1976/77 UEFA Cup

1976/77 UEFA Cup
Cup winners	Juventus Turin (1st title)
Beginning	September 8, 1976
The End	May 18, 1977
Teams	64
Games	126
Gates	400  (ø 3.17 per game)
Top scorer	Stan Bowles , ( Queens Park Rangers , 11 goals)
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The 1976/77 UEFA Cup was the 6th edition of the competition and was won by Juventus Turin by beating Athletic Bilbao in the final .

The 64 teams played against each other in pure cup mode in six rounds with home and return games. In the event of a tie, the number of goals scored away first decided, followed by overtime and a penalty shoot-out.

The most successful German team this season was 1. FC Magdeburg who made it to the quarter-finals, but failed there because of the eventual winner Juventus Turin.

1 round

	total		First leg	Return leg
FC Porto	4: 5	FC Schalke 04	( 1 )2: 2 ( 1 )	2: 3
Enosis Neon Paralimni	01:11	1. FC Kaiserslautern	1: 3	0: 8
Glentoran FC	3: 5	FC Basel	3: 2	0: 3
Fram Reykjavík	0: 8	Slovan Bratislava	0: 3	0: 5
AEK Athens	3: 2	FK Dynamo Moscow	2-0	1: 2 a.d.
Ajax Amsterdam	1: 2	Manchester United	1-0	0: 2
SV Austria Salzburg	5: 2	Adanaspor	5-0	0: 2
Belenenses Lisbon	4: 5	FC Barcelona	2: 2	2: 3
Celtic Glasgow	2: 4	Wisła Krakow	2: 2	0: 2
Derby County	16: 10	Finn Harps	12: 00	4: 1
Eintracht Braunschweig	7: 1	Holbæk B&I	7-0	0: 1
Español Barcelona	4: 3	OGC Nice	3: 1	1: 2
Fenerbahçe Istanbul	2: 5	Video sound Székesfehérvár	2: 1	0: 4
Feyenoord Rotterdam	4: 2	Djurgårdens IF	3-0	1: 2
Grasshopper Club Zurich	9-0	Hibernians Football Club	7-0	2-0
Hibernian Edinburgh	1-0	FC Sochaux-Montbéliard	1-0	0-0
Inter Milan	1: 2	Honvéd Budapest	0: 1	1: 1
1. FC Cologne	3: 1	GKS Tychy	2-0	( 2 )1: 1 ( 2 )
Kuopion PS	3: 4	Östers IF	3: 2	0: 2
1. FC Magdeburg	4: 3	AC Cesena	3-0	1: 3
Manchester City	1: 2	Juventus Turin	1-0	0: 2
Næstved BK	0: 7	RWD Molenbeek	0: 3	0: 4
Queens Park Rangers	11: 00	Brann Bergen	4-0	7-0
Red Boys Differdange	1: 6	Sporting Lokeren	0: 3	1: 3
Shakhtar Donetsk	4: 1	BFC Dynamo	3-0	1: 1
Slavia Prague	2: 3	Akademik Sofia	2-0	0: 3 a.d.
Sportul Studențesc	4: 2	Olympiacos Piraeus	3-0	1: 2
SSW Innsbruck	7: 1	Start Kristiansand	2: 1	5-0
AS Armata Târgu Mureș	0: 4	Dinamo Zagreb	0: 1	0: 3
Újpesti Dózsa SC Budapest	1: 5	Athletic Bilbao	1-0	0: 5
Dinamo Bucharest	1: 2	AC Milan	0-0	1: 2
Locomotive Plovdiv	3: 5	Red Star Belgrade	2: 1	1: 4

¹ The first leg took place in Lisbon. ² The second leg took place in Katowice.

2nd round

	total		First leg	Return leg
AEK Athens	5: 2	Derby County	2-0	3: 2
Akademik Sofia	4: 5	AC Milan	4: 3	0: 2
SV Austria Salzburg	(a)2: 2 ( a )	Red Star Belgrade	2: 1	0: 1
FC Basel	2: 4	Athletic Bilbao	1: 1	1: 3
Eintracht Braunschweig	2: 3	Español Barcelona	2: 1	0: 2
Hibernian Edinburgh	3: 4	Östers IF	2-0	1: 4
1. FC Kaiserslautern	2: 7	Feyenoord Rotterdam	2: 2	0: 5
1. FC Cologne	5: 2	Grasshopper Club Zurich	2-0	3: 2
1. FC Magdeburg	4: 2	Dinamo Zagreb	2-0	2: 2
Manchester United	1: 3	Juventus Turin	1-0	0: 3
Shakhtar Donetsk	6: 2	Honvéd Budapest	3-0	3: 2
Slovan Bratislava	5: 8	Queens Park Rangers	3: 3	2: 5
Sportul Studențesc	0: 5	FC Schalke 04	0: 1	0: 4
SSW Innsbruck	1: 2	Video sound Székesfehérvár	1: 1	0: 1
Wisła Krakow	2: 2 (4: 5 on account)	RWD Molenbeek	1: 1	1: 1 a.d.
FC Barcelona	3: 2	Sporting Lokeren	2-0	1: 2

