1980–81 European Cup

1980–81 European Cup
	The Parc des Princes in Paris hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	16 August 1980 – 27 May 1981
Teams	33
Final positions
Champions	Liverpool (3rd title)
Runners-up	Real Madrid
Tournament statistics
Matches played	63
Goals scored	166 (2.63 per match)
Attendance	1,797,911 (28,538 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Terry McDermott (Liverpool); Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (Bayern Munich); Graeme Souness (Liverpool); 6 goals each
	← 1979–80 1981–82 →

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.

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

Teams

Dinamo Tirana (1st)	Austria Wien (1st)	Club Brugge (1st)
CSKA Sofia (1st)	APOEL (1st)	Baník Ostrava (1st)
Esbjerg (1st)	Liverpool (1st)	Nottingham Forest (5th)^TH
OPS (1st)	Nantes (1st)	BFC Dynamo (1st)
Bayern Munich (1st)	Olympiacos (1st)	Budapest Honvéd (1st)
ÍBV (1st)	Limerick (1st)	Internazionale (1st)
Jeunesse Esch (1st)	Valletta (1st)	Ajax (1st)
Linfield (1st)	Viking (1st)	Szombierki Bytom (1st)
Sporting CP (1st)	Universitatea Craiova (1st)	Aberdeen (1st)
Real Madrid (1st)	Halmstad (1st)	Basel (1st)
Trabzonspor (1st)	Spartak Moscow (1st)	Red Star Belgrade (1st)

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Budapest Honvéd	11–0	Valletta	8–0	3–0

First leg

16 August 1980

Budapest Honvéd	8–0	Valletta
Bodonyi 3' Garaba 4' Esterházy 25' Kocsis 43' (pen.) Dajka 54', 83' Varga 83', 90'	Report

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: Ramiz Pregja (Albania)

Second leg

3 September 1980

Valletta	0–3	Budapest Honvéd
	Report	Esterházy 16', 75' Bodonyi 21'

