint-Étienne
Kitchenbrand 19' Scott 47' Simpson 82'	Report	Mekhloufi 14'

Ibrox Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 85,000

Referee: Leo Helge (Denmark)

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5 September 1957

20:00 CET

Stade Dudelange	0–5	Red Star Belgrade
	Report	Kostić 11', 16' Rudinski 47', 55' Mitić 87'

Stade Municipal, Luxembourg

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Armando Marchetti (Italy)

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11 September 1957

21:00 CET

AGF	0–0	Glenavon
	Report

Århus Stadion, Aarhus

Attendance: 14,000

Referee: Willem Beltman (Netherlands)

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11 September 1957

21:00 CET

Gwardia Warsaw	3–1	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt
Baszkiewicz 49' Lewandowski 59' Gawroński 88'	Report	S. Kaiser 79'

Stadion Wojska Polskiego, Warsaw

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Jindřich Karas (Czechoslovakia)

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19 September 1957

18:30 CET

Sevilla	3–1	Benfica
Pahuet 46' Antoniet 59' Pepillo 79'	Report	Palmeiro 48'

Estadio de Nervión, Sevilla

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Jean-Louis Groppi (France)

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25 September 1957

19:45 CET

Shamrock Rovers	0–6	Manchester United
	Report	T. Taylor 36', 63' Whelan 51', 57' Berry 71' Pegg 72'

Dalymount Park, Dublin

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Lucien Van Nuffel (Belgium)

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2 October 1957

21:30 CET

Milan	4–1	Rapid Wien
Grillo 4' Bean 8' Höltl 74' (o.g.) Mariani 82'	Report	Dienst 58'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: José Blanco Pérez (Spain)

Second leg

25 September 1957

21:00 CET

Saint-Étienne	2–1	Rangers
Oleksiak 11' Ferrier 86'	Report	Wilson 61'

Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne

Attendance: 29,517

Referee: Aksel Asmussen (Denmark)

Rangers won 4–3 on aggregate.

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25 September 1957

22:00 CET

Glenavon	0–3	AGF
	Report	Kjær Andersen 13', 45' Jensen 40'

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 33,000

Referee: Johan Heinrich Martens (Netherlands)

Aarhus won 3–0 on aggregate.

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26 September 1957

19:00 CET

Benfica	0–0	Sevilla
	Report

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Pierre Schwinte (France)

Sevilla won 3–1 on aggregate.

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2 October 1957

15:15 CET

Red Star Belgrade	9–1	Stade Dudelange
Cokić 5', 38', 66', 69' Mitić 10' Kostić 17', 29', 30', 33'	Report	Rongoni 31'

Stadion Rajko Mitić, Belgrade

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: Cesare Jonni (Italy)

Red Star Belgrade won 14–1 on aggregate.

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2 October 1957

20:30 CET

Manchester United	3–2	Shamrock Rovers
Viollet 5', 60' Pegg 20'	Report	McCann 55' Hamilton 66'

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 33,754

Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

Manchester United won 9–2 on aggregate.

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3 October 1957

20:00 CET

Vasas	6–1	CDNA Sofia
Csordás 35', 38', 51' Berendy 48' Bundzsák 68' Szilágyi 89'	Report	Panayotov 25'

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Alfred Grill (Austria)

Vasas won 7–3 on aggregate.

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9 October 1957

19:30 CET

Rapid Wien	5–2	Milan
A. Körner 1' Dienst 31' Bertalan 57' Riegler 62' Hanappi 78'	Report	Grillo 19' Bean 77'

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Daniel Zariquiegui (Spain)

Milan 6–6 Rapid Wien on aggregate; play-off needed.

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13 October 1957

20:00 CET

Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	3–1	Gwardia Warsaw
M. Kaiser 10' S. Kaiser 55', 74'	Report	Baszkiewicz 60'

Otto Grotewohl stadion, Aue

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Karol Galba (Czechoslovakia)

Gwardia Warsaw 4–4 Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt on aggregate; play-off needed.

Play-off

15 October 1957

20:00 CET

Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	1–1 (a.e.t.) Decided by a coin flip.	Gwardia Warsaw
Tröger 90'	Report	Z. Szarzyński 3'

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark, Berlin

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.

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30 October 1957

20:15 CET

Milan	4–2	Rapid Wien
Bean 6', 82' Bergamaschi 41' Schiaffino 54'	Report	Happel 38' (pen.) Bertalan 72'

Hardturm, Zürich

Attendance: 26,000

Referee: Daniel Mellet (Switzerland)

Milan won play-off 4–2.

