1959/60

1959/60: Dazzling Madrid crush Frankfurt
Season overview

1959/60: Dazzling Madrid crush Frankfurt

Real Madrid CF's fifth successive European Champion Clubs' Cup final win was the best of the lot, with three goals from Alfredo di Stéfano and four for Ferenc Puskás seeing Eintracht Frankfurt blown away at Glasgow's Hampden Park.

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Did you know?

The crowd of 127,621 at Hampden Park remains a European Cup final record, appropriate for the highest-scoring fixture in the showpiece.

Also in this year

• The Soviet Union wins the first edition of what was to become the UEFA European Championship.

• Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia wins the Olympic marathon, running bare-footed in Rome.

• John F. Kennedy becomes the youngest man to be elected as President of the United States.

• Francis Chichester, diagnosed with lung cancer two years earlier, wins the first single-handed transatlantic yacht race.

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