1976–77 UEFA Cup (original) (raw)
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6th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA
1976–77 UEFA Cup
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 8 September 1976 – 18 May 1977 |
| Teams | 64 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Juventus (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Athletic Bilbao |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 126 |
| Goals scored | 399 (3.17 per match) |
| Attendance | 2,810,845 (22,308 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Stan Bowles (Queens Park Rangers)11 goals |
| ← 1975–76 1977–78 → |
International football competition
The 1976–77 UEFA Cup was the sixth season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at Stadio Comunale, Turin, Italy, and at San Mamés, Bilbao, Spain. It was won by Juventus of Italy, who defeated Athletic Bilbao of Spain on the away goals rule after a 2–2 aggregate draw to claim their first UEFA Cup title.
This was the first major European conquest for Juventus, having previously lost one European Cup final and two Inter-Cities Fairs' Cup finals. It was the first time that a team from Southern Europe had won the competition, and the last European title for an Italian team for seven years, which was their biggest international drought at club level until 2018.[1]
In their first European final, Athletic Bilbao was the first Spanish finalist in the UEFA Cup, and the only one until 1985. A Spanish club last reached the Inter-Cities Fairs' Cup final in 1966, which was also the last year with a Spanish title in Europe. Athletic became the fourth different Spanish side to lose at this stage in European competition ever since.
Association team allocation
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A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participate in the 1976–77 UEFA Cup. The original allocation scheme was as follows:
- 3 associations have four teams qualify.
- 3 associations have three teams qualify.
- 18 associations have two teams qualify.
- 7 associations have one team qualify.
Hungary and Romania were the two associations selected to have an extra third birth for this season, while the Soviet Union and Sweden went back to two qualified teams.
Associations in the 1976–77 UEFA Cup
Four teams  England  West Germany Italy Three teams  Spain  Hungary  Romania |
Two teams  Netherlands  East Germany  Soviet Union  Yugoslavia  Scotland  Portugal  Czechoslovakia  Belgium  Poland  Greece  France  Bulgaria  Sweden  Switzerland  Austria  Turkey  Denmark  Norway |
One team  Republic of Ireland  Northern Ireland  Malta  Finland  Iceland  Cyprus  Luxembourg |
Did not compete  Wales[Note WAL]  Albania[Note ALB] |
|---|
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Wales: There was no national league in Wales before 1992 and the only competition organised by the Football Association of Wales was the Welsh Cup so Wales had just a single participant in European competitions, the winner (or best placed Welsh team as several English teams also competed) of the Welsh Cup which competed in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. - ^
Albania: Albanian teams were absent from European competition from 1973 to 1978 due to the international isolation of the country during the communist rule of Enver Hoxha.[2] Vllaznia would have qualified for the UEFA Cup by league position.
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:
- TH: Title holders
- CW: Cup winners
- CR: Cup runners-up
- LC: League Cup winners
- 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
- P-W: End-of-season European competition play-offs winners
Qualified teams for 1976–77 UEFA Cup
The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches took place on Tuesdays or Thursdays.
Schedule for 1976–77 UEFA Cup
| Round | First leg | Second leg |
|---|---|---|
| First round | 8–16 September 1976 | 28–30 September 1976 |
| Second round | 20 October 1976 | 3–4 November 1976 |
| Third round | 24 November 1976 | 7–8 December 1976 |
| Quarter-finals | 2–3 March 1977 | 16 March 1977 |
| Semi-finals | 6 April 1977 | 20 April 1977 |
| Final | 4 May 1977 | 18 May 1977 |
Schalke 04 won 5–4 on aggregate.
Slovan Bratislava won 8–0 on aggregate.
Basel won 5–3 on aggregate.
Kaiserslautern won 11–1 on aggregate.
AEK Athens won 3–2 on aggregate.
Manchester United won 2–1 on aggregate.
Austria Salzburg won 5–2 on aggregate.
Barcelona won 5-4 on aggregate.
Wisła Kraków won 4-2 on aggregate.
Derby County won 16–1 on aggregate.
Milan won 2–1 on aggregate.
Eintracht Braunschweig won 7–1 on aggregate.
Espanyol won 4–3 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 4–2 on aggregate.
Videoton won 5–2 on aggregate.
Grasshoppers won 9–0 on aggregate.
Hibernian won 1–0 on aggregate.
Budapest Honvéd won 2–1 on aggregate.
Köln won 3–1 on aggregate.
Öster won 4–3 on aggregate.
Magdeburg won 4–3 on aggregate.
Juventus won 2–1 on aggregate.
Molenbeek won 7–0 on aggregate.
