2009/10Inter Milano - Bayern Münich 2-0 The Dutch master was bettered by his pupil
Saturday
when Jose Mourinho's
Inter Milan strolled to a
comfortable 2-0 victory in the Champions
League finalover a weak Bayern Munich team coached by his
one-time boss Louis van
Gaal.
Argentina's Diego Milito
scored twice, once in each half, as Inter Milan
squeezed
the life out of a hesitant Bayern team to end a 45-year
wait for its
third title.
2008/09Barcelona - Manchester United 2-0 Barcelona opened the scoring early through
Samuel
Eto'o in the 10th minute,
and Lionel Messi added
another goal 20 minutes from the end to give
Barcelona
a 2–0 victory and an historic treble of La Liga, Copa del
Rey and
ChampionsLeague. This was Barcelona's third
victory in the competition, 17 years
after
they first won the
European Cup in 1992.
2007/08Manchester United -Chelsea 1-1
(United win 5-4
on penalties) Sir Alex Ferguson said "fate had played its hand" after
his Manchester United
side defeated Chelsea FC 6-5
on penalties after a 1-1 draw to win the
2007/08 Champions League. Ronaldo gave United a 1-0 lead,
but Lampard
struck
back to give Chelsea the draw.
The extra time was goalless and United
won the
cup after a dramatic penalty shoot-out.
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2006/07AC Milan - Liverpool 2-1 As Carlo Ancelotti faced the press after AC Milan
had
defeated Liverpool2-1 to win the UEFA Champions League in Athens it was
clear the Rossoneri
coach had completed his own personal odyssey.
The journey
had been long and arduous, but for the
47-year-old the fact the destination was
so unexpected
made it all the sweeter. More from UEFA.com
2005/06Barcelona - Arsenal 2-1
Arsenal took the lead through Sol Campbell eight
minutes before half-time and an improbable victory
began to look increasingly
likely as the second
half wore on.
In his last match for the club, though,
veteran striker Henrik Larsson turned
the course of the
match after coming on on the hour mark, creating goals
for
first Eto'o then Juliano Belletti as the Catalan side
fought back to win.More from UEFA.com
2004/05Liverpool - AC Milan 3-3
(Liverpool win on
penalties)
Liverpool FC returned to the top of European
football in
thrilling style with a remarkable Champions League final
victory against AC Milan. Trailing 3-0 at half-time in
Istanbul, Rafael
Benítez's side stormed back in the
second half with three goals in seven
minutes to set up
a dramatic penalty shoot-out triumph. More from UEFA.com
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2003/04
Porto - Monaco
3-0
FC Porto followed up their 2003 UEFA Cup success
by
winning the UEFA Champions League in 2004 with
a 3-0 victory against AS Monaco
FC in Gelsenkirchen. More from UEFA.com
2002/03AC Milan - Juventus 0-0
(Milan
win on penalties)
The
2002/03 UEFA Champions League was dominated
by Italy with three Serie A
sides reaching the semi-finals.
AC Milan, FC Internazionale Milano and
Juventus FC all
had strong claims to the title, but it was the Rossoneri
who emerged victorious at Old Trafford. More from UEFA.com
2001/02Real Madrid - Bayer Leverkusen 2-1
Seventy-two teams. One hundred and ninety-seven
games. Ten months. One winner. The long and winding
road to Glasgow took its
toll. But for Real Madrid
the
journey was well worth the while. The reward for
Vicente del Bosque's men
was a third uefa Champions
League success, adding to their wins in 98 and 00. More from UEFA.com
2000/01Bayern München - Valencia 1-1
(BM
win on penalties) Twenty-five
years on from their last European Champion
Clubs' Cup success, FC Bayern
München were at it
again, lifting the trophy for a fourth time after a
penalties
win over Valencia CF.
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1999/00Real Madrid -Valencia 3-0
Valencia enjoyed a 4-1 drubbing of Barcelona
before
confirming their place at the Stade de France with a
narrow 2-1 loss
at Camp Nou. In hindsight, it was the
least Héctor Cúper's side deserved.
