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| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | 19 September 1979 – 21 May 1980 |
| Teams | 64 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Eintracht Frankfurt (1st title) |
| Runners-up | Borussia Mönchengladbach |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 126 |
| 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 |
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.
This was the last edition of the UEFA Cup where the 64 spots were allocated to the respective associations by the invitation method inherited from the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Beginning in 1980, the newly introduced UEFA country rankings would determine the number of teams for each country, based on results from the five-year period preceding the last completed season.
Association team allocation
A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participate in the 1979–80 UEFA Cup. The original allocation scheme was as follows:
- 3 associations have four teams qualify.
- 3 associations have three teams qualify.
- 18 associations have two teams qualify.
- 7 associations have one team qualify.
Czechoslovakia was the only association selected to have an extra third birth for this season, while Bulgaria and East Germany went back to two qualified teams. The remaining spot went to West Germany for title holders Borussia Mönchengladbach. With this being the last season before the introduction of the UEFA rankings, only four of the 20 two-team associations had never been chosen for the extra third birth over eight seasons of rotation: Greece, Turkey, Denmark and Norway.
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Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:
- TH: Title holders
- CW: Cup winners
- CR: Cup runners-up
- LC: League Cup winners
- 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
- P-W: End-of-season European competition play-offs winners
Schedule
The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Wednesdays, though some matches in the first two rounds exceptionally took place on Tuesdays or Thursdays. Also, the second leg of the semi-finals was played on a Tuesday.
| Round | First leg | Second leg |
|---|---|---|
| First round | 18–26 September 1979 | 2–4 October 1979 |
| Second round | 24 October 1979 | 7–8 November 1979 |
| Third round | 28 November 1979 | 12 December 1979 |
| Quarter-finals | 5 March 1980 | 19 March 1980 |
| Semi-finals | 9 April 1980 | 22 April 1980 |
| Final | 7 May 1980 | 21 May 1980 |
Bracket
| Third round | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Grasshoppers
| 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stuttgart
| 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stuttgart
| 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Lokomotiv Sofia
| 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lokomotiv Sofia (a)
| 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Dynamo Kyiv
| 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stuttgart
| 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Borussia Mönchengladbach
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Saint-Étienne
| 4 | 3 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Aris Thessaloniki
| 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Saint-Étienne
| 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Borussia Mönchengladbach
| 4 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Borussia Mönchengladbach
| 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Universitatea Craiova
| 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Borussia Mönchengladbach
| 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Eintracht Frankfurt (a)
| 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Diósgyőri VTK
| 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Kaiserslautern
| 2 | 6 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Kaiserslautern
| 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Bayern Munich
| 0 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Bayern Munich
| 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Red Star Belgrade
| 0 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Bayern Munich
| 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Eintracht Frankfurt (aet)
| 0 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Eintracht Frankfurt
| 4 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Feyenoord
| 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Eintracht Frankfurt
| 4 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Zbrojovka Brno
| 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 Standard Liège
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Zbrojovka Brno
| 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
