1958–59 European Cup

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 for the fourth time in a row, who beat Reims 2–0 in the final at Neckarstadion, Stuttgart, on 3 June 1959. The two finalists also competed in the final of the first European Cup in 1956.

1958–59 European Cup
The Neckarstadion in Stuttgart hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates26 August 1958 – 3 June 1959
Teams28 (26 competed)
Final positions
Champions Real Madrid (4th title)
Runners-up Reims
Tournament statistics
Matches played55
Goals scored199 (3.62 per match)
Attendance1,987,818 (36,142 per match)
Top scorer(s) Just Fontaine (10 goals)

This season was the first one in which Turkey sent its official national champion, and the first time of a Finnish participation. Olympiakos, Greece's first-ever entrants, withdrew for political reasons before playing their first tie. Spain continued to be represented by its runners-up, as its champions Real Madrid had already qualified as holders.

Preliminary round

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. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Standard Liège 6–3 Hearts 5–1 1–2
Beşiktaş (w/o)1 Olympiacos – –
Young Boys (w/o)2 Manchester United – –
NK Dinamo Zagreb 3–4 Dukla Prague 2–2 1–2
Jeunesse Esch 2–23 IFK Göteborg 1–2 1–0
Ards 3–10 Stade Reims 1–4 2–6
Wismut Karl Marx Stadt 4–44 Petrolul Ploiești 4–2 0–2
Atlético Madrid 13–1 Drumcondra 8–0 5–1
Polonia Bytom 0–6 MTK Budapest 0–3 0–3
KB 5–55 Schalke 04 3–0 2–5
Juventus 3–8 Wiener Sport-Club 3–1 0–7
DOS 4–6 Sporting CP 3–4 1–2

Note: Real Madrid, Wolverhampton Wanderers, CDNA Sofia and HPS received byes.

1 Olympiacos withdrew due to international political issues, refusing to play in Istanbul following the long-standing tension between Turkey and Greece.[3]

2 UEFA invited Manchester United to enter the competition after eight of the club's players were killed in the Munich air disaster while returning from a European Cup match in Belgrade the previous season; however, the Football League refused to allow the club to compete. As the draw had already been made for the preliminary round, Manchester United's drawn opponents, Young Boys, were given a bye to the first round of the competition. Instead, the two clubs played a pair of friendlies against each other, home and away; Young Boys won the first match 2–0 in Bern, but Manchester United won at Old Trafford a week later. The two clubs were again drawn together in the group stage of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, almost exactly 60 years after they were originally due to play.[4]

3 IFK Göteborg beat Jeunesse Esch 5–1 in a play-off to qualify for the first round.

4 Wismut Karl Marx Stadt beat Petrolul Ploieşti 4–0 in a play-off to qualify for the first round.

5 Schalke 04 beat KB 3–1 in a play-off to qualify for the first round.

First leg
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: 30,000
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
Ards 1–4 Stade Reims
Lawry  87' Report Fontaine  26', 38', 45', 85'
Attendance: 20,000
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: 30,000
Referee: Werner Treichel (West Germany)
Juventus 3–1 Wiener Sport-Club
Sívori  2', 56', 62' Report Horak  8'
Attendance: 40,000
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
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
Schalke 04 3–1 KB
Klodt  57', 86'
Nowak  66'		 Report Krahmer  90'
Attendance: 27,000

Schalke 04 won play-off 3–1.

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

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

Wismut Karl Marx Stadt 4–0 Petrolul Ploiești
Zink  4'
Tröger  7', 75' (pen.)
Wolf  48'		 Report
Attendance: 40,000
IFK Göteborg 0–1 Jeunesse Esch
Report May  21'
Attendance: 21,435

Jeunesse Esch 2–2 IFK Göteborg on aggregate

Play-off
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.

