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1960–61 European Cup

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2 UEFA
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1960–61 European Cup
Wankdorf Stadium in Bern hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates29 September 1960 – 31 May 1961
Teams28
Final positions
ChampionsBenfica (1st title)
Runners-upBarcelona
Tournament statistics
Matches played51
Goals scored164 (3.22 per match)
Top scorer(s)José Águas (11 goals)

The 1960–61 European Cup was the sixth season of the European Cup, UEFA's premier club football tournament. The competition was won by Benfica, who won 3–2 in the final against Barcelona, who had knocked out Spanish rivals Real Madrid, winners of the first five tournaments, in the first round. Benfica was the first Portuguese team to reach the final and to win the tournament. For the first time a Norwegian club participated.

1960–61 European Cup Introduction Articles 3

1 S.L. Benfica
Sport Lisboa e Benfica, commonly known as Benfica, is a professional football club based in Lisbon, Portugal, that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football, where they are the current champions and the most successful team in terms of overall titles.More
2 FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona, commonly referred to as Barcelona and colloquially known as Barça, is a Spanish professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.More
3 Real Madrid CF
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.More

Preliminary round

The draw for the preliminary round took place at UEFA headquarters in Paris, France, on Thursday, 7 July 1960.[1] As title holders, Real Madrid received a bye, and the remaining 27 teams were grouped geographically into three pots. The first team drawn in each pot also received a bye, while the remaining clubs would play the preliminary round in September.

Pot 1
Northern Europe 		Pot 2
Western Europe 		Pot 3
Eastern Europe
Drawn Northern Ireland
East Germany
Poland
Norway
Finland
Sweden
Denmark
Netherlands 		France
Republic of Ireland
Belgium
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Scotland
Spain
Portugal 		Austria
Romania
Bulgaria
Turkey
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Italy
Byes HamburgBurnleyPanathinaikos

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
Hearts1–5 Benfica1–2 0–3
Red Star Belgrade1–5 Újpesti Dózsa1–2 0–3
Fredrikstad4–3 Ajax4–3 0–0
AGF3–1 Legia Warsaw3–0 0–1
Juventus3–4 CDNA Sofia2–0 1–4
IFK Helsingfors2–5 IFK Malmö1–3 1–2
Rapid Wien4–1 Beşiktaş4–0 0–1
Limerick2–9 Young Boys0–5 2–4
CCA Bucureștix–wo Spartak Hradec Králové– –
Glenavonx–wo[fn 1]Wismut Karl Marx Stadt– –
Stade Reims11–1 Jeunesse Esch6–1 5–0
Barcelona5–0 Lierse2–0 3–0
  1. ^Each team was refused visas to the other's country. UEFA authorised neutral venues but Glenavon withdrew due to the higher cost and lower revenue.[2]

First leg

Hearts1–2Benfica
Young  80'ReportÁguas  36'
José Augusto  74'
Attendance: 29,500
Referee: Marcel Lequesne (France)
Red Star Belgrade1–2Újpesti Dózsa
Kostić  17'ReportGöröcs  35'
Kuharszki  68'
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Józef Kowal (Poland)
Limerick0–5Young Boys
ReportWechselberger  54', 88'
Willy Schneider  70'
Dürr  76'
Meier  82'
Attendance: 8,000
Fredrikstad4–3Ajax
Olsen  35', 61'
Kristoffersen  49'
Pedersen  59'		ReportH. Groot  25'
Swart  37'
Muller  75'
Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Jarl Hansen (Denmark)
Rapid Wien4–0Beşiktaş
Münir  9' (o.g.)
Dienst  20'
Glechner  86'
Bertalan  90'		Report
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Stanislav Fencl (Czechoslovakia)
AGF3–0Legia Warsaw
Amdisen  32'
Kjær-Andersen  54'
J. Jensen  75'		Report
Attendance: 10,268
Referee: Johan Bronkhorst (Netherlands)
Juventus2–0CDNA Sofia
Lojodice  5'
Sívori  24'		Report
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Dittmar Huber (Switzerland)
IFK Helsingfors1–3IFK Malmö
Nevalainen  64'ReportOlofsson  12'
Ljung  41'
Borg  60'
Attendance: 1,555
Referee: Gerhard Schulenburg (West Germany)
Stade Reims6–1Jeunesse Esch
Vincent  4', 59'
Rustichelli  16'
Dubaele  38', 64'
Piantoni  85'		ReportMeurisse  87'
Attendance: 8,150
Referee: Reidar Randers-Johansen (Norway)
Barcelona2–0Lierse
Czibor  17'
Luis Suárez  70'		Report
Attendance: 42,068

Second leg

Benfica3–0Hearts
Águas  7', 60'
José Augusto  49'		Report
Attendance: 30,122
Referee: Joseph Barberan (France)

Benfica won 5–1 on aggregate.

Újpesti Dózsa3–0Red Star Belgrade
Borsányi  70'
Pataki  71'
Göröcs  87'		Report
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Julian Mytnik (Poland)

Újpesti Dózsa won 5–1 on aggregate.

Young Boys4–2Limerick
Allemann  40'
Willy Schneider  68', 72'
Dürr  81'		ReportWallace  36'
O'Reilly  75'
Attendance: 21,000
Referee: Juan Gardeazabal Garay (Spain)

Young Boys won 9–2 on aggregate.

Ajax0–0Fredrikstad
Report
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Frede Hansen (Denmark)

Fredrikstad won 4–3 on aggregate.

Legia Warsaw1–0AGF
H. Nowak  29'Report
Attendance: 20,000

AGF won 3–1 on aggregate.

CDNA Sofia4–1Juventus
Rakarov  19'
Kovachev  56'
Panayotov  68'
Tsanev  75'		ReportNicolè  88'
Attendance: 50,000

CDNA Sofia won 4–3 on aggregate.

IFK Malmö2–1IFK Helsingfors
Lundqvist  22'
Ljung  24'		ReportKivelä  29'
Attendance: 5,202
Referee: Günther Ternieden (West Germany)

IFK Malmö won 5–2 on aggregate.

Beşiktaş1–0Rapid Wien
Ahmet  11'Report
Attendance: 17,268
Referee: Kostadin Dinov (Bulgaria)

Rapid Wien won 4–1 on aggregate.

Jeunesse Esch0–5Stade Reims
ReportVincent  50'
Moreau  54'
Heinen  60' (o.g.)
Rustichelli  63', 69'
Attendance: 7,265
Referee: Raymond Lespineux (Belgium)

Stade Reims won 11–1 on aggregate.

Lierse0–3Barcelona
ReportVillaverde  7'
Evaristo  26', 77'
Attendance: 19,110
Referee: Giulio Campanati (Italy)

Barcelona won 5–0 on aggregate.

