European Champion Clubs' Cup (handball) 1978/79

At the European Champion Clubs' Cup in 1978/79 took 26 Handball part -Vereinsmannschaften from 26 countries. They qualified for the European Cup in their home countries in the previous season . In the 19th edition of the competition, the winner was determined for the first time in two finals (home and return). The TV Großwallstadt was able to win the title with its first participation. Defending champion SC Magdeburg was only registered for the European Cup Winners' Cup by the German Handball Association of the GDR .

1 round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Volani Rovereto	27: 42	ASKÖ Linz	11:10	16:32
HV Hermes The Hague	36: 42	Sporting Neerpelt	18:16	18:26
RK Željezničar Sarajevo	60 : 37	Hapoel Petach Tikwa	30:16	30:21
TV Zofingen	32: 41	VSŽ Košice	18:25	14:16
Sporting Lisbon	30: 40	Stella Sports Saint-Maur	18:18	12:22
HK Drott	61 : 27	Neistin Tórshavn	31:13	30:14
IL Refstad Oslo	28: 28 (1)	Valur Reykjavík	16:14	12:14
Dinamo Bucharest	54 : 35	CSKA Sofia	23:17	31:18
CSKA Moscow	70 : 33	Kronohagens IF	35:19	35:14
Kirkby HC Liverpool	26: 48	CS Fola Esch	14:24	12:24

With a bye , TV Großwallstadt , Honvéd Budapest , BC Calpisa Alicante, Fredericia KFUM, Śląsk Wrocław
and SC Empor Rostock moved directly into the round of 16.

⁽¹⁾Valur Reykjavík moves into the second round due to the away goals rule .

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
TV Großwallstadt	28 : 26	ASKÖ Linz	14:11	14:15
VSŽ Košice	42 : 31	Sporting Neerpelt	23:13	19:18
RK Željezničar Sarajevo	43: 44	Honvéd Budapest	26:22	17:22
Stella Sports Saint-Maur	35 : 34	HK Drott	20:16	15:18
BC Calpisa Alicante	35 : 32	Fredericia KFUM	16:12	19:20
Valur Reykjavík	39: 45	Dinamo Bucharest	19:25	20:20
CSKA Moscow	59 : 49	Śląsk Wrocław	35:23	24:26
CS Fola Esch	24: 51	SC Empor Rostock	10:25	14:26

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
TV Großwallstadt	34 : 27	VSŽ Košice	17:12	17:15
Stella Sports Saint-Maur	39: 51	Honvéd Budapest	19:25	20:26
Dinamo Bucharest	48 : 38	BC Calpisa Alicante	28:14	20:24
CSKA Moscow	36: 37	SC Empor Rostock	22:20	14:17

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
TV Großwallstadt	42 : 36	Honvéd Budapest	18: 09	24:27
SC Empor Rostock	37 : 36	Dinamo Bucharest	19:14	18:22

final

The first leg took place on April 22, 1979 in the Olympiahalle in Munich and the second leg on April 29, 1979 in the Rostock Sports and Congress Hall.

	total		First leg	Return leg
TV Großwallstadt	30 : 28	SC Empor Rostock	14:10	16:18

First leg

TV Großwallstadt		SC Empor Rostock
	First leg Sunday, April 22, 1979 at 4:00 p.m. in Munich ( Olympiahalle ) Result: 14:10 (8: 6) Spectators: 10,000 (sold out) Referee: Valcic, Stanojevic ( Yugoslavia )
	Manfred Hofmann , Klaus Seufert - Kurt Klühspies , Manfred Freisler , Peter Fischer , Peter Meisinger , Udo Klenk , Thomas Sinsel , Ulrich Gnau , Wolfgang Dümig , Volker Lang , Claus Hormel Trainer: Klaus Zöll	Bodo Wieland , Jürgen Rohde - Wolfgang Böhme , Helmut Wilk , Frank-Michael Wahl , Hans-Georg Jaunich , Siegfried Sanftleben , Christian Langner , Gerd Kösterke , Frank Seydel Trainers: Heinz Strauch , Klaus Langhoff
	Klühspies (5) Freisler (2) Klenk (2) Fischer (1) Meisinger (1) Sinsel (1) Gnau (1) Hormel (1)	Böhme (5) Jaunich (3) Choice (2)
	2	3

Return leg

SC Empor Rostock		TV Großwallstadt
	Second leg Sunday, April 29, 1979 at 4 p.m. in Rostock ( sports and congress hall ) Result: 18:16 (8: 8) Spectators: 3,800 Referees: Rodil, Hjuler ( Denmark )
	Bodo Wieland , Jürgen Rohde - Wolfgang Böhme , Helmut Wilk , Frank-Michael Wahl , Hans-Georg Jaunich , Siegfried Sanftleben , Christian Langner , Holger Kühne , Gerd Kösterke , Frank Seydel Trainers: Heinz Strauch , Klaus Langhoff	Manfred Hofmann , Klaus Seufert - Kurt Klühspies , Manfred Freisler , Peter Fischer , Peter Meisinger , Udo Klenk , Thomas Sinsel , Ulrich Gnau , Wolfgang Dümig , Volker Lang , Claus Hormel Trainer: Klaus Zöll
	Wahl (6) Jaunich (6) Wahl (5) Langner (1)	Meisinger (5) Freisler (4) Klühspies (3) Klenk (2) Sinsel (1) Hormel (1)
	4th	5

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1980 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1980, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 181 .
• Foosball sports magazine . Olympia-Verlag, Nuremberg (issues from the 1978–1979 season).
• New Germany . No. 94-101 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Berlin 1979.

Web links

• Karlheinz Heckert: Handball - European Cup of National Champions. Retrieved April 1, 2012 . 
• CC men on Todor66.com