1978–79 European Cup
Tournament details
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Dates
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15 August 1978 - 30 May 1979
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Teams
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33
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Final positions
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Champions
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Nottingham Forest (1st title)
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Runners-up
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Malmö FF
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Tournament statistics
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Matches played
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63
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Goals scored
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185 (2.94 per match)
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Top scorer(s)
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Claudio Sulser (11 goals)
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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.
Bracket
Preliminary round
First leg
Second leg
AS Monaco won 3–2 on aggregate.
First round
First leg
Second leg
AEK Athens won 7–5 on aggregate.
Nottingham Forest won 2–0 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 12–0 on aggregate.
Grasshopper won 13–3 on aggregate.
Lokomotiv Sofia won 4–3 on aggregate.
Köln won 5–2 on aggregate.
Rangers won 2–1 on aggregate.
PSV Eindhoven won 7–3 on aggregate.
Austria Vienna won 4–3 on aggregate.
Lillestrøm won 1–0 on aggregate.
Omonia 2–2 Bohemians on aggregate. Bohemians won on away goals.
Partizan 2–2 Dynamo Dresden on aggregate. Dynamo Dresden won on penalties.
Zbrojovka Brno won 4–2 on aggregate.
Wisła Kraków won 4–3 on aggregate.
Dynamo Kyiv won 4–1 on aggregate.
Malmö FF won 1–0 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
Second leg
Nottingham Forest won 7–2 on aggregate.
Real Madrid 3–3 Grasshopper on aggregate. Grasshopper won on away goals.
Köln won 5–0 on aggregate.
Rangers won 3–2 on aggregate.
Austria Vienna won 4–1 on aggregate.
Dynamo Dresden won 6–0 on aggregate.
Zbrojovka Brno 3–3 Wisła Kraków on aggregate. Wisła Kraków won on away goals.
Malmö FF won 2–0 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Nottingham Forest won 5–2 on aggregate.
Köln won 2–1 on aggregate.
Austria Vienna won 3–2 on aggregate.
Malmö FF won 5–3 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Nottingham Forest won 4–3 on aggregate.
Malmö FF won 1–0 on aggregate.
Final
Top scorers
The top scorers from the 1978–79 European Cup are as follows:
External links
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1978–79 All matches – season at UEFA website
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European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
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All scorers 1978–79 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA
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1978/79 European Cup - results and line-ups (archive)
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European Cup era, 1955–1992
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Seasons
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Finals
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Champions League era, 1992–present
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Finals
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Africa
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Asia
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Europe
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North America,
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Oceania
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See also:
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