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1958–59 European Cup

4th season of the UEFA club football tournament

1958–59 European Cup

The NeckarstadioninStuttgart hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	26 August 1958 – 3 June 1959
Teams	28 (26 competed) (from 25 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Real Madrid (4th title)
Runners-up	Reims
Tournament statistics
Matches played	55
Goals scored	199 (3.62 per match)
Attendance	1,980,818 (36,015 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Just Fontaine (Reims) 10 goals
← 1957–58 1959–60 →

The 1958–59 European Cup was the fourth season of the European Cup, Europe's premier club football tournament. The competition was won by Real Madrid, who beat Reims 2–0 in the finalatNeckarstadion, Stuttgart, on 3 June 1959. This was Real Madrid's fourth European Cup title in a row. The two finalists also competed in the final of the first European Cup in 1956.

It was the first time that a team from Finland participated, while Turkey's representative returned to the competition in the presence of Beşiktaş. They were drawn against Olympiacos, but Greece's first entrants withdrew for political reasons before playing their first tie.

Also, Manchester United were invited to the competition following Munich air disaster in the previous season, but were not allowed to participate by the Football League, meaning that first walkovers took place in the UEFA organised competition. Had they played, England would be first nation in European Cup history to have more than one team in the competition, apart from title holder's association.

Teams[edit]

A total of 28 teams were placed in the competition bracket, but finally only 26 participated.

Spain continued to be represented by its runners-up, as its champions Real Madrid had already qualified as holders. This was the first time that Rapid Wien and AGF Aarhus failed to qualify for the tournament, which made Real Madrid the only club to appear in all four editions of European Cup. Wiener Sport-Club, Standard Liège, Kjøbenhavns Boldklub, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Helsingin Palloseura, Schalke 04, Drumcondra, Juventus, Jeunesse Esch, VV DOS, Ards, Polonia Bytom, Petrolul Ploiești, Hearts, Atlético Madrid, IFK Göteborg, Beşiktaş and NK Dinamo Zagreb made their debut in the competition.^{[citation needed]}

All entrants were their respective associations champions, except for KB, Manchester United, Polonia Bytom and Atlético Madrid.

Wiener Sport-Club (1st)	Standard Liège (1st)	CDNA Sofia (1st)	Dukla Prague (1st)
KB (5th)	Wolverhampton Wanderers (1st)	Manchester United (9th)	Helsingin Palloseura (1st)
Reims (1st)	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt (1st)	Schalke 04 (1st)	Olympiacos (1st)
MTK Budapest (1st)	Drumcondra (1st)	Juventus (1st)	Jeunesse Esch (1st)
VV DOS (1st)	Ards (1st)	Polonia Bytom (6th)	Sporting CP (1st)
Petrolul Ploiești (1st)	Hearts (1st)	Real Madrid (1st)TH	Atlético Madrid (2nd)
IFK Göteborg (1st)	Young Boys (1st)	Beşiktaş (1st)	NK Dinamo Zagreb (1st)

Preliminary round[edit]

Wiener

The draw for the preliminary round took place in Cannes, France, on Wednesday, 2 July 1958.^[1] As title holders, Real Madrid received a bye, and the remaining 27 teams were grouped geographically into three pots. The first drawn team in each pot also received byes, while the remaining clubs would play the preliminary round in September.

	Pot 1 Western Europe	Pot 2 Central Europe	Pot 3 Eastern Europe
Drawn	France Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland Netherlands Belgium Scotland Portugal Spain	Switzerland West Germany Italy Sweden Denmark Luxembourg Austria Invitees Manchester United[2]	Poland Romania Turkey Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia Hungary East Germany Greece
Byes	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Helsingin Palloseura	CDNA Sofia

The calendar was decided by the involved teams, with all matches to be played by 30 September.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Play-off
Standard Liège	6–3	Hearts	5–1	1–2
Beşiktaş	(w/o)[a]	Olympiacos	–	–
Young Boys	(w/o)[b]	Manchester United	–	–
NK Dinamo Zagreb	3–4	Dukla Prague	2–2	1–2
Jeunesse Esch	2–2	IFK Göteborg	1–2	1–0	1–5
Ards	3–10	Reims	1–4	2–6
Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	4–4	Petrolul Ploiești	4–2	0–2	4–0
Atlético Madrid	13–1	Drumcondra	8–0	5–1
Polonia Bytom	0–6	MTK Budapest	0–3	0–3
KB	5–5	Schalke 04	3–0	2–5	1–3
Juventus	3–8	Wiener Sport-Club	3–1	0–7
VV DOS	4–6	Sporting CP	3–4	1–2

