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1977–78 European Cup

23th UEFA European clubs cup

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ196681 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1977–78 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won by defending champions Liverpool in the final against Club Brugge. The match finished 1–0, starting a run of six consecutive finals that finished 1–0 after 90 minutes, five of them won by English clubs.

Teams

Bracket

First round

First leg

Second leg

Celtic won 11–1 on aggregate.

Wacker won 3–2 on aggregate.

Red Star Belgrade won 6–0 on aggregate.

Borussia Mönchengladbach won 4–1 on aggregate.

0–0 on aggregate; Benfica won on penalties.

Boldklubben 1903 won 2–1 on aggregate.

Dynamo Dresden won 3–2 on aggregate.

Levski-Spartak won 5–2 on aggregate.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1977–78 European Cup” as 23th UEFA European clubs cup. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1903—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where European, 23th and UEFA can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 23th UEFA European clubs cup. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q196681. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1977 and 1903.

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This entry incorporates text from “1977–78 European Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.