European Nations Cup 1964

29 of the 32 European member nations entered the 2nd European Nations Cup tournament with England, Wales and Northern Ireland all taking part for the first time. Scotland, West Germany and Finland did not enter. The draw for the preliminary round took place in Zurich on 10th January 1962 (with the team drawn first in each tie having the choice of whether to play at home or away in the 1st leg). Greece decided to withdraw after being paired up with Albania with whom they were officially at war, the latter going straight through to the last 16 along with holders the Soviet Union (who were exempted from the preliminary round) and Austria and Luxembourg who both drew byes. England were drawn against France and the 2nd leg turned out to be Alf Ramsey's first match as manager, but they lost 6-3 on aggregate.

Spain, after overcoming Romania in the preliminary round, then Northern Ireland in the last 16 and the Republic of Ireland in the quarter-finals*, were selected to host both semi-finals, the 3rd place play-off and the final - conditional on them accepting the participation of the Soviet Union, whom Spain had refused to play against in the previous tournament. The pair ultimately met in the final and it was the hosts who emerged as the victors.

*Despite the Republic of Ireland losing the QF 1st leg in Spain 5-1, RTE showed the 2nd leg live with Phillip Greene commentating. The 2nd leg was also lost (2-0).

ITV games are in white, BBC or non-televised matches are in grey.
All matches were broadcast in black & white.

Early Rounds & Friendlies

Wed 03/Oct/1962    England 1 (Flowers(pen)) France 1 (Goujon)
Preliminary Round 1st Leg
Hillsborough
*No TV coverage scheduled. Four players made their England debuts - Birmingham City's Mike Hellawell,  Blackpool's Ray Charnley (his only cap) and two Wolves players; Chris Crowe (his only cap) and Alan Hinton. Yvon Goujon put France ahead on 8, Ron Flowers equalised with a spot kick on 57.

Wed 10/Oct/1962    Poland 0 Northern Ireland 2 (Dougan, Humphries)
Preliminary Round 1st Leg
Chorzow
*No TV coverage scheduled. One goal in each half gave the Irish a two goal advantage to take back to Belfast, Dougan scoring on 19 and Humphries on 54.

Wed 07/Nov/1962    Hungary 3 (Albert, Tichy, Sándor) Wales 1 (Medwin)
Preliminary Round 1st Leg
Budapest
*Albert gave Hungary the lead on 6, Medwin equalised on 18, Tichy restored the home side's lead on 35 and Sándor made it 3-1 to Hungary on 48.

Wed 28/Nov/1962    Northern Ireland 2 (Crossan, Bingham) Poland 0
Preliminary Round 2nd Leg
Belfast
*No TV coverage scheduled, although there was a "Sportsview" on the BBC at 9:25-10:20pm. Crossan's opening goal on 9 gave the Irish a 3-0 aggregate lead, Bingham secured a place in the last 16 for Northern Ireland with another goal on 64.

Wed 27/Feb/1963    France 5 (Wisnieski 2, Douis, Cossou 2) England 2 (Smith, Tambling)
Preliminary Round 2nd Leg
Paris
BBC Highlights
Walley Barnes
*BBC television highlights were shown at 10:35-11:05pm (and the footage still exists). This was Alf Ramsey's first match as manager of England and Ronald Henry of Spurs made his one and only England appearance, France went ahead early through Maryan Wisnieski on 3, Yvon Douis  made it 2-0 on 32 and the French were 3 up at HT after Lucien Cossou  had scored on 43. Bobby Smith pulled one back on 57, Bobby Tambling then reduced the score to 3-2 on 74, but Wisnieski scored again for France a minute later for 4-2 and Cossou netted a 5th goal for the French on 82 to give them a 6-3 win on aggregate.

Wed 20/Mar/1963    Wales 1 (C.Jones(pen)) Hungary 1 (Tichy(pen))
Preliminary Round 2nd Leg
Cardiff
BBC WALES Part Live
*BBC WALES had live coverage of part of the match which kicked off at 7:25pm. Cliff Jones put the home side ahead from the penalty spot on 23 to pull the aggregate score back to 2-3, but Tichy equalised on the night also with a penalty kick on 77. Hungary won 4-2 on aggregate.

Sun 05/May/1963    West Germany 1 (Werner(pen)) Brazil 2 (Coutinho, Pelé)
Friendly in Hamburg
BBC LIVE
Ken Wolstenholme
*Live on the BBC from 2:55-4:45pm. Werner netted a penalty for the Germans on 45, Brazil came back in the 2nd half with goals from Coutinho on 69 and Pelé on 72.

