| Tourney Name: | European Cup |
| Year: | 1978–79 |
| Size: | 275px |
| Dates: | 15 August 1978 – 30 May 1979 |
| Num Teams: | 33 |
| Champion Other: | Nottingham Forest |
| Count: | 1 |
| Second Other: |  Malmö FF |
| Matches: | 63 |
| Goals: | 185 |
| Attendance: | 1688020 |
| Top Scorer: | Claudio Sulser (Grasshoppers) 11 goals |
| Prevseason: | 1977–78 |
| Nextseason: | 1979–80 |
The 1978–79 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won by English champions Nottingham Forest in the final against Swedish side Malmö FF. Forest, enjoying a great run of success under Brian Clough, had defeated defending two-time champions Liverpool in the first round.
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Monaco won 3–2 on aggregate.
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AEK Athens won 7–5 on aggregate.----Nottingham Forest won 2–0 on aggregate.----Real Madrid won 12–0 on aggregate.----Grasshopper won 13–3 on aggregate.----Lokomotiv Sofia won 4–3 on aggregate.----Köln won 5–2 on aggregate.----Rangers won 2–1 on aggregate.----PSV Eindhoven won 7–3 on aggregate.----Austria Wien won 4–3 on aggregate.----Lillestrøm won 1–0 on aggregate.----2–2 on aggregate; Bohemians won on away goals.----2–2 on aggregate; Dynamo Dresden won on penalties.----Zbrojovka Brno won 4–2 on aggregate.----Wisła Kraków won 4–3 on aggregate.----Dynamo Kyiv won 4–1 on aggregate.----Malmö FF won 1–0 on aggregate.
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Nottingham Forest won 7–2 on aggregate.----3–3 on aggregate; Grasshopper won on away goals.----Köln won 5–0 on aggregate.----Rangers won 3–2 on aggregate.----Austria Wien won 4–1 on aggregate.----Dynamo Dresden won 6–0 on aggregate.----3–3 on aggregate; Wisła Kraków won on away goals.----Malmö FF won 2–0 on aggregate.
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Nottingham Forest won 5–2 on aggregate.----Köln won 2–1 on aggregate.----Austria Wien won 3–2 on aggregate.----Malmö FF won 5–3 on aggregate.
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Nottingham Forest won 4–3 on aggregate.----Malmö FF won 1–0 on aggregate.
See main article: 1979 European Cup final.
The top scorers from the 1978–79 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:
