1980-81_European_Cup

1980–81 European Cup

1980–81 European Cup

26th season of the UEFA club football tournament


The 1980–81 European Cup was the 26th season of the European Cup football club tournament, and was won for a third time by Liverpool, who beat six-time champions Real Madrid in the final. In the 11 seasons up to and including this one, there were only four winners of the European Cup (Ajax, Bayern Munich, Nottingham Forest and Liverpool), but there were eleven different runners-up. This sequence was ended the following year, when Bayern Munich lost to first-time finalists Aston Villa.

Quick Facts Tournament details, Dates ...

Nottingham Forest, the defending champions, were eliminated by CSKA Sofia in the first round.

Teams

Albania Dinamo Tirana (1st) Austria Austria Wien (1st) Belgium Club Brugge (1st)
Bulgaria CSKA Sofia (1st) Cyprus APOEL (1st) Czechoslovakia Baník Ostrava (1st)
Denmark Esbjerg (1st) England Liverpool (1st) England Nottingham Forest (5th)TH
Finland OPS (1st) France Nantes (1st) East Germany BFC Dynamo (1st)
West Germany Bayern Munich (1st) Greece Olympiacos (1st) Hungary Budapest Honvéd (1st)
Iceland ÍBV (1st) Republic of Ireland Limerick (1st) Italy Internazionale (1st)
Luxembourg Jeunesse Esch (1st) Malta Valletta (1st) Netherlands Ajax (1st)
Northern Ireland Linfield (1st) Norway Viking (1st) Poland Szombierki Bytom (1st)
Portugal Sporting CP (1st) Romania Universitatea Craiova (1st) Scotland Aberdeen (1st)
Spain Real Madrid (1st) Sweden Halmstad (1st) Switzerland Basel (1st)
Turkey Trabzonspor (1st) Soviet Union Spartak Moscow (1st) Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade (1st)

Preliminary round

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

First leg

More information Budapest Honvéd, 8–0 ...
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Ramiz Pregja (Albania)

Second leg

More information Valletta, 0–3 ...
Attendance: 2,118
Referee: Peter Scherz (Switzerland)

Budapest Honvéd won 11–0 on aggregate.

Bracket

Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                  
Scotland Aberdeen 1 0 1
Austria Austria Wien 0 0 0
Scotland Aberdeen 0 0 0
England Liverpool 1 4 5
Finland OPS 1 1 2
England Liverpool 1 10 11
England Liverpool 5 1 6
Bulgaria CSKA Sofia 1 0 1
Bulgaria CSKA Sofia 1 1 2
England Nottingham Forest 0 0 0
Bulgaria CSKA Sofia 4 1 5
Poland Szombierki Bytom 0 0 0
Turkey Trabzonspor 2 0 2
Poland Szombierki Bytom 1 3 4
England Liverpool (a) 0 1 1
West Germany Bayern Münich 0 1 1
Greece Olympiacos 2 0 2
West Germany Bayern Münich 4 3 7
West Germany Bayern Münich 5 1 6
Netherlands Ajax 1 2 3
Albania Dinamo Tirana 0 0 0
Netherlands Ajax 2 1 3
West Germany Bayern Münich 2 4 6
Czechoslovakia Baník Ostrava 0 2 2
Iceland ÍBV 1 0 1
Czechoslovakia Baník Ostrava 1 1 2
Czechoslovakia Baník Ostrava (a) 0 1 1
East Germany BFC Dynamo 0 1 1
East Germany BFC Dynamo 3 1 4
Cyprus APOEL 0 2 2
England Liverpool 1
Spain Real Madrid 0
Luxembourg Jeunesse Esch 0 0 0
Soviet Union Spartak Moscow 5 4 9
Soviet Union Spartak Moscow 3 0 3
Denmark Esbjerg 0 2 2
Sweden Halmstad 0 2 2
Denmark Esbjerg 0 3 3
Soviet Union Spartak Moscow 0 0 0
Spain Real Madrid 0 2 2
Republic of Ireland Limerick 1 1 2
Spain Real Madrid 2 5 7
Spain Real Madrid 1 2 3
Hungary Budapest Honvéd 0 0 0
Portugal Sporting CP 0 0 0
Hungary Budapest Honvéd 2 1 3
Spain Real Madrid 2 0 2
Italy Inter Milan 0 1 1
Northern Ireland Linfield 0 0 0
France Nantes 1 2 3
France Nantes 1 1 2
Italy Inter Milan 2 1 3
Italy Inter Milan 2 1 3
Romania Universitatea Craiova 0 1 1
Italy Inter Milan 1 1 2
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade 1 0 1
Belgium Club Brugge 0 1 1
Switzerland Basel 1 4 5
Switzerland Basel 1 0 1
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade 0 2 2
Norway Viking 2 1 3
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Red Star Belgrade 3 4 7

First round

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First leg

More information Aberdeen, 1–0 ...
Attendance: 19,000
Referee: Rolf Nyhus (Norway)

More information OPS, 1–1 ...
Attendance: 13,000

More information CSKA Sofia, 1–0 ...

More information Trabzonspor, 2–1 ...
Attendance: 16,481
Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)

More information Olympiacos, 2–4 ...

