1976–77 European Cup

The 1976–77 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the first time by Liverpool in the final against Borussia Mönchengladbach. Three-time defending champions Bayern Munich were knocked out by Dynamo Kyiv in the quarter-finals. It was only the second time an English side won the tournament, but it started a run of six consecutive wins by English clubs and an eight-year run during which the trophy was won by English clubs on seven occasions. Including this one, Liverpool reached five finals in nine years, of which they won four.

1976–77 European Cup

Stadio Olimpico in Rome hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	15 September 1976 – 25 May 1977
Teams	32
Final positions
Champions	Liverpool (1st title)
Runners-up	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Tournament statistics
Matches played	61
Goals scored	155 (2.54 per match)
Attendance	2,002,747 (32,832 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Franco Cucinotta (Zürich) Gerd Müller (Bayern Munich) 5 goals each
← 1975–76 1977–78 →

Teams

Austria Vienna (1st)	Club Brugge (1st)	CSKA Sofia (1st)	Omonia (1st)
Baník Ostrava (1st)	Køge (1st)	Liverpool (1st)	TPS (1st)
Saint-Étienne (1st)	Dynamo Dresden (1st)	Borussia Mönchengladbach (1st)	Bayern Munich (3rd)TH
PAOK (1st)	Ferencváros (1st)	ÍA (1st)	Dundalk (1st)
Torino (1st)	Jeunesse Esch (1st)	Sliema Wanderers (1st)	PSV Eindhoven (1st)
Crusaders (1st)	Viking (1st)	Stal Mielec (1st)	Benfica (1st)
Steaua București (1st)	Rangers (1st)	Real Madrid (1st)	Malmö FF (1st)
Zürich (1st)	Trabzonspor (1st)	Dynamo Kyiv (1st)	Partizan (1st)

Bracket

	1st Round						2nd Round						Quarterfinals						Semifinals						Final
	Rangers	1	0	1
	Zürich	1	1	2
							Zürich	2	1	3
							TPS	0	0	0
	Sliema Wanderers	2	0	2
	TPS (a)	1	1	2
													Zürich (a)	2	2	4
													Dynamo Dresden	1	3	4
	Ferencváros	5	6	11
	Jeunesse Esch	1	2	3
							Ferencváros	1	0	1
							Dynamo Dresden	0	4	4
	Dynamo Dresden	2	0	2
	Benfica	0	0	0
																			Zürich	1	0	1
																			Liverpool	3	3	6
	CSKA Sofia	0	0	0
	Saint-Étienne	0	1	1
							Saint-Étienne	1	0	1
							PSV	0	0	0
	Dundalk	1	0	1
	PSV	1	6	7
													Saint-Étienne	1	1	2
													Liverpool	0	3	3
	ÍA	1	2	3
	Trabzonspor	3	3	6
							Trabzonspor	1	0	1
							Liverpool	0	3	3
	Liverpool	2	5	7
	Crusaders	0	0	0
																									Liverpool	3
																									B. M'gladbach	1
	Viking	2	0	2
	Baník Ostrava	1	2	3
							Baník Ostrava	2	0	2
							Bayern Munich	1	5	6
	Køge	0	1	1
	Bayern Munich	5	2	7
													Bayern Munich	1	0	1
													Dynamo Kyiv	0	2	2
	Dynamo Kyiv	3	2	5
	Partizan	0	0	0
							Dynamo Kyiv	4	2	6
							PAOK	0	0	0
	Omonia	0	1	1
	PAOK	2	1	3
																			Dynamo Kyiv	1	0	1
																			B. M'gladbach	0	2	2
	Torino	2	1	3
	Malmö FF	1	1	2
							Torino	1	0	1
							B. M'gladbach	2	0	2
	Austria Vienna	1	0	1
	B. M'gladbach	0	3	3
													B. M'gladbach	2	1	3
													Club Brugge	2	0	2
	Stal Mielec	1	0	1
	Real Madrid	2	1	3
							Real Madrid	0	0	0
							Club Brugge	0	2	2
	Club Brugge	2	1	3
	Steaua București	1	1	2

