1978–79 European Cup

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

1978–79 European Cup
The Olympiastadion in Munich hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates15 August 1978 – 30 May 1979
Teams33
Final positions
Champions Nottingham Forest (1st title)
Runners-up Malmö FF
Tournament statistics
Matches played63
Goals scored185 (2.94 per match)
Attendance1,688,020 (26,794 per match)
Top scorer(s) Claudio Sulser (11 goals)

Preliminary round
Team 1 Agg. 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
Attendance: 6,434
Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)

Second leg
Steaua București 2–0 Monaco
Troi 51', 76' Report
Attendance: 25,000[1]
Referee: Ernst Dörflinger-Buser (Switzerland)

Monaco won 3–2 on aggregate.

Bracket
Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
AEK Athens 6 1 7
Porto 1 4 5 AEK Athens 1 1 2
Nottingham Forest 2 0 2 Nottingham Forest 2 5 7
Liverpool 0 0 0 Nottingham Forest 4 1 5
Real Madrid 5 7 12 Grasshopper 1 1 2
Progrès Niedercorn 0 0 0 Real Madrid 3 0 3
Grasshopper 8 5 13 Grasshopper (a) 1 2 3
Valletta 0 3 3 Nottingham Forest 3 1 4
Odense 2 1 3 Köln 3 0 3
Lokomotiv Sofia 2 2 4 Lokomotiv Sofia 0 0 0
Köln 4 1 5 Köln 1 4 5
ÍA 1 1 2 Köln 1 1 2
Juventus 1 0 1 Rangers 0 1 1
Rangers 0 2 2 Rangers 0 3 3
Fenerbahçe 2 1 3 PSV Eindhoven 0 2 2
PSV Eindhoven 1 6 7 Nottingham Forest 1
Vllaznia 2 1 3 Malmö FF 0
Austria Wien 0 4 4 Austria Wien 4 0 4
Linfield 0 0 0 Lillestrøm 1 0 1
Lillestrøm 0 1 1 Austria Wien 3 0 3
Omonia 2 0 2 Dynamo Dresden 1 1 2
Bohemians (a) 1 1 2 Bohemians 0 0 0
Partizan 2 0 2 (4) Dynamo Dresden 0 6 6
Dynamo Dresden (p) 0 2 2 (5) Austria Wien 0 0 0
Zbrojovka Brno 2 2 4 Malmö FF 0 1 1
Újpesti Dózsa 2 0 2 Zbrojovka Brno 2 1 3
Club Brugge 2 1 3 Wisła Kraków (a) 2 1 3
Wisła Kraków 1 3 4 Wisła Kraków 2 1 3
Haka 0 1 1 Malmö FF 1 4 5
Dynamo Kyiv 1 3 4 Dynamo Kyiv 0 0 0
Malmö FF 0 1 1 Malmö FF 0 2 2
Monaco 0 0 0

First round
Team 1 Agg. 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 81'
Attendance: 32,000
Referee: Eldar Azimzade (USSR)
Nottingham Forest 2–0 Liverpool
Birtles 26'
Barrett 87'		 Report
Attendance: 38,316
Real Madrid 5–0 Progrès Niedercorn
Jensen 12'
Juanito 30', 66'
Del Bosque 40'
Wolff 84'		 Report
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Mário Luís (Portugal)
Grasshopper 8–0 Valletta
Sulser 31', 46', 58', 62', 64'
Ponte 32', 35'
Wehrli 67'		 Report
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Marcel Herrmann (Luxembourg)
Odense 2–2 Lokomotiv Sofia
Munk Nielsen 32', 44' Report Kolev 60'
Velichkov 69'
Attendance: 7,200
Referee: Eamonn Farrell (Republic of Ireland)
Köln 4–1 ÍA
Littbarski 12'
Neumann 26', 39'
Konopka 72'		 Report Hallgrímsson 20'
Attendance: 9,000
Juventus 1–0 Rangers
Virdis 9' Report
Attendance: 61,425
Fenerbahçe 2–1 PSV Eindhoven
Çetiner 17'
İlhan 43'		 Report Brandts 23'
Attendance: 42,000
Referee: Tome Manojlovski (Yugoslavia)
Vllaznia 2–0 Austria Wien
Zhega 8'
Ballgjini 55'		 Report
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Otto Anderco (Romania)
Linfield 0–0 Lillestrøm
Report
Attendance: 4,700[2]
Referee: Henk van Ettekoven (Netherlands)
Omonia 2–1 Bohemians
Kanaris 21'
Dimitriou 51'		 Report O'Connor 44'
Attendance: 11,000
Referee: Nikola Milanov Doudine (Bulgaria)
Partizan 2–0 Dynamo Dresden
Prekazi 5'
Đurović 47'		 Report
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Hilmi Ok (Turkey)
Zbrojovka Brno 2–2 Újpesti Dózsa
Kroupa 72'
Janečka 77'		 Report Fekete 40'
Törőcsik 65'
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Marian Kustoń (Poland)
Club Brugge 2–1 Wisła Kraków
Ceulemans 24'
Cools 28'		 Report Kapka 83'
Attendance: 15,241
Referee: Malcolm Wright (Northern Ireland)
Haka 0–1 Dynamo Kyiv
Report Baltacha 74'
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Rolf Nyhus (Norway)
Malmö FF 0–0 Monaco
Report
Attendance: 5,473

