2006-09-30 03:59:32 · 11 answers · asked by al s 1 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
Hibernian FC of SCOTLAND is the first British to enter the UEFA European Cup in 1995-1956 season. they qualified to the semi-finals before losing to the eventual runners-up Stade De Reims-Champagne of FRANCE 3-0 on aggregate.
2006-09-30 13:22:00 · answer #1 · answered by foongwk140804 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The lack of any English club in the first European Cup tournament, allied with traditional English insularity, meant that the new competition received virtually no coverage in the land of the game’s birth. But just three months later, interest amongst the English press was stirred by the participation of Manchester United in the 1956-57 competition.
1955 League Champions Chelsea had withdrawn from the inaugural competition before it began after pressure from the Football League who feared that the new competition would create too much fixture congestion, but Manchester United, under manager Matt Busby, were determined to accept their invitation to compete in the second tournament and pressured the Football Association into backing their desire to participate in the fledgling competition.
2006-09-30 09:55:21 · answer #2 · answered by Chippie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the first season the European Cup was played for was 1955/56 so from England the champions of 1954/55 would have entered the competition and the champions of 1954/55 were Chelsea.
So if it all went to plan then it would be Chelsea.
I'm not sure about the Scots
2006-09-30 06:12:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Celtic were the fist to win it in 1967 but the competition started in 1956 for the champion teams of each country so the qualifying teams from England and Scotland that year (and so the first to play ) would have been Chelsea and Aberdeen
2006-09-30 05:17:24 · answer #4 · answered by Peter T 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Celtic were the first to win it in 1967, but Hibernian were the first team to play in it, i think, in 1956.
2006-09-30 10:37:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1956.. Manchester United
2006-09-30 05:41:19 · answer #6 · answered by kwenzini 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
first was definitely Hibernian
as for the year ?? 1956??maby 1955??
2006-09-30 05:26:15 · answer #7 · answered by Deano™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Celtic and was it not in 67 or there abouts
2006-09-30 04:07:17 · answer #8 · answered by FLOYD 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
celtic but not sure of the year sorry
2006-09-30 04:01:15 · answer #9 · answered by alan h 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was it not Hibernian?
2006-10-01 00:09:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