1978–79 Yugoslav Cup

The 1978–79 Yugoslav Cup was the 31st season of the top football knockout competition in SFR Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Cup (Serbo-Croatian: Kup Jugoslavije), also known as the "Marshal Tito Cup" (Kup Maršala Tita), since its establishment in 1946. It was won by NK Rijeka, who successfully managed to defend the title having won the 1977–78 Yugoslav Cup.

1978–79 Yugoslav Football Cup

31st Marshal Tito Cup
Tournament details
Country	Yugoslavia
Final positions
Champions	Rijeka (2nd title)
Runners-up	Partizan
Tournament statistics
Top goal scorer(s)	Slobodan Santrač Dušan Savić (4 goals each)
← 1977–78 1979–80 →

Calendar

Round	Dates	Fixtures	Clubs
First round	30 August 1978	16	32 → 16
Second round	8 November 1978	8	16 → 8
Quarter-finals	25 February 1979	8	8 → 4
Semi-finals	5 April 1979	4	4 → 2
Final	16 and 24 May 1979	2	2 → 1

First round

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Radnički Kragujevac (II)	5–0	Osijek
2	Red Star	4–1	Budućnost
3	Partizan	5–1	OFK Beograd
4	Slaven Koprivnica (III)	1–1 (5–4 p)	Sloboda
5	Dinamo Zagreb	2–2 (2–5 p)	Velež
6	Čelik (II)	3–1	Vojvodina
7	Istra (III)	2–1	16th July Garrison (Niš)
8	Merkator Ljubljana (II)	2–2 (7–5 p)	Trepça (II)
9	Željezničar	4–0	Sarajevo
10	Hajduk Split	2–2 (7–8 p)	Proleter Zrenjanin (II)
11	Radnički Niš	3–1	Olimpija Ljubljana
12	Novi Sad (II)	2–0	Rudar Ljubija (II)
13	NK Zagreb	1–1 (1–4 p)	Borac Banja Luka
14	REMHK Kosovo (III)	0–0 (2–4 p)	Vardar (II)
15	Belišće (III)	1–2	Sutjeska (II)
16	Rijeka	3–0	Borac Čačak (II)

Second round

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Proleter Zrenjanin (II)	1–0	Čelik (II)
2	Sutjeska (II)	3–3 (7–8 p)	Red Star
3	Radnički Niš	1–0	Radnički Kragujevac (II)
4	Vardar (II)	1–1 (5–4 p)	Slaven Koprivnica (III)
5	Rijeka	0–0 (4–3 p)	Istra (III)
6	Novi Sad (II)	2–2 (7–5 p)	Željezničar
7	Velež	0–0 (11–12 p)	Partizan
8	Borac Banja Luka	2–1	Merkator Ljubljana (II)

Quarter-finals

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team
1	Proleter Zrenjanin (II)	2–2 (5–3 p)	Vardar (II)
2	Radnički Niš	0–1	Rijeka
3	Red Star	4–0	Novi Sad (II)
4	Borac Banja Luka	2–2 (4–6 p)	Partizan

Semi-finals

4 April 1979

Red Star	0–1	Rijeka
		Ružić 2'

Red Star Stadium, Belgrade

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Edvard Šoštarič (Maribor)

5 April 1979

Partizan	1–0	Proleter Zrenjanin
Jović 81'

Stadion JNA, Belgrade

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Josip Glažar (Rijeka)

Final

First leg

16 May 1979

Rijeka	2–1	Partizan
Cukrov 18' Bursać 85'		Kozić 68'

Stadion Kantrida, Rijeka

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Aleksandar Nikić (Ljubljana)

RIJEKA: GK 1 Radojko Avramović DF 2 Sava Filipović DF 3 Miloš Hrstić DF 4 Nikica Cukrov DF 5 Zvjezdan Radin MF 6 Srećko Juričić MF 7 Dragoljub Bursać MF 8 Sergio Machin FW 9 Edmond Tomić MF 10 Milan Ružić MF 11 Edis Jasprica Substitutes: FW ? Danko Peranić MF ? Ivo Jerolimov Manager: Marijan Brnčić

PARTIZAN: GK 1 Rade Zalad DF 2 Tomislav Kovačević DF 3 Refik Kozić MF 4 Rešad Kunovac DF 5 Borislav Đurović DF 6 Vladimir Lazičić MF 7 Zvonko Živković MF 8 Aleksandar Trifunović MF 9 Aranđel Todorović FW 10 Dževad Prekazi MF 11 Nikica Klinčarski Substitutes: FW ? Zvonko Varga FW ? Boško Đorđević Manager: Milutin Šoškić

Second leg

24 May 1979

Partizan	0–0	Rijeka

Red Star Stadium, Belgrade

Attendance: 55,000

Referee: Tome Manojlovski (Tetovo)

PARTIZAN: GK 1 Zoran Nikitović DF 2 Tomislav Kovačević DF 3 Refik Kozić MF 4 Rešad Kunovac DF 5 Nenad Stojković MF 6 Borislav Đurović MF 7 Zvonko Živković MF 8 Aleksandar Trifunović FW 9 Slobodan Santrač FW 10 Boško Đorđević MF 11 Nikica Klinčarski Substitutes: FW ? Dževad Prekazi MF ? Zvonko Varga Manager: Milutin Šoškić

RIJEKA: GK 1 Radojko Avramović DF 2 Sergio Machin DF 3 Miloš Hrstić DF 4 Nikica Cukrov DF 5 Zvjezdan Radin MF 6 Srećko Juričić MF 7 Dragoljub Bursać FW 8 Milan Radović FW 9 Edmond Tomić MF 10 Milan Ružić FW 11 Damir Desnica Substitutes: MF ? Adriano Fegic MF ? Milan Bačvarević Manager: Marijan Brnčić

See also

• 1978–79 Yugoslav First League

External links

• 1978/79 Yugoslav Cup details at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation