The 1932 season of the Mitropa Cup

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club tournament was won by an Italian club for the first time. The winners were AGC Bologna; after they defeated the holders, First Vienna in the semi-finals, they were awarded the cup as the final was scratched after

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and

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, who contested the other semi-final, were both ejected from the competition following stone throwing and a pitch invasion in Prague, in what has been described as the worst violence ever in the competition's history. In one incident, Slavia goalkeeper František Plánička was badly injured when he was hit by a stone thrown by a spectator.Mitropa Cup 1932 report
- by Karel Stokkermans, RSSSF, 1999. Retrieved 2008-09-21 Despite the violence,

Hugo Meisl Hugo Meisl (16 November 1881 – 17 February 1937), brother of the journalist Willy Meisl, was the multi-lingual football coach of the famous Austrian ' Wunderteam' of the early 1930s, as well as a referee. Background Meisl was born to a Jewi ...

, president of the

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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.

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of Juventus was the highest scorer with five goals.

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

¹ The match was abandoned with Juventus leading 2-0 after the crowd, enraged Slavia had conceded two quick goals in the match and resorted to obstruction and time wasting, threw stones onto the pitch. After a stone hit and seriously injured Slavia goalkeeper František Plánička, Slavia's team walked off; both teams' fans invaded the pitch in response, leaving Slavia 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.
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Finals

The final was scratched and

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were awarded the cup after

and

were both ejected from the competition.

Top goalscorers

External links

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

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