1979–80 European Cup

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.

1979–80 European Cup

The Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	29 August 1979 – 28 May 1980
Teams	33
Final positions
Champions	Nottingham Forest (2nd title)
Runners-up	Hamburg
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
← 1978–79 1980–81 →

Teams

Partizani (1st)	Austria Wien (1st)	Beveren (1st)
Levski-Spartak (1st)	Omonia (1st)	Dukla Prague (1st)
Vejle (1st)	Liverpool (1st)	Nottingham Forest (2nd)TH
HJK Helsinki (1st)	Strasbourg (1st)	BFC Dynamo (1st)
Hamburg (1st)	AEK Athens (1st)	Újpesti Dózsa (1st)
Valur (1st)	Dundalk (1st)	Milan (1st)
Red Boys Differdange (1st)	Hibernians (1st)	Ajax (1st)
Linfield (1st)	Start (1st)	Ruch Chorzów (1st)
Porto (1st)	Argeș Pitești (1st)	Celtic (1st)
Real Madrid (1st)	Öster (1st)	Servette (1st)
Trabzonspor (1st)	Dinamo Tbilisi (1st)	Hajduk Split (1st)

Preliminary round

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

First leg

Dundalk	1–1	Linfield
Devine 80'	Report	Feeney 48'

29 August 1979

Oriel Park, Dundalk

Attendance: 5,000^[1]

Referee: Pat Partridge (England)

Second leg

Linfield	0–2	Dundalk
	Report	Muckian 14', 88'

5 September 1979

Haarlem Stadion, Haarlem^[3]

Attendance: 1,147^[4]

Referee: Jan Beck (Netherlands)

Dundalk won 3–1 on aggregate.

Bracket

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Nottingham Forest	2	1	3
	Öster	0	1	1
							Nottingham Forest	2	2	4
							Argeș Pitești	0	1	1
	Argeș Pitești	3	0	3
	AEK Athens	0	2	2
													Nottingham Forest	0	3	3
													BFC Dynamo	1	1	2
	BFC Dynamo	4	0	4
	Ruch Chorzów	1	0	1
							BFC Dynamo	2	2	4
							Servette	1	2	3
	Servette	3	1	4
	Beveren	1	1	2
																			Nottingham Forest	2	0	2
																			Ajax	0	1	1
	Újpesti Dózsa	3	0	3
	Dukla Prague	2	2	4
							Dukla Prague	1	0	1
							Strasbourg	0	2	2
	Start	1	0	1
	Strasbourg	2	4	6
													Strasbourg	0	0	0
													Ajax	0	4	4
	HJK Helsinki	1	1	2
	Ajax	8	8	16
							Ajax	10	0	10
							Omonia	0	4	4
	Red Boys Differdange	2	1	3
	Omonia	1	6	7
																									Nottingham Forest	1
																									Hamburg	0
	Partizani	1	1	2
	Celtic	0	4	4
							Celtic	3	0	3
							Dundalk	2	0	2
	Dundalk	2	0	2
	Hibernians	0	1	1
													Celtic	2	0	2
													Real Madrid	0	3	3
	Porto	0	1	1
	Milan	0	0	0
							Porto	2	0	2
							Real Madrid (a)	1	1	2
	Levski-Spartak	0	0	0
	Real Madrid	1	2	3
																			Real Madrid	2	1	3
																			Hamburg	0	5	5
	Valur	0	1	1
	Hamburg	3	2	5
							Hamburg	3	3	6
							Dinamo Tbilisi	1	2	3
	Liverpool	2	0	2
	Dinamo Tbilisi	1	3	4
													Hamburg (a)	1	2	3
													Hajduk Split	0	3	3
	Vejle	3	1	4
	Austria Wien	2	1	3
							Vejle	0	2	2
							Hajduk Split	3	1	4
	Hajduk Split	1	1	2
	Trabzonspor	0	0	0

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	3–1	Öster	2–0	1–1
Argeș Pitești	3–2	AEK Athens	3–0	0–2
BFC Dynamo	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 Helsinki	2–16	Ajax	1–8	1–8
Red Boys Differdange	3–7	Omonia	2–1	1–6
Partizani	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 Wien	3–2	1–1
Hajduk Split	2–0	Trabzonspor	1–0	1–0