Bracket

	First round						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Royal Antwerp	1	0	1
	Real Madrid	2	6	8
							Real Madrid	8	2	10
							Sevilla	0	2	2
	Sevilla	4	0	4
	AGF	0	2	2
													Real Madrid	4	0	4
													Vasas	0	2	2
	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	1	0	1
	Ajax	3	1	4
							Ajax	2	0	2
							Vasas	2	4	6
	Young Boys	1	1	2
	Vasas	1	2	3
																			Real Madrid (a.e.t.)	3
																			Milan	2
	Manchester United	3	0	3
	Dukla Prague	0	1	1
							Manchester United	2	3	5
							Red Star Belgrade	1	3	4
	IFK Norrköping	2	1	3
	Red Star Belgrade	2	2	4
													Manchester United	2	0	2
													Milan	1	4	5
	Borussia Dortmund	4	1	5 (3)
	CCA București	2	3	5 (1)
							Borussia Dortmund	1	1	2
							Milan	1	4	5
	Rangers	1	0	1
	Milan	4	2	6

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Play-off
Royal Antwerp	1–8	Real Madrid	1–2	0–6
IFK Norrköping	3–4	Red Star Belgrade	2–2	1–2
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	5–5	CCA București	4–2	1–3	3–1
Rangers	1–6	Milan	1–4	0–2

First leg

31 October 1957

15:30 CET

Royal Antwerp	1–2	Real Madrid
De Backer 58'	Report	Di Stéfano 15', 61'

Bosuilstadion, Antwerp

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Dean Harzic (France)

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2 November 1957

13:30 CET

IFK Norrköping	2–2	Red Star Belgrade
Håkansson 75' Källgren 85'	Report	Toplak 88' Kostić 90'

Idrottsparken, Norrköping

Attendance: 10,893

Referee: Józef Kowal (Poland)

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20 November 1957

14:00 CET

Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	1–3	Ajax
Müller 87'	Report	Van der Kuil 5', 62' Bleijenberg 17'

Otto Grotewohl Stadion, Aue

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Alfred Grill (Austria)

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20 November 1957

20:00 CET

Young Boys	1–1	Vasas
Wechselberger 7'	Report	Csordás 90'

Stade des Charmilles, Genève

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Giulio Campanati (Italy)

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20 November 1957

20:30 CET

Manchester United	3–0	Dukla Prague
Webster 63' T. Taylor 65' Pegg 79'	Report

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 62,000

Referee: Werner Treichel (West Germany)

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27 November 1957

16:00 CET

Sevilla	4–0	AGF
Antoniet 6', 30' Loren 24', 52'	Report

Estadio de Nervión, Sevilla

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Gaston Grandain (Belgium)

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27 November 1957

20:00 CET

Borussia Dortmund	4–2	CCA București
Peters 35', 62', 64' Niepieklo 66'	Report	Zavoda I 43' Bone 50'

Stadion Rote Erde, Dortmund

Attendance: 42,000

Referee: Jack Mowat (Scotland)

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27 November 1957

20:30 CET

Rangers	1–4	Milan
Murray 31'	Report	Grillo 75', 83' Baruffi 81' Bean 86'

Ibrox Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 85,000

Referee: Manuel Asensi Martín (Spain)

Second leg

23 November 1957

13:30 CET

Red Star Belgrade	2–1	IFK Norrköping
Spajić 75', 88'	Report	Backman 16'

Stadion JNA, Belgrade

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Włodzimierz Storoniak (Poland)

Red Star Belgrade won 4–3 on aggregate.

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27 November 1957

20:00 CET

Ajax	1–0	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt
Ouderland 79'	Report

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 23,000

Referee: Alfred Grill (Austria)

Ajax won 4–1 on aggregate.

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28 November 1957

20:15 CET

Real Madrid	6–0	Royal Antwerp
Rial 2', 4', 41' Marsal 52' Kopa 79' Gento 89'	Report

Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid

Attendance: 72,245

Referee: Louis Fauquembergue (France)

Real Madrid won 8–1 on aggregate.

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30 November 1957

20:00 CET

Vasas	2–1	Young Boys
Csordás 8', 12'	Report	Schneiter 89'

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Francesco Liverani (Italy)

Vasas won 3–2 on aggregate.

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4 December 1957

19:30 CET

AGF	2–0	Sevilla
Jensen 41', 86'	Report

Århus Stadion, Aarhus

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Aloïs Smidts (Belgium)

Sevilla won 4–2 on aggregate.