For they were
not their usual exuberant selves in the final and Madrid
took
full advantage with goals from Fernando Morientes,
Steve McManaman and Raúl
González.
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1998/99
Manchester United - Bayern München 2-1
Mario Basler scored the first goal of the Camp
Nou final.
But then a miracle happened. United scored twice in the
dying
seconds, through substitutes Teddy Sheringham
and Ole Gunnar Solksjaer, to
add the European Champion Clubs' Cup to their FA Premiership/FA Cup
double.
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1997/98
Real Madrid - Juventus 1-0
Most clubs would be happy with one European
Champion Clubs' Cup. But not Real Madrid CF.
Six times winners of the
competition, the last in 1966,
the Merengues had been frustrated in their quest
for
a seventh. That all changed in 1997/98, however, to the
delight of
traditionalists everywhere. More from UEFA.com
1996/97
Borussia Dortmund
-J uventus 3-1 The final followed the same
pattern as its two previous
editions, with defeat for the holders. Karl-Heinz
Riedle
scored twice in the first half, Lars Ricken once in the
second, making
Del Piero's late strike nothing more
than a consolationMore from UEFA.com
1995/96
Juventus - Ajax 1-1 (Juventus win on penalties)
"We have waited a long time. We never really
considered
1985 as a victory because of Heysel." Juventus official
Roberto
Bettega was in no doubt as to the significance
of the club's UEFA
Champions League success of
1995/96. Their win against AFC Ajax in Rome
was a
"real" European Champion Clubs' Cup triumph, the
one against
Liverpool FC eleven years earlier an empty
one.
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1994/95
Ajax - AC Milan 1-0
Louis van Gaal's talented tyros (average age 23)
were
to follow in the footsteps of Cruyff and Co, but they
would
have to overcome Milan a third time.
The Rossoneri's class and experience had
been too
much for Benfica and PSG in the knockout phase - yet
the elder
statesmen were found wanting in the Vienna
final. Worn down by Ajax's young
legs, they eventually
succumbed to a late goal by substitute Patrick Kluivert. More from UEFA.com
1993/94
AC Milan - Barcelona 4-0 Fabio Capello's side made light of the
handicap, their
glorious 4-0 victory over the Catalan side in Athens
giving
credibility to the new-look competition.
After all the talk of facelifts, here
was a team to raise the
spirits. Daniele Massaro gave the Rossoneri a 2-0 lead
which star men Dejan Savicevic and Marcel Desailly
added to in the second half.
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1992/93
Olympic Marseille - Juventus 1-0
Marseille was champions,
That was the good news;
the bad came weeks
later. Marseille, it emerged, had
fixed their title-clinching Division 1 game
against ASOA
Valence-Clime so they could concentrate on the Milan
tie. Soon the
ripples of corruption were a tsunami of
shame, with Marseille stripped of Le
Championnat,
relegated, and barred from defending the cup.
