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1978–79 UEFA Cup

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Also known as 1978-79 UEFA Cup

8th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA

Key facts

Dates
5 September 1978 – 23 May 1979
Champions
Borussia Mönchengladbach (2nd title)
Runners up
Red Star Belgrade
Goals scored
365 (2.9 per match)
Attendance
3,035,950 (24,095 per match)
Top scorer s
Allan Simonsen (Borussia Mönchengladbach), 9 goals

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
sports season
Country
Germany
Location
Europe
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native label
1978–79 UEFA Cup
statistical leader
Allan Simonsen
sports season of league or competition
UEFA Europa League
point in time
1978-01-01
edition number
8
number of matches played/races/starts
126
participating team
FK Crvena zvezda
number of participants
64
start time
1978-09-13
number of points/goals/set scored
365
end time
1979-05-23
Commons category
UEFA Cup 1978-79
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Encyclopedic overview

The 1978–79 UEFA Cup was the eighth season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at the Red Star Stadium, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and at the Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf, West Germany. It was won by Borussia Mönchengladbach of West Germany, who defeated Red Star Belgrade of Yugoslavia by an aggregate result of 2–1 to claim their second UEFA Cup title.

Red Star Belgrade became the third Yugoslav and second Serbian team to reach a European final, but couldn't defeat the more experienced West German side, who reached their fourth European final out of five in a seven-year span.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “1978–79 UEFA Cup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.