| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | 18 September 1927 – 11 May 1930 |
| Teams | 5 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Italy (1st title) |
| Runner-up |  Austria |
| Third place |  Czechoslovakia |
| Fourth place |  Hungary |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 20 |
| Goals scored | 86 (4.3 per match) |
| Attendance | 29,451 (1,473 per match) |
| Top goal scorer(s) | Julio Libonatti Gino Rossetti Ferenc Hirzer(6 goals each) |
1931–32 → | |
The 1927–30 Central European International Cup was the first edition of the football Central European International Cup and was held between September 18, 1927, and May 11, 1930.[1] The tournament's structure included a round-robin competition for the five teams involved. As the winner was to receive a Bohemian crystal cup offered by Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia Antonín Švehla, the tournament became known as the Antonín Švehla Cup.
Sessions of the organizing committee took place on March 9, 1930, in Trieste and on March 11, 1930, in Budapest. The committee was composed by
The tournament began on September 18, 1927, with the match Czechoslovakia-Austria, which ended 2–0.[2] The following week, Austria was defeated once more in Budapest, Hungary, with a score of 5–3.[3]
On October 23, in Prague, Italy's match against Czechoslovakia ended with a 2–2 draw. The last game of 1927 took place in Bologna between Italy and Austria, won 1–0 by Austria. The Austrian team complained in this occasion that the referee seemed not sufficiently impartial or fair.[4]
1928 opened with Italy's victory against Switzerland on January 1 in Genoa (3–2) and then, on March 25 in Rome, Italy succeeded in beating Hungary for the first time in history (4- 3). Each player on the Italian team was awarded a prize of 24,000 [Italian lira|lire]. On April 1, in Vienna, Austria lost 0–1 against Czechoslovakia;[5] on April 22, in Budapest, the Czech team lost 2–0 to Hungary.
After a break to allow Switzerland and Italy to participate in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, the tournament resumed in the fall: Italy beat Switzerland (3–2); Austria wins 5–1 over Hungary [6] and 2–0 over Switzerland.[7] The year ended with the victory of Hungary on Switzerland, on November 1, 3–1.
On March 3, 1929, Italy beat Czechoslovakia 4–2, losing 3–0 to the Austrians barely a month later, on April 7, in Vienna.[8] On April 14 Hungary beats Switzerland 5–4, and the Swiss team surrenders again to the Czechs (4–1) on 5 May. The two winning teams draw in the match (1–1) held in Prague on September 8. On October 6, Czechoslovakia beats Switzerland 5–0, and the Swiss's annus horribilis continues with a loss to Austria on October 27, on Bern's home turf.[9] At year end, with Switzerland last after losing all eight games played, Austria and Czechoslovakia are tied with 10 points at the head of the tournament, followed by Italy and Hungary with 9 points each.
The only game scheduled for 1930 was between Hungary and Italy. The match was played on May 11, 1930, in Budapest, and it is reported that Italy's trainer, Vittorio Pozzo brought his players to visit World War I battlefields before playing the last and decisive game of the tournament, perhaps wishing to bring back memories of their own participation, just 13 years earlier, in the fight against Austro-Hungarian soldiers. The team's crushing victory (5–0) brought Italy the first edition of the cup.[10]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Italy (C)
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8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 15 | +6 | 11 | — | 0–1 | 4–2 | 4–3 | 3–2 | |
| 2 | Austria
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8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 10 | +7 | 10 | 3–0 | — | 0–1 | 5–1 | 2–0 | |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia
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8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 10 | +7 | 10 | 2–2 | 2–0 | — | 1–1 | 5–0 | |
| 4 | Hungary
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8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 23 | −3 | 9 | 0–5 | 5–3 | 2–0 | — | 3–1 | |
| 5 | Switzerland
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8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 28 | −17 | 0 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 1–4 | 4–5 | — |
| Czechoslovakia | 2–0 | Austria |
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Podrazil  10'Kratochvíl 55' (pen.) |
Report |
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Ernest Fabris (Yugoslavia)
| Hungary | 5–3 | Austria |
