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1979–80 European Cup

The Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid 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

Partizani (1st)	Austria Wien (1st)	Beveren (1st)
Levski-Spartak (1st)	Omonia (1st)	Dukla Prague (1st)
Vejle (1st)	Liverpool (1st)	Nottingham Forest (2nd)
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

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

First leg

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

Second leg

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

Dundalk won 3–1 on aggregate.

Bracket

	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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Partizani	1–0	Celtic
Murati 35'	Report

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

Porto	0–0	Milan
	Report

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

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

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

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

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

Second leg

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

Nottingham Forest won 3–1 on aggregate.

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

Argeș Pitești won 3–2 on aggregate.

Ruch Chorzów	0–0	BFC Dynamo
	Report

BFC Dynamo won 4–1 on aggregate.

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

Servette won 4–2 on aggregate.

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

Dukla Prague won 4–3 on aggregate.

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

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'

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'

Omonia won 7–3 on aggregate.

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

Celtic won 4–2 on aggregate.

Hibernians	1–0	Dundalk
Vella 67'	Report

Dundalk won 2–1 on aggregate.

Milan	0–1	Porto
	Report	Duda 60'

Porto won 1–0 on aggregate.

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

Real Madrid won 3–0 on aggregate.

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

Hamburg won 5–1 on aggregate.

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

Dinamo Tbilisi won 4–2 on aggregate.

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

Vejle won 4–3 on aggregate.

Trabzonspor	0–1	Hajduk Split
	Report	Đorđević 44'

Hajduk Split won 2–0 on aggregate.

Second round

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

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

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

Dukla Prague	1–0	Strasbourg
Vízek 10'	Report

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

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

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

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

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

Second leg

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

Nottingham Forest won 4–1 on aggregate.

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

BFC Dynamo won 4–3 on aggregate.

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

Strasbourg won 2–1 on aggregate.

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

Ajax won 10–4 on aggregate.

Dundalk	0–0	Celtic
	Report

Celtic won 3–2 on aggregate.

Real Madrid	1–0	Porto
Benito 71'	Report

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'

Hamburg won 6–3 on aggregate.

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

Hajduk Split won 4–2 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

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

Nottingham Forest	0–1	BFC Dynamo
	Report	Riediger 63'

Strasbourg	0–0	Ajax
	Report

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

Hamburg	1–0	Hajduk Split
Reimann 45'	Report

Second leg

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

Nottingham Forest won 3–2 on aggregate.

Ajax	4–0	Strasbourg
Schoenaker 35' Arnesen 38' Lerby 55' La Ling 90'	Report

Ajax won 4–0 on aggregate.

Real Madrid	3–0	Celtic
Santillana 45' Stielike 56' Juanito 86'	Report

Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.

Hajduk Split	3–2	Hamburg
Zl. Vujović 21' Đorđević 50' Primorac 86'	Report	Hrubesch 2' Hieronymus 23'

3–3 on aggregate; Hamburg won on away goals.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	2–1	Ajax	2–0	0–1
Real Madrid	3–5	Hamburg	2–0	1–5

First leg

Nottingham Forest	2–0	Ajax
Francis 33' Robertson 61' (pen.)	Report

Real Madrid	2–0	Hamburg
Santillana 67', 80'	Report

Second leg

Ajax	1–0	Nottingham Forest
Lerby 65'	Report

Nottingham Forest won 2–1 on aggregate.

Hamburg	5–1	Real Madrid
Kaltz 10' (pen.), 40' Hrubesch 17', 45' Memering 90'	Report	Cunningham 31'

Hamburg won 5–3 on aggregate.

Final

Nottingham Forest	1–0	Hamburg
Robertson 20'	Report MatchCentre

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1979–80 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Søren Lerby	Ajax	10
2	Ton Blanker	Ajax	7
	Horst Hrubesch	Hamburg	7
4	Sotiris Kaiafas	Omonia	6
5	Frank Arnesen	Ajax	4
	Ruud Krol	Ajax	4
7	Carlos Bianchi	Strasbourg	3
	Ian Bowyer	Nottingham Forest	3
	Laurie Cunningham	Real Madrid	3
	Manfred Kaltz	Hamburg	3
	Hartmut Pelka	BFC Dynamo	3
	Francis Piasecki	Strasbourg	3
	John Robertson	Nottingham Forest	3
	Santillana	Real Madrid	3
	Trevor Francis	Nottingham Forest	3

References

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External links

• 1979–80 All matches – season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
• All scorers 1979–80 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA
• 1979/80 European Cup - results and line-ups (archive)

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