The 1877–78 English football season was the seventh season of competitive football in England.
Overview
Wanderers became the first club to win the FA Cup three times in a row after beating Royal Engineers 3–1 in this season's final. It was the fifth time they had won the competition overall. They never won it again.
International match
A disastrous day for England saw them trounced by Scotland seven goals to two.
National team
{| class="wikitable"
!Date
!Venue
!Score
!England scorers
!Scotland scorers
|-
|2 March 1878
|Hampden Park, Glasgow
|2–7
|John Wylie (Wanderers) (65 mins) & Arthur Cursham (Notts County) (75 mins)
|John McDougall(3), John McGregor, William Muir MacKinnon, Henry McNeil (2)
|}
Honours
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Competition
!Winner
|-
|FA Cup||Wanderers (5*)
|-
|Birmingham Senior Cup||Shrewsbury (1)
|-
|Sheffield Challenge Cup||The Wednesday (2*)
|-
|Staffordshire Senior Cup||Stoke (1)
|}
<small>Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition. The Shrewsbury club is not associated with Shrewsbury Town F.C. but an earlier club defunct by 1881.</small>