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1948 Balkan Cup

Field	Value
title	Balkan and Central European Championship
year	1948
dates	4 April – 7 November 1948
num_teams	7
defending_champions
matches	16
goals	48
scoring_leader	HUN Ferenc Puskás (5 goals)
prev_season	1947
next_season	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. 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

Matches

Gracz Spodzieja

Deák This match between Hungary and Czechoslovakia also counted for the 1948–53 Central European International Cup.

Egresi Puskás Kocsis

Dumitrescu Tsvetkov

Mitić Čajkovski

Bartha

Cieślik Hidegkuti Szusza Deák Tóth

Deák

Matches not played

(note: it is uncertain which teams were meant to at home and which away)

Aside from these, Hungary played Romania twice.

Statistics

Goalscorers

HUN Ferenc Puskás
HUN Ferenc Deák
HUN Béla Egresi
HUN Nándor Hidegkuti
HUN József Mészáros
HUN Sándor Kocsis
BUL Petar Argirov
POL Gerard Cieślik
SFR Yugoslavia Rajko Mitić
ROM Iuliu Farkaș
ALB Pal Mirashi
BUL Borislav Tsvetkov
BUL Dimitar Milanov
BUL Krum Milev
BUL Trendafil Stankov
SFR Yugoslavia Franjo Wölfl
SFR Yugoslavia Željko Čajkovski
POL Józef Kohut
POL Henryk Spodzieja
POL Mieczysław Gracz
POL Tadeusz Parpan
HUN Ferenc Szusza
HUN József Bozsik
HUN Mátyás Tóth
TCH Julius Schubert
TCH Oldřich Menclík
TCH Václav Kokštejn
ROM Nicolae Dumitrescu
ROM Eugen Iordache
ROM Carol Bartha
ROM József Pecsovszky

References

"Balkan Cup (for Nations)". RSSF.com.
"Balkan and Central European Championship 1948". EU-football.info.

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