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1980–81 UEFA Cup

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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.

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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.

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]

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Association team allocation

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A 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:

  • Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify.
  • Associations 4–8 each have three teams qualify.
  • Associations 9–21 each have two teams qualify.
  • Associations 22–32 each have one team qualify.

Association ranking

For 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.


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    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.
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    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.
  • Teams

    The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:

    • TH: Title holders
    • CW: Cup winners
    • CR: Cup runners-up
    • LC: League Cup winners
    • 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
    • P-W: End-of-season European competition play-offs winners
    Qualified teams for 1980–81 UEFA Cup
    West Germany Eintracht Frankfurt (TH) West Germany Hamburger SV (2nd) West Germany Stuttgart (3rd) West Germany Kaiserslautern (4th)
    West Germany Köln (5th) Netherlands AZ Alkmaar (2nd) Netherlands PSV Eindhoven (3rd) Netherlands Utrecht (5th)
    Netherlands Twente (6th) Belgium Standard Liège (2nd) Belgium Molenbeek (4th) Belgium Lokeren (5th)
    Belgium Anderlecht (6th) England Manchester United (2nd) England Ipswich Town (3rd) England Wolverhampton (LC)
    Spain Real Sociedad (2nd) Spain Sporting de Gijón (3rd) Spain Barcelona (4th) Soviet Union Shakhtar Donetsk (2nd)
    Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv (3rd) Soviet Union Dynamo Moscow (5th) Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Sarajevo (2nd) Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Radnički Niš (3rd)
    Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Napredak Kruševac (4th) East Germany Dynamo Dresden (2nd) East Germany Magdeburg (4th) East Germany Vorwärts Frankfurt (5th)
    Italy Juventus (2nd) Italy Torino (3rd)[Note ITA] France Sochaux (2nd) France Saint-Étienne (3rd)
    Hungary Újpest Dózsa (2nd) Hungary Vasas (3rd) Czechoslovakia Zbrojovka Brno (2nd) Czechoslovakia Bohemians Prague (3rd)
    Poland Widzew Łódź (2nd) Poland Śląsk Wrocław (3rd) Portugal Porto (2nd) Portugal Boavista (4th)
    Austria VÖEST Linz (2nd) Austria LASK (3rd) Switzerland Grasshoppers (2nd) Switzerland Servette (3rd)
    Scotland St Mirren (3rd) Scotland Dundee United (4th) Sweden IFK Göteborg (2nd) Sweden Elfsborg (3rd)
    Greece Aris (2nd) Greece Panathinaikos (3rd) Bulgaria Levski-Spartak Sofia (3rd) Bulgaria Beroe Stara Zagora (4th)
    Romania Steaua București (2nd) Romania Argeș Pitești (3rd) Turkey Fenerbahçe S.K. (2nd) Denmark KB (2nd)
    Republic of Ireland Dundalk (2nd) Norway Moss (2nd) Finland KuPS (2nd) Northern Ireland Ballymena United (2nd)
    Cyprus Pezoporikos Larnaca (2nd) Malta Sliema Wanderers (2nd) Iceland ÍA (2nd) Luxembourg Red Boys Differdange (2nd)

    Notes

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      Italy: Milan had originally qualified for the UEFA Cup by finishing second in the 1979–80 Serie A, but the team was punished with an administrative relegation on May 19 due to its central role in the Totonero match fixing scandal. The vacant UEFA Cup spot was taken by Torino, which was promoted to third in the standings as a result of Milan's relegation.
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    Schedule

    The 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.

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    First round

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    More information Team 1, Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score ...

    First leg

    More information Zbrojovka Brno, 3–1 ...
    Attendance: 10,832

    More information Kaiserslautern, 1–0 ...

    More information Magdeburg, 2–1 ...