Empire Stadium, Gżira

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

Aberdeen	1	0	1

Austria Wien	0	0	0
				Aberdeen	0	0	0

				Liverpool	1	4	5
OPS	1	1	2

Liverpool	1	10	11
								Liverpool	5	1	6

								CSKA Sofia	1	0	1
CSKA Sofia	1	1	2

Nottingham Forest	0	0	0
				CSKA Sofia	4	1	5

				Szombierki Bytom	0	0	0
Trabzonspor	2	0	2

Szombierki Bytom	1	3	4
												Liverpool (a)	0	1	1

												Bayern Münich	0	1	1
Olympiacos	2	0	2

Bayern Münich	4	3	7
				Bayern Münich	5	1	6

				Ajax	1	2	3
Dinamo Tirana	0	0	0

Ajax	2	1	3
								Bayern Münich	2	4	6

								Baník Ostrava	0	2	2
ÍBV	1	0	1

Baník Ostrava	1	1	2
				Baník Ostrava (a)	0	1	1

				BFC Dynamo	0	1	1
BFC Dynamo	3	1	4

APOEL	0	2	2
																Liverpool	1

																Real Madrid	0
Jeunesse Esch	0	0	0

Spartak Moscow	5	4	9
				Spartak Moscow	3	0	3

				Esbjerg	0	2	2
Halmstad	0	2	2

Esbjerg	0	3	3
								Spartak Moscow	0	0	0

								Real Madrid	0	2	2
Limerick	1	1	2

Real Madrid	2	5	7
				Real Madrid	1	2	3

				Budapest Honvéd	0	0	0
Sporting CP	0	0	0

Budapest Honvéd	2	1	3
												Real Madrid	2	0	2

												Inter Milan	0	1	1
Linfield	0	0	0

Nantes	1	2	3
				Nantes	1	1	2

				Inter Milan	2	1	3
Inter Milan	2	1	3

Universitatea Craiova	0	1	1
								Inter Milan	1	1	2

								Red Star Belgrade	1	0	1
Club Brugge	0	1	1

Basel	1	4	5
				Basel	1	0	1

				Red Star Belgrade	0	2	2
Viking	2	1	3

Red Star Belgrade	3	4	7

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Aberdeen	1–0	Austria Wien	1–0	0–0
OPS	2–11	Liverpool	1–1	1–10
CSKA Sofia	2–0	Nottingham Forest	1–0	1–0
Trabzonspor	2–4	Szombierki Bytom	2–1	0–3
Olympiacos	2–7	Bayern Munich	2–4	0–3
Dinamo Tirana	0–3	Ajax	0–2	0–1
ÍBV	1–2	Baník Ostrava	1–1	0–1
BFC Dynamo	4–2	APOEL	3–0	1–2
Jeunesse Esch	0–9	Spartak Moscow	0–5	0–4
Halmstad	2–3	Esbjerg	0–0	2–3
Limerick	2–7	Real Madrid	1–2	1–5
Sporting CP	0–3	Budapest Honvéd	0–2	0–1
Linfield	0–3	Nantes	0–1	0–2
Internazionale	3–1	Universitatea Craiova	2–0	1–1
Club Brugge	1–5	Basel	0–1	1–4
Viking	3–7	Red Star Belgrade	2–3	1–4

First leg

17 September 1980

Aberdeen	1–0	Austria Wien
McGhee 31'	Report

Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen

Attendance: 19,000

Referee: Rolf Nyhus (Norway)

17 September 1980

OPS	1–1	Liverpool
Puotiniemi 81'	Report	McDermott 15'

Raatin Stadion, Oulu

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Rolf Eriksson (Sweden)

17 September 1980

CSKA Sofia	1–0	Nottingham Forest
Yonchev 70'	Report

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)

17 September 1980

Trabzonspor	2–1	Szombierki Bytom
Ünal 36' Soyak 54'	Report	Wieczorek 87'

Hüseyin Avni Stadyumu, Trabzon

Attendance: 16,481

Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)

17 September 1980

Olympiacos	2–4	Bayern Munich
Galakos 26' Ahlström 82'	Report	Dremmler 22', 63' Rummenigge 57' Kraus 66'

Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 34,800

Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)

17 September 1980

Dinamo Tirana	0–2	Ajax
	Report	Arnesen 69', 89'

Stadiumi Kombëtar Qemal Stafa, Tirana

Attendance: 31,000

Referee: Nikolaos Zlatanos (Greece)

17 September 1980

ÍBV	1–1	Baník Ostrava
Þorleifsson 28'	Report	Daněk 42'

Kópavogsvöllur, Kópavogur

Attendance: 928

Referee: Frederick McKnight (Northern Ireland)

17 September 1980

BFC Dynamo	3–0	APOEL
Terletzki 51' Trieloff 72' Schulz 87'	Report

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion, East Berlin

Attendance: 15,100

Referee: Ib Nielsen (Denmark)

17 September 1980

Jeunesse Esch	0–5	Spartak Moscow
	Report	Gavrilov 1', 31', 68' Khidiyatullin 43' Yartsev 84'

Stade de la Frontière, Esch-sur-Alzette

Attendance: 1,800

Referee: Rudolf Renggli (Switzerland)

17 September 1980

Halmstad	0–0	Esbjerg
	Report

Örjans Vall, Halmstad

Attendance: 2,581

Referee: Antonin Vencl (Czechoslovakia)

17 September 1980

Limerick	1–2	Real Madrid
Kennedy 51'	Report	Juanito 71' (pen.) Pineda 85'

Lansdowne Road, Dublin

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Ole Amundsen (Denmark)

17 September 1980

Sporting CP	0–2	Budapest Honvéd
	Report	Bodonyi 50' Nagy 65'

Estádio do Bonfim, Setúbal

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)

16 September 1980

Linfield	0–1	Nantes
	Report	Amisse 37'

Haarlem Stadion, Haarlem

Attendance: 940

Referee: Henk van Ettekoven (Netherlands)

17 September 1980

Internazionale	2–0	Universitatea Craiova
Altobelli 8' (pen.), 60'	Report

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 63,800

Referee: Bernd Stumpf (East Germany)

