European Cup Winners' Cup (handball) 1976/77

The 1976/77 European Cup Winners' Cup was the second edition of the competition for European handball cup winners . The 25 participating teams qualified in their home countries through the national cup competition for the European Cup organized by the International Handball Federation (IHF) ; the defending champion BM Granollers was automatically qualified. In the final on April 24, 1977, the Soviet representative MAI Moscow prevailed against the FDGB Cup winner SC Magdeburg with 18:17.

Final round

First round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Dinamo Bucharest	41: 43	MAY Moscow	25:20	16:23
Red Boys Differdange	23: 54	Valur Reykjavík	11:25	12:29
IK home	43 : 42	Spójnia Gdańsk	19:18	24:24
Atlético Madrid	53 : 23	Hapoel Ramat Gan	26:16	27: 70
Volani Rovereto	26: 31	FC Porto	14:10	12:21
Partizan Bjelovar	51 : 49	TJ Tatran Prešov	27:19	24:30
Brentwood '72 HC	16: 65	Progrès HC Seraing	12:35	04:30
Elektromos SE	59 : 44	ASKÖ Linz	27:20	32:24
SC Magdeburg	61 : 32	Kronohagens IF	33:15	28:17

The other clubs ( TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen , TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen , Bækkelagets SK , PSV Eindhoven , SMUC Marseille , IK Skovbakken and defending champion BM Granollers ) automatically made it to the round of 16 with a bye .

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
Valur Reykjavík	34: 44	MAY Moscow	19:20	15:24
TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen	37 : 35	IK home	21:18	16:17
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	31: 49	Atlético Madrid	20:28	11:21
Bækkelagets SK	43 : 40	PSV Eindhoven	22:19	21:21
IK Skovbakken	42: 48	Partizan Bjelovar	21:22	21:26
FC Porto	35: 47	SMUC Marseille	18:26	17:21
BM Granollers	45 : 27	Progrès HC Seraing	25:10	20:17
SC Magdeburg	56 : 48	Elektromos SE	28:20	28:28

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen	39: 40	MAY Moscow	25:19	14:21
Bækkelagets SK	39: 46	Atlético Madrid	19:19	20:27
SMUC Marseille	36: 60	Partizan Bjelovar	19:27	17:33
SC Magdeburg	67 : 40	BM Granollers	36:18	31:22

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
MAY Moscow	39 : 36	Atlético Madrid	28:21	11:15
SC Magdeburg	39 : 38	Partizan Bjelovar	20:16	19:22

final

The final was held on April 24, 1977 in Zaporizhia (now Ukraine ) in front of 5,000 spectators.

	Result
MAY Moscow	18 : 17 (9: 7)	SC Magdeburg

MAY Moscow

Valentin Sychev - Vladimir Maximow (5), Alexander Schrypow (1), Wassili Iljin (7), Vladimir Kravtsov , Juri Klimov (2), Koshuschow, Wiktor Machorin (1), Oleg Gagin , Alexei Solowjew (2), Nikolai Tschigarjow

SC Magdeburg

Wieland Schmidt - Reinhard Schütte (2), Wolfgang Lakenmacher (1), Gerhard Uecker (1), Hartmut Krüger (7), Günter Dreibrodt (3), Ingolf Wiegert , Ernst Gerlach (3), Harry Jahns , Manfred Hoppe - trainers: Klaus Miesner

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1978 . Sportverlag Berlin , 1978, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 183 .

Web links

• Todor Krastev: Men Handball II European Cup Winners Cup 1977. In: todor66.com , accessed on April 13, 2020 (with different information on the literature).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Magdeburg just lost. In: Berliner Zeitung of April 25, 1977, p. 6.
2. ↑ Handball player from MAI Moscow with a European Cup win. In: Neues Deutschland from April 25, 1977, p. 7.