    More information AZ Alkmaar, 6–0 ...
    Attendance: 4,770
    Referee: Roger Verhaeghe (Belgium)

    More information Ballymena United, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 8,000
    Referee: Francis Bastian (Luxembourg)

    More information Dynamo Dresden, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 27,000
    Referee: Vasile Tătar (Romania)

    More information Argeș Pitești, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 14,000
    Referee: Heinz Fahler (Austria)

    More information Bohemians Prague, 3–1 ...
    Attendance: 7,000
    Referee: Ottorino Di Bernardo (France)

    More information Dynamo Kyiv, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 27,000
    Referee: Dušan Krchňák (Czechoslovakia)

    More information Shakhtar Donetsk, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 44,000

    More information Sochaux, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 5,212
    Referee: José Maria Miguel Pérez (Spain)

    More information Twente, 5–1 ...
    Attendance: 10,500
    Referee: Paolo Bergamo (Italy)

    More information Fenerbahçe, 0–1 ...
    Attendance: 25,854
    Referee: Anatoli Milchenko (Soviet Union)

    More information Porto, 1–0 ...

    More information Grasshopper, 3–1 ...
    Attendance: 4,200

    More information Hamburg, 4–2 ...
    Attendance: 18,000
    Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales)

    More information Elfsborg, 1–2 ...
    Attendance: 3,776
    Referee: Mauri Laakso (Finland)

    More information Ipswich Town, 5–1 ...
    Attendance: 20,842

    More information ÍA, 0–4 ...
    Attendance: 3,485
    Referee: Jim Haughey (Northern Ireland)

    More information Juventus, 4–0 ...

    More information Lokeren, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 10,000
    Referee: Daniel Lambert (France)

    More information KuPS, 0–7 ...
    Attendance: 5,580
    Referee: Reidar P. Bjørnestad (Norway)

    More information LASK Linz, 1–2 ...
    Attendance: 8,200
    Referee: Marian Srodecki (Poland)

    More information Manchester United, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 38,037
    Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)

    More information PSV Eindhoven, 3–1 ...

    More information Molenbeek, 1–2 ...

    More information Śląsk Wrocław, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 7,000
    Referee: Svein-Inge Thime (Norway)

    More information Sliema Wanderers, 0–2 ...

    More information Standard Liège, 1–1 ...

    More information Újpest, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 8,500
    Referee: Erkan Göksel (Turkey)

    More information Vasas, 0–2 ...

    More information Stuttgart, 6–0 ...
    Attendance: 13,500
    Referee: Richard Casha (Malta)

    Second leg

    More information VOEST Linz, 0–2 ...
    Attendance: 9,500
    Referee: Jack Baumann (Switzerland)

    Zbrojovka Brno won 5–1 on aggregate.


    More information Anderlecht, 3–2 ...

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


    More information Moss, 2–3 ...
    Attendance: 5,789
    Referee: Patrick Mulhall (Republic of Ireland)

    Magdeburg won 5–3 on aggregate.


    More information Red Boys Differdange, 0–4 ...

    AZ Alkmaar won 10–0 on aggregate.


    More information Vorwärts Frankfurt, 3–0 ...
    Attendance: 15,000
    Referee: László Kőrös (Hungary)

    Vorwärts Frankfurt won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information Napredak Kruševac, 0–1 ...
    Attendance: 15,000
    Referee: İhsan Türe (Turkey)

    Dynamo Dresden won 2–0 on aggregate.


    More information Utrecht, 2–0 ...

    Utrecht won 2–0 on aggregate.


    More information Sporting Gijón, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 18,649
    Referee: Ronald Bridges (Wales)

    FC Bohemians Praha won 4–3 on aggregate.


    More information Levski Sofia, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 35,000
    Referee: László Pádár (Hungary)

    1–1 on aggregate; Levski Sofia won on away goals.


    More information Eintracht Frankfurt, 3–0 ...
    Attendance: 21,853
    Referee: José Luis García Carrión (Spain)

    Eintracht Frankfurt won 3–1 on aggregate.


    More information Servette, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 12,160
    Referee: David Richardson (England)

    Sochaux won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information IFK Göteborg, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 3,779

    Twente won 5–3 on aggregate.


    More information Beroe Stara Zagora, 2–1 ...

    Beroe Stara Zagora won 3–1 on aggregate.


    More information Dundalk, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 4,200
    Referee: Roger Verhaeghe (Belgium)

    Porto won 1–0 on aggregate.


    More information KB, 2–5 ...
    Attendance: 4,800
    Referee: Martti Hirviniemi (Finland)

    Grasshopper won 8–3 on aggregate.


    More information Sarajevo, 3–3 ...

    Hamburg won 7–5 on aggregate.


