1977 BALKANS CUP

1977 Balkans Cup
Tournament details
Country	Balkans
Teams	6
Final positions
Champions	Panathinaikos
Runner-up	Slavia Sofia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	47 (3.36 per match)
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The 1977 Balkans Cup was an edition of the Balkans Cup, a football competition for representative clubs from the Balkan states. It was contested by 6 teams and Panathinaikos won the trophy.^[1]

Group Stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Slavia Sofia (A)	4	4	0	15	0	—	8	Advances to finals
2	Politehnica Timișoara	4	2	2	9	10	0.900	4
3	Altay	4	0	4	4	18	0.222	0

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal average; 3) number of goals scored
(A) Advance to a further round

10 November 1976

Slavia Sofia	5–0	Politehnica Timișoara

Slavia, Sofia

17 April 1977

Politehnica Timișoara	5–2	Altay
Anghel 33', 46' Petrescu 45', 90' Dembrovschi 83' (pen)		Muzaffer 17', 55'

1 Mai, Timișoara

18 May 1977

Altay	0–3	Slavia Sofia
		Aleksandrov 37' Grigorov 41' Tsvetkov 70'

Alsancak, İzmir

4 June 1977

Slavia Sofia	6–0	Altay
Alexandrov Grigerov Monchev Tsvetkov Zhelyazkov Grigerov

Alsancak, İzmir

31 July 1977

Altay	2–4	Politehnica Timișoara
Togay 8' Muzaffer 13'		Anghel 7' Emerich Dembrovschi 14' Laţa 35' Şerbănoiu 41'

Alsancak, İzmir

16 August 1977

Politehnica Timișoara	0–1	Slavia Sofia

1 Mai, Timișoara

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts	Qualification
1	Panathinaikos (A)	4	2	2	0	8	4	2.000	6	Advances to finals
2	Budućnost Titograd	4	1	2	1	6	5	1.200	4
3	Vllaznia Shkodër	4	0	2	2	2	7	0.286	2

Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal average; 3) number of goals scored
(A) Advance to a further round

17 April 1977

Vllaznia Shkodër	1–1	Panathinaikos
Basha 5'		Vakalis 24'

Vojo Kushi Stadium, Shkodër

27 April 1977

Vllaznia Shkodër	1–1	Budućnost Titograd
Paçrami 37'		Vaso 22' ( o.g.)

Vojo Kushi Stadium, Shkodër

4 May 1977

Budućnost Titograd	2–0	Vllaznia Shkodër
Miročević Radović

Pod Goricom Stadium, Titograd

8 May 1977

Panathinaikos	2–2	Budućnost Titograd
Eleftherakis 39' Antoniadis 87'		Miročević 30' Kovačević 48'

Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Athens

26 May 1977

Panathinaikos	3–0	Vllaznia Shkodër
Giannakoulas 77', 90' Papadimitriou 82'

Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Athens

17 August 1977

Budućnost Titograd	1–2	Panathinaikos
Kovačević 16'		Papadimitriou 6' Đorđević 66'

Pod Goricom Stadium, Titograd

Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Slavia Sofia	1–2	Panathinaikos	0–0	1–2

First leg

14 December 1977

Slavia Sofia	0–0	Panathinaikos

Slavia, Sofia

Attendance: 2,500

Slavia Sofia

Panathinaikos














Substitutes:


Manager:
Atanas Parzhelov



	Vasilis Konstantinou
	Mitsos Dimitriou
	Giorgos Gonios
	Dimitris Kizas
	Takis Eleftheriadis
	Christos Terzanidis
	Spyros Livathinos
	Kostas Eleftherakis	2'
	Babis Yfantis
	Óscar Marcelino Álvarez
	Takis Papadimitriou
Substitutes:
	Odysseas Vakalis	2'	70'
	Kostas Vallidis		70'
Manager:
Kazimierz Górski

Second leg

15 March 1978

Panathinaikos	2–1	Slavia Sofia
Eleftherakis 14' Vakalis 63'		Minchev 45'

Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 6,500

Referee: Marijan Rauš ( Yugoslavia)

Panathinaikos

Slavia Sofia



	Vasilis Konstantinou
	Takis Eleftheriadis	51'
	Stelios Stefanakis
	Giorgos Gonios
	Christos Giannakoulas
	Christos Terzanidis
	Odysseas Vakalis
	Spyros Livathinos
	Óscar Marcelino Álvarez	89'
	Kostas Eleftherakis		79'
	Takis Papadimitriou		46'
Substitutes:
	Lakis Katsiakos		79'
	Kostas Vallidis		46'
Manager:
Kazimierz Górski



	Georgi Gugalov
	Tsakarov	85'
	Georgi Dermendzhiev
	Efthymov
	Vanio Kostov
	Ivan Iliev
	Atanas Alexandrov
	Iliyaz Aliev
	Andrey Zhelyazkov
	Georgi Minchev
	Chavdar Tsvetkov	82'
Substitutes:
	Milotichov	85'
	Bozhidar Grigorov	82'
Manager:
Atanas Parzhelov

Panathinaikos won 2–1 on aggregate.

References

^ "Balkans Cup 1977 season". RSSSF.

External links

RSSSF Archive → Balkans Cup
Romeo Ionescu (28 September 2003). "Balkan Cup old-1979". RSSSF.
Mehmet Çelik. "Balkan Cup". Turkish Soccer

[1] "Balkans Cup 1977 season". RSSSF.

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