| Competition: | Primera División |
| Season: | 1980 |
| Winners: | River Plate (Metropolitano) Rosario Central (Nacional) |
| Prevseason: | 1979 |
| Nextseason: | 1981 |
The 1980 Primera División season was the 89th season of top-flight football in Argentina. River Plate won the Metropolitano (20th title) while Rosario Central (3rd title) won the Nacional championship.
All Boys, Quilmes and Tigre were relegated.[1]
| Competition: | Metropolitano |
| Season: | 1980 |
| Winners: | River Plate (20th title) |
| Promoted: | Talleres (C) Tigre |
| Relegated: | All Boys Quilmes Tigre |
| Continentalcup1: | 1981 Copa Libertadores |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | River Plate |
| League Topscorer: |  Diego Maradona (25 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 1979 |
| Nextseason: | 1981 |
| Competition: | Nacional |
| Season: | 1980 |
| Winners: | Rosario Central (3rd title) |
| Continentalcup1: | 1981 Copa Libertadores |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Rosario Central |
| League Topscorer: | Diego Maradona (18 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 1979 |
| Nextseason: | 1981 |
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|-|}Rosario Central won the championship 5–3 on aggregate.
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| GK | 1 | Juan Ramos | ||
| DF | 4 | Lucio Del Mul | ||
| DF | 2 | Pascual Noriega | ||
| DF | 6 | Héctor Maldonado | ||
| DF | 3 | Enrique Vivanco | ||
| MF | 8 | Oscar A. López | ||
| MF | 5 | Guillermo Aramayo | ||
| MF | 10 | Roberto Gasparaini | ||
| FW | 7 | Luis Amuchástegui | ||
| FW | 9 | Miguel Ballejo | ||
| FW | 11 | Atilio Oyola | ||
| Substitutes: | ||||
| FW | Horacio Baldessari | |||
| MF | Rubén Molina | |||
| Manager: | ||||
| Alfio Basile | ||||
| GK | 1 | Daniel Carnevali | ||
| DF | 4 | Juan C. Ghielmetti | ||
| DF | 2 | Oscar Crayacich | ||
| DF | 6 | |||
| DF | 3 | |||
| MF | 8 | José Luis Gaitán | ||
| MF | 5 | |||
| MF | 10 | |||
| FW | 7 | Félix Orte | ||
| FW | 9 | |||
| FW | 11 | Daniel Teglia | ||
| Substitutes: | ||||
| FW | Guillermo Trama | |||
| DF | Aldo Espinoza | |||
| Manager: | ||||
| Ángel Tulio Zof | ||||