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rangers	1–2	Zürich	1–1	0–1
Sliema Wanderers	2–2 (a)	TPS	2–1	0–1
Ferencváros	11–3	Jeunesse Esch	5–1	6–2
Dynamo Dresden	2–0	Benfica	2–0	0–0
CSKA Sofia	0–1	Saint-Étienne	0–0	0–1
Dundalk	1–7	PSV Eindhoven	1–1	0–6
ÍA	3–6	Trabzonspor	1–3	2–3
Liverpool	7–0	Crusaders	2–0	5–0
Viking	2–3	Baník Ostrava	2–1	0–2
Køge	1–7	Bayern Munich	0–5	1–2
Dynamo Kyiv	5–0	Partizan	3–0	2–0
Omonia	1–3	PAOK	0–2	1–1
Torino	3–2	Malmö FF	2–1	1–1
Austria Vienna	1–3	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–0	0–3
Stal Mielec	1–3	Real Madrid	1–2	0–1
Club Brugge	3–2	Steaua București	2–1	1–1

First leg

15 September 1976

Rangers	1–1	Zürich
Parlane 34'	Report	Cucinotta 1'

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow

Attendance: 28,500

Referee: Achille Verbecke (France)

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14 September 1976

Sliema Wanderers	2–1	TPS
Aquilina 60', 76'	Report	Manninen 70'

Empire Stadium, Gżira

Attendance: 2,156

Referee: Domenico Serafino (Italy)

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15 September 1976

Ferencváros	5–1	Jeunesse Esch
Nyilasi 14', 22' Magyar 35' Onhausz 48' Ebedli 79'	Report	Giuliani 11'

Üllői úti stadion, Budapest

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Hermes Reires (Cyprus)

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15 September 1976

Dynamo Dresden	2–0	Benfica
Kotte 74' Riedel 78'	Report

Dynamo-Stadion, Dresden

Attendance: 33,000

Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)

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15 September 1976

CSKA Sofia	0–0	Saint-Étienne
	Report

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Ernst Dörflinger-Buser (Switzerland)

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15 September 1976

Dundalk	1–1	PSV Eindhoven
McDowall 6'	Report	Van der Kuijlen 75'

Oriel Park, Dundalk

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: John Davies (Wales)

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15 September 1976

ÍA	1–3	Trabzonspor
Sveinsson 56'	Report	Perekli 35' Denizci 85', 87'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 1,029

Referee: William Attley (Republic of Ireland)

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14 September 1976

Liverpool	2–0	Crusaders
Neal 18' (pen.) Toshack 64'	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 22,442

Referee: Henning Lund-Sørensen (Denmark)

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15 September 1976

Viking	2–1	Baník Ostrava
Valen 13' Johannessen 28'	Report	Slaný 81'

Viking Stadion, Stavanger

Attendance: 5,600

Referee: Georg Krutelew (Finland)

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14 September 1976

Køge	0–5	Bayern Munich
	Report	Torstensson 3', 23' Müller 19', 33' Dürnberger 63'

Københavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen

Attendance: 24,800

Referee: Albert Victor (Luxembourg)

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15 September 1976

19:00

Dynamo Kyiv	3–0	Partizan
Onyshchenko 7' Troshkin 80' Blokhin 88' (pen.)	Report

Central Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 41,000

Referee: Bob Matthewson (England)

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15 September 1976

Omonia	0–2	PAOK
	Report	Koudas 38' Sarafis 87'

GSP Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 9,400^[1]

Referee: Tsvetan Petrov Stanev (Bulgaria)

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15 September 1976

Torino	2–1	Malmö FF
Mozzini 44' Graziani 90'	Report	K. Jönsson 87'

Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino, Turin

Attendance: 57,726^[2]

Referee: Doğan Babacan (Turkey)

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15 September 1976

Austria Vienna	1–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Daxbacher 23'	Report

Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna

Attendance: 54,000

Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi (Italy)

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15 September 1976

Stal Mielec	1–2	Real Madrid
Sekulski 74'	Report	Santillana 6' Del Bosque 52'

Stadion Miejski, Mielec

Attendance: 25,000^[3]

Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)

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15 September 1976

Club Brugge	2–1	Steaua București
Davies 55' (pen.) Verheecke 81'	Report	Troi 60'

Olympiastadion, Bruges

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)

Second leg

29 September 1976

Zürich	1–0	Rangers
Martinelli 8'	Report

Stadion Letzigrund, Zürich

Attendance: 28,500

Referee: Emilio Guruceta Muro (Spain)

Zürich won 2–1 on aggregate.

