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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.
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Nations which participated in the Mitropa Cup ( 1927-1940 )
The Challenge Cup was carried out until the year 1911 and is today seen as the predecessor to the Mitropa Cup and consequently the European Cup and Champions League.
In order to strengthen the dominance of these countries in European football and to financially support the professional clubs, the introduction of the Mitropa Cup was decided at a meeting in Venice on July 17, following the initiative of the head of the Austrian Football Association ( ÖFB ), Hugo Meisl.
Moreover, the creation of a European Cup for national teams-that unlike the Challenge Cup and the Mitropa Cup would not be annual-was also part of the agreement.
Out of the eleven different teams competing in the first three World Cups, five were part of the Mitropa Cup.
Later editions, again under the Mitropa Cup label, lost much of its status because of the introduction of other European club competitions and faced an ongoing decline.
In Europe, they fared much better, winning the Mitropa Cup, a European Cup for teams that had won the previous season of Serie B.
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In 1958, Red Star won also its first European trophy, the Mitropa Cup, who had been played during summer, in the break between the seasons.
In 1968, Red Star won its second Mitropa Cup trophy and after winning Red Star withdrew from the Mitropa Cup in order to focus more on other European competitions.
Since the first European Cup semi final, when Red Star was eliminated by Fiorentina, Red Star was 14 times in a European football cup competition quarter-final ( without Mitropa Cup ), and was a semi-finalist in each of the three cup competitions ( total of 6 times ).
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The club is the second most successful club in Serbia, having won a total of 38 trophies, including 24 national championships, 12 national cups, 1 national supercup as well 1 Mitropa Cup, and finished the Yugoslav league all-time table as 2nd.
The same year, Partizan won, led by manager Ante Mladinić, its first European trophy, the Mitropa Cup.
Mitropa and officially
The construction took 8 months to complete and it was officially opened on October 4, 1972 for the second leg of the 1972 Mitropa Cup final against ACF Fiorentina which Čelik won 1-0 to claim their second title in a row.
Mitropa and Europe
Mitropa Cup / Central Europe Cup
Immediately prior to the introduction of the European Cup, the Latin Cup was considered the most important cup for clubs in Europe, the longer-established Mitropa Cup having gone into decline after World War II.
Mitropa and was
Originally, Intershop was organised as a division of Mitropa, the company that provided catering services to the Deutsche Reichsbahn.
He was top-scorer of Serie A 3 times ( 1930, 1936, 1938 ), top-scorer in the pre-Serie A year of 1929 and top scorer of the Mitropa Cup three times: 1930 ( 7 ), 1933 ( 5 ) and 1936 ( 10 ).
In 1955, Hajduk won the championship, the Football Association of Yugoslavia sent Hajduk as the champions to the Mitropa Cup, while Partizan was chosen to participate in the inaugural European Cup.
The strangest of all might be the qualification in the final of the Mitropa Cup ( precursor of the UEFA Champions League, ) at a moment when the competition was taking its last breath.
In Germany and Austro-Hungary Mitropa was founded to take over the property and services of CIWL.
Eventually, CIWL and Mitropa came to an agreement about their spheres of influence that was signed on April 23, 1925.
With anschluss in 1938, the Austrian market was lost to Mitropa ( it was recovered after 1945 ).
It was there that Čelik started its first run of successes when they had reached promotion to the Yugoslav First League in 1966 and won the Mitropa Cup in 1971 ( the final was played on neutral ground in Gorizia, Italy ).
The catering needs of the DB were supplied by the “ Deutsche Schlafwagen-und Speisewagengesellschaft ” ( DSG ), later “ Deutsche Service-Gesellschaft der Bahn ”, as the former DRG caterer Mitropa was situated in East Germany and serviced the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the GDR.
Meisl was also behind the launch of the Mitropa Cup, a knockout competition for club teams from the same countries which also began in 1927.
Bilino Polje was built within a 6-8 month period, and was ready for NK Čelik to host European teams in the then Mitropa Cup.
Before UEFA was founded ( in 1954 ), OFK Beograd, under the name of Belgrade Sport Club ( BSK ), participated in Mitropa Cup, the first really international European football competition.
They won the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1976, the Mitropa Cup in 1977 and was also runners-up of the Mitropa Cup in 1957 and the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1998.
Mitropa and one
The 1930s, one of Austria's most successful eras brought two Mitropa Cup titles, a predecessor of today's UEFA Champions League ( 1933, 1936 ).
The 1930s, one of Austria's most successful eras, brought two Mitropa Cup titles, a predecessor of today's UEFA Champions League ( 1933, 1936 ).
That same year the team also won the Mitropa Cup, one of Europe's first international club competitions.
Mitropa and first
The late 20's and 30's brought the first golden age of the club, marked by finishing on top of the Hungarian first division 5 times and international cup success, including two Mitropa Cup titles in 1929 and 1939, and also the Cup of Nations title in 1930.
Shortly after the first Mitropa Cup victory, plans were made for a new, modern stadium, built in place of Čelik's first stadium.
In 1977, Vojvodina left Fiorentina, Sparta Prague and Vasas Budapest behind and won its first European trophy, the Mitropa Cup.
Mitropa and international
His only international title came in 1938, when his club finally won the Mitropa Cup.
Also on the international stage Vojvodina had good results, so in 1957, where they reached the Mitropa Cup final, and two years later the semi-finals.
Mitropa and European
Slavia has won 17 titles, several Czech cups and the Mitropa Cup ( Central European Cup ) in 1938.
The club also won European Mitropa Cup in 1985.
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