1960–61 European Cup Preliminary round Articles 149

1 Paris
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2 West Germany
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3 Hamburger SV
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4 England
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5 Burnley F.C.
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6 Greece
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7 Panathinaikos F.C.
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8 Playoff format
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9 Heart of Midlothian F.C.
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10 Scotland
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11 Portugal
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12 Red Star Belgrade
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13 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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14 Hungary
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15 Újpest FC
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16 Fredrikstad FK
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17 Norway
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18 Netherlands
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19 AFC Ajax
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20 Aarhus Gymnastikforening
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21 Denmark
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22 Poland
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23 Legia Warsaw
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24 Juventus F.C.
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25 Italy
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26 Bulgaria
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27 PFC CSKA Sofia
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28 HIFK Fotboll
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29 Finland
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30 Sweden
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31 IFK Malmö Fotboll
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32 SK Rapid Wien
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33 Austria
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34 Turkey
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35 Beşiktaş J.K.
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36 Limerick F.C.
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37 Republic of Ireland
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38 Switzerland
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39 BSC Young Boys
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40 FCSB
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41 Romania
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42 Czechoslovakia
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43 FC Hradec Králové
FC Hradec Králové is a Czech football club based in the city of Hradec Králové. The club, which was founded in 1905, won the Czechoslovak First League in the 1959–60 season. The club currently plays in the Czech National Football League.More
44 Glenavon F.C.
Glenavon Football Club is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the NIFL Premiership. The club, founded in 1889, hails from Lurgan and plays its home matches at Mourneview Park. Club colours are blue and white. Gary Hamilton has been player-manager of the Lurgan Blues since December 2011 following the resignation of Marty Quinn. Glenavon's bitter rivals are Portadown, with their matches known as the 'Mid-Ulster Derby'.More
45 Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is variously described as a country, province or region which is part of the United Kingdom. Located in the northeast of the island of Ireland, Northern Ireland shares a border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. In 2011, its population was 1,810,863, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the UK's population. Established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998 as part of the Good Friday Agreement, the Northern Ireland Assembly holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the British government. Northern Ireland co-operates with the Republic of Ireland in several areas, and the Agreement granted the Republic the ability to "put forward views and proposals" with "determined efforts to resolve disagreements between the two governments".More
46 East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic, was a state that existed from 1949 to 1990, the period when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state in English usage, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state". It consisted of territory that was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the end of World War II—the Soviet occupation zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it and West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR.More
47 FC Erzgebirge Aue
Fußball Club Erzgebirge Aue e.V., commonly known as simply FC Erzgebirge Aue or Erzgebirge Aue, is a German football club based in Aue-Bad Schlema, Saxony. The former East German side was a founding member of the 3. Liga in 2008–09, after being relegated from the 2. Bundesliga in 2007–08. The city of Aue-Bad Schlema has a population of about 20,800, making it one of the smallest cities to ever host a club playing at the second highest level of German football. However, the team attracts supporters from a larger urban area that includes Chemnitz and Zwickau, whose own football sides are among Aue's traditional rivals.More
48 Stade de Reims
Stade de Reims, commonly referred to as Stade Reims or simply Reims, is a French professional football club based in Reims in Grand-Est, The club was formed in 1910 under the name Société Sportive du Parc Pommery and currently plays in Ligue 1, the top level of Football in France having been promoted from Ligue 2 in the previous season. Reims plays its home matches at the Stade Auguste Delaune, a renovation of the old complex located within the city. The team is managed by David Guion.More
49 France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland, Monaco, and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's 18 integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.07 million. France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice. France, including its overseas territories, has the most number of time zones of any country, with a total of 12.More
50 Luxembourg
Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France to the south. Its capital, Luxembourg City, is one of the four official capitals of the European Union and the seat of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the highest judicial authority in the EU. Its culture, people, and languages are highly intertwined with its neighbours, making it essentially a mixture of French and German cultures, as evident by the nation's three official languages: French, German, and the national language of Luxembourgish. The repeated invasions by Germany, especially in World War II, resulted in the country's strong will for mediation between France and Germany and, among other things, led to the foundation of the European Union.More
51 Jeunesse Esch
Jeunesse Esch is a football club, based in Esch-sur-Alzette, in south-western Luxembourg. The side play in the National Division, the highest league in the country, and have won the league title on 28 occasions between 1921 and 2010, the most of any team in Luxembourg. Jeunesse Esch is the only Luxembourgish club to have reached the second round of the European Cup.More
52 Spain
Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southwestern Europe with some pockets of territory across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean. Its continental European territory is situated on the Iberian Peninsula. Its territory also includes two archipelagos: the Canary Islands off the coast of North Africa, and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The African enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, make Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country (Morocco). Several small islands in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean respectively.More
53 Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of 30,689 km2 (11,849 sq mi) and has a population of more than 11.5 million, making it the 22nd most densely populated country in the world and the 6th most densely populated country in Europe, with a density of 376 per square kilometre (970/sq mi). The capital and largest city is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi and Liège.More
54 Lierse S.K.
Koninklijke Lierse Sportkring, often simply known as Lierse, was a Belgian professional football club from the city of Lier in the Antwerp province. Lierse have won four championship titles and two Belgian Cups. Lierse was one of the six Belgian clubs to have played in the UEFA Champions League group stage, the other being Anderlecht, Club Brugge, Genk, Standard Liège and KAA Gent.More
55 Alex Young (footballer, born 1937)
Alexander Young was a Scottish international footballer. He played as a creative forward for Heart of Midlothian and Everton. He won league championship and cup titles with both clubs where he was also a regular goal scorer. Young later played for Glentoran and Stockport County. Internationally he played for the Scottish League and the Scotland national football team. In football folklore he has become known as 'The Golden Vision'.More
56 José Águas
José Pinto de Carvalho Santos Águas was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker.More
57 José Augusto (footballer)
José Augusto Pinto de Almeida, known as José Augusto, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a right winger, and a coach.More
58 Tynecastle Park
Tynecastle Park is a football stadium situated in the Gorgie area of Edinburgh, which is the home ground of Scottish Professional Football League club Heart of Midlothian ("Hearts"). It has also hosted Scotland international matches, and been used as a neutral venue for Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup semi-finals. Tynecastle has a seating capacity of 19,852, which makes it the sixth-largest football stadium in Scotland. Hearts have played at the present site of Tynecastle since 1886.More
59 Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian, it is located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth's southern shore.More
60 French Football Federation
The French Football Federation (FFF) is the governing body of football in France. It also includes the overseas departments and the overseas collectivities and also in Monaco. It was formed in 1919 and is based in the capital, Paris. The FFF was a founding member of FIFA and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the game of football in France, both professional and amateur. The French Football Federation is a founding member of UEFA and joined FIFA in 1907 after replacing the USFSA, who were founding members.More
61 Bora Kostić
Borivoje "Bora" Kostić was a Serbian footballer. Normally a prolific left winger, Kostić is regarded as one of finest Yugoslav players of his generation and was well known for powerful shot and free kick ability.More
62 János Göröcs
János Göröcs was a Hungarian footballer. He played for the club Újpesti Dózsa as a striker and a midfielder, and later for Tatabányai Bányász. He played 62 games and scored 19 goals for the Hungary national football team.More
63 Béla Kuharszki
Béla Kuharszki was a Hungarian footballer. He played for the club Újpesti Dózsa as a striker. He played six games for the Hungary national football team.More
64 Partizan Stadium
The Partizan Stadium is a football and track-and-field stadium in Autokomanda, municipality of Savski Venac, Belgrade, Serbia, which has a seating capacity of 29,775. Situated on the Topčider Hill at Humska 1 street, it is a home field of Partizan Belgrade. Also, it was the home of Partizan's main rival Red Star Belgrade from 1959 to 1963, when they moved to the Rajko Mitić Stadium.More
65 Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. The urban area of Belgrade has a population of 1.23 million, while nearly 1.7 million people live within the administrative limits of the City of Belgrade, a quarter of the total population of Serbia.More
66 Polish Football Association
The Polish Football Association is the governing body of association football in Poland. It organizes the Polish football leagues, the Polish Cup and the Polish national football team. It is based in the Polish capital of Warsaw.More
67 Richard Dürr
Richard Dürr was a Swiss international footballer who played as a midfielder.More
68 Eugen Meier
Eugen Meier was a Swiss footballer born in Schaffhausen.More
69 Thomond Park
Thomond Park is a stadium in Limerick in the Irish province of Munster. The stadium is owned by the Irish Rugby Football Union and has Munster Rugby, Shannon RFC and UL Bohemian RFC as tenants. Limerick FC played home games in Thomond Park from 2013 to 2015 in the League of Ireland while the Markets Field was being redeveloped. The capacity of the stadium is 25,600 following its large-scale redevelopment in 2008.More
70 Limerick
Limerick is a city in County Limerick, Ireland. It is located in the Mid-West Region and is also part of the province of Munster. With a population of 94,192 at the 2016 census, Limerick is the third-most populous urban area in the state, and the fourth-most populous city on the island of Ireland. The city lies on the River Shannon, with the historic core of the city located on King's Island, which is bounded by the Shannon and Abbey Rivers. Limerick is also located at the head of the Shannon Estuary, where the river widens before it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. Limerick City and County Council is the local authority for the city.More
71 José María Ortiz de Mendíbil
José María Ortiz de Mendíbil, also known as José María Ortiz, was a Spanish referee, active from 1953 to 1973.More
72 Royal Spanish Football Federation
The Royal Spanish Football Federation is the governing body of football in Spain. It is based in La Ciudad del Fútbol of Las Rozas, a municipality near Madrid. It was founded on 14 October 1909 as Federación Española de Clubs de Football, and officially founded on 29 September 1913.More
73 Per Kristoffersen
Per Kristoffersen is a Norwegian former footballer who played as a striker for Fredrikstad and the national team.More
74 Arne Pedersen
Arne Knut Pedersen was a Norwegian footballer. He was a deep-lying inside forward, or offensive midfielder by today's terminology, who spent his entire playing career at his hometown club Fredrikstad FK, where he was a key player during the club's most successful period in the 1950s and early 1960s. He was also capped 40 times by Norway, and scored 11 international goals.More
75 Henk Groot
Hendrik "Henk" Groot is a retired Dutch footballer who was active as a striker and attacking midfielder. Groot made his professional debut on 23 August 1959 in a 3–0 win of Ajax Amsterdam against NAC Breda. He also played for Feyenoord. He was born in Zaandijk.More
76 Sjaak Swart
Jesaia Swart, commonly known as Sjaak Swart, is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a winger for Ajax. During his career at Ajax, he amassed a total of almost 600 matches, a record for the club.More
77 Bennie Muller
Bennie Muller is a Dutch former footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a midfielder.More
78 Fredrikstad Stadion
The Fredrikstad Stadion is a football stadium in Fredrikstad, Norway and home of the Norwegian First Division team Fredrikstad FK. It is located in an area which formerly used to be a large shipyard, but which nowadays is the technological centre of the city, with several companies and a college. The frontage of the stadium is built to replicate the original halls of the workshop. This makes it architecturally unique. The stadium was built to replace Old Fredrikstad Stadion, which was considered to be one of the eldest and most worn-out stadium in the country. The total capacity is approximately 12,560, all seated. There is a possibility to expand it furthermore, to some 15,000 seats.More
79 Fredrikstad
Fredrikstad is a city and municipality in Viken county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Fredrikstad.More
80 Danish Football Union
The Danish Football Union is the governing body of football in Denmark. It is the organization of the Danish football clubs and runs the professional Danish football leagues and the men's and women's national teams. It is based in the city of Brøndby and is a founding member of both FIFA and UEFA. The DBU has also been the governing body of futsal in Denmark since 2008.More
81 Robert Dienst
Robert Dienst was an Austrian football forward. He died in 2000 after a long illness.More
82 Walter Glechner
Walter Glechner was an Austrian footballer.More
83 Josef Bertalan
Josef Bertalan is an Austrian former footballer.More
84 Ernst-Happel-Stadion
The Ernst-Happel-Stadion (Ernst-Happel-Stadion  ), known as Praterstadion until 1992, sometimes also called Wiener-Stadion, is a football stadium in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna. With 50,865 seats, it is the largest stadium in Austria. It was built between 1929 and 1931 for the second Workers' Olympiad to the design of German architect Otto Ernst Schweizer. The stadium was renamed in honour of Austrian footballer Ernst Happel following his death in 1992. The stadium hosted seven games in UEFA Euro 2008, including the final which saw Spain triumph over Germany.More
85 Vienna
Vienna is the national capital, largest city, and one of nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's most populous city, with about 1.9 million inhabitants, and its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 6th-largest city by population within city limits in the European Union.More
86 Football Association of the Czech Republic
The Football Association of the Czech Republic or colloquially the Czech Football Association is the governing body of football in the Czech Republic, based in Prague. It organizes the lower-level league competitions in the country, the Czech Cup, and the Czech Republic national football team.More
87 John Amdisen
John Amdisen was a Danish association football player. During his club career he played for Aarhus Gymnastik Forening. He earned 9 caps for the Denmark national football team, and was in the finals squad for the 1964 European Nations' Cup. He also played two games for the Denmark national under-21 football team.More
88 Aarhus Idrætspark
Aarhus Idrætspark, known as Ceres Park & Arena for sponsorship purposes, is a combined sport venue in Aarhus, Denmark, where the football stadium and the arena are the main parts. The stadium is the home ground of AGF Aarhus. It is located in the scenic Marselisborg Forests close to the center of Aarhus.More
89 Aarhus
Aarhus is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality. It is located on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula, in the geographical centre of Denmark, 187 kilometres (116 mi) northwest of Copenhagen and 289 kilometres (180 mi) north of Hamburg, Germany. The inner urban area contains 273,077 inhabitants and the municipal population is 340,421. Aarhus is the central city in Business Region Aarhus and in the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.More
90 Royal Dutch Football Association
The Royal Netherlands Football Association is the governing body of football in Netherlands. It organises the main Dutch football leagues, the amateur leagues, the KNVB Cup, and the Dutch men's and women's national teams.More
91 Severino Lojodice
Severino Lojodice is a retired Italian professional footballer who played as a midfielder.More
92 Omar Sívori
Enrique Omar Sívori was an Italian Argentine football player and manager who played as a forward. At club level, he is known for his successful time with Italian side Juventus during the late 1950s and early 1960s, where he won three Serie A titles among other trophies; he also played for River Plate in Argentina and Napoli in Italy.More
93 Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino
The Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino is a multi-purpose stadium located in Turin, Italy. It is the home ground of Serie A club Torino Football Club. The stadium is located in Piazzale Grande Torino, in the district of Santa Rita, in the south-central area of the city. The stadium is currently rated by UEFA as a Category 4 stadium, the highest ranking possible.More