Second leg
Porto 4–1 AEK Athens
Vital 63', 83'
Teixeira 79'
Gomes 88'		 Report Mavros 32'
Attendance: 62,000[4]

AEK Athens won 7–5 on aggregate.

Liverpool 0–0 Nottingham Forest
Report
Attendance: 51,679
Referee: Georges Konrath (France)

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.)
Attendance: 4,250[5]
Referee: Jan Peeters (Belgium)

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'
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Franz Latzin (Austria)

Grasshopper won 13–3 on aggregate.

Lokomotiv Sofia 2–1 Odense
Mihaylov 27'
Kostov 50'		 Report Eriksen 23' (pen.)
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Nihat Ozbirgül (Turkey)

Lokomotiv Sofia won 4–3 on aggregate.

ÍA 1–1 Köln
Hein 8' (o.g.) Report Van Gool 72'
Attendance: 4,500[6]

Köln won 5–2 on aggregate.

Rangers 2–0 Juventus
MacDonald 18'
Smith 69'		 Report
Attendance: 41,494[7]

Rangers won 2–1 on aggregate.

PSV Eindhoven 6–1 Fenerbahçe
Van der Kuijlen 10', 22', 71', 74'
Deijkers 49', 55'		 Report Çetiner 87'
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

PSV Eindhoven won 7–3 on aggregate.

Austria Wien 4–1 Vllaznia
Parits 21'
Schachner 35', 74'
J. Sara 48'		 Report Hafizi 80'
Attendance: 26,000[8]
Referee: Antonin Vencl (Czechoslovakia)

Austria Wien won 4–3 on aggregate.

Lillestrøm 1–0 Linfield
Lønstad 12' Report
Attendance: 5,641
Referee: Horst di Carlo (East Germany)

Lillestrøm won 1–0 on aggregate.

Bohemians 1–0 Omonia
Joyce 27' Report
Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Ron Bridges (Wales)

Omonia 2–2 Bohemians 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
Attendance: 29,000
Referee: Valentin Lipatov (Soviet Union)

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

Újpesti Dózsa 0–2 Zbrojovka Brno
Report Došek 11'
Kroupa 41'
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)

Zbrojovka Brno won 4–2 on aggregate.

Wisła Kraków 3–1 Club Brugge
Kmiecik 26'
Lipka 82'
Krupiński 89'		 Report Ceulemans 50'
Attendance: 25,000[9]
Referee: Martti Hirviniemi (Finland)

Wisła Kraków won 4–3 on aggregate.

Dynamo Kyiv 3–1 Haka
Veremeyev 31'
Khapsalis 35'
Buryak 85'		 Report Ronkainen 71'
Attendance: 40,516[10]
Referee: Teodoros Tsanaklidis (Greece)

Dynamo Kyiv won 4–1 on aggregate.

Monaco 0–1 Malmö FF
Report Kinnvall 35'
Attendance: 8,470[11]
Referee: Rudolf Frickel (West Germany)

Malmö FF won 1–0 on aggregate.

Second round
Team 1 Agg. 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'
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)
Real Madrid 3–1 Grasshopper
Juanito 5'
García Hernández 65'
Santillana 77'		 Report Sulser 59'
Attendance: 35,000
Lokomotiv Sofia 0–1 Köln
Report Zimmermann 58'
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Johannes-Frederik Beck (Netherlands)
Rangers 0–0 PSV Eindhoven
Report
Attendance: 44,000
Referee: Francis Rion (Belgium)
Austria Wien 4–1 Lillestrøm
Gasselich 25', 34'
Sara 36'
Schachner 65'		 Report Dokken 62'
Attendance: 24,000
Bohemians 0–0 Dynamo Dresden
Report
Attendance: 2,160
Zbrojovka Brno 2–2 Wisła Kraków
Pešice 73'
Kroupa 78'		 Report Kmiecik 37'
Maculewicz 86'
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Eldar Azimzade (USSR)
Dynamo Kyiv 0–0 Malmö FF
Report
Attendance: 40,000[12]

Second leg
Nottingham Forest 5–1 AEK Athens
Needham 12'
Woodcock 35'
Anderson 40'
Birtles 66', 72'		 Report Bajević 50'
Attendance: 38,069
Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)

Nottingham Forest won 7–2 on aggregate.

