1979–80 UEFA Cup
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Article ImagesThe 1979–80 UEFA Cup was the ninth season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played in West Germany over two legs, at the Bökelbergstadion., Mönchengladbach, and at the Waldstadion, Frankfurt. It was won by Eintracht Frankfurt, who defeated title holders and fellow West German side Borussia Mönchengladbach on the away goals rule after a 3–3 aggregate draw to claim their first UEFA Cup title.
Tournament details | |
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Dates | 19 September 1979 – 21 May 1980 |
Teams | 64 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Eintracht Frankfurt (1st title) |
Runners-up | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 126 |
Goals scored | 352 (2.79 per match) |
Attendance | 3,074,766 (24,403 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Dieter Hoeneß (Bayern Munich) Harald Nickel (Borussia Mönchengladbach) 7 goals each |
← 1978–79 1980–81 → |
The competition was notable for the dominance of West German teams, who were only knocked out of the tournament among themselves, setting up for an all-German final, the first out of the two ever played in UEFA history. All four semi-finalists came from West Germany, with this being the only instance in a UEFA club competition, and one of them defeated the fifth team in the quarter-finals.
This was the last edition of the UEFA Cup where the 64 spots were allocated to the respective associations by the invitation method inherited from the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Beginning in 1980, the newly introduced UEFA country rankings would determine the number of teams for each country, based on results from the five-year period preceding the last completed season.
Association team allocation
A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participate in the 1979–80 UEFA Cup. The original allocation scheme was as follows:
- 3 associations have four teams qualify.
- 3 associations have three teams qualify.
- 18 associations have two teams qualify.
- 7 associations have one team qualify.
Czechoslovakia was the only association selected to have an extra third birth for this season, while Bulgaria and East Germany went back to two qualified teams. The remaining spot went to West Germany for title holders Borussia Mönchengladbach. With this being the last season before the introduction of the UEFA rankings, only four of the 20 two-team associations had never been chosen for the extra third birth over eight seasons of rotation: Greece, Turkey, Denmark and Norway.
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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.
Albania: Although Albanian teams returned to European competition in 1978 after five years of absence, the country choose to not participate in the UEFA Cup until 1981. Vllaznia would have qualified for the UEFA Cup by league position.
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
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 or Thursdays. Also, the second leg of the semi-finals was played on a Tuesday.
Round | First leg | Second leg |
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First round | 18–26 September 1979 | 2–4 October 1979 |
Second round | 24 October 1979 | 7–8 November 1979 |
Third round | 28 November 1979 | 12 December 1979 |
Quarter-finals | 5 March 1980 | 19 March 1980 |
Semi-finals | 9 April 1980 | 22 April 1980 |
Final | 7 May 1980 | 21 May 1980 |
Third round | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||||||
Grasshoppers | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Stuttgart | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Stuttgart | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Lokomotiv Sofia | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Lokomotiv Sofia (a) | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Dynamo Kyiv | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Stuttgart | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Borussia Mönchengladbach | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Saint-Étienne | 4 | 3 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Aris Thessaloniki | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Saint-Étienne | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Borussia Mönchengladbach | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Borussia Mönchengladbach | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Universitatea Craiova | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Borussia Mönchengladbach | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Eintracht Frankfurt (a) | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Diósgyőri VTK | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Kaiserslautern | 2 | 6 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Kaiserslautern | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Bayern Munich | 0 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Bayern Munich | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Red Star Belgrade | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Bayern Munich | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Eintracht Frankfurt (aet) | 0 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Eintracht Frankfurt | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Feyenoord | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Eintracht Frankfurt | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Zbrojovka Brno | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Standard Liège | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Zbrojovka Brno | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Zbrojovka Brno won 7–1 on aggregate.
AGF won 2–1 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 2–1 on aggregate.
Aris Thessaloniki won 4–3 on aggregate.
Dynamo Dresden won 5–1 on aggregate.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 4–1 on aggregate.
Dinamo București won 12–0 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Dundee United won on away goals.
Bayern Munich won 4–2 on aggregate.
Carl Zeiss Jena won 4–1 on aggregate.
Dynamo Kyiv won 3–2 on aggregate.
Grasshoppers won 6–0 on aggregate.
Monaco won 3–2 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 2–0 on aggregate.
Kaiserslautern won 8–2 on aggregate.
Red Star Belgrade won 3–1 on aggregate.
Standard Liège won 2–0 on aggregate.
Inter Milan won 3–2 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Keflavík won on away goals.
Malmö FF won 4–1 on aggregate.
Napoli won 2–1 on aggregate.
Baník Ostrava won 6–2 on aggregate.
Perugia won 1–0 on aggregate.
Lokomotiv Sofia won 3–2 on aggregate.
Diósgyőri VTK won 4–2 on aggregate.
