25th season of the UEFA club football tournament
1979–80 European Cup Dates 29 August 1979 – 28 May 1980 Teams 33 Champions Nottingham Forest (2nd title) Runners-up Hamburg 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
International football competition
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
Preliminary round
First leg
Second leg
Dundalk won 3–1 on aggregate.
Bracket
First round
First leg
Second leg
Nottingham Forest won 3–1 on aggregate.
Argeș Pitești won 3–2 on aggregate.
BFC Dynamo won 4–1 on aggregate.
Servette won 4–2 on aggregate.
Dukla Prague won 4–3 on aggregate.
Strasbourg won 6–1 on aggregate.
Ajax won 16–2 on aggregate.
Omonia won 7–3 on aggregate.
Celtic won 4–2 on aggregate.
Dundalk won 2–1 on aggregate.
Porto won 1–0 on aggregate.
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.
Second round
First leg
Second leg
Nottingham Forest won 4–1 on aggregate.
BFC Dynamo won 4–3 on aggregate.
Strasbourg won 2–1 on aggregate.
Ajax won 10–4 on aggregate.
Celtic won 3–2 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Real Madrid won on away goals.
Hamburg won 6–3 on aggregate.
Hajduk Split won 4–2 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Nottingham Forest won 3–2 on aggregate.
Ajax won 4–0 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; Hamburg won on away goals.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
Nottingham Forest won 2–1 on aggregate.
Hamburg won 5–3 on aggregate.
Final
Top scorers
The top scorers from the 1979–80 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:
References
^ "Dundalk v Linfield, 29 August 1979" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ Dowd, Fergus (20 March 202). "The Battle of Oriel Park: When The Troubles and football collided" . The Football Faithful. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ Second leg was played on a neutral ground at Haarlem Stadion , Haarlem , because of Linfield fans' riots at the first game in Dundalk .[ 2]
^ "Linfield v Dundalk, 5 September 1979" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ "Start v Strasbourg, 19 September 1979" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ "Red Boys Differdange v Omonia, 19 September 1979" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ "Partizani v Celtic, 19 September 1979" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ "Levski-Spartak v Real Madrid, 19 September 1979" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ "Valur v Hamburg, 19 September 1979" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ "Liverpool v Dinamo Tbilisi, 19 September 1979" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ "Vejle v Austria Wien, 19 September 1979" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ "Hajduk Split vs. Trabzonspor" . UEFA. Retrieved 30 August 2024 .
^ "Strasbourg v Start, 3 October 1979" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ "Celtic v Partizani, 3 October 1979" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ "Milan v Porto, 3 October 1979" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ "Dinamo Tbilisi v Liverpool, 3 October 1979" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ "Trabzonspor vs. Hajduk Split" . UEFA. Retrieved 30 August 2024 .
^ "Hamburg v Dinamo Tbilisi, 7 November 1979" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ "Omonia v Ajax, 7 November 1979" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ "Strasbourg v Ajax, 5 March 1980" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ "BFC Dynamo v Nottingham Forest, 19 March 1980" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
^ Buchspieß, Dieter (25 March 1980). "Erst nach hoffnungslosem Rückstand Vertrauen zu sich selbst gefunden" (PDF) . Neue Fußballwoche (FuWo) (De) (in German). Vol. 1980, no. 13. Berlin: DFV der DDR . p. 8. ISSN 0323-8407 . Retrieved 27 May 2022 .
^ "Ajax v Strasbourg, 19 March 1980" (JSON) . Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 18 March 2022 .
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