1980 Roller Hockey World Cup

The 1980 Roller Hockey World Cup was the twenty-fourth roller hockey world cup, organized by the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports. It was contested by 16 national teams (6 from Europe, 4 from South America, 2 from North America, 2 from Asia and 2 from Oceania). All the games were played in the city of Talcahuano, in Chile, the chosen city to host the World Cup.

1980 Roller Hockey World Cup

Roller Hockey Men's World Championships
Tournament details
Host country	Chile
Teams	16 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (9th title)
Runners-up	Argentina
Third place	Portugal
Fourth place	Chile
Tournament statistics
Matches played	80
Goals scored	734 (9.18 per match)
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Group stage

Group A

Team	NED	JPN	ARG	IND
Netherlands		14–2	2–4	40–0
Japan			0–18	19–0
Argentina				31–0
India

Source:

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Argentina	3	3	0	0	53	2	51	6	Advancing to final-eight
Netherlands	3	2	0	1	56	6	50	4
Japan	3	1	0	2	21	32	−11	2
India	3	0	0	3	0	90	−90	0

Source:

Group B

Team	ESP	AUS	ITA	CAN
Spain		3–1	1–1	21–1
Australia			1–9	6–0
Italy				13–0
Canada

Source:

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Spain	3	2	1	0	25	3	22	5	Advancing to final-eight
Italy	3	2	1	0	23	2	21	5
Australia	3	1	0	2	8	12	−4	2
Canada	3	0	0	3	1	40	−39	0

Source:

Group C

Team	POR	NZL	USA	FRA
Portugal		13–0	6–2	5–1
New Zealand			3–11	2–6
United States				7–3
France

Source:

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Portugal	3	3	0	0	24	3	21	6	Advancing to final-eight
United States	3	2	0	1	20	12	8	4
France	3	1	0	2	10	14	−4	2
New Zealand	3	0	0	3	5	30	−25	0

Source:

Group D

Team	BRA	SWI	CHI	COL
Brazil		6–1	3–2	6–2
Switzerland			0–2	7–4
Chile				12–1
Colombia

Source:

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Brazil	3	3	0	0	15	5	10	6	Advancing to final-eight
Chile	3	2	0	1	16	4	12	4
Switzerland	3	1	0	2	8	12	−4	2
Colombia	3	0	0	3	7	25	−18	0

Source:

Final phase

9th to 16th play-off

Team	NZL	JPN	AUS	COL	IND	FRA	CAN	SWI
New Zealand		4–4	0–3	3–11	21–1	3–6	V/D	0–5
Japan			D/V	6–8	17–1	4–6	5–8	0–11
Australia				2–3	20–0	1–2	12–0	D/V
Colombia					V/D	2–7	8–2	1–5
India						4–6	0–8	0–56
France							6–4	D/D
Canada								1–13
Switzerland

Source:

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Switzerland	7	6	1	0	90	2	88	13
France	7	6	1	0	33	18	15	13
Colombia	7	5	0	2	33	25	8	10
Australia	7	4	0	3	38	4	34	8
New Zealand	7	2	1	4	31	30	1	5
Canada	7	2	0	5	23	44	−21	4
Japan	7	1	1	5	36	38	−2	3
India	7	0	0	7	6	128	−122	0

Source:

Final-eight

Team	USA	POR	ITA	CHI	NED	ESP	ARG	BRA
United States		1–2	1–2	2–3	0–4	3–5	1–4	1–7
Portugal			2–2	4–2	2–4	1–2	8–2	4–4
Italy				2–4	4–2	1–3	0–4	3–4
Chile					2–5	0–1	1–1	2–1
Netherlands						0–4	0–7	4–5
Spain							1–7	2–1
Argentina								6–2
Brazil

Source:

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain (C)	7	6	0	1	18	13	5	12
Argentina	7	5	1	1	31	13	18	11
Portugal	7	3	2	2	23	17	6	8
Chile	7	3	1	3	14	16	−2	7
Brazil	7	3	1	3	24	22	2	7
Netherlands	7	3	0	4	19	24	−5	6
Italy	7	2	1	4	14	20	−6	5
United States	7	0	0	7	9	27	−18	0

Source:
(C) Champions

Standings

	Team
	Spain
	Argentina
	Portugal
4th	Chile
5th	Brazil
6th	Netherlands
7th	Italy
8th	United States
9th	Switzerland
10th	France
11th	Colombia
12th	Australia
13th	New Zealand
14th	Canada
15th	Japan
16th	India

See also

• FIRS Roller Hockey World Cup

External links

• 1980 World Cup in rink-hockey.net historical database