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All finals :
2010: Inter - Bayern Münich 2-0
2009; Barcelona - Manchester United 1-1 (United won after penalties
2008:
2007: AC Milan -Liverpool 2-1
2006: Barcelona -Arsenal 2-1
2005: Liverpool -AC Milan 3-3(Liverpool won 3-2 on penalties)
2004: FC Porto 3 - 0 A.S. Monaco
2003: AC Milan 0 - 0 Juventus (AC Milan won 3-2 on penalties)
2002: Real Madrid 2 - 1 Bayer Leverkusen
2001: Bayern Munich 1 - 1 Valencia (Bayern won 5-4 on penalties)
2000: Real Madrid 3 - 0 Valencia
1999: Manchester United 2 - 1 Bayern Munich
1998: Real Madrid 1 - 0 Juventus
1997: Borussia Dortmund 3 - 1 Juventus
1996: Juventus 1 - 1 Ajax (Juventus won 4 - 2 on penalites)
1995: Ajax 1 - 0 AC Milan
1994: AC Milan 4 - 0 Barcelona
1993: Ol. Marseilles 1 - 0 AC Milan
1992: Barcelona 1 - 0 Sampdoria (aet)
1991: Red Star Belgrade 0 - 0 Marseille (Red Star won 5 - 3 on penalties)
1990: AC Milan 1 - 0 Benfica
1989: AC Milan 4 - 0 Steaua Bucharest
1988: PSV Eindhoven 0 - 0 Benfica (PSV won 6 - 5 on penalties)
1987: Porto 2 - 1 Bayern Munich
1986: Steaua Bucharest 0 - 0 Barcelona (Steaua won 2 - 0 on penalties)
1984: Liverpool 1 - 1 Roma (aet, Liverpool won 4 - 2 on penalties)
1983: Hamburg 1 - 0 Juventus
1982: Aston Villa 1 - 0 Bayern Munich
1981: Liverpool 1 - 0 Real Madrid
1980: Nottingham Forest 1 - 0 Hamburg
1979: Nottingham Forest 1 - 0 Malmo
1978: Liverpool 1 - 0 Brugge
1977: Liverpool 3 - 1 Borussia M'chengladbach
1976: Bayern Munich 1 - 0 St Etienne
1975: Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Leeds United
1974: Bayern Munich 4 - 0 Atletico Madrid (replay, after 1-1 draw)
1973: Ajax 1 - 0 Juventus
1972: Ajax 2 - 0 Inter Milan
1971: Ajax 2 - 0 Panathinaikos
1970: Feyenoord 2 - 1 Celtic (aet)
1969: AC Milan 4 - 1 Ajax
1968: Manchester United 4 - 1 Benfica (aet)
1967: Celtic 2 - 1 Inter Milan
1966: Real Madrid 2 - 1 Partizan Belgrade
1965: Inter Milan 1 - 0 Benfica
1964: Inter Milan 3 - 1 Real Madrid
1963: AC Milan 2 - 1 Benfica
1962: Benfica 5 - 3 Real Madrid
1961: Benfica 3 - 2 Barcelona
1960: Real Madrid 7 - 3 Eintracht Frankfurt
1959: Real Madrid 2 - 0 Reims
1958: Real Madrid 3 - 2 AC Milan (aet)
1957: Real Madrid 2 - 0 Fiorentina
1956: Real Madrid 4 - 3 Reims
Trivia
The Champions Cup's
first hat-trick was scored by Péter Palotás of Budapesti
Vörös Lobogó SE
against R.S.C. Anderlecht on September 7, 1955, in the second
match ever played
in the competition.
Francisco Gento is the only player to be on 6
Champions Cup-winning sides.
Bob Paisley is the only man to coach 3
Champions Cup-winning sides with Liverpool.
in 1977, 1978 and 1981.
Clarence Seedorf is
the only player to win the Champions Cup with 3
different teams:
Ajax Amsterdam 1995
Real Madrid 1998
A.C. Milan 2003
The city of Milan, Italy, is the only one that
won the Champions Cup with two
different teams:
Inter & Milan (the two clubs have won 8 cups in total).
Many clubs won the
Cup unbeaten: Internazionale (1964), Ajax Amsterdam (1972)
and Liverpool (1984) are those with the best record, 7 wins and 2 draws. Ajax,
L
iverpool and A.C.
Milan are the only teams to have won the trophy unbeaten twice.
Real Madrid have the record number of consecutive participations in the Champions'
Cup with 15, from 1955/56 to 1969/70.
On three
occasions has the Final of the Champions Cup/League involved two teams from the same country: Real Madrid v Valencia (1999/00),
A.C. Milan v Juventus (2002/03), and Chelsea -Manchster United (2007/08)
In the long history of the cup, only four
derbies between teams
of the same city have been played:
1958/59 Real Madrid vs Atlético de Madrid (semifinal)
2002/03 Internazionale (Milan) vs A.C. Milan (semifinal)
2003/04 Chelsea vs Arsenal (quarterfinal)
2004/05 Internazionale vs A.C. Milan (quarterfinal)
2nd leg was abandoned because of disturbances among the Inter fans.
Only four teams have completed the "treble" —
win their domestic league championship,
their primary domestic cup, and the Champions League/European Cup.
