1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup

The season 1977-78 of the European Cup Winners' Cup was won by RSC Anderlecht in the final comfortably against FK 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.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rangers FC	3 - 2	BSC Young Boys	1 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	2 - 2 (Report) (Report 2)

First round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Progrès Niedercorn	0 - 10	Vejle Boldklub	0 - 1 (Report) (Report 2)	0 – 9 (Report) (Report 2)
PAOK FC	4 - 0	Zagłębie Sosnowiec	2 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	2 – 0 (Report) (Report 2)
Rangers FC	0 - 3	FC Twente	0 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	0 – 3 (Report) (Report 2)
S.K. Brann	5 - 0	ÍA Akranes	1 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	4 – 0 (Report) (Report 2)
1. FC Köln	2 - 3	Porto	2 - 2 (Report) (Report 2)	0 - 1 (Report) (Report 2)
Saint-Étienne	1 - 3	Manchester United	1 - 1 (Report) (Report 2)	0 – 2 (Report) (Report 2)
Hamburger SV	13 - 3	Lahden Reipas	8 - 1 (Report) (Report 2)	5 – 2 (Report) (Report 2)
PFC Lokomotiv Sofia	1 - 8	RSC Anderlecht	1 - 6 (Report) (Report 2)	0 – 2 (Report) (Report 2)
Coleraine F.C.	3 - 6	1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	1 - 4 (Report) (Report 2)	2 – 2 (Report) (Report 2)
Real Betis	3 - 2	Milan	2 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	1 – 2 (Report) (Report 2)
Valletta	0 - 7	FC Dynamo Moscow	0 - 2 (Report) (Report 2)	0 – 5 (Report) (Report 2)
Olympiakos Nicosia	1 - 8	FC Universitatea Craiova	1 - 6 (Report) (Report 2)	0 – 2 (Report) (Report 2)
Cardiff City	0 - 1	FK Austria Wien	0 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	0 – 1 (Report) (Report 2)
Lokomotiva Kosice	2(a) - 2	Östers IF	0 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	2 – 2 (Report) (Report 2)
Beşiktaş J.K.	2 - 5	Diósgyőri VTK Miskolc	2 – 0 (Report) (Report 2)	0 – 5 (Report) (Report 2)
Dundalk FC	1 - 4	Hajduk Split	1 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	0 – 4 (Report) (Report 2)

First leg

14 September 1977

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

Saint-Étienne

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14 September 1977

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

Estadio Benito Villamarín, Seville

Attendance: 37,000

Referee: Michel Kitabdjian (France)

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13 September 1977

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

Vasil Levski, Sofia

Referee: Gonella (Italia)

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13 September 1977

Beşiktaş J.K.	2 – 0	Diósgyőri VTK
Zekeriya Alp 2' Paunović 83'

İnönü, Istanbul

Referee: Josef Bucek (Austria)

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14 September 1977

Rangers FC	0 – 0	FC Twente

Ibrox Park, Glasgow

Referee: Wolfgang Riedel (East Germany)

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14 September 1977

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

Müngersdorfer Stadion, Köln

Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales)

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14 September 1977

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

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Referee: Alozjiy Jargusz (Poland)

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14 September 1977

Dundalk FC	1 – 0	Hajduk Split
Flanagan 86'

Oriel Park, Dundalk

Referee: Jan Keiser (Netherlands)

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14 September 1977

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

The Showgrounds, Coleraine

Referee: Magnus Petursson (Iceland)

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14 September 1977

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

Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki

Referee: Alberto Michelotti (Italia)

Second leg

5 October 1977

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

Home Park, Plymouth¹

Manchester United won 3–1 on aggregate.

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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.

Notes

• Manchester United were banned from playing within 200 km of Old Trafford, following crowd trouble in the first leg.

Second round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Vejle Boldklub	4 - 2	PAOK FC	3 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	1 – 2 (Report) (Report 2)
FC Twente	4 - 1	S.K. Brann	2 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	2 – 1 (Report) (Report 2)
Porto	6 - 5	Manchester United	4 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	2 – 5 (Report) (Report 2)
Hamburger SV	2 - 3	RSC Anderlecht	1 - 2 (Report) (Report 2)	1 – 1 (Report) (Report 2)
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig	2 - 3	Real Betis	1 - 1 (Report) (Report 2)	1 – 2 (Report) (Report 2)
FC Dynamo Moscow	2(p) - 2	FC Universitatea Craiova	2 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	0 - 2(aet) (Report) (Report 2)
FK Austria Wien	1(a) - 1	Lokomotiva Kosice	0 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	1 – 1 (Report) (Report 2)
Diósgyőri VTK Miskolc	3 - 3(p)	Hajduk Split	2 - 1 (Report) (Report 2)	1 - 2(aet) (Report) (Report 2)

First leg

19 October 1977

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

Porto

Second leg

2 November 1977

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

Old Trafford, Manchester

Porto won 6–5 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Vejle Boldklub	0 - 7	FC Twente	0 - 3 (Report) (Report 2)	0 – 4 (Report) (Report 2)
Porto	1 - 3	RSC Anderlecht	1 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	0 – 3 (Report) (Report 2)
Real Betis	0 - 3	FC Dynamo Moscow	0 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	0 – 3 (Report) (Report 2)
FK Austria Wien	2(p) - 2	Hajduk Split	1 - 1 (Report) (Report 2)	1 - 1(aet) (Report) (Report 2)

Semi-finals

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
FC Twente	0 - 3	RSC Anderlecht	0 - 1 (Report) (Report 2)	0 - 2 (Report) (Report 2)
FC Dynamo Moscow	4 - 5(p)	FK Austria Wien	2 - 1 (Report) (Report 2)	1 - 2(aet) (Report) (Report 2)

Final

Main article: 1978 European Cup Winners' Cup Final

Team #1	Res.	Team #2
RSC Anderlecht	4 - 0 (Report) (Report 2)	FK Austria Wien

See also

• 1977–78 European Cup
• 1977–78 UEFA Cup

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