1955 Mitropa Cup

1955 Mitropa Cup

Tournament details
Dates	29 June – 4 August 1955
Teams	10
Final positions
Champions	Vörös Lobogó (1st title)
Runners-up	ÚDA Praha
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Goals scored	78 (3.9 per match)
← 1951 1956 →

The 1955 Mitropa Cup was the 15th season of the Mitropa football club tournament. It was won by Vörös Lobogó who beat ÚDA Praha in the two-legged final 8–1 on aggregate.

Preliminary round[edit]

Matches played between 29 June and 5 July 1955.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Vörös Lobogó	5–51	Wacker Wien	3–3	2–2
Vojvodina	9–5	Roma	4–1	5–4

¹ Vörös Lobogó beat Wacker Wien 5–1 in a play-off to qualify for the Quarter-finals.

First leg[edit]

29 June 1955

Vörös Lobogó	3 – 3	Wacker Wien
Arató 8' Kárász 53', 58'	Report	Kaubek 10', 66' Haummer 17'

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 45,000

Second leg[edit]

2 July 1955

Wacker Wien	2 – 2	Vörös Lobogó
Kovács 20' (o.g.) Kaubek 40'	Report	Chalupetzky 1' (o.g.) Hidegkuti 42'

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 22,000

Play-off

5 July 1955

Wacker Wien	1 – 5	Vörös Lobogó
Brousek 20' (pen.)	Report	Hidegkuti 13', 70' Molnár 14', 39', 50'

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 15,000

Quarter-finals[edit]

Matches played between 6 and 13 July 1955.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Honvéd Budapest	10–6	Wiener Sport-Club	5–2	5–4
Bologna	2–7	ÚDA Praha	2–4	0–3
Vojvodina	0–3	Slovan Bratislava	0–0	0–3
Vörös Lobogó	8–3	Hajduk Split	6–0	2–3

First leg[edit]

6 July 1955

Honvéd Budapest	5 – 2	Wiener Sport-Club
Tichy 11' Kocsis 13', 72', 81' Puskás 23' (pen.)	Report	Miessler 3', 18'

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 50,000

9 July 1955

Vörös Lobogó	6 – 0	Hajduk Split
Molnár 4' Szimcsák 12' Sándor 32', 51' Kárász 37' Hidegkuti 70'	Report

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 15,000

Second leg[edit]

9 July 1955

Wiener Sport-Club	4 – 5	Honvéd Budapest
Horak 22' Szokol 60' Miessler 63' (pen.) Hof 90'	Report	Czibor 24', 78' Kocsis 26' Puskás 54' Bozsik 61'

Wiener Sportclub-Platz, Vienna

Attendance: 13,000

13 July 1955

Hajduk Split	3 – 2	Vörös Lobogó
Matošić 49' Vukas 70' Vidošević 79'	Report	Hidegkuti 64' Sándor 66'

Stari plac, Split

Attendance: 20,000

Semi-finals[edit]

Matches played between 18 and 23 July 1955.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Honvéd Budapest	6–7	Vörös Lobogó	5–2	1–5
ÚDA Praha	2–21	Slovan Bratislava	0–0	2–2

¹ ÚDA Praha beat Slovan Bratislava 2–1 in a play-off to qualify for the Final.

First leg[edit]

18 July 1955

Honvéd Budapest	5 – 2	Vörös Lobogó
Machos 10', 79' Czibor 12' Kocsis 14', 53'	Report	Molnár 16' Kárász 40'

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 75,000

Second leg[edit]

23 July 1955

Vörös Lobogó	5 – 1	Honvéd Budapest
Molnár 4', 37', 42' Kovács 22' (pen.), 66'	Report	Puskás 44'

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 50,000

Final[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Vörös Lobogó	8–1	ÚDA Praha	6–0	2–1

First leg[edit]

30 July 1955

Vörös Lobogó	6 – 0	ÚDA Praha
Hidegkuti 4', 14', 43' Kárász 12' Novák 71' (o.g.) Molnár 76'	Report

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 70,000

Second leg[edit]

4 August 1955

ÚDA Praha	1 – 2	Vörös Lobogó
Přáda 31'	Report	Hidegkuti 55' Palotás 88'

Československé armády-Strahov, Prague

Attendance: 50,000

See also[edit]

• 1955–56 European Cup

External links[edit]

• 1955 Mitropa Cup at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation