🌐 Discover new information from across the web

1938 Mitropa Cup

1938 Mitropa Cup
Tournament details
Dates26 June – 11 September 1938
Teams16
Final positions
Champions Slavia Prague (1st title)
Runners-up Ferencváros
Tournament statistics
Matches played22
Top scorer(s) Josef Bican (10 goals)
← 1937
1939 →

The 1938 season of the Mitropa Cup football club tournament was won by SK Slavia Prague who defeated the previous season's champions Ferencváros 4–2 on aggregate in the final. It was Slavia Prague's first and only victory in the competition.

This was the 12th edition of the tournament.

1938 Mitropa Cup Intro articles: 4
1 Mitropa Cup
The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale or Central European Cup, was one of the first international major European football cups for club sides. It was conducted among the successor states of the former Austria-Hungary. After World War II in 1951 a replacement tournament named Zentropa Cup was held, but just for one season, the Mitropa Cup name was revived, and again in 1958 the name of the tournament changed to Danube Cup but only for one season. The tournament was discontinued after 1992.More
2 Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of 11 players. It is played by approximately 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to outscore the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal. The team with the higher number of goals wins the game.More
3 SK Slavia Prague
Sportovní klub Slavia Praha – fotbal, commonly known as Slavia Praha / Slavia Prague, is a Czech professional football club in Prague. Founded in 1892, they are the second most successful club in the Czech Republic since its independence in 1993.More
4 Ferencvárosi TC
Ferencvárosi Torna Club, known as Ferencváros, Fradi, or simply FTC, is a professional football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, Hungary, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hungarian football. Ferencváros was founded in 1899 by Ferenc Springer and a group of local residents of Budapest's ninth district, Ferencváros. Ferencváros is best known internationally for winning the 1964–65 edition of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup after defeating Juventus 1–0 in Turin in the final. Ferencváros also reached the final in the same competition in 1968, when they lost to Leeds United, as well as the final in the 1974–75 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup, losing to Dynamo Kyiv.More

First round

Team #1 Agg. Team #2 1st leg 2nd leg
Kladno 5–2 Građanski 3–1 2–1
Židenice 3–4 Ferencváros 3–1 0–3
Genoa 5–3 Sparta Prague 4–2 1–1
Beogradski SK 3–5 Slavia Prague 2–3 1–2
Hungária MTK 4–9 Juventus 3–3 1–6
Újpest 4–5 Rapid București 4–1 0–4
Ambrosiana Inter 5–3 Kispest 4–2 1–1
Ripensia Timișoara 4–3 Milan 3–0 1–3

Quarterfinals

Team #1 Agg. Team #2 1st leg 2nd leg
Ferencváros 9–5 Ripensia Timișoara 5–4 4–1
Juventus 6–3 Kladno 4–2 2–1
Slavia Prague 10–3 Ambrosiana Inter 9–0 1–3
Genoa 4–2 Rapid București 3–0 1–2

Semifinals

Team #1 Agg. Team #2 1st leg 2nd leg
Genoa 4–6 Slavia Prague 4–2 0–4
Juventus 3–4 Ferencváros 3–2 0–2

Finals

Team #1 Agg. Team #2 1st leg 2nd leg
Slavia Prague 4–2 Ferencváros 2–2 2–0


Slavia Prague 2–2 Ferencváros
Bican  36'
Simunek  44'		 Kemeny  30'
Kiss  63'
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Henry Mee (England)
Ferencváros 0–2 Slavia Prague
Vytlacil  57'
Simunek  71'
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Arthur Jewell (England)


1938 Mitropa Cup Champions

Slavia Prague
1st Title

1938 Mitropa Cup First round articles: 12
1 Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia, was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993.More
2 Hungary
Hungary is a country in Central Europe. Spanning 93,030 square kilometres (35,920 sq mi) in the Carpathian Basin, it borders Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. With about 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a medium-sized member state of the European Union. The official language is Hungarian, which is the most widely spoken Uralic language in the world, and among the few non-Indo-European languages to be widely spoken in Europe. Hungary's capital and largest city is Budapest; other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs, and Győr.More
3 Josef Bican
Josef "Pepi" Bican was an Austrian-Czech professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the most prolific goalscorer in recorded history according to Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, with over 805 goals scored in at least 530 official matches and a total of 1468 goals including friendlies. The tally of 805 goals is recognised from FIFA.More
4 Ladislav Šimůnek
Ladislav Šimůnek was a Czech football player.More
5 Tibor Kemény
Tibor Kemeny also referred to as Kemeny Tibor, was a Hungarian football player and coach, who played as a forward for Ferencvarosi TC and the Hungarian national team. He was part of the team in the 1934 World Cup. He played one match in World Cup, against Austria in the quarter finals. With Ferencvaros, he faced Juventus twice in 1938.More
6 Gyula Kiss
Gyula Kiss was a Hungarian international football player. He was born in Budapest, and played for the club Ferencvárosi TC. He participated with the Hungary national football team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.More
7 Stadion Evžena Rošického
Stadion Evžena Rošického, also known simply as Strahov, is a multi-purpose stadium in Strahov, Prague in the Czech Republic. It hosted the 1978 European Athletics Championships and for many years this was the venue for main annual international track and field meet of Prague until Stadion Juliska took the role in 2002. Nowadays the stadium is used only for minor domestic athletic competitions and mostly for football matches, although no team plays at the stadium regularly. It served as the home ground for SK Slavia Prague from August 2000 until May 2008 when their new stadium, the Synot Tip Arena, was opened. It is also occasionally used by other Czech teams, and is the usual venue for the Czech Cup final. Currently, it is the home stadium of FK Slavoj Vyšehrad of the Czech National Football League.More
8 Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 13th largest city in the European Union and the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated on the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of 2.7 million. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters.More
9 England
England is a country, which is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.More
10 Rudolf Vytlačil
Rudolf Vytlačil was an Czechoslovak football player and manager.More
11 Stadion Albert Flórián
Stadion Albert Flórián was a sports stadium in Budapest, Hungary. The stadium was the home of the association football club Ferencvárosi TC. The stadium had a capacity of 18,100. Formerly known as Üllői úti stadion for its location, it had been renamed for Ballon d'Or winner club legend Flórián Albert in 2007. Today, the stadium's place is occupied by the newly built Groupama Arena.More
12 Budapest
Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits. The city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about 525 square kilometres. Budapest is both a city and county, and forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of 7,626 square kilometres and a population of 3,303,786, comprising 33% of the population of Hungary.More

Top goalscorers

Rank Player Team Goals
1 Josef Bican Slavia Prague 10
2 György Sárosi Ferencváros 7
3 Rudolf Vytlačil Slavia Prague 6

External links

References