94 Turin
Turin is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is located mainly on the western bank of the Po River, in front of Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alpine arch and Superga Hill. The population of the city proper is 875,698 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the OECD to have a population of 2.2 million.More
95 Swiss Football Association
The Swiss Football Association is the governing body of football in Switzerland. It organizes the football league, the Swiss Football League and the Switzerland national football team. It is based in Bern.More
96 Hans Olofsson
Hans Olofsson was a Swedish alpine skier. He competed in two events at the 1956 Winter Olympics.More
97 Helsinki Olympic Stadium
The Helsinki Olympic Stadium, located in the Töölö district about 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi) from the centre of the Finnish capital Helsinki, is the largest stadium in the country, nowadays mainly used for hosting sports events and big concerts. The stadium is best known for being the centre of activities in the 1952 Summer Olympics. During those games, it hosted athletics, equestrian show jumping, and the football finals.More
98 Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital, primate and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of 650,058. The city's urban area has a population of 1,268,296, making it by far the most populous urban area in Finland as well as the country's most important center for politics, education, finance, culture, and research; while Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region, located 179 kilometres (111 mi) to the north from Helsinki, is the second largest urban area in Finland. Helsinki is located 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Tallinn, Estonia, 400 km (250 mi) east of Stockholm, Sweden, and 300 km (190 mi) west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has close historical ties with these three cities.More
99 German Football Association
The German Football Association is the governing body of football in Germany. A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction for the German football league system and is in charge of the men's and women's national teams. The DFB headquarters are in Frankfurt am Main. Sole members of the DFB are the German Football League, organising the professional Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga, along with five regional and 21 state associations, organising the semi-professional and amateur levels. The 21 state associations of the DFB have a combined number of more than 25,000 clubs with more than 6.8 million members, making the DFB the single largest sports federation in the world.More
100 Jean Vincent
Jean Vincent was a French international footballer and manager.More
101 Dominique Rustichelli
Dominique Rustichelli is a French former professional footballer who played as a striker. Between 1952 and 1958 he played for Olympique de Marseille, scoring 34 goals in 138 league appearances. He then played in a number of other teams before retiring.More
102 Claude Dubaële
Claude Dubaële is a French former professional football player and coach.More
103 Roger Piantoni
Roger Piantoni was a French international footballer. He was the star, inside-forward on the French team in the late 1950s. During the 1949–1950 season, he was the champion of Lorraine with his team, and was the top scorer in the league with 35 goals. At the 1958 World Cup, Piantoni was considered one of the best French players of his time. He was nicknamed Bout d'chou, meaning "Cabbage Tip", ranking as the sixth top scorer in the French Championship with a total of 203 goals in Division 1.More
104 Stade Auguste-Delaune
The Stade Auguste-Delaune is a multi-use stadium in Reims, France. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of Stade Reims. The stadium was one of the venues for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. It hosted five group matches and one Round of 16 game.More
105 Reims
Reims is the most populous city in the Marne department, in the Grand Est region of France. Its population in 2013 was of 182,592 in the city proper (commune) and 317,611 in the metropolitan area. The city lies 129 km (80 mi) east-northeast of Paris. Its primary river, the Vesle, is a tributary of the Aisne.More
106 Norwegian Football Federation
The Norwegian Football Federation is the governing body of football in Norway. It was formed in 1902 and organises the men's and women's national teams, as well as the league systems for men and women. The current president of NFF is Terje Svendsen. By 1 January 2004, there were 1,814 clubs organized in Norway and 373,532 registered players. It is the largest sports federation in Norway.More
107 Zoltán Czibor
Zoltán Czibor was a Hungarian footballer who played for several Hungarian clubs, including Ferencváros TC and Honvéd, and Hungary before joining CF Barcelona. Czibor played as a left-winger or striker and was notable for having a powerful shot, good pace and excellent ball control. During the 1950s he was part of the Magical Magyars. After the 1956 Hungarian Revolution he moved to Spain where he became a prominent member of the successful FC Barcelona team of the late 1950s. After three seasons at Barcelona, he joined their local rivals Español for the 1961/62 season. After brief spells at FC Basel, FK Austria Wien and Primo Hamilton FC, he retired as a professional footballer and returned to Hungary. He died there in 1997, aged 68.More
108 Luis Suárez (footballer, born 1935)
Luis Suárez Miramontes is a Spanish former footballer and manager. He played as a midfielder for Deportivo de La Coruña, España Industrial, FC Barcelona, Inter Milan, Sampdoria and the Spain national team. Suárez is regarded as one of Spain's greatest players; he was noted for his elegant, fluid, graceful style of play. Nicknamed El Arquitecto - The Architect - he was noted for his perceptive passing and explosive shot, and in 1960, he became the only Spanish-born player to win the Ballon d'Or. In 1964 he helped Spain win the European Championship. Suárez originally achieved prominence as a creative inside forward, or attacking midfielder in modern terms, for the great Barcelona team of the 1950s before he joined Inter Milan where he reached his prime as deep-lying playmaker for the legendary Grande Inter team of the 1960s. He played a pivotal role in the success of Herrera's Inter Milan side, and was one of the primary creative forces in the squad, due to his skill on the ball, vision, and passing range. He retired as a player in 1973, after three seasons at Sampdoria.More
109 Camp Nou
Camp Nou has been the home stadium of FC Barcelona since its completion in 1957.More
110 Barcelona
Barcelona is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the fifth most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, the Ruhr area, Madrid, and Milan. It is one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea, located on the coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, and bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range, the tallest peak of which is 512 metres high.More
111 Giuseppe Adami
Giuseppe Adami was an Italian librettist, playwright and music critic, he was best known for his collaboration with Giacomo Puccini on the operas La rondine (1917), Il tabarro (1918) and Turandot (1926).More
112 Italian Football Federation
The Italian Football Federation, known colloquially as Federcalcio, is the governing body of football in Italy. It is based in Rome and the technical department is in Coverciano, Florence.More
113 Estádio da Luz (1954)
Estádio da Luz, officially named Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, was a multi-purpose stadium located in Lisbon, Portugal.More
114 Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 505,526 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.8 million people, being the 10th-most populous urban area in the European Union. About 3 million people live in the Lisbon metropolitan area, which represents approximately 27% of the country's population. It is mainland Europe's westernmost capital city and the only one along the Atlantic coast. Lisbon lies in the western Iberian Peninsula on the Atlantic Ocean and the River Tagus. The westernmost portions of its metro area, the Portuguese Riviera, form the westernmost point of Continental Europe, culminating at Cabo da Roca.More
115 Szusza Ferenc Stadion
Szusza Ferenc Stadion is a football stadium in Újpest and the home of Újpest FC. The stadium was designed by Alfréd Hajós and opened on 17 September 1922. The stadium was renovated in 2000-01; its capacity is 14,817.More
116 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
117 Limerick F.C.
Limerick Football Club was an association football club based in Limerick, Ireland who played in the League of Ireland. In 2019 they were forced to pull out of the League due to financial problems.More
118 Anton Allemann
Anton "Toni" Allemann was a Swiss footballer. He began his career at BSC Young Boys in Berne in 1957 at age 21, where he spent four seasons. Allemann came to London in 1959 as part of his training as a watchmaker. FA regulations meant that he could not play for a professional club so he joined Hayes FC making a total of 15 appearances and scoring 4 goals. In 1961, he joined Italian side A.C. Mantova, and later played for PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands, and 1. FC Nürnberg in Germany, before returning home to Switzerland in 1966 to play for Grasshopper-Club Zürich.More
119 Philip Leo O'Reilly
Leo O'Reilly, D.D., is the emeritus Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kilmore. He was installed as Bishop of Kilmore on 15 November 1998 and retired on health grounds in December 2018.More
120 Wankdorf Stadium
The Wankdorf Stadium was a football stadium in the Wankdorf quarter of Bern, Switzerland, and the former home of Swiss club BSC Young Boys. It was built in 1925, and as well as serving as a club stadium, it hosted several important matches, including the finals of the 1954 FIFA World Cup, the 1960–61 European Cup, and the 1988–89 European Cup Winners' Cup. The Stade de Suisse has been built in Wankdorf's place.More
