European Cup Winners' Cup (handball) 1977/78

The 1977/78 European Cup Winners' Cup was the third edition of the competition for European handball cup winners . The 23 participating teams qualified in their home countries through the national cup competition for the European Cup organized by the International Handball Federation (IHF) . In the final on May 4, 1978, VfL Gummersbach prevailed against the Yugoslav representative RK Železničar Niš with 15:13.

Final round

First round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Kirkby HC	23: 63	Aarhus KFUM	15:31	08:32
FH Hafnarfjörður	50 : 38	Kronohagens IF	29:13	21:25
ZMC Amicitia Zurich	41 : 28	KV Sasja HC	23:12	18:16
Volani Rovereto	37: 46	VIF G. Dimitrov Sofia	18:22	19:24
Hermes The Hague	33 : 26	HB Eschois Fola	18:13	15:13
ASKÖ Linz	37: 42	TJ Strojárne Martin	15:19	22:23
FC Porto	41: 49	Hapoel Petach Tikwa	21:24	20:25

The other clubs ( VfL Gummersbach , ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder) , Volán Szeged , FC Barcelona , LUGI HF , ASPTT Metz , Stavanger IF , RK Železničar Niš and KS Anilana Łódź ) attracted by a walk-through automatically to the next round.

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
VfL Gummersbach	52 : 37	Aarhus KFUM	24:21	28:16
ASK forward Frankfurt (Oder)	54 : 34	FH Hafnarfjörður	30:14	24:20
Volán Szeged	40 : 37	FC Barcelona	27:22	13:15
LUGI HF	41: 46	VIF G. Dimitrov Sofia	21:23	20:23
Stavanger IF	32: 50	ASPTT Metz	15:23	17:27
Hermes The Hague	31: 36	TJ Strojárne Martin	14:15	17:21
Hapoel Petach Tikwa	29: 55	RK Železnicar Niš	14:20	15:35
KS Anilana Łódź	44 : 34	ZMC Amicitia Zurich	26:17	18:17

Quarter finals

The first leg of the German-German duel was won by ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder) on February 21, 1978 at home with 17:13 (9: 7). The second leg in the Dortmund Westfalenhalle , which was sold out with 13,000 spectators, was victorious by VfL Gummersbach on March 3, 1978 with 15:10 (8: 6) and thus reached the semi-finals.

	total		First leg	Return leg
ASK forward Frankfurt (Oder)	27: 28	VfL Gummersbach	17:13	10:15
Volán Szeged	46: 47	KS Anilana Łódź	26:22	20:25
VIF G. Dimitrov Sofia	(a)	ASPTT Metz	21:19	17:12
TJ Strojárne Martin	36: 43	RK Železnicar Niš	19:13	17:30

^(a)Because of the use of the ineligible Iwan Blagoew in the first leg, VIF G. Dimitrov Sofia was disqualified after a protest by ASPTT Metz , so that the French moved into the semi-finals.

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
VfL Gummersbach	41 : 35	KS Anilana Łódź	23:16	18:19
RK Železnicar Niš	49 : 36	ASPTT Metz	23:15	26:21

final

The final was held on May 4th, 1978 in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle .

	Result
VfL Gummersbach	15 : 13 (4: 6)	RK Železnicar Niš

Cup winning team of VfL Gummersbach

Goal : Valentin Markser , Rainer Schumacher Field players : Heiner Brand , Joachim Henkels , Klaus Schlagheck , Jochen Feldhoff , Dirk Rauin , Thomas Krokowski , Claus Fey , Klaus Westebbe , Erhard Wunderlich , Karl-Heinz Nolde , Wolfgang Pollmann , Joachim Deckarm Coach : Zlatan Siric

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1979 . Sportverlag Berlin , 1979, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 191 .

Web links

• Todor Krastev: Men Handball III European Cup Winners Cup 1978. In: todor66.com , accessed on April 13, 2020 (with different information on the literature).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Deserved success of the ASK over Gummersbach. In: Neues Deutschland from February 22, 1978, p. 5.
2. ↑ ^{a b} 4-goal lead was not enough for ASK handball players. In: Neues Deutschland from March 4, 1978, p. 5.
3. ↑ DHB Cup men 1977/78. In: handballdaten.de , accessed on April 13, 2020.