6th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA
1976–77 UEFA CupTournament details |
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Dates | 8 September 1976 – 18 May 1977 |
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Teams | 64 |
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Final positions |
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Champions | Juventus (1st title) |
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Runners-up | Athletic Bilbao |
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Tournament statistics |
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Matches played | 126 |
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Goals scored | 399 (3.17 per match) |
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Attendance | 2,810,845 (22,308 per match) |
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Top scorer(s) | Stan Bowles (Queens Park Rangers) 11 goals |
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International football competition
The 1976–77 UEFA Cup was the sixth season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at Stadio Comunale, Turin, Italy, and at San Mamés, Bilbao, Spain. It was won by Juventus of Italy, who defeated Athletic Bilbao of Spain on the away goals rule after a 2–2 aggregate draw to claim their first UEFA Cup title.
This was the first major European conquest for Juventus, having previously lost one European Cup final and two Inter-Cities Fairs' Cup finals. It was the first time that a team from Southern Europe had won the competition, and the last European title for an Italian team for seven years, which was their biggest international drought at club level until 2018.[1]
In their first European final, Athletic Bilbao was the first Spanish finalist in the UEFA Cup, and the only one until 1985. A Spanish club last reached the Inter-Cities Fairs' Cup final in 1966, which was also the last year with an Spanish title in Europe. Athletic became the fourth different Spanish side to lose at this stage in European competition ever since.
Association team allocation
A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participate in the 1976–77 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.
Hungary and Romania were the two associations selected to have an extra third birth for this season, while the Soviet Union and Sweden went back to two qualified teams.
Associations in the 1976–77 UEFA Cup | | | |
^ Wales: There was no national league in Wales before 1992 and the only competition organised by the
Football Association of Wales was the
Welsh Cup so Wales had just a single participant in European competitions, the winner (or best placed Welsh team as several English teams also competed) of the Welsh Cup which competed in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
^ Albania: Albanian teams were absent from European competition from 1973 to 1978 due to the international isolation of the country during
the communist rule of Enver Hoxha.
[2] Vllaznia would have qualified for the UEFA Cup by league position.
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
Schedule
The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches took place on Tuesdays or Thursdays.
Schedule for 1976–77 UEFA Cup Round | First leg | Second leg |
First round | 8–16 September 1976 | 28–30 September 1976 |
Second round | 20 October 1976 | 3–4 November 1976 |
Third round | 24 November 1976 | 7–8 December 1976 |
Quarter-finals | 2–3 March 1977 | 16 March 1977 |
Semi-finals | 6 April 1977 | 20 April 1977 |
Final | 4 May 1977 | 18 May 1977 |
First round
First leg
Attendance: 33,000
Referee: William Gow (
Wales)
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Rolf Eriksson (
Sweden)
Attendance: 11,000
Referee: Jerzy Świstek (
Poland)
Väinölänniemen stadion, Kuopio Attendance: 1,280
Attendance: 28,000
Referee: Pablo Sánchez Ibáñez (
Spain)
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Petros Marinos (
Greece)
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Clive Thomas (
Wales)
Second leg
Schalke 04 won 5–4 on aggregate.
Slovan Bratislava won 8–0 on aggregate.
Basel won 5–3 on aggregate.
Kaiserslautern won 11–1 on aggregate.
AEK Athens won 3–2 on aggregate.
Attendance: 58,918
Referee: Georges Konrath (
France)
Manchester United won 2–1 on aggregate.
Austria Salzburg won 5–2 on aggregate.
Barcelona won 5-4 on aggregate.
Attendance: 28,065
Referee: Ertuğrul Dilek (
Turkey)
Wisła Kraków won 4-2 on aggregate.
Attendance: 2,217
Referee: Jacques van Melkebeeke (
Belgium)
Derby County won 16–1 on aggregate.
Attendance: 36,194
Referee: John Wright Paterson (
Scotland)
Milan won 2–1 on aggregate.
