The 1979 Gillette Cup was the seventeenth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament.
[1] The tournament was won by Somerset County Cricket Club who defeated Northamptonshire County Cricket Club by 45 runs in the final at Lord's.
The seventeen first-class counties, were joined by five Minor Counties: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Devon, Durham and Suffolk.
The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage.
Winners from the quarter-finals then progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 8 September 1979.