1980–81 European Cup Winners' Cup

The 1980–81 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup was won by FC Dinamo Tbilisi in the final against FC Carl Zeiss Jena. Dinamo Tbilisi's spectacular side already had defeated West Ham United away before beating Carl Zeiss Jena in a final watched by 4,750 people in Düsseldorf. This win was the high point of the Georgian side and is still the club's greatest achievement.

1980–81 European Cup Winners' Cup
Tournament details
Dates20 August 1980 – 13 May 1981
Teams34
Final positions
Champions Dinamo Tbilisi (1st title)
Runners-up Carl Zeiss Jena
Tournament statistics
Matches played65
Goals scored176 (2.71 per match)
Top scorer(s)David Cross
(6 goals)

The competition included the Real Madrid C.F. reserve team Castilla CF, who qualified as the 1979–80 Copa del Rey runners-up.

Preliminary round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Celtic 7–2 Diósgyőr 6–0 1–2
Altay 0–4 Benfica 0–0 0–4

First leg
Celtic 6–0 Diósgyőr
McGarvey  52', 65', 70'
McCluskey  60', 79'
Sullivan  71'
Attendance: 28,000
Referee: Widukund Herrmann
Altay 0–0 Benfica
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Iordan Zhezhov

Second leg
Diósgyőr 2–1Celtic
Görgei  25'  66' Nicholas  24'
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Josef Bucek

Celtic won 7–2 on aggregate.

Benfica 4–0 Altay
Chalana  22'
Coelho  34'
Nené  63'
César  70'
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Robert Wurtz

Benfica won 4–0 on aggregate.

First round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Castilla CF 4–6 West Ham United 3–1 1–5 (aet)
Celtic 2–2 (a) Politehnica Timișoara 2–1 0–1
Hibernians 1–4 Waterford 1–0 0–4
Kastoria 0–2 Dinamo Tbilisi 0–0 0–2
Spora Luxembourg 0–12 Sparta Prague 0–6 0–6
Slavia Sofia 3–2 Legia Warsaw 3–1 0–1
Hvidovre 3–0 Fram 1–0 2–0
Ilves 3–7 Feyenoord 1–3 2–4
Roma 3–4 Carl Zeiss Jena 3–0 0–4
Valencia 5–3 Monaco 2–0 3–3
Sion 1–3 Haugar 1–1 0–2
Newport County 4–0 Crusaders 4–0 0–0
Omonia 1–7 Waterschei Thor 1–3 0–4
Fortuna Düsseldorf 8–0 Austria Salzburg 5–0 3–0
Malmö 1–0 Partizani Tirana 1–0 0–0
Dinamo Zagreb 0–2 Benfica 0–0 0–2

First leg
Celtic 2–1 Politehnica Timișoara
 Report
  • Manea  78'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Gerardus Johannes Maria Geurts (Netherlands)
Roma 3–0 Carl Zeiss Jena
Pruzzo  5'
Ancelotti  23'
Falcão  72'
Kastoria FC 0–0 FC Dinamo Tbilisi
Attendance: 15,000

Second leg
Politehnica Timișoara 1–0 Celtic
 Report
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Nikos Lagogiannis (Greece)

Politehnica Timișoara 2–2 Celtic on aggregate. Politehnica Timișoara won on away goals.

Carl Zeiss Jena 4–0 Roma
Krause  26'
Lindemann  38'
Bielau  71'  87'

Carl Zeiss Jena won 4–3 on aggregate.

FC Dinamo Tbilisi 2–0 Kastoria FC
Shengelia  52'
Gutsaev  80'
Dynamo Lenin Stadium, Tbilisi
Attendance: 80,000

Second round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
West Ham United 4–1 Politehnica Timișoara 4–0 0–1
Waterford 0–5 Dinamo Tbilisi 0–1 0–4
Sparta Prague 2–3 Slavia Sofia 2–0 0–3
Hvidovre 1–3 Feyenoord 1–2 0–1
Carl Zeiss Jena 3–2 Valencia CF 3–1 0–1
Haugar 0–6 Newport County 0–0 0–6
Waterschei Thor 0–1 Fortuna Düsseldorf 0–0 0–1
Malmö 1–2 Benfica 1–0 0–2

First leg
West Ham United 4–0 Politehnica Timișoara
 Report
Attendance: 27,157
Waterford FC 0–1 Dinamo Tbilisi
Shengelia  50'
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Norbert Rolles
Sparta Prague 2–0 Slavia Sofia
Vdovjak  14', 45'
Stadion Letná, Prague
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Clive White
Hvidovre 1–2 Feyenoord
Manniche  2' Wijnstekers  32'
Bouwens  51'
Hvidovre Stadion, Copenhagen
Attendance: 3,292
Referee: Gwyn Owen
Carl Zeiss Jena 3–1 Valencia CF
Sengewald  1'
Schnuphase  9' (pen.)
Trocha  31'		 Morena  69'
Ernst Abbe Sportfield, Jena
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Roger Schoeters
Haugar 0–0 Newport County
Attendance: 4,522
Referee: Hans Harrysson
Waterschei Thor 0–0 Fortuna Düsseldorf
André Dumontstadion, Genk
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Victoriano Sánchez Arminio
Malmö 1–0 Benfica
Andersson  49'
Attendance: 10,585