First leg

Nottingham Forest	2–0	Öster
Bowyer 63', 73'	Report

19 September 1979

City Ground, Nottingham

Attendance: 21,974

Referee: Sotos Afxentiou (Cyprus)

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Argeș Pitești	3–0	AEK Athens
Nicolae 49', 80' Radu 65'	Report

19 September 1979

Stadionul 1 Mai, Pitești

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Enzo Barbaresco (Italy)

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BFC Dynamo	4–1	Ruch Chorzów
Netz 3' Pelka 18', 79' Riediger 27'	Report	Wycislik 87'

19 September 1979

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion, East Berlin

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Atanas Mateev (Bulgaria)

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

19 September 1979

Stade des Charmilles, Geneve

Attendance: 16,605

Referee: Antonin Vencl (Czechoslovakia)

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

19 September 1979

Megyeri út, Budapest

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Otto Anderco (Romania)

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Start	1–2	Strasbourg
Ervik 81'	Report	Piasecki 44', 74'

19 September 1979

Kristiansand Stadion, Kristiansand

Attendance: 5,345^[5]

Referee: Heinz Einbeck (East Germany)

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

19 September 1979

Helsingin Olympiastadion, Helsinki

Attendance: 17,020

Referee: Eduard Shklovski (Soviet Union)

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

19 September 1979

Stade du Thillenberg, Differdange

Attendance: 2,500^[6]

Referee: Günter Linn (West Germany)

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Partizani	1–0	Celtic
Murati 35'	Report

19 September 1979

Stadiumi Kombëtar Qemal Stafa, Tirana

Attendance: 27,500^[7]

Referee: Nikolaos Zlatanos (Greece)

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Dundalk	2–0	Hibernians
Carlyle 21' Devine 68'	Report

19 September 1979

Oriel Park, Dundalk

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Egbert Mulder (Netherlands)

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Porto	0–0	Milan
	Report

19 September 1979

Estádio das Antas, Porto

Attendance: 55,000

Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

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Levski-Spartak	0–1	Real Madrid
	Report	Martínez 26'

19 September 1979

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 15,200^[8]

Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria)

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Valur	0–3	Hamburg
	Report	Hrubesch 18', 26' Buljan 77'

19 September 1979

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 10,235^[9]

Referee: Hugh Wilson (Northern Ireland)

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Liverpool	2–1	Dinamo Tbilisi
Johnson 19' Case 44'	Report	Chivadze 33'

19 September 1979

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 35,270^[10]

Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)

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Vejle	3–2	Austria Wien
Andersen 8' Rasmussen 10' Sørensen 40' (pen.)	Report	Baumeister 38' Schachner 40'

19 September 1979

Vejle Stadion (1924), Vejle

Attendance: 5,800^[11]

Referee: Jan Peeters (Belgium)

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Hajduk Split	1–0[12]	Trabzonspor
Primorac 75' (pen.)	Report

19 September 1979

Stadion Poljud, Split

Attendance: 52,500

Referee: Miroslav Stupar (Soviet Union)

Second leg

Öster	1–1	Nottingham Forest
Nordgren 52'	Report	Woodcock 79'

3 October 1979

Värendsvallen, Växjö

Attendance: 14,772

Referee: Jerzy Kacprzak (Poland)

Nottingham Forest won 3–1 on aggregate.

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AEK Athens	2–0	Argeș Pitești
Ivan 12' (o.g.) Vladić 20'	Report

3 October 1979

AEK Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)

Argeș Pitești won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Ruch Chorzów	0–0	BFC Dynamo
	Report

3 October 1979

Silesian Stadium, Chorzów

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Yuri Sergienko (Soviet Union)

BFC Dynamo won 4–1 on aggregate.

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Beveren	1–1	Servette
Albert 18' (pen.)	Report	Barberis 37'

3 October 1979

Freethiel Stadion, Beveren

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Clive White (England)

Servette won 4–2 on aggregate.

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Dukla Prague	2–0	Újpesti Dózsa
Vízek 24' Nehoda 88'	Report

3 October 1979

Stadion Letná, Prague

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)

Dukla Prague won 4–3 on aggregate.

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Strasbourg	4–0	Start
Bianchi 13', 39', 69' Decastel 76'	Report

3 October 1979

Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg

Attendance: 13,685^[13]

Referee: William Attley (Ireland)

Strasbourg won 6–1 on aggregate.