Wed 08/May/1963    England 1 (Douglas) Brazil 1 (Pepe)
Friendly at Wembley
ITV LIVE 2nd Half
Gerry Loftus
*ITV showed the 2nd half live from 3:20-4:45pm. Highlights were broadcast in some regions at 11:10-11:50pm (including STV and Grampian). Two players made their England debuts, Liverpool's Gordon Milne and Arsenal's George Eastham, it was also goalkeeper Gordon Banks' 2nd cap having made his debut in a home international fixture the previous month. Pelé was not among the Brazil line-up, the visitors went ahead through Pepe on 18, Brian Douglas netted a late equaliser on 86.

Wed 08/May/1963    Scotland 4 (Wilson 2, Law 2) Austria 1 (Linhart)
Friendly at Hampden
SCOTTISH, GRAMPIAN & BORDER Highlights
*STV, Grampian and Border showed highlights at 10:30-11:10pm of an incredible night at Hampden (7:30pm KO), BBC Scotland had live coverage of the 2nd half at 8:30-9:25pm, a BBC telerecording still exists with George Davidson commentating. Three players made their Scotland debuts, David Holt of Hearts, David Gibson of Leicester City and James Millar of Rangers. Two goals by David Wilson on 10 and 20 gave Scotland a 2-0 lead, but the Austrians vehemently protested the 2nd goal and, after the re-start, Nemec was sent off for spitting at the referee, but he refused to leave the field and there were heated exchanges down by the benches before Nemec eventually departed. A Denis Law goal on 28 gave Scotland a 3-0 HT lead, Law added another on 71 and Anton Linhart netted a consolation for Austria on 72 but Hof then became the 2nd Austria player to be sent off for a "diabolical waistline foul" and an Austrian reserve had to be stopped by a policeman from attacking the referee, Hof remained adamantly on the field for some 3 minutes as players and officials argued. Finally, on 79 minutes, after a bad foul by Law on Linhart (who had to be carried off) referee James Finney from Hereford abandoned the game due to persistent fouling; "I stopped the game because there was no saying how it was going to end. It was getting completely out of hand, somebody might have been seriously injured." Most of the 94,596 crowd remained in place for 10 minutes afterwards hoping the game would resume until a police announcement confirmed that the game had been abandoned.

Sun 12/May/1963    Italy 3 (Sormani, A.Mazzola(pen), Bulgarelli) Brazil 0
Friendly in Milan
BBC LIVE 2nd Half
Ken Wolstenholme
*Live 2nd half coverage was shown on the BBC at 4:50-5:45pm. Sormani scored the openener for Italy on 35, A.Mazzola netted a penalty on 39 for 2-0, Bulgarelli got the 3rd on 76.

Fri 24/May/1963    England 3 (Greaves(pen), Hinton, Byrne) Football League 3 (Hunt, Hurst, Kay)
FA Centenery Friendly at Highbury
ITV LIVE 2nd Half
Gerry Loftus
*Friday night coverage on ITV at 8:00-9:00pm. Caps were not awarded for this fixture.

Wed 29/May/1963    Czechoslovakia 2 (Scherer, Kadraba) England 4 (Greaves 2, Smith, Charlton)
Friendly in Bratislava
BBC part LIVE
Ken Wolstenholme
*The BBC had coverage of the last 25 minutes or so at 6:25-6:50pm, with "comment" during "Sportsview" later in the evening at 8:45-9:15pm. Two England players made their debut, Terry Paine of Southampton and Ken Shellito of Chelsea (his only cap), whilst Bobby Moore captained the side for the first time. Jimmy Greaves gave England the lead on 18, Bobby Smith made it 2-0 on the stroke of HT. The 2nd half saw Adolf Scherer score for the Czechs on 52, Bobby Charlton then made it 3-1 to England on 71, but only for Josef Kadraba to immediately reduce the arrears again on 72. Jimmy Greaves sealed the win for England with his 2nd goal of the game on 81.

Thu 30/May/1963    Spain 1 (Amancio) Northern Ireland 1 (W.Irvine)
Last 16 1st Leg
Bilbao
*No TV coverage scheduled. Amancio put Spain ahead on 58, Willie Irvine equalised on 76.

Sun 02/Jun/1963    East Germany 1 (Ducke) England 2 (Hunt, Charlton)
Friendly in Leipzig
*No TV coverage scheduled. This was the first time that England would play against East Germany since the divide. Peter Ducke gave the home side the lead on 24, Roger Hunt equalised at the very end of the first-half on 45, Bobby Charlton netted the winner on 70.

Tue 04/Jun/1963    Norway 4 (Nilsen, Johansen, Pedersen, Krogh) Scotland 3 (Law 3)
Friendly in Bergen
*No TV coverage scheduled. Burnley goalkeeper Adam Blacklaw made his debut, Frank McLintock of Leicester City also appeared in a Scotland shirt for the first time coming on as a sub. Olav Nilsen put Norway ahead on 5, Denis Law equalised on 14 and then scored again to put the Scots ahead on 22. The 2nd half saw Erik Johansen equalise on 60, Law restored the Scotland lead on 76, but Arne Pedersen made it 3-3 on 81 and John Krogh then netted a winner for Norway on 83.

Wed 05/Jun/1963    Switzerland 1 (Bertschi) England 8 (Charlton 3, Byrne 2, Douglas, Kay, Melia)
Friendly in Basle
BBC Highlights
Ken Wolstenholme
*The BBC showed highlights at 10:20-10:50pm, though not in the South (Rowridge/Brighton transmitting a debate on secondary education). Tony Kay of Everton made his one and only international appearance whilst the England careers of Bryan Douglas (with 36 caps) and Jimmy Melia (2 caps) came to an end. England led 3-1 at HT, Bobby Charlton scoring on 19 with further goals from Johnny Byrne on 30 and Douglas on 42. Heinz Bertschi replied for the Swiss on 42. England scored 5 times in the 2nd half, Byrne scoring his 2nd on 50, Charlton making it 5-1 on 55, Kay got the 6th on 69, Melia added goal number 7 on 75 and finally Bobby Charlton completed his hat-trick to make it 8-1 on 83.

Sun 09/Jun/1963    Republic of Ireland 1 (Cantwell) Scotland 0
Friendly in Dublin
*Irish TV (RTE) were not scheduled to cover this game. Liverpool keeper Tommy Lawrence made his Scotland debut. Noel Cantwell scored the only goal of the game for the Irish on 6 minutes. It was also James Millar's 2nd and final Scottish cap.

Thu 13/Jun/1963    Spain 2 (Rodriguez, Veloso) Scotland 6 (Law, Gibson, McLintock, Wilson, Henderson, St John)
Friendly in Madrid
*No TV coverage scheduled. Adelardo Rodriguez put Spain ahead on 8, Denis Law equalised on 15, David Gibson put Scotland ahead a minute later on 16 and Frank McLintock then made it 3-1 on 18, David Wilson netted a 4th goal for Scotland on 32, Jose Fidalgo Veloso pulled one back for Spain just before HT on 43. In the 2nd half, Scotland went 5-2 ahead through Willie Henderson on 51 and Ian St John rounded off the scoring for 6-2 on 83.

Wed 23/Oct/1963    England 2 (Paine, Greaves) Rest of the World 1 (Law)
FA Centenery Friendly at Wembley
ITV 2nd Half LIVE / Highlights
Gerry Loftus
*ITV showed the 2nd half live, though some regions joined late, highlights went out at 9:55-10:40pm. (The BFI apparenlty have a telerecording with Ken Wolstenholme commentating on a live single camera Eurovision feed, but the BBC were not scheduled to show it). The 'Rest of the World' included Yashin (Soviet Union) in goal, Eusebio (Portugal), di Stefano (Spain), Ferenc Puskas (Hungary - who came on at HT) and two Scotland players, Denis Law and Jim Baxter. Terry Paine put England ahead on 66, Denis Law equalised on 82, but England won with a last minute goal by Jimmy Greaves.

Sun 27/Oct/1963    Hungary 2 (Albert, Sandor) Austria 1 (Viehbock)
Friendly in Budapest
BBC LIVE
Ken Wolstenholme
*Live coverage on the BBC from 3.20-4.50pm (so they probably missed the first 20 minutes or so). Hungary led 2-0 at HT through Albert on 16 and Sandor 29, Franz Viehbock pulled one back for Austria on 79.

Wed 30/Oct/1963    Northern Ireland 0 Spain 1 (Gento)
Last 16 2nd Leg
Belfast
BBC N.IRELAND Highlights
*The BBC television service in Northern Ireland showed highlights at 10:50-11:35pm. Gento's goal on 66 gave Spain a 2-1 aggregate passage into the quarter-finals..

