1979–80 European Cup

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. Forest became the only side to win the European Cup more times than their domestic top flight league, a record which still stands.

1979–80 European Cup
The Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates29 August 1979 – 28 May 1980
Teams33
Final positions
Champions Nottingham Forest (2nd title)
Runners-up Hamburg
Tournament statistics
Matches played63
Goals scored185 (2.94 per match)
Top scorer(s) Søren Lerby
(10 goals)

Preliminary round

Team 1 Agg. 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'
Attendance: 10,000

Second leg

Linfield 0–2 Dundalk
Report Muckian  14', 88'
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Jan Beck (Netherlands)

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

First round

Team 1 Agg. 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
Attendance: 21,974
Referee: Sotos Afxentiou (Cyprus)

Argeș Pitești 3–0 AEK Athens
Nicolae  49', 80'
Radu  65'
Report
Attendance: 20,000

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: 5,400
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: 2,000
Referee: Günter Linn (West Germany)

Partizani 1–0 Celtic
Murati  35' Report
Attendance: 30,800
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

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

Valur 0–3 Hamburg
Report Hrubesch  18', 26'
Buljan  77'
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Hugh Wilson (Northern Ireland)

Liverpool 2–1 Dinamo Tbilisi
Johnson  19'
Case  44'
Report Chivadze  33'
Attendance: 35,720
Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)

Vejle 3–2 Austria Wien
Andersen  8'
Rasmussen  10'
Sørensen  40' (pen.)
Report Baumeister  38'
Schachner  40'
Vejle Stadion (1924), Vejle
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Jan Peeters (Belgium)

Hajduk Split 1–0 Trabzonspor
Primorac  75' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 52,500

Second leg

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

Argeș Pitești won 3–2 on aggregate.


Ruch Chorzów 0–0 BFC Dynamo
Report
Attendance: 15,000

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

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'
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: 51,000
Referee: Lars-Åke Björck (Sweden)

Celtic won 4–2 on aggregate.


Hibernians 1–0 Dundalk
Vella  67' Report
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Emanouil Platopoulos (Greece)

Dundalk won 2–1 on aggregate.


Milan 0–1 Porto
Report Duda  60'
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Hilmi Ok (Turkey)

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'
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

Team 1 Agg. 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
Attendance: 24,828

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

Dukla Prague 1–0 Strasbourg
Vízek  10' Report
Attendance: 32,000
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

Hamburg 3–1 Dinamo Tbilisi
Kaltz  36'
Keegan  53'
Hartwig  74'
Report Kipiani  29'
Attendance: 57,000
Referee: Georges Konrath (France)

Vejle 0–3 Hajduk Split
Report Šurjak  4'
Krstičević  53'
Šalov  65'
Vejle Stadium (1924), Vejle
Attendance: 6,500
Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

Second leg

Argeș Pitești 1–2 Nottingham Forest
Ilie 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

Strasbourg won 2–1 on aggregate.


Omonia 4–0 Ajax
Tsikkos  9'
Dimitriou  15'
Kaiafas  39', 56'
Report
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Dusan Maksimović (Yugoslavia)

Ajax won 10–4 on aggregate.


Dundalk 0–0 Celtic
Report
Attendance: 16,300

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'
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)

Hajduk Split won 4–2 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1 Agg. 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'
Attendance: 27,946

Strasbourg 0–0 Ajax
Report
Attendance: 20,000

Celtic 2–0 Real Madrid
McCluskey  52'
Doyle  75'
Report
Celtic Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 67,000
Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi (Italy)

Hamburg 1–0 Hajduk Split
Reimann  45' Report
Attendance: 52,000
Referee: Ian Foote (Scotland)

Second leg

BFC Dynamo 1–3 Nottingham Forest
Terletzki  49' (pen.) Report Francis  15', 35'
Robertson  39' (pen.)
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Alain Delmer (France)

Nottingham Forest won 3–2 on aggregate.


Ajax 4–0 Strasbourg
Schoenaker  35'
Arnesen  38'
Lerby  55'
La Ling  90'
Report
Attendance: 52,000

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'
Attendance: 52,000
Referee: Ernst Dörflinger-Buser (Switzerland)

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

Semi-finals

Team 1 Agg. 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
Attendance: 31,244

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

Second leg

Ajax 1–0 Nottingham Forest
Lerby  65' Report
Attendance: 54,955

Nottingham Forest won 2–1 on aggregate.


Hamburg 5–1 Real Madrid
Kaltz  10' (pen.), 40'
Hrubesch  17', 45'
Memering  90'
Report Cunningham  31'
Attendance: 61,980

Hamburg won 5–3 on aggregate.

Final

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

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