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1973–76 Balkan Cup

Tournament details
Dates	18 April 1973 – 28 November 1976
Teams	4
Final positions
Champions	Bulgaria (3rd title)
Runner-up	Romania
Tournament statistics
Matches played	6
Goals scored	25 (4.17 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Cemil Turan (4 goals)
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The 1973–76 Balkan Cup was the 11th Balkan Cup football tournament. It was the first tournament played in a knockout system with semi-finals and finals. It was played between April 1973 and November 1976 between Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece. The tournament was won by Bulgaria over Romania via the away goal rule, the score being 3–3 in the two legs of the final. The top goalscorer was Cemil Turan from Turkey with 4 goals.

Bracket

	Semi-finals							Final
	1	Turkey	5	1	6
	4	Bulgaria	2	5	7
								Bulgaria		1	2	3
								Romania		0	3	3
	3	Romania	3	1	4
	2	Greece	1	1	2

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Turkey	6–7	Bulgaria	5–2	1–5
Romania	4–2	Greece	3–1	1–1

First leg

Turkey	5–2	Bulgaria
Oğuz 5' Turan 47', 66', 86' Kurt 56'	Report	Panov 39' Milanov 56'

Romania	3–1	Greece
Iordănescu 2', 32' Lucescu 85'	Report	Sarafis 11'

Second leg

Bulgaria	5–1	Turkey
Bonev 12' Kovis 48' (o.g.) Zhechev 67' Panov 76' Grigorov 79'	Report	Turan 68'

Greece	1–1	Romania
Sarafis 84'	Report	Dumitru 27'

Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bulgaria	3–3	Romania	1–0	2–3

First leg

Bulgaria	1–0	Romania
Vasilev 49'	Report

Second leg

Romania	3–2	Bulgaria
Troi 47' Bölöni 54' Mulțescu 78'	Report	Garabski 13' Zhelyazkov 69'

Winner

1973-76 Balkan Cup
Bulgaria Third title

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 25 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 4.17 goals per match.

4 goals

• Cemil Turan

2 goals

• Pavel Panov
• Stavros Sarafis
• Anghel Iordănescu

1 goal

• Andrey Zhelyazkov
• Atanas Garabski
• Bozhidar Grigorov
• Dobromir Zhechev
• Hristo Bonev
• Kiril Milanov
• Tsonyo Vasilev
• Mehmet Oğuz
• Metin Kurt
• Ion Dumitru
• Gheorghe Mulțescu
• László Bölöni
• Mircea Lucescu
• Radu Troi

1 own goal

• Nikos Kovis (against Bulgaria)

References

1. ^ "Balkan Cup (for Nations)". RSSF.com. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
2. ^ "Balkan Cup 1973–76". EU-football.info. Retrieved 23 April 2020.

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