Attendance: 1,013
Referee: Martti Hirviniemi (
Finland)
Eintracht Braunschweig won 7–1 on aggregate.
Espanyol won 4–3 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 4–2 on aggregate.
Videoton | 4–0 | Fenerbahçe |
- Wollek 50'
- Kovács 57'
- Szalmásy 66', 85'
| Report | |
Videoton won 5–2 on aggregate.
Grasshoppers won 9–0 on aggregate.
Hibernian won 1–0 on aggregate.
Budapest Honvéd won 2–1 on aggregate.
Köln won 3–1 on aggregate.
Attendance: 1,400
Referee: Jan Łazowski (
Poland)
Öster won 4–3 on aggregate.
Magdeburg won 4–3 on aggregate.
Juventus won 2–1 on aggregate.
Molenbeek won 7–0 on aggregate.
Queens Park Rangers won 11–0 on aggregate.
Lokeren won 6–1 on aggregate.
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Emmanuel Platopoulos (
Greece)
Akademik Sofia won 3–2 on aggregate.
Shakhtar Donetsk won 4–1 on aggregate.
Attendance: 38,000
Referee: Thomas Reynolds (
Wales)
Sportul Studențesc won 4–2 on aggregate.
Wacker Innsbruck won 7–1 on aggregate.
Dinamo Zagreb won 4–0 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 5–1 on aggregate.
Red Star Belgrade won 5–3 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Georges Konrath (
France)
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Richard Casha (
Malta)
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson (
Sweden)
Attendance: 14,500
Referee: Pablo Sánchez Ibáñez (
Spain)
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: William Gow (
Wales)
Second leg
AEK Athens won 5–2 on aggregate.
Milan won 5–4 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Red Star Belgrade won on away goals.
Barcelona won 3–2 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 4–2 on aggregate.
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Clive Thomas (
Wales)
Espanyol won 3–2 on aggregate.
Öster won 4–3 on aggregate.
Videoton won 2–1 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 7–2 on aggregate.
Köln won 5–2 on aggregate.
Magdeburg won 4–2 on aggregate.
Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.
Shakhtar Donetsk won 6–2 on aggregate.
Queens Park Rangers won 8–5 on aggregate.
Schalke 04 won 5–0 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Molenbeek won 5–4 on penalties.
Third round
First leg
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Ulf Eriksson (
Sweden)
Attendance: 14,700
Referee: Thomas Reynolds (
Wales)
Second leg
3–3 on aggregate; AEK Athens won on away goals.
Athletic Bilbao won 5–4 on aggregate.
Attendance: 54,280
Referee: Robert Wurtz (
France)
Feyenoord won 3–0 on aggregate.
Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.
Magdeburg won 5–1 on aggregate.
Barcelona won 8–1 on aggregate.
Attendance: 37,000
Referee: Pablo Sánchez Ibáñez (
Spain)
4–4 on aggregate; Queens Park Rangers won on away goals.
Molenbeek won 2–1 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Attendance: 33,000
Referee: Thomas Reynolds (
Wales)
Second leg
Athletic Bilbao won 4–3 on aggregate.
Molenbeek won 2–1 on aggregate.
Juventus won 4–1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; AEK Athens won 7–6 on penalties.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
1–1 on aggregate; Athletic Bilbao won on away goals.
Juventus won 5–1 on aggregate.
Final
First leg
Second leg
2–2 on aggregate; Juventus won on away goals.
References
- ^ Di Cesare, Sergio (1 April 2008). "Hard work pays off for Zoff". Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 8 February 2010.
- ^ McCracken, Craig (2015-10-15). "Albania's history in European football: beards and bad behaviour in the Balkans". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
External links
- 1976–77 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website
- Official Site
- Results at RSSSF.com
- All scorers 1976–77 UEFA Cup according to protocols UEFA
- 1976/77 UEFA Cup - results and line-ups (archive)
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