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1979–80 European Cup

25th season of the UEFA club football tournament

1979–80 European Cup

The Santiago Bernabéu StadiuminMadrid hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	29 August 1979 – 28 May 1980
Teams	33
Final positions
Champions	Nottingham Forest (2nd title)
Runners-up	Hamburg
Tournament statistics
Matches played	63
Goals scored	185 (2.94 per match)
Attendance	2,041,979 (32,412 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Søren Lerby (Ajax) 10 goals
← 1978–79 1980–81 →

The 1979–80 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won by holders Nottingham Forest in the final against Hamburg. The winning goal was scored by John Robertson, who drilled the ball into the corner of the Hamburg net from outside the penalty area. Nottingham Forest remain the only side to have won the European Cup more times than their domestic top flight.

Teams[edit]

Partizani (1st)	Austria Wien (1st)	Beveren (1st)
Levski-Spartak (1st)	Omonia (1st)	Dukla Prague (1st)
Vejle (1st)	Liverpool (1st)	Nottingham Forest (2nd)TH
HJK Helsinki (1st)	Strasbourg (1st)	BFC Dynamo (1st)
Hamburg (1st)	AEK Athens (1st)	Újpesti Dózsa (1st)
Valur (1st)	Dundalk (1st)	Milan (1st)
Red Boys Differdange (1st)	Hibernians (1st)	Ajax (1st)
Linfield (1st)	Start (1st)	Ruch Chorzów (1st)
Porto (1st)	Argeș Pitești (1st)	Celtic (1st)
Real Madrid (1st)	Öster (1st)	Servette (1st)
Trabzonspor (1st)	Dinamo Tbilisi (1st)	Hajduk Split (1st)

Preliminary round[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dundalk	3–1	Linfield	1–1	2–0

First leg[edit]

Dundalk	1–1	Linfield
Devine 80'	Report	Feeney 48'

Attendance: 5,000^[1]

Referee: Pat Partridge (England)

Second leg[edit]

Linfield	0–2	Dundalk
	Report	Muckian 14', 88'

Attendance: 1,147^[4]

Referee: Jan Beck (Netherlands)

Dundalk won 3–1 on aggregate.

Bracket[edit]

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Nottingham Forest	2	1	3
	Öster	0	1	1
							Nottingham Forest	2	2	4
							Argeș Pitești	0	1	1
	Argeș Pitești	3	0	3
	AEK Athens	0	2	2
													Nottingham Forest	0	3	3
													BFC Dynamo	1	1	2
	BFC Dynamo	4	0	4
	Ruch Chorzów	1	0	1
							BFC Dynamo	2	2	4
							Servette	1	2	3
	Servette	3	1	4
	Beveren	1	1	2
																			Nottingham Forest	2	0	2
																			Ajax	0	1	1
	Újpesti Dózsa	3	0	3
	Dukla Prague	2	2	4
							Dukla Prague	1	0	1
							Strasbourg	0	2	2
	Start	1	0	1
	Strasbourg	2	4	6
													Strasbourg	0	0	0
													Ajax	0	4	4
	HJK Helsinki	1	1	2
	Ajax	8	8	16
							Ajax	10	0	10
							Omonia	0	4	4
	Red Boys Differdange	2	1	3
	Omonia	1	6	7
																									Nottingham Forest	1
																									Hamburg	0
	Partizani	1	1	2
	Celtic	0	4	4
							Celtic	3	0	3
							Dundalk	2	0	2
	Dundalk	2	0	2
	Hibernians	0	1	1
													Celtic	2	0	2
													Real Madrid	0	3	3
	Porto	0	1	1
	Milan	0	0	0
							Porto	2	0	2
							Real Madrid (a)	1	1	2
	Levski-Spartak	0	0	0
	Real Madrid	1	2	3
																			Real Madrid	2	1	3
																			Hamburg	0	5	5
	Valur	0	1	1
	Hamburg	3	2	5
							Hamburg	3	3	6
							Dinamo Tbilisi	1	2	3
	Liverpool	2	0	2
	Dinamo Tbilisi	1	3	4
													Hamburg (a)	1	2	3
													Hajduk Split	0	3	3
	Vejle	3	1	4
	Austria Wien	2	1	3
							Vejle	0	2	2
							Hajduk Split	3	1	4
	Hajduk Split	1	1	2
	Trabzonspor	0	0	0

