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1978–79 European Cup

The Olympiastadion in Munich hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	15 August 1978 – 30 May 1979
Teams	33
Final positions
Champions	Nottingham Forest (1st title)
Runners-up	Malmö FF
Tournament statistics
Matches played	63
Goals scored	185 (2.94 per match)
Attendance	1,688,020 (26,794 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Claudio Sulser (Grasshoppers) 11 goals
← 1977–78 1979–80 →

The 1978–79 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won by English champions Nottingham Forest in the final against Swedish side Malmö FF. Forest, enjoying a great run of success under Brian Clough, had defeated defending two-time champions Liverpool in the first round.

Teams

Vllaznia (1st)	Austria Wien (1st)	Club Brugge (1st)
Lokomotiv Sofia (1st)	Omonia (1st)	Zbrojovka Brno (1st)
Odense (1st)	Nottingham Forest (1st)	Liverpool (2nd)
Haka (1st)	Monaco (1st)	Dynamo Dresden (1st)
Köln (1st)	AEK Athens (1st)	Újpesti Dózsa (1st)
ÍA (1st)	Bohemians (1st)	Juventus (1st)
Progrès Niedercorn (1st)	Valletta (1st)	PSV Eindhoven (1st)
Linfield (1st)	Lillestrøm (1st)	Wisła Kraków (1st)
Porto (1st)	Steaua București (1st)	Rangers (1st)
Real Madrid (1st)	Malmö FF (1st)	Grasshopper (1st)
Fenerbahçe (1st)	Dynamo Kyiv (1st)	Partizan (1st)

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Monaco	3–2	Steaua București	3–0	0–2

First leg

Monaco	3–0	Steaua București
Onnis 42' Zorzetto 48' Nogués 61'	Report

Second leg

Steaua București	2–0	Monaco
Troi 51', 76'	Report

Monaco won 3–2 on aggregate.

Bracket

	First Round						Second Round						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	AEK Athens	6	1	7
	Porto	1	4	5
							AEK Athens	1	1	2
							Nottingham Forest	2	5	7
	Nottingham Forest	2	0	2
	Liverpool	0	0	0
													Nottingham Forest	4	1	5
													Grasshopper	1	1	2
	Real Madrid	5	7	12
	Progrès Niedercorn	0	0	0
							Real Madrid	3	0	3
							Grasshopper (a)	1	2	3
	Grasshopper	8	5	13
	Valletta	0	3	3
																			Nottingham Forest	3	1	4
																			Köln	3	0	3
	Odense	2	1	3
	Lokomotiv Sofia	2	2	4
							Lokomotiv Sofia	0	0	0
							Köln	1	4	5
	Köln	4	1	5
	ÍA	1	1	2
													Köln	1	1	2
													Rangers	0	1	1
	Juventus	1	0	1
	Rangers	0	2	2
							Rangers	0	3	3
							PSV Eindhoven	0	2	2
	Fenerbahçe	2	1	3
	PSV Eindhoven	1	6	7
																									Nottingham Forest	1
																									Malmö FF	0
	Vllaznia	2	1	3
	Austria Wien	0	4	4
							Austria Wien	4	0	4
							Lillestrøm	1	0	1
	Linfield	0	0	0
	Lillestrøm	0	1	1
													Austria Wien	3	0	3
													Dynamo Dresden	1	1	2
	Omonia	2	0	2
	Bohemians (a)	1	1	2
							Bohemians	0	0	0
							Dynamo Dresden	0	6	6
	Partizan	2	0	2 (4)
	Dynamo Dresden (p)	0	2	2 (5)
																			Austria Wien	0	0	0
																			Malmö FF	0	1	1
	Zbrojovka Brno	2	2	4
	Újpesti Dózsa	2	0	2
							Zbrojovka Brno	2	1	3
							Wisła Kraków (a)	2	1	3
	Club Brugge	2	1	3
	Wisła Kraków	1	3	4
													Wisła Kraków	2	1	3
													Malmö FF	1	4	5
	Haka	0	1	1
	Dynamo Kyiv	1	3	4
							Dynamo Kyiv	0	0	0
							Malmö FF	0	2	2
	Malmö FF	0	1	1
	Monaco	0	0	0

