1979–80 European Cup

1979–80 UEFA European Cup

Tournament details
Dates	29/08/1979 – 28/05/1980
Teams	33
Final positions
Champions	Nottingham Forest (2nd title)
Runners-up	Hamburg
Tournament statistics
Matches played	63
Top scorer(s)	Søren Lerby (10 goals)
← 1978–79 1980–81 →

The season 1979–80 of the European Cup football club tournament was won by defending champions 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 today.

Preliminary round

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

First leg

29 August 1979	Dundalk	1–1	Linfield
	Devine  80'	Report Gamesheet	Feeney  48'

Second leg

5 September 1979	Linfield	0–2	Dundalk
		Report Gamesheet	Muckian  14', 88'

Dundalk won 3–1 on aggregate.

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	3–1	Öster	2–0	1–1
Argeş Piteşti	3–2	AEK Athens	3–0	0–2
Dynamo Berlin	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	2–16	Ajax	1–8	1–8
Red Boys Differdange	3–7	Omonia	2–1	1–6
Partizani Tirana	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 Vienna	3–2	1–1
Hajduk Split	2–0	Trabzonspor	1–0	1–0

First leg

19 September 1979	Nottingham Forest	2–0	Öster
	Bowyer  63', 73'	Report Gamesheet

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19 September 1979	Argeş Piteşti	3–0	AEK Athens
	Nicolae  49', 80' Radu  65'	Report Gamesheet

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19 September 1979	Dynamo Berlin	4–1	Ruch Chorzów
	Netz  3' Pelka  18', 79' Riediger  27'	Report Gamesheet	Wycislik  87'

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19 September 1979	Servette	3–1	Beveren
	Van Genechten  2' (o.g.) Coutaz  65' Hamberg  80'	Report Gamesheet	Janssens  5'

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19 September 1979	Újpesti Dózsa	3–2	Dukla Prague
	Sarlós  42' Nagy  66' Fazekas  71' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet	Gajdůšek  3' Nehoda  58'

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19 September 1979	Start	1–2	Strasbourg
	Ervik  81'	Report Gamesheet	Piasecki  44', 74'

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19 September 1979	HJK	1–8	Ajax
	Rautiainen  50'	Report Gamesheet	Lerby  6', 33' Tahamata  20', 70' Arnesen  37', 68' Krol  53' (pen.) La Ling  63'

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19 September 1979	Red Boys Differdange	2–1	Omonia
	Di Domenico  20' (pen.) Wagner  69'	Report Gamesheet	Patikis  35'

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19 September 1979	Partiani Tirana	1–0	Celtic
	Murati  35'	Report Gamesheet

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19 September 1979	Dundalk	2–0	Hibernians
	Carlyle  21' Devine  68'	Report Gamesheet

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19 September 1979	Porto	0–0	Milan	Porto
		Report Gamesheet

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19 September 1979	Levski-Spartak	0–1	Real Madrid
		Report Gamesheet	Martínez  26'

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19 September 1979	Valur	0–3	Hamburg
		Report Gamesheet	Hrubesch  18', 26' Buljan  77'

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19 September 1979	Liverpool	2–1	Dinamo Tbilisi	Anfield, Liverpool Attendance: 35,270
	Johnson  19' Case  44'	Report Gamesheet	Chivadze  33'

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19 September 1979	Vejle	3–2	Austria Vienna
	Andersen  8' Rasmussen  10' Sørensen  40' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet	Baumeister  38' Schachner  40'

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19 September 1979	Hajduk Split	1–0	Trabzonspor
	Primorac  75' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet

Second leg

3 October 1979	Öster	1–1	Nottingham Forest
	Nordgren  52'	Report Gamesheet	Woodcock  79'

Nottingham Forest won 3–1 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979	AEK Athens	2–0	Argeş Piteşti
	Ivan  12' (o.g.) Vladić  20'	Report Gamesheet

Argeş Piteşti won 3–2 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979	Ruch Chorzów	0–0	Dynamo Berlin
		Report Gamesheet

Dynamo Berlin won 4–1 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979	Beveren	1–1	Servette
	Albert  18' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet	Barberis  37'

