The Scottish FA Cup was played for the 93rd time in 1977/78 . The main Scottish soccer cup competition, which was directed and hosted by the Scottish Football Association, began on December 17, 1977 and ended with the final on May 6, 1978 in Hampden Park in Glasgow. As the defending champion, Celtic Glasgow started the competition, which prevailed against the Rangers in the previous year's final at the Old Firm . In this year's Scottish Cup final, Rangers and FC Aberdeen faced each other. The Rangers were able to goals from Alex MacDonald and Derek Johnstone the game with 2: 1 (Gate of Aberdeen: Steve Ritchie ) decide for themselves and for a total of 22 times celebrating the Cup victory in Scotland. In the 1977/78 season, the Rangers won the triple of championship , cup and league cup . Because of the victory in the championship which took Rangers to the European Champion Clubs' Cup in 1978/79 in part, and left there until the quarter-final against 1. FC Köln from. The FC Aberdeen took Meanwhile, the loser of the final match at the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in part and lost in the second round against Fortuna Dusseldorf .