1979–80 UEFA Cup
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9th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA
Key facts
- Dates
- 19 September 1979 – 21 May 1980
- Champions
- Eintracht Frankfurt (1st title)
- Runners up
- Borussia Mönchengladbach
- Goals scored
- 352 (2.79 per match)
- Attendance
- 3,074,766 (24,403 per match)
- Top scorer s
- Dieter Hoeneß (Bayern Munich), Harald Nickel (Borussia Mönchengladbach), 7 goals each
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- sports season
- Country
- Germany
- Location
- Europe
- Sport
- association football
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- end time
- 1980-05-21
- participating team
- Eintracht Frankfurt
- Commons category
- UEFA Cup 1979-80
- native label
- 1979–80 UEFA Cup
- number of participants
- 64
- number of points/goals/set scored
- 352
- sports season of league or competition
- UEFA Europa League
- point in time
- 1979-01-01
- winner
- Eintracht Frankfurt
- edition number
- 9
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 126
- start time
- 1979-09-19
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Encyclopedic overview
The 1979–80 UEFA Cup was the ninth season of the UEFA Cup, the third-tier club football competition organised by UEFA. The final was played in West Germany over two legs, at the Bökelbergstadion., Mönchengladbach, and at the Waldstadion, Frankfurt. It was won by Eintracht Frankfurt, who defeated title holders and fellow West German side Borussia Mönchengladbach on the away goals rule after a 3–3 aggregate draw to claim their first UEFA Cup title.
The competition was notable for the dominance of West German teams, who were only knocked out of the tournament among themselves, setting up for an all-German final, the first out of the two ever played in UEFA history. All four semi-finalists came from West Germany, with this being the only instance in a UEFA club competition, and one of them defeated the fifth team in the quarter-finals.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “1979–80 UEFA Cup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.