    More information St Mirren, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 8,326
    Referee: Gudmundur Haraldsson (Iceland)

    St Mirren won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Aris, 3–1 ...

    Ipswich Town won 6–4 on aggregate.


    More information Köln, 6–0 ...
    Attendance: 2,500
    Referee: Torben Maansson (Denmark)

    Köln won 10–0 on aggregate.


    More information Panathinaikos, 4–2 ...

    Juventus won 6–4 on aggregate.


    More information Dynamo Moscow, 0–1 ...
    Attendance: 7,500
    Referee: Jan Redelfs (West Germany)

    Lokeren won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Saint-Étienne, 7–0 ...
    Attendance: 10,054
    Referee: Richard Stagno Navarra (Malta)

    Saint-Étienne won 14–0 on aggregate.


    More information Radnički Niš, 4–1 ...
    Attendance: 15,000
    Referee: Vasilis Vourakis (Greece)

    Radnički Niš won 6–2 on aggregate.


    More information Widzew Łódź, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 16,000
    Referee: Anders Mattsson (Finland)

    1–1 on aggregate; Widzew Łódź won on away goals.


    More information Wolverhampton Wanderers, 1–0 ...

    PSV Eindhoven won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Torino, 2 – 2 (a.e.t.) ...
    Attendance: 34,148

    Torino won 4–3 on aggregate.


    More information Dundee United, 7–2 ...
    Attendance: 8,415
    Referee: Kjell Johansson (Sweden)

    Dundee United won 7–2 on aggregate.


    More information Barcelona, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 25,000
    Referee: Viriato Graça Oliva (Portugal)

    Barcelona won 3–0 on aggregate.


    More information Steaua București, 1–2 ...
    Attendance: 15,000

    Standard Liège won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Real Sociedad, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 25,421
    Referee: Roger Schoeters (Belgium)

    Real Sociedad won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Boavista, 0–1 ...
    Attendance: 13,000

    Boavista won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Pezoporikos Larnaca, 1–4 ...
    Attendance: 4,000

    Stuttgart won 10–1 on aggregate.

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    Second round

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    First leg

    More information Zbrojovka Brno, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 11,520
    Referee: Alain Delmer (France)

    More information Kaiserslautern, 1–2 ...

    More information Köln, 0–1 ...

    More information Dundee United, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 7,663
    Referee: Martti Hirviniemi (Finland)

    More information Utrecht, 2–1 ...

    More information Sochaux, 2–2 ...
    Attendance: 9,689
    Referee: Stjepan Glavina (Yugoslavia)

    More information Twente, 1–1 ...

    More information Porto, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 35,000
    Referee: Egbert Mulder (Netherlands)

    More information Ipswich Town, 3–0 ...
    Attendance: 17,163
    Referee: Ole Amundsen (Denmark)

    More information Beroe Stara Zagora, 0–1 ...
    Attendance: 10,000

    More information Levski Sofia, 1–1 ...

    More information PSV Eindhoven, 1–1 ...
    Attendance: 27,000

    More information St Mirren, 0–0 ...

    More information Torino, 3–1 ...
    Attendance: 30,000

    More information Stuttgart, 5–1 ...
    Attendance: 30,000
    Referee: Gianfranco Menegali (Italy)

    More information Widzew Łódź, 3–1 ...
    Attendance: 35,000

    Second leg

    More information Real Sociedad, 2–1 ...

    Real Sociedad won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Standard Liège, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 30,000
    Referee: Ulf Eriksson (Sweden)

    Standard Liège won 4–2 on aggregate.


    More information Barcelona, 0–4 ...
    Attendance: 35,000

    1. FC Köln won 4–1 on aggregate.


    More information Lokeren, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 9,000
    Referee: Klaus Scheurell (East Germany)

    1–1 on aggregate; Lokeren won on away goals


    More information Eintracht Frankfurt, 3–1 ...
    Attendance: 19,000
    Referee: Dušan Krchňák (Czechoslovakia)

    Eintracht Frankfurt won 4–3 on aggregate.


    More information Boavista, 0–1 ...
    Attendance: 12,000
    Referee: Ronald Bridges (Wales)

    Sochaux won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Dynamo Dresden, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 35,000
    Referee: Rolf Ericsson (Sweden)

    1–1 on aggregate; Dynamo Dresden won on away goals


    More information Grasshopper, 3–0 (a.e.t.) ...
    Attendance: 8,100

    Grasshoppers won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Bohemians Prague, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 13,000
    Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)

    Ipswich Town won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Radnički Niš, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 10,000
    Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)

    Radnički Niš won 3–1 on aggregate.


