European Cup Winners' Cup (handball) 1979/80

The 1979/80 European Cup Winners' Cup was the fifth edition of the competition for European handball cup winners . The 21 participating teams qualified in their home countries through the national cup competition for the European Cup organized by the International Handball Federation (IHF) . In the final, the Spanish representative CB Calpisa Alicante prevailed against the automatically qualified defending champion VfL Gummersbach (20:15, 16:18). Teams from Poland , Romania , the Soviet Union and the GDR did not take part in the competition due to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow .

Competition chronology

First round

	total		First leg	Return leg
HB Dudelange	34: 47	NCR blue wit	17:25	17:22
Avanti Lebbeke	37: 48	BSV Bern	24:24	13:24
Sparta IF	35: 43	Fjellhammer IL	18:18	17:25
Volani Rovereto	43: 53	Trakia Plovdiv	19:20	24:33
FC Porto	50 : 42	Maccabi Arazim Ramat Gan	26:23	24:19

The other clubs ( RK Borac Banja Luka , CSL Dijon , Debreceni Dózsa , Gladsaxe HG , TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen , IK Heim , Víkingur Reykjavík , UHK Krems , CB Calpisa Alicante , Slavia Prague and defending champion VfL Gummersbach ) automatically entered the tournament with a bye Round of 16 a.

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
RK Borac Banja Luka	53 : 45	Trakia Plovdiv	37:26	16:19
CSL Dijon	41: 55	Debreceni Dózsa	26:28	15:27
Gladsaxe HG	20: 30	TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen	9: 9	11:21
NCR blue wit	39: 41	BSV Bern	19:20	20:21
IK home	43 : 35	Víkingur Reykjavík	20:16	23:19
UHK Krems	32: 49	CB Calpisa Alicante	17:21	15:28
Slavia Prague	63 : 47	FC Porto	35:24	28:23
VfL Gummersbach	45 : 32	Fjellhammer IL	20:15	25:17

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
RK Borac Banja Luka	49 : 42	BSV Bern	29:21	20:21
Debreceni Dózsa	43: 54	CB Calpisa Alicante	24:22	19:32
IK home	42 : 41	TSV Grün-Weiß Dankersen	23:18	19:23
VfL Gummersbach	41 : 30	Slavia Prague	19:15	22:15

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
RK Borac Banja Luka	36: 39	VfL Gummersbach	20:18	16:21
CB Calpisa Alicante	68 : 50	IK home	40:25	28:25

final

The first leg took place on March 30, 1980 in Alicante and the second leg on April 20, 1980 in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle .

	total		First leg	Return leg
CB Calpisa Alicante	36 : 33	VfL Gummersbach	20:15 (10: 7)	16:18 (8: 9)

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport80. A yearbook of GDR sports. Sportverlag Berlin , 1980, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 245-246 .

Web links

• Todor Krastev: Men Handball V European Cup Winners Cup 1980. In: todor66.com , accessed on April 13, 2020 (with different information on the literature).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Briefly reported. In: Neue Zürcher Nachrichten of April 1, 1980, p. 9 (accessed via e-newspaperarchives.ch ).
2. ↑ Gummersbach fails at Calpisa Alicante. In: Walliser Volksfreund dated April 22, 1980, p. 11 (accessed via e-newspaperarchives.ch ).