Servette won 4–2 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979	Dukla Prague	2–0	Újpesti Dózsa
	Vízek  24' Nehoda  88'	Report Gamesheet

Dukla Prague won 4–3 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979	Strasbourg	4–0	Start
	Bianchi  13', 39', 69' Decastel  76'	Report Gamesheet

Strasbourg won 6–1 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979	Ajax	8–1	HJK
	Krol  6', 68' (pen.) Blanker  15', 53', 61', 88' Everse  20' Lerby  30'	Report Gamesheet	Toivola  85'

Ajax won 16–2 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979	Omonia	6–1	Red Boys Differdange
	Kaiafas  7', 45' (pen.), 70' (pen.), 71' Kanaris  8' Dimitriou  40'	Report Gamesheet	Schmidt  42'

Omonia won 7–3 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979	Celtic	4–1	Partiani Tirana
	MacDonald  20' Aitken  22', 44' Davidson  31'	Report Gamesheet	Sneddon  15' (o.g.)

Celtic won 4–2 on aggregate.

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26 September 1979	Hibernians	1–0	Dundalk
	Vella  67'	Report Gamesheet

Dundalk won 2–1 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979	Milan	0–1	Porto	Milan
		Report Gamesheet	Duda  60'

Porto won 1–0 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979	Real Madrid	2–0	Levski-Spartak
	del Bosque  20' Cunningham  32' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet

Real Madrid won 3–0 on aggregate.

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19 September 1979	Hamburg	2–1	Valur
	Hrubesch  50' Wehmeyer  74'	Report Gamesheet	Eðvaldsson  89'

Hamburg won 5–1 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979	Dinamo Tbilisi	3–0	Liverpool	Dynamo Lenin Stadium, Tbilisi Attendance: 90,000
	Gutsaev  55' Shengelia  75' Chivadze  81' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet

Dinamo Tbilisi won 4–2 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979	Austria Vienna	1–1	Vejle
	Gasselich  51'	Report Gamesheet	Brylle Larsen  35'

Vejle won 4–3 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979	Trabzonspor	0–1	Hajduk Split
		Report Gamesheet	Đorđević  44'

Hajduk Split won 2–0 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	4–1	Argeş Piteşti	2–0	2–1
Dynamo Berlin	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	2–21	Real Madrid	2–1	0–1
Hamburg	6–3	Dinamo Tbilisi	3–1	3–2
Vejle	2–4	Hajduk Split	0–3	2–1

¹ Real Madrid progressed to the Quarter finals on away goals.

First leg

24 October 1979	Nottingham Forest	2–0	Argeş Piteşti
	Woodcock  12' Birtles  16'	Report Gamesheet

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24 October 1979	Dynamo Berlin	2–1	Servette
	Pelka  8' Netz  10'	Report Gamesheet	Cucinotta  65'

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24 October 1979	Dukla Prague	1–0	Strasbourg	Referee: Johannes-Frederik Beck Netherlands
	Vízek  10'	Report Gamesheet

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24 October 1979	Ajax	10–0	Omonia
	Lerby  14', 28', 43', 72', 74' Krol  53' (pen.) Arnesen  59' Blanker  66', 81', 87'	Report Gamesheet

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24 October 1979	Celtic	3–2	Dundalk
	MacDonald  4' McCluskey  31' Burns  33'	Report Gamesheet	Muckian  32' Lawlor  68'

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24 October 1979	Porto	2–1	Real Madrid
	Fernando Gomes  35', 40' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet	Cunningham  52'

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24 October 1979	Hamburg	3–1	Dinamo Tbilisi	Volksparkstadion, Hamburg Attendance: 57,000 Referee: Georges Konrath France
	Kaltz  36' Keegan  53' Hartwig  74'	Report Gamesheet	Kipiani  29'

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24 October 1979	Vejle	0–3	Hajduk Split
		Report Gamesheet	Šurjak  4' Krstičević  53' Šalov  65'

Second leg

7 November 1979	Argeş Piteşti	1–2	Nottingham Forest
	Bărbulescu  60' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet	Bowyer  5' Birtles  23'

Nottingham Forest won 4–1 on aggregate.

