1998–99 UEFA Champions League

1998–99 UEFA Champions League

Tournament details
Teams	56
Final positions
Champions	Manchester United (2nd title)
Runners-up	Bayern Munich
Tournament statistics
Matches played	97
Goals scored	238 (2.45 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Andriy Shevchenko Dwight Yorke (8 goals)
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The 1998–99 UEFA Champions League was the 44th season of the UEFA Champions League, Europe's premier club football tournament, and the seventh since it was renamed from the "European Champion Clubs' Cup" or "European Cup". The competition was won by Manchester United, coming back from a goal down in the last two minutes of injury time to defeat Bayern Munich 2–1 in the final. Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored United's goals after Bayern had hit the post and the bar. They were the first English club to win Europe's premier club football tournament since 1984 and were also the first English club to reach a Champions League final since the Heysel Stadium disaster and the subsequent banning of English clubs from all UEFA competitions between 1985 and 1990.

Manchester United also completed the Treble, becoming the fourth side in Europe to do so and in the process preventing Bayern Munich from achieving the feat themselves, Bayern eventually finished runners-up in their domestic cup two weeks later.

The Red Devils won the trophy without losing a single game, despite having competed in a group with Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Brøndby plus two highly-rated Italian clubs in the knock-out stages. However, United became champions with just five wins in total, the lowest number of wins recorded by a champion in the Champions League era to date, though the competition now has an extra round of two games in the knock-out stages.

It was the first time that a team that had not won their domestic league the previous season won the Champions League and it was also the first time that Europe's top honour was won by a team who would not have qualified for the tournament under the old qualification rules (title holder or national league champion). For the second time, the runners-up of 8 domestic leagues (3 teams : Spain (including current UEFA Champions League title holder) ; 2 teams : England, France, Greece (replacing Turkey), Holland, Germany, Italy and Portugal) were entered into the competition. The runners-up entered the second qualifying round while the league winners entered directly the group stage (except for Greece where both winner and runner-up entered the second qualifying).

Real Madrid were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the quarter-finals by Dynamo Kyiv.

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 1998–99 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sileks	1–2	Club Brugge	0–0	1–2
ŁKS Łódź	7–2	Gäncä	4–1	3–1
Litex Lovech	3–2	Halmstad	2–0	1–2
Grasshopper	8–0	Jeunesse Esch	6–0	2–0
Celtic	2–0	St Patrick's Athletic	0–0	2–0
FK Kareda Šiauliai	0–4	Branik Maribor	0–3	0–1
Dynamo Kyiv	10–1	Barry Town	8–0	2–1
Cliftonville	1–13	Košice	1–5	0–8
Skonto	2–1	Dinamo Minsk	0–0	2–1
Valletta	0–8	Anorthosis Famagusta	0–2	0–6
Beitar Jerusalem	5–1	B36 Tórshavn	4–1	1–0
Dinamo Tbilisi	4–3	Vllaznia Shkodër	3–0	1–3
HJK Helsinki	5–0	FC Yerevan	2–0	3–0
FK Obilić	4–1	ÍBV	2–0	2–1
Zimbru Chişinău	2–3	Újpest	1–0	1–3
Steaua București	5–4	FC Flora	4–1	1–3

Second qualifying round

Losing teams qualified for the first round of the 1998–99 UEFA Cup.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rosenborg	(a)4–4	Club Brugge	2–0	2–4
Manchester United	2–0	ŁKS Łódź	2–0	0–0
Litex Lovech	2–11	Spartak Moscow	0–5	2–6
Galatasaray	5–3	Grasshopper	2–1	3–2
Celtic	1–3	Croatia Zagreb	1–0	0–3
Branik Maribor	3–5	PSV Eindhoven	2–1	1–4(aet)
Dynamo Kyiv	(p)1–1	Sparta Prague	0–1	1–0(aet)
Košice	1–2	Brøndby	0–2	1–0
Internazionale	7–1	Skonto	4–0	3–1
Olympiacos	6–3	Anorthosis Famagusta	2–1	4–2
Benfica	8–4	Beitar Jerusalem	6–0	2–4
Dinamo Tbilisi	2–2(a)	Athletic Bilbao	2–1	0–1
HJK Helsinki	2–1	Metz	1–0	1–1
Bayern Munich	5–1	FK Obilić	4–0	1–1
Sturm Graz	7–2	Újpest	4–0	3–2
Steaua București	5–8	Panathinaikos	2–2	3–6

Note: Winning teams of the first qualifying round were drawn against teams qualified directly for the second qualifying round (16 and 16 teams).

