1948 Balkan Cup

Balkan and Central European Championship 1948 4 April – 7 November 1948 7 16 48 HUN 1946 Ferenc Puskás (5 goals) 1947 1973–76 The 1948 Balkan Cup, officially called the Balkan and Central European Championship, was played between April and November 1948 between Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/balkancup.html Balkan Cup (for Nations) RSSF.com 22 April 2020https://eu-football.info/_tournament.php?id=BlCh-n Balkan and Central European Championship 1948 EU-football.info 22 April 2020 It was Poland and Czechoslovakia's first and only participation in the tournament, which was not completed. Hungary was leading the table at the time it was abandoned. Final standings main WDL complete Q y 2 HUN HUN 1946 YUG YUG BUL BUL 1948 ROU ROU 1948 ALB ALB 1946 POL POL CSK CSK 4 1 1 22 5 2 1 0 4 1 2 1 2 6 7 2 1 3 6 18 1 2 0 1 0 1 2 2 6 9 0 0 4 3 8 Matches 4 April 1948 BUL 1948 1–1 Report POL Stankov 18 Parpan 23 Yunak Stadium, Sofia 30,000 Miljenko Podubsky (Yugoslavia) 18 April 1948 POL 3–1 Report CZE Cieślik 7Gracz 15Spodzieja 83 Kokštejn 58 Stadion Wojska Polskiego, Warsaw 40,000 Nikolay Latyshev (Soviet Union) 2 May 1948 ROU 1948 0–1 Report ALB 1946 Mirashi 63 Stadionul Giulești, Bucharest 20,000 Todor Stoyanov (Bulgaria) 23 May 1948 ALB 1946 0–0 Report HUN 1946 Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana 20,000 Leo Lemešić (Yugoslavia) 23 May 1948 HUN 1946 2–1 Report CSK Egresi 16Deák 73 Schubert 81 Üllői út, Budapest 32,000 Marijan Matančić (Yugoslavia) This match between Hungary and Czechoslovakia also counted for the 1948–53 Central European International Cup. 6 June 1948 HUN 1946 9–0 Report ROU 1948 Mészáros 30 46Egresi 43 61 72Puskás 58 82Kocsis 67 85 Megyeri úti Stadion, Újpest 45,000 Antun Mlinarić (Yugoslavia) 20 June 1948 ROU 1948 3–2 Report BUL 1948 Farkaș 22 71 pen.Dumitrescu 78 Argirov 14Tsvetkov 21 Stadionul Giulești, Bucharest 20,000 Szigeti György (Hungary) 27 June 1948 YUG 0–0 Report ALB 1946 Stadion Beogradski S.K., Belgrade 25,000 Nikola Gelev (Bulgaria) 4 July 1948 BUL 1948 1–3 Report YUG Argirov 32 Wölfl 41Mitić 54Čajkovski 72 Yunak Stadium, Sofia 30,000 Constantin Iliescu (Romania) 4 July 1948 ROM 2–1 Report CSK Iordache 22Bartha 90 pen. Menclík 77 Stadionul Giulești, Bucharest 20,000 Maksymilian Schneider (Poland) 25 August 1948 POL 0–1 Report YUG Mitić 24 Stadion Wojska Polskiego, Warsaw 38,000 Jozef Nemčovský (Czechoslovakia) 29 August 1948 BUL 1948 1–0 Report CSK Milev 37 Yunak Stadium, Sofia 30,000 Constantin Iliescu (Romania) 10 September 1948 POL 2–6 Report HUN 1946 Kohut 37Cieślik 68 Bozsik 20Hidegkuti 25 81Szusza 29Deák 69Tóth 72 Stadion Wojska Polskiego, Warsaw 40,000 Jaroslav Vlček (Czechoslovakia) 10 October 1948 POL 0–0 Report ROU 1948 Stadion Ruchu, Chorzów 50,000 Jaroslav Vlček (Czechoslovakia) 24 October 1948 ROU 1948 1–5 Report HUN 1946 Pecsovszky 77 Puskás 44 64 83Deák 49 68 Stadionul Republicii, Bucharest 40,000 Jaroslav Vlček (Czechoslovakia) 7 November 1948 BUL 1948 1–0 Report HUN 1946 Milanov 15 Yunak Stadium, Sofia 35,000 Constantin Iliescu (Romania) Matches not played (note: it is uncertain which teams were meant to at home and which away) YUG v. HUN 1946 YUG v. ROU 1948 ALB 1946 v. BUL 1948 ALB 1946 v. POL ALB 1946 v. CSK Aside from these, Hungary played Romania twice. Statistics Goalscorers 16 48 HUN 1946 Ferenc Puskás HUN 1946 Ferenc Deák HUN 1946 Béla Egresi HUN 1946 Nándor Hidegkuti HUN 1946 József Mészáros HUN 1946 Sándor Kocsis BUL 1948 Petar Argirov POL Gerard Cieślik SFR Yugoslavia Rajko Mitić ROM 1948 Iuliu Farkaș ALB 1946 Pal Mirashi BUL 1948 Borislav Tsvetkov BUL 1948 Dimitar Milanov BUL 1948 Krum Milev BUL 1948 Trendafil Stankov SFR Yugoslavia Franjo Wölfl SFR Yugoslavia Željko Čajkovski POL Józef Kohut POL Henryk Spodzieja POL Mieczysław Gracz POL Tadeusz Parpan HUN 1946 Ferenc Szusza HUN 1946 József Bozsik HUN 1946 Mátyás Tóth TCH Julius Schubert TCH Oldřich Menclík TCH Václav Kokštejn ROM 1948 Nicolae Dumitrescu ROM 1948 Eugen Iordache ROM 1948 Carol Bartha ROM 1948 József Pecsovszky References 1948 Category:1948 in European men's international football Category:1948–49 in Romanian football Category:1947–48 in Romanian football Category:1948–49 in Bulgarian football Category:1947–48 in Bulgarian football Category:1948–49 in Yugoslav football Category:1947–48 in Yugoslav football Category:1948–49 in Hungarian football Category:1947–48 in Hungarian football Category:1948–49 in Czechoslovak football Category:1947–48 in Czechoslovak football Category:1948 in Polish football Category:1948 in Albanian football