1978–79 European Cup Winners' Cup

The season 1978-79 of the European Cup Winners' Cup was won by FC Barcelona in an exciting final in Basle against Fortuna Düsseldorf. It was the first of four occasions that the Catalan club won the tournament.

First round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
AZ Alkmaar	0 - 2	Ipswich Town	0 - 0	0 - 2
Zagłębie Sosnowiec	3 - 4	FC Wacker Innsbruck	2 - 3	1 - 1
RSC Anderlecht	Bye		-	-
FC Barcelona	4 - 1	FC Shakhtar Donetsk	3 - 0	1 - 1
Floriana	1 - 8	Internazionale	1 - 3	0 - 5
F.K. Bodø/Glimt	4 - 2	Union Luxembourg	4 - 1	0 - 1
NK Rijeka	3 - 2	Wrexham FC	3 - 0	0 - 2
K.S.K. Beveren	6 - 0	Ballymena United F.C.	3 - 0	3 - 0
FC Universitatea Craiova	4 - 5	Fortuna Düsseldorf	3 - 4	1 - 1
Marek Stanke Dimitrov	3 - 5	Aberdeen FC	3 - 2	0 - 3
PAOK FC	2 - 4	Servette FC	2 - 0	0 - 4
BK Frem	2 - 4	AS Nancy	2 - 0	0 - 4
Valur	1 - 5	1. FC Magdeburg	1 - 1	0 - 4
Ferencvárosi TC	4 - 2	Kalmar FF	2 - 0	2 - 2
Sporting Clube de Portugal	0 - 2	Baník Ostrava	0 - 1	0 - 1
APOEL FC	0 - 3	Shamrock Rovers F.C.	0 - 2	0 - 1

First leg

13 September 1978	Floriana	1 – 3	Internazionale	Valletta
	Xuereb  48' (pen.)		Altobelli  14'  83' (pen.)  90'

Second leg

27 September 1978	Internazionale	5 – 0	Floriana	Milan
	Muraro  32'  70' Chierico  33' Fedele  68'  89'

Internazionale won 8–1 on aggregate.

Second round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ipswich Town	2 - 1	FC Wacker Innsbruck	1 - 0	1 - 1(aet)
RSC Anderlecht	3 - 3(p)	FC Barcelona	3 - 0	0 - 3(aet)
Internazionale	7 - 1	F.K. Bodø/Glimt	5 - 0	2 - 1
NK Rijeka	0 - 2	K.S.K. Beveren	0 - 0	0 - 2
Fortuna Düsseldorf	3 - 2	Aberdeen FC	3 - 0	0 - 2
Servette FC	4 - 3	AS Nancy	2 - 1	2 - 2
1. FC Magdeburg	2(a) - 2	Ferencvárosi TC	1 - 0	1 - 2
Baník Ostrava	6 - 1	Shamrock Rovers F.C.	3 - 0	3 - 1

First leg

18 October 1978	Internazionale	5 – 0	F.K. Bodø/Glimt	Milan
	Beccalossi  25'  57' Altobelli  60'  86' Muraro  88'

Second leg

25 October 1978	F.K. Bodø/Glimt	1 – 2	Internazionale	Bodø
	Hansen  40'		Altobelli  45' (pen.) Scanziani  56'

Internazionale won 7–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ipswich Town	2 - 2(a)	FC Barcelona	2 - 1	0 - 1
Internazionale	0 - 1	K.S.K. Beveren	0 - 0	0 - 1
Fortuna Düsseldorf	1(a) - 1	Servette FC	0 - 0	1 - 1
1. FC Magdeburg	4 - 5	Baník Ostrava	2 - 1	2 - 4

First leg

7 March 1979	Internazionale	0 – 0	K.S.K. Beveren	Milan

Second leg

21 March 1979	K.S.K. Beveren	1 – 0	Internazionale	Beveren
	Stevens  85'

K.S.K. Beveren won 1–0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
FC Barcelona	2 - 0	K.S.K. Beveren	1 - 0	1 - 0
Fortuna Düsseldorf	4 - 3	Baník Ostrava	3 - 1	1 - 2

First leg

11 April 1979	F.C. Barcelona	1 – 0	K.S.K. Beveren	Camp Nou Attendance: 70000 Referee: John Carpenter (Ireland)
	Rexach  65'

11 April 1979	Fortuna Düsseldorf	3 – 1	Banik Ostrava	Rheinstadion Attendance: 20000 Referee: Lamo Castillo (Spain)
	Klaus Allofs  54'  66' Thomas Allofs  90'		Nemec  11'

Second leg

25 April 1979	K.S.K. Beveren	0 – 1	F.C. Barcelona	Beveren Attendance: 25000 Referee: Pat Partridge (England)
			Krankl  87'

F.C. Barcelona won 2–0 on aggregate.

25 April 1979	Banik Ostrava	2 – 1	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Bazaly Attendance: 33000
	Licka  62' Antalik  88'		Zewe  27'

Fortuna Düsseldorf won 4–3 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1979 European Cup Winners' Cup Final

Team #1	Res.	Team #2
FC Barcelona	4 - 3(aet)	Fortuna Düsseldorf

External links

• 1978-79 competition at UEFA website
• Cup Winners' Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation