1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup

1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup

Final positions
Champions	Anderlecht (2nd title)
Runners-up	Austria Wien
← 1976–77 1978–79 →

The 1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup was won by Anderlecht in the final against 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	3–2	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	VB	0–1 (Report) (Report 2)	0–9 (Report) (Report 2)
PAOK	4–0	Zagłębie Sosnowiec	2–0 (Report) (Report 2)	2–0 (Report) (Report 2)
Rangers	0–3	Twente	0–0 (Report) (Report 2)	0–3 (Report) (Report 2)
Brann	5–0	ÍA Akranes	1–0 (Report) (Report 2)	4–0 (Report) (Report 2)
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)
Hamburg	13–3	Lahden Reipas	8–1 (Report) (Report 2)	5–2 (Report) (Report 2)
Lokomotiv Sofia	1–8	Anderlecht	1–6 (Report) (Report 2)	0–2 (Report) (Report 2)
Coleraine	3–6	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	Dynamo Moscow	0–2 (Report) (Report 2)	0–5 (Report) (Report 2)
Olympiakos Nicosia	1–8	Universitatea Craiova	1–6 (Report) (Report 2)	0–2 (Report) (Report 2)
Cardiff City	0–1	Austria Wien	0–0 (Report) (Report 2)	0–1 (Report) (Report 2)
Lokomotiva Košice	2–2 (a)	Öster	0–0 (Report) (Report 2)	2–2 (Report) (Report 2)
Beşiktaş	2–5	Diósgyőri VTK Miskolc	2–0 (Report) (Report 2)	0–5 (Report) (Report 2)
Dundalk	1–4	Hajduk Split	1–0 (Report) (Report 2)	0–4 (Report) (Report 2)

First leg[]

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Second leg[]

Manchester United won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Real Betis won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Porto won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Universitatea Craiova won 8–1 on aggregate.

Notes

• Manchester United were banned from playing within 200 km (124 miles) of Old Trafford, following crowd trouble in the first leg.

Second round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
VB	4–2	PAOK	3–0 (Report) (Report 2)	1–2 (Report) (Report 2)
Twente	4–1	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)
Hamburg	2–3	Anderlecht	1–2 (Report) (Report 2)	1–1 (Report) (Report 2)
Lokomotive Leipzig	2–3	Real Betis	1–1 (Report) (Report 2)	1–2 (Report) (Report 2)
Dynamo Moscow	2–2 (p)	Universitatea Craiova	2–0 (Report) (Report 2)	0–2 (aet) (Report) (Report 2)
Austria Wien	1–1 (a)	Lokomotíva Košice	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[]

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Second leg[]

Porto won 6–5 on aggregate.

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Universitatea Craiova 2–2 Dynamo Moscow on aggregate. Dynamo Moscow won on penalties.

Quarter-finals[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
VB	0–7	Twente	0–3 (Report) (Report 2)	0–4 (Report) (Report 2)
Porto	1–3	Anderlecht	1–0 (Report) (Report 2)	0–3 (Report) (Report 2)
Real Betis	0–3	Dynamo Moscow	0–0 (Report) (Report 2)	0–3 [1] (Report) (Report 2)
Austria Wien	2–2 (p)	Hajduk Split	1–1 (Report) (Report 2)	1–1 (aet) (Report) (Report 2)

Semi-finals[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Twente	0–3	Anderlecht	0–1 (Report) (Report 2)	0–2 (Report) (Report 2)
Dynamo Moscow	4–5 (p)	Austria Wien	2–1 (Report) (Report 2)	1–2 (aet) (Report) (Report 2)

Final[]

See also[]

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

References[]

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^{[dead link]}