17 September 1980

Club Brugge	0–1	Basel
	[1]	Maissen 65'

Olympiastadion, Bruges

Attendance: 21,500

Referee: Adolf Mathias (Austria)

17 September 1980

Viking	2–3	Red Star Belgrade
Svendsen 30' Sæbø 50'	Report	Petrović 70' Brekke 77' (o.g.) Repčić 80'

Stavanger Stadion, Stavanger

Attendance: 7,448

Referee: Arto Ravander (Finland)

Second leg

1 October 1980

Austria Wien	0–0	Aberdeen
	Report

Praterstadion, Vienna

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Eldar Azimzade (Soviet Union)

Aberdeen won 1–0 on aggregate.

1 October 1980

Liverpool	10–1	OPS
Souness 5', 24', 52' (pen.) McDermott 29', 41', 83' Lee 53' Kennedy 66' Fairclough 68', 81'	Report	Armstrong 47'

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 21,013

Referee: Magnús Pétursson (Iceland)

Liverpool won 11–2 on aggregate.

1 October 1980

Nottingham Forest	0–1	CSKA Sofia
	Report	Kerimov 33'

City Ground, Nottingham

Attendance: 25,818

Referee: Walter Horstmann (West Germany)

CSKA Sofia won 2–0 on aggregate.

1 October 1980

Szombierki Bytom	3–0	Trabzonspor
Byś 17' Ogaza 80' Sroka 89' (pen.)	Report

Stadion Szombierek, Szombierki

Attendance: 9,000

Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)

Szombierki Bytom won 4–2 on aggregate.

1 October 1980

Bayern Munich	3–0	Olympiacos
Hoeneß 2' Rummenigge 7' Janzon 68' (pen.)	Report

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 9,400

Referee: Bob Valentine (Scotland)

Bayern Munich won 7–2 on aggregate.

1 October 1980

Ajax	1–0	Dinamo Tirana
Lerby 80' (pen.)	Report

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 8,100

Referee: Eamonn Farrell (Ireland)

Ajax won 3–0 on aggregate.

1 October 1980

Baník Ostrava	1–0	ÍBV
Vojáček 31'	Report

Bazaly, Ostrava

Attendance: 9,355

Referee: Edvard Sostarić (Yugoslavia)

Baník Ostrava won 2–1 on aggregate.

1 October 1980

APOEL	2–1	BFC Dynamo
Hailis 39' Petrou 48'	Report	Seier 86'

Makario Stadium, Nikosia

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Milorad Vlajić (Yugoslavia)

BFC Dynamo won 4–2 on aggregate.

1 October 1980

Spartak Moscow	4–0	Jeunesse Esch
Pigat 15' (o.g.) Rodionov 24' Gavrilov 40' Yartsev 88'	Report

Vladimir Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Carol Jurja (Romania)

Spartak Moscow won 9–0 on aggregate.

1 October 1980

Esbjerg	3–2	Halmstad
Iversen 9' Lauridsen 24' Nielsen 49'	Report	Johansson 31' Larsson 89'

Esbjerg Idrætspark, Esbjerg

Attendance: 6,500

Referee: Marcel Van Langenhove (Belgium)

Esbjerg won 3–2 on aggregate.

1 October 1980

Real Madrid	5–1	Limerick
Santillana 15' Juanito 31' De Los Santos 69' Cunningham 71' Pineda 83'	Report	Kennedy 43'

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Augusto Marques Pires (Portugal)

Real Madrid won 7–2 on aggregate.

1 October 1980

Budapest Honvéd	1–0	Sporting CP
Dajka 38'	Report

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: John Hunting (England)

Budapest Honvéd won 3–0 on aggregate.

1 October 1980

Nantes	2–0	Linfield
Rampillon 17' Trossero 60'	Report

Stade Marcel Saupin. Nantes

Attendance: 11,080

Referee: Norbert Rolles (Luxembourg)

Nantes won 3–0 on aggregate.

