TheSantiago Bernabéu Stadium inMadrid hosted the final. | |
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | 29 August 1979 – 28 May 1980 |
| Teams | 33 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | |
| Runners-up | |
| 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 |
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The1979–80 European Cup was the 25th season of theEuropean Cup,UEFA's premier clubfootball competition. The tournament was won byholdersNottingham Forest in thefinal againstHamburg. The winning goal was scored byJohn 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 theirdomestic top flight.
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| Dundalk | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
Dundalk won 3–1 on aggregate.
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| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Nottingham Forest | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | |
| Argeș Pitești | 3–2 | 3–0 | 0–2 | |
| BFC Dynamo | 4–1 | 4–1 | 0–0 | |
| Servette | 4–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | |
| Újpesti Dózsa | 3–4 | 3–2 | 0–2 | |
| Start | 1–6 | 1–2 | 0–4 | |
| HJK Helsinki | 2–16 | 1–8 | 1–8 | |
| Red Boys Differdange | 3–7 | 2–1 | 1–6 | |
| Partizani | 2–4 | 1–0 | 1–4 | |
| Dundalk | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | |
| Porto | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | |
| Levski-Spartak | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–2 | |
| Valur | 1–5 | 0–3 | 1–2 | |
| Liverpool | 2–4 | 2–1 | 0–3 | |
| Vejle | 4–3 | 3–2 | 1–1 | |
| Hajduk Split | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Nottingham Forest | 2–0 | |
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| Bowyer | Report |
| Argeș Pitești | 3–0 | |
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| Nicolae Radu | Report |
| BFC Dynamo | 4–1 | |
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| Netz Pelka Riediger | Report | Wycislik |
| Újpesti Dózsa | 3–2 | |
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| Sarlós Nagy Fazekas | Report | Gajdůšek Nehoda |
| Start | 1–2 | |
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| Ervik | Report | Piasecki |
| HJK Helsinki | 1–8 | |
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| Rautiainen | Report | Lerby Tahamata Arnesen Krol La Ling |
| Red Boys Differdange | 2–1 | |
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| Di Domenico Wagner | Report | Patikis |
| Dundalk | 2–0 | |
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| Carlyle Devine | Report |
| Vejle | 3–2 | |
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| Andersen Rasmussen Sørensen | Report | Baumeister Schachner |
| Öster | 1–1 | |
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| Nordgren | Report | Woodcock |
Nottingham Forest won 3–1 on aggregate.
| AEK Athens | 2–0 | |
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| Ivan Vladić | Report |
Argeș Pitești won 3–2 on aggregate.
BFC Dynamo won 4–1 on aggregate.
Servette won 4–2 on aggregate.
| Dukla Prague | 2–0 | |
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| Vízek Nehoda | Report |
Dukla Prague won 4–3 on aggregate.
| Strasbourg | 4–0 | |
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| Bianchi Decastel | Report |
Strasbourg won 6–1 on aggregate.
Ajax won 16–2 on aggregate.
| Omonia | 6–1 | |
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| Kaiafas Kanaris Dimitriou | Report | Schmidt |
Omonia won 7–3 on aggregate.
Celtic won 4–2 on aggregate.
| Hibernians | 1–0 | |
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| Vella | Report |
Dundalk won 2–1 on aggregate.
Porto won 1–0 on aggregate.
| Real Madrid | 2–0 | |
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| Del Bosque Cunningham | Report |
Real Madrid won 3–0 on aggregate.
Hamburg won 5–1 on aggregate.
Dinamo Tbilisi won 4–2 on aggregate.
Vejle won 4–3 on aggregate.
Hajduk Split won 2–0 on aggregate.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Nottingham Forest | 4–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | |
| BFC Dynamo | 4–3 | 2–1 | 2–2 | |
| Dukla Prague | 1–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | |
| Ajax | 10–4 | 10–0 | 0–4 | |
| Celtic | 3–2 | 3–2 | 0–0 | |
| Porto | 2–2 (a) | 2–1 | 0–1 | |
| Hamburg | 6–3 | 3–1 | 3–2 | |
| Vejle | 2–4 | 0–3 | 2–1 |
| Porto | 2–1 | |
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| Gomes | Report[dead link] | Cunningham |
| Vejle | 0–3 | |
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| Report | Šurjak Krstičević Šalov |
| Argeș Pitești | 1–2 | |
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| Bărbulescu | Report | Bowyer Birtles |
Nottingham Forest won 4–1 on aggregate.
BFC Dynamo won 4–3 on aggregate.
| Strasbourg | 2–0 (a.e.t.) | |
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| Piasecki Decastel | Report |
Strasbourg won 2–1 on aggregate.
Ajax won 10–4 on aggregate.
Celtic won 3–2 on aggregate.
| Real Madrid | 1–0 | |
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| Benito | Report |
2–2 on aggregate; Real Madrid won on away goals.
Hamburg won 6–3 on aggregate.
| Hajduk Split | 1–2 | |
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| Zl. Vujović | Report | Brylle Larsen Østergaard |
Hajduk Split won 4–2 on aggregate.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Nottingham Forest | 3–2 | 0–1 | 3–1 | |
| Strasbourg | 0–4 | 0–0 | 0–4 | |
| Celtic | 2–3 | 2–0 | 0–3 | |
| Hamburg | 3–3 (a) | 1–0 | 2–3 |
| Celtic | 2–0 | |
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| McCluskey Doyle | Report |
| BFC Dynamo | 1–3 | |
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| Terletzki | Report | Francis Robertson |
Nottingham Forest won 3–2 on aggregate.
| Ajax | 4–0 | |
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| Schoenaker Arnesen Lerby La Ling | Report |
Ajax won 4–0 on aggregate.
| Real Madrid | 3–0 | |
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| Santillana Stielike Juanito | Report |
Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.
| Hajduk Split | 3–2 | |
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| Zl. Vujović Đorđević Primorac | Report | Hrubesch Hieronymus |
3–3 on aggregate; Hamburg won on away goals.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Nottingham Forest | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | |
| Real Madrid | 3–5 | 2–0 | 1–5 |
| Real Madrid | 2–0 | |
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| Santillana | Report |
Nottingham Forest won 2–1 on aggregate.
| Hamburg | 5–1 | |
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| Kaltz Hrubesch Memering | Report | Cunningham |
Hamburg won 5–3 on aggregate.
The top scorers from the 1979–80 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) are as follows: