Copa Rio de Janeiro 1951 (original) (raw)

NB: tournament dubbed 'Club World Championship' by Brazilian press; in March 2007 (less than 56 years after the event), it was reported that FIFA accepted the Copa Rio 1951 as the first official club world championship, on request by CBF and Palmeiras, which would have relegated the 2000 edition of the FIFA Club World Championship to being the second edition; however, a definite decision on this was taken in December 2007 and negative.

Participants:

Rio de Janeiro Group CR Vasco da Gama (Brazil, 1950 Rio de Janeiro Champions) Sporting CP (Portugal, 1950/51 Champions) FK Austria (Austria, 1949/50 Champions) Nacional CF (Uruguay, 1950 Champions)

S�o Paulo Group SE Palmeiras (Brazil, 1950 S�o Paulo Champions) Olympique GC Nice (France, 1950/51 Champions) FK Crvena Zvezda (Yugoslavia, 1951 Champions) FC Juventus (Italy, 1949/50 Champions)

Rio de Janeiro Group (all matches in Maracan�)

Jun 30: Austria Wien - Nacional 4-0 Jul 1: Vasco da Gama - Sporting 5-1 Jul 3: Nacional - Sporting 3-2 Jul 5: Vasco da Gama - Austria Wien 5-1 Jul 7: Sporting - Austria Wien 1-2 Jul 8: Vasco da Gama - Nacional 2-1

Table 1.Vasco da Gama 3 3 0 0 12- 3 6 2.Austria Wien 3 2 0 1 7- 6 4

3.Nacional (Montevdeo) 3 1 0 2 4- 8 2 4.Sporting CP (Lisboa) 3 0 0 3 4-10 0

S�o Paulo Group (all matches in Pacaembu)
Jun 30: Palmeiras - Olympique 3-0 Jul 1: Juventus - Crvena Zvezda 3-2 Jul 3: Olympique - Juventus 2-3 Jul 5: Palmeiras - Crvena Zvezda 2-1 Jul 7: Crvena Zvezda - Olympique 1-2 Jul 8: Palmeiras - Juventus 0-4
Table 1.Juventus (Torino) 3 3 0 0 10- 4 6 2.Palmeiras 3 2 0 1 5- 5 4

3.Olympique Nice 3 1 0 2 4- 7 2 4.Crvena Zvezda 3 0 0 3 4- 7 0

Semifinals

S�o Paulo semifinal

Jul 12: Austria Wien - Juventus 3-3 Jul 14: Juventus - Austria Wien 3-1

Rio de Janeiro semifinal

Jul 12: Vasco da Gama - Palmeiras 1-2 Jul 15: Vasco da Gama - Palmeiras 0-0

Finals

Jul 18: Palmeiras - Juventus 1-0 (in S�o Paulo) Jul 22: Juventus - Palmeiras 2-2 (in Rio de Janeiro) [Praest, Boniperti; Rodrigues, Liminha] [Maracan�; ref: Tordjan (France); linesmen: Greig (England) and Papovic (Yugoslavia)] [Palmeiras: F�bio; Salvador, Juvenal; T�lio, Lu�s Villa, Dema; Lima, Ponce de Le�n, Liminha, Jair, Rodrigues; coach: Ventura Cambon; Juventus: Viola; Bertucceli, Manente; Mari, Parola, Bizzoto; Miccinelli, Karl Hansen, Boniperti, Johan Hansen, Praest; coach: Carver]

Winners: Palmeiras

1952

About this document

Thanks to Paulo Martins (pirolito1@hotmail.com) for additions and corrections and to Luciano Pasqualini for informing of the 2007 FIFA decision.

Prepared and maintained by Ricardo Pontes for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Ricardo Pontes (rffp@terra.com.br) Last updated: 10 Jul 2014