1955–56 European Cup

1955–56 European Cup
Tournament details
Dates	4 September 1955 – 13 June 1956
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	Real Madrid (1st title)
Runners-up	Reims
Tournament statistics
Matches played	29
Goals scored	127 (4.38 per match)
Attendance	900,021 (31,035 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Miloš Milutinović (8 goals)
	1956–57 →

The 1955–56 European Cup was the first season of the European Cup. The tournament was won by Real Madrid. They beat Reims 4–3 in the final at the Parc des Princes, Paris, on June 13, 1956.

The participating clubs in the first five seasons of the European Cup were selected by French football magazine L'Equipe.^[1] Of the originally selected teams were English champions Chelsea and Scottish champion Aberdeen. This was the only UEFA tournament to include a team from Saarland, before it was unified into West Germany in 1957.

Teams

Location of teams in the 1955–56 European Cup.

First Round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Sporting CP	5–8	Partizan	3–3	2–5
Vörös Lobogó	10–4	Anderlecht	6–3	4–1
Servette	0–7	Real Madrid	0–2	0–5
Rot-Weiss Essen	1–5	Hibernian	0–4	1–1
Djurgården	4–1	Gwardia Warszawa	0–0	4–1
AGF Aarhus	2–4	Reims	0–2	2–2
Rapid Wien	6–2	PSV Eindhoven	6–1	0–1
Milan	7–5	Saarbrücken	3–4	4–1

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Djurgården	1–4	Hibernian	1–3	0–1
Reims	8–6	Vörös Lobogó	4–2	4–4
Real Madrid	4–3	Partizan	4–0	0–3
Rapid Wien	3–8	Milan	1–1	2–7