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AEK Athens	7–5	Porto	6–1	1–4
Nottingham Forest	2–0	Liverpool	2–0	0–0
Real Madrid	12–0	Progrès Niedercorn	5–0	7–0
Grasshopper	13–3	Valletta	8–0	5–3
Odense	3–4	Lokomotiv Sofia	2–2	1–2
Köln	5–2	ÍA	4–1	1–1
Juventus	1–2	Rangers	1–0	0–2
Fenerbahçe	3–7	PSV Eindhoven	2–1	1–6
Vllaznia	3–4	Austria Wien	2–0	1–4
Linfield	0–1	Lillestrøm	0–0	0–1
Omonia	2–2 (a)	Bohemians	2–1	0–1
Partizan	2–2 (4–5 p)	Dynamo Dresden	2–0	0–2
Zbrojovka Brno	4–2	Újpesti Dózsa	2–2	2–0
Club Brugge	3–4	Wisła Kraków	2–1	1–3
Haka	1–4	Dynamo Kyiv	0–1	1–3
Malmö FF	1–0	Monaco	0–0	1–0

First leg

AEK Athens	6–1	Porto
Bajević 3', 20' Ardizoglou 16' Konstantinou 39' Nikolaou 58' Mavros 60'	Report	Oliveira 51'

Nottingham Forest	2–0	Liverpool
Birtles 26' Barrett 87'	Report

Real Madrid	5–0	Progrès Niedercorn
Jensen 12' Juanito 30', 66' Del Bosque 40' Wolff 84'	Report

Grasshopper	8–0	Valletta
Sulser 31', 46', 58', 62', 64' Ponte 32', 35' Wehrli 67'	Report

Odense	2–2	Lokomotiv Sofia
Munk Nielsen 32', 44'	Report	Kolev 60' Velichkov 69'

Köln	4–1	ÍA
Littbarski 12' Neumann 26', 39' Konopka 72'	Report	Hallgrímsson 20'

Juventus	1–0	Rangers
Virdis 9'	Report

Fenerbahçe	2–1	PSV Eindhoven
Çetiner 17' İlhan 43'	Report	Brandts 23'

Vllaznia	2–0	Austria Wien
Zhega 8' Ballgjini 55'	Report

Linfield	0–0	Lillestrøm
	Report

Omonia	2–1	Bohemians
Kanaris 21' Dimitriou 51'	Report	O'Connor 44'

Partizan	2–0	Dynamo Dresden
Prekazi 5' Đurović 47'	Report

Zbrojovka Brno	2–2	Újpesti Dózsa
Kroupa 72' Janečka 77'	Report	Fekete 40' Törőcsik 65'

Club Brugge	2–1	Wisła Kraków
Ceulemans 24' Cools 28'	Report	Kapka 83'

Haka	0–1	Dynamo Kyiv
	Report	Baltacha 74'

Malmö FF	0–0	Monaco
	Report

Second leg

Porto	4–1	AEK Athens
Vital 63', 83' Teixeira 79' Gomes 88'	Report	Bajević 32'

AEK Athens won 7–5 on aggregate.

Liverpool	0–0	Nottingham Forest
	Report

Nottingham Forest won 2–0 on aggregate.

Progrès Niedercorn	0–7	Real Madrid
	Report	Pirri 10' Jensen 19' Stielike 28' Santillana 46', 87' García Hernández 65' Margue 90' (o.g.)

Real Madrid won 12–0 on aggregate.

Valletta	3–5	Grasshopper
Agius 56' Seychell 83' Farrugia 86'	Report	Sulser 13' (pen.) Ponte 61' Traber 69', 78' Her. Hermann 77'

Grasshopper won 13–3 on aggregate.

Lokomotiv Sofia	2–1	Odense
Mihaylov 27' Kostov 50'	Report	Eriksen 23' (pen.)

Lokomotiv Sofia won 4–3 on aggregate.

ÍA	1–1	Köln
Hein 8' (o.g.)	Report	Van Gool 72'

Köln won 5–2 on aggregate.

Rangers	2–0	Juventus
MacDonald 18' Smith 69'	Report

Rangers won 2–1 on aggregate.

PSV Eindhoven	6–1	Fenerbahçe
Van der Kuijlen 10', 22', 71', 74' Deijkers 49', 55'	Report	Çetiner 87'

PSV Eindhoven won 7–3 on aggregate.

