1956–57 AC Milan season
During 1956–57 season Associazione Calcio Milan competed in Serie A and Latin Cup.
After seven successful seasons and 221 goals scored, Gunnar Nordahl left the club to go and play with Roma. To make up for the Swedish striker, the club signed several players including Ernesto Cucchiaroni, Carlo Galli, Per Bredesen, Gastone Bean[2] and brought Alfio Fontana back after a year on loan at Triestina. Change also occurred in the managerial role, where Giuseppe Viani replaced Héctor Puricelli.[3]
The league saw Milan winning the title for the sixth time in its history. The Rossoneri could count on a squad that included, in addition to the aforementioned signings, Lorenzo Buffon, Cesare Maldini, Juan Alberto Schiaffino and Nils Liedholm, who became captain after the departure of Nordahl.
In the first few days Sampdoria took the lead, but was soon overtaken by Milan and Fiorentina. The Rossoneri. Bean and Cucchiaroni were suddenly struck by typhus and forced to spend much of the second half of the season confined to a clinic in Monza. This did not affect the progress of the team, which, on 17 March moved to a nine-points lead on Fiorentina and, controlling the standings until the end of the tournament, won its sixth scudetto with three rounds still to be played, trailing the Viola by 6 points.
In June, Milan also participated in the last edition of the Latin Cup, where they meet Real Madrid in the semifinals. The match recorded a defeat for the Devil by 5-1. In the match that assigned the third place, Milan beat Saint-Étienne by 4-3, thus gaining their second third place in this tournament which, together with the two successes in 1951 and 1956 (shared record) and the second place in 1953, makes Milan one of the most successful teams in this competition.
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| Competition | Points | Home | Away | Total | GD | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Gs | Ga | G | W | D | L | Gs | Ga | G | W | D | L | Gs | Ga | |||
| Serie A | 48 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 39 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 26 | 24 | 34 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 65 | 40 | +25 |
| Coppa Latina | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 8 | -3 |
| Total | - | 17 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 39 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 26 | 24 | 36 | 22 | 6 | 8 | 70 | 48 | +22 |
- ^ "Attendance Statistics of Serie A" (PDF). stadiapostcards.com. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
- ^ "bean". 27 January 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2011.
- ^ Giuseppe Bagnati; Vito Maggio; Vincenzo Prestigiacomo. Il Palermo racconta: storie, confessioni e leggende rosanero. Grafill, Palermo, 2004.
- ^ Rescheduled from 3 February 1957, suspended due to fog at 75' with score 3-1 by Milan, Galli (2), Bean and Szoke (Triestina).
- ^ Secondo alcune fonti il gol sarebbe considerato una autorete del bianconero Nay.
- ^ With these draw Milan clinched the title.
- Almanacco illustrato del Milan, edition 2, 2005. Panini.
- "Stagione 1956-1957". acmilan.it.
- "Stagione 1956-1957". Magliarossonera.it.