UEFA Euro 1980

The 1980 UEFA European Football Championship finals tournament was held in Italy. This was the sixth UEFA European Championship, which is held every four years and endorsed by UEFA.[1] It featured eight teams, and took place between 11 and 22 June 1980. West Germany won the final 2–1 against Belgium for their second title. This was the last European Championship with a third place play-off.

1980 UEFA European Football Championship
Italia 1980
Campionato Europeo di Calcio 1980 (in Italian)
Tournament details
Host countryItaly
Dates11–22 June
Teams8
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 played14
Goals scored27 (1.93 per match)
Attendance345,463 (24,676 per match)
Top scorer(s) Klaus Allofs (3 goals)

Bid process

This was the first European Championship in which eight teams, rather than four, contested the finals tournament.[2][3] On 17 October 1977 UEFA announced that England, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and West Germany had expressed interest in hosting this event.[4] On 19 October UEFA's Organising 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 12 November the Organising Committee and the Executive Committee announced that Italy had been chosen unanimously. Seven countries had to qualify for the finals, and the draw for the qualifying round took place in Rome on 30 November 1977. Also for the first time, the hosts, in this case Italy, qualified automatically for the finals.

Overview
Alternative tournament logo

Because of the expanded format, the finals 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 play-off.

The tournament 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.[5] 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.[6]

Qualification

Qualified teams
Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament[upper-alpha 1]
 ItalyHost12 November 19771 (1968)
 GreeceGroup 6 winner31 October 19790 (debut)
 EnglandGroup 1 winner21 November 19791 (1968)
 NetherlandsGroup 4 winner21 November 19791 (1976)
 CzechoslovakiaGroup 5 winner24 November 19792 (1960, 1976)
 SpainGroup 3 winner9 December 19791 (1964)
 BelgiumGroup 2 winner19 December 19791 (1972)
 West GermanyGroup 7 winner22 December 19792 (1972, 1976)
  1. Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

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

Squads

Each national team had to submit a squad of 22 players.

Match officials
Referee
Erich Linemayr (AUT)
Adolf Prokop (GDR)
Pat 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)

Group stage
UEFA Euro 1980 Finalists and their result

The teams finishing in the top position in each of the two groups progress to the finals, while the second placed teams advanced to the third place play-off, and bottom two teams were eliminated from the tournament.

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams finished level on points after completion of the group matches, the following tie-breakers were used to determine the final ranking:

  1. Greater number of points in all group matches
  2. Goal difference in all group matches
  3. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches
  4. Drawing of lots

Group 1
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  West Germany 3 2 1 0 4 2 +2 5 Advance to final
2  Czechoslovakia 3 1 1 1 4 3 +1 3 Advance to third place play-off
3  Netherlands 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 3
4  Greece 3 0 1 2 1 4 −3 1
Source: UEFA
Czechoslovakia 0–1 West Germany
Report
  • Rummenigge 57'
Attendance: 10,500
Referee: Alberto Michelotti (Italy)
Netherlands 1–0 Greece
  • Kist 65' (pen.)
 Report
Stadio San Paolo, Naples
Attendance: 14,990
Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany)
West Germany 3–2 Netherlands
  • Allofs 20', 60', 65'
 Report
  • Rep 79' (pen.)
  • W. van de Kerkhof 85'
Stadio San Paolo, Naples
Attendance: 29,889
Referee: Robert Wurtz (France)
Greece 1–3 Czechoslovakia
  • Anastopoulos 14'
 Report
  • Panenka 6'
  • Vízek 26'
  • Nehoda 63'
Attendance: 7,614
Referee: Pat Partridge (England)
Netherlands 1–1 Czechoslovakia
  • Kist 59'
 Report
  • Nehoda 16'
Attendance: 11,889
Referee: Hilmi Ok (Turkey)
Greece 0–0 West Germany
Report
Attendance: 13,901
Referee: Brian McGinlay (Scotland)

