The 1977–78 UEFA Cup was the seventh season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at the Stade Armand-Cesari, Furiani, France, and at the Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. It was won by PSV Eindhoven of the Netherlands, who defeated Bastia of France by an aggregate result of 3–0 to claim their first European title.
Playing in their first European final, PSV became the last of the Dutch Big Three teams to win a European trophy. On the other hand, Bastia was the only French team to reach a UEFA Cup final until 1996 or any European final until 1991.
Association team allocation A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participate in the 1977–78 UEFA Cup. The original allocation scheme was as follows:
3 associations have four teams qualify. 3 associations have three teams qualify. 18 associations have two teams qualify. 7 associations have one team qualify.
Poland and Switzerland were the two associations selected to have a third berth for this season, while Hungary and Romania went back to two qualified teams.
+Associations in the 1977–78 UEFA CupFour teams West Germany England ItalyThree teams Spain Poland SwitzerlandTwo teams Netherlands Soviet Union East Germany Yugoslavia Hungary Portugal Scotland Belgium Czechoslovakia France Romania Bulgaria Sweden Greece Austria Turkey Denmark NorwayOne team Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland Malta Finland Iceland Cyprus LuxembourgDid not compete Wales Albania
Teams The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:
TH: Title holders CW: Cup winners CR: Cup runners-up LC: League Cup winners 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position P-W: End-of-season European competition play-offs winners
+Qualified teams for 1977–78 UEFA Cup Schalke 04 Eintracht Braunschweig Eintracht Frankfurt Bayern Munich Manchester City Ipswich Town Aston Villa Newcastle United Torino Fiorentina Inter Milan Lazio Barcelona Athletic Bilbao Las Palmas Widzew Łódź Górnik Zabrze Odra Opole Servette Zürich Grasshoppers PSV Eindhoven AZ Alkmaar Dynamo Kyiv Dinamo Tbilisi Magdeburg Carl Zeiss Jena Dinamo Zagreb Sloboda Tuzla Újpest Dosza Ferencváros Sporting CP Boavista Aberdeen Dundee United Standard Liège Molenbeek Inter Bratislava Slavia Prague Lens Bastia Steaua București ASA Târgu Mureș CSKA Sofia Marek Dupnitsa Malmö Landskrona Olympiacos AEK Athens Rapid Wien LASK Fenerbahçe Altay Frem KB Mjøndalen IF IK Start Bohemian Glenavon Sliema Wanderers FC Haka Fram APOEL Red Boys Differdange
Schedule The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, except for five matches that were held on a Tuesday; one of them was the second leg of the final. +Schedule for 1977–78 UEFA CupRoundFirst legSecond legFirst round13–14 September 197727–28 September 1977Second round19 October 19772 November 1977Third round23 November 19777 December 1977Quarter-finals1 March 197814–15 March 1978Semi-finals29 March 197812 April 1978Final26 April 19789 May 1978
First round
First leg
UEFA invalidated this game and awarded a 3–0 victory to Schalke 04 as Fiorentina fielded an ineligible player, Gianfranco Casarsa.
Second leg
Eintracht Frankfurt won 5–0 on aggregate.
AZ Alkmaar won 16–1 on aggregate.
Aston Villa won 6–0 on aggregate.
Barcelona won 8–2 on aggregate.
Bastia won 5–3 on aggregate.
Bayern Munich won 12–0 on aggregate.
Lazio won 5–1 on aggregate.
Newcastle United won 4–0 on aggregate.
Carl Zeiss Jena won 6–5 on aggregate.
KB won 3–1 on aggregate.
Schalke 04 won 5–1 on aggregate.
Grasshoppers won 8–1 on aggregate.
PSV Eindhoven won 11–2 on aggregate.
Górnik Zabrze won 5–3 on aggregate.
Dinamo Tbilisi won 1–0 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate, Eintracht Braunschweig won on away goals.
Ipswich Town won 6–0 on aggregate.
Las Palmas won 8–4 on aggregate.
Lens won 4–3 on aggregate.
Újpest won 9–3 on aggregate.
Magdeburg won 3–2 on aggregate.
Dinamo Zagreb won 6–4 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate, Widzew Łódź won on away goals rule.
Marek Dupnitsa won 3–2 on aggregate.
Inter Bratislava won 3–1 on aggregate.
R.W.D. Molenbeek won 2–1 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 2–1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate, Standard Liège won on away goals rule.
Start won 8–0 on aggregate.
AEK Athens won 3–1 on aggregate.
Torino won 4–1 on aggregate.
Zürich won 2–1 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
Second leg
Standard Liège won 6–3 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate, Barcelona won in a penalty shoot-out.
Aston Villa won 3–1 on aggregate.
Bastia won 5–2 on aggregate.
Bayern Munich won 3–2 on aggregate.
Grasshoppers won 5–2 on aggregate.
Ipswich Town won 4–3 on aggregate.
Dinamo Tbilisi won 6–2 on aggregate.
Lens won 6–2 on aggregate.
Magdeburg won 7–3 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate, Carl Zeiss Jena won in a penalty shoot-out.
Eintracht Braunschweig won 4–1 on aggregate.
Torino won 3–2 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 3–2 on aggregate.
PSV Eindhoven won 6–3 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 7–3 on aggregate.
Third round
First leg
Second leg
Aston Villa won 3–1 on aggregate.
Bastia won 5–3 on aggregate.
Carl Zeiss Jena won 4–1 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 6–1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate, Barcelona won in a penalty shoot-out.
Magdeburg won 4–2 on aggregate.
PSV Eindhoven won 4–1 on aggregate.
Grasshoppers won 4–1 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Barcelona won 4–3 on aggregate.
Bastia won 9–6 on aggregate.
PSV Eindhoven won 4–3 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate, Grasshoppers won on away goals rule.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
3–3 on aggregate, Bastia won on away goals rule.
PSV won 4–3 on aggregate.
Final
First leg
Second leg
PSV Eindhoven won 3–0 on aggregate
References
External links 1977–78 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website Official Site Results at RSSSF.com All scorers 1977–78 UEFA Cup according to protocols UEFA 1977/78 UEFA Cup - results and line-ups (archive)