The 1976–77 season of the European Cup

UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...

 football club tournament was won for the first time by Liverpool

Liverpool F.C.

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 in the final against Borussia Mönchengladbach

Borussia Mönchengladbach

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. Three-time defending champions Bayern Munich

FC Bayern Munich

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 were knocked out by Dynamo Kyiv

FC Dynamo Kyiv

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 in the quarter-finals. It was only the second time an English

England

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 side won the tournament, but it started a run of six consecutive wins by English clubs. Including this one, Liverpool reached five finals in nine years, of which they won four.

First round

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¹ TPS progressed to the Second round on away goals.

First leg

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Second leg

Zürich beat Rangers 2–1 on aggregate.
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TPS beat Sliema Wanderers 2–2 on away goals.
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Ferencváros beat Jeunesse Esch 11–3 on aggregate.
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Dynamo Dresden beat Benfica 2–0 on aggregate.
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Saint-Étienne beat CSKA September Flag 1–0 on aggregate.
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PSV beat Dundalk 7–1 on aggregate.
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Trabzonspor beat ÍA 6–3 on aggregate.
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Liverpool beat Crusaders 7–0 on aggregate.
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Baník Ostrava beat Viking 3–2 on aggregate.
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Bayern Munich beat Køge 7–1 on aggregate.
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Dynamo Kyiv beat Partizan 7–1 on aggregate.
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PAOK beat Omonia 3–1 on aggregate.
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Torino beat Malmö FF 3–2 on aggregate.
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Borussia Mönchengladbach beat Austria Vienna 3–1 on aggregate.
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Real Madrid beat Stal Mielec 3–1 on aggregate.
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Club Brugge beat Steaua Bucureşti 3–2 on aggregate.

Second round

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Second leg

Zürich beat TPS 3–0 on aggregate.
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Dynamo Dresden beat Ferencváros 4–1 on aggregate.
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Saint-Étienne beat PSV 1–0 on aggregate.
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Liverpool beat Trabzonspor 3–1 on aggregate.
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Bayern Munich beat TJ Baník OKD Ostrava 6–2 on aggregate.
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Dynamo Kyiv beat PAOK 6–0 on aggregate.
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Borussia Mönchengladbach beat Torino 2–1 on aggregate.
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Club Brugge beat Real Madrid 2–0 on aggregate.

Quarter finals

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¹ Zürich progressed to the Semifinals on away goals.

First leg

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Second leg

Zürich beat Dynamo Dresden 4–4 on away goals.
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Liverpool beat Saint-Étienne 3–2 on aggregate.
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Dynamo Kyiv beat Bayern Munich 2–1 on aggregate.
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Borussia Mönchengladbach beat Club Brugge 3–2 on aggregate.

Semifinals

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Final

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1976-77 European Cup are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Franco Cucinotta Franco Cucinotta Franco Cucinotta is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker.-Career:While playing for Swiss club FC Zürich, Cucinotta was top scorer of the 1977 European Cup, scoring a total of five goals in the competition....	Zürich	5
	Gerd Müller Gerd Müller Gerhard "Gerd" Müller is a former German football player and one of the most prolific goalscorers of all time.With national records of 68 goals in 62 international appearances, 365 goals in 427 Bundesliga games and the international record of 66 goals in 74 European Club games, he was one of the...	Bayern Munich FC Bayern Munich FC Bayern Munich , is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 national titles and 15 cups....	5
3	Kevin Keegan Kevin Keegan Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE is a former international footballer and former manager of the England national football team and several English clubs, most notably Newcastle United....	Liverpool Liverpool F.C. Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...	4
	René van de Kerkhof René van de Kerkhof Reinier "René" Lambertus van de Kerkhof is a former Dutch football player, who played for FC Twente and PSV Eindhoven....	PSV Eindhoven	4
	Phil Neal Phil Neal Philip George "Phil" Neal is a former footballer who was, at one time, the most successful player in English football history. He played for Liverpool 650 times over an eleven year period and is the only player to have appeared in the first five of their European Cup finals, winning four of them...	Liverpool Liverpool F.C. Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...	4
	Tibor Nyilasi Tibor Nyilasi Tibor Nyilasi is a retired Hungarian football player and manager. He signed with Ferencvaros in 1972 and played there until transferring to Austria Vienna in 1983. For the Hungarian National Football Team he made 70 appearances from 1975 to 1985, scoring 32 goals...	Ferencváros	4
	Conny Torstensson Conny Torstensson Conny Torstensson is a former footballer from Sweden. With Sweden he participated at the World Cups 1974 FIFA World Cup and 1978 FIFA World Cup. With Åtvidabergs FF he won national titles...	Bayern Munich FC Bayern Munich FC Bayern Munich , is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 national titles and 15 cups....	4
8	Leonid Buryak Leonid Buryak Leonid Yosipovich Buryak is a Ukrainian football coach and former Olympic bronze-medal-winning player.Buryak, who is Jewish, was a midfielder for the USSR national football team, and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics, at which he won a bronze medal.Buryak played for a number of teams in the...	Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv is a professional football club based in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. Founded in 1927, the club currently participates in the Ukrainian Premier League and has spent its entire history in the top league of Soviet and later Ukrainian football...	3
	Steve Heighway Steve Heighway Stephen Derek "Steve" Heighway is a former footballer who was part of the hugely successful Liverpool team of the 1970s.-Life and playing career:...	Liverpool Liverpool F.C. Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...	3
	David Johnson	Liverpool Liverpool F.C. Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...	3
	Hans-Jürgen Kreische Hans-Jürgen Kreische Hans-Jürgen Kreische is a former East German footballer. Kreische spent his entire career with his hometown club, Dynamo Dresden, scoring 127 goals in 234 DDR-Oberliga games between 1964 and 1978...	Dynamo Dresden Dynamo Dresden SG Dynamo Dresden are a German association football club, based in Dresden, Saxony. They were founded in 1950, as a club affiliated with the East German police, and became one of the most popular and successful clubs in East German football, winning eight league titles...	3
	Peter Risi Peter Risi Peter Risi was a Swiss footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a striker.-Career:...	Zürich	3
	Petro Slobodyan	Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv FC Dynamo Kyiv is a professional football club based in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. Founded in 1927, the club currently participates in the Ukrainian Premier League and has spent its entire history in the top league of Soviet and later Ukrainian football...	3

External links

• 1976–77 season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation