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1980 UEFA European Football Championship
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)
Runner-up	Belgium
Third place	Czechoslovakia
Fourth place	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	27 (1.93 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. The final tournament took place between 11 June and 22 June 1980.

[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.

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.

[edit] Qualification

1980 UEFA European Football Championship finalists.

Main article: 1980 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying

The following teams participated in the final tournament:

Belgium
Czechoslovakia
England
Greece
Italy (automatically qualified as hosts)
Netherlands
Spain
West Germany

[edit] 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

[edit] Match officials

Austria

Erich Linemayr

East Germany

Adolf Prokop

England

Patrick Partridge

France

Robert Wurtz

Hungary

Károly Palotai

Italy

Alberto Michelotti

Netherlands

Charles Corver

Portugal

António Garrido

Romania

Nicolae Rainea

Scotland

Brian McGinlay

Turkey

Hilmi Ok

West Germany

Heinz Aldinger

[edit] Squads

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

[edit] Results

[edit] Group stage

[edit] 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 57'

11 June 1980 20:30	Netherlands	1 – 0	Greece	Stadio San Paolo, Naples Attendance: 14,990 Referee: Adolf Prokop (East Germany)
	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)
	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: Patrick Partridge (England)
	Anastopoulos 14'	(Report)	Panenka 6' Vizek 26' Nehoda 63'

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

[edit] 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 29'	(Report)	Wilkins 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 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)
		(Report)	Tardelli 79'

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

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

[edit] Third place play-off

21 June 1980 20:30	Czechoslovakia	1 – 1	Italy	San Paolo, Naples Attendance: 24,652 Referee: Erich Linemayr (Austria)
	Jurkemik 54'	(Report)	Graziani 73'

		Penalties
	Masny Nehoda Ondruš Jurkemik Panenka Gögh Gajdusek Kozák Barmos	9 – 8	Causio Altobelli Baresi Cabrini Benetti Graziani Scirea Tardelli Collovati

[edit] Final

Main article: UEFA Euro 1980 Final

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

Euro 1980 Champions
West Germany Second title

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Goal scorers

3 goals

Klaus Allofs

2 goals

1 goal

[edit] Fastest goal

6 minutes : Antonin Panenka (Czechoslovakia vs Greece)

[edit] Average goals

1.93 goals per game

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