Playing in a Barcelona side alongside László Kubala and Luis Suárez, and managed by Helenio Herrera, Evaristo scored in the first official match played at the Camp Nou in September 1957, and became the first player to score a hat-trick at the ground. In the following season, he scored three goals against European champions Real Madrid en route to Barcelona's first La Liga title in six years. On 23 November 1960, in the second leg of a European Cup tie against Real Madrid at the Camp Nou, during which the English referee ruled out four separate goals for Real Madrid, Evaristo scored a diving header with eight minutes to go, which eliminated Barcelona's rivals from the competition for the first time and ended their hopes of a sixth successive title. Evaristo scored six times during Barcelona's run to their first European Cup final, which they lost 3–2 to Benfica at the Wankdorf Stadium in Bern, now remembered as the "Square-Posts Final" due to the match supposedly being the reason the shape of the goalposts was changed.