1980–81 UEFA Cup
The 1980–81 UEFA Cup was the 10th edition of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at Portman Road, Ipswich, England, and at the Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was won by Ipswich Town of England, who defeated AZ Alkmaar of the Netherlands by an aggregate result of 5–4 to claim their only UEFA Cup title. This was the only European title for Ipswich Town, who never made it past a quarterfinal round before, and would never go beyond the third round in future competitions. As of 2024, this has been the only appearance in a major European final for both teams, which was also the case with the finalists of the European Cup Winners' Cup that season. Both are the only current instances in a major UEFA tournament; it has also happened with the finalists of the 1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, which is considered an unofficial tournament by UEFA. According to a UEFA decision in 1979, the UEFA ranking was introduced to serve as the method to determine the number of competing teams per country, and the Fairs Cup entry criteria was finally abolished.[1] Association team allocationA total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participate in the 1980–81 UEFA Cup. For the first time, an association ranking based on the newly introduced UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
Association rankingFor the 1980–81 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1979 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1974–75 to 1978–79.
Wales: There was no national league in Wales before 1992 and the only competition organised by the Football Association of Wales was the Welsh Cup so Wales had just a single participant in European competitions, the winner (or best placed Welsh team as several English teams also competed) of the Welsh Cup which competed in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Its virtual ranking is only an original research, because the UEFA country ranking was only used to allocate the UEFA Cup spots at time, so Wales was not included. Albania: Until 1985, Albania frequently withdrew their allocated place in the UEFA Cup due to political reasons. 17 Nëntori would have qualified by league position. This additional place went to the country of the title holders, as Eintracht Frankfurt had not qualified by league position, giving West Germany a fifth entry in the UEFA Cup. TeamsThe labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:
Notes
ScheduleThe schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches in the first two rounds exceptionally took place on Tuesdays.
First roundFirst leg
Second leg
Zbrojovka Brno won 5–1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; Kaiserslautern won on away goals.
Magdeburg won 5–3 on aggregate.
AZ Alkmaar won 10–0 on aggregate.
Vorwärts Frankfurt won 4–2 on aggregate.
Dynamo Dresden won 2–0 on aggregate.
Utrecht won 2–0 on aggregate.
Referee: Ronald Bridges (Wales) FC Bohemians Praha won 4–3 on aggregate. 1–1 on aggregate; Levski Sofia won on away goals.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 3–1 on aggregate. Sochaux won 3–2 on aggregate.
Referee: Valeri Butenko (Soviet Union) Twente won 5–3 on aggregate.
Referee: Heinz Aldinger (West Germany) Beroe Stara Zagora won 3–1 on aggregate. Porto won 1–0 on aggregate.
Grasshopper won 8–3 on aggregate. Hamburg won 7–5 on aggregate.
Referee: Gudmundur Haraldsson (Iceland) St Mirren won 2–1 on aggregate.
Ipswich Town won 6–4 on aggregate. Köln won 10–0 on aggregate.
Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands) Juventus won 6–4 on aggregate.
Referee: Jan Redelfs (West Germany) Lokeren won 2–1 on aggregate. Saint-Étienne won 14–0 on aggregate.
Referee: Vasilios Vourakis (Greece) Radnički Niš won 6–2 on aggregate. 1–1 on aggregate; Widzew Łódź won on away goals.
Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria) PSV Eindhoven won 3–2 on aggregate.
Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria) Torino won 4–3 on aggregate.
Referee: Kjell Johansson (Sweden) Dundee United won 7–2 on aggregate.
Referee: Viriato Graça Oliva (Portugal) Barcelona won 3–0 on aggregate.
Standard Liège won 3–2 on aggregate.
Real Sociedad won 2–1 on aggregate. Boavista won 2–1 on aggregate.
Stuttgart won 10–1 on aggregate. Second round
First leg
Referee: Alain Delmer (France)
Referee: George Courtney (England)
Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)
Referee: Martti Hirviniemi (Finland)
Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland)
Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo (Spain)
Referee: Ole Amundsen (Denmark)
Referee: Sándor Kuti (Hungary)
Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)
Referee: Henning Lund-Sørensen (Denmark)
Referee: Gianfranco Menegali (Italy)
Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria) Second leg
Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland) Real Sociedad won 3–2 on aggregate.
Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden) Standard Liège won 4–2 on aggregate.
Referee: Pat Partridge (England) 1. FC Köln won 4–1 on aggregate.
Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany) 1–1 on aggregate; Lokeren won on away goals
Referee: Dušan Krchňák (Czechoslovakia) Eintracht Frankfurt won 4–3 on aggregate. Sochaux won 3–2 on aggregate.
Referee: Rolf Ericsson (Sweden) 1–1 on aggregate; Dynamo Dresden won on away goals Grasshoppers won 3–2 on aggregate.
Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy) Ipswich Town won 3–2 on aggregate.
Radnički Niš won 3–1 on aggregate.
Referee: Rolf Nyhus (Norway) AZ Alkmaar won 6–1 on aggregate.
Referee: Georges Konrath (France) Hamburg won 3–2 on aggregate.
Saint-Étienne won 2–0 on aggregate.
Referee: Jan Keizer (Netherlands) Torino won 3–2 on aggregate. Stuttgart won 7–2 on aggregate.
Referee: Talat Tokat (Turkey) 4–4 on aggregate; Widzew Łódź won 4–1 on penalties. Third round
First leg
Referee: Bogdan Dochev (Bulgaria)
Referee: Vojtech Christov (Czechoslovakia)
Referee: John Hunting (England)
Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)
Referee: Josef Bucek (Austria)
Referee: Ruedi Renggli (Switzerland)
Referee: Alberto Michelotti (Italy) Second leg
4–4 on aggregate; Sochaux won on away goals.
Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary) 3–3 on aggregate; Grasshoppers won 4–3 on penalties.
Saint-Étienne won 6–0 on aggregate.
Referee: Jan Redelfs (West Germany) Ipswich Town won 5–1 on aggregate.
Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales) Lokeren won 3–2 on aggregate.
Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany) AZ won 7–2 on aggregate.
Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands) Standard Liège won 5–2 on aggregate.
Referee: Valeri Butenko (Soviet Union) Köln won 5–4 on aggregate. Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Ipswich Town won 7–2 on aggregate.
AZ Alkmaar won 2–1 on aggregate. Sochaux won 2–1 on aggregate.
Köln won 3–2 on aggregate. Semi-finals
First leg
Attendance: 16,000
Attendance: 24,780 Second leg
AZ Alkmaar won 4–3 on aggregate.
Attendance: 55,000 Ipswich Town won 2–0 on aggregate. FinalFirst leg
Second leg
Ipswich Town won 5–4 on aggregate. See alsoReferences
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