121 Bern
Bern or Berne is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their "federal city", in German Bundesstadt, French ville fédérale, and Italian città federale. With a population of about 140,000, Bern is the fifth-most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 36 municipalities, had a population of 406,900 in 2014. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000. Bern is also the capital of the canton of Bern, the second-most populous of Switzerland's cantons.More
122 Olympic Stadium (Amsterdam)
The Olympic Stadium is the main stadium for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The venue is currently used mostly for athletics, other sports events and concerts.More
123 Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands with a population of 872,680 within the city proper, 1,380,872 in the urban area and 2,410,960 in the metropolitan area. Found within the province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", attributed by the large number of canals which form a UNESCO World Heritage Site.More
124 Polish Army Stadium
Marshal Józef Piłsudski Legia Warsaw Municipal Stadium, traditionally also referred to as the Polish Army Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, is an all-seater, highest fourth category football-specific stadium. The venue is located on Łazienkowska street in Śródmieście district. It is the home ground of Legia Warsaw football club, who have been playing there since August 9, 1930.More
125 Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland and its population is officially estimated at 1.8 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous capital city in the European Union. The city limits cover 517.24 square kilometres (199.71 sq mi), while the metropolitan area covers 6,100.43 square kilometres (2,355.39 sq mi). Warsaw is an alpha global city, a major international tourist destination, and a significant cultural, political and economic hub. Its historical Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.More
126 Leo Horn
Leopold "Leo" Sylvain Horn was an international football referee, newspaper columnist and textile manufacturer from the Netherlands.More
127 Kiril Rakarov
Kiril Manolov Rakarov was a former Bulgarian football player who played as a defender. He represented Bulgaria at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1962 FIFA World Cup. For 13 seasons he made 190 league appearances and scored 17 league goals for CSKA Sofia.More
128 Nikola Kovachev
Nikola Dimitrov Kovachev was a Bulgarian football player and manager.More
129 Panayot Panayotov (footballer)
Panayot Mitov Panayotov was a Bulgarian football forward who played for Bulgaria in the 1962 FIFA World Cup.More
130 Nikola Tsanev
Nikola Tsanev was a Bulgarian footballer, who played as a forward. He played for Bulgaria in 8 matches, scoring 3 goals. He also competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.More
131 Bruno Nicolè
Bruno Nicolè was an Italian professional footballer who played as a forward.More
132 Vasil Levski National Stadium
Vasil Levski National Stadium, named after Bulgarian national hero and revolutionary Vasil Levski, is the country's second largest stadium. The stadium has 44,000 seats and is located in the centre of Sofia, on the territory of the city's oldest and most famous park - the Borisova gradina. The Bulgaria national football team's home matches and the Bulgarian Cup finals are held at the venue, as well as athletics competitions. It was used as the home venue for Levski Sofia's Champions League games, and is often used for important derbies between the big clubs from Sofia, instead of their own home stadiums.More
133 Sofia
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. The city is at the foot of Vitosha mountain in the western part of the country. Being in the centre of the Balkans, it is midway between the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea, and closest to the Aegean Sea.More
134 Gottfried Dienst
Gottfried Dienst was a Swiss association football referee. He was mostly known as the referee of the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final.More
135 Malmö Stadion
Malmö Stadion, often known simply as Stadion before the construction of the new Stadion between 2007 and 2009, is a multi-purpose stadium in Malmö, Sweden. As of 2015, it is the home of association football club IFK Malmö, presently of Division 2, and athletics club MAI. The stadium served as the home ground for Malmö FF, an association football team in Sweden's top flight, Allsvenskan, from its opening in 1958 until 2009, when the club moved to the newly constructed Stadion, built beside Malmö Stadion, in 2009. Malmö FF still use the stadium for training purposes and youth matches. Besides being used for sports, the stadium has also hosted various concerts and other events. The ground's record attendance, 30,953, was set in the very first match played at the ground, a 1958 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and West Germany.More
136 Malmö
Malmö is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Skåne (Scania). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in Scandinavia, with a population of 316,588. The Malmö Metropolitan Region is home to over 700,000 people, and the Öresund region, which includes Malmö, is home to 4 million people.More
137 Beşiktaş J.K.
Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü, also known simply as Beşiktaş, is a Turkish sports club founded in 1903, and based in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey. The club's football team is one of the most successful teams in Turkey, having never been relegated to a lower division. The team last won the Turkish Süper Lig championship during the 2016–17 season. The home ground of Beşiktaş is Vodafone Park, a 41,903 capacity all-seater stadium located next to Dolmabahçe Palace.More
138 Ahmet Özacar
Ahmet Refik Özacar, known by his given nickname Küçük, literally meaning "Junior", was a Turkish international footballer.More
139 BJK İnönü Stadium
İnönü Stadium was a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey and the home ground of the football club Beşiktaş J.K.. Previously, the ground had also been shared with Galatasaray S.K. and Fenerbahçe S.K.. The ground was located in Dolmabahçe, close to Dolmabahçe Palace in the district of Beşiktaş, on the European side of Istanbul. The stadium was demolished except for the walls of the Eski Açık stand and its historical towers in order to build a new stadium for Beşiktaş J.K. at the same location - Vodafone Park.More
140 Istanbul
Istanbul, formerly known as Byzantium and Constantinople, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural and historic center. Istanbul is a transcontinental city in Eurasia, straddling the Bosporus strait between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Its commercial and historical center lies on the European side and about a third of its population lives in suburbs on the Asian side of the Bosporus. With a total population of around fifteen million residents in its metropolitan area, Istanbul is one of the world's largest cities by population, ranking as the world's seventh-largest city proper and the largest city in Europe. The city is the administrative centre of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.More
141 Bulgarian Football Union
The Bulgarian Football Union is a football association based in Bulgaria and a member of UEFA. It organizes a football league, Bulgarian Parva Liga, and fields its Bulgaria national football team in UEFA and FIFA -authorised competitions.More
142 Marcel Moreau
Marcel Moreau was a Belgian writer. He was born in Boussu, a town in the mining region of Borinage in Hainaut Province, into a working-class environment. He described it as "a pure cultural void" with "a total absence of any cultural reference point". He lost his father at the age of 15, and abandoned his studies a short time later. He worked in various trades before becoming an accountant’s assistant in Brussels for the newspaper Le Peuple. In 1955 he became a proof-reader for the daily Le Soir.More
143 Stade Émile Mayrisch
Stade Émile Mayrisch is a football and athletics stadium, in Esch-sur-Alzette, in south-western Luxembourg. The stadium has a capacity of 7,826. It is named after Luxembourgian industrialist and steel industry trail-blazer Émile Mayrisch. It is currently the home stadium of the football club CS Fola Esch and the athletics club CA Fola Esch.More
144 Esch-sur-Alzette
Esch-sur-Alzette is a commune with town status in south-western Luxembourg. It is the country's second "city", and its second-most populous commune, with a population of 35,040 inhabitants, as of 2018. It lies in the south-west of the country, on the border with France and in the valley of the Alzette, which flows through the town. The town is usually referred to as just Esch; however, the full name distinguishes it from the village and commune of Esch-sur-Sûre which lies 45 kilometres further north. The country's capital, Luxembourg City, is roughly 15 km (9.3 mi) to the north-east.More
145 Royal Belgian Football Association
The Royal Belgian Football Association is the governing body of football in Belgium. It was a founding member of FIFA in 1904 and UEFA in 1954 and is based in Brussels, not far from the King Baudouin Stadium. Its chairman is Mehdi Bayat.More
146 Ramón Alberto Villaverde
Ramón Alberto Villaverde Vázquez was an Uruguayan footballer who played for FC Barcelona in Spain and many clubs.More
147 Evaristo de Macedo
Evaristo de Macedo Filho is a Brazilian former footballer and coach.More
148 Lotto Park
The Lotto Park is a football stadium in the municipality of Anderlecht, Brussels. It is home to R.S.C. Anderlecht. It also hosted the UEFA Euro 1972 semifinal Hungary against Soviet Union, as well as several games of the Belgium national football team.More
149 Anderlecht
Anderlecht is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region (Belgium). Located in the south-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Forest, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and Saint-Gilles, as well as the Flemish municipalities of Dilbeek and Sint-Pieters-Leeuw. In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch).More