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

3 October 1979

De Meer Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 8,250

Referee: Mário Luís (Portugal)

Ajax won 16–2 on aggregate.

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

3 October 1979

Makario Stadium, Nikosia

Attendance: 14,500

Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales)

Omonia won 7–3 on aggregate.

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Celtic	4–1	Partizani
MacDonald 20' Aitken 22', 44' Davidson 31'	Report	Sneddon 15' (o.g.)

3 October 1979

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 46,712^[14]

Referee: Lars-Åke Björck (Sweden)

Celtic won 4–2 on aggregate.

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Hibernians	1–0	Dundalk
Vella 67'	Report

26 September 1979

Empire Stadium, Gżira

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Emmanuel Platopoulos (Greece)

Dundalk won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Milan	0–1	Porto
	Report	Duda 60'

3 October 1979

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 64,880^[15]

Referee: Hilmi Ok (Turkey)

Porto won 1–0 on aggregate.

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Real Madrid	2–0	Levski-Spartak
Del Bosque 20' Cunningham 32' (pen.)	Report

3 October 1979

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Francis Rion (Belgium)

Real Madrid won 3–0 on aggregate.

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Hamburg	2–1	Valur
Hrubesch 50' Wehmeyer 74'	Report	Eðvaldsson 89'

3 October 1979

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Norbert Rolles (Luxembourg)

Hamburg won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Dinamo Tbilisi	3–0	Liverpool
Gutsaev 55' Shengelia 75' Chivadze 81' (pen.)	Report

3 October 1979

Vladimir Lenin Stadium, Tbilisi

Attendance: 82,000^[16]

Referee: Heinz Aldinger (West Germany)

Dinamo Tbilisi won 4–2 on aggregate.

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Austria Wien	1–1	Vejle
Gasselich 51'	Report	Brylle Larsen 35'

3 October 1979

Praterstadion, Wien

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Dusan Maksimović (Yugoslavia)

Vejle won 4–3 on aggregate.

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Trabzonspor	0–1[17]	Hajduk Split
	Report	Đorđević 44'

3 October 1979

13:00

Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadyumu, Trabzon

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: László Pádár (Hungary)

Hajduk Split won 2–0 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	4–1	Argeș Pitești	2–0	2–1
BFC Dynamo	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	2–2 (a)	Real Madrid	2–1	0–1
Hamburg	6–3	Dinamo Tbilisi	3–1	3–2
Vejle	2–4	Hajduk Split	0–3	2–1

First leg

Nottingham Forest	2–0	Argeș Pitești
Woodcock 12' Birtles 16'	Report

24 October 1979

City Ground, Nottingham

Attendance: 24,828

Referee: Reidar Bjørnestad (Norway)

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BFC Dynamo	2–1	Servette
Pelka 8' Netz 10'	Report	Cucinotta 65'

24 October 1979

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion, East Berlin

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)

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Dukla Prague	1–0	Strasbourg
Vízek 10'	Report

24 October 1979

Na Litavce, Příbram

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Johannes-Frederik Beck (Netherlands)

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

24 October 1979

De Meer Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Oliver Donnelly (Northern Ireland)

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

24 October 1979

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 33,000

Referee: Þorvarður Björnsson (Iceland)

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Porto	2–1	Real Madrid
Gomes 35', 40' (pen.)	Report	Cunningham 52'

24 October 1979

Estádio das Antas, Porto

Attendance: 55,000

Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

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Hamburg	3–1	Dinamo Tbilisi
Kaltz 36' Keegan 53' Hartwig 74'	Report	Kipiani 29'

24 October 1979

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 48,000^[18]

Referee: Georges Konrath (France)

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Vejle	0–3	Hajduk Split
	Report	Šurjak 4' Krstičević 53' Šalov 65'

24 October 1979

Vejle Stadium (1924), Vejle

Attendance: 6,500

Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

Second leg

Argeș Pitești	1–2	Nottingham Forest
Bărbulescu 60' (pen.)	Report	Bowyer 5' Birtles 23'

7 November 1979

Stadionul 1 Mai, Pitești

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)

Nottingham Forest won 4–1 on aggregate.

