European Cup 1979–80

The season 1979–80 of the European Cup football club tournament was won by defending champions 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. Forest became the only side to win the European Cup more times than their domestic top flight league.

[edit] Preliminary round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Dundalk	3–1	Linfield	1–1	2–0

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	3–1	Öster	2–0	1–1
Argeş Piteşti	3–2	AEK Athens	3–0	0–2
Dynamo Berlin	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	2–16	Ajax	1–8	1–8
Red Boys Differdange	3–7	Omonia	2–1	1–6
Partiani Tirana	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 Vienna	3–2	1–1
Hajduk Split	2–0	Trabzonspor	1–0	1–0

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	4-1	Argeş Piteşti	2–0	2–1
Dynamo Berlin	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	2–2¹	Real Madrid	2–1	0–1
Hamburg	6–3	Dinamo Tbilisi	3–1	3–2
Vejle	2–4	Hajduk Split	0–3	2–1

¹ Real Madrid progressed to the Quarter finals on away goals.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	3–2	Dynamo Berlin	0–1	3–1
Strasbourg	0–4	Ajax	0–0	0–4
Celtic	2–3	Real Madrid	2–0	0–3
Hamburg	3–3¹	Hajduk Split	1–0	2–3

¹ Hamburg progressed to the Semifinals on away goals.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nottingham Forest	2–1	Ajax	2–0	0–1
Real Madrid	3–5	Hamburg	2–0	1–5

1980-05-28	Nottingham Forest	1–0	Hamburg	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Antonio Garrido (Portugal)
	Robertson 21'	(Report)

European Cup 1979–80

Nottingham Forest Second Title