1980 Intercontinental Cup

The 1980 Intercontinental Cup was an association football match played on 11 February 1981 between Nacional of Uruguay, winners of the 1980 Copa Libertadores, and Nottingham Forest of England, winners of the 1979–80 European Cup. The match was played for the first time at the neutral venue of the National Stadium in Tokyo in front of 62,000 fans.[1] Waldemar Victorino scored the only goal and was named as man of the match.[2]

1980 Intercontinental Cup
Official programm
EventIntercontinental Cup
Nacional Nottingham Forest
1 0
Date11 February 1981
VenueNational Stadium, Tokyo
Man of the MatchWaldemar Victorino (Nacional)
RefereeAbraham Klein (Israel)
Attendance62,000

Venue
National Olympic Stadium served as venue for the first time

The National Stadium in Tokyo was the venue that hosted this first edition of the Cup, and would also be the usual venue for the rest of the editions held in Tokyo until 2002 Intercontinental Cup, when the final moved to Nissan Stadium in Yokohama. The stadium was also known as "Olympic Stadium"[3] due to it had served as the main stadium for the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as being the venue for track and field events at the 1964 Summer Olympics,[4]

The Japan national football team's home matches and major football club cup finals (such as J1 League) were usually held at the stadium. The National Stadium was demolished in 2014 to make way for a larger stadium that hosted matches of the 2019 Rugby World Cup and 2020 Summer Olympics.[5]

Match details
Nacional 1–0 Nottingham Forest
Victorino  10' Report
Attendance: 62,000
Nacional
Nottingham F.
GK1 Rodolfo Rodríguez
DF2 José H. Moreira
DF3 Juan C. Blanco
DF4 Daniel Enríquez
DF5 Washington González
MF16 Denís Milar
MF13 Víctor Espárrago
MF10 Arsenio Luzardo
FW7 Alberto Bica
FW9 Waldemar Victorino
FW11 Julio Morales
Manager:
Juan Mujica


Assistant Referees:
GK1 Peter Shilton
RB2 Viv Anderson
CB6 Kenny Burns (c)
CB5 Larry Lloyd
LB3 Frank Gray
MF15 Stuart Gray
MF7 Martin O'Neill
MF8 Raimondo Ponte 67'
FW9 Trevor Francis
FW10 Ian Wallace
FW11 John Robertson
Substitutes:
MF4 John McGovern
FW12 Peter Ward 67'
MF13 David Needham
Manager:
Brian Clough

See also

References
  1. Gorgazzi, Osvaldo (13 February 2005). "Intercontinental Club Cup 1980". RSSSF. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
  2. Toyota Cup - Most Valuable Player of the Match Award 1980-2004 by Marcelo Leme de Arruda on the RSSSF
  3. Welcomes the world to the Olympic Stadium on COI
  4. 1964 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 7 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 118–120.
  5. TOKYO 1964; GOODBYE TO THE NATIONAL STADIUM on Architecture of the Games, 1 June 2014
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