Queens Park Rangers won 11–0 on aggregate.
Lokeren won 6–1 on aggregate.
Akademik Sofia won 3–2 on aggregate.
Shakhtar Donetsk won 4–1 on aggregate.
Sportul Studențesc won 4–2 on aggregate.
Wacker Innsbruck won 7–1 on aggregate.
Dinamo Zagreb won 4–0 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 5–1 on aggregate.
Red Star Belgrade won 5–3 on aggregate.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEK Athens |
5–2 | Derby County |
2–0 | 3–2 |
| Akademik Sofia |
4–5 | Milan |
4–3 | 0–2 |
| Austria Salzburg |
2–2 (a) | Red Star Belgrade |
2–1 | 0–1 |
| Barcelona |
3–2 | Lokeren |
2–0 | 1–2 |
| Basel |
2–4 | Athletic Bilbao |
1–1 | 1–3 |
| Eintracht Braunschweig |
2–3 | Espanyol |
2–1 | 0–2 |
| Hibernian |
3–4 | Öster |
2–0 | 1–4 |
| Wacker Innsbruck |
1–2 | Videoton |
1–1 | 0–1 |
| Kaiserslautern |
2–7 | Feyenoord |
2–2 | 0–5 |
| Köln |
5–2 | Grasshoppers |
2–0 | 3–2 |
| Magdeburg |
4–2 | Dinamo Zagreb |
2–0 | 2–2 |
| Manchester United |
1–3 | Juventus |
1–0 | 0–3 |
| Shakhtar Donetsk |
6–2 | Budapest Honvéd |
3–0 | 3–2 |
| Slovan Bratislava |
5–8 | Queens Park Rangers |
3–3 | 2–5 |
| Sportul Studențesc |
0–5 | Schalke 04 |
0–1 | 0–4 |
Wisła Kraków  |
2–2 (4–5 p) | Molenbeek |
1–1 | 1–1 (a.e.t.) |
AEK Athens won 5–2 on aggregate.
Milan won 5–4 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Red Star Belgrade won on away goals.
Barcelona won 3–2 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won 4–2 on aggregate.
Espanyol won 3–2 on aggregate.
Öster won 4–3 on aggregate.
Videoton won 2–1 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 7–2 on aggregate.
Köln won 5–2 on aggregate.
Magdeburg won 4–2 on aggregate.
Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.
Shakhtar Donetsk won 6–2 on aggregate.
Queens Park Rangers won 8–5 on aggregate.
Schalke 04 won 5–0 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Molenbeek won 5–4 on penalties.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEK Athens |
3–3 (a) | Red Star Belgrade |
2–0 | 1–3 |
| Athletic Bilbao |
5–4 | Milan |
4–1 | 1–3 |
| Espanyol |
0–3 | Feyenoord |
0–1 | 0–2 |
| Juventus |
3–1 | Shakhtar Donetsk |
3–0 | 0–1 |
| Magdeburg |
5–1 | Videoton |
5–0 | 0–1 |
| Öster |
1–8 | Barcelona |
0–3 | 1–5 |
| Queens Park Rangers |
4–4 (a) | Köln |
3–0 | 1–4 |
| Molenbeek |
2–1 | Schalke 04 |
1–0 | 1–1 |
3–3 on aggregate; AEK Athens won on away goals.
Athletic Bilbao won 5–4 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 3–0 on aggregate.
Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.
Magdeburg won 5–1 on aggregate.
Barcelona won 8–1 on aggregate.
4–4 on aggregate; Queens Park Rangers won on away goals.
Molenbeek won 2–1 on aggregate.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athletic Bilbao |
4–3 | Barcelona |
2–1 | 2–2 |
| Feyenoord |
1–2 | Molenbeek |
0–0 | 1–2 |
| Magdeburg |
1–4 | Juventus |
1–3 | 0–1 |
| Queens Park Rangers |
3–3 (6–7 p) | AEK Athens |
3–0 | 0–3 (a.e.t.) |
Athletic Bilbao won 4–3 on aggregate.
Molenbeek won 2–1 on aggregate.
Juventus won 4–1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; AEK Athens won 7–6 on penalties.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Molenbeek |
1–1 (a) | Athletic Bilbao |
1–1 | 0–0 |
| Juventus |
5–1 | AEK Athens |
4–1 | 1–0 |
1–1 on aggregate; Athletic Bilbao won on away goals.
Juventus won 5–1 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Juventus won on away goals.
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- ^ McCracken, Craig (2015-10-15). "Albania's history in European football: beards and bad behaviour in the Balkans". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
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