1955–56 European Cup

The 1955–56 European Cup was the first season of the European Cup. The tournament was won by Real Madrid. They beat Reims 4–3 in the final at the Parc des Princes, Paris, on June 13, 1956.

1955–56 European Cup

Tournament details
Dates	4 September 1955 – 13 June 1956
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	Real Madrid (1st title)
Runner-up	Reims
Tournament statistics
Matches played	29
Goals scored	127 (4.38 per match)
Attendance	900,021 (31,035 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Miloš Milutinović (8 goals)
1956–57 →

The participating clubs in the first five seasons of the European Cup were selected by French football magazine L'Equipe. Of the originally selected teams were English champions Chelsea and Scottish champion Aberdeen. This was the only UEFA tournament to include a team from Saarland, before it was unified into West Germany in 1957.

Teams

Rapid Wien	Anderlecht	AGF Aarhus	Reims
Vörös Lobogó	Milan	PSV Eindhoven	Gwardia Warszawa
Sporting CP	Saarbrücken	Hibernian	Real Madrid
Djurgården	Servette	Rot-Weiss Essen	Partizan

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Reims

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Anderlecht

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R. W. Essen

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AGF

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Rapid

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PSV

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Milan

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Saarbrücken

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Real Madrid

Location of teams in the 1955–56 European Cup.

First Round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sporting CP	5–8	Partizan	3–3	2–5
Vörös Lobogó	10–4	Anderlecht	6–3	4–1
Servette	0–7	Real Madrid	0–2	0–5
Rot-Weiss Essen	1–5	Hibernian	0–4	1–1
Djurgården	4–1	Gwardia Warszawa	0–0	4–1
AGF Aarhus	2–4	Reims	0–2	2–2
Rapid Wien	6–2	PSV Eindhoven	6–1	0–1
Milan	7–5	Saarbrücken	3–4	4–1

Quarter-finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Djurgården	1–4	Hibernian	1–3	0–1
Reims	8–6	Vörös Lobogó	4–2	4–4
Real Madrid	4–3	Partizan	4–0	0–3
Rapid Wien	3–8	Milan	1–1	2–7

Semi-finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Reims	3–0	Hibernian	2–0	1–0
Real Madrid	5–4	Milan	4–2	1–2

First leg

4 April 1956	Reims	2–0	Hibernian	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 35,486 Referee: Manuel Asensi Martín (Spain)
	Leblond  67' Bliard  89'	Report

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19 April 1956	Real Madrid	4–2	Milan	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 129,690 Referee: Dean Harzic (France)
	Rial  6' Iglesias  25' Olsen  40' Di Stéfano  62'	Report	Nordahl  9' Schiaffino  30'

Second leg

18 April 1956	Hibernian	0–1	Reims	Easter Road, Edinburgh Attendance: 44,941 Referee: Arthur Edward Ellis (England)
		Report	Glovacki  57'

Reims won 3–0 on aggregate.

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1 May 1956	Milan	2–1	Real Madrid	San Siro, Milan Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Erich Steiner (Austria)
	Dal Monte  69' (pen.), 86' (pen.)	Report	Iglesias  65'

Real Madrid won 5–4 on aggregate.

Final

Main page: 1956 European Cup Final

13 June 1956 20:30 CET	Real Madrid	4–3	Reims	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 38,239 Referee: Arthur Edward Ellis (England)
	Di Stéfano  14' Rial  30', 79' Marquitos  67'	Report	Leblond  6' Templin  10' Hidalgo  62'

Other websites

• 1955–56 season at UEFA website
• 1955–56 All matches – season at UEFA website
• All scorers 1955–56 European Cup according to protocols UEFA
• European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
• "50 years of the European Cup" (PDF). UEFA. October 2004. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
• 1955-56 European Cup - results and line-ups (archive)