Main tournament
Group A
1-Aug-55 Warszawa 3-2 Beijing [at Warszawa]
1-Aug-55 Karl-Marx-Stadt 1-0 RFC Ličge [at Łódź]
4-Aug-55 Beijing 0-0 RFC Ličge [at Warszawa]
4-Aug-55 Warszawa 3-1 Karl-Marx-Stadt [at Warszawa]
7-Aug-55 Warszawa 10-1 RFC Ličge [at Warszawa]
7-Aug-55 Karl-Marx-Stadt 2-1 Beijing [at Łódź]
1.WARSZAWA 3 3 0 0 16- 4 6 [Poland]
2.Karl-Marx-Stadt 3 2 0 1 4- 4 4 [East Germany]
3.Beijing 3 0 1 2 3- 5 1 [China]
4.RFC Ličge 3 0 1 2 1-11 1 [Belgium]
Group B
1-Aug-55 Stalinogród 3-2 Berlin [at Chorzów]
4-Aug-55 Budapest 1-0 Berlin [at Bytom]
7-Aug-55 Stalinogród 0-2 Budapest [at Zabrze]
1.BUDAPEST 2 2 0 0 3- 0 4 [Hungary]
2.Stalinogród 2 1 0 1 3- 4 2 [Poland]
3.Berlin 2 0 0 2 2- 4 0 [East Germany]
-.Wien withdrew [Austria]
Group C
1-Aug-55 Sofiya 0-0 AC Beerschot [at Opole]
1-Aug-55 București 5-0 FC Stadlau [at Wrocław]
4-Aug-55 București 5-1 AC Beerschot [at Wałbrzych]
4-Aug-55 Sofiya 3-0 FC Stadlau [at Wrocław]
7-Aug-55 AC Beerschot 5-2 FC Stadlau [at Wałbrzych]
7-Aug-55 București 1-0 Sofiya [at Wrocław]
1.BUCUREȘTI 3 3 0 0 11- 1 6 [Romania]
2.Sofiya 3 1 1 1 3- 1 3 [Bulgaria]
3.AC Beerschot 3 1 1 1 6- 7 3 [Belgium]
4.FC Stadlau 3 0 0 3 2-13 0 [Austria]
Group D
1-Aug-55 Praha 1-1 Cairo [at Gdańsk]
4-Aug-55 Cairo 2-1 Tiranë [at Bydgoszcz]
7-Aug-55 Tiranë 2-1 Praha [at Gdańsk]
1.CAIRO 2 1 1 0 3- 2 3 [Egypt]
2.Tiranë 2 1 0 1 3- 3 2 [Albania]
3.Praha 2 0 1 1 2- 3 1 [Czechoslovakia]
Consolation semi-finals [at Łódź]
10-Aug-55 Sofiya 4-0 Karl-Marx-Stadt
10-Aug-55 Tiranë 3-0 Stalinogród
Semi-finals [at Warszawa]
10-Aug-55 Budapest 3-0 Cairo
10-Aug-55 Warszawa 0-1 București
Fifth place match [at Poznań]
12-Aug-55 Sofiya 1-0 Tiranë
Third place match [Stadion Dziesięciolecia, Warszawa; att: 15,000]
12-Aug-55 Warszawa 3-1 Cairo
[28 El Dizwy 0-1, Cieślik (pen) 1-1, Brychczy 45, Hachorek 62]
[Warszawa: Szymkowiak, Woźniak, Korynt, Cichoń, Suszczyk, Zientara, Trampisz, Brychczy,
Kowal (Hachorek), Cieślik, Baszkiewicz;
Cairo: Paraschos, Abd El Halim, El Duili, Hamza, Greisha, Helmy Meati, Ezzam, El Dizwy,
Alla El Din, Mackawy (Sherif), Raafat;
ref: Vrbovec (Czechoslovakia); Fehervari (Hungary), Segal (Romania)]
Final [Stadion Dziesięciolecia, Warszawa; att: 70,000]
13-Aug-55 București 1-0 Budapest
[11 Ozon]
[Bucuresti: Voinescu, Pahontu, Androvits, Szőke, Călinoiu, Băcuț, Copil, Petschowsky,
Ozon, Georgescu, Mihai;
Budapest: Ilku I, Mátrai, Henni II, Dudás, Szabó, Csernai, Kertész, Orosz, Tichy,
Kalmár, Bedi;
ref: Erik Steiner (Austria); Kasseb (Egypt), Reinhardt (German DR)]
Tournament for labour sports associations and FIFA non-members
Preliminary round [at Warszawa]
7-Aug-55 North Korea 9-1 Syria
7-Aug-55 Italy 5-1 West Germany
Quarter-finals [at Warszawa]
8-Aug-55 Finland (TUL) 3-0 Iceland
8-Aug-55 Algeria w/o Scotland
8-Aug-55 Lebanon 7-0 France (FSGT)
8-Aug-55 North Korea 4-1 Italy
Semi-finals [at Warszawa]
10-Aug-55 Lebanon 4-0 Finland (TUL)
10-Aug-55 Algeria 3-2 North Korea
Final [at Warszawa]
12-Aug-55 Lebanon 4-1 Algeria
Friendlies [incomplete]
1-Aug-55 Kraków 0-4 Budapest [at Kraków]
7-Aug-55 Kraków 2-1 Berlin [at Kraków]
13-Aug-55 Kraków 1-0 Beijing [at Kraków]
18-Aug-55 Rzeszów 5-3 North Korea [at Rzeszów]
World Youth Students and Festival 1947-1968
Sources included: "Sportul Popular", Bucharest, August 1955
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