1998 UEFA Champions League final

1998 UEFA Champions League final
Match programme cover
Event1997–98 UEFA Champions League
Date20 May 1998
VenueAmsterdam Arena, Amsterdam
RefereeHellmut Krug (Germany)
Attendance48,500[1]
1997
1999

The 1998 UEFA Champions League final was a football match that took place at the Amsterdam Arena in Amsterdam, on 20 May 1998 to determine the winner of the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League. It pitted Real Madrid of Spain and Juventus of Italy. Juventus appeared in their third consecutive final, while Real Madrid were in their first of the Champions League era. Real Madrid won 1–0, to clinch their record breaking seventh European title, their first title for 32 years. The only goal was scored by Predrag Mijatović. The two teams would face each other in the final again in 2017.

Venue

The Amsterdam Arena, host of the final.

The Amsterdam Arena has served as the home stadium of Ajax since 1996. The previous home for Ajax's European matches, the Olympisch Stadion, also hosted European finals.

One-legged finals include the 1962 European Cup final, in which Benfica defeated Real Madrid 5–3, and the 1977 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, in which Anderlecht were beaten 2–0 by Hamburger SV. It also hosted the second legs of the 1981 UEFA Cup Final between AZ '67 and Ipswich Town, and of the 1992 UEFA Cup Final between Ajax and Torino.[2]

Route to the final

Italy Juventus Round Spain Real Madrid
Opponent Result Group stage Opponent Result
Netherlands Feyenoord 5–1 (H) Matchday 1 Norway Rosenborg 4-1 (H)
England Manchester United 2–3 (A) Matchday 2 Portugal Porto 2–0 (A)
Slovakia Košice 1–0 (A) Matchday 3 Greece Olympiacos 5–1 (H)
Slovakia Košice 3–2 (H) Matchday 4 Greece Olympiacos 0–0 (A)
Netherlands Feyenoord 0–2 (A) Matchday 5 Norway Rosenborg 0–2 (A)
England Manchester United 1–0 (H) Matchday 6 Portugal Porto 4–0 (H)
Group B runners-up

Pos Team Pld Pts
1 England Manchester United 6 15
2 Italy Juventus 6 12
3 Netherlands Feyenoord 6 9
4 Slovakia Košice 6 0
Source: UEFA
Final standings Group D winner

Pos Team Pld Pts
1 Spain Real Madrid 6 13
2 Norway Rosenborg 6 11
3 Greece Olympiacos 6 5
4 Portugal Porto 6 4
Source: UEFA
Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg Knockout phase Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg
Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv 5–2 1–1 (H) 4–1 (A) Quarter-finals Germany Bayer Leverkusen 4–1 1–1 (A) 3–0 (H)
France Monaco 6–4 4–1 (H) 2–3 (A) Semi-finals Germany Borussia Dortmund 2–0 2–0 (H) 0–0 (A)

Match

Details

Juventus Italy0–1Spain Real Madrid
Report Mijatović 66'
Attendance: 48,500[1]
Juventus
Real Madrid
GK 1 Italy Angelo Peruzzi (c)
RB 3 Italy Moreno Torricelli
CB 13 Italy Mark Iuliano
CB 4 Uruguay Paolo Montero Yellow card 79'
LB 22 Italy Gianluca Pessotto downward-facing red arrow 70'
RM 7 Italy Angelo Di Livio downward-facing red arrow 46'
CM 14 France Didier Deschamps downward-facing red arrow 77'
CM 21 France Zinedine Zidane
LM 26 Netherlands Edgar Davids Yellow card 34'
RF 9 Italy Filippo Inzaghi
LF 10 Italy Alessandro Del Piero
Substitutes:
GK 12 Italy Michelangelo Rampulla
LB 6 Portugal Dimas
RB 15 Italy Alessandro Birindelli
LM 8 Italy Antonio Conte upward-facing green arrow 77'
CM 20 Italy Alessio Tacchinardi upward-facing green arrow 46'
RF 16 Italy Nicola Amoruso
LF 18 Uruguay Daniel Fonseca upward-facing green arrow 70'
Manager:
Italy Marcello Lippi
GK 25 Germany Bodo Illgner
RB 17 Italy Christian Panucci
CB 5 Spain Manolo Sanchís (c)
CB 4 Spain Fernando Hierro Yellow card 23'
LB 3 Brazil Roberto Carlos Yellow card 37'
DM 6 Argentina Fernando Redondo
RM 27 France Christian Karembeu Yellow card 56'
LM 10 Netherlands Clarence Seedorf Yellow card 90+4'
AM 7 Spain Raúl downward-facing red arrow 90'
CF 15 Spain Fernando Morientes downward-facing red arrow 81'
CF 8 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Predrag Mijatović downward-facing red arrow 89'
Substitutes:
GK 1 Spain Santiago Cañizares
DF 19 Spain Fernando Sanz
MF 11 Spain José Amavisca upward-facing green arrow 90'
MF 16 Spain Jaime upward-facing green arrow 81'
MF 18 Spain Víctor Sánchez
MF 20 Brazil Sávio
FW 9 Croatia Davor Šuker upward-facing green arrow 89'
Manager:
Germany Jupp Heynckes

Assistant referees:
Thorsten Bastian (Germany)
Christian Schräer (Germany)
Fourth official:
Hans-Jürgen Weber (Germany)

Match rules

Statistics

Source: UEFA Champions League Final 1998 Full-Time Report Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine (deadl link)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "2. Finals" (PDF). UEFA Champions League Statistics Handbook 2016/17. Nyon: Union of European Football Associations. 2017. p. 1. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Amsterdam's historic finals". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2013.