1980 African Cup of Nations Final

1980 African Cup of Nations Final
Event	1980 African Cup of Nations
Date	March 22, 1980
Venue	National Stadium, Lagos
Referee	Gebreyesus Tesfaye (Ethiopia)
Attendance	80,000

The 1980 Africa Cup of Nations Final was a football match that took place on March 22, 1980 at the National Stadium in Lagos, Nigeria, to determine the winner of the 1980 African Cup of Nations. Nigeria defeated Algeria 3–0 with two goals from Segun Odegbami and a goal from Muda Lawal, to win their first African Cup.

Match

March 22, 1980

Nigeria	3–0	Algeria
Odegbami 2', 42' Lawal 50'	Report

Nigeria

Algeria


GK	1	Mehdi Cerbah
RB		Chaabane Merzekane
CB		Abdelkader Horr
CB		Mohamed Khedis
LB	3	Mustapha Kouici
MF		Bouzid Mahyouz
MF	8	Ali Fergani
MF	10	Lakhdar Belloumi
FW	7	Salah Assad
FW	9	Tedj Bensaoula
FW		Hocine Benmiloudi
Substitutions:
GK		Abderrazak Harb
DF		Abderrahmane Derouaz
DF		Mahmoud Guendouz
DF		Salah Larbès
MF		Mohamed Ouamar Ghrib
FW		Redouane Guemri
FW	11	Rabah Madjer
FW		Smaïl Slimani
Manager:
Mahieddine Khalef Zdravko Rajkov

Assistant referees:
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v t e Algeria national football team matches
Africa Cup of Nations Finals	1980 1990
Afro-Asian Cup of Nations	1991
Other matches	Egypt 0–1 Algeria (2009)

v t e Africa Cup of Nations
Tournaments	Sudan 1957 United Arab Republic 1959 Ethiopia 1962 Ghana 1963 Tunisia 1965 Ethiopia 1968 Sudan 1970 Cameroon 1972 Egypt 1974 Ethiopia 1976 Ghana 1978 Nigeria 1980 Libya 1982 Ivory Coast 1984 Egypt 1986 Morocco 1988 Algeria 1990 Senegal 1992 Tunisia 1994 South Africa 1996 Burkina Faso 1998 Ghana/Nigeria 2000 Mali 2002 Tunisia 2004 Egypt 2006 Ghana 2008 Angola 2010 Gabon/Equatorial Guinea 2012 South Africa 2013 Equatorial Guinea 2015 Gabon 2017 Cameroon 2019 Ivory Coast 2021 Guinea 2023
Qualification	1957 1959 1962 1963 1965 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2013 2015 2017
Finals	1957 1959 1962 1963 1965 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2013 2015
Squads	1957 1959 1962 1963 1965 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2013 2015
Statistics	Appearances Records and statistics
No qualification took place in 1957 and 1959 as places were given by invitation only. In 1959 and 1976, there was no final; the article is about the decisive match of the final group stage.