First round[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	3–1	Öster	2–0	1–1
Argeș Pitești	3–2	AEK Athens	3–0	0–2
BFC Dynamo	4–1	Ruch Chorzów	4–1	0–0
Servette	4–2	Beveren	3–1	1–1
Újpesti Dózsa	3–4	Dukla Prague	3–2	0–2
Start	1–6	Strasbourg	1–2	0–4
HJK Helsinki	2–16	Ajax	1–8	1–8
Red Boys Differdange	3–7	Omonia	2–1	1–6
Partizani	2–4	Celtic	1–0	1–4
Dundalk	2–1	Hibernians	2–0	0–1
Porto	1–0	Milan	0–0	1–0
Levski-Spartak	0–3	Real Madrid	0–1	0–2
Valur	1–5	Hamburg	0–3	1–2
Liverpool	2–4	Dinamo Tbilisi	2–1	0–3
Vejle	4–3	Austria Wien	3–2	1–1
Hajduk Split	2–0	Trabzonspor	1–0	1–0

First leg[edit]

Nottingham Forest	2–0	Öster
Bowyer 63', 73'	Report

Attendance: 21,974

Referee: Sotos Afxentiou (Cyprus)

Argeș Pitești	3–0	AEK Athens
Nicolae 49', 80' Radu 65'	Report

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Enzo Barbaresco (Italy)

BFC Dynamo	4–1	Ruch Chorzów
Netz 3' Pelka 18', 79' Riediger 27'	Report	Wycislik 87'

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Atanas Mateev (Bulgaria)

Servette	3–1	Beveren
Van Genechten 2' (o.g.) Coutaz 65' Hamberg 80'	Report	Janssens 5'

Attendance: 16,605

Referee: Antonin Vencl (Czechoslovakia)

Újpesti Dózsa	3–2	Dukla Prague
Sarlós 42' Nagy 66' Fazekas 71' (pen.)	Report	Gajdůšek 3' Nehoda 58'

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Otto Anderco (Romania)

Start	1–2	Strasbourg
Ervik 81'	Report	Piasecki 44', 74'

Attendance: 5,345^[5]

Referee: Heinz Einbeck (East Germany)

HJK Helsinki	1–8	Ajax
Rautiainen 50'	Report	Lerby 6', 33' Tahamata 20', 70' Arnesen 37', 68' Krol 53' (pen.) La Ling 63'

Attendance: 17,020

Referee: Eduard Shklovski (Soviet Union)

Red Boys Differdange	2–1	Omonia
Di Domenico 20' (pen.) Wagner 69'	Report	Patikis 35'

Attendance: 2,500^[6]

Referee: Günter Linn (West Germany)

Partizani	1–0	Celtic
Murati 35'	Report

Attendance: 27,500^[7]

Referee: Nikolaos Zlatanos (Greece)

Dundalk	2–0	Hibernians
Carlyle 21' Devine 68'	Report

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Egbert Mulder (Netherlands)

Porto	0–0	Milan
	Report

Attendance: 55,000

Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

Levski-Spartak	0–1	Real Madrid
	Report	Martínez 26'

Attendance: 15,200^[8]

Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria)

Valur	0–3	Hamburg
	Report	Hrubesch 18', 26' Buljan 77'

Attendance: 10,235^[9]

Referee: Hugh Wilson (Northern Ireland)

Liverpool	2–1	Dinamo Tbilisi
Johnson 19' Case 44'	Report	Chivadze 33'

Attendance: 35,270^[10]

Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)

Vejle	3–2	Austria Wien
Andersen 8' Rasmussen 10' Sørensen 40' (pen.)	Report	Baumeister 38' Schachner 40'

Attendance: 5,800^[11]

Referee: Jan Peeters (Belgium)

Hajduk Split	1–0	Trabzonspor
Primorac 75' (pen.)	Report

Attendance: 52,500

Referee: Miroslav Stupar (Soviet Union)

Second leg[edit]

Öster	1–1	Nottingham Forest
Nordgren 52'	Report	Woodcock 79'

Attendance: 14,772

Referee: Jerzy Kacprzak (Poland)

Nottingham Forest won 3–1 on aggregate.