More information Dinamo Tirana, 0–2 ...
Attendance: 31,000
Referee: Nikolaos Zlatanos (Greece)

More information ÍBV, 1–1 ...
Attendance: 928
Referee: Frederick McKnight (Northern Ireland)

More information BFC Dynamo, 3–0 ...
Attendance: 15,100
Referee: Ib Nielsen (Denmark)

More information Jeunesse Esch, 0–5 ...
Attendance: 1,800
Referee: Rudolf Renggli (Switzerland)

More information Halmstad, 0–0 ...
Attendance: 2,581
Referee: Antonin Vencl (Czechoslovakia)

More information Limerick, 1–2 ...
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Ole Amundsen (Denmark)

More information Sporting CP, 0–2 ...
Attendance: 30,000

More information Linfield, 0–1 ...
Attendance: 940
Referee: Henk van Ettekoven (Netherlands)

More information Internazionale, 2–0 ...
Attendance: 63,800

More information Club Brugge, 0–1 ...
Attendance: 21,500
Referee: Adolf Mathias (Austria)

More information Viking, 2–3 ...
Attendance: 7,448
Referee: Arto Ravander (Finland)

Second leg

More information Austria Wien, 0–0 ...
Attendance: 35,000

Aberdeen won 1–0 on aggregate.


More information Liverpool, 10–1 ...
Attendance: 21,013
Referee: Magnús Pétursson (Iceland)

Liverpool won 11–2 on aggregate.


More information Nottingham Forest, 0–1 ...
Attendance: 25,818
Referee: Walter Horstmann (West Germany)

CSKA Sofia won 2–0 on aggregate.


More information Szombierki Bytom, 3–0 ...
Stadion Szombierek, Szombierki
Attendance: 9,000

Szombierki Bytom won 4–2 on aggregate.


More information Bayern Munich, 3–0 ...
Attendance: 9,400

Bayern Munich won 7–2 on aggregate.


More information Ajax, 1–0 ...
Attendance: 8,100
Referee: Eamonn Farrell (Ireland)

Ajax won 3–0 on aggregate.


More information Baník Ostrava, 1–0 ...
Attendance: 9,355

Baník Ostrava won 2–1 on aggregate.


More information APOEL, 2–1 ...
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Milorad Vlajić (Yugoslavia)

BFC Dynamo won 4–2 on aggregate.


More information Spartak Moscow, 4–0 ...
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Carol Jurja (Romania)

Spartak Moscow won 9–0 on aggregate.


More information Esbjerg, 3–2 ...

Esbjerg won 3–2 on aggregate.


More information Real Madrid, 5–1 ...
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Augusto Marques Pires (Portugal)

Real Madrid won 7–2 on aggregate.


More information Budapest Honvéd, 1–0 ...
Attendance: 7,000

Budapest Honvéd won 3–0 on aggregate.


More information Nantes, 2–0 ...
Attendance: 11,080
Referee: Norbert Rolles (Luxembourg)

Nantes won 3–0 on aggregate.


More information Universitatea Craiova, 1–1 ...
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Talal Tokat (Turkey)

Internazionale won 3–1 on aggregate.


More information Basel, 4–1 ...

Basel won 5–1 on aggregate.


More information Red Star Belgrade, 4–1 ...
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: George Chrisanthou (Greece)

Red Star Belgrade won 7–3 on aggregate.

Second Round

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First leg

More information Aberdeen, 0–1 ...
Attendance: 24,000
Referee: Alek Jarguz (Poland)

More information CSKA Sofia, 4–0 ...

More information Bayern Munich, 5–1 ...
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)

More information Baník Ostrava, 0–0 ...
Attendance: 14,537

More information Spartak Moscow, 3–0 ...
Attendance: 26,000
Referee: Vasilis Vourakis (Greece)

More information Real Madrid, 1–0 ...
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Eamonn Farrell (Ireland)

More information Nantes, 1–2 ...

More information Basel, 1–0 ...
Attendance: 30,500

Second leg

More information Liverpool, 4–0 ...
Attendance: 36,182

Liverpool won 5–0 on aggregate.


More information Szombierki Bytom, 0–1 ...

CSKA Sofia won 5–0 on aggregate.


More information Ajax, 2–1 ...
Attendance: 12,000

Bayern Munich won 6–3 on aggregate.


More information BFC Dynamo, 1–1 ...
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: László Pádár (Hungary)

1–1 on aggregate; Baník Ostrava won on away goals.


More information Esbjerg, 2–0 ...
Attendance: 3,100
Referee: Frederick McKnight (Northern Ireland)

Spartak Moscow won 3–2 on aggregate.


More information Budapest Honvéd, 0–2 ...
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Jan Redelfs (West Germany)

Real Madrid won 3–0 on aggregate.


More information Internazionale, 1–1 ...
Attendance: 58,657

Internazionale won 3–2 on aggregate.


More information Red Star Belgrade, 2–0 ...
Attendance: 75,000

Red Star Belgrade won 2–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

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First leg

More information Liverpool, 5–1 ...
Attendance: 37,255
Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)

More information Bayern Munich, 2–0 ...
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Anders Mattsson (Finland)

More information Spartak Moscow, 0–0 ...
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Josef Bucek (Austria)

More information Internazionale, 1–1 ...
Attendance: 73,000

Second leg

More information CSKA Sofia, 0–1 ...
Attendance: 65,000
Referee: Roger Schoeters (Belgium)

Liverpool won 6–1 on aggregate.


More information Baník Ostrava, 2–4 ...
Attendance: 32,000

Bayern Munich won 6–2 on aggregate.


More information Real Madrid, 2–0 ...
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Gianfranco Menegali (Italy)

Real Madrid won 2–0 on aggregate.


More information Red Star Belgrade, 0–1 ...
Attendance: 81,369

Internazionale won 2–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

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First leg

More information Liverpool, 0–0 ...
Attendance: 44,543

More information Real Madrid, 2–0 ...

Second leg

More information Bayern Munich, 1–1 ...
Attendance: 75,000

1–1 on aggregate; Liverpool won on away goals.


More information Internazionale, 1–0 ...
Attendance: 80,000

Real Madrid won 2–1 on aggregate.

Final

More information Liverpool, 1–0 ...
Attendance: 48,360

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1980–81 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:

See also


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