3rd round

	total		First leg	Return leg
RWD Molenbeek	2: 1	FC Schalke 04	1-0	1: 1
AEK Athens	( a ) 3: 3(a)	Red Star Belgrade	2-0	1: 3
Athletic Bilbao	5: 4	AC Milan	4: 1	1: 3
Español Barcelona	0: 3	Feyenoord Rotterdam	0: 1	0: 2
Juventus Turin	3: 1	Shakhtar Donetsk	3-0	0: 1
1. FC Magdeburg	5: 1	Video sound Székesfehérvár	5-0	0: 1
Östers IF	1: 8	FC Barcelona	0: 3	1: 5
Queens Park Rangers	( a ) 4: 4(a)	1. FC Cologne	3-0	1: 4

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
Athletic Bilbao	4: 3	FC Barcelona	2: 1	2: 2
Feyenoord Rotterdam	1: 2	RWD Molenbeek	0-0	1: 2
1. FC Magdeburg	1: 4	Juventus Turin	1: 3	0: 1
Queens Park Rangers	3: 3 (6: 7 on behalf)	AEK Athens	3-0	0: 3 a.d.

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
Juventus Turin	5: 1	AEK Athens	4: 1	1-0
RWD Molenbeek	(a)1: 1 ( a )	Athletic Bilbao	1: 1	0-0

final

First leg

Juventus Turin		Athletic Bilbao
	May 4th 1977 in Turin ( Stadio Comunale ) Result: 1: 0 (1: 0) Spectators: 75,000 Referee: Charles Corver ( Netherlands )
	Dino Zoff - Antonello Cuccureddu , Claudio Gentile , Gaetano Scirea , Francesco Morini - Marco Tardelli , Giuseppe Furino , Romeo Benetti - Franco Causio , Roberto Boninsegna (40th Sergio Gori ), Roberto Bettega Trainer: Giovanni Trapattoni	José Ángel Iribar - José Ignacio Oñaederra , Javier Escalza , Andoni Goikoetxea Olaskoaga , Agustín Guisasola , Ángel María Villar , Javier Irureta , José Ángel Rojo , Churruca , Dani , José Francisco Rojo Trainer: Koldo Aguirre
	1-0 Marco Tardelli (14th)

Return leg

Athletic Bilbao		Juventus Turin
	May 18, 1977 in Bilbao ( San Mamés ) Result: 2: 1 (1: 1) Spectators: 42,000 Referee: Erich Linemayr ( Austria )
	José Ángel Iribar - Lasa (63rd Carlos Ruiz Herrero ), Agustín Guisasola , Alesanco , Javier Escalza , Ángel María Villar , Churruca , Javier Irureta , Amorrortu , Dani , José Francisco Rojo Trainers: Koldo Aguirre	Dino Zoff - Antonello Cuccureddu , Claudio Gentile , Gaetano Scirea , Francesco Morini - Marco Tardelli , Giuseppe Furino , Romeo Benetti - Franco Causio , Roberto Boninsegna (60th Luciano Spinosi ), Roberto Bettega Trainer: Giovanni Trapattoni
	1: 1 Javier Irureta (11th) 2: 1 Carlos Ruiz Herrero (79th)	0: 1 Roberto Bettega (6th)

Best goal scorers

rank	player	club	Gates
1	Stan Bowles	Queens Park Rangers	11
2	Kevin Hector	Derby County	7th
	Daniel Givens	Queens Park Rangers	7th
4th	Charlie George	Derby County	6th
	Dani	Athletic Bilbao	6th
	Klaus Fischer	FC Schalke 04	6th
	Zoran Filipović	Red Star Belgrade	6th
8th	Carlos Ruiz Herrero	Athletic Bilbao	5
	Johan Cruyff	FC Barcelona	5
	Dieter Müller	1. FC Cologne	5
	Manuel Clares	FC Barcelona	5
	Roberto Boninsegna	Juventus Turin	5
	Roberto Bettega	Juventus Turin	5

→ Main article : List of UEFA Europa League top scorers

Players used Juventus Turin

Juventus Turin

Goal: Dino Zoff (12 / -) Defense: Antonello Cuccureddu (12/3); Gaetano Scirea (12/1); Claudio Gentile (11 / -); Francesco Morini (11 / -); Luciano Spinosi (7 / -); Sergio Gori (3 / -); Antonio Cabrini (2 / -) Midfield: Romeo Benetti (12/2); Marco Tardelli (12/2); Franco Causio (11/1); Giuseppe Furino (9 / -); Alberto Marchetti (3 / -) Forward: Roberto Bettega (12/5); Roberto Boninsegna (11/5) Coach: Giovanni Trapattoni

See also

• European Champion Clubs' Cup 1976/77
• European Cup Winners' Cup 1976/77

Web links

• Official website of UEFA for the 1976/77 season
• Game details for the 1976/77 season at fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of goalscorers on UEFA.com