These were (in order) Celtic, Ajax Amsterdam, PSV Eindhoven and Manchester
United.
Celtic managed this in 1966/67, also winning the Scottish League Cup and Glasgow
Cup that year.
In 1972 Ajax won the European Cup, their domestic league and cup.
The following
season they also
won the European Super Cup and the European/
South American Cup. PSV did this in
1987/88.
Manchester United won their treble during the 1998/99 season.
Ajax Amsterdam was unbeaten in the Champions
Cup/League for 20 matches
from 1985/86
to March 1996, when they lost 0-1 to Panathinaikos in Amsterdam.
The 2002/03
semifinal between bitter city rivals A.C. Milan and Internazionale was the
first time both games of a two-legged tie were in the same stadium (San Siro).
This matchup was repeated in the 2004/05 quarterfinals.
Only two
individuals have won the Champions League with the same club as
a player then later as a coach. Miguel Muñoz of Real Madrid did it as a player
in
1955/56 and 1956/57, before winning it as a coach in 1965/66. Carlo Ancelotti
did it as an A.C. Milan player in 1988/89 and 1989/90 before coaching them to
victory in 2002/03.
Cesare Maldini and his son Paolo are the only
father and son duo to skipper the
same club to victory in the competition. Cesare led A.C. Milan to victory in
1962/63,
and Paolo captained them to victory in 2002/03.
The anthem of the
Champions League, which is played during prematch ceremonies
before each match and introduces television coverage of the competition, is by
Tony
Britten, based on George Frideric Handel's coronation anthem "Zadok the Priest",
and
is performed by the Chorus of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ottmar Hitzfeld and
Ernst Happel are the only coaches in the history of the
European Cup/UEFA Champions League to win the title with two different clubs.
Hitzfeld did so with Borussia Dortmund in 1997 and Bayern Munich in 2001; Happel
led Feijenoord (now Feyenoord) in 1970 and Hamburg in 1983.
Olympique de
Marseille were the first winners of the new format UEFA Champions
League in
1993.
Manchester United's treble-winners of 1998/99
were the first winners of the
tournament to have won neither their domestic title nor the European
Cup/
Champions League
the previous season. In 1997/98, United finished runners-up in
the Premiership
to Arsenal and
lost in the quarterfinals of the Champions League
to Monaco.
Nottingham Forest are the only club to have won
the European Cup more times (twice)
than they have won their domestic league (once). Forest won the English League
in 1978
before winning the European Cup in 1979 and defending it in 1980.
Nottingham Forest also have the unfortunate
distinction of being the only winners of the
European Cup to have later been relegated out of the top two divisions in their
country
(they remain in the English football league system's third tier (Football League
One).
Paolo Maldini of Milan scored the fastest ever
goal in Champions League in
2005 final against Liverpool inside 53 seconds. He was also the oldest (37 year
old)
to score in Champions League final.
All 11 goals, including the penalty shoot-out,
were scored in the same goal in 2005's
final between AC Milan and Liverpool.
With Liverpool's win in the 2005 final, the
number of teams permitted to wear UEFA's
special badge of honour is now five. The badge is awarded in perpetuity to teams
that
have either won the competition a total of five times, or have won it three
years
in succession.
Five or more wins: Real Madrid, AC Milan,
Liverpool
Three wins in succession: Ajax Amsterdam, Bayern Munich
Five men have scored a hat-trick on their debut
in the Champions League
Marco van Basten (A.C. Milan), Faustino
Asprilla (Newcastle United),
Aiyegbeni Yakubu (Maccabi Haifa), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United),
Vincenzo Iaquinta (Udinese)
Five men have also scored 4 goals in one
Champions League match
Marco van Basten (A.C. Milan), Filippo Inzaghi (Juventus), Dado Prso (AS Monaco
FC)
Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) and Andrej Sjevtsjenko (AC Milan)
Raúl becomes the first player in the history of
the competiton to reach 50 goals,
he did this by scoring in Real Madrid 2:1 victory over Olympiakos in the UEFA
Champions League 2005-06 season.
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