AEK Athens	2–0	Argeș Pitești
Ivan 12' (o.g.) Vladić 20'	Report

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)

Argeș Pitești won 3–2 on aggregate.

Ruch Chorzów	0–0	BFC Dynamo
	Report

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Yuri Sergienko (Soviet Union)

BFC Dynamo won 4–1 on aggregate.

Beveren	1–1	Servette
Albert 18' (pen.)	Report	Barberis 37'

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Clive White (England)

Servette won 4–2 on aggregate.

Dukla Prague	2–0	Újpesti Dózsa
Vízek 24' Nehoda 88'	Report

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)

Dukla Prague won 4–3 on aggregate.

Strasbourg	4–0	Start
Bianchi 13', 39', 69' Decastel 76'	Report

Attendance: 13,685^[12]

Referee: William Attley (Ireland)

Strasbourg won 6–1 on aggregate.

Ajax	8–1	HJK Helsinki
Krol 6', 68' (pen.) Blanker 15', 53', 61', 88' Everse 20' Lerby 30'	Report	Toivola 85'

Attendance: 8,250

Referee: Mário Luís (Portugal)

Ajax won 16–2 on aggregate.

Omonia	6–1	Red Boys Differdange
Kaiafas 7', 45' (pen.), 70' (pen.), 71' Kanaris 8' Dimitriou 40'	Report	Schmidt 42'

Attendance: 14,500

Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales)

Omonia won 7–3 on aggregate.

Celtic	4–1	Partizani
MacDonald 20' Aitken 22', 44' Davidson 31'	Report	Sneddon 15' (o.g.)

Attendance: 46,712^[13]

Referee: Lars-Åke Björck (Sweden)

Celtic won 4–2 on aggregate.

Hibernians	1–0	Dundalk
Vella 67'	Report

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Emmanuel Platopoulos (Greece)

Dundalk won 2–1 on aggregate.

Milan	0–1	Porto
	Report	Duda 60'

Attendance: 64,880^[14]

Referee: Hilmi Ok (Turkey)

Porto won 1–0 on aggregate.

Real Madrid	2–0	Levski-Spartak
Del Bosque 20' Cunningham 32' (pen.)	Report

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Francis Rion (Belgium)

Real Madrid won 3–0 on aggregate.

Hamburg	2–1	Valur
Hrubesch 50' Wehmeyer 74'	Report	Eðvaldsson 89'

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Norbert Rolles (Luxembourg)

Hamburg won 5–1 on aggregate.

Dinamo Tbilisi	3–0	Liverpool
Gutsaev 55' Shengelia 75' Chivadze 81' (pen.)	Report

Attendance: 82,000^[15]

Referee: Heinz Aldinger (West Germany)

Dinamo Tbilisi won 4–2 on aggregate.

Austria Wien	1–1	Vejle
Gasselich 51'	Report	Brylle Larsen 35'

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Dusan Maksimović (Yugoslavia)

Vejle won 4–3 on aggregate.

Trabzonspor	0–1	Hajduk Split
	Report	Đorđević 44'

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: László Pádár (Hungary)

Hajduk Split won 2–0 on aggregate.

