1977–80 Balkan Cup

The 1977–80 Balkan Cup, was the 12th Balkan Cup football tournament. It was the first to have a group stage involving the five teams split into two groups, one of three teams and the other of two, with the winner of each one meeting in the final. It was played between February 1977 and August 1980 between Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece.^[1][2] The tournament was won by Romania with the aggregate score of 4–3 against Yugoslavia in the two-legged final.^[1][2] The top goalscorer was Anghel Iordănescu from Romania with 6 goals.^[1][2]

1977–80 Balkan Cup

Tournament details
Dates	16 February 1977 – 27 August 1980
Teams	5
Final positions
Champions	Romania (4th title)
Runners-up	Yugoslavia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	10
Goals scored	28 (2.8 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Anghel Iordănescu (6 goals)
← 1973–76

Group stage

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Romania	4	2	2	0	8	2	4.000	6	Final
2	Bulgaria	4	1	1	2	4	6	0.667	3
3	Turkey	4	1	1	2	4	8	0.500	3

Source: ^[2]

Romania qualified for the final.

Matches

16 February 1977

Turkey	2–0	Bulgaria
Denizci 54' Turan 55'	Report

İnönü Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 37,055

Referee: Velibor Ljujić (Yugoslavia)

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23 March 1977

Romania	4–0	Turkey
Georgescu 23' Dumitru 62' Vigu 75' Iordănescu 82'	Report

Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Panayotis Kolliropoulos (Greece)

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21 September 1977

Bulgaria	3–1	Turkey
Zhelyazkov 27' Dzhevizov 28' Aleksandrov 86' (pen.)	Report	Özden 8'

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Dimitris Sarakinos (Greece)

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22 March 1978

Turkey	1–1	Romania
Özden 10'	Report	Georgescu 80'

İnönü Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Tome Manojlovski (Yugoslavia)

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5 May 1978

Romania	2–0	Bulgaria
Iordănescu 2' Balaci 74'	Report

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Vlado Tauzes (Yugoslavia)

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31 May 1978

Bulgaria	1–1	Romania
Mladenov 16'	Report	Iordănescu 34'

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Dimitris Sarakinos (Greece)

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Yugoslavia	2	1	1	0	4	1	4.000	3	Final
2	Greece	2	0	1	1	1	4	0.250	1

Source: ^[2]

Yugoslavia qualified for the final.

Matches

16 November 1977

Greece	0–0	Yugoslavia
	Report

Stadium Charilaou, Thessaloniki

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Boris Trendafilov (Bulgaria)

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15 November 1978

Yugoslavia	4–1	Greece
Halilhodžić 33', 58', 84' (pen.) Savić 48'	Report	Mavros 32'

Gradski Stadion, Skopje

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Bogdan Dochev (Bulgaria)

Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Yugoslavia	3–4	Romania	2–0	1–4

First leg

30 March 1980

Yugoslavia	2–0	Romania
Krstičević 35' Sušić 61'	Report

Omladinski Stadium, Belgrade

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Nihat Özbirgül (Turkey)

Second leg

27 August 1980

Romania	4–1	Yugoslavia
Iordănescu 21', 55' (pen.), 79' (pen.) Cămătaru 26'	Report	Sušić 73' (pen.)

Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Antonis Vasaras (Greece)

Winner

1977-80 Balkan Cup
Romania Fourth title

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 28 goals scored in 10 matches, for an average of 2.8 goals per match.

6 goals

• Anghel Iordănescu

3 goals

• Vahid Halilhodžić

2 goals

• Safet Sušić
• Dudu Georgescu
• Sedat Özden

1 goal

• Andrey Zhelyazkov
• Spas Dzhevizov
• Atanas Aleksandrov
• Stoycho Mladenov
• Thomas Mavros
• Dušan Savić
• Mišo Krstičević
• Ilie Balaci
• Ion Dumitru
• Iosif Vigu
• Rodion Cămătaru
• Ali Kemal Denizci
• Cemil Turan