Thu 07/Nov/1963    Scotland 6 (Law 4, Mackay 2) Norway 1 (Kristoffersen(pen))
Friendly at Hampden
BBC SCOTLAND Highlights?
*BBC Scotland recorded this game as some of it apparently still exists, highlights were possibly shown sometime between 10:00-10:43pm, though only Boxing was billed, so the football may have been held over until the following day's local "Six-Ten" programme. Dundee's Alan Gilzean made his Scotland debut in this match. Norway won a penalty on 7 which was converted by Per Kristoffersen, but two goals from Denis Law put the Scots ahead for HT, the equaliser coming on 19 and the 2nd goal scored 42. In the 2nd half, Law completed his hat-trick on 60, Dave Mackay got the 4th and 5th on 74 and 76, Law then scored again on 78 to make it 6-1. James Gabriel came on as a sub to win his 2nd and final cap.

Sun 10/Nov/1963    Italy 1 (Rivera) Soviet Union 1 (Gusarov)
Last 16 2nd Leg
Rome
BBC LIVE
*Live on the BBC from 3:20-4:45pm, so they probably missed the opening 20 minutes or so (It was not billed in Radio Times, so probably arranged at short notice). The Soviet Union had won the 1st leg 2-0. Gusarov put the Soviets further ahead on aggregate with a goal on 33, Rivera netted a late consolation on 89.

Wed 29/Apr/1964    Northern Ireland 3 (Crossan 2, Wilson) Uruguay 0
Friendly in Belfast
*No TV coverage scheduled.

Fri 01/May/1964    England 3 (Charlton, Greaves, Hunt) Young England 0
Friendly at Stamford Bridge
BBC LIVE 2nd Half
Ken Wolstenholme
*Live 2nd half coverage on BBC1 from 8:25-9:15pm, all three goals were scored during the 2nd period - Bobby Charlton on 49, Jimmy Greaves on 65 and Roger Hunt on the stroke of full time.

Wed 06/May/1964    England 2 (Byrne 2) Uruguay 1 (Spencer)
Friendly at Wembley
ITV LIVE 2nd Half
Gerry Loftus
*ITV had live coverage of the 2nd half at 3:46-4:40pm except Westward who showed highlights at 9:10-9:30pm. The BBC possibly showed highlights on "Sportsview" as they have footage from the match archived, but if so - it was not scheduled in the Radio Times or the newspapers. George Cohen of Fulham made his international debut, Johnny Byrne netted both England goals either side of HT on 43 and 52, Alberto Spencer scored for Uruguay on 78. Czechoslovakia were originally pencilled in to meet England on this date but, unable to fulfil the fixture, the change had been announced back in October.

Tue 12/May/1964    West Germany 2 (Uwe Seeler 2) Scotland 2 (Gilzean 2)
Friendly in Hanover
*No British TV coverage scheduled (perhaps BBC Scotland's "Sportsreel" showed highlights the following night, 10:30-11:10pm). Hearts keeper Jim Cruickshank made his debut. Two goals in quick succession by Uwe Seeler on 32 and 33 gave the Germans a 2-0 HT lead, but Scotland came back in the 2nd half with two goals by Alan Gilzean on 66 and 85 to come away with a draw. John White (22 caps) and David Holt (5 caps) made their final appearances in Scottish colours.

Sun 17/May/1964    Portugal 3 (Torres 2, Eusébio) England 4 (Byrne 3, Charlton)
Friendly in Lisbon
*No TV coverage scheduled. Liverpool's Peter Thompson made his England debut. José Torres gave Portugal the lead on 18, Johnny Byrne equalised on 21, Bobby Charlton then put England ahead on 29. In the 2nd half, Torres levelled at 2-2 on 47, Eusébio then put Portugal in front for the 2nd time on 53, but Johnny Byrne went on to complete his hat-trick with goals on 57 and 88 to win it for England.

Sun 24/May/1964    Republic of Ireland 1 (Strahan) England 3 (Eastham, Byrne, Greaves)
Friendly in Dublin
*RTE were not scheduled to cover the game. Blackpool Goalkeeper Anthony Waiters made his England debut. George Eastham netted an early goal for England on 9, Johnny Byrne made it 2-0 on 22 before Fred Strahan pulled one back for the Irish on 41. The 2nd half delivered just one further goal scored by Jimmy Greaves for England on 55.

Wed 27/May/1964    USA 0 England 10 (Hunt 4, Pickering 3, Paine 2, Charlton)
Friendly in New York
*No TV coverage scheduled. Two England players made their debut, Michael Bailey of Charlton and Fred Pickering of Everton. England led 3-0 at HT with early goals by Roger Hunt on 4 and Fred Pickering on 6 and then another by Hunt on 22. The 2nd half deluge began with another Pickering goal on 47, then Terry Paine made it 5-0 on 49, Hunt completed his hat-trick on 53 and netted his 4th and England's 7th goal on 64, Bobby Charlton got number 8 on 67, Paine scored again a minute later for 9-0 and Fred Pickering became the 2nd player in the match to score a hat-trick when he made it 10-0 on 74.

