1997–98 UEFA Champions League

1997–98 UEFA Champions League

The Amsterdam Arena held the final
Tournament details
Dates	23 July – 27 August 1997 (qualifying) 17 September 1997 – 20 May 1998 (competition proper)
Teams	24 (group stage) 55 (total)
Final positions
Champions	Real Madrid (7th title)
Runners-up	Juventus
Tournament statistics
Matches played	85
Goals scored	239 (2.81 per match)
Attendance	2,868,568 (33,748 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Alessandro Del Piero (10 goals)

The 1997–98 UEFA Champions League was the 43rd season of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA's premier club football tournament, and the sixth since its rebranding from the "European Champion Clubs' Cup" or "European Cup". The tournament was won 1–0 by Real Madrid, winning for the first time in 32 years, beating Juventus who were playing in a third consecutive final. It started a run of three victories in five seasons for the Spanish club.

This season was the first to have six groups, as opposed to four in the previous tournament, which meant that only two group runners-up qualified for the quarter finals as opposed to all the second-placed teams. It was also the first to have two qualifying rounds instead of just one. After three years of entering the UEFA Cup, champions of smaller nations returned to the Champions League. For the first time, the runners-up of eight domestic leagues (three teams: Germany (Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund as UEFA Champions League title holder); two teams: England (Newcastle United, Manchester United), France (AS Monaco, Paris Saint-Germain), Netherlands (Feyenoord, PSV Eindhoven), Italy (Juventus, Parma), Portugal (Porto, Sporting CP), Spain (Barcelona, Real Madrid) and Turkey (Beşiktaş, Galatasaray) were entered into the competition. The runners-up entered the second qualifying round, while the league winners entered directly the group stage (except for Turkey where both winner and runner-up entered the second qualifying round).

Borussia Dortmund, the defending champions, were eliminated in the semi-finals by eventual winners Real Madrid.

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Slovakia and the Republic of Macedonia all entered their champions for the first time, while the champion of Yugoslavia returned to this competition for the first time after 1991-92 season and the abolishment of UN ban.

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 1997–98 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Derry City	0–3	Maribor Branik	0–2	0–1
Košice	4–0	ÍA	3–0	1–0
Partizan	1–5	Croatia Zagreb	1–0	0–5
Valletta	1–2	Skonto	1–0	0–2
Pyunik	3–6	MTK Hungária	0–2	3–4
Crusaders	2–8	Dinamo Tbilisi	1–3	1–5
Sileks Kratovo	1–3	Beitar Jerusalem	1–0	0–3
Steaua București	5–3	CSKA Sofia	3–3	2–0
Constructorul Chişinău	3–4	MPKC Mozyr	1–1	2–3
Lantana	0–3	Jazz	0–1	0–2
GÍ	0–11	Rangers	0–5	0–6
Neftchi Baku	0–10	Widzew Łódź	0–2	0–8
Dynamo Kyiv	6–0	Barry Town	2–0	4–0
Sion	5–0	Jeunesse Esch	4–0	1–0
Anorthosis	4–1	FK Kareda Šiauliai	3–0	1–1

Second qualifying round

Losing teams qualified for the first round of the 1997–98 UEFA Cup.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
MTK Hungária	1–4	Rosenborg	0–1	1–3
Beşiktaş	3–1	Maribor Branik	0–0	3–1
Sion	2–8	Galatasaray	1–4	1–4
Olympiacos	7–2	MPKC Mozyr	5–0	2–2
Wüstenrot Salzburg	0–3	Sparta Prague	0–0	0–3
IFK Göteborg	4–1	Rangers	3–0	1–1
Barcelona	4–2	Skonto	3–2	1–0
Brøndby	3–4	Dynamo Kyiv	2–4	1–0
Newcastle United	4–3	Croatia Zagreb	2–1	2–2(aet)
Feyenoord	8–3	Jazz	6–2	2–1
Bayer Leverkusen	6–2	Dinamo Tbilisi	6–1	0–1
Košice	2–1	Spartak Moscow	2–1	0–0
Steaua București	3–5	Paris Saint-Germain	3–0	0–5
Widzew Łódź	1–7	Parma	1–3	0–4
Beitar Jerusalem	0–3	Sporting CP	0–0	0–3
Anorthosis Famagusta	2–3	Lierse	2–0	0–3

Note: Winning teams of the first qualifying round were drawn against teams qualified directly for the second qualifying round. Because of the unequal number of teams (15 and 17), Wüstenrot Salzburg and Sparta Prague had to play against each other.