Second round[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	4–1	Argeș Pitești	2–0	2–1
BFC Dynamo	4–3	Servette	2–1	2–2
Dukla Prague	1–2	Strasbourg	1–0	0–2
Ajax	10–4	Omonia	10–0	0–4
Celtic	3–2	Dundalk	3–2	0–0
Porto	2–2 (a)	Real Madrid	2–1	0–1
Hamburg	6–3	Dinamo Tbilisi	3–1	3–2
Vejle	2–4	Hajduk Split	0–3	2–1

First leg[edit]

Nottingham Forest	2–0	Argeș Pitești
Woodcock 12' Birtles 16'	Report

Attendance: 24,828

Referee: Reidar Bjørnestad (Norway)

BFC Dynamo	2–1	Servette
Pelka 8' Netz 10'	Report	Cucinotta 65'

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)

Dukla Prague	1–0	Strasbourg
Vízek 10'	Report

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Johannes-Frederik Beck (Netherlands)

Ajax	10–0	Omonia
Lerby 14', 28', 43', 72', 74' Krol 53' (pen.) Arnesen 59' Blanker 66', 81', 87'	Report

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Oliver Donnelly (Northern Ireland)

Celtic	3–2	Dundalk
MacDonald 4' McCluskey 31' Burns 33'	Report	Muckian 32' Lawlor 68'

Attendance: 33,000

Referee: Þorvarður Björnsson (Iceland)

Porto	2–1	Real Madrid
Gomes 35', 40' (pen.)	Report	Cunningham 52'

Attendance: 55,000

Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

Hamburg	3–1	Dinamo Tbilisi
Kaltz 36' Keegan 53' Hartwig 74'	Report	Kipiani 29'

Attendance: 48,000^[16]

Referee: Georges Konrath (France)

Vejle	0–3	Hajduk Split
	Report	Šurjak 4' Krstičević 53' Šalov 65'

Attendance: 6,500

Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

Second leg[edit]

Argeș Pitești	1–2	Nottingham Forest
Bărbulescu 60' (pen.)	Report	Bowyer 5' Birtles 23'

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)

Nottingham Forest won 4–1 on aggregate.

Servette	2–2	BFC Dynamo
Hamberg 83' Barberis 90'	Report	Brillat 33' Terletzki 81'

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Alek Jarguz (Poland)

BFC Dynamo won 4–3 on aggregate.

Strasbourg	2–0 (a.e.t.)	Dukla Prague
Piasecki 67' Decastel 116'	Report

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo (Spain)

Strasbourg won 2–1 on aggregate.

Omonia	4–0	Ajax
Tsikkos 9' Dimitriou 15' Kaiafas 39', 56'	Report

Attendance: 12,150^[17]

Referee: Dusan Maksimović (Yugoslavia)

Ajax won 10–4 on aggregate.

Dundalk	0–0	Celtic
	Report

Attendance: 16,300

Referee: Henning Lund-Sørensen (Denmark)

Celtic won 3–2 on aggregate.

Real Madrid	1–0	Porto
Benito 71'	Report

Attendance: 115,000

Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)

2–2 on aggregate; Real Madrid won on away goals.

Dinamo Tbilisi	2–3	Hamburg
Gutsaev 5' Kipiani 45'	Report	Keegan 34' Hrubesch 41' Buljan 56'

Attendance: 90,000

Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)

Hamburg won 6–3 on aggregate.

Hajduk Split	1–2	Vejle
Zl. Vujović 63'	Report	Brylle Larsen 21' Østergaard 70'

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)

Hajduk Split won 4–2 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	3–2	BFC Dynamo	0–1	3–1
Strasbourg	0–4	Ajax	0–0	0–4
Celtic	2–3	Real Madrid	2–0	0–3
Hamburg	3–3 (a)	Hajduk Split	1–0	2–3

First leg[edit]

Nottingham Forest	0–1	BFC Dynamo
	Report	Riediger 63'

Attendance: 27,946

Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)

Strasbourg	0–0	Ajax
	Report

Attendance: 20,200^[18]

Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)

Celtic	2–0	Real Madrid
McCluskey 52' Doyle 75'	Report

Attendance: 67,000

Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi (Italy)

Hamburg	1–0	Hajduk Split
Reimann 45'	Report

Attendance: 52,000

Referee: Ian Foote (Scotland)

Second leg[edit]

BFC Dynamo	1–3	Nottingham Forest
Terletzki 49' (pen.)	Report	Francis 15', 35' Robertson 39' (pen.)