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| Takács 18' Kohut 27'Ströck 51'Holzbauer 62'Hirzer 67' |
Report | Wesely 11', 84' Sigl 13' |
Attendance: 38,000
Referee: Albert Prince-Cox (England)
| Czechoslovakia | 2–2 | Italy |
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| Svoboda 32', 51' (pen.) |
Report | Libonatti 28', 79' |
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: John Langenus (Belgium)
| Italy | 0–1 | Austria |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Runge 44' |
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Albert Prince-Cox (England)
| Italy | 3–2 | Switzerland |
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| Libonatti 10', 58' Magnozzi 68' |
Report | M. Abegglen 38', 60' |
Attendance: 28,000
Referee: Stanley Rous (England)
| Italy | 4–3 | Hungary |
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| Conti 48', 75' Rossetti 58'Libonatti 85' |
Report | Kohut 13' Hirzer 44'Takács 77' |
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Peco Bauwens (Germany)
| Austria | 0–1 | Czechoslovakia |
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| Report | Silný 38' |
Attendance: 50,575
Referee: John Langenus (Belgium)
| Hungary | 2–0 | Czechoslovakia |
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| Hirzer 18' (pen.) Kohut 76' |
Report |
Attendance: 38,000
Referee: Raphaël van Praag (Belgium)
| Austria | 5–1 | Hungary |
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| Sigl 11', 27' Weselik 55'Wesely 62'Gschweidl 75' |
Report | Hirzer 38' |
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Alfred Birlem (Germany)
| Switzerland | 2–3 | Italy |
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| M. Abbeglen 2' Grimmn 85' |
Report | Rossetti 17', 30' Baloncieri 80' |
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Eugen Braun (Austria)
| Austria | 2–0 | Switzerland |
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| Tandler 25', 29' (pen.) |
Report |
Attendance: 38,447
Referee: Peco Bauwens (Germany)
| Hungary | 3–1 | Switzerland |
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| Turay 36' Hirzer 49'Ströck 53' |
Report | Weiler 78' (pen.) |
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Albino Carraro (Italy)
| Italy | 4–2 | Czechoslovakia |
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| Rossetti 26', 61', 80' Libonatti 33' |
Report | Silný 18' Svoboda 40' |
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Henri Christophe (Belgium)
| Austria | 3–0 | Italy |
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| Horvath 19', 38' Weselik 23' |
Report |
Attendance: 49,000
Referee: Albert Prince-Cox (England)
| Switzerland | 4–5 | Hungary |
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| Weiler 2' A. Abegglen 26', 66'M. Abegglen 78' |
Report | Widmer 8' (o.g.) Takács 51', 76'Toldi 56'Hirzer 73' |
Attendance: 19,000
Referee: Stanley Rous (England)
| Switzerland | 1–4 | Czechoslovakia |
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| M. Abegglen 74' |
Report | Podrazil 22' Silný 23', 85'Puč 80' |
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Eugen Braun (Austria)
| Czechoslovakia | 1–1 | Hungary |
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| Svoboda 4' |
Report | Kalmár 84' |
Attendance: 28,000
Referee: Paul Ruoff (Switzerland)
| Czechoslovakia | 5–0 | Switzerland |
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| Puč 17', 81' Kratochvíl 18'Svoboda 36'Junek 64' |
Report |
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: John Langenus (Belgium)
| Switzerland | 1–3 | Austria |
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| Passello 45' |
Report | Stoiber 25' Horvath 62'Schall 84' |
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Per Andersen (Norway)
| Hungary | 0–5 | Italy |
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| Report | Meazza 17', 65', 70' Magnozzi 72'Costantino 84' |
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Peco Bauwens (Germany)
| 1927–30 Central European International Cup |
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 Italy First title |
There were 86 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 4.3 goals per match.
6 goals
Julio Libonatti Ferenc Hirzer5 goals
František Svoboda4 goals
Josef Silný3 goals
Ignaz Sigl Johann Horvath Vilmos Kohut Giuseppe Meazza Antonín Puč2 goals
Hans Tandler Albert Ströck Leopoldo Conti Mario Magnozzi André Abegglen Karel Podrazil Josef Kratochvíl1 goal
Fritz Gschweidl Karl Stoiber Toni Schall Jenő Kalmár József Holzbauer József Turay Géza Toldi Adolfo Baloncieri Raffaele Costantino René Grimm Raymond Passello Max Weiler Walter Weiler František Junek1 own goal
Georg Widmer (against Hungary)
