UEFA Euro 1980

1980 UEFA European Football Championship
Italia 1980

UEFA Euro 1980 official logo
Tournament details
Host country  Italy
Dates 11 June – 22 June
Teams 8
Venue(s) (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)
Top scorer(s) West Germany Klaus Allofs (3 goals)
1976
1984

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. The final tournament took place between 11 June and 22 June 1980.

Contents

Overview

This was the first European Championship in which eight teams, rather than four, contested the final tournament. West Germany, England, Greece, Switzerland and Netherlands also expressed interest in hosting this event.[1] Seven countries had to qualify for the final tournament. 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 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.

Qualification

1980 UEFA European Football Championship finalists.

The following teams participated in the final tournament:

Venues

Rome Milan Naples Turin
Stadio Olimpico Giuseppe Meazza Stadio San Paolo Stadio Comunale
Capacity: 86,500 Capacity: 85,700 Capacity: 72,800 Capacity: 50,000
Stadio Olimpico after works.jpg San Siro3.JPG SanPaolo.jpg Olympic-Stadium-Turin.jpg

Match officials

Austria Austria
  • Erich Linemayr
East Germany East Germany
  • Adolf Prokop
England England
  • Patrick Partridge
France France
  • Robert Wurtz
Hungary Hungary
  • Károly Palotai
Italy Italy
  • Alberto Michelotti
Netherlands Netherlands
  • Charles Corver
Portugal Portugal
  • António Garrido
Romania Romania
  • Nicolae Rainea
Scotland Scotland
  • Brian McGinlay
Turkey Turkey
  • Hilmi Ok
West Germany West Germany
  • Heinz Aldinger

Squads

For a list of all participating squads see 1980 UEFA European Football Championship squads

Results

First round

All times are CEST/UTC+2

Group A

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 Goal 57'

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

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

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

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

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

Group B

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 Goal 29' (Report) Wilkins Goal 26'

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

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

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

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

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

Third place play-off

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

Final

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

West Germany
Second title

Statistics

Goal scorers

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Fastest goal

6 minutes : Antonin Panenka (Czechoslovakia vs Greece)

Average goals

1.93 goals per game

References

  1. Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Die Geschichte der Fußball-Europameisterschaft, Verlag Die Werkstatt, ISBN 978-3-89533-553-2