UEFA Euro 1980

1980 UEFA European Football Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Italy
Dates	11 June – 22 June
Teams	8
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	West Germany (2nd title)
Runner-up	Belgium
Third place	Czechoslovakia
Fourth place	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	27 (1.93 per match)
Attendance	345,463 (24,676 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Klaus Allofs (3 goals)
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The 1980 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in Italy. This was the sixth European Football Championship, which is held every four years and endorsed by UEFA. With eight teams competing, the final tournament took place between 11 and 22 June 1980. Previously, the final tournament of the European Championships were played among four teams. Champions were West Germany who won their second title. It was the last Euro tournament with a competition for third place.

Overview

This was the first European Championship in which eight teams, rather than four, contested the final tournament. On October 17, 1977 UEFA announced that England, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and West Germany had expressed interest in hosting this event. On October 19 UEFA's Organizing Committee decided to assign the hosting to England or Italy (expressing its favour to the latter, the former having already hosted the FIFA World Cup just 11 years earlier), and on November 12 the Organizing Committee and the Executive Committee announced that Italy had been chosen unanimously. Seven countries had to qualify for the final tournament, and the draw for the qualifying round took place in Rome on November 30, 1977. Also for the first time, the hosts, in this case Italy, qualified automatically for the finals.

Because of the expanded format, the final tournament went through some changes as well. Two groups of four teams each were created; each team would play all others within their group. The winners of the groups would go straight to the final (there were no semi-finals), while the runners-up disputed the third place match.

The tournament generally failed to draw much enthusiasm from spectators and TV viewers. Attendance was generally poor except for matches involving the Italian team. The defensive style of play of many teams led to a succession of dull matches. Hooliganism, already a rising problem in the 1970s, made headlines again at the first-round match between England and Belgium where riot police had to use tear gas, causing the match to be held up for five minutes in the first half. The only bright spots were the emergence of a new generation of talented German stars such as Bernd Schuster, Hans-Peter Briegel, Horst Hrubesch, Hansi Müller and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, and the inspirational performance of Belgium (around rising stars such as Jan Ceulemans, Eric Gerets, Jean-Marie Pfaff, and Erwin Vandenbergh) who reached the final, only losing to West Germany (2–1) by a Hrubesch goal two minutes before time.

Qualification

Main article: UEFA Euro 1980 qualifying

The following teams participated in the final tournament:

• Belgium
• Czechoslovakia
• England
• Greece (first appearance)
• Italy (automatically qualified as hosts)
• Netherlands
• Spain
• West Germany

For a list of squads, see UEFA Euro 1980 squads.

Venues

Rome	Milan
Stadio Olimpico	Giuseppe Meazza
Capacity: 66,341	Capacity: 83,141
Naples	Turin
Stadio San Paolo	Stadio Comunale
Capacity: 81,101	Capacity: 71,180

Match officials

Referee
Erich Linemayr (AUT)
Adolf Prokop (GDR)
Patrick Partridge (ENG)
Robert Wurtz (FRA)
Heinz Aldinger (FRG)
Károly Palotai (HUN)
Alberto Michelotti (ITA)
Charles Corver (NED)
António Garrido (POR)
Nicolae Rainea (ROU)
Brian McGinlay (SCO)
Hilmi Ok (TUR)

Results

Group stage

All times are CEST/UTC+2

Group 1

Main article: UEFA Euro 1980 Group 1

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
West Germany	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	5
Czechoslovakia	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	3
Netherlands	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	3
Greece	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1

11 June 1980 17:45	Czechoslovakia	0–1	West Germany	Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 11,059 Referee: Alberto Michelotti (Italy)
		Report	Rummenigge  57'

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11 June 1980 20:30	Netherlands	1–0	Greece	Stadio San Paolo, Naples Attendance: 14,990 Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany)
	Kist  65' (pen.)	Report

