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
Dates	26 August 1958 – 3 June 1959
Teams	28 (26 competed)
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 →

It was the first time that a team from Finland participated. Olympiacos, 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. This is the first time that Rapid Wien and AGF Aarhus failed to qualify for the tournament, while Standard Liége, Heart of Midlothian, Beșiktaș, NK Dinamo Zagreb, Jeunesse Esch, IFK Göteborg, Ards, Petrolul Ploiești, Atlético Madrid, Drumcondra, Polonia Bytom, KB, Schalke 04, Juventus Turin, Wiener Sportclub, Helsingin Palloseura, Wolverhampton Wanderers and DOS made their debut in competition.^{[citation needed]}

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	Heart of Midlothian	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	2–2^3	IFK Göteborg	1–2	1–0
Ards	3–10	Stade Reims	1–4	2–6
Wismut Karl Marx Stadt	4–4^4	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	5–5^5	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 3–0 at Old Trafford a week later. The two clubs were again drawn together in the group stage of both the 2018–19 and 2021–22 UEFA Champions League seasons, with the former happening 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

26 August 1958

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

Idrætsparken, Copenhagen

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Andries van Leeuwen (Netherlands)

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3 September 1958

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

Stade Sclessin, Liège

Attendance: 25,000^[5]

Referee: Pierre Schwinte (France)

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10 September 1958

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

Dinamo Stadion, Zagreb

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Erich Steiner (Austria)

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14 September 1958

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

Stade de la Frontière, Esch-sur-Alzette

Attendance: 3,500

Referee: Aage Poulsen (Denmark)

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14 September 1958

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

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: José María Ortiz de Mendíbil (Spain)

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17 September 1958

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

Estadio Metropolitano de Madrid, Madrid

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Giulio Campanati (Italy)

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17 September 1958

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

Otto-Grotewohl-Stadion, Aue

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Antonín Růžička (Czechoslovakia)

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17 September 1958

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

Stadion Polonii, Bytom

Attendance: 25,000^[6]

Referee: Werner Treichel (West Germany)

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24 September 1958

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

Stadio Olimpico di Torino, Turin

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Josef Gulde (Switzerland)

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1 October 1958

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

Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: John Clough (England)

Second leg

9 September 1958

Heart of Midlothian	2–1	Standard Liège
Bauld   55', 65'	Report	Givard   58'

Tynecastle Park, Edinburgh

Attendance: 37,500

Referee: Louis Fauquembergue (France)

Standard Liège won 6–3 on aggregate

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18 September 1958

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

Glückauf-Kampfbahn, Gelsenkirchen

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Willem Beltman (Netherlands)

5–5 on aggregate

Play-off

1 October 1958

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

Diekman Stadion, Enschede

Attendance: 27,000

Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands)

Schalke 04 won play-off 3–1.

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28 September 1958

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

Stadionul Petrolul, Ploiești

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Václav Korelus (Czechoslovakia)

4–4 on aggregate

Play-off

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

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12 October 1958

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

Nikita Khrushchev Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Karol Galba (Czechoslovakia)

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30 September 1958

IFK Göteborg	0–1	Jeunesse Esch
	Report	May   21'

Ullevi, Gothenburg

Attendance: 21,435

Referee: Valdemar Hansen (Denmark)

2–2 on aggregate

Play-off

15 October 1958

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

Ullevi, Gothenburg

Attendance: 11,780

Referee: Jarl Hansen (Denmark)

IFK Göteborg won play-off 5–1.

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30 September 1958

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

Stade Auguste Delaune, Reims

Attendance: 19,509

Referee: Manuel Asensi Martín (Spain)

Stade Reims won 10–3 on aggregate

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1 October 1958

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

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 35,000^[7]

Referee: Paul Wyssling (Switzerland)

Wiener Sport-Club won 8–3 on aggregate

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1 October 1958

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

Strahov Stadium, Prague

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Erich Steiner (Austria)

Dukla Prague won 4–3 on aggregate

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1 October 1958

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

Dalymount Park, Dublin

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Giulio Campanati (Italy)

Atlético Madrid won 13–1 on aggregate

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1 October 1958

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

Hungária Körút, Budapest

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Josef Kandlbinder (West Germany)

MTK Budapest won 6–0 on aggregate

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8 October 1958

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

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

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	2–2^1	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

29 October 1958

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

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Joseph Barberan (France)

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5 November 1958

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

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Kevin Howley (England)

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5 November 1958

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

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Alfred Grill (Austria)