Group 2
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Belgium 3 1 2 0 3 2 +1 4 Advance to final
2  Italy (H) 3 1 2 0 1 0 +1 4 Advance to third place play-off
3  England 3 1 1 1 3 3 0 3
4  Spain 3 0 1 2 2 4 −2 1
Source: UEFA
(H) Host
Belgium 1–1 England
  • Ceulemans 29'
 Report
  • Wilkins 26'
Attendance: 15,186
Referee: Heinz Aldinger (West Germany)
Spain 0–0 Italy
Report
Attendance: 46,337
Referee: Károly Palotai (Hungary)
Belgium 2–1 Spain
  • Gerets 17'
  • Cools 65'
 Report
  • Quini 36'
Attendance: 11,430
Referee: Charles Corver (Netherlands)
England 0–1 Italy
Report
  • Tardelli 79'
Attendance: 59,649
Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)
Spain 1–2 England
  • Dani 48' (pen.)
 Report
  • Brooking 19'
  • Woodcock 61'
Stadio San Paolo, Naples
Attendance: 14,440
Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)
Italy 0–0 Belgium
Report
Attendance: 42,318
Referee: António Garrido (Portugal)

Knockout stage

In the final, extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary. However, the third place play-off would go straight to a penalty shoot-out if the scores were level after 90 minutes.

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Bracket
 
Final
 
  
 
22 June – Rome
 
 
 Belgium1
 
 
 West Germany2
 
 
 
 
 
Third place play-off
 
 
21 June – Naples
 
 
 Czechoslovakia (p)1 (9)
 
 
 Italy1 (8)
 

Third place play-off
Czechoslovakia 1–1 Italy
  • Jurkemik 54'
 Report
  • Graziani 73'
Penalties
  • Masný
  • Nehoda
  • Ondruš
  • Jurkemik
  • Panenka
  • Gögh
  • Gajdůšek
  • Kozák
  • Barmoš
9–8
  • Causio
  • Altobelli
  • G. Baresi
  • Cabrini
  • Benetti
  • Graziani
  • Scirea
  • Tardelli
  • Collovati
Stadio San Paolo, Naples
Attendance: 24,652
Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)

Final
Belgium 1–2 West Germany
  • Vandereycken 75' (pen.)
 Report
  • Hrubesch 10', 88'
Attendance: 47,860[7]
Referee: Nicolae Rainea (Romania)

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 27 goals scored in 14 matches, for an average of 1.93 goals per match.

3 goals

  • Klaus Allofs

2 goals

  • Zdeněk Nehoda
  • Kees Kist
  • Horst Hrubesch

1 goal

  • Jan Ceulemans
  • Julien Cools
  • Eric Gerets
  • René Vandereycken
  • Ladislav Jurkemik
  • Antonín Panenka
  • Ladislav Vízek
  • Trevor Brooking
  • Ray Wilkins
  • Tony Woodcock
  • Nikos Anastopoulos
  • Francesco Graziani
  • Marco Tardelli
  • Johnny Rep
  • Willy van de Kerkhof
  • Dani
  • Quini
  • Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

Awards
UEFA Team of the Tournament[8]
Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forwards
Dino Zoff Claudio Gentile
Gaetano Scirea
Hans-Peter Briegel
Karlheinz Förster		 Jan Ceulemans
Marco Tardelli
Hansi Müller
Bernd Schuster		 Horst Hrubesch
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

References
  1. "Italy 1980". BBC Sport. 17 May 2004. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  2. "1980 at a glance". uefa.com. 1 July 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  3. Barreca, Vincenzo (December 1999). "La storia degli Europei - 1980 Germania Ovest" [The history of Euro Cup - 1980]. Calcio 2000 (in Italian). Action Group S.r.l. pp. 50–57.
  4. Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Die Geschichte der Fußball-Europameisterschaft, Verlag Die Werkstatt,ISBN 978-3-89533-553-2
  5. Daniel Ruiz (14 June 2016). "Squad rotation, tear gas and a bucketload of medals: How England flopped at Euro 80". FourFourTwo.com. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  6. Higginson, Marc (12 May 2012). "BBC Sport - Euro 1980: How Belgium defied the odds to reach final". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  7. "European Football Championship 1980 FINAL". euro2000.org. Union of European Football Associations. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  8. "1980 team of the tournament". Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
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