1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup

1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup
Final positions
Champions	Anderlecht (2nd title)
Runners-up	Austria Wien
	← 1976–77 1978–79 →

The 1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup was won by Anderlecht in the final against Austria Wien. It was Anderlecht's third consecutive final, the best record in the competition, of which they won two.

Qualifying match

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rangers	3–2	Young Boys	1–0	2–2

First leg

17 August 1977

Rangers	1–0	Young Boys
Greig	Summary

Ibrox Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 30,000

Second leg

31 August 1977

Young Boys	2–2	Rangers
Johnstone (o.g.) Leuzinger	Summary	Johnstone Smith

Wankdorf Stadium, Bern

Attendance: 21,000

Rangers won 3–2 on aggregate and qualified for the competition.

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Progrès Niedercorn	0–10	VB	0–1	0–9
PAOK	4–0	Zagłębie Sosnowiec	2–0	2–0
Rangers	0–3	Twente	0–0	0–3
Brann	5–0	ÍA Akranes	1–0	4–0
Köln	2–3	Porto	2–2	0–1
Saint-Étienne	1–3	Manchester United	1–1	0–2
Hamburg	13–3	Lahden Reipas	8–1	5–2
Lokomotiv Sofia	1–8	Anderlecht	1–6	0–2
Coleraine	3–6	Lokomotive Leipzig	1–4	2–2
Real Betis	3–2	Milan	2–0	1–2
Valletta	0–7	Dynamo Moscow	0–2	0–5
Olympiakos Nicosia	1–8	Universitatea Craiova	1–6	0–2
Cardiff City	0–1	Austria Wien	0–0	0–1
Lokomotiva Košice	2–2 (a)	Öster	0–0	2–2
Beşiktaş	2–5	Diósgyőri VTK Miskolc	2–0	0–5
Dundalk	1–4	Hajduk Split	1–0	0–4

First leg

14 September 1977

Progrès Niedercorn	0–1	VB
	Report	Thychosen 70'

Stade Jos Haupert, Niederkorn

Attendance: 1,100

Referee: Jan Peeters (Belgium)

14 September 1977

Saint-Étienne	1–1	Manchester United
Synaeghel 80'		Hill 78'

Saint-Étienne

Attendance: 33,678

14 September 1977

Real Betis	2–0	Milan
García Soriano 13' Eulate 73'

Estadio Benito Villamarín, Seville

Attendance: 37,000

Referee: Michel Kitabdjian (France)

13 September 1977

Lokomotiv Sofia	1–6	Anderlecht
Kolev 57'		F. Van der Elst 2', 6', 11' (pen.), 60' Nielsen 32' Van Poucke 89'

Vasil Levski, Sofia

Referee: Gonella (Italy)

14 September 1977

Beşiktaş	2–0	Diósgyőri VTK
Zekeriya Alp 2' Paunović 83'

İnönü, Istanbul

Referee: Josef Bucek (Austria)

14 September 1977

Rangers	0–0	Twente

Ibrox Park, Glasgow

Referee: Wolfgang Riedel (East Germany)

14 September 1977

Köln	2–2	Porto
Löhr 5' D. Müller 65'		Gabriel 60' Octavio 69'

Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne

Attendance: 21,000

Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales)

14 September 1977

Hamburg	8–1	Lahden Reipas
Keller 6', 34', 38', 73' Volkert 19' (pen.) Buljan 60' Steffenhagen 77' Reimann 83'		Sandberg 88'

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Referee: Alozjiy Jargusz (Poland)

14 September 1977

Dundalk	1–0	Hajduk Split
Flanagan 86'

Oriel Park, Dundalk

Referee: Jan Keizer (Netherlands)

14 September 1977

Coleraine	1–4	Lokomotive Leipzig
Tweed 52'		Eichhorn 2' Kühn 38' Löwe 44', 69'

The Showgrounds, Coleraine

Referee: Magnus Petursson (Iceland)

14 September 1977

PAOK	2–0	Zagłębie Sosnowiec
Pellios 25' Anastasiadis 80'

Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki

Referee: Alberto Michelotti (Italy)

14 September 1977

Brann	1–0	ÍA Akranes
Aase 37'	Report

Brann Stadion, Bergen

Attendance: 7,050

15 September 1977

Olympiakos Nicosia	1–6	Universitatea Craiova
Aristidou 84' (pen.)	Report	Balaci 12', 54' Cârțu 51' Marcu 61' Crișan 81' Irimescu 86'

GSP Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Dimitar Parmakov (Bulgaria)

Second leg

28 September 1977

VB	9–0	Progrès Niedercorn
Sørensen 15' Østergaard 19', 85' Eg 20' Nørregaard 50', 59', 64' Jacquet 77' Thychosen 80'	Report

Vejle Stadium, Vejle

Attendance: 8,400

Referee: Svein Thime (Norway)

VB won 10–0 on aggregate

5 October 1977

Manchester United	2–0	Saint-Étienne
Pearson 32' Coppell 65'

Home Park, Plymouth¹

Attendance: 31,634

Manchester United won 3–1 on aggregate.