First leg[edit]

KB	3–0	Schalke 04
Birkeland 31', 46' Krog 35'	Report

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Andries van Leeuwen (Netherlands)

Standard Liège	5–1	Hearts
Jadot 17', 85' Piters 34' Bonga 73' Houf 78'	Report	Crawford 14'

Attendance: 25,000^[5]

Referee: Pierre Schwinte (France)

Dinamo Zagreb	2–2	Dukla Prague
Lipošinović 70', 73'	Report	Borovička 31' Brumovský 51'

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Erich Steiner (Austria)

Jeunesse Esch	1–2	IFK Göteborg
May 20'	Report	Jonsson 19' B. Johansson 72'

Attendance: 3,500

Referee: Aage Poulsen (Denmark)

Ards	1–4	Reims
Lawry 87'	Report	Fontaine 26', 38', 45', 85'

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: José María Ortiz de Mendíbil (Spain)

Atlético Madrid	8–0	Drumcondra
Peiró 2', 51' Vavá 6', 61' Collar 56', 76' Mendonça 63', 67'	Report

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Giulio Campanati (Italy)

Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	4–2	Petrolul Ploiești
Tröger 25' Viertel 39', 68' Kaiser 79'	Report	Dridea 7', 82'

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Antonín Růžička (Czechoslovakia)

Polonia Bytom	0–3	MTK Budapest
	Report	Sándor 46' Palotás 73', 80'

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Werner Treichel (West Germany)

Juventus	3–1	Wiener Sport-Club
Sívori 2', 56', 62'	Report	Horak 8'

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Josef Gulde (Switzerland)

VV DOS	3–4	Sporting CP
Temming 48' (pen.) Van der Linden 52' Luiten 88'	Report	Ivson 31', 83' Hugo 41' Vasques 55'

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: John Clough (England)

Second leg[edit]

Hearts	2–1	Standard Liège
Bauld 55', 65'	Report	Givard 58'

Attendance: 37,500

Referee: Louis Fauquembergue (France)

Standard Liège won 6–3 on aggregate.

Schalke 04	5–2	KB
Klodt 25', 34' Sadlowski 46' Nowak 70' Brocker 72'	Report	Andersen 53', 66'

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Willem Beltman (Netherlands)

KB 5–5 Schalke 04 on aggregate; play-off needed.

Petrolul Ploiești	2–0	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt
Fronea 33' Pahonțu 79'	Report

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Václav Korelus (Czechoslovakia)

Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt 4–4 Petrolul Ploiești on aggregate; play-off needed.

IFK Göteborg	0–1	Jeunesse Esch
	Report	May 21'

Attendance: 21,435

Referee: Valdemar Hansen (Denmark)

Jeunesse Esch 2–2 IFK Göteborg on aggregate; play-off needed.

Drumcondra	1–5	Atlético Madrid
Fullam 51' (pen)	Report	Peiró 16', 67' Csóka 19' Collar 45' Vavá 86'

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Giulio Campanati (Italy)

Atlético Madrid won 13–1 on aggregate.

Wiener Sport-Club	7–0	Juventus
Skerlan 24' Hamerl 34', 38', 64', 80' Hof 82', 85'	Report

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Paul Wyssling (Switzerland)

Wiener Sport-Club won 8–3 on aggregate.

Dukla Prague	2–1	Dinamo Zagreb
Dvořák 30' Vacenovský 71'	Report	Gašpert 45'

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Erich Steiner (Austria)

Dukla Prague won 4–3 on aggregate.

MTK Budapest	3–0	Polonia Bytom
Molnár 41' Palotás 58', 75'	Report

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Josef Kandlbinder (West Germany)

MTK Budapest won 6–0 on aggregate.

Reims	6–2	Ards
Piantoni 10', 40' Fontaine 14', 16' Bliard 20', 74'	Report	Lawther 10' Quee 28'

Attendance: 19,509

Referee: Manuel Asensi Martín (Spain)

Reims won 10–3 on aggregate.

Sporting CP	2–1	VV DOS
Ivson 48', 76'	Report	Krommert 82'

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: John Kelly (England)

Sporting CP won 6–4 on aggregate.

Play-off[edit]

Schalke 04	3–1	KB
Klodt 57', 86' Nowak 66'	Report	Krahmer 90'

Attendance: 27,000

Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands)

Schalke 04 won play-off 3–1.

Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	4–0	Petrolul Ploiești
Zink 4' Tröger 7', 75' (pen.) Wolf 48'	Report

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Karol Galba (Czechoslovakia)

Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt won play-off 4–0.

IFK Göteborg	5–1	Jeunesse Esch
Andersson 37' Berndtsson 59', 85' B. Johansson 68' N. Johansson 80'	Report	Meurisse 5'

Attendance: 11,780

Referee: Jarl Hansen (Denmark)

IFK Göteborg won play-off 5–1.

Bracket[edit]

	First round						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Wiener Sport-Club	3	0	3
	Dukla Prague	1	1	2
							Wiener Sport-Club	0	1	1
							Real Madrid	0	7	7
	Real Madrid	2	1	3
	Beşiktaş	0	1	1
													Real Madrid	2	0	2 (2)
													Atlético Madrid	1	1	2 (1)
	Atlético Madrid (a.e.t.)	2	0	2 (3)
	CDNA Sofia	1	1	2 (1)
							Atlético Madrid	3	1	4
							Schalke 04	0	1	1
	Wolverhampton Wanderers	2	1	3
	Schalke 04	2	2	4
																			Real Madrid	2
																			Reims	0
	MTK Budapest	1	1	2
	Young Boys	2	4	6
							Young Boys	2	0	2 (2)
							Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	2	0	2 (1)
	IFK Göteborg	2	0	2
	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	2	4	6
													Young Boys	1	0	1
													Reims	0	3	3
	Sporting CP	2	0	2
	Standard Liège	3	3	6
							Standard Liège	2	0	2
							Reims	0	3	3
	Reims	4	3	7
	Helsingin Palloseura	0	0	0

First round[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Play-off
Sporting CP	2–6	Standard Liège	2–3	0–3
Wiener Sport-Club	3–2	Dukla Prague	3–1	0–1
MTK Budapest	2–6	Young Boys	1–2	1–4
Atlético Madrid	2–2	CDNA Sofia	2–1	0–1	3–1
IFK Göteborg	2–6	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	2–2	0–4
Wolverhampton Wanderers	3–4	Schalke 04	2–2	1–2
Real Madrid	3–1	Beşiktaş	2–0	1–1
Reims	7–0	Helsingin Palloseura	4–0	3–0

First leg[edit]

Sporting CP	2–3	Standard Liège
Bolzée 23' (o.g.) Mendes 80'	Report	Paeschen 10' Jadot 69' Mallants 70'

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Joseph Barberan (France)

Wiener Sport-Club	3–1	Dukla Prague
Hof 22' Hamerl 47' Knoll 57'	Report	Pluskal 83'

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Kevin Howley (England)

MTK Budapest	1–2	Young Boys
Molnár 66'	Report	Wechselberger 64' Zahnd 80'

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Alfred Grill (Austria)

Atlético Madrid	2–1	CDNA Sofia
Vavá 60' Peiró 79'	Report	Dimitrov 77'

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Paul Wyssling (Switzerland)

IFK Göteborg	2–2	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt
Ohlsson 5' Andersson 31'	Report	Seifert 61' Zink 67'

Attendance: 13,978

Referee: Józef Kowal (Poland)

Wolverhampton Wanderers	2–2	Schalke 04
Broadbent 52', 65'	Report	Siebert 25' Koslowski 88'

Attendance: 45,676

Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

Real Madrid	2–0	Beşiktaş
Santisteban 57' Kopa 90'	Report

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Pietro Bonetto (Italy)

Reims	4–0	Helsingin Palloseura
Vincent 22', 35', 85' Siatka 89'	Report

Attendance: 11,452

Referee: Edgar Ommerborn (West Germany)

Second leg[edit]

Standard Liège	3–0	Sporting CP
Paeschen 47' Houf 67' Mallants 74'	Report

Attendance: 32,000

Referee: Michel Devillers (France)

Standard Liège won 6–2 on aggregate.

Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	4–0	IFK Göteborg
Zink 23', 82' Kaiser 50', 62'	Report

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Marian Koczner (Poland)

Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt won 6–2 on aggregate.

Schalke 04	2–1	Wolverhampton Wanderers
Kördell 12' Siebert 35'	Report	Jackson 48'

Attendance: 43,000

Referee: Gérard Versyp (Belgium)

Schalke 04 won 4–3 on aggregate.

Dukla Prague	1–0	Wiener Sport-Club
Masopust 60'	Report

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Aage Poulsen (Denmark)

Wiener Sport-Club won 3–2 on aggregate.

