Both runners-up played the first leg of their quarter-final at home, as did the teams drawn first in the other two quarter-finals.[5]. Champions League quarter-final appearances and titles listed below are since 1992/93, when the competition was revamped and rebranded from the . UEFA Champions League | UEFA.com The official site of the world's greatest club competition. I called him an eight out of 10. And in the 1999 final he almost secured the victory for Bayern with an overhead kick that rattled Peter Schmeichel's crossbar. . Also on the bench were fellow striker Ole Gunnar Solskjr, back-up goalkeeper Raimond van der Gouw, defenders David May, Phil Neville and Wes Brown, and midfielder Jonathan Greening. With the South Wales club in the relegation zone, Solskjaer will once again have to pull out a last minute winner to save the day. It was an impossible role for anyone to fill and the club finished without a trophy in 1998. Here we take a brief look at all of the participants from the match in 1999: (Stats fromSoccerbaseorPremierLeague.com, unless stated.). Champions League 1999/2000 table, full stats, livescores. After spells at several clubs after leaving Old Trafford, Blomqvist retired in 2010. Well, besides global domination, Beckham went on to join Real Madrid in 2003 becoming their most famous of Galacticos. A minute later, when he got out of the. Yorke has completed his coaching badge and has been a regular pundit for Sky Sports in recent years. . Given how he smacked his hands together after watching it beat him, Schmeichel knew he could have done better. Beckham flighted the corner in just over Schmeichel's head, Yorke put the ball back towards the crowded area, and after Fink failed to clear sufficiently, the ball arrived at the feet of Giggs on the edge of the area. In contrast to Bayern, and perhaps because they were chasing the game for so long, United generally refrained from shooting at range and looked to work the ball into advantageous scoring positions. After the 1999 final, Jens Jeremies stayed with the Bavarian club until his retirement in 2006. Kuffour is now a football pundit in South Africa. [94], Staying true to his word from earlier in the season, the match was Schmeichel's last in a Manchester United shirt, and a month later he signed for Portuguese club Sporting CP. Fourth official:[54] The defence was anchored by Lothar Matthaus, Thomas Linke and Ghana international Samuel Kuffour. Manchester United won the trophy without losing a single match, despite having competed in a group with Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Brndby, plus two highly rated Italian clubs in the knock-out stages. They were drawn together in Group D, along with Spanish champions Barcelona and Danish champions Brndby, in what became known as the "group of death". Six minutes into the match, Johnsen fouled Bayern striker Jancker just outside the area,[76] and Basler placed a low free kick around the United wall to score the first goal, as Schmeichel was caught flat-footed. [96][97] It was also Blomqvist's last competitive appearance for the club. Mario Basler put Bayern into a sixth minute lead in the 1999 Champions League final, and it appeared to be the winning goal for most of the game. Most semi-final appearances by club (up . Since 1999, a match held between the US Women's National Team and China held . [15], Manchester United received 2million in prize money from UEFA for winning the competition, on top of the 10million they had already won just for reaching the final; by comparison, Bayern Munich received 1.6million for finishing as runners-up. Blomqvist was replaced by Sheringham not long after his miss. Champions League Europa League SAT 28 May 2022 Champions League - Final Liverpool 0 Real Madrid 1 FT HT 0-0 Vincius Jnior (59') Assists Valverde (59') Champions League final:. Quite possibly the greatest United player of all time, the question now is how long before they build a statue of him outside of Old Trafford? Bayern were also playing for a treble, having won the Bundesliga and reached the DFB-Pokal final, although they went on to lose that match as well. [56], Before kick-off, opera singer Montserrat Caball moving around the field on the back of a golf cart[57] performed a live version of "Barcelona", a song she recorded with the late Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury in 1987, accompanied by a recording of Mercury on the stadium's electronic screen. Their best is Carsten Janckers overhead kick, late on and from the edge of the six-yard box, which struck the crossbar. With the game seemingly drifting away from the English side, he introduced Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Teddy Sheringham who eventually won United the Champions League crown. The 5'11", 182-pound defenseman recorded 15 points (3g, 12a) in 19 games . Manchester United have the lowest win rate of any Champions League winners in history The 1999 champions also had the poorest defensive record of any eventual winner, conceding an average of 1.45 . The first meeting between United and Bayern was at the Olympiastadion on matchday 2. Bayern raced into the lead after six minutes when Mario Basler deceived Peter Schmeichel from a free kick just outside the box. The match ended in a 2-2 draw with Bayern drawing level in the dying minutes. Fiorenzo Treossi (Italy), The game's ending was so unexpected that UEFA President Lennart Johansson had left his seat in the stands before Sheringham's equaliser to make his way down to the pitch to present the European Cup