28 September 1977

Milan	2–1	Real Betis
Tosetto 34' Capello 59'		López 63'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Orhan Cebe (Turkey)

Real Betis won 3–2 on aggregate.

28 September 1977

Porto	1–0	Köln
Murca

Cidade de Coimbra, Porto

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Patrick Partridge (England)

Porto won 3–2 on aggregate.

28 September 1977

Universitatea Craiova	2–0	Olympiakos Nicosia
Marcu 15' Cârțu 83'	Report

Stadionul Central, Craiova

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Vojtech Christov (Czechoslovakia)

Universitatea Craiova won 8–1 on aggregate.

28 September 1977

ÍA Akranes	0–4	Brann
	Report	Aase 36', 76' Dalhaug 82' Tronstad 89'

Akranesvöllur, Akranes

Attendance: 1,800

Brann won 5–0 on aggregate.

Notes

Manchester United were banned from playing within 200 kilometres (120 mi) of Old Trafford, following crowd trouble in the first leg.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
VB	4–2	PAOK	3–0	1–2
Twente	4–1	Brann	2–0	2–1
Porto	6–5	Manchester United	4–0	2–5
Hamburg	2–3	Anderlecht	1–2	1–1
Lokomotive Leipzig	2–3	Real Betis	1–1	1–2
Dynamo Moscow	2–2 (3-0p)	Universitatea Craiova	2–0	0–2 (aet)
Austria Wien	1–1 (a)	Lokomotíva Košice	0–0	1–1
Diósgyőri VTK Miskolc	3–3 (3-4p)	Hajduk Split	2–1	1–2 (aet)

First leg

19 October 1977

Porto	4–0	Manchester United
Duda 8', 24', 54' Oliveira 60'

Estádio das Antas, Porto

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Ernst Dörflinger Switzerland

19 October 1977

Dynamo Moscow	2–0	Universitatea Craiova
Kazachyonok 23' Minayev 39'	Report

Central Dynamo Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Timoleon Latsios (Greece)

19 October 1977

Twente	2–0	Brann
Gritter 42', 57'	Report

Diekman Stadion, Enschede

Attendance: 13,000

Second leg

2 November 1977

Manchester United	5–2	Porto
Coppell 8', 65' Murça 39', 90' (o.g.) Nicholl 44'		Seninho 29', 85'

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 51,831

Referee: Heinz Einbeck (East Germany)

Porto won 6–5 on aggregate.

2 November 1977

Universitatea Craiova	2–0 (a.e.t.)	Dynamo Moscow
Cârțu 18' Beldeanu 27'	Report
Penalties
Beldeanu Ștefănescu Negrilă	0–3	Kazachyonok Maksimenkov Petrushin

Stadionul Central, Craiova

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Marijan Rauš (Yugoslavia)

2–2 on aggregate; Dynamo Moscow won on penalties.

2 November 1977

Brann	1–2	Twente
Tronstad 18'	Report	Gritter 55' Thoresen 86'

Brann Stadion, Bergen

Attendance: 12,000

Twente won 4–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
VB	0–7	Twente	0–3	0–4
Porto	1–3	Anderlecht	1–0	0–3
Real Betis	0–3	Dynamo Moscow	0–0	0–3^[1]
Austria Wien	2–2 (3-0p)	Hajduk Split	1–1	1–1 (aet)

First leg

1 March 1978

Porto	1–0	Anderlecht
Gomes 36'	^{[citation needed]}

Estádio das Antas, Porto

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: John Carpenter (Republic of Ireland)

Second leg

15 March 1978

Anderlecht	3–0	Porto
Rensenbrink 28' (pen.) Nielsen 31' Vercauteren 81'	^{[citation needed]}

Stade Émile Versé, Brussels

Attendance: 28,228

Referee: Walter Hungerbühler (Switzerland)

Anderlecht won 3–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Twente	0–3	Anderlecht	0–1	0–2
Dynamo Moscow	4–5 (p)	Austria Wien	2–1	1–2 (aet)

Final

3 May 1978

Anderlecht	4–0	Austria Wien
Rensenbrink 13', 44' Van Binst 45', 82'	Report Report 2

Parc des Princes, Paris

Attendance: 48,679

Referee: Heinz Aldinger (West Germany)

References

↑ Played in Tbilisi for climate reasons

External links

1977-78 competition at UEFA website
Cup Winners' Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Cup Winners Cup Seasons 1977-78–results, protocols
website Football Archive 1977–78 Cup Winners Cup^{[dead link]}

[1] Played in Tbilisi for climate reasons

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Qualifying match

First leg

Second leg

First round

First leg

Second leg

Second round

First leg

Second leg

Quarter-finals

First leg

Second leg

Semi-finals

Final

See also

References

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