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The 1979–80 season was Manchester United's 78th season in the Football League, and their fifth consecutive season in the top division of English football. [1] They finished the season second in the league, just two points behind champions Liverpool, and qualified for the 1980–81 UEFA Cup.
Appearances and goals are for first-team competitive matches only, including Premier League, Football League, FA Cup, League Cup, Charity/Community Shield, European Cup/Champions League, UEFA Cup/Europa League, Cup Winners' Cup, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Super Cup and Club World Cup matches; wartime matches are regarded as unofficial and are excluded, as are matches from the abandoned 1939–40 ...
The 1980–81 season was Manchester United's 79th season in the Football League, and their 6th consecutive season in the top division of English football. [1] It was the last of their four seasons under the management of Dave Sexton, who was sacked after the end of the season after failing to win the club a major trophy.
In the summer of 1979 he was transferred to Queens Park Rangers for a fee of £7,500. [1] His career at QPR was equally short, making just two appearances in the last two games of the 1979–80 season which were both won. He was given a free transfer to Australian side Sydney Olympic in May 1981.
Sloan's involvement with the Manchester United first team gradually decreased over the next three seasons – he made just eight appearances in total in 1979–80 and 1980–81, and none at all in 1981–82 – and he was released to Chester in July 1982. At Chester, Sloan found his niche, making nearly 50 appearances in the one season he spent ...
Edward Lewis (3 January 1935 – 2 May 2011) was an English footballer who played as a centre-forward and later as a full-back.Born in Manchester, he played for Goslings before joining the now-famous Manchester United Junior Athletic Club (MUJAC).
The 1979–80 season was the 81st completed season of The Football League. Bob Paisley's Liverpool retained their league championship trophy after fighting off a determined challenge by Dave Sexton's Manchester United. Nottingham Forest failed to make a sustained title challenge but compensated for this by retaining the European Cup.
20 August 1979 - Stan Fox, 73, played 136 league games at half-back and full-back for York City in the 1930s. 26 August 1979 – Sam Lawrie, 44, former Middlesbrough and Charlton Athletic winger. 11 September 1979 - Laurie Banfield, 89, played 259 league games for Bristol City between 1911 and 1925 as a left-back, his career disrupted by World ...