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The 1978 Scottish Cup Final was played on 6 May 1978 at Hampden Park

Hampden Park

Hampden Park is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland. The 52,063 capacity venue serves as the national stadium of football in Scotland...

in Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

and was the final of the 93rd Scottish Cup. Aberdeen and Rangers contested the match, Rangers won the match 2–1 with Alex MacDonald and Derek Johnstone

Derek Johnstone

Derek Joseph Johnstone is a former Scottish association footballer.Johnstone played mainly for Rangers during his career. He also had a spell at Chelsea and a brief stint in management with Partick Thistle. He mainly played as a striker but could also perform in central defence, and in midfield...

goals.

Match details


style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">	RANGERS:
GK		Peter McCloy Peter McCloy Peter McCloy is a retired football goalkeeper who played for Motherwell and Rangers. He was a member of the Rangers team which won the 1972 Cup Winners Cup, and was Rangers' first-choice goalkeeper for most of his 16-year spell at the club despite competition from players such as Gerhardt Neef and...
DF		Sandy Jardine
DF		Colin Jackson Colin Jackson (footballer) Colin MacDonald Jackson is a former Scottish assocation footballer who played predominantly for Rangers and the Scotland national team.-Career:...
DF		John Greig John Greig John Greig MBE is a Scottish former professional football player who, despite his boyhood allegiance to hometown team Heart of Midlothian, spent his entire career in Glasgow with Rangers as a player, manager and director.Greig was voted "The Greatest Ever Ranger" in 1999 by the Rangers supporters...
DF		Tom Forsyth Tom Forsyth Thomas "Tom" Forsyth is a former Scottish assocation footballer and manager who played for Motherwell and Rangers. He was born in Paisley, Scotland and moved to Stonehouse, Lanarkshire when he was 6 months old and still lives to this day.-Club:Forsyth started his career at Motherwell before being...
MF		Tommy McLean Tommy McLean Thomas "Tommy" McLean is a Scottish former professional footballer who played for Kilmarnock and Rangers....
MF		Bobby Russell Bobby Russell (footballer) Robert "Bobby" Russell is a Scottish former professional football player who is best known for his time with Rangers.-Career:...
MF		Alex MacDonald
MF		Davie Cooper Davie Cooper David "Davie" Cooper was a professional football player. He was a Scotland international and played as a left winger....
FW		Derek Johnstone Derek Johnstone Derek Joseph Johnstone is a former Scottish association footballer.Johnstone played mainly for Rangers during his career. He also had a spell at Chelsea and a brief stint in management with Partick Thistle. He mainly played as a striker but could also perform in central defence, and in midfield...
FW		Gordon Smith
Substitutes:
MF		Kenny Watson
Manager:
Jock Wallace Jock Wallace John "Jock" Martin Bokas Wallace was a professional Scottish football player and manager. His father, Jock Wallace, Sr., was a goalkeeper for Raith Rovers, Blackpool and Derby County....

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> ABERDEEN: | GK

Bobby Clark

Bobby Clark (footballer)

Robert "Bobby" Clark is a former Scottish football goalkeeper. Clark graduated from Jordanhill College in Glasgow, Scotland in 1967 with a degree in Physical Education.- Playing career :...

Stuart Kennedy

Stuart Robert Kennedy is a former Scottish international football player, who also played as a right back for Falkirk and Aberdeen.-Club career:...

Willie Miller

William Ferguson Miller, MBE is a former professional football player who made a club record 558 league appearances for Aberdeen. He is currently the club's Director of Football...

Willie Garner

Willie Garner is a Scottish former footballer known for playing for Aberdeen.-Career:Willie Garner was born in Stirling in 1955. He signed for Aberdeen from Campsie Black Watch in 1975. He was part of the team which won the Scottish League Cup in 1976. He left Aberdeen in 1981 to join Celtic,...

Steve Ritchie MF

Ian Fleming MF

Dom Sullivan

Dom Sullivan , is a Scottish former football midfielder.-Playing career:Sullivan began his career with Clyde, making 176 league appearances in 6 years before moving to Aberdeen...

John McMaster MF

Duncan Davidson

Duncan Davidson (footballer)

Duncan Davidson is a Scottish former football player.-Playing career:Duncan Davidson was born in Elgin, Moray in 1954. He signed for Aberdeen in 1973 from Lewis United. In 1981, he moved to the USA where he played for Tulsa Roughnecks and Toronto Blizzard...

Drew Jarvie

Andrew "Drew" Jarvie is a former Scottish footballer known mostly for his time with club team Aberdeen...

Joe Harper

Joe Harper (footballer)

Joseph Montgomery Harper is a Scottish former footballer, mainly remembered for his two spells with Aberdeen, during which he became the club's record goalscorer.-Club career:...

Substitutes: MF

Ian Scanlon

John "Ian" Scanlon is a Scottish former professional footballer. During his playing career Scanlon represented , , and English club .-Career:...

Manager:

Billy McNeill

William "Billy" McNeill MBE is a former Scottish footballer and manager. He is best known for captaining Celtic to the European Cup triumph in 1967 and he later went on to manage the club. He is now the official Club Ambassador at Celtic....

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