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28 September 1976

TPS	1–0	Sliema Wanderers
Suhonen 85'	Report

Kupittaa, Turku

Attendance: 933

Referee: Egil Bergstad (Norway)

2–2 on aggregate; TPS won on away goals.

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29 September 1976

Jeunesse Esch	2–6	Ferencváros
Zwally 45', 47'	Report	Nyilasi 2', 27' Pusztai 43', 90' Szabó 65', 67' (pen.)

Stade de la Frontière, Esch-sur-Alzette

Attendance: 3,500

Referee: Johannes Beck (Netherlands)

Ferencváros won 11–3 on aggregate.

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29 September 1976

Benfica	0–0	Dynamo Dresden
	Report

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Robert Schaut (Belgium)

Dynamo Dresden won 2–0 on aggregate.

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29 September 1976

Saint-Étienne	1–0	CSKA Sofia
Piazza 31'	Report

Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne

Attendance: 38,743

Referee: António Garrido (Portugal)

Saint-Étienne won 1–0 on aggregate.

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29 September 1976

PSV Eindhoven	6–0	Dundalk
Van der Kuijlen 19' Postuma 33' Van de Kerkhof 38', 52', 59', 90'	Report

PSV Stadion, Eindhoven

Attendance: 12,000^[4]

Referee: Rudi Glöckner (East Germany)

PSV won 7–1 on aggregate.

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29 September 1976

Trabzonspor	3–2	ÍA
Tok 8', 49' Çınar 70'	Report	Thordarson 18', 55' (pen.)

Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium, Trabzon

Attendance: 14,000

Referee: György Müncz (Hungary)

Trabzonspor won 6–3 on aggregate.

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28 September 1976

Crusaders	0–5	Liverpool
	Report	Keegan 34' Johnson 81', 90' McDermott 84' Heighway 87'

Seaview, Belfast

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Gudmundur Haraldsson (Iceland)

Liverpool won 7–0 on aggregate.

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29 September 1976

Baník Ostrava	2–0	Viking
Vojáček 28', 54'	Report

Bazaly, Ostrava

Attendance: 5,606^[5]

Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)

Baník Ostrava won 3–2 on aggregate.

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29 September 1976

Bayern Munich	2–1	Køge
Beckenbauer 7' Torstensson 74'	Report	Poulsen 34'

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Alojzy Jarguz (Poland)

Bayern Munich won 7–1 on aggregate.

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29 September 1976

18:00

Partizan	0–2	Dynamo Kyiv
	Report	Muntyan 11' (pen.) Slobodyan 65'

Red Star Stadium, Belgrade^{[note 1]}

Attendance: 50,654^[7]

Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)

Dynamo Kyiv won 5–0 on aggregate.

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29 September 1976

PAOK	1–1	Omonia
Sarafis 72'	Report	Dimitriou 33' (pen.)

Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 11,045

Referee: Michal Jursa (Czechoslovakia)

PAOK won 3–1 on aggregate.

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29 September 1976

Malmö FF	1–1	Torino
Ljungberg 57' (pen.)	Report	P. Sala 3'

Malmö Stadion, Malmö

Attendance: 16,373^[8]

Referee: John Gordon (Scotland)

Torino won 3–2 on aggregate.

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29 September 1976

Borussia Mönchengladbach	3–0	Austria Vienna
Stielike 39' Bonhof 54' (pen.) Heynckes 57'	Report

Bökelbergstadion, Mönchengladbach

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)

Borussia Mönchengladbach won 3–1 on aggregate.

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29 September 1976

Real Madrid	1–0	Stal Mielec
Pirri 64'	Report

Mestalla, Valencia

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Michel Kitabdjian (France)

Real Madrid won 3–1 on aggregate.