    More information AZ Alkmaar, 5–0 ...
    Attendance: 18,000
    Referee: Rolf Nyhus (Norway)

    AZ Alkmaar won 6–1 on aggregate.


    More information Hamburg, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 46,000
    Referee: Georges Konrath (France)

    Hamburg won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Saint-Étienne, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 17,870
    Referee: Mário da Silva Luís (Portugal)

    Saint-Étienne won 2–0 on aggregate.


    More information Magdeburg, 1–0 ...

    Torino won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information Vorwärts Frankfurt, 1–2 ...

    Stuttgart won 7–2 on aggregate.


    More information Juventus, 3 – 1 (a.e.t.) ...
    Attendance: 33,900
    Referee: Talat Tokat (Turkey)

    4–4 on aggregate; Widzew Łódź won 4–1 on penalties.

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    Third round

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    First leg

    More information Eintracht Frankfurt, 4–2 ...

    More information Grasshopper, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 25,500

    More information Hamburg, 0–5 ...
    Attendance: 37,000

    More information Ipswich Town, 5–0 ...
    Attendance: 20,445
    Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)

    More information Lokeren, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 9,000
    Referee: Josef Bucek (Austria)

    More information Radnički Niš, 2–2 ...
    Attendance: 18,000
    Referee: Ruedi Renggli (Switzerland)

    More information Standard Liège, 1–1 ...

    More information Stuttgart, 3–1 ...
    Attendance: 26,000
    Referee: Rolf Ericsson (Sweden)

    Second leg

    More information Sochaux, 2–0 ...

    4–4 on aggregate; Sochaux won on away goals.


    More information Torino, 2 – 1 (a.e.t.) ...
    Attendance: 32,065

    3–3 on aggregate; Grasshoppers won 4–3 on penalties.


    More information Saint-Étienne, 1–0 ...

    Saint-Étienne won 6–0 on aggregate.


    More information Widzew Łódź, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 12,000
    Referee: Jan Redelfs (West Germany)

    Ipswich Town won 5–1 on aggregate.


    More information Real Sociedad, 2–2 ...
    Attendance: 23,000
    Referee: Clive Thomas (Wales)

    Lokeren won 3–2 on aggregate.


    More information AZ Alkmaar, 5–0 ...
    Attendance: 10,304

    AZ won 7–2 on aggregate.


    More information Dynamo Dresden, 1–4 ...

    Standard Liège won 5–2 on aggregate.


    More information Köln, 4–1 (a.e.t.) ...

    Köln won 5–4 on aggregate.

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    Quarter-finals

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    First leg

    More information Saint-Étienne, 1–4 ...

    More information AZ Alkmaar, 2–0 ...
    Attendance: 13,400

    More information Grasshopper, 0–0 ...
    Attendance: 17,000

    More information Standard Liège, 0–0 ...

    Second leg

    More information Ipswich Town, 3–1 ...
    Attendance: 30,141

    Ipswich Town won 7–2 on aggregate.


    More information Lokeren, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 12,000
    Referee: Clive White (England)

    AZ Alkmaar won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Sochaux, 2–1 ...
    Attendance: 13,453
    Referee: Jan Redelfs (West Germany)

    Sochaux won 2–1 on aggregate.


    More information Köln, 3–2 ...

    Köln won 3–2 on aggregate.

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    Semi-finals

    More information Team 1, Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score ...

    First leg

    More information FC Sochaux, 1–1 ...

    More information Ipswich Town, 1–0 ...
    Attendance: 24,780

    Second leg

    More information AZ Alkmaar, 3–2 ...
    Attendance: 9,085

    AZ Alkmaar won 4–3 on aggregate.


    More information Köln, 0–1 ...
    Attendance: 49,476

    Ipswich Town won 2–0 on aggregate.

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    Final

    First leg

    More information Ipswich Town, 3–0 ...
    Attendance: 27,532

    Second leg

    More information AZ Alkmaar, 4–2 ...

    Ipswich Town won 5–4 on aggregate.

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