Mitropa Cup 1932
Participating Nations
Austria
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Italy
Number of clubs
8
Champions
AGC Bologna Bologna F.C. 1909 Bologna Football Club 1909, known simply as Bologna, is an Italian Football League club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, formed in 1993. The club are nicknamed the rossoblù because of the red and blue striped shirts they wear. Red and Blue are the official colours of the town.During its history...

The 1932 season of the Mitropa Cup

Mitropa Cup

The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale was one of the first really international major European football cups for club sides...

 football

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 club tournament was won by an Italian club for the first time. The winners were AGC Bologna

Bologna F.C. 1909

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, who defeated the holders First Vienna

First Vienna FC

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 in the semi-finals, and then won by default without the final being played. Juventus FC

Juventus F.C.

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 and Slavia Prague, who contested the other semi-final were both disqualified following an invasion of the pitch in Prague, and what has been described as the worst violence ever in the competition. The Slavia goalkeeper, František Plánička

František Plánicka

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, was injured when he was hit by a stone thrown by a spectator.

Despite the violence, Hugo Meisl

Hugo Meisl

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, president of the Austrian Football Association

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, described the competition as a doubly valuable public magnet (Diese Mitropa-Cup-Konkurrenz erscheint ein doppelt schätzbarer Magnet für das Publikum zu sein).

This was the sixth edition of the tournament, and the fourth edition in which Italian clubs competed and Yugoslavian clubs did not compete.

Renato Cesarini

Renato Cesarini

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 of Juventus was highest scorer with five goals.

Quarterfinals

Team #1	Agg.	|Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Slavia Prague	3 - 1	SK Admira Wien VfB Admira Wacker Mödling FC Admira Wacker Mödling is an Austrian football club from Mödling. The club was originally formed in 1905 as SK Admira Vienna in the Austrian capital...	3 - 0	0 - 1
AGC Bologna Bologna F.C. 1909 Bologna Football Club 1909, known simply as Bologna, is an Italian Football League club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, formed in 1993. The club are nicknamed the rossoblù because of the red and blue striped shirts they wear. Red and Blue are the official colours of the town.During its history...	5 - 3	Sparta Prague	5 - 0	0 - 3
Juventus FC Juventus F.C. Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...	7 - 3	Ferencvárosi FC	4 - 0	3 - 3
First Vienna FC First Vienna FC First Vienna FC is an Austrian association football club based in the Döbling district of Vienna. Established on 22 August 1894, it is the country's oldest team and has played a notable role in the history of the game there...	6 - 4	Újpest FC Újpest FC Újpest Football Club , earlier known as Újpesti TE and Újpesti Dózsa, is a Hungarian football club, based in Újpest, Budapest. The club's colours are purple and white...	5 - 3	1 - 1

Semifinals

Team #1	Agg.	|Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
AGC Bologna Bologna F.C. 1909 Bologna Football Club 1909, known simply as Bologna, is an Italian Football League club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, formed in 1993. The club are nicknamed the rossoblù because of the red and blue striped shirts they wear. Red and Blue are the official colours of the town.During its history...	2 - 1	First Vienna FC First Vienna FC First Vienna FC is an Austrian association football club based in the Döbling district of Vienna. Established on 22 August 1894, it is the country's oldest team and has played a notable role in the history of the game there...	2 - 0	0 - 1
Slavia Prague	4 - 2	Juventus FC Juventus F.C. Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...	4 - 0	0 - 21

¹ The match was abandoned with Juventus leading 2-0; after Slavia had conceded two quick goals in the match and resorted to obstruction and time wasting, fans were incensed to the extent that they started throwing stones on the pitch, one hitting and seriously injuring Slavia goalkeeper Planicka. Slavia walked off and were pinned in their dressing rooms for hours while 1,500 soldiers and policemen formed a cordon. Slavia Prague and Juventus FC were both ejected from the competition.

Finals

The final was scratched and   AGC Bologna were awarded the cup after Slavia Prague and Juventus FC were both ejected from the competition.

External links

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