1979–80 European Cup

The 1979–80 European Cup was the 25th season of the European Cup, UEFA's premier club football competition. The 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

29 August 1979

Dundalk	1–1	Linfield
Devine 80'	Report[dead link]	Feeney 48'

Oriel Park, Dundalk

Attendance: 5,000^[1]

Referee: Pat Partridge (England)

Second leg

5 September 1979

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

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

19 September 1979

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

City Ground, Nottingham

Attendance: 21,974

Referee: Sotos Afxentiou (Cyprus)

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19 September 1979

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

Stadionul 1 Mai, Pitești

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Enzo Barbaresco (Italy)

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19 September 1979

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

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion, East Berlin

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Atanas Mateev (Bulgaria)

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19 September 1979

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

Stade des Charmilles, Geneve

Attendance: 16,605

Referee: Antonin Vencl (Czechoslovakia)

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19 September 1979

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

Megyeri út, Budapest

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Otto Anderco (Romania)

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19 September 1979

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

Kristiansand Stadion, Kristiansand

Attendance: 5,345^[5]

Referee: Heinz Einbeck (East Germany)

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19 September 1979

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

Helsingin Olympiastadion, Helsinki

Attendance: 17,020

Referee: Eduard Shklovski (Soviet Union)

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19 September 1979

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

Stade du Thillenberg, Differdange

Attendance: 2,500^[6]

Referee: Günter Linn (West Germany)

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19 September 1979

Partizani	1–0	Celtic
Murati 35'	Report

Stadiumi Kombëtar Qemal Stafa, Tirana

Attendance: 27,500^[7]

Referee: Nikolaos Zlatanos (Greece)

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19 September 1979

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

Oriel Park, Dundalk

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Egbert Mulder (Netherlands)

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19 September 1979

Porto	0–0	Milan
	Report

Estádio das Antas, Porto

Attendance: 55,000

Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

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19 September 1979

Levski-Spartak	0–1	Real Madrid
	Report[dead link]	Martínez 26'

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 15,200^[8]

Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria)

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19 September 1979

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

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Attendance: 10,235^[9]

Referee: Hugh Wilson (Northern Ireland)

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19 September 1979

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

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 35,270^[10]

Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)

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19 September 1979

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

Vejle Stadion (1924), Vejle

Attendance: 5,800^[11]

Referee: Jan Peeters (Belgium)

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19 September 1979

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

Stadion Poljud, Split

Attendance: 52,500

Referee: Miroslav Stupar (Soviet Union)

Second leg

3 October 1979

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

Värendsvallen, Växjö

Attendance: 14,772

Referee: Jerzy Kacprzak (Poland)

Nottingham Forest won 3–1 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979

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

AEK Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)

Argeș Pitești won 3–2 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979

Ruch Chorzów	0–0	BFC Dynamo
	Report

Silesian Stadium, Chorzów

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Yuri Sergienko (Soviet Union)

BFC Dynamo won 4–1 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979

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

Freethiel Stadion, Beveren

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Clive White (England)

Servette won 4–2 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979

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

Stadion Letná, Prague

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Walter Eschweiler (West Germany)

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

Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg

Attendance: 13,685^[13]

Referee: William Attley (Ireland)

Strasbourg won 6–1 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979

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

De Meer Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 8,250

Referee: Mário Luís (Portugal)

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	Schmidt 42'

Makario Stadium, Nikosia

Attendance: 14,500

Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales)

Omonia won 7–3 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979

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

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 46,712^[14]

Referee: Lars-Åke Björck (Sweden)

Celtic won 4–2 on aggregate.

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26 September 1979

Hibernians	1–0	Dundalk
Vella 67'	Report

Empire Stadium, Gżira

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Emmanuel Platopoulos (Greece)

Dundalk won 2–1 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979

Milan	0–1	Porto
	Report	Duda 60'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 64,880^[15]

Referee: Hilmi Ok (Turkey)

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

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Francis Rion (Belgium)

Real Madrid won 3–0 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979

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

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Norbert Rolles (Luxembourg)

Hamburg won 5–1 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979

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

Vladimir Lenin Stadium, Tbilisi

Attendance: 82,000^[16]

Referee: Heinz Aldinger (West Germany)

Dinamo Tbilisi won 4–2 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979

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

Praterstadion, Wien

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Dusan Maksimović (Yugoslavia)

Vejle won 4–3 on aggregate.

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3 October 1979

13:00

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

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

24 October 1979

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

City Ground, Nottingham

Attendance: 24,828

Referee: Reidar Bjørnestad (Norway)

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24 October 1979

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

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion, East Berlin

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)

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24 October 1979

Dukla Prague	1–0	Strasbourg
Vízek 10'	Report[dead link]

Na Litavce, Příbram

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Johannes-Frederik Beck (Netherlands)

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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

De Meer Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Oliver Donnelly (Northern Ireland)

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24 October 1979

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

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 33,000

Referee: Þorvarður Björnsson (Iceland)

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24 October 1979

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

Estádio das Antas, Porto

Attendance: 55,000

Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

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24 October 1979

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

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 48,000^[18]

Referee: Georges Konrath (France)

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24 October 1979

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

Vejle Stadium (1924), Vejle

Attendance: 6,500

Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

Second leg

7 November 1979

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

Stadionul 1 Mai, Pitești

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)

Nottingham Forest won 4–1 on aggregate.

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7 November 1979

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

Charmilles Stadium, Geneva

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Alek Jarguz (Poland)

BFC Dynamo won 4–3 on aggregate.

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7 November 1979

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

Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Augusto Lamo Castillo (Spain)

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

Makario Stadium, Nikosia

Attendance: 12,150^[19]

Referee: Dusan Maksimović (Yugoslavia)

Ajax won 10–4 on aggregate.

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7 November 1979

Dundalk	0–0	Celtic
	Report

Oriel Park, Dundalk

Attendance: 16,300

Referee: Henning Lund-Sørensen (Denmark)

Celtic won 3–2 on aggregate.

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7 November 1979

Real Madrid	1–0	Porto
Benito 71'	Report

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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7 November 1979

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

Vladimir Lenin Stadium, Tbilisi

Attendance: 90,000

Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)

Hamburg won 6–3 on aggregate.

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7 November 1979

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

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

5 March 1980

Nottingham Forest	0–1	BFC Dynamo
	Report	Riediger 63'

City Ground, Nottingham

Attendance: 27,946

Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)

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5 March 1980

Strasbourg	0–0	Ajax
	Report

Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg

Attendance: 20,200^[20]

Referee: Franz Wöhrer (Austria)

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5 March 1980

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

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 67,000

Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi (Italy)

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5 March 1980

Hamburg	1–0	Hajduk Split
Reimann 45'	Report

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 52,000

Referee: Ian Foote (Scotland)

Second leg

19 March 1980

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

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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19 March 1980

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

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 42,875^[23]

Referee: George Courtney (England)

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

Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 110,000

Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)

Real Madrid won 3–2 on aggregate.

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19 March 1980

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

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

9 April 1980

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

City Ground, Nottingham

Attendance: 31,244

Referee: André Daina (Switzerland)

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9 April 1980

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

Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 121,106

Referee: Vojtěch Christov (Czechoslovakia)

Second leg

23 April 1980

Ajax	1–0	Nottingham Forest
Lerby 65'	Report

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 54,955

Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)

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	Cunningham 31'

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg

Attendance: 61,980

Referee: Alberto Michelotti (Italy)

Hamburg won 5–3 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 1980 European Cup Final

28 May 1980

20:30 CEST

Nottingham Forest	1–0	Hamburg
Robertson 20'	Report MatchCentre

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