Ipswich Town won 10–1 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 2–0 on aggregate.
PSV Eindhoven won 1–0 on aggregate.
Leeds United won 7–0 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Stuttgart won on away goals.
Saint-Étienne won 4–2 on aggregate.
Universitatea Craiova won 3–1 on aggregate.
Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Zbrojovka Brno | 5–2 | Keflavík | 3–1 | 2–1 |
AGF | 2–5 | Bayern Munich | 1–2 | 1–3 |
Aris Thessaloniki | 4–1 | Perugia | 1–1 | 3–0 |
Borussia Mönchengladbach | 4–3 | Inter Milan | 1–1 | 3–2 (a.e.t.) |
Dinamo București | 2–3 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 2–0 | 0–3 (a.e.t.) |
Dundee United | 1–4 | Diósgyőri VTK | 0–1 | 1–3 |
Dynamo Dresden | 1–1 (a) | Stuttgart | 1–1 | 0–0 |
Baník Ostrava | 1–2 | Dynamo Kyiv | 1–0 | 0–2 |
Universitatea Craiova | 4–0 | Leeds United | 2–0 | 2–0 |
Feyenoord | 5–1 | Malmö FF | 4–0 | 1–1 |
Grasshoppers | 1–1 (a) | Ipswich Town | 0–0 | 1–1 |
Lokomotiv Sofia | 5–4 | Monaco | 4–2 | 1–2 |
PSV Eindhoven | 2–6 | Saint-Étienne | 2–0 | 0–6 |
Red Star Belgrade | 6–4 | Carl Zeiss Jena | 3–2 | 3–2 |
Sporting CP | 1–3 | Kaiserslautern | 1–1 | 0–2 |
Standard Liège | 3–2 | Napoli | 2–1 | 1–1 |
Zbrojovka Brno won 5–2 on aggregate.
Bayern Munich won 5–2 on aggregate.
Aris Thessaloniki won 4–1 on aggregate.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 4–3 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 3–2 on aggregate.
Diósgyöri VTK won 4–1 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Stuttgart won on away goals.
Dynamo Kyiv won 2–1 on aggregate.
Universitatea Craiova won 4–0 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 5–1 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Grasshoppers won on away goals.
Lokomotiv Sofia won 5–4 on aggregate.
Saint-Étienne won 6–2 on aggregate.
Red Star Belgrade won 6–4 on aggregate.
Kaiserslautern won 3–1 on aggregate.
Standard Liège won 3–2 on aggregate.
Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Saint-Étienne | 7–4 | Aris Thessaloniki | 4–1 | 3–3 |
Bayern Munich | 4–3 | Red Star Belgrade | 2–0 | 2–3 |
Borussia Mönchengladbach | 2–1 | Universitatea Craiova | 2–0 | 0–1 |
Diósgyőri VTK | 1–8 | Kaiserslautern | 0–2 | 1–6 |
Eintracht Frankfurt | 4–2 | Feyenoord | 4–1 | 0–1 |
Grasshoppers | 0–5 | Stuttgart | 0–2 | 0–3 |
Lokomotiv Sofia | 2–2 (a) | Dynamo Kyiv | 1–0 | 1–2 |
Standard Liège | 3–5 | Zbrojovka Brno | 1–2 | 2–3 |
Saint-Étienne won 7–4 on aggregate.
Bayern Munich won 4–3 on aggregate.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 2–1 on aggregate.
Kaiserslautern won 8–1 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 4–2 on aggregate.
Stuttgart won 5–0 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Lokomotiv Sofia won on away goals.
Zbrojovka Brno won 5–3 on aggregate.
Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Kaiserslautern | 2–4 | Bayern Munich | 1–0 | 1–4 |
Saint-Étienne | 1–6 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 1–4 | 0–2 |
Eintracht Frankfurt | 6–4 | Zbrojovka Brno | 4–1 | 2–3 |
Stuttgart | 4–1 | Lokomotiv Sofia | 3–1 | 1–0 |
Bayern Munich won 4–2 on aggregate.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 6–1 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 6–4 on aggregate.
Stuttgart won 4–1 on aggregate.
Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Bayern Munich | 3–5 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 2–0 | 1–5 (a.e.t.) |
Stuttgart | 2–3 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 2–1 | 0–2 |
Eintracht Frankfurt won 5–3 on aggregate.
Borussia Mönchengladbach won 3–2 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; Eintracht Frankfurt won on away goals.
- ^ a b c Dynamo Kyiv played their home matches at Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv, instead of their regular stadium Central Stadium, Kyiv, due to reconstruction.
- ^ CSKA Sofia played their home match at Vasil Levski National Stadium at 18:30 instead of their regular stadium Narodna Armia Stadium at 15:00 as initially planned[1] due to lack of floodlights.
- ^ Match details (in Bulgarian)