The 1979–80 DFB-Pokal was the 37th season of the annual German

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

cup competition. It began on 24 August 1979 and ended on 4 June 1980. 128 teams competed in the tournament of seven rounds. In the final Fortuna Düsseldorf defeated

1. FC Köln 1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., commonly known as simply FC Köln () or FC Cologne in English, is a German professional football club based in Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs ''Kölner Ballspi ...

2–1 to defend their title from the preceding season.

Matches

First round

Replays

Second round

Replays

Third round

Replays

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

References

External links

Official site of the DFB

Kicker.de
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