trophy, which was already decorated with Bayern ribbons. Note: Winning teams of the first qualifying round were drawn against teams qualified directly for the second qualifying round (16 and 16 teams). The Bayern defence was anchored around sweeper Matthus, who played behind Thomas Linke and Ghana international Samuel Kuffour the only non-German in the Bayern side (by comparison, Manchester United had four Englishmen in their team); Linke and Kuffour's partnership at centre-back meant club captain Thomas Helmer had to settle for a place on the bench. The 1999 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match that took place on Wednesday, 26 May 1999. Goals from Keane and Yorke before half-time levelled the tie but gave United the advantage on away goals, before Cole secured victory with the winning goal seven minutes from the end of the match. Live now, Group F United saved their best chance of the game until the last minute of stoppage time. Busby died in 1994; the day of the 1999 Champions League final would have been his 90th birthday. Live now, Group E The tale of one of the most dramatic finals in Champions League history. [39] A single goal from Basler proved the difference between Bayern and Dynamo in the second leg, giving the Germans a 43 aggregate win. In the Champions League era, Cristiano Ronaldo is the only other player to have done this. Finals MVP: Tim Duncan (27.4 / 14.0 / 2.4) 1999 Playoff Leaders: PTS: Latrell Sprewell (407) TRB: Tim Duncan (195) AST: Avery Johnson (126) WS: Tim Duncan (3.7) The key difference is perhaps that while Blomqvist was stretching to connect, Sheringham was stationary and could use his own momentum to guide Giggs initial shot in. No use for commercial purposes may be made of such trademarks. 05-04-2000 Chelsea Where to start? Manchester City took a giant step towards winning the Premier League title on Wednesday after a resounding 4-1 home win over Arsenal, which moves them to with two points of Mikel Arteta's side . Subsequent renovations meant that by 1999, the stadium's capacity had reached 115,000. Name on the trophy! Manchester United 's Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scores the winning goal in the 1999 Champions League final between Manchester United and Bayern Munich. Schmeichel kept his side in the game when tipping another Effenberg shot over the bar after 75 minutes. Cleared Giggs with the shot Sheringham! [70] Effenberg and Jens Jeremies played in central midfield for Bayern, with Jeremies man-marking Beckham.[75]. [48] After an initial announcement that the clubs would only receive 25,000 tickets each, the Independent Manchester United Supporters Association (IMUSA) called that figure "ridiculous", claiming it would push black market prices to "astronomical levels"; the group's spokesman, Lee Hodgkiss, suggested a figure closer to 50,000 would be more appropriate, given the stadium's usual capacity of around 115,000. Sheringham left United in 2001, returning to his former club Tottenham. Bayern coach Ottmar Hitzfeld announced his team's line-up for the final two full days ahead of the match. He is mooted to be involved in a IPL style football venturein India that will take place this year. Champions League final shoot-out as it happened Phillip Lahm (Bayern) scored 1-0 Juan Mata (Chelsea) missed 1-0 Mario Gomez (Bayern) scored 2-0 David Luiz (Chelsea) scored 2-1 Manuel Neuer. After analysing the FA Cup wins over Arsenal and Newcastle, we end with the most famous game of all from that 1998-99 campaign: the last-gasp Champions League final victory over Bayern Munich at the Nou Camp. We were winning 1-0 against Manchester United in the Champions League final when president Franz Beckenbauer went into the elevator at the Camp Nou. The Independent joined up with StatsBomb to analyse three key United games, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Normally when the opposition equalise you are expecting extra-time and it was a shock to our team when they scored the winner two minutes later. Manchester United also completed the Treble, becoming the fourth side in Europe to do so and in the process prevented Bayern Munich from achieving the feat themselves, Bayern eventually finished runners-up in their domestic cup two weeks later. [28] With Bayern beating Brndby 20 at home, the German side moved onto 10 points and took top spot in the group going into the final round of matches, one point ahead of United. After beating Inter Milan in the quarter-finals, Manchester United beat another Italian side, Juventus, in the semis to reach the final; meanwhile, Bayern beat fellow Germans Kaiserslautern in the quarter-finals, before overcoming Ukrainian side Dynamo Kyiv in the semis. He had only refereed eight Champions League matches before the 1999 final, three of which came in the group stage earlier in the season, including the match between Barcelona and Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou on 4 November 1998; however, he had also taken charge of four matches at the 1996 Summer Olympics, including the final between Nigeria and Argentina, and two group stage matches at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Andy Cole became a journeyman striker after his six years with United, playing for eight different clubs over a seven-year period. They could have equalised earlier through Jesper Blomqvist. Summary [ edit] Total match goals stats GP: number of matches played by the team Avg: average match goals in matches played by the team (team goals + opponent goals) 0.5+: matches with