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14 June 1980 17:45	West Germany	3–2	Netherlands	Stadio San Paolo, Naples Attendance: 26,546 Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)
	Allofs  20', 60', 65'	Report	Rep  79' (pen.) van de Kerkhof  85'

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14 June 1980 20:30	Greece	1–3	Czechoslovakia	Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 4,726 Referee: Pat Partridge (England)
	Anastopoulos  14'	Report	Panenka  6' Vízek  26' Nehoda  63'

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17 June 1980 17:45	Netherlands	1–1	Czechoslovakia	San Siro, Milan Attendance: 11,889 Referee: Hilmi Ok (Turkey)
	Kist  59'	Report	Nehoda  16'

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17 June 1980 20:30	Greece	0–0	West Germany	Stadio Comunale, Turin Attendance: 13,901 Referee: Brian McGinlay (Scotland)
		Report

Group 2

Main article: UEFA Euro 1980 Group 2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Belgium	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	4
Italy	3	1	2	0	1	0	+1	4
England	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	3
Spain	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1

12 June 1980 17:45	Belgium	1–1	England	Stadio Comunale, Turin Attendance: 15,186 Referee: Heinz Aldinger (West Germany)
	Ceulemans  29'	Report	Wilkins  26'

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12 June 1980 20:30	Spain	0–0	Italy	San Siro, Milan Attendance: 46,816 Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)
		Report

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15 June 1980 17:45	Belgium	2–1	Spain	San Siro, Milan Attendance: 11,430 Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)
	Gerets  17' Cools  65'	Report	Quini  36'

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15 June 1980 20:30	England	0–1	Italy	Stadio Comunale, Turin Attendance: 59,646 Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)
		Report	Tardelli  79'

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18 June 1980 17:45	Spain	1–2	England	Stadio San Paolo, Naples Attendance: 14,440 Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)
	Dani  48' (pen.)	Report	Brooking  19' Woodcock  61'

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18 June 1980 20:30	Italy	0–0	Belgium	Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 42,318 Referee: António Garrido (Portugal)
		Report

Third place play-off

21 June 1980 20:30	Czechoslovakia	1–1	Italy	Stadio San Paolo, Naples Attendance: 24,652 Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)
	Jurkemik  54'	Report	Graziani  73'
		Penalties
	Masný Nehoda Ondruš Jurkemik Panenka Gögh Gajdůšek Kozák Barmoš	9–8	Causio Altobelli Baresi Cabrini Benetti Graziani Scirea Tardelli Collovati

Final

Main article: UEFA Euro 1980 Final

22 June 1980 20:30	Belgium	1–2	West Germany	Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 47,864 Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)
	Vandereycken  75' (pen.)	Report	Hrubesch  10', 88'

Statistics

• Fastest goal: 6 minutes – Antonin Panenka (Czechoslovakia vs Greece)

Goalscorers

With three goals, Klaus Allofs is the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 27 goals were scored by 22 different players in 14 games for an average of 1.93 goals per game. None of the goals are credited as own goal.

3 goals Klaus Allofs 2 goals Horst Hrubesch Zdenek Nehoda Kees Kist 1 goal Jan Ceulemans Julien Cools Eric Gerets René Vandereycken Ladislav Jurkemik

Antonín Panenka Ladislav Vízek Trevor Brooking Ray Wilkins Tony Woodcock Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Nikos Anastopoulos Francesco Graziani Marco Tardelli Johnny Rep Willy van de Kerkhof Dani Quini

Awards

UEFA Team of the Tournament

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Dino Zoff	Claudio Gentile	Marco Tardelli	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
	Gaetano Scirea	Jan Ceulemans	Horst Hrubesch
	Karlheinz Forster	Bernd Schuster
	Hans-Peter Briegel	Hansi Müller

External links

• EURO 1980 Official History

UEFA Euro 1980

Stages

Group 1 · Group 2 · Semi-finals · Final

General information

Squads · Qualification