Second leg
Newport County 6–0 Haugar
Gwyther  12'
Lowndes  44'
Aldridge  56'
Tynan  61', 81'
Moore  70'
Attendance: 8,855
Referee: C.G. McGrath

Newport County won 6–0 on aggregate.

Politehnica Timișoara 1–0 West Ham United
 Report
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi (Italy)

West Ham United won 4–1 on aggregate.

Dinamo Tbilisi 4–0 Waterford FC
Daraselia  66', 79'
Chivadze  74'
Chilaia  87'
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Iordan Zhezhov
Slavia Sofia 3–0 Sparta Prague
Velichkov  38'
Zhelyazkov  41'
Tsvetkov  45'
Slavia Stadium, Sofia
Attendance: 5,000
Feyenoord 1–0 Hvidovre
Nielsen  36'
Attendance: 3,292
Referee: Anders Mattsson
Valencia CF 1–0 Carl Zeiss Jena
Botubot  61'
Attendance: 35,000

Carl Zeiss Jena won 3–2 on aggregate.

Fortuna Düsseldorf 1–0 Waterschei Thor
Bansemer  5'
Attendance: 12,700
Referee: Jakob Baumann
Benfica 2–0 Malmö
Nené  57' (pen.), 60' (pen.)
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Ian Foote

Benfica won 2–1 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
West Ham United 2–4 Dinamo Tbilisi 1–4 1–0
Slavia Sofia 3–6 Feyenoord 3–2 0–4
Carl Zeiss Jena 3–2 Newport County 2–2 1–0
Fortuna Düsseldorf 2–3 Benfica 2–2 0–1

First leg
West Ham United 1–4 Dinamo Tbilisi
Cross  54' Chivadze  24'
Gutsaev  31'
Shengelia  55', 67'
Attendance: 34,957
Slavia Sofia 3–2 Feyenoord
Tsvetkov  8' (pen.), 63'
Minchev  64'		 Nielsen  20'
Vermeulen  78'
Slavia Stadium, Sofia
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Paolo Bergamo
Carl Zeiss Jena 2–2 Newport County
Raab  22', 85' Tynan  40', 90'
Ernst Abbe Sportfield, Jena
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Reidar Bjørnestad
Fortuna Düsseldorf 2–2 Benfica
Wenzel  2'
Dusend  39'		 Carlos Manuel  35'
Coelho  77'
Attendance: 32,000
Referee: Edvard Sostarić

Second leg
Dinamo Tbilisi 0–1 West Ham United
Pearson  87'
Attendance: 90,000

Dinamo Tbilisi won 4–2 on aggregate.

Feyenoord 4–0 Slavia Sofia
Notten  18'
van Deinsen  48'
Vermeulen  77', 85'
Attendance: 25,000

Feyenoord won 6–3 on aggregate.

Newport County 0–1 Carl Zeiss Jena
Kurbjuweit  27'
Attendance: 18,000

Carl Zeiss Jena won 3–2 on aggregate.

Benfica 1–0 Fortuna Düsseldorf
Chalana  87'
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Jan Keizer

Benfica won 3–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Dinamo Tbilisi 3–2 Feyenoord 3–0 0–2
Carl Zeiss Jena 2–1 Benfica 2–0 0–1

First leg
Dinamo Tbilisi 3–0 Feyenoord
Sulakvelidze  23', 51'
Gutsaev  30'
Attendance: 80,000
Carl Zeiss Jena 2–0 Benfica
Bielau  8'
Raab  15'
Ernst Abbe Sportfield, Jena
Attendance: 18,000

Second leg
Feyenoord 2–0 Dinamo Tbilisi
Bouwens  43'
Notten  56'
Attendance: 24,000
Referee: Franz Wöhrer

Dinamo Tbilisi won 3–2 on aggregate.

Benfica 1–0 Carl Zeiss Jena
Reinaldo  59'
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Pat Partridge

Carl Zeiss Jena won 2–1 on aggregate.

Final
Main article: 1981 European Cup Winners' Cup Final
Dinamo Tbilisi 2–1 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Gutsaev  67'
Daraselia  86'		 (Report)
(Report 2)		 Hoppe  63'
Attendance: 4,750
Referee: Riccardo Lattanzi (Italy)
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See also

References
  1. Newport County Football Club
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