1 October 1980

Universitatea Craiova	1–1	Internazionale
Beldeanu 18'	Report	Muraro 8'

Stadionul Central, Craiova

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Talal Tokat (Turkey)

Internazionale won 3–1 on aggregate.

1 October 1980

Basel	4–1	Club Brugge
Tanner 14' Stohler 48' (pen.) Von Wartburg 55' Geisser 81'	Report	Ceulemans 4'

St.-Jakob-Stadion, Basel

Attendance: 22,500

Referee: Ángel Franco Martínez (Spain)

Basel won 5–1 on aggregate.

1 October 1980

Red Star Belgrade	4–1	Viking
B. Ǵurovski 21' Janjanin 24' Petrović 29' Stamenković 58'	Report	Brekke 58'

Marakana, Belgrade

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: George Chrisanthou (Greece)

Red Star Belgrade won 7–3 on aggregate.

Second Round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Aberdeen	0–5	Liverpool	0–1	0–4
CSKA Sofia	5–0	Szombierki Bytom	4–0	1–0
Bayern Munich	6–3	Ajax	5–1	1–2
Baník Ostrava	1–1 (a)	BFC Dynamo	0–0	1–1
Spartak Moscow	3–2	Esbjerg	3–0	0–2
Real Madrid	3–0	Budapest Honvéd	1–0	2–0
Nantes	2–3	Internazionale	1–2	1–1
Basel	1–2	Red Star Belgrade	1–0	0–2

First leg

22 October 1980

Aberdeen	0–1	Liverpool
	Report	McDermott 5'

Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen

Attendance: 24,000

Referee: Alek Jarguz (Poland)

22 October 1980

CSKA Sofia	4–0	Szombierki Bytom
Yonchev 22', 58', 60' Zdravkov 75'	Report

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Valeriy Butenko (Soviet Union)

22 October 1980

Bayern Munich	5–1	Ajax
Dürnberger 45' Rummenigge 51', 82' D. Hoeneß 80', 90'	Report	Arnesen 37'

Olynmpiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Luigi Agnolin (Italy)

22 October 1980

Baník Ostrava	0–0	BFC Dynamo
	Report

Bazaly, Ostrava

Attendance: 14,537

Referee: Romualdas Yushka (Soviet Union)

22 October 1980

Spartak Moscow	3–0	Esbjerg
Khidiyatullin 19', 70' Shavlo 39'	Report

Vladimir Lenin Central Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 26,000

Referee: Vasilis Vourakis (Greece)

22 October 1980

Real Madrid	1–0	Budapest Honvéd
Santillana 22'	Report

Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Eamonn Farrell (Ireland)

22 October 1980

Nantes	1–2	Internazionale
Rio 69' (pen.)	Report	Altobelli 12' Prohaska 85'

Stade Marcel Saupin, Nantes

Attendance: 20,666

Referee: Vojtěch Christov (Czechoslovakia)

22 October 1980

Basel	1–0	Red Star Belgrade
Lauscher 33'	Report

Sankt-Jakob-Stadion, Basel

Attendance: 30,500

Referee: António Garrido (Portugal)

Second leg

5 November 1980

Liverpool	4–0	Aberdeen
Miller 37' (o.g.) Neal 43' Dalglish 58' Hansen 71'	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 36,182

Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany)

Liverpool won 5–0 on aggregate.

5 November 1980

Szombierki Bytom	0–1	CSKA Sofia
	Report	Dzhevizov 53'

Stadion Miejski w Chorzowie, Chorzow

Attendance: 1,980

Referee: Edvard Sostarić (Yugoslavia)

CSKA Sofia won 5–0 on aggregate.

5 November 1980

Ajax	2–1	Bayern Munich
Wiggemansen 16' Rijkaard 18'	Report	Rummenigge 81'

Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

Bayern Munich won 6–3 on aggregate.

5 November 1980

BFC Dynamo	1–1	Baník Ostrava
Troppa 58' (pen.)	Report	Knapp 33' (pen.)

