1961_European_Cup_Final

1961 European Cup final

1961 European Cup final

Football match

The 1961 European Cup final was held at the Wankdorf Stadium, Bern on 31 May 1961, and was contested by Portuguese side Benfica against Spanish side Barcelona. This was the first final not to include Real Madrid, who had won the previous five finals. Benfica lifted the trophy for the first time, beating Barcelona 3–2.

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Benfica midfielder Mario Coluna broke his nose in the eighth minute of the match; not wanting to risk further damage, when Domiciano Cavém put over a cross in the 55th minute, Coluna hung back outside the penalty area. The ball was cleared directly to him and he volleyed it home for Benfica's third goal of the match.[2]

Route to the final

Five-time defending champions Real Madrid were knocked out in the first round by Barcelona, their bitter domestic rivals. After defeating Czechoslovak champions Hradec Králové in the quarter-finals, Barcelona initially drew 2–2 on aggregate with West German champions Hamburger SV in the semi-finals. Since this was before UEFA competitions began using the away goals rule, in order to determine who would advance to the final, a replay was scheduled to be played at a neutral site on 3 May. Barça would qualify for the final by winning the replay 1–0 at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, with Evaristo scoring the decisive goal.[3]

Meanwhile, Benfica reached the final of the competition by eliminating Austrian champions Rapid Wien in a 4–1 semi-final aggregate win. This marked the first time that a team from Portugal had ever progressed this far into the competition.

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Match

Details

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Attendance: 26,732[1]
Benfica
Barcelona
GK1Portugal Costa Pereira
RB2Portugal Mário João
CB3Portugal Germano
LB4Portugal Ângelo Martins
RH5Portugal José Neto
LH6Portugal Fernando Cruz
OR7Portugal José Augusto
IR8Portugal Santana
CF9Portugal José Águas (c)
IL10Portugal Mário Coluna
OL11Portugal Domiciano Cavém
Manager:
Hungary Béla Guttmann
GK1Spain Antoni Ramallets (c)
RB2Spain Foncho
CB3Spain Enric Gensana
LB4Spain Sígfrid Gràcia
RH5Spain Martí Vergés
LH6Spain Jesús Garay
OR7Spain[lower-alpha 1] László Kubala
IR8Hungary Sándor Kocsis
CF9Brazil Evaristo
IL10Spain Luis Suárez
OL11Hungary Zoltán Czibor
Manager:
Spain Enrique Orizaola

See also

Notes

  1. Along with Kocsis and Czibor, Kubala was one of three Hungarian-born players in Barcelona's line-up. However, Kubala was the only one to adopt Spanish nationality, having fled communist rule in his homeland in 1948 and subsequently taken refuge in Spain. He had begun representing Spain in international play in 1953.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "UEFA Champions League – Statistics Handbook 2012/13" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. p. 129. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  2. [2]
    Simpson, Paul; Hesse-Lichtenberger, Uli (October 2005). Sleight, Hugh (ed.). "50 Things You Never Knew About... The European Cup". FourFourTwo (134). Teddington: Haymarket Consumer: 101. ISSN 1355-0276.
  3. [3]
    "Barcelona-Hamburg 1960 History | UEFA Champions League".
  4. [4]
    Glanville, Brian (21 May 2002). "Obituary: Ladislao Kubala". The Guardian.
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