| Italia 1980 | |
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| 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) |
| Runners-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.
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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.
The following teams participated in the final tournament:
| Rome | Milan | Naples | Turin |
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| Stadio Olimpico | Giuseppe Meazza | Stadio San Paolo | Stadio Comunale |
| Capacity: 86,500 | Capacity: 85,700 | Capacity: 72,800 | Capacity: 50,000 |
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| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 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) |
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| Report | Rummenigge 57' |
| 11 June 1980 20:30 |
Netherlands | 1 – 0 | Greece | Stadio San Paolo, Naples Attendance: 14,990 Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany) |
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| Kist 65' (pen.) | Report |
| 14 June 1980 17:45 |
West Germany | 3 – 2 | Netherlands | Stadio San Paolo, Naples Attendance: 26,546 Referee: Robert Wurtz (France) |
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| Allofs 20', 60', 65' | Report | Rep 79' (pen.) van de Kerkhof 85' |
| 14 June 1980 20:30 |
Greece | 1 – 3 | Czechoslovakia | Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 4,726 Referee: Pat Partridge (England) |
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| Anastopoulos 14' | Report | Panenka 6' Vízek 26' Nehoda 63' |
| 17 June 1980 17:45 |
Netherlands | 1 – 1 | Czechoslovakia | San Siro, Milan Attendance: 11,889 Referee: Hilmi Ok (Turkey) |
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| Kist 59' | Report | Nehoda 16' |
| 17 June 1980 20:30 |
Greece | 0 – 0 | West Germany | Stadio Comunale, Turin Attendance: 13,901 Referee: Brian McGinlay (Scotland) |
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| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 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) |
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| Ceulemans 29' | Report | Wilkins 26' |
| 12 June 1980 20:30 |
Spain | 0 – 0 | Italy | San Siro, Milan Attendance: 46,816 Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary) |
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| Report |
| 15 June 1980 17:45 |
Belgium | 2 – 1 | Spain | San Siro, Milan Attendance: 11,430 Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands) |
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| Gerets 17' Cools 65' |
Report | Quini 36' |
| 15 June 1980 20:30 |
England | 0 – 1 | Italy | Stadio Comunale, Turin Attendance: 59,646 Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania) |
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| Report | Tardelli 79' |
| 18 June 1980 17:45 |
Spain | 1 – 2 | England | Stadio San Paolo, Naples Attendance: 14,440 Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria) |
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| Dani 48' (pen.) | Report | Brooking 19' Woodcock 61' |
| 18 June 1980 20:30 |
Italy | 0 – 0 | Belgium | Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 42,318 Referee: António Garrido (Portugal) |
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| Report |
| 21 June 1980 20:30 |
Czechoslovakia | 1 – 1 | Italy | Stadio San Paolo, Naples Attendance: 24,652 Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria) |
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| Jurkemik 54' | Report | Graziani 73' | ||
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| Masný Nehoda Ondruš Jurkemik Panenka Gögh Gajdůšek Kozák Barmoš |
9 – 8 | Causio Altobelli Baresi Cabrini Benetti Graziani Scirea Tardelli Collovati |
| 22 June 1980 20:30 |
Belgium | 1 – 2 | West Germany | Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 47,864 Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania) |
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| Vandereycken 75' (pen.) | Report | Hrubesch 10', 88' |
27 goals were scored in 14 games for an average of 1.93 goals per game.
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