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion, East Berlin

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: László Pádár (Hungary)

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

5 November 1980

Esbjerg	2–0	Spartak Moscow
Lauridsen 47' Iversen 72'	Report

Esbjerg Idrætspark, Esbjerg

Attendance: 3,100

Referee: Frederick McKnight (Northern Ireland)

Spartak Moscow won 3–2 on aggregate.

4 November 1980

Budapest Honvéd	0–2	Real Madrid
	Report	Cunningham 26' García Hernández 82'

Népstadion, Budapest

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Jan Redelfs (West Germany)

Real Madrid won 3–0 on aggregate.

5 November 1980

Internazionale	1–1	Nantes
Altobelli 29'	Report	Amisse 75'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 58,657

Referee: Heinz Aldinger (West Germany)

Internazionale won 3–2 on aggregate.

5 November 1980

17:00

Red Star Belgrade	2–0	Basel
Repčić 6' Janjanin 18'	Report

Marakana, Belgrade

Attendance: 75,000

Referee: John Carpenter (Ireland)

Red Star Belgrade won 2–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Liverpool	6–1	CSKA Sofia	5–1	1–0
Bayern Munich	6–2	Baník Ostrava	2–0	4–2
Spartak Moscow	0–2	Real Madrid	0–0	0–2
Internazionale	2–1	Red Star Belgrade	1–1	1–0

First leg

4 March 1981

Liverpool	5–1	CSKA Sofia
Souness 16', 51', 80' Lee 45' McDermott 62'	Report	Yonchev 60'

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 37,255

Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)

4 March 1981

Bayern Munich	2–0	Baník Ostrava
Janzon 48' Breitner 89' (pen.)	Report

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Anders Mattsson (Finland)

4 March 1981

Spartak Moscow	0–0	Real Madrid
	Report

Vladimir Lenin Stadium, Tbilisi

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Josef Bucek (Austria)

4 March 1981

Internazionale	1–1	Red Star Belgrade
Caso 44'	Report	Repčić 75'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 73,000

Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)

Second leg

18 March 1981

CSKA Sofia	0–1	Liverpool
	Report	Johnson 10'

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 65,000

Referee: Roger Schoeters (Belgium)

Liverpool won 6–1 on aggregate.

18 March 1981

Baník Ostrava	2–4	Bayern Munich
Němec 69' Lička 71'	Report	D. Hoeneß 8' Kraus 26' Röber 32' Dürnberger 38'

Bazaly, Ostrava

Attendance: 32,000

Referee: John Hunting (England)

Bayern Munich won 6–2 on aggregate.

19 March 1981

Real Madrid	2–0	Spartak Moscow
Isidro 70', 80'	Report

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Gianfranco Menegali (Italy)

Real Madrid won 2–0 on aggregate.

18 March 1981

Red Star Belgrade	0–1	Internazionale
	Report	Muraro 13'

Marakana, Belgrade

Attendance: 81,369

Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

Internazionale won 2–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Liverpool	1–1 (a)	Bayern Munich	0–0	1–1
Real Madrid	2–1	Internazionale	2–0	0–1

First leg

8 April 1981

Liverpool	0–0	Bayern Munich
	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 44,543

Referee: Vojtech Christov (Czechoslovakia)

8 April 1981

Real Madrid	2–0	Internazionale
Santillana 29' Juanito 47'	Report

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)

Second leg

22 April 1981

Bayern Munich	1–1	Liverpool
Rummenigge 88'	Report	R. Kennedy 83'

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 75,000

Referee: António Garrido (Portugal)

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

22 April 1981

Internazionale	1–0	Real Madrid
Bini 57'	Report

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Alexis Ponnet (Belgium)

Real Madrid won 2–1 on aggregate.

Final

27 May 1981

20:15 CEST

Liverpool	1–0	Real Madrid
A. Kennedy 82'	Report

Parc des Princes, Paris

Attendance: 48,360

Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)

Top scorers

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

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Terry McDermott	Liverpool	6
	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Bayern Munich	6
	Graeme Souness	Liverpool	6
4	Tsvetan Yonchev	CSKA Sofia	5
5	Alessandro Altobelli	Internazionale	4
	Yuri Gavrilov	Spartak Moscow	4
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