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The knockout stage of the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League began on 4 March 1998 and ended with the final at the Amsterdam Arena in Amsterdam on 20 May 1998. The six group winners in the group stage, as well as the two best runners-up, competed in the knockout stage. For the quarter-finals, two group winners were randomly drawn against the two best runners-up from another group while the other four group winners face against each other with the restriction that two best runners-up cannot be drawn against the winners of their own group. The knockout stage was then played as a single-elimination tournament.

Each quarter-final and semi-final was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home; the team that scored the most goals over the two legs qualified for the following round. In the event that the two teams scored the same number of goals over the two legs, the team that scored more goals away from home qualified for the next round; if both teams scored the same number of away goals, matches would go to golden goal extra time and then penalties if the teams could not be separated after extra time.

Draw dates

The draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals was announced on 17 December 1997 and 20 March 1998.^[1]^[2] UEFA reported that the final would be played at Amsterdam Arena.^[3]

Qualified teams

Group	Winners	Runners-up (best two qualify)
A	Borussia Dortmund	—
B	Manchester United	Juventus
C	Dynamo Kyiv	—
D	Real Madrid	—
E	Bayern Munich	—
F	Monaco	Bayer Leverkusen

Bracket


Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final



Juventus	1	4	5

Dynamo Kyiv	1	1	2
				Juventus	4	2	6

				Monaco	1	3	4
Monaco (a)	0	1	1
								20 May – Amsterdam
Manchester United	0	1	1
								Juventus	0

								Real Madrid	1
Bayer Leverkusen	1	0	1

Real Madrid	1	3	4
				Real Madrid	2	0	2

				Borussia Dortmund	0	0	0
Bayern Munich	0	0	0

Borussia Dortmund (a.e.t.)	0	1	1

Quarter-finals

Summary

The quarter-final between German clubs Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund marked the first meeting of two teams from the same country in the Champions League (including the European Cup era, the first game between teams from the same country occurred in 1958–59). With Bayer Leverkusen also having qualified, it marked the first time three clubs from the same nation played in the knockout phase.

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 (a.e.t.)
Juventus	5–2	Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	4–1
Monaco	1–1 (a)	Manchester United	0–0	1–1

Matches

4 March 1998

20:45

Bayer Leverkusen	1–1	Real Madrid
Beinlich 18'	Report	Karembeu 74'

Ulrich-Haberland-Stadion, Leverkusen

Attendance: 22,500

Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)

18 March 1998

20:45

Real Madrid	3–0	Bayer Leverkusen
Karembeu 52' Morientes 57' Hierro 89' (pen.)	Report

Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid

Attendance: 59,000

Referee: Nikolai Levnikov (Russia)

Real Madrid won 4–1 on aggregate.

4 March 1998

20:45

Juventus	1–1	Dynamo Kyiv
Inzaghi 69'	Report	Husin 56'

Stadio delle Alpi, Turin

Attendance: 40,723

Referee: Paul Durkin (England)

18 March 1998

20:45

Dynamo Kyiv	1–4	Juventus
Rebrov 54'	Report	Inzaghi 29', 65', 73' Del Piero 87'

Olympic Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 100,069

Referee: Marc Batta (France)

Juventus won 5–2 on aggregate.

4 March 1998

20:45

Monaco	0–0	Manchester United
	Report

Stade Louis II, Monaco

Attendance: 14,072

Referee: Manuel Díaz Vega (Spain)

18 March 1998

19:45

Manchester United	1–1	Monaco
Solskjær 53'	Report	Trezeguet 5'

Old Trafford, Manchester

Attendance: 53,683

Referee: Hellmut Krug (Germany)

1–1 on aggregate; Monaco won on away goals.

4 March 1998

20:45

Bayern Munich	0–0	Borussia Dortmund
	Report

Olympiastadion, Munich

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)

18 March 1998

20:45

Borussia Dortmund	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Bayern Munich
Chapuisat 109'	Report

Westfalenstadion, Dortmund

Attendance: 48,500

Referee: László Vagner (Hungary)

Borussia Dortmund won 1–0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

Summary

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

Matches

1 April 1998

20:45

Juventus	4–1	Monaco
Del Piero 35', 45+3' (pen.), 62' (pen.) Zidane 87'	Report	Costinha 42'

Stadio delle Alpi, Turin

Attendance: 56,550

Referee: Nikolai Levnikov (Russia)

15 April 1998

20:45

Monaco	3–2	Juventus
Léonard 38' Henry 50' Špehar 83'	Report	Amoruso 15' Del Piero 74'

Stade Louis II, Monaco

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Urs Meier (Switzerland)

Juventus won 6–4 on aggregate.

1 April 1998

21:01^{[note 1]}

Real Madrid	2–0	Borussia Dortmund
Morientes 24' Karembeu 67'	Report

Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid

Attendance: 85,000

Referee: Mario van der Ende (Netherlands)

15 April 1998

20:45

Borussia Dortmund	0–0	Real Madrid
	Report

Westfalenstadion, Dortmund

Attendance: 48,500

Referee: Paul Durkin (England)

Real Madrid won 2–0 on aggregate.

Final

The final was played on 20 May 1998 at the Amsterdam Arena in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

20 May 1998

20:45

Juventus	0–1	Real Madrid
	Report	Mijatović 66'

Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam

Attendance: 48,500^[6]

Referee: Hellmut Krug (Germany)

Notes

^ The match, originally scheduled for 20:45, was delayed by 76 minutes due to Real Madrid fans in the stadium's south stand bringing down the goal structure below them while the teams were posing for their pre-match photos.^[4] In addition to the CHF1.3 million monetary fine, UEFA punished Real for the following Champions League season by forcing it to play its first home group stage match at least 300km away from their home venue.^[5]

References

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^ "UEFA go Dutch". Daily Record. 17 December 1997. Archived from the original on 20 November 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
^ Bischoff, Julian; Affeldt, Marc (1 April 2020). "Legendäres BVB-Spiel von 1998: Das berühmteste Tor fällt vor dem Anpfiff". n-tv (in German). Retrieved 12 December 2024.
^ Fylan, Kevin (1998-04-05). "Football: Real punished for trouble at European Cup tie". The Independent. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
^ "2. Finals" (PDF). UEFA Champions League Statistics Handbook 2016/17. Nyon: Union of European Football Associations. 2017. p. 1. Retrieved 22 April 2017.