Taça das Nações (Brazil FA Jubilee Tournament)
This tournament commemorated the Brazilian Football Confederation's 50th anniversary. Billed in the newspaper TV listings as the "Little World Cup", it was staged as a 4-team group competition at two stadiums, Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro and Estádio Pacaembu in São Paulo. With England taking part (confirmed the previous October), the BBC sent Ken Wolstenholme over to commentate on film recordings which were then sent back to Britain for screening a few days later. Danny Blanchflower presented the programmes, presumably from a BBC studio in London.

Sat 30/May/1964    Brazil 5 (Rinaldo 2, Pelé, Julinho, Roberto Dias) England 1 (Greaves)
Rio de Janeiro
BBC Highlights
Ken Wolstenholme
*BBC1 showed highlights two days later on Monday 1st June at 10.20-11.00pm. Brazil led 1-0 at HT through a Rinaldo goal on 35, Jimmy Greaves equalised on 48 but Brazil then stormed to victory, Rinaldo scoring his 2nd on 59, Pelé making it 3-1 on 63, Julinho adding number 4 on 68 and Roberto Dias getting the 5th on 88.

Sun 31/May/1964    Argentina 2 (Rojas, Rendo) Portugal 0
Rio de Janeiro
*No British TV coverage scheduled. Argentina took the points with goals scored by Alfredo Rojas and Alberto Rendo.

Wed 03/Jun/1964    Brazil 0 Argentina 3 (Telch 2, Onega)
São Paulo
BBC Highlights
Ken Wolstenholme
*Highlights were shown on Friday 5th on BBC1 at 10:15-10:45pm. Roberto Telch scored twice and Ermindo Onega netted the other as Argentina beat the hosts 3-0.

Thu 04/Jun/1964    Portugal 1 (Peres) England 1 (Hunt)
São Paulo
BBC Highlights
Ken Wolstenholme
*Highlights were screened by BBC1 on Sunday afternoon at 2:35-3:20pm. Fernando da Silva Peres gave Portugal the lead on 42, Roger Hunt netted the equaliser on 58, but the match was most notable for José Torres attempting to punch the referee for disallowing an off-side Portuguese goal.

Sat 06/Jun/1964    Argentina 1 (Rojas) England 0
Rio de Janeiro
BBC Highlights
Ken Wolstenholme
*BBC1 showed highlights on Monday night at 10:20-11:05pm. Alfredo Rojas scored the winning goal for Argentina on 66 which also secured first place in the group.

Sun 07/Jun/1964    Brazil 4 (Jairzinho 2, Pelé, Gérson) Portugal 1 (Coluna)
Rio de Janeiro
*No British TV coverage scheduled.

Final Table
1. Argentina      6
2. Brazil         4
3= England        1
3= Portugal       1

The 1964 European Nations Cup Finals

Semi-Finals

Wed 17/Jun/1964    Spain 2 (Pereda, Amancio) Hungary 1 (Bene) [AET]
(8pm bst)
Madrid
*Spain went ahead through Pereda on 35, Bene equalised for Hungary on 84 to take the tie into extra-time. Amancio got the winner for Spain on 115.

Wed 17/Jun/1964    Soviet Union 3 (Voronin, Ponedelnik, Ivanov) Denmark 0
(10:30pm bst)
Barcelona
*The Soviet Union led 2-0 at HT thanks to goals by Voronin on 19 and Ponedelnik on 40. The tie was put beyond any doubt on 87 when Ivanov made it 3-0.

3rd/4th place play off

Sat 20/Jun/1964    Hungary 3 (Bene, Novák 2(1pen)) Denmark 1 (Bertelsen) [AET]
(8pm bst)
Barcelona
*Bene netted an early goal for Hungary on 11, Bertelsen equalised for Denmark on 82 to take the play-off to extra-time. Novák then scored twice for Hungary, the first from the penalty spot on 107, he then scored again to make it 3-1 on 110.

The Final

Sun 21/Jun/1964    Spain 2 (Pereda, Marcelino) Soviet Union 1 (Khusainov)
(6:30pm bst)
Madrid
BBC 2nd Half LIVE
Ken Wolstenholme
*BBC1 only showed the 2nd half live from 7:25-8:15pm. The hosts took an early lead through Pereda - capitalising on a mix up in the Soviet defence to lash in from close range on 6 minutes, but only for Khusainov to equalise on 8 with a low strike from the left flank. With extra time looming, Marcelino headed a late winner for Spain on 84 .