CDNA Sofia	1–0	Atlético Madrid
Panayotov 64'	Report

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Paul Wyssling (Switzerland)

Atlético Madrid 2–2 CDNA Sofia on aggregate; play-off needed.

Young Boys	4–1	MTK Budapest
Wechselberger 13', 60' Meier 40' Allemann 81'	Report	Molnár 85'

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Alfred Grill (Austria)

Young Boys won 6–2 on aggregate.

Beşiktaş	1–1	Real Madrid
Köstepen 64'	Report	Santisteban 13'

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Cesare Jonni (Italy)

Real Madrid won 3–1 on aggregate.

Helsingin Palloseura	0–3	Reims
	Report	Fontaine 2', 10' Lintamo 8' (o.g.)

Attendance: 14,855

Referee: Helmut Fritz (West Germany)

Reims won 7–0 on aggregate.

Play-off[edit]

Atlético Madrid	3–1 (a.e.t.)	CDNA Sofia
Vavá 42', 108' (pen.) Callejo 99'	Report	Yanev 17'

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Daniel Mellet (Switzerland)

Atlético Madrid won play-off 3–1.

Quarter-finals[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Play-off
Standard Liège	2–3	Reims	2–0	0–3
Atlético Madrid	4–1	Schalke 04	3–0	1–1
Wiener Sport-Club	1–7	Real Madrid	0–0	1–7
Young Boys	2–2	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	2–2	0–0	2–1

First leg[edit]

Standard Liège	2–0	Reims
Jadot 65' Givard 71' (pen.)	Report

Attendance: 36,000

Referee: John Kelly (England)

Wiener Sport-Club	0–0	Real Madrid
	Report

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

Atlético Madrid	3–0	Schalke 04
Vavá 47' Miguel 73' Peiró 90'	Report

Attendance: 110,000

Referee: Antonio Moriconi (Italy)

Young Boys	2–2	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt
Meier 22' Rey 87'	Report	Wagner 45' Zink 59'

Attendance: 32,000

Referee: Francisco Guerra (Portugal)

Second leg[edit]

Schalke 04	1–1	Atlético Madrid
Nowak 1'	Report	Vavá 90'

Attendance: 43,000

Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands)

Atlético Madrid won 4–1 on aggregate.

Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt	0–0	Young Boys
	Report

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Bengt Andrén (Sweden)

Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt 2–2 Young Boys on aggregate; play-off needed.

Reims	3–0	Standard Liège
Piantoni 70' Fontaine 73', 88'	Report

Attendance: 32,235

Referee: José María Ortiz de Mendíbil (Spain)

Reims won 3–2 on aggregate.

Real Madrid	7–1	Wiener Sport-Club
Mateos 8' Di Stéfano 14', 64', 69', 75' Rial 67' Gento 89'	Report	Horak 9'

Attendance: 90,000

Referee: Maurice Guigue (France)

Real Madrid won 7–1 on aggregate.

Play-off[edit]

Young Boys	2–1	Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt
Meier 21' Wechselberger 33'	Report	Tröger 75' (pen.)

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands)

Young Boys won play-off 2–1.

Semi-finals[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Play-off
Young Boys	1–3	Reims	1–0	0–3
Real Madrid	2–2	Atlético Madrid	2–1	0–1	2–1

First leg[edit]

Young Boys	1–0	Reims
Meier 15'	Report

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Lucien Van Nuffel (Belgium)

Real Madrid	2–1	Atlético Madrid
Rial 15' Puskás 33' (pen.)	Report	Chuzo 13'

Attendance: 120,000

Referee: Jack Mowat (Scotland)

Second leg[edit]

Atlético Madrid	1–0	Real Madrid
Collar 43'	Report

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Reg Leafe (England)

Real Madrid 2–2 Atlético Madrid on aggregate; play-off needed.

Reims	3–0	Young Boys
Piantoni 41', 72' Penverne 47'	Report

Attendance: 35,898

Referee: Pieter Paulus Roomer (Netherlands)

Reims won 3–1 on aggregate.

Play-off[edit]

Real Madrid	2–1	Atlético Madrid
Di Stéfano 16' Puskás 42'	Report	Collar 18'

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Arthur Edward Ellis (England)

Real Madrid won play-off 2–1.

Final[edit]

The 1959 European Cup final was played on 3 June 1959 at the Neckarstadion in Stuttgart, West Germany. Real Madrid's victory was their fourth consecutive title, maintaining their status as the only team to have won the competition. Reims were runners-up for a second time, having already lost to Real in the inaugural final in 1956.

Real Madrid	2–0	Reims
Mateos 1' Di Stéfano 47'	Report