Bracket

  First round Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                                         
 Benfica6 1 7  
 Újpesti Dózsa2 2 4  
   Benfica3 4 7  
   AGF1 1 2  
 AGF3 1 4
 Fredrikstad0 0 0  
   Benfica3 1 4  
   Rapid Wien0 1 1  
 Rapid Wien3 0 3  
 Wismut Karl Marx Stadt1 2 3  
   Rapid Wien2 2 4
   IFK Malmö0 0 0  
 IFK Malmö1 1 2
 CDNA Sofia0 1 1  
   Benfica3
   Barcelona2
 Real Madrid2 1 3  
 Barcelona2 2 4  
   Barcelona4 1 5
   Spartak Hradec Králové0 1 1  
 Spartak Hradec Králové1 0 1
 Panathinaikos0 0 0  
   Barcelona1 1 2
   Hamburg0 2 2  
 Burnley2 2 4  
 Stade Reims0 3 3  
   Burnley3 1 4
   Hamburg1 4 5  
 Young Boys0 3 3
 Hamburg5 3 8  

First round

Team 1 Agg.Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Benfica7–4 Újpesti Dózsa6–2 1–2
AGF4–0 Fredrikstad3–0 1–0
Rapid Wien3–31Wismut Karl Marx Stadt3–1 0–2
IFK Malmö2–1 CDNA Sofia1–0 1–1
Real Madrid3–4 Barcelona2–2 1–2
Spartak Hradec Králové1–0 Panathinaikos1–0 0–0
Burnley4–3 Stade Reims2–0 2–3
Young Boys3–8 Hamburg0–5 3–3

1 Rapid Wien beat Wismut Karl Marx Stadt 1–0 in a play-off to qualify for the second round.

First leg

Benfica6–2Újpesti Dózsa
Coluna  1'
Águas  5', 11'
Santana  16', 28'
José Augusto  88'		ReportGöröcs  70'
Pataki  77'
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Victor Schicker (Switzerland)
AGF3–0Fredrikstad
Amdisen  74'
Overby  83'
Rou Jensen  85'		Report
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Erik Johansson (Sweden)
Rapid Wien3–1Wismut Karl Marx Stadt
Dienst  5'
Milanović  52'
Hanappi  61'		ReportWagner  17'
Attendance: 25,000
IFK Malmö1–0CDNA Sofia
Karlsson  80'Report
Attendance: 7,707
Referee: Josef Kandlbinder (Germany)
Real Madrid2–2Barcelona
Mateos  1'
Gento  33'		ReportLuis Suárez  27', 88' (pen.)
Attendance: 84,358
Spartak Hradec Králové1–0Panathinaikos
Šonka  89'Report
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Branko Tesanić (Yugoslavia)
Burnley2–0Stade Reims
McIlroy  25'
Robson  40'		Report
Attendance: 37,404
Referee: José González Echevarría (Spain)
Young Boys0–5Hamburg
ReportStürmer  24', 51'
Seeler  35', 39'
Neisner  74'
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Johan Bronkhorst (Netherlands)

Second leg

Újpesti Dózsa2–1Benfica
Halapi  55'
Szusza  61'		ReportSantana  5'
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Albert Guinnard (Switzerland)

Benfica won 7–4 on aggregate.

Fredrikstad0–1AGF
ReportOverby  49'
Attendance: 10,334
Referee: Bengt Lundell (Sweden)

AGF won 4–0 on aggregate.

Wismut Karl Marx Stadt2–0Rapid Wien
Bamberger  49'
Zink  61'		Report
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Gérard Versyp (Belgium)

Wismut Karl Marx Stadt 3–3 Rapid Wien on aggregate.

Rapid Wien1–0Wismut Karl Marx Stadt
Flögel  4'Report
Attendance: 10,000

Rapid Wien won 1–0 in a play-off.

CDNA Sofia1–1IFK Malmö
Tsanev  21'ReportOlofsson  52'
Attendance: 52,000
Referee: Johannes Malka (West Germany)

IFK Malmö won 2–1 on aggregate.

Barcelona2–1Real Madrid
Vergés  33'
Evaristo  81'		ReportCanário  87'
Attendance: 120,000

Barcelona won 4–3 on aggregate.

Panathinaikos0–0Spartak Hradec Králové
Report
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Gino Rigato (Italy)

Spartak Hradec Králové won 1–0 on aggregate.

Stade Reims3–2Burnley
Piantoni  50'
Rodzik  56', 75'		ReportRobson  33'
Connelly  57'
Attendance: 36,831
Referee: Manuel Asensi Martín (Spain)

Burnley won 4–3 on aggregate.

Hamburg3–3Young Boys
Stürmer  12'
Dörfel  68'
Walker  86' (o.g.)		ReportBigler  21' (pen.)
Meier  25'
Schneiter  48'
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Pieter Paulus Roomer (Netherlands)

Hamburg won 8–3 on aggregate.

