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 Arminia Bielefeld, 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.
Team overview
Club Location Ground Capacity Berlin Olympiastadion 100,000 Bochum Ruhrstadion 40,000 Braunschweig Eintracht-Stadion 38,000 Bremen Weserstadion 32,000 Dortmund Westfalenstadion 54,000 Duisburg Wedaustadion 38,500 Düsseldorf Rheinstadion 59,600 Frankfurt Waldstadion 62,000 Hamburg Volksparkstadion 80,000 Kaiserslautern Stadion Betzenberg 42,000 Cologne Müngersdorfer Stadion 61,000 Leverkusen Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion 20,000 Mönchengladbach Bökelbergstadion 34,500 Munich Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße 31,509 Munich Olympiastadion 80,000 Gelsenkirchen Parkstadion 70,000 Stuttgart Neckarstadion 72,000 Krefeld Grotenburg-Kampfbahn 28,000
1860 Munich played their first matches in Olympiastadion until renovation at their primary venue had been completed.
League table
Results
Top goalscorers 26 goals Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (FC Bayern Munich)
21 goals Horst Hrubesch (Hamburger SV) Dieter Müller (1. FC Köln)
20 goals Manfred Burgsmüller (Borussia Dortmund) Harald Nickel (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
17 goals Reiner Geye (1. FC Kaiserslautern)
16 goals Klaus Allofs (Fortuna Düsseldorf) Dieter Hoeneß (FC Bayern Munich)
14 goals Hansi Müller (VfB Stuttgart) Friedhelm Funkel (Bayer Uerdingen)
Champion squad
FC Bayern MunichGoalkeepers: Walter Junghans (29); Manfred Müller (5). Defenders: Udo Horsmann (34 / 5); Klaus Augenthaler (34 / 2); Hans Weiner (34 / 1); Kurt Niedermayer (29 / 10); Einar Jan Aas (6 / 1); Peter Gruber (3); Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck (2). Midfielders: Paul Breitner (32 / 10); Bernd Dürnberger (31 / 3); Wolfgang Dremmler (26); Wolfgang Kraus (22 / 1); Branko Oblak (20 / 1). Forwards: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (34 / 26); Dieter Hoeneß (32 / 16); Norbert Janzon (28 / 7); Wilhelm Reisinger (4). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)
Manager: Pál Csernai .
On the roster but have not played in a league game: Sepp Maier.
References
External links DFB Bundesliga archive 1979/1980