| Hamburger SV beat Kaiserslautern 3-2 (H) on 23 Aug 1980 |
| Kaiserslautern beat Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 (A) on 15 Aug 1980 |
| Bayer Leverkusen beat Borussia Dortmund 4-1 (H) on 20 Sep 1980 |
| Borussia Dortmund beat Arminia Bielefeld 5-0 (H) on 13 Sep 1980 |
| Arminia Bielefeld beat Fortuna Düsseldorf 3-0 (H) on 20 Sep 1980 |
| Fortuna Düsseldorf beat Bayern München 3-0 (H) on 23 Aug 1980 |
| Bayern München beat VfB Stuttgart 2-1 (A) on 20 Sep 1980 |
| VfB Stuttgart beat Borussia Mönchengladbach 4-2 (H) on 6 Sep 1980 |
| Borussia Mönchengladbach beat VfL Bochum 2-1 (H) on 26 Sep 1980 |
| VfL Bochum beat Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 (H) on 20 Sep 1980 |
| Eintracht Frankfurt beat 1860 München 2-1 (H) on 13 Sep 1980 |
| 1860 München beat Köln 2-1 (H) on 6 Sep 1980 |
| Köln beat MSV Duisburg 4-3 (A) on 20 Sep 1980 |
| MSV Duisburg beat Nürnberg 2-0 (H) on 6 Sep 1980 |
| Nürnberg beat Karlsruhe 5-0 (H) on 13 Sep 1980 |
| Karlsruhe beat Schalke 3-2 (H) on 20 Sep 1980 |
| Schalke beat Uerdingen 3-1 (H) on 23 Aug 1980 |
FLP: Thick arrows show the earliest chain of wins that passes through every team.