Austria Wien	4–1	Vllaznia
Parits 21' Schachner 35', 74' J. Sara 48'	Report	Hafizi 80'

Austria Wien won 4–3 on aggregate.

Lillestrøm	1–0	Linfield
Lønstad 12'	Report

Lillestrøm won 1–0 on aggregate.

Bohemians	1–0	Omonia
Joyce 27'	Report

2–2 on aggregate; Bohemians won on away goals.

Dynamo Dresden	2–0 (a.e.t.)	Partizan
Dörner 8' Weber 38'	Report
Penalties
Dörner Weber Schade Kotte Riedel Sachse Schmuck	5–4	Đorđević Klinčarski Pavković Trifunović Prekazi Stojković Zavišić

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

Újpesti Dózsa	0–2	Zbrojovka Brno
	Report	Došek 11' Kroupa 41'

Zbrojovka Brno won 4–2 on aggregate.

Wisła Kraków	3–1	Club Brugge
Kmiecik 26' Lipka 82' Krupiński 89'	Report	Ceulemans 50'

Wisła Kraków won 4–3 on aggregate.

Dynamo Kyiv	3–1	Haka
Veremeyev 31' Khapsalis 35' Buryak 85'	Report	Ronkainen 71'

Dynamo Kyiv won 4–1 on aggregate.

Monaco	0–1	Malmö FF
	Report	Kindvall 35'

Malmö FF won 1–0 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AEK Athens	2–7	Nottingham Forest	1–2	1–5
Real Madrid	3–3 (a)	Grasshopper	3–1	0–2
Lokomotiv Sofia	0–5	Köln	0–1	0–4
Rangers	3–2	PSV Eindhoven	0–0	3–2
Austria Wien	4–1	Lillestrøm	4–1	0–0
Bohemians	0–6	Dynamo Dresden	0–0	0–6
Zbrojovka Brno	3–3 (a)	Wisła Kraków	2–2	1–1
Dynamo Kyiv	0–2	Malmö FF	0–0	0–2

First leg

AEK Athens	1–2	Nottingham Forest
Konstantinou 59' (pen.)	Report	McGovern 10' Birtles 45'

Real Madrid	3–1	Grasshopper
Juanito 5' García Hernández 65' Santillana 77'	Report	Sulser 59'

Lokomotiv Sofia	0–1	Köln
	Report	Zimmermann 58'

Rangers	0–0	PSV Eindhoven
	Report

Austria Wien	4–1	Lillestrøm
Gasselich 25', 34' Sara 36' Schachner 65'	Report	Dokken 62'

Bohemians	0–0	Dynamo Dresden
	Report

Zbrojovka Brno	2–2	Wisła Kraków
Pešice 73' Kroupa 78'	Report	Kmiecik 37' Maculewicz 86'

Dynamo Kyiv	0–0	Malmö FF
	Report

Second leg

Nottingham Forest	5–1	AEK Athens
Needham 12' Woodcock 35' Anderson 40' Birtles 66', 72'	Report	Bajević 50'

Nottingham Forest won 7–2 on aggregate.

Grasshopper	2–0	Real Madrid
Sulser 8', 86'	Report

3–3 on aggregate; Grasshopper won on away goals.

Köln	4–0	Lokomotiv Sofia
Müller 20', 79' Van Gool 52' Glowacz 75'	Report

Köln won 5–0 on aggregate.

PSV Eindhoven	2–3	Rangers
Lubse 1' Deijkers 60'	Report	MacDonald 57' Johnstone 65' Russell 87'

Rangers won 3–2 on aggregate.

Lillestrøm	0–0	Austria Wien
	Report

Austria Wien won 4–1 on aggregate.

Dynamo Dresden	6–0	Bohemians
Trautmann 39', 58' Dörner 41' Schmuck 49' Riedel 60' Kotte 75' (pen.)	Report

Dynamo Dresden won 6–0 on aggregate.

Wisła Kraków	1–1	Zbrojovka Brno
Kapka 53'	Report	Došek 78'

3–3 on aggregate; Wisła Kraków won on away goals.