Group stage

Main article: 1997–98 UEFA Champions League group stage

Lierse

Sparta

Man. United

Newcastle

Real Madrid

Barcelona

PSG

Monaco

Leverkusen

Dortmund

Bayern

Olympiacos

Juventus

Parma

Feyenoord

PSV

Rosenborg

Sporting

Porto

Košice

Göteborg

Beşiktaş

Galatasaray

Dynamo

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Location of teams of the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League group stage.
Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; Orange: Group C; Yellow: Group D; Green: Group E; Blue: Group F.

Bayer Leverkusen, Beşiktaş, Košice, Feyenoord, Lierse, Newcastle United, Olympiacos, Parma, Sparta Prague and Sporting CP made their debut in the group stage.

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

Group A

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	DOR	GAL	PAR	SPR
Borussia Dortmund	–	4–1	2–0	4–1
Galatasaray	0–1	–	1–1	2–0
Parma	1–0	2–0	–	2–2
Sparta Prague	0–3	3–0	0–0	–

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Group B

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	FEY	JUV	KOS	MU
Feyenoord	–	2–0	2–0	1–3
Juventus	5–1	–	3–2	1–0
Košice	0–1	0–1	–	0–3
Manchester United	2–1	3–2	3–0	–

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Group C

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	BAR	DK	NEW	PSV
Barcelona	–	0–4	1–0	2–2
Dynamo Kyiv	3–0	–	2–2	1–1
Newcastle United	3–2	2–0	–	0–2
PSV Eindhoven	2–2	1–3	1–0	–

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Group D

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	OLY	POR	RM	ROS
Olympiacos	–	1–0	0–0	2–2
Porto	2–1	–	0–2	1–1
Real Madrid	5–1	4–0	–	4–1
Rosenborg	5–1	2–0	2–0	–

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Group E

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	BAY	BJK	GÖT	PSG
Bayern Munich	–	2–0	0–1	5–1
Beşiktaş	0–2	–	1–0	3–1
IFK Göteborg	1–3	2–1	–	0–1
Paris Saint-Germain	3–1	2–1	3–0	–

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Group F

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	MON	LEV	LIE	SCP
Monaco	–	4–0	5–1	3–2
Bayer Leverkusen	2–2	–	1–0	4–1
Lierse	0–1	0–2	–	1–1
Sporting CP	3–0	0–2	2–1	–

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Knockout stage

Main article: 1997–98 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayer Leverkusen	1–4	Real Madrid	1–1	0–3
Bayern Munich	0–1	Borussia Dortmund	0–0	0–1 (aet)
Juventus	5–2	Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	4–1
Monaco	1–1 (a)	Manchester United	0–0	1–1

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Real Madrid	2–0	Borussia Dortmund	2–0	0–0
Juventus	6–4	Monaco	4–1	2–3

Final

Main article: 1998 UEFA Champions League Final

20 May 1998

20:45

Juventus	0–1	Real Madrid
	Report	Mijatović 66'

Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam

Attendance: 48,500

Referee: Hellmut Krug (Germany)

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying rounds) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus	10
2	Thierry Henry	Monaco	7
3	Filippo Inzaghi	Juventus	6
	Serhiy Rebrov	Dynamo Kyiv	6
5	Andy Cole	Manchester United	5
	Andriy Shevchenko	Dynamo Kyiv	5
7	Stefan Beinlich	Bayer Leverkusen	4
	Oktay Derelioğlu	Beşiktaş	4
	Emerson	Bayer Leverkusen	4
	Victor Ikpeba	Monaco	4
	Carsten Jancker	Bayern Munich	4
	Fernando Morientes	Real Madrid	4
	Sigurd Rushfeldt	Rosenborg	4
	Davor Šuker	Real Madrid	4
	David Trezeguet	Monaco	4
	Stéphane Chapuisat	Borussia Dortmund	4
	Harald Brattbakk	Rosenborg	4
	Roar Strand	Rosenborg	4

Trivia

• Košice earned the dubious distinction of becoming the first team in Champions League history to end the group stage without earning a single point.
• The quarter-final between German teams Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund marked the first meeting of two teams from the same country in the Champions League.

See also

• 1997 UEFA Intertoto Cup
• 1997–98 UEFA Cup
• 1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

External links

• 1997–98 All matches – season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at RSSSF
• All scorers 1997–98 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers qualifying round
• 1997/98 UEFA Champions League - results and line-ups (archive)