1960–61 European Cup Bracket Articles 48

1 Mário Coluna
Mário Esteves Coluna was a Portuguese footballer who played mainly as a central midfielder.More
2 Santana (footballer)
Joaquim Santana Silva Guimarães, known as Santana, was a Portuguese footballer who played as a right half.More
3 Aage Rou Jensen
Aage Rou Jensen was a Danish international footballer who played over 400 times for AGF. He was a reserve member of the Danish squad at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He later became manager of AGF.More
4 Swedish Football Association
The Swedish Football Association also known as SvFF is the governing and body of football in Sweden. It organises the football leagues – Allsvenskan for men and Damallsvenskan for women – and the men's and women's national teams. It is based in Solna and is a founding member of both FIFA and UEFA. SvFF is supported by 24 district organisations.More
5 Gerhard Hanappi
Gerhard Hanappi was an Austrian football midfielder who is often regarded as one of the greatest Austrian footballers. He is also the father of Hardy Hanappi.More
6 Konrad Wagner
Konrad Eduardovich Wagner was a Russian-Polish physician, professor of the University of Kiev, University of Moscow, Taurida University of Simferopol and University of Warsaw.More
7 Gaston Grandain
Gaston Grandain is a retired Belgian football referee.More
8 Enrique Mateos
Enrique Mateos Mancebo was a Spanish footballer who played as a striker.More
9 Francisco Gento
Francisco Gento López is a former Spanish football player, who played as a left winger.More
10 Penalty kick (association football)
A penalty kick is a method of restarting play in association football, in which a player is allowed to take a single shot on the goal while it is defended only by the opposing team's goalkeeper. It is awarded when a foul punishable by a direct free kick is committed by a player in their own penalty area. The shot is taken from the penalty mark, which is 11 m from the goal line and centred between the touch lines.More
11 Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
The Santiago Bernabéu Stadium is a football stadium in Madrid, Spain. With a current seating capacity of 81,044, it has been the home stadium of Real Madrid since its completion in 1947. It is the 2nd-largest stadium in Spain and the largest in the Community of Madrid.More
12 Madrid
Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.3 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.5 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), surpassed only by Berlin, and its monocentric metropolitan area is the second-largest in the EU, smaller only than Paris. The municipality covers 604.3 km2 (233.3 sq mi).More
13 Arthur Edward Ellis
Arthur Edward Ellis was an English football referee.More
14 The Football Association
The Football Association (FA) is the governing body of association football in England and the Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man. Formed in 1863, it is the oldest football association in the world and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the amateur and professional game in its territory.More
15 Panathinaikos F.C.
Panathinaikos Football Club, known as Panathinaikos, or by its full name, and the name of its parent sports club, Panathinaikos A.O. or PAO, is a Greek professional football club based in the capital-city of Athens, Greece.More
16 Všesportovní stadion
Všesportovní stadion is a multi-purpose stadium in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. It is used mostly for football matches as the home stadium of FC Hradec Králové. The stadium was opened on 11 May 1966. When Hradec were promoted to the Czech First League in 2010, the capacity of the stadium was set to be reduced to 4,000, as league rules determine the capacity to be the number of separate seats. In time for the opening game of the 2010–11 Czech First League, the capacity was increased to 6,000. In the 2011–12 Czech First League, the capacity was increased to 7,220. The stadium was set to be demolished in 2017 and replaced with a new stadium with an increased capacity and suitability for Czech national team matches. The demolition of Všesportovní stadion started on 25 September 2017. The stadium would continue to be used with reduced capacity during the first stage of demolition.More
17 Hradec Králové
Hradec Králové is a city of the Czech Republic, in the Hradec Králové Region of Bohemia. The city's economy is based on food-processing technology, photochemical, electronics manufacturing services (EMS) and IT. Traditional industries include musical instrument manufacturing – the best known being Petrof pianos. The University of Hradec Králové is located in the city, the University of Defense has its only medical faculty in Hradec Králové and Charles University in Prague also has its Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Pharmacy there.More
18 Football Association of Yugoslavia
The Football Association of Yugoslavia (FSJ) was the governing body of football in Yugoslavia, based in Belgrade, with a major administrative branch in Zagreb.More
19 Jimmy McIlroy
James McIlroy was a Northern Ireland international footballer, who played for Glentoran, Burnley, Stoke City and Oldham Athletic. He was regarded as one of Burnley's greatest players, having played 497 matches and scoring 131 goals. McIlroy also managed Oldham Athletic and Bolton Wanderers.More
20 Jimmy Robson
James Robson is an English former professional footballer who played as an inside forward. He played over 450 matches in the Football League.More
21 Turf Moor
Turf Moor is a football stadium in Burnley, Lancashire, England. It is the home ground of Premier League club Burnley, who has played there since moving from the Calder Vale ground in 1883. This unbroken service makes Turf Moor the longest continuously used ground of any of the 49 teams which have played in the Premier League. The stadium, which is situated on Harry Potts Way, named so after the club's longest serving manager, has an official capacity of 21,944, all seated. It was one of the last remaining stadiums in England to have the players' tunnel and dressing rooms behind one of the goals, until it was covered for seating in time for the 2014–15 Premier League season and rebuilt between the Cricket Field and James Hargreaves stands.More
22 Burnley
Burnley is a town in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is 21 miles (34 km) north of Manchester and 20 miles (32 km) east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun.More
23 Klaus Stürmer
Klaus Stürmer was a German football player. He represented Germany on two occasions, including a 1962 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Northern Ireland. On his debut on 16 October 1954 against France he became the youngest player of the post-war era to score for Germany at age 19 years 68 days, a record that was equalled in 2011 by Mario GötzeMore
24 Uwe Seeler
Uwe Seeler is a German former footballer and football official. As a striker, he was a prolific scorer for Hamburger SV and also made 72 appearances for the West German national team. Usually regarded as one of the greatest players in German football history, in 2004 he was named one of FIFA's 125 greatest living players by Pelé. He was the first football player to be awarded the Great Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. His grandson, Levin Öztunalı, is also a professional footballer.More
25 Ferenc Szusza
Ferenc Szusza was a Hungarian football player. He was a top division player for Újpest FC from 1941 to 1960. He played 24 games for the Hungarian national team and was a 4-time champion with Újpest FC.More
26 Ferenc Puskás Stadium
The Ferenc Puskás Stadium, or formerly People's Stadium (Népstadion) was a multi-purpose stadium in the 14th district (Zugló) of Budapest, Hungary. It was situated between the Puskás Ferenc Stadion and the Keleti pályaudvar metro stations. It was used mainly for football matches. The stadium, which was an all-seater, had a capacity of 38,652, though its original capacity exceeded 100,000. The stadium was closed in 2016 and demolished in 2017 to give place to the Puskás Aréna.More
27 Bislett Stadium
Bislett Stadium is a sports stadium in Oslo, Norway. Bislett is Norway's most well known sports arena internationally, with 15 speed skating world records and more than 50 track and field world records having been set here. The original stadium was demolished in 2004 and construction of a new stadium was completed by the summer of 2005. The New Bislett Stadium was designed by C.F. Møller Architects.More
28 Oslo
Oslo is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. During the Viking Age the area was part of Viken, the northernmost Danish province. Oslo was founded as a city at the end of the Viking Age in the year 1040 under the name Ánslo, and established as a kaupstad or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada. The city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 reduced its influence. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in the king's honour. It was established as a municipality (formannskapsdistrikt) on 1 January 1838. The city functioned as the capital of Norway during the 1814–1905 union between Sweden and Norway. From 1877, the city's name was spelled Kristiania in government usage, a spelling that was adopted by the municipal authorities only in 1897. In 1925 the city, after incorporating the village retaining its former name, was renamed Oslo. In 1948 Oslo merged with Aker, a municipality which surrounded the capital and which was 27 times larger, thus creating the modern, vastly enlarged Oslo municipality.More
29 Klaus Zink
Klaus Zink is a former German footballer who scored 5 goals in 1958–59 European Cup.More
30 Erzgebirgsstadion
Erzgebirgsstadion is a multi-purpose stadium in Aue, Germany. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Erzgebirge Aue. The stadium is able to hold 16,485 people and was built in 1950.More
31 Aue
Aue is a small town in Germany at the outlet of the river Schwarzwasser into the river Zwickauer Mulde in the Ore Mountains, and has roughly 16,000 inhabitants. It was merged into the new town Aue-Bad Schlema in January 2019. Aue was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony, and is part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008. It belongs to the Silberberg Town LeagueMore
32 Rudi Flögel
Rudolf 'Rudi' Flögel is an Austrian former professional footballer who played as a striker for Rapid Vienna.More
33 St. Jakob Stadium
The St. Jakob Stadium was a football stadium in Basel, Switzerland and the former home of Swiss club FC Basel. It was built in 1954, and as well as serving as a club stadium, it hosted several important matches, including the 1954 FIFA World Cup matches and four European Cup Winners' Cup finals.More
34 Basel
Basel or Basle is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city with about 180,000 inhabitants.More
35 Vasil Levski National Stadium
Vasil Levski National Stadium, named after Bulgarian national hero and revolutionary Vasil Levski, is the country's second largest stadium. The stadium has 44,000 seats and is located in the centre of Sofia, on the territory of the city's oldest and most famous park - the Borisova gradina. The Bulgaria national football team's home matches and the Bulgarian Cup finals are held at the venue, as well as athletics competitions. It was used as the home venue for Levski Sofia's Champions League games, and is often used for important derbies between the big clubs from Sofia, instead of their own home stadiums.More
36 Martí Vergés
Martí Vergés Massa, usually known as "Martín Vergés", is a former Spanish footballer. He played for FC Barcelona and earned 12 caps for the Spain national football team and was included in their 1962 FIFA World Cup squad.More
37 Canário
Darcy Silveira dos Santos, known as Canário, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a forward.More
38 Reg Leafe
Reginald James Leafe was a FIFA referee in the 1950s and early 1960s.More
39 Leoforos Alexandras Stadium
Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, commonly known as Leoforos Alexandras Stadium or Leoforos Stadium, is a football stadium and multi-sport center in Athens, Greece. It was inaugurated in 1922 and is the oldest football stadium in Greece currently active. It is the traditional athletic center of Panathinaikos A.C. and has been the home ground of Panathinaikos FC for the most part of the club's existence.More
40 Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city in Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence started somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennium BC.More
41 Bruno Rodzik
Bruno Rodzik was a French former football defender. He played for France in the Euro 1960.More
42 John Connelly (footballer)
John Michael Connelly was an English footballer. He played as an outside forward and was capped 20 times for his country.More
43 Parc des Princes
The Parc des Princes is an all-seater football stadium in Paris, France. The venue is located in the south-west of the French capital, inside the 16th arrondissement of Paris, in the immediate vicinity of the Stade Jean-Bouin and within walking distance from the Stade Roland Garros.More
44 Charly Dörfel
Gert "Charly" Dörfel is a retired German football player.More
45 Heinz Bigler (footballer, born 1925)
Heinz Bigler was a Swiss football midfielder who played for Switzerland in the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He also played for BSC Young Boys.More
46 Heinz Schneiter
Heinz Schneiter was a Swiss football player and manager.More
47 Volksparkstadion
Volksparkstadion football stadium in Hamburg, Germany, is the home of Hamburger SV.More
48 Hamburg
Hamburg, officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 7th largest city in the European Union with a population of over 1.84 million.More