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29 September 1976

Steaua București	1–1	Club Brugge
Vigu 25'	Report	Lambert 71'

Steaua Stadium, Bucharest

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Orhan Cebe (Turkey)

Club Brugge won 3–2 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Zürich	3–0	TPS	2–0	1–0
Ferencváros	1–4	Dynamo Dresden	1–0	0–4
Saint-Étienne	1–0	PSV Eindhoven	1–0	0–0
Trabzonspor	1–3	Liverpool	1–0	0–3
Baník Ostrava	2–6	Bayern Munich	2–1	0–5
Dynamo Kyiv	6–0	PAOK	4–0	2–0
Torino	1–2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–2	0–0
Real Madrid	0–2	Club Brugge	0–0	0–2

First leg

20 October 1976

Zürich	2–0	TPS
Cucinotta 17' Scheiwiler 71'	Report

Letzigrund, Zürich

Attendance: 15,500

Referee: Josef Pouček (Czechoslovakia)

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20 October 1976

Ferencváros	1–0	Dynamo Dresden
Onhausz 34'	Report

Stadion Albert Flórián, Budapest

Attendance: 30,000^[9]

Referee: Nikola Milanov Doudine (Bulgaria)

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20 October 1976

Saint-Étienne	1–0	PSV Eindhoven
Piazza 61'	Report

Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne

Attendance: 36,079

Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)

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20 October 1976

Trabzonspor	1–0	Liverpool
Usta 62' (pen.)	Report

Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium, Trabzon

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)

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20 October 1976

Baník Ostrava	2–1	Bayern Munich
Lorenc 11' Lička 27'	Report	Müller 53'

Bazaly, Ostrava

Attendance: 31,000

Referee: Robert Héliès (France)

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20 October 1976

19:00

Dynamo Kyiv	4–0	PAOK
Buryak 12', 22' Kolotov 27' Slobodyan 60'	Report

Central Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 35,000^[10]

Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)

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20 October 1976

Torino	1–2	Borussia Mönchengladbach
P. Sala 64'	Report	Vogts 28' Klinkhammer 79'

Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino, Turin

Attendance: 71,160^[11]

Referee: Walter Hungerbühler (Switzerland)

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20 October 1976

Real Madrid	0–0	Club Brugge
	Report

La Rosaleda Stadium, Málaga

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: John Carpenter (Republic of Ireland)

Second leg

3 November 1976

TPS	0–1	Zürich
	Report	Cucinotta 70'

Kupittaa, Turku

Attendance: 823

Referee: Marian Kustoń (Poland)

Zürich won 3–0 on aggregate.

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3 November 1976

Dynamo Dresden	4–0	Ferencváros
Heidler 42' Schmuck 52' Riedel 59' Kotte 73'	Report

Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, Dresden

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Hilmi Ok (Turkey)

Dynamo Dresden won 4–1 on aggregate.

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3 November 1976

PSV Eindhoven	0–0	Saint-Étienne
	Report

Philips Stadion, Eindhoven

Attendance: 21,000

Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)

Saint-Étienne won 1–0 on aggregate.

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3 November 1976

Liverpool	3–0	Trabzonspor
Heighway 8' Johnson 10' Keegan 19'	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 42,275

Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)

Liverpool won 3–1 on aggregate.

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3 November 1976

Bayern Munich	5–0	Baník Ostrava
Müller 15', 49' Rummenigge 37' Kapellmann 71' Torstensson 74'	Report

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 58,500

Referee: Dušan Maksimović (Yugoslavia)

Bayern Munich won 6–2 on aggregate.

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3 November 1976

19:30

PAOK	0–2	Dynamo Kyiv
	Report	Kolotov 73' Blokhin 82'

Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 19,733^[12]

Referee: Cesare Gussoni (Italy)

Dynamo Kyiv won 6–0 on aggregate.

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3 November 1976

Borussia Mönchengladbach	0–0	Torino
	Report

Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf

Attendance: 64,389^[13]

Referee: Alfred Delcourt (Belgium)

Borussia Mönchengladbach won 2–1 on aggregate.