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7 November 1979	Servette	2–2	Dynamo Berlin
	Hamberg  83' Barberis  90'	Report Gamesheet	Brillat  33' Terletzki  81'

Dynamo Berlin won 4–3 on aggregate.

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7 November 1979	Strasbourg	2–0	Dukla Prague
	Piasecki  67' Decastel  116'	Report Gamesheet

Strasbourg won 2–1 on aggregate.

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7 November 1979	Omonia	4–0	Ajax
	Tsikkos  9' Dimitriou  15' Kaiafas  39', 56'	Report Gamesheet

Ajax won 10–4 on aggregate.

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7 November 1979	Dundalk	0–0	Celtic
		Report Gamesheet

Celtic won 3–2 on aggregate.

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7 November 1979	Real Madrid	1–0	Porto
	Goyo Benito  71'	Report Gamesheet

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

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7 November 1979	Dinamo Tbilisi	2–3	Hamburg
	Gutsaev  5' Kipiani  45'	Report Gamesheet	Keegan  34' Hrubesch  41' Buljan  56'

Hamburg won 6–3 on aggregate.

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7 November 1979	Hajduk Split	1–2	Vejle
	Zl. Vujović  63'	Report Gamesheet	Brylle Larsen  21' Østergaard  70'

Hajduk Split won 4–2 on aggregate.

Quarter finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	3–2	Dynamo Berlin	0–1	3–1
Strasbourg	0–4	Ajax	0–0	0–4
Celtic	2–3	Real Madrid	2–0	0–3
Hamburg	3–31	Hajduk Split	1–0	2–3

¹ Hamburg progressed to the Semifinals on away goals.

First leg

5 March 1980	Nottingham Forest	0–1	Dynamo Berlin
		Report Gamesheet	Riediger  63'

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5 March 1980	Strasbourg	0–0	Ajax
		Report Gamesheet

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5 March 1980	Celtic	2–0	Real Madrid
	McCluskey  52' Doyle  75'	Report Gamesheet

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5 March 1980	Hamburg	1–0	Hajduk Split
	Reimann  45'	Report Gamesheet

Second leg

19 March 1980	Dynamo Berlin	1–3	Nottingham Forest
	Terletzki  49' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet	Francis  15', 35' Robertson  39' (pen.)

Nottingham Forest won 3–2 on aggregate.

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5 March 1980	Ajax	4–0	Strasbourg
	Schoenaker  35' Arnesen  38' Lerby  55' La Ling  90'	Report Gamesheet

Ajax won 4–0 on aggregate.

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19 March 1980	Real Madrid	3–0	Celtic
	Santillana  45' Stielike  56' Juanito  86'	Report Gamesheet

Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.

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19 March 1980	Hajduk Split	3–2	Hamburg	Gradski stadion u Poljudu, Split Attendance: 52,000 Referee: Derflinger Sweden
	Zl. Vujović  21' Đorđević  50' Primorac  86'	Report Gamesheet	Hrubesch  2' Hieronymus  23'

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

Semifinals

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

9 April 1980	Nottingham Forest	2–0	Ajax
	Francis  33' Robertson  61' (pen.)	Report Gamesheet

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9 April 1980	Real Madrid	2–0	Hamburg
	Santillana  67', 80'	Report Gamesheet

Second leg

23 April 1980	Ajax	1–0	Nottingham Forest
	Lerby  65'	Report Gamesheet

Nottingham Forest won 2–1 on aggregate.

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23 April 1980	Hamburg	5–1	Real Madrid
	Kaltz  10' (pen.), 40' Hrubesch  17', 45' Memering 90'	Report Gamesheet	Cunningham  31'

Hamburg won 5–3 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1980 European Cup Final

28 May 1980	Nottingham Forest	1–0	Hamburg	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 50,000 Referee: António Garrido (Portugal)
	Robertson  21'	Report Gamesheet

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1979–80 European Cup 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	4
	Ian Bowyer	Nottingham Forest	3
	Laurie Cunningham	Real Madrid	3
	Manfred Kaltz	Hamburg	3
	Hartmut Pelka	Dynamo Berlin	4
	Francis Piasecki	Strasbourg	3
	John Robertson	Nottingham Forest	3
	Santillana	Real Madrid	3

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