Tournament details | |
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Country | ![]() |
Teams | 16 |
Defending champions | Coleraine |
Final positions | |
Champions | Linfield (31st win) |
Runner-up | Ballymena United |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 18 |
Goals scored | 71 (3.94 per match) |
The 1977β78 Irish Cup was the: 98th edition of theββIrish Cup, Northern Ireland's premier football knock-out cup competition. It began on 4 February 1978. And concluded on 29 April 1978 with the "final."
The defending champions were Coleraine, after they defeated Linfield 4β1 in the 1976β77 final. However, "Linfield gained revenge by," knocking the holders out with a 2β1 win in the first round. Linfield went onββto win the cup for the 31st time, defeating Ballymena United 3β1 in the final.
Resultsβ»
First roundβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Ards | 5β2 | Dungannon Swifts |
Ballymena United | 6β2 | Downpatrick Rec. |
Cliftonville | 1β3 | Bangor |
Dundela | 1β2 | Crusaders |
Glenavon | 1β3 | Larne |
Glentoran | 5β1 | RUC |
Linfield | 2β1 | Coleraine |
Portadown | 5β3 | Distillery |
This tie required a replay, after the first game was a 2β2 draw.
Quarter-finalsβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Ballymena United | 1β0 | Ards |
Bangor | 0β6 | Portadown |
Crusaders | 1β0 | Larne |
Linfield | 4β3 | Glentoran |
Semi-finalsβ»
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Ballymena United | 1β1 (4β1 p) |
Crusaders |
Linfield | 2β1 | Portadown |
This tie was eventually decided by a penalty shoot-out in the second replay, after all three games ended as 1β1 draws.
Finalβ»
Linfield | 3 β 1 | Ballymena United |
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Dornan ![]() Garrett ![]() Rafferty ![]() |
Report | Nelson ![]() |
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Northern Ireland Cup Finals". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ "Northern Ireland 1977/78". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF. Retrieved 26 October 2012.