Held at the Victoria Stadium.
16-Mar-57 GFA Selection 3-1 Malmö FF
17-Mar-57 RAF Coastal Command 2-3 Malmö FF
18-Mar-57 GFA Selection 4-0 RAF Coastal Command
1.GFA Selection 2 2 0 0 7- 1 4
2.Malmö FF (Sweden) 2 1 0 1 4- 5 2
3.RAF Coastal Command 2 0 0 2 2- 7 0
Details
16-Mar-57 GFA Selection 3-1 Malmö FF [HT 1-0]
[Felices 14', Rodriguez 47' 58' / Åke Hansson 77']
[Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar]
[GFA Selection: Cerisola; Cardona, Avellano; Figueras, Byrne [c], Gavilan; McMahon,
Fabre, Ramos (Rodriguez 46'), Felices, Olivera (Cooper 46').]
[Malmö: Tore Svensson; Sune Sandbring, Prawitz Öberg; Åke Hansson, Gert Persson, Arthur Bergqvist;
Charles Gustavsson, Henry Thillberg, Bertil Elmstedt (Bengt Fröjd 40'), Jan Ekström
(Lennart Svensson 40'), Ingvar Svahn.]
[Referee: Argyle.]
[Note: the "Gibraltar Chronicle" reported the Malmö scorer as Sandbring.]
17-Mar-57 RAF Coastal Command 2-3 Malmö FF [HT 0-1]
[Forrester ~80' pen, Portwood 87' / Bertil Elmstedt 35', Ingvar Svahn 49', Jan Ekström 72']
[Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar]
[RAF CC: Furnell; Forrester, Baird; Davidson, Hay [c], Dunne; Portwood,
?, Dickson, Clarke, Broad. (one player missing).]
[Malmö: Tore Svensson; Sune Sandbring, Prawitz Öberg; Åke Hansson, Gert Persson, Arthur Bergqvist;
Charles Gustavsson, Henry Thillberg, Bertil Elmstedt, Jan Ekström, Ingvar Svahn.]
[Referee: Zammit.]
[Notes: Hay missed a penalty at 26'. The "Gibraltar Chronicle" reported the second
Malmö goal as an own-goal by Forrester.]
18-Mar-57 GFA Selection 4-0 RAF Coastal Command [HT 3-0]
[Cooper 6', Rodriguez 32' ~40', Felices 59']
[Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar]
[GFA Selection: Cerisola; Cardona (Johnny Ramos 10'), Avellano; Figueras, Byrne [c], Gavilan;
McMahon, Fabre, Rodriguez, Felices, Cooper.]
[RAF CC: Furnell; Forrester [c], Baird; Davidson, Glover*, Dunne; Portwood,
Lonsdale*, Dickson, Clarke, Broad.]
[Referee: Clinton.]
[* Glover and Lonsdale were reinforcements from the local RAF unit.]
Squads
GFA
Manager: Samuel Bensadon
Trainer: M.Imossi
Players:
GK: Cerisola [Britannia], Costa [Gibraltar United]
FB: Avellano [Prince of Wales], Cardona [Britannia], Ramos [Europa]
HB: Byrne [Britannia], Figueras [Britannia], C.Gomez [Prince of Wales],
Saltariche [Gibraltar United], Gavilan [Europa]
FW: McMahon [Gibraltar United], Fabre [Gibraltar United], Rodriguez [Britannia],
Felices [Gibraltar United], Olivera [Grammarians], Cooper [Gibraltar United].
Malmö FF
Officials: Eric Persson, Hilding Carlsson, Gunnar Olofsson
Coach: Josef Stroh (Austria).
Players: Tore Svensson, Sune Sandbring, Prawitz Öberg, Åke Hansson, Arthur Bergqvist, Charles Gustavsson,
Henry Thillberg, Bertil Elmstedt, Jan Ekström, Lennart Svensson, Gert Persson, Ingvar Svahn,
Åke Larsson, Bengt Fröjd, Gert Lundqvist, Lennart Gustavsson.
Coastal Command
Manager: Flt-Lt C.P. Davies
Players: Spackman [Scottish League], Jim Furnell [Burnley], Forrester [Nairn County], Davidson [Hibernian],
Hay [Nairn County], Clarke [RAF], Doug Baird [Partick], Ron Broad [Crewe], Terry Tighe [Dunfermline],
Charlie Dickson [Dunfermline], Ally MacRae [Forres Mechanics], Cliff Portwood [Preston], Dunne [].
Sources: Gibraltar Chronicle, MFF yearbook
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Authors: Örjan Hansson and Neil Morrison
Last updated: 2 Feb 2017
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