I Believe in Miracles - Nottingham Forest and the European Cup 1978-1979

Preliminary Round:

15 August 1978
AS Monaco (Fra) 3-0 Steaua Bucharest (Rum)

30 August 1978
Steaua Bucharest (Rum) 2-0 AS Monaco (Fra) - (2-3 agg)

First Round First Leg:

13 September 1978
AEK Athens (Gre) 6-1 Porto (Por)
Bruges (Bel) 2-1 Wisla Krakow (Pol)
Cologne (WGer) 4-1 IA (Ice)
Fenerbache (Tur) 2-1 PSV Eindhoven (Hol)
Grasshopper (Swi) 8-0 Valetta (Mal)
Haka (Fin) 0-1 Dynamo Kiev (Sov)
Juventus (Ita) 1-0 Rangers (Sco)

Linfield (NIre) 0-0 Lillestrom (Nor)
Malmo (Swe) 0-0 AS Monaco (Fra)
Nottingham Forest (Eng) 2-0 Liverpool (Eng)

Odense (Den) 2-2 Lokomotiv Sofia (Bul)
Omonia (Cyp) 2-1 Bohemians (Ire)
Partizan Belgrade (Yug) 2-0 Dynamo Dresden (EGer)
Real Madrid (Spa) 5-0 Progres Niedercorn (Lux)
Vilaznia (Alb) 2-0 Austria Vienna (Aut)
Zbrojovka Brno (Cze) 2-2 Ujpesti Dozsa (Hun)

First Round Second Leg:
27 September 1978

Austria Vienna (Aut) 4-1 Vilaznia (Alb) (agg: 4-3)
Bohemians (Ire) 1-0 Omonia (Cyp) (agg: 2-2 - Bohemians on away goals)
Dynamo Kiev (Sov) 3-1 Haka (Fin) (agg: 4-1)
Dynamo Dresden (EGer) 2-0 Partizan Belgrade (Yug) (agg: 2-2 - Dynamo Dresden 5-4 on penalties)
IA (Ice) 1-1 Cologne (WGer) (agg: 2-5)
Lillestrom (Nor) 1-0 Linfield (NIre) (agg: 1-0)
Liverpool (Eng) 0-0 Nottingham Forest (Eng) (agg: 0-2)

Lokomotiv Sofia (Bul) 2-1 Odense (Den) (agg: 4-3)
Monaco (Fra) 0-1 Malmo (Swe) (agg: 0-1)
Porto (Por) 4-1 AEK Athens (Gre) (agg: 5-7)
Progres Niedercorn (Lux) 0-7 Real Madrid (Spa) (agg: 0-12)
PSV Eindhoven (Hol) 6-1 Fenerbache (Tur) (agg: 7-3)
Rangers (Sco) 2-0 Juventus (Ita) (agg: 2-1)

Ujpesti Dozsa (Hun) 0-2 Zbrojovka Brno (Cze) (agg: 2-4)
Valetta (Mal) 3-5 Grasshopper (Swi) (agg: 3-13)
Wisla Krakow (Pol) 3-1 Bruges (Bel) (agg: 4-3)

Second Round First Leg
18 October 1978

AEK Athens (Gre) 1-2 Nottingham Forest (Eng)

Austria Vienna (Aut) 4-1 Lillestrom (Nor)
Bohemians (Ire) 0-0 Dynamo Dresden (EGer)
Dynamo Kiev (Sov) 0-0 Malmo (Swe)
Lokomotiv Sofia (Bul) 0-1 Cologne (WGer)
Rangers (Sco) 0-0 PSV Eindhoven (Hol)
Real Madrid (Spa) 3-1 Grasshopper (Swi)
Zbrojovka Brno (Cze) 2-2 Wisla Krakow (Pol)

Second Round Second Leg
1 November 1978

Cologne (WGer) 4-0 Lokomotiv Sofia (Bul) (agg: 5-0)
Dynamo Dresden (EGer) 6-0 Bohemians (Ire) (agg: 6-0)
Grasshopper (Swi) 2-0 Real Madrid (Spa) (agg: 3-3 - Grasshopper on away goals)
Lillestrom (Nor) 0-0 Austria Vienna (Aut) (agg: 1-4)
Malmo (Swe) 2-0 Dynamo Kiev (Sov) (agg: 2-0)
Nottingham Forest (Eng) 5-1 AEK Athens (Gre) (agg: 7-2)

 

PSV Eindhoven (Hol) 2-3 Rangers (Sco) (agg: 2-3)

Wisla Krakow (Pol) 1-1 Zbrojovka Brno (Cze) (agg: 3-3 - Wisla Krakow on away goals)

Quarter Finals First Leg

6 March 1979
Cologne (WGer) 1-0 Rangers (Sco)

7 March 1979
Austria Vienna (Aut) 3-1 Dynamo Dresden (EGer)
Nottingham Forest (Eng) 4-1 Grasshopper (Swi)

Wisla Krakow (Pol) 2-1 Malmo (Swe)

Quarter Finals Second Leg

21 March 1979
Dynamo Dresden (EGer) 1-0 Austria Vienna (Aut) (agg: 2-3)
Grasshopper (Swi) 1-1 Nottingham Forest (Eng) (agg: 2-5)

Malmo (Swe) 4-1 Wisla Krakow (Pol) (agg: 5-3)

22 March 1979
Rangers (Sco) 1-1 Cologne (WGer) (agg: 1-2)

Semi Finals First Leg

11 April 1979
Austria Vienna (Aut) 0-0 Malmo (Swe)
Nottingham Forest (Eng) 3-3 Cologne (WGer)

Semi Finals Second Leg

25 April 1979
Cologne (WGer) 0-1 Nottingham Forest (Eng) (agg: 3-4)

Malmo (Swe) 1-0 Austria Vienna (Aut) (agg: 1-0)

Final

30 May 1979
Nottingham Forest (Eng) 1-0 Malmo (Swe)