Stade 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)

Stade Reims won 10–3 on aggregate

Wiener Sport-Club 7–0 Juventus
Skerlan  24'
Hamerl  34', 38', 64', 80'
Hof  82', 85'		 Report
Attendance: 20,000

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

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

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

Sporting CP 2–1 DOS
Ivson  48', 76' Report Krommert  82'
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: John Kelly (England)

Sporting CP won 6–4 on aggregate

First round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
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 2–21 CDNA Sofia 2–1 0–1
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 HPS 4–0 3–0

1 Atlético Madrid beat CSKA Sofia 3–1 in a playoff to qualify for the quarter-finals.

First leg
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
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
IFK Göteborg 2–2 Wismut Karl Marx Stadt
Ohlsson  5'
Andersson  31'		 Report Seifert  61'
Zink  67'
Attendance: 13,978
Referee: Jósef 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 HPS Helsinki
Vincent  22', 35', 85'
Siatka  89'		 Report
Attendance: 11,452
Referee: Edgar Ommerborn (West Germany)

Second leg
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: 30,000

Wiener Sport-Club won 3–2 on aggregate

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

CDNA Sofia 1–0 Atlético Madrid
Panayotov  64' Report
Attendance: 50,000

Atlético Madrid 2–2 CDNA Sofia on aggregate

Play-off
Atlético Madrid 3–1 (a.e.t.) CDNA Sofia
Vavá  42', 108' (pen.)
Callejo  99'		 Report Yanev  17'
Attendance: 30,000

Atlético Madrid won play-off 3–1.

Beşiktaş 1–1 Real Madrid
Kaya  64' Report Santisteban  13'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Cesare Jonni (Italy)

Real Madrid won 3–1 on aggregate

HPS Helsinki 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

Quarter-finals
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
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 2–21 Wismut Karl Marx Stadt 2–2 0–0

1 Young Boys beat Wismut Karl Marx Stadt 2–1 in a playoff to qualify for the semi-finals.

First leg
Standard Liège 2–0 Reims
Jadot  65'
Givard  71' (pen.)		 Report
Attendance: 36,000
Referee: John Kelly (England)
Atlético Madrid 3–0 Schalke 04
Vavá  47'
Miguel  73'
Peiró  90'		 Report
Attendance: 110,000
Referee: Antonio Moriconi (Italy)
Wiener Sport-Club 0–0 Real Madrid
Report
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)
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
Reims 3–0 Standard Liège
Piantoni  70'
Fontaine  73', 88'		 Report
Attendance: 32,235

Reims won 3–2 on aggregate

Schalke 04 1–1 Atlético Madrid
Nowak  1' Report Vavá  90'
Attendance: 43,000

Atlético Madrid won 4–1 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

Real Madrid won 7–1 on aggregate

Wismut Karl Marx Stadt 0–0 Young Boys
Report
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Bengt Andrén (Sweden)

Young Boys 2–2 Wismut Karl Marx Stadt on aggregate

Play-off
Young Boys 2–1 Wismut Karl Marx Stadt
Meier  21'
Wechselberger  33'		 Report Tröger  75' (pen.)
Attendance: 20,000

Young Boys won play-off 2–1.

Semi-finals
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Young Boys 1–3 Reims 1–0 0–3
Real Madrid 2–21 Atlético Madrid 2–1 0–1

1 Real Madrid beat Atlético Madrid 2–1 in a playoff to qualify for the final

First leg
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

Real Madrid 2–2 Atlético Madrid on aggregate

Play-off
Real Madrid 2–1 Atlético Madrid
Di Stéfano  16'
Puskás  42'		 Report Collar  18'
Attendance: 20,000

Real Madrid won play-off 2–1.

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

Final
Main article: 1959 European Cup Final

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
Attendance: 72,000
Referee: Albert Dusch (West Germany)

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1958–59 European Cup were as follows:

Rank Name Team Goals
1 Just Fontaine Stade Reims 10
2 Vavá Atlético Madrid 8
3 Alfredo di Stéfano Real Madrid 6
Joaquín Peiró Atlético Madrid 6
5 Enrique Collar Atlético Madrid 5
Josef Hamerl Wiener Sport-Club 5
Roger Piantoni Stade Reims 5
Klaus Zink Wismut Karl Marx Stadt 5
9 Ivson Sporting 4
Jean Jadot Standard Liège 4
Bernhard Klodt Schalke 04 4
Eugen Meier Young Boys 4
Péter Palotás MTK Budapest 4
Willy Tröger Wismut Karl Marx Stadt 4
Ernst Wechselberger Young Boys 4

References
  1. Corriere dello Sport, 3 July 1958.
  2. Manchester United was in pot 2 because they could not play against an English club before the round of 16.
  3. Corriere dello Sport.
  4. Gardner, Stewart (18 September 2018). "United's lost 'European Cup' tie with Young Boys". ManUtd.com. Manchester United. Retrieved 18 September 2018.

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