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4 December 1957

20:00 CET

Dukla Prague	1–0	Manchester United
Dvořák 17'	Report

Strahov, Prague

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Werner Treichel (West Germany)

Manchester United won 3–1 on aggregate.

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8 December 1957

19:00 CET

CCA București	3–1	Borussia Dortmund
Tătaru 17' Constantin 25' Alecsandrescu 45'	Report	Niepieklo 12'

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Janos Posa-polareczky (Hungary)

Borussia Dortmund 5–5 CCA București on aggregate; play-off needed.

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11 December 1957

21:00 CET

Milan	2–0	Rangers
Baruffi 37' Galli 48'	Report

Arena Civica, Milan

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: José María Ortiz de Mendíbil (Spain)

Milan won 6–1 on aggregate.

Play-off

29 December 1957

20:00 CET

Borussia Dortmund	3–1	CCA București
Dulz 15' Kelbassa 62' Preissler 79'	Report	Cacoveanu 35'

Stadio Comunale, Bologna

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Cesare Jonni (Italy)

Borussia Dortmund won play-off 3–1.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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

14 January 1958

20:45 CET

Manchester United	2–1	Red Star Belgrade
Charlton 65' Colman 81'	Report	Tasić 35'

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Marcel Lequesne (France)

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23 January 1958

20:15 CET

Real Madrid	8–0	Sevilla
Di Stéfano 10', 55' (pen.), 85', 88' Kopa 37', 73' Marsal 48' Gento 81'	Report

Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid

Attendance: 76,796

Referee: Lucien Van Nuffel (Belgium)

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5 February 1958

20:00 CET

Ajax	2–2	Vasas
Ouderland 31', 42'	Report	Bundzsák 73', 82'

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Günther Ternieden (West Germany)

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12 February 1958

20:00 CET

Borussia Dortmund	1–1	Milan
Bergamaschi 90' (o.g.)	Report	Galli 45'

Stadion Rote Erde, Dortmund

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Arthur Edward Ellis (England)

Second leg

See also: Munich air disaster

5 February 1958

19:45 CET

Red Star Belgrade	3–3	Manchester United
Kostić 46', 58' Tasić 50'	Report	Viollet 2' Charlton 30', 31'

Stadion JNA, Belgrade

Attendance: 52,000

Referee: Karl Kainer (Austria)

Manchester United won 5–4 on aggregate.

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23 February 1958

16:30 CET

Sevilla	2–2	Real Madrid
Payá 22' Pahuet 29'	Report	Pereda 48', 62'

Estadio de Nervión, Seville

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

Real Madrid won 10–2 on aggregate.

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26 February 1958

14:45 CET

Vasas	4–0	Ajax
Bundzsák 7' Szilágyi 9', 39' Csordás 29'	Report

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Borče Nedelkovski (SFR Yugoslavia)

Vasas won 6–2 on aggregate.

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26 March 1958

21:30 CET

Milan	4–1	Borussia Dortmund
Cucchiaroni 11' Liedholm 21' Galli 63' Grillo 86'	Report	Preissler 37'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Arthur Edward Ellis (England)

Milan won 5–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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

2 April 1958

20:00 CET

Real Madrid	4–0	Vasas
Di Stéfano 9', 42' (pen.), 50' Marsal 46'	Report

Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid

Attendance: 120,000

Referee: Maurice Guigue (France)

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8 May 1958

21:30 CET

Manchester United	2–1	Milan
Viollet 39' E. Taylor 80' (pen.)	Report	Schiaffino 24'

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 44,882

Referee: Leo Helge (Denmark)

Second leg

16 April 1958

17:00 CET

Vasas	2–0	Real Madrid
Bundzsák 25' Csordás 53' (pen.)	Report

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 100,000

Referee: Pierre Schwinte (France)

Real Madrid won 4–2 on aggregate.

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14 May 1958

22:30 CET

Milan	4–0	Manchester United
Schiaffino 2', 76' Liedholm 51' (pen.) Danova 67'	Report

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Albert Dusch (West Germany)

Milan won 5–2 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1958 European Cup final

28 May 1958

19:00 CET

Real Madrid	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Milan
Di Stéfano 74' Rial 79' Gento 107'	Report	Schiaffino 59' Grillo 77'

Heysel Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 67,000

Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 1957–58 European Cup (including preliminary round) were as follows:

Rank	Player	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	Gastone Bean	Milan	5
	Juan Alberto Schiaffino	Milan
8	Jovan Cokić	Red Star Belgrade	4
	Héctor Rial	Real Madrid
	Dennis Viollet	Manchester United

Notes

1. 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.