European Cup Winners' Cup (handball) 1978/79

The 1978/79 European Cup Winners' Cup was the fourth edition of the competition for European handball cup winners . The 26 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 VfL Gummersbach was automatically qualified and was able to defend his title in the final against the East German representative SC Magdeburg (15:18, 15:11). The competition was overshadowed by Joachim Deckarm's tragic accident in the semi-final second leg in Tatabánya .

Final round

First round

	total		First leg	Return leg
KV Mechelen	41: 46	TV Hüttenberg	22:27	19:19
HB Dudelange	37: 49	Dumphouse blue wit	23:30	14:19
Cividin Trieste	45: 56	Tatra Mountains Kopřivnice	22:21	23:35
Grasshopper Club Zurich	34: 39	UHK Krems	16:17	18:22
Maccabi Arazim Ramat Gan	27: 48	HC Minaur Baia Mare	16:26	11:22
Trakia Plovdiv	45: 62	MAY Moscow	23:29	22:33
Fjellhammer IL	31: 34	Aalborg HK	14:17	17:17
Riihimäki Cocks	40: 61	IFK Ystad HK	24:27	16:34
Halewood Forum	(a)	Víkingur Reykjavík	24:27	-
Belenenses Lisbon	37: 58	Atlético Madrid	19:28	18:30

^(a)Since Halewood Forum waived the second leg, Víkingur Reykjavík reached the round of 16 without a fight.

The other clubs ( SC Magdeburg , RK Medveščak , Hutnik Kraków , Tatabánya Bányász , Saint-Martin-d'Hères and defending champion VfL Gummersbach ) automatically moved into the round of 16 with a bye .

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
Dumphouse blue wit	38: 49	TV Hüttenberg	19:18	19:31
HC Minaur Baia Mare	55 : 40	Aalborg HK	31:19	24:21
SC Magdeburg	49 : 41	Atlético Madrid	24:16	25:25
RK Medveščak	47: 52	Hutnik Kraków	22:27	25:25
UHK Krems	49: 60	MAY Moscow	22:29	27:31
Tatabánya Bányász	55 : 39	Saint-Martin-d'Hères	33:17	22:22
VfL Gummersbach	34 : 23	Tatra Mountains Kopřivnice	19:11	15:12
Víkingur Reykjavík	48 : 46	IFK Ystad HK	24:23	24:23

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
MAY Moscow	33: 33 ( A )	VfL Gummersbach	20:20	13:13
TV Hüttenberg	41: 47	HC Minaur Baia Mare	22:23	19:24
Tatabánya Bányász	(b)	Víkingur Reykjavík
Hutnik Kraków	41: 47	SC Magdeburg	23:22	18:25

^(b)After the second leg of the second leg in the round of 16 in Ystad , players from Icelandic representative Víkingur Reykjavík rioted under the influence of alcohol and caused property damage. Thereupon the club was excluded from the competition by the IHF for disciplinary reasons, Tatabánya Bányász reached the semifinals without a fight.

Semifinals

In the 23rd minute of the second leg between VfL Gummersbach and Tatabánya Bányász on March 30, 1979, the Gummersbach player Joachim Deckarm had a serious accident . In a counter- attack he collided with his Hungarian opponent Lajos Pánovics and fell to the ground. His head fell unchecked onto the concrete floor, which was only covered with a thin layer of PVC , resulting in a double fracture of the base of the skull , a tear in the meninges and severe bruises in the brain . Deckarm didn't wake up from the coma until 131 days later . Due to the brain damage, his motor skills were severely impaired, he had lost the ability to speak and has since been dependent on a wheelchair.

	total		First leg	Return leg
VfL Gummersbach	39 : 31	Tatabánya Bányász	18:10	21:21
SC Magdeburg	49 : 45	HC Minaur Baia Mare	27:19	22:26

final

The first leg took place on May 5, 1979 in Magdeburg's Hermann-Gieseler-Halle and the second leg on May 13, 1979 in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle .

	total		First leg	Return leg
SC Magdeburg	29: 30	VfL Gummersbach	18:15	11:15

First leg

SC Magdeburg		VfL Gummersbach
	First leg Saturday, May 5, 1979, 4:00 p.m. in Magdeburg ( Hermann-Gieseler-Halle ) Result: 18:15 (11: 7) Spectators: 2,000 (sold out) Referee: Marki, Fülöp ( Hungary )
	Wieland Schmidt , Thomas Gethe - Reinhard Schütte (3), Ingolf Wiegert , Helmut Kurrat , Hartmut Krüger (9/7) , Udo Rothe (3), Günter Dreibrodt (2/1), Manfred Pfeifer , Reiner Baumgart , Harry Jahns (1 ), Manfred Hoppe , Rainer Jahn's trainer: Klaus Miesner	Rudi Rauer , Valentin Markser - Heiner Brand (3) , Uli Pohl , Klaus Schlagheck , Dirk Rauin , Thomas Krokowski (1), Gerd Rosendahl , Klaus Westebbe (1), Erhard Wunderlich (8/3), Claus Fey (2), Frank Dammann Trainer: Zlatan Siric

Return leg

Rosendahl scored the goal at 15:11 a few seconds before the final siren, which finally decided the game and prevented the application of the away goal rule (also in favor of Gummersbach).

VfL Gummersbach		SC Magdeburg
	Second leg Sunday, May 13, 1979, 5:15 p.m. in Dortmund ( Westfalenhalle ) Result: 15:11 (8: 6) Spectators: 12,000 (sold out) Referee: Nilsson, Lundin ( Sweden )
	Rudi Rauer , Valentin Markser - Heiner Brand (1) , Uli Pohl (1), Klaus Schlagheck , Dirk Rauin , Thomas Krokowski (1), Gerd Rosendahl (1), Klaus Westebbe (2), Erhard Wunderlich (5/5), Claus Fey (4), Frank Dammann Trainer: Zlatan Siric	Wieland Schmidt , Thomas Gethe - Reinhard Schütte , Ingolf Wiegert (1), Helmut Kurrat , Hartmut Krüger (6/6) , Udo Rothe , Günter Dreibrodt (4), Manfred Pfeifer , Reiner Baumgart , Harry Jahns , Manfred Hoppe , Rainer Jahn's trainers : Klaus Miesner

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1980 . Sportverlag Berlin , 1980, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 181-182 .
• Foosball sports magazine . Olympia-Verlag , Nuremberg (issues from the 1978–1979 season).

Web links

• Todor Krastev: Men Handball IV European Cup Winners Cup 1979. In: todor66.com , accessed on April 13, 2020 (with different information on the literature).
• ZDF sports report : Jo Deckarm - 40 years after his accident. In: youtube.com (March 24, 2019).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A German handball hero, stronger than death. In: welt.de (January 17, 2014).
2. ↑ This is the touching Jo-Deckarm story. In: wz.de (March 29, 2019).
3. ↑ No game flow to expand the leadership. In: Berliner Zeitung of May 7, 1978, p. 5.
4. ↑ A plus of 3 goals for SC Magdeburg. In: Neues Deutschland from May 7, 1978, p. 7.
5. ↑ Magdeburg was missing two goals to win the cup. In: Neues Deutschland from May 14, 1978, p. 6.
6. ↑ Magdeburg was missing 2 goals. In: Neue Zeit from May 15, 1978, p. 6.