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3 November 1976

Club Brugge	2–0	Real Madrid
Le Fevre 18' Rubiñán 45' (o.g.)	Report

Olympiastadion, Bruges

Attendance: 32,000

Referee: Ken Burns (England)

Club Brugge won 2–0 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Zürich	4–4 (a)	Dynamo Dresden	2–1	2–3
Saint-Étienne	2–3	Liverpool	1–0	1–3
Bayern Munich	1–2	Dynamo Kyiv	1–0	0–2
Borussia Mönchengladbach	3–2	Club Brugge	2–2	1–0

First leg

2 March 1977

Zürich	2–1	Dynamo Dresden
Cucinotta 41' Risi 90'	Report	Kreische 77'

Letzigrund, Zürich

Attendance: 19,000

Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)

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2 March 1977

Saint-Étienne	1–0	Liverpool
Bathenay 78'	Report

Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne

Attendance: 37,549^[14]

Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)

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2 March 1977

20:00

Bayern Munich	1–0	Dynamo Kyiv
Künkel 43'	Report

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: António Garrido (Portugal)

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2 March 1977

Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–2	Club Brugge
Kulik 43' Simonsen 63'	Report	Cools 23' Courant 39'

Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf

Attendance: 65,000

Referee: Georges Konrath (France)

Second leg

16 March 1977

Dynamo Dresden	3–2	Zürich
Schade 18' (pen.) Kreische 54', 63'	Report	Cucinotta 37' Risi 64'

Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, Dresden

Attendance: 33,000

Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)

4–4 on aggregate; Zürich won on away goals.

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16 March 1977

Liverpool	3–1	Saint-Étienne
Keegan 2' Kennedy 59' Fairclough 84'	Report	Bathenay 50'

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 55,043

Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)

Liverpool won 3–2 on aggregate.

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16 March 1977

19:00

Dynamo Kyiv	2–0	Bayern Munich
Buryak 83' (pen.) Slobodyan 88'	Report

Central Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 100,000^[15]

Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

Dynamo Kyiv won 2–1 on aggregate.

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16 March 1977

Club Brugge	0–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach
	Report	Hannes 84'

Olympiastadion, Bruges

Attendance: 32,000

Referee: Pavel Kazakov (Soviet Union)

Borussia Mönchengladbach won 3–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Zürich	1–6	Liverpool	1–3	0–3
Dynamo Kyiv	1–2	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–0	0–2

First leg

6 April 1977

Zürich	1–3	Liverpool
Risi 6' (pen.)	Report	Neal 14', 67' (pen.) Heighway 48'

Letzigrund, Zürich

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Dogan Babacan (Turkey)

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6 April 1977

19:00

Dynamo Kyiv	1–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Onyshchenko 71'	Report

Central Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 102,000

Referee: Pablo Sánchez Ibáñez (Spain)

Second leg

20 April 1977

Liverpool	3–0	Zürich
Case 33', 79' Keegan 83'	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 50,611

Referee: Sergio Gonella (Italy)

Liverpool won 6–1 on aggregate.

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20 April 1977

20:00

Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–0	Dynamo Kyiv
Bonhof 31' (pen.) Wittkamp 82'	Report

Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf

Attendance: 72,000

Referee: Francis Rion (Belgium)

Borussia Mönchengladbach won 2–1 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1977 European Cup Final

25 May 1977

Liverpool	3–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach
McDermott 28' Smith 64' Neal 82' (pen.)	Report	Simonsen 52'

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 52,078^[16]

Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Franco Cucinotta	Zürich	5
	Gerd Müller	Bayern Munich	5
3	Kevin Keegan	Liverpool	4
	René van de Kerkhof	PSV Eindhoven	4
	Phil Neal	Liverpool	4
	Tibor Nyilasi	Ferencváros	4
	Conny Torstensson	Bayern Munich	4
8	Leonid Buryak	Dynamo Kyiv	3
	Steve Heighway	Liverpool	3
	David Johnson	Liverpool	3
	Hans-Jürgen Kreische	Dynamo Dresden	3
	Peter Risi	Zürich	3
	Petro Slobodyan	Dynamo Kyiv	3

Notes

1. Partizan played their home match at Red Star Stadium instead of their regular stadium JNA Stadium because it had greater capacity.^[6]