1998 UEFA Champions League final

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.

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

Venue edit

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 Hamburg. 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 edit

JuventusRound Real Madrid
OpponentResultGroup stageOpponentResult
Feyenoord5–1 (H)Matchday 1 Rosenborg5–1 (H)
Manchester United2–3 (A)Matchday 2 Porto2–0 (A)
Košice1–0 (A)Matchday 3 Olympiacos5–1 (H)
Košice3–2 (H)Matchday 4 Olympiacos0–0 (A)
Feyenoord0–2 (A)Matchday 5 Rosenborg0–2 (A)
Manchester United1–0 (H)Matchday 6 Porto4–0 (H)
Group B runners-up

PosTeamPldPts
1 Manchester United615
2 Juventus612
3 Feyenoord69
4 Košice60
Source: UEFA
Final standingsGroup D winner

PosTeamPldPts
1 Real Madrid613
2 Rosenborg611
3 Olympiacos65
4 Porto64
Source: UEFA
OpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legKnockout phaseOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd leg
Dynamo Kyiv5–21–1 (H)4–1 (A)Quarter-finals Bayer Leverkusen4–11–1 (A)3–0 (H)
Monaco6–44–1 (H)2–3 (A)Semi-finals Borussia Dortmund2–02–0 (H)0–0 (A)

Match edit

Details edit

Juventus 0–1 Real Madrid
ReportMijatović 66'
Attendance: 48,500[1]
Juventus
Real Madrid
GK1 Angelo Peruzzi (c)
CB3 Moreno Torricelli
CB13 Mark Iuliano
CB4 Paolo Montero  79'
RM7 Angelo Di Livio  46'
CM14 Didier Deschamps  77'
CM26 Edgar Davids  34'
LM22 Gianluca Pessotto  70'
AM21 Zinedine Zidane
CF9 Filippo Inzaghi
CF10 Alessandro Del Piero
Substitutes:
GK12 Michelangelo Rampulla
DF6 Dimas
DF15 Alessandro Birindelli
MF8 Antonio Conte  77'
MF20 Alessio Tacchinardi  46'
FW16 Nicola Amoruso
FW18 Daniel Fonseca  70'
Manager:
Marcello Lippi
GK25 Bodo Illgner
RB17 Christian Panucci
CB5 Manolo Sanchís (c)
CB4 Fernando Hierro  23'
LB3 Roberto Carlos  37'
DM6 Fernando Redondo
RM27 Christian Karembeu  56'
LM10 Clarence Seedorf  90+4'
AM7 Raúl  90'
CF15 Fernando Morientes  81'
CF8 Predrag Mijatović  89'
Substitutes:
GK1 Santiago Cañizares
DF19 Fernando Sanz
MF11 José Amavisca  90'
MF16 Jaime  81'
MF18 Víctor Sánchez
MF20 Sávio
FW9 Davor Šuker  89'
Manager:
Jupp Heynckes

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

Match rules

Statistics edit

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

See also edit

External links edit

References edit

  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.