But Swedish hopes of a fourth clean sheet in five games were spoiled by Trevor Francis's diving header at Munich's Olympiastadion. English football is mourning Trevor Francis, whose goal won Nottingham Forest their first European Champion Clubs’ Cup title in 1979.

The final pitted Clough against another English coach in Malmö FF's Bob Houghton, who had masterminded wins against AS Monaco FC, FC Dynamo Kyiv, Wisła Kraków and FK Austria Wien. That looked the likely outcome after a 3-3 first-leg draw at the City Ground, but that was reckoning without Forest's knack of upsetting the odds, which came to the fore as Ian Bowyer nicked a 1-0 victory in Cologne. Now they wanted to end a sequence of four European semi-final defeats. FC Köln had shown their mettle by knocking out Rangers FC, the only quarter-finalist to have won a major European honour. European Champion Clubs' Cup winner: 78/79: English League Cup winner: 78/79: English Supercup Winner: 78/79: European Champion Clubs' Cup. So Forest were through to the last four, where they faced arguably their toughest test. During the 199596 English football season, Nottingham Forest competed in the FA Premier League. The 197980 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won by holders Nottingham Forest in the final against Hamburg. While the Swiss had the goals of Claudio Sulser, architect of Madrid's second-round exit, Clough could count on English international custodian, Peter Shilton, nemesis of Liverpool. (, FA Cup) Average home league attendance. Forest then put seven goals past AEK Athens before dismissing Grasshopper Club in the last eight.

It was the first of two European Cups that Forest. They had beaten the holders, Liverpool FC, whose domestic primacy they had usurped the previous season following promotion to the English first division, with 2-0 the aggregate score. Francis, England's first 1m player, will forever be in the Forest history books after scoring their winning goal in the 1979 European Cup final. Brian Clough's team had got off to the perfect start.

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