1979–80 Bundesliga


The 1979–80 Bundesliga was the 17th season of the Bundesliga, West Germany's premier football league. It began on 11 August 1979 and ended on 31 May 1980. Hamburger SV were the defending champions.

Competition modus

Every team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. If two or more teams were tied on points, places were determined by goal difference and, if still tied, by goals scored. The team with the most points were crowned champions while the three teams with the fewest points were relegated to their respective 2. Bundesliga divisions.

Team changes to 1978–79

, 1. FC Nürnberg and SV Darmstadt 98 were relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after finishing in the last three places. They were replaced by Bayer Leverkusen, winners of the 2. Bundesliga Northern Division, TSV 1860 Munich, winners of the Southern Division and Bayer Uerdingen, who won a two-legged promotion play-off against SpVgg Bayreuth.

Season overview

Team overview

ClubLocationGroundCapacity
BerlinOlympiastadion100,000
BochumRuhrstadion40,000
BraunschweigEintracht-Stadion38,000
BremenWeserstadion32,000
DortmundWestfalenstadion54,000
DuisburgWedaustadion38,500
DüsseldorfRheinstadion59,600
FrankfurtWaldstadion62,000
HamburgVolksparkstadion80,000
KaiserslauternStadion Betzenberg42,000
CologneMüngersdorfer Stadion61,000
LeverkusenUlrich-Haberland-Stadion20,000
MönchengladbachBökelbergstadion34,500
MunichStadion an der Grünwalder Straße31,509
MunichOlympiastadion80,000
GelsenkirchenParkstadion70,000
StuttgartNeckarstadion72,000
KrefeldGrotenburg-Kampfbahn28,000

Results

Top goalscorers

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FC Bayern Munich
Goalkeepers: Walter Junghans ; Manfred Müller.

Defenders: Udo Horsmann ; Klaus Augenthaler ; Hans Weiner ; Kurt Niedermayer ; Einar Jan Aas ; Peter Gruber ; Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck.

Midfielders: Paul Breitner ; Bernd Dürnberger ; Wolfgang Dremmler ; Wolfgang Kraus ; Branko Oblak .

Forwards: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge ; Dieter Hoeneß ; Norbert Janzon ; Wilhelm Reisinger.

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Manager: Pál Csernai .
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