Grasshopper 2–0 Real Madrid
Sulser 8', 86' Report
Attendance: 28,000

Real Madrid 3–3 Grasshopper on aggregate. Grasshopper won on away goals.

Köln 4–0 Lokomotiv Sofia
Müller 20', 79'
Van Gool 52'
Glowacz 75'		 Report
Attendance: 17,000

Köln won 5–0 on aggregate.

PSV Eindhoven 2–3 Rangers
Lubse 1'
Deijkers 60'		 Report MacDonald 57'
Johnstone 65'
Russell 87'
Attendance: 27,000

Rangers won 3–2 on aggregate.

Lillestrøm 0–0 Austria Wien
Report
Attendance: 5,589[13]
Referee: Albert Victor (Luxembourg)

Austria Wien won 4–1 on aggregate.

Dynamo Dresden 6–0 Bohemians
Trautmann 39', 58'
Schmuck 41'
Riedel 48', 60'
Kotte 75' (pen.)		 Report
Attendance: 33,000
Referee: Ole Amundsen (Denmark)

Dynamo Dresden won 6–0 on aggregate.

Wisła Kraków 1–1 Zbrojovka Brno
Kapka 53' Report Došek 78'
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Dimitar Yordanov Parmakov (Bulgaria)

Zbrojovka Brno 3–3 Wisła Kraków on aggregate. Wisła Kraków won on away goals.

Malmö FF 2–0 Dynamo Kyiv
Cervin 9'
Kinnvall 39'		 Report
Attendance: 13,602[14]

Malmö FF won 2–0 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals
Team 1 Agg. 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'
Attendance: 31,949
Referee: Marjan Rauš (Yugoslavia)
Köln 1–0 Rangers
Müller 58' Report
Attendance: 36,000
Austria Wien 3–1 Dynamo Dresden
Schachner 20', 90'
Zach 86'		 Weber 9'
Attendance: 36,000
Wisła Kraków 2–1 Malmö FF
Nawałka 26'
Kmiecik 85'		 Report Hansson 13'
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Talat Tokat (Turkey)

Second leg
Grasshopper 1–1 Nottingham Forest
Sulser 33' (pen.) Report O'Neill 38'
Attendance: 17,800
Referee: Gianfranco Menegali (Italy)

Nottingham Forest won 5–2 on aggregate.

Rangers 1–1 Köln
McLean 86' Report Müller 48'
Attendance: 44,000
Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)

Köln won 2–1 on aggregate.

Dynamo Dresden 1–0 Austria Wien
Riedel 42' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 35,000

Austria Wien won 3–2 on aggregate.

Malmö FF 4–1 Wisła Kraków
Ljungberg 65' (pen.), 72', 90' (pen.)
Cervin 82'		 Report Kmiecik 58'
Attendance: 12,469

Malmö FF won 5–3 on aggregate.

Semi-finals
Team 1 Agg. 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'
Attendance: 40,804
Austria Wien 0–0 Malmö FF
Report
Attendance: 64,000
Referee: Alek Jarguz (Poland)

Second leg
Köln 0–1 Nottingham Forest
Report Bowyer 65'
Attendance: 60,000[15]

Nottingham Forest won 4–3 on aggregate.

Malmö FF 1–0 Austria Wien
Hansson 47' Report
Attendance: 25,239[16]
Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)

Malmö FF won 1–0 on aggregate.

Final
Main article: 1979 European Cup Final
Nottingham Forest 1–0 Malmö FF
Francis 45' Report
Attendance: 57,500

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 Kazimierz Kmiecik Wisła Kraków 4
Willy van der Kuijlen PSV Eindhoven 4
7 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
Dieter Riedel Dynamo Dresden 3
Dušan Bajević AEK Athens 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.[3]
  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". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  2. "Linfield v Lillestrøm, 13 September 1978". UEFA.com. 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". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  5. "Progrès Niedercorn v Real Madrid, 27 September 1978". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  6. "ÍA v 1. FC Köln, 27 September 1978". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  7. "Rangers v Juventus, 27 September 1978". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  8. "Austria Wien v Vllaznia, 27 September 1978". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  9. "Wisła Kraków v Club Brugge, 27 September 1978". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  10. "Dynamo Kyiv v Haka, 27 September 1978". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  11. "Monaco v Malmö FF, 27 September 1978". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  12. "Dynamo Kyiv v Malmö FF, 18 October 1978". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  13. "Lillestrøm v Austria Wien, 1 November 1978". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  14. "Malmö FF v Dynamo Kyiv, 1 November 1978". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  15. "1. FC Köln v Nottingham Forest, 25 April 1979". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  16. "Malmö FF v Austria Wien, 25 April 1979". UEFA.com. Retrieved 6 March 2022.

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