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Tournament details | |
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Dates | 16 August 1980 – 27 May 1981 |
Teams | 33 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Liverpool (3rd title) |
Runners-up | Real Madrid |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 63 |
Goals scored | 166 (2.63 per match) |
Attendance | 1,797,911 (28,538 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Terry McDermott (Liverpool) Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (Bayern Munich) Graeme Souness (Liverpool) 6 goals each |
The 1980–81 European Cup was the 26th season of the European Cup football club tournament, and was won for a third time by Liverpool, who beat six-time champions Real Madrid in the final. In the 11 seasons up to and including this one, there were only four winners of the European Cup (Ajax, Bayern Munich, Nottingham Forest and Liverpool), but there were eleven different runners-up. This sequence was ended the following year, when Bayern Munich lost to first-time finalists Aston Villa.
Nottingham Forest, the defending champions, were eliminated by CSKA Sofia in the first round.
Teams
Dinamo Tirana (1st) | Austria Wien (1st) | Club Brugge (1st) |
CSKA Sofia (1st) | APOEL (1st) | Baník Ostrava (1st) |
Esbjerg (1st) | Liverpool (1st) | Nottingham Forest (5th)TH |
OPS (1st) | Nantes (1st) | BFC Dynamo (1st) |
Bayern Munich (1st) | Olympiacos (1st) | Budapest Honvéd (1st) |
ÍBV (1st) | Limerick (1st) | Internazionale (1st) |
Jeunesse Esch (1st) | Valletta (1st) | Ajax (1st) |
Linfield (1st) | Viking (1st) | Szombierki Bytom (1st) |
Sporting CP (1st) | Universitatea Craiova (1st) | Aberdeen (1st) |
Real Madrid (1st) | Halmstad (1st) | Basel (1st) |
Trabzonspor (1st) | Spartak Moscow (1st) | Red Star Belgrade (1st) |
Preliminary round
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Budapest Honvéd | 11–0 | Valletta | 8–0 | 3–0 |
First leg
Budapest Honvéd | 8–0 | Valletta |
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Bodonyi 3' Garaba 4' Esterházy 25' Kocsis 43' (pen.) Dajka 54', 83' Varga 83', 90' |
Report |
Second leg
Valletta | 0–3 | Budapest Honvéd |
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Report | Esterházy 16', 75' Bodonyi 21' |
Budapest Honvéd won 11–0 on aggregate.