Malmö FF	2–0	Dynamo Kyiv
Cervin 9' Kindvall 39'	Report

Malmö FF won 2–0 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	5–2	Grasshopper	4–1	1–1
Köln	2–1	Rangers	1–0	1–1
Austria Wien	3–2	Dynamo Dresden	3–1	0–1
Wisła Kraków	3–5	Malmö FF	2–1	1–4

First leg

Nottingham Forest	4–1	Grasshopper
Birtles 31' Robertson 47' (pen.) Gemmill 87' Lloyd 89'	Report	Sulser 11'

Köln	1–0	Rangers
Müller 58'	Report

Austria Wien	3–1	Dynamo Dresden
Schachner 20', 90' Zach 86'		Weber 9'

Wisła Kraków	2–1	Malmö FF
Nawałka 26' Kmiecik 85'	Report	Hansson 13'

Second leg

Grasshopper	1–1	Nottingham Forest
Sulser 33' (pen.)	Report	O'Neill 38'

Nottingham Forest won 5–2 on aggregate.

Rangers	1–1	Köln
McLean 86'	Report	Müller 48'

Köln won 2–1 on aggregate.

Dynamo Dresden	1–0	Austria Wien
Riedel 42' (pen.)	Report

Austria Wien won 3–2 on aggregate.

Malmö FF	4–1	Wisła Kraków
Ljungberg 65' (pen.), 72', 90' (pen.) Cervin 82'	Report	Kmiecik 58'

Malmö FF won 5–3 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	4–3	Köln	3–3	1–0
Austria Wien	0–1	Malmö FF	0–0	0–1

First leg

Nottingham Forest	3–3	Köln
Birtles 28' Bowyer 53' Robertson 63'	Report	Van Gool 6' Müller 20' Okudera 85'

Austria Wien	0–0	Malmö FF
	Report

Second leg

Köln	0–1	Nottingham Forest
	Report	Bowyer 65'

Nottingham Forest won 4–3 on aggregate.

Malmö FF	1–0	Austria Wien
Hansson 47'	Report

Malmö FF won 1–0 on aggregate.

Final

Nottingham Forest	1–0	Malmö FF
Francis 45'	Report

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1978–79 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Claudio Sulser	Grasshopper	11
2	Garry Birtles	Nottingham Forest	6
3	Dieter Müller	Köln	5
	Walter Schachner	Austria Wien	5
5	Dušan Bajević	AEK Athens	4
	Kazimierz Kmiecik	Wisła Kraków	4
	Willy van der Kuijlen	PSV Eindhoven	4
8	Gerrie Deijkers	PSV Eindhoven	3
	Roger van Gool	Köln	3
	Juanito	Real Madrid	3
	Karel Kroupa	Zbrojovka Brno	3
	Anders Ljungberg	Malmö FF	3
	Raimondo Ponte	Grasshopper	3
	Santillana	Real Madrid	3

Notes

1. Haka played their home match at Ratina Stadium, Tampere, as their regular stadium Tehtaan kenttä, Valkeakoski, did not have floodlights.
2. ^ Dynamo Kyiv played their home matches at Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv, instead of their regular stadium Central Stadium, Kyiv, due to reconstruction.

References

1. "Steaua București v Monaco, 30 August 1978" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
2. "Linfield v Lillestrøm, 13 September 1978" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
3. Gorbunov, N. (15 September 1978). "Гол в запасе" (in Russian). Sovetsky Sport. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
4. "FC Porto v AEK Athens, 27 September 1978" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
5. "Progrès Niedercorn v Real Madrid, 27 September 1978" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
6. "ÍA v 1. FC Köln, 27 September 1978" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
7. "Rangers v Juventus, 27 September 1978" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
8. "Austria Wien v Vllaznia, 27 September 1978" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
9. "Wisła Kraków v Club Brugge, 27 September 1978" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
10. "Dynamo Kyiv v Haka, 27 September 1978" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
11. "Monaco v Malmö FF, 27 September 1978" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
12. "Dynamo Kyiv v Malmö FF, 18 October 1978" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
13. "Lillestrøm v Austria Wien, 1 November 1978" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
14. "Malmö FF v Dynamo Kyiv, 1 November 1978" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
15. "1. FC Köln v Nottingham Forest, 25 April 1979" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
16. "Malmö FF v Austria Wien, 25 April 1979" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 6 March 2022.

External links

• 1978–79 All matches – season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
• All scorers 1978–79 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA
• 1978/79 European Cup – results and line-ups (archive)

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See also: International women's club football

• 1978–79 in European football
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