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Servette	2–2	BFC Dynamo
Hamberg 83' Barberis 90'	Report	Brillat 33' Terletzki 81'

7 November 1979

Charmilles Stadium, Geneva

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Alek Jarguz (Poland)

BFC Dynamo won 4–3 on aggregate.

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Strasbourg	2–0 (a.e.t.)	Dukla Prague
Piasecki 67' Decastel 116'	Report

7 November 1979

Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo (Spain)

Strasbourg won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Omonia	4–0	Ajax
Tsikkos 9' Dimitriou 15' Kaiafas 39', 56'	Report

7 November 1979

Makario Stadium, Nikosia

Attendance: 12,150^[19]

Referee: Dusan Maksimović (Yugoslavia)

Ajax won 10–4 on aggregate.

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Dundalk	0–0	Celtic
	Report

7 November 1979

Oriel Park, Dundalk

Attendance: 16,300

Referee: Henning Lund-Sørensen (Denmark)

Celtic won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Real Madrid	1–0	Porto
Benito 71'	Report

7 November 1979

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 115,000

Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)

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

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

7 November 1979

Vladimir Lenin Stadium, Tbilisi

Attendance: 90,000

Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)

Hamburg won 6–3 on aggregate.

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

7 November 1979

Stadion Poljud, Split

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)

Hajduk Split won 4–2 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	3–2	BFC Dynamo	0–1	3–1
Strasbourg	0–4	Ajax	0–0	0–4
Celtic	2–3	Real Madrid	2–0	0–3
Hamburg	3–3 (a)	Hajduk Split	1–0	2–3

First leg

Nottingham Forest	0–1	BFC Dynamo
	Report	Riediger 63'

5 March 1980

City Ground, Nottingham

Attendance: 27,946

Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)

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Strasbourg	0–0	Ajax
	Report

5 March 1980

Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg

Attendance: 20,200^[20]

Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)

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Celtic	2–0	Real Madrid
McCluskey 52' Doyle 75'	Report

5 March 1980

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 67,000

Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi (Italy)

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Hamburg	1–0	Hajduk Split
Reimann 45'	Report

5 March 1980

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 52,000

Referee: Ian Foote (Scotland)

Second leg

BFC Dynamo	1–3	Nottingham Forest
Terletzki 49' (pen.)	Report	Francis 15', 35' Robertson 39' (pen.)

19 March 1980

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion, East Berlin

Attendance: 28,000^[21]–30,000^[22]

Referee: Alain Delmer (France)

Nottingham Forest won 3–2 on aggregate.

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

19 March 1980

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 42,875^[23]

Referee: George Courtney (England)

Ajax won 4–0 on aggregate.

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Real Madrid	3–0	Celtic
Santillana 45' Stielike 56' Juanito 86'	Report

19 March 1980

Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 110,000

Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)

Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Hajduk Split	3–2	Hamburg
Zl. Vujović 21' Đorđević 50' Primorac 86'	Report	Hrubesch 2' Hieronymus 23'

19 March 1980

Stadion Poljud, Split

Attendance: 52,000

Referee: Ernst Dörflinger-Buser (Switzerland)

3–3 on aggregate; Hamburg won on away goals.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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

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

9 April 1980

City Ground, Nottingham

Attendance: 31,244

Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)

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Real Madrid	2–0	Hamburg
Santillana 67', 80'	Report

9 April 1980

Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 121,106

Referee: Vojtěch Christov (Czechoslovakia)

Second leg

Ajax	1–0	Nottingham Forest
Lerby 65'	Report

23 April 1980

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 54,955

Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)

Nottingham Forest won 2–1 on aggregate.

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

23 April 1980

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 61,980

Referee: Alberto Michelotti (Italy)

Hamburg won 5–3 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1980 European Cup Final

Nottingham Forest	1–0	Hamburg
Robertson 20'	Report MatchCentre

28 May 1980

20:30 CEST

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 51,000

Referee: António Garrido (Portugal)

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1979–80 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) 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	3
	Ian Bowyer	Nottingham Forest	3
	Laurie Cunningham	Real Madrid	3
	Manfred Kaltz	Hamburg	3
	Hartmut Pelka	BFC Dynamo	3
	Francis Piasecki	Strasbourg	3
	John Robertson	Nottingham Forest	3
	Santillana	Real Madrid	3
	Trevor Francis	Nottingham Forest	3

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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
• 1979/80 European Cup - results and line-ups (archive)