1980 UEFA European Football Championship

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1980 UEFA European Championship - Italy Euro 80

Teams	8 (from 31 entrants)
Host(s)	Italy
Champions	West Germany (2 title(s))
Matches played	14
Goals scored	27 (1.93 per match)
Top scorer(s)	3 - Klaus Allofs

The 1980 UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 80) final tournament was held in Italy. This was the sixth European Football Championship, which is held every four years and endorsed by UEFA. The final tournament took place between June 11 and June 22, 1980.

1 Qualification
2 Overview
3 Venues
4 Squads
5 Group stages
- 5.1 Group A
- 5.2 Group B
6 Third place play-off
7 Final
8 Statistics

[edit] Qualification

The following teams participated in the final tournament:

Italy automatically qualified for the tournament as hosts

For details concerning the qualifying phase see, 1980 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying.

[edit] Overview

This was the first European Championship in which eight teams, rather than four, contested the final tournament. Seven of these countries had to qualify for the final stage. Also for the first time, the hosts, in this case Italy, qualified automatically for the finals. This was the first time in the history of the tournament that all matches were played in one country.

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 Italy matches. 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, delaying the start of play. The only bright spots were the emergence of a new generation of talented West German stars such as Hans-Peter Briegel, Horst Hrubesch, Hansi Müller and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, and the inspired performance of offensively-minded Belgium (around rising stars such as Jan Ceulemans, Eric Gerets, Jean-Marie Pfaff, and Erwin Vandenbergh) who unexpectedly reached the final, only losing to West Germany (1-2) by a Hrubesch goal two minutes before time.

[edit] Venues

Stadio Olimpico, Rome - Capacity: 86,500
Giuseppe Meazza, Milan - Capacity: 85,700
Stadio San Paolo, Naples - Capacity: 72,800
Stadio Comunale, Turin - Capacity: 50,000

[edit] Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 1980 UEFA European Football Championship squads

[edit] Group stages

[edit] Group A

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

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

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

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

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

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

June 17, 1980 20:30
	Greece	0–0	West Germany	Delle Alpi, Turin Attendance: 13,901 Referee: Mcginlay Brian R. (Scotland)

[edit] Group B

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

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

June 12, 1960 20:30
	Spain	0–0	Italy	Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan Attendance: 46,816 Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)

June 15, 1980 17:45
	Belgium	2–1	Spain	Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan Attendance: 11,430 Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)
	Gerets 17' Cools 65'		Castro Gonzalez 36'

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

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

June 18, 1960 20:30
	Italy	0–0	Belgium	Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 42,318 Referee: Antonio José Garrido Da Silva (Portugal)

[edit] Third place play-off

June 21, 1980 20:30
	Czechoslovakia	1–1 (9–8 PSO)	Italy	San Paolo, Naples Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)
	Jurkemik 54'		Graziani 73'	San Paolo, Naples Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

		Penalties
	Barmos: scored Kozák: scored Gajdusek: scored Gögh: scored Panenka: scored Jurkemik: scored Ondruš: scored Nehoda: scored Masny: scored	9–8	Tardelli: scored Scirea: scored Graziani: scored Bennetti II: scored Cabrini: scored Baresi: scored Altobelli: scored Causio: scored Collovati: saved

[edit] Final

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