1. ^ This match was played at Naftex's Neftochimik Stadium in Burgas because Litex Lovech's Lovech Stadium in Lovech did not meet UEFA standards.
2. ^ This match was played at FK Partizan's Partizan Stadium in Belgrade because FK Obilić's Miloš Obilić Stadium in Belgrade did not meet UEFA standards.

Group stage

Main article: 1998–99 UEFA Champions League group stage

Arsenal, Athletic Bilbao, Brøndby, Croatia Zagreb, HJK Helsinki, Inter, Kaiserslautern, Lens and Sturm Graz made their debut in the group stages.

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and best two runners-up advance to the quarter-finals

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Olympiacos	6	3	2	1	8	6	+2	11
Croatia Zagreb	6	2	2	2	5	7	−2	8
Porto	6	2	1	3	11	9	+2	7
Ajax	6	2	1	3	4	6	−2	7

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Juventus	6	1	5	0	7	5	+2	8
Galatasaray	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8
Rosenborg	6	2	2	2	7	8	−1	8
Athletic Bilbao	6	1	3	2	5	6	−1	6

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Internazionale	6	4	1	1	9	5	+4	13
Real Madrid	6	4	0	2	17	8	+9	12
Spartak Moscow	6	2	2	2	7	6	+1	8
Sturm Graz	6	0	1	5	2	16	−14	1

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Bayern Munich	6	3	2	1	9	6	+3	11
Manchester United	6	2	4	0	20	11	+9	10
Barcelona	6	2	2	2	11	9	+2	8
Brøndby	6	1	0	5	4	18	−14	3

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Dynamo Kyiv	6	3	2	1	11	7	+4	11
Lens	6	2	2	2	5	6	−1	8
Arsenal	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8
Panathinaikos	6	2	0	4	6	9	−3	6

Group F

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Kaiserslautern	6	4	1	1	12	6	+6	13
Benfica	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	8
PSV Eindhoven	6	2	1	3	10	11	−1	7
HJK Helsinki	6	1	2	3	8	12	−4	5

Ranking of runners-up

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Real Madrid	6	4	0	2	17	8	+9	12
Manchester United	6	2	4	0	20	11	+9	10
Galatasaray	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8
Benfica	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	8
Lens	6	2	2	2	5	6	−1	8
Croatia Zagreb	6	2	2	2	5	7	−2	8

Knockout stage

Main article: 1998–99 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Manchester United	2	1	3
	Internazionale	0	1	1
							Manchester United	1	3	4
							Juventus	1	2	3
	Juventus	2	1	3
	Olympiacos	1	1	2
													Manchester United	2
													Bayern Munich	1
	Real Madrid	1	0	1
	Dynamo Kyiv	1	2	3
							Dynamo Kyiv	3	0	3
							Bayern Munich	3	1	4
	Bayern Munich	2	4	6
	Kaiserslautern	0	0	0

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Real Madrid	1–3	Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	0–2
Manchester United	3–1	Internazionale	2–0	1–1
Juventus	3–2	Olympiacos	2–1	1–1
Bayern Munich	6–0	Kaiserslautern	2–0	4–0

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Manchester United	4–3	Juventus	1–1	3–2
Dynamo Kyiv	3–4	Bayern Munich	3–3	0–1

Final

Main article: 1999 UEFA Champions League Final

26 May 1999 20:45	Manchester United	2–1	Bayern Munich	Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 90,000 Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)
	Sheringham  90+1' Solskjær  90+3'		Basler  6'

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying rounds) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Andriy Shevchenko	Dynamo Kyiv	8
	Dwight Yorke	Manchester United	8
3	Zlatko Zahovič	Porto	7
4	Filippo Inzaghi	Juventus	6
5	Ruud van Nistelrooy	PSV Eindhoven	5
	Nuno Gomes	Benfica	5
7	Sonny Anderson	Barcelona	4
	Mario Basler	Bayern Munich	4
	Andy Cole	Manchester United	4
	Stefan Effenberg	Bayern Munich	4
	Ryan Giggs	Manchester United	4
	Siniša Gogić	Olympiacos	4
	Serhiy Rebrov	Dynamo Kyiv	4
	Jürgen Rische	Kaiserslautern	4
	Paul Scholes	Manchester United	4

See also

• 1998–99 UEFA Cup
• 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
• 1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup

External links

• 1998–99 season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at RSSSF