1980 in Brazilian football explained
| Country: | Brazil |
| Soccer: | no |
| Season: | 1980 |
| Prevseason: | 1979 |
| Nextseason: | 1981 |
| Flagicon: | yes |
The following article presents a summary of the 1980 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 79th season of competitive football in the country.
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
See main article: 1980 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.
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Flamengo declared as the Campeonato Brasileiro champions by aggregate score of 3-3.
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B
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Londrina declared as the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B champions by aggregate score of 5–1.
Promotion
The champion and the runner-up, which are Londrina and CSA, were promoted to the following year's first level.
State championship champions
| State | Champion | | State | Champion |
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| Acre | Juventus-AC | | Paraíba | Campinense |
| Alagoas | CSA | | Paraná | Cascavel
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| Amapá | Macapá | | Pernambuco | Sport Recife |
| Amazonas | Nacional | | Piauí | River |
| Bahia | Vitória | | Rio de Janeiro | Fluminense |
| Ceará | Ceará | | Rio Grande do Norte | América-RN |
| Distrito Federal | Brasília | | Rio Grande do Sul | Grêmio |
| Espírito Santo | Desporiva | | Rondônia | Moto Clube |
| Goiás | Vila Nova | | Roraima | Atlético Roraima |
| Maranhão | Sampaio Corrêa | | Santa Catarina | Joinville |
| Mato Grosso | Mixto | | São Paulo | São Paulo |
| Mato Grosso do Sul | Operário | | Sergipe | Itabaiana |
| Minas Gerais | Atlético Mineiro | | Tocantins | -|-|Pará|Paysandu||||} (1)Cascavel and Colorado shared the Paraná State Championship title.
Other competition champions
Brazilian clubs in international competitions
Brazil national team
The following table lists all the games played by the Brazil national football team in official competitions and friendly matches during 1980.
| width=12% | Date | width=12% | Opposition | width=1% | Result | width=7% | Score | width=26% | Brazil scorers | width=18% | Competition |
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| April 2, 1980 | | W | 7-1 | Falcão, Reinaldo (2), Zico (2), Joãozinho, Baltazar | International Friendly (unofficial match) | | May 1, 1980 | Minas Gerais State Combined Team | W | 4-0 | Serginho Chulapa, Renato (2), Sócrates | International Friendly (unofficial match) | | June 8, 1980 | | W | 2-0 | Zé Sérgio, Serginho Chulapa | International Friendly | | June 15, 1980 | | L | 1-2 | Nunes | International Friendly | | June 24, 1980 | | W | 2-1 | Zico, Toninho Cerezo | International Friendly | | June 29, 1980 | | D | 1-1 | Zico | International Friendly | | August 27, 1980 | | W | 1-0 | Getúlio | International Friendly | | September 25, 1980 | | W | 2-1 | Reinaldo, Zé Sérgio | International Friendly | | October 30, 1980 | | W | 6-0 | Zé Sérgio, Tita, Zico (2), Sócrates, Luizinho | International Friendly | | December 21, 1980 | | W | 2-0 | Sócrates, Zé Sérgio | International Friendly | |
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