Also in this year: 1960
European Champion Clubs' Cup winners: SL Benfica (3-2 v FC Barcelona)
European Footballer of the Year: Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona)
Eurovision Song Contest winner: Jacqueline Boyer (France) singing Tom Pillibi
Nobel Peace Prize: Albert Lutuli (African National Congress president, South Africa)
Men's Olympic 100m champion: Armin Hary (Germany) running 10.2 seconds
Formula 1 world champion: Jack Brabham (Australia) driving a Cooper
Oscar for Best Picture: The Apartment
Key events
20 July – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaika, the world's first female prime minister
8 November – John F Kennedy beats Richard Nixon to become youngest man voted in as United States president
History
Top scorers
| 5 | Jean Vincent - France |
| 5 | Just Fontaine - France |
| 4 | Milan Galić - Yugoslavia |
| 4 | Titus Bubernik - Czechoslovakia |
| 3 | Alfredo Di Stéfano - Spain |
| 3 | Borivoje Kostić - Yugoslavia |
| 3 | Erich Hof - Austria |
| 3 | François Heutte - France |
| 3 | Horst Nemec - Austria |
| 3 | Mário Coluna - Portugal |
| 3 | Valentin Ivanov - USSR |
| 3 | Vlastimil Bubnik - Czechoslovakia |
Team of the Tournament
- Lev Yashin »
- Vladimir Djurković »
- Ladislav Novak »
- Igor Netto »
- Josef Masopust »
- Valentin Ivanov »
- Slava Metreveli »
- Milan Galić »
- Viktor Ponedelnik »
- Dragoslav Sekularac »
- Borivoje Kostić »
The first major European national competition was the brainchild of a Frenchman: Henri Delaunay, the secretary of the French Football Federation. He initially mooted his vision in 1927, but it took the advent of UEFA in 1954 to truly get the project off the ground. By the time the green light was shown at the 1957 UEFA Congress, Delaunay had died two years prior but the trophy would carry his name thereafter.
Hosts France, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the USSR progressed to the final tournament where the Soviets overcame the Czechs 3-0 while France succumbed 5-4 to Yugoslavia - still the competition's highest-scoring match - in the semi-finals. In the final, Milan Galić's effort looked enough to down the USSR but Slava Metreveli's reply forced extra time and Viktor Ponedelnik's header won the trophy. More >>