Quarter-finals

Team 1 Agg.Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Benfica7–2 AGF3–1 4–1
Rapid Wien4–0 IFK Malmö2–0 2–0
Barcelona5–1 Spartak Hradec Králové4–0 1–1
Burnley4–5 Hamburg3–1 1–4

First leg

Benfica3–1AGF
Águas  20', 60'
José Augusto  50' (pen.)		ReportAmdisen  52'
Attendance: 65,000
Rapid Wien2–0IFK Malmö
Dienst  44'
Bertalan  87'		Report
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Marian Koczner (Poland)
Barcelona4–0Spartak Hradec Králové
Tejada  11', 64'
Evaristo  39'
Kubala  90' (pen.)		Report
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Giuseppe Adami (Italy)
Burnley3–1Hamburg
Pilkington  8', 60'
Robson  74'		ReportDörfel  76'
Attendance: 46,237
Referee: Tage Sørensen (Denmark)

Second leg

AGF1–4Benfica
Germano  77' (o.g.)ReportJosé Augusto  2', 42'
Águas  32'
Santana  81'
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Marcel Bois (France)

Benfica won 7–2 on aggregate.

IFK Malmö0–2Rapid Wien
ReportBertalan  39'
Flögel  83'
Attendance: 18,842
Referee: Wlodzimierz Storoniak (Poland)

Rapid Wien won 4–0 on aggregate.

Spartak Hradec Králové1–1Barcelona
Zikán  33'ReportLuis Suárez  24'
Attendance: 45,000

Barcelona won 5–1 on aggregate.

Hamburg4–1Burnley
Stürmer  8'
Seeler  41', 75'
Dörfel  56'		ReportHarris  55'
Attendance: 47,000

Hamburg won 5–4 on aggregate.

1960–61 European Cup Quarter-finals Articles 8

1 IFK Malmö Fotboll
IFK Malmö football team is a section of Swedish sports club, IFK Malmö based in Malmö. The club is affiliated with Skånes Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Malmö Stadion. The club colours, reflected in their crest and kit, are yellow, blue and white. Formed on 23 April 1899, the club have played thirteen seasons in Sweden's highest league Allsvenskan where they best finished as runners-up in 1960 and played their most recent season in 1962. IFK Malmö also reached the quarter-finals of the European Champions Cup in the 1960–61 season. The club is currently playing in Division 2 Västra Götaland, the fourth tier of Swedish football.More
2 FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona, commonly referred to as Barcelona and colloquially known as Barça, is a Spanish professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.More
3 Zdeněk Zikán
Zdeněk Zikán was a Czech football player.More
4 Strahov Stadium
The Great Strahov Stadium is a stadium in the Strahov district of Prague, Czech Republic. It was built for displays of synchronized gymnastics on a massive scale, with a field three times as long as and three times as wide as the standard Association football pitch. It has a capacity of 250,000 spectators, of which is 56,000 seating, making it the largest stadium and the second largest sports venue ever built.More
5 Prague
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6 Concetto Lo Bello
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Semi-finals

Team 1 Agg.Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Benfica4–1 Rapid Wien3–0 1–1
Barcelona2–21Hamburg1–0 1–2

1 Barcelona beat Hamburg 1–0 in a play-off to qualify for the final.

First leg

Benfica3–0Rapid Wien
Coluna  15'
Águas  25'
Cavém  63'		Report
Attendance: 65,000
Barcelona1–0Hamburg
Evaristo  46'Report
Attendance: 48,000
Referee: Lucien van Nuffel (Belgium)

Second leg

Rapid Wien1–1Benfica
Skocik  70'ReportÁguas  66'
Attendance: 63,000

Game abandoned with two minutes to play due to crowd riots and pitch invasion.

Benfica won 4–1 on aggregate.

Hamburg2–1Barcelona
Wulf  59'
Seeler  68'		ReportKocsis  90'
Attendance: 71,000
Referee: Gérard Versyp (Belgium)

Hamburg 2–2 Barcelona on aggregate.

Barcelona1–0Hamburg
Evaristo  43'Report
Attendance: 44,000
Referee: Tage Sørensen (Denmark)

Barcelona won 1–0 in play-off.

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Final

Main article: 1961 European Cup Final
Benfica3–2Barcelona
Águas  31'
Ramallets  32' (o.g.)
Coluna  55'		ReportKocsis  21'
Czibor  75'
Attendance: 26,732

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1960–61 European Cup (including preliminary round) are as follows:

Rank Name Team Goals
1 José ÁguasBenfica11
2 EvaristoBarcelona6
José AugustoBenfica6
4 Uwe SeelerHamburg5
5 SantanaBenfica4
Klaus StürmerHamburg4
Luis SuárezBarcelona4
8 John AmdisenAGF3
Mário ColunaBenfica3
Gert DörfelHamburg3
János GöröcsÚjpesti Dózsa3
Hans OlofssonIFK Malmö3
Jimmy RobsonBurnley3
Dominique RustichelliStade Reims3
Jean VincentStade Reims3

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References

  1. ^Corriere dello Sport, 8 July 1960.
  2. ^Laporte, Norman (2005). The Other Germany: Perceptions and Influences in British-East German Relations, 1945–1990 (1st ed.). Wissner. pp. 91–106. ISBN 978-3-89639-485-9.

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