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5 November 1958

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

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Paul Wyssling (Switzerland)

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9 November 1958

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

Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg

Attendance: 13,978

Referee: Jósef Kowal (Poland)

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12 November 1958

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

Molineux, Wolverhampton

Attendance: 45,676

Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

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13 November 1958

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

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Pietro Bonetto (Italy)

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26 November 1958

Reims	4–0	HPS Helsinki
Vincent   22', 35', 85' Siatka   89'	Report

Stade Auguste Delaune, Reims

Attendance: 11,452

Referee: Edgar Ommerborn (West Germany)

Second leg

12 November 1958

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

Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège

Attendance: 32,000

Referee: Michel Devillers (France)

Standard Liège won 6–2 on aggregate

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15 November 1958

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

Otto Grotewohl Stadion, Aue

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Marian Koczner (Poland)

Wismut Karl Marx Stadt won 6–2 on aggregate

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18 November 1958

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

Glückauf-Kampfbahn, Gelsenkirchen

Attendance: 43,000

Referee: Gérard Versyp (Belgium)

Schalke 04 won 4–3 on aggregate

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26 November 1958

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

Letná Stadium, Prague

Attendance: 18,000^[8]

Referee: Aage Poulsen (Denmark)

Wiener Sport-Club won 3–2 on aggregate

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26 November 1958

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

Wankdorf Stadium, Bern

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Alfred Grill (Austria)

Young Boys won 6–2 on aggregate

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26 November 1958

CDNA Sofia	1–0	Atlético Madrid
Panayotov   64'	Report

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Paul Wyssling (Switzerland)

2–2 on aggregate

Play-off

18 December 1958

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

Charmilles Stadium, Geneva

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Daniel Mellet (Switzerland)

Atlético Madrid won play-off 3–1.

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27 November 1958

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

Mithat Paşa Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Cesare Jonni (Italy)

Real Madrid won 3–1 on aggregate

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3 December 1958

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

Stade Robert Diochon, Rouen

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	2–2^1	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

4 February 1959

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

Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège

Attendance: 36,000

Referee: John Kelly (England)

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4 March 1959

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

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 110,000

Referee: Antonio Moriconi (Italy)

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4 March 1959

Wiener Sport-Club	0–0	Real Madrid
	Report

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Albert Alsteen (Belgium)

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11 March 1959

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

Wankdorf Stadium, Bern

Attendance: 32,000

Referee: Francisco Guerra (Portugal)

Second leg

18 March 1959

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

Stade Auguste Delaune, Reims

Attendance: 32,235

Referee: José María Ortiz de Mendíbil (Spain)

Reims won 3–2 on aggregate

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18 March 1959

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

Glückauf-Kampfbahn, Gelsenkirchen

Attendance: 43,000

Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands)

Atlético Madrid won 4–1 on aggregate

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18 March 1959

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

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 90,000

Referee: Maurice Guigue (France)

Real Madrid won 7–1 on aggregate

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18 March 1959

Wismut Karl Marx Stadt	0–0	Young Boys
	Report

Otto Grotewohl Stadion, Aue

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Bengt Andrén (Sweden)

2–2 on aggregate

Play-off

1 April 1959

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

Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Leo Horn (Netherlands)

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	2–2^1	Atlético Madrid	2–1	0–1

¹ Real Madrid beat Atlético Madrid 2–1 in a playoff.

First leg

15 April 1959

Young Boys	1–0	Reims
Meier   15'	Report

Wankdorf Stadium, Bern

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Lucien Van Nuffel (Belgium)

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15 April 1959

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

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 120,000

Referee: Jack Mowat (Scotland)

Second leg

7 May 1959

Atlético Madrid	1–0	Real Madrid
Collar   43'	Report

Estadio Metropolitano de Madrid, Madrid

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Reg Leafe (England)

2–2 on aggregate

Play-off

13 May 1959

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

La Romareda, Zaragoza

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Arthur Edward Ellis (England)

Real Madrid won play-off 2–1.

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13 May 1959

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

Parc des Princes, Paris

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.

3 June 1959

18:00 CEST

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

Neckarstadion, Stuttgart

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.
5. "Standard Liège v Heart of Midlothian, 3 September 1958" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
6. "Standard Liège v Heart of Midlothian, 3 September 1958" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
7. "Standard Liège v Heart of Midlothian, 3 September 1958" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
8. "Standard Liège v Heart of Midlothian, 3 September 1958" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 11 March 2022.

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