total number of goals (team goals + opponent goals) over 0.5 1.5+: matches with total number of goals (team goals + opponent goals) over 1.5 "[101], In winning the trophy, Manchester United became the first English team to be crowned European champions since the Heysel Stadium disaster ban in 1985, which had resulted in English clubs being excluded from UEFA competitions for five years, and also the first team to achieve the treble of the Premier League, FA Cup, and European Cup in the same season. With three victories in a row from 1974 to 1976,[5] they became only the third team to achieve such a feat after Real Madrid (1956 to 1960)[6] and Ajax (1971 to 1973). Fellow striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, back up goalkeeper Raimond Van Der Gouw, defenders David May, Phil Neville and Wes Brown and midfielder Jonathan Greening were also on the bench. Bayern raced into the lead after six minutes when Mario Basler deceived Peter Schmeichel from a free kick just outside the box. Kyiv [49] Despite the club receiving only 30,000 tickets, it was estimated that up to 100,000 Manchester United fans travelled to Barcelona for the final, paying around 300 for flights and around 1,000 for match tickets. [43] The other venues in contention to host the match were London's Wembley Stadium and Marseille's Stade Vlodrome, but the Camp Nou was considered by UEFA's Stadiums Commission to be the favourite for its superior security, comfort and capacity. The victory completed a treble-winning season for Manchester United, after they had won the Premier League and FA Cup. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, How would 1999 look in the 21st century? [1] Prior to the 1992-93 season, the tournament was named the European Cup. He ended his playing career the following season after a spell in Qatar. Manchester United were without two of their best players namely Roy Keane and Paul Scholes for the final. [76] Another chance for Basler prompted Ferguson to bring on Sheringham. [110] While Manchester United finished the season as treble champions, Bayern ultimately lost the DFB-Pokal final to Werder Bremen, which meant they finished the season with the Bundesliga title as their only silverware. Sandin, 23, recorded a career-high 35 points (7g, 28a) in 71 games with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Capitals this season. It would be the best they created in the regulation 90 minutes. [72][73] lber's absence resulted in Bayern playing a three-man attack of Basler, Jancker and Zickler, while Lizarazu was replaced on the left flank by Michael Tarnat playing in a wing-back role opposite Markus Babbel on the right. At the other end, Basler came close with another free kick before Zickler sent a shot just wide from the edge of the box. In 2008, Solskjaer made his first steps into coaching, taking over as United's reserve team manager. [1] The UEFA Champions League is open to the league champions of all UEFA (Union of European Football . Ole Gunnar Solskjaer tapped in a stoppage time winner and won the trophy for United. - Benzema, Dani Carvajal, Isco, Nacho, Marcelo, Casemiro, Toni Kroos, Gareth Bale and Luka Modric have now won five Champions League trophies. [65] Norwegian defender Henning Berg also missed out through injury, meaning that his compatriot Ronny Johnsen who had been an early contender to play alongside Butt in midfield[66] played in central defence alongside Jaap Stam, who overcame an Achilles injury. [47] 1982 was the stadium's busiest year to date, hosting not only the 1982 Cup Winners' Cup Final, but also five matches at the FIFA World Cup, including the opening match, all three matches in Group A of the second group stage and the semi-final between Poland and Italy. Kahn won the Bundesliga eight times in his career and the Champions League in 2001, perEurosport. The German international won 55 caps for his country throughout an injury prone career. He had been substituted with 10 minutes remaining, with victory seemingly assured. Ronny Johnsen was one of Fergie's unsung heroes in the late 1990s filling in when needed in defence and midfield. Well what became of David Beckham after 1999? Both first legs finished as draws; Giggs scored in injury time to secure a 11 home draw for Manchester United after Antonio Conte had put Juventus ahead midway through the first half,[38] while Bayern also had to come from behind to draw 33 in Kyiv. The winners are crying and the losers are dancing. [111] Manchester United also received another financial boost in the form of an increase in the share price of their parent company on the London Stock Exchange; following the match, the price rose from 187 pence per share to 190 pence; however, this was still around 50p less than the shares were trading for earlier in the season during the attempted buyout of the club by BSkyB. [76] Hitzfeld responded with a substitution of his own, bringing on Mehmet Scholl, who immediately set up Effenberg for a long-range shot that went narrowly wide. Jaap Stam was the rock that Manchester United built their Treble success on, after his capture from PSV Eindhoven in 1998. Teddy Sheringham, who had scored just four goals until that point in the season, guided home Giggs scuffed shot from Beckhams corner in the 91st minute. Manchester United's greatest ever goalkeeper lifted the European Cup on that fateful day in 1999, solidifying his legend and playing his final United game of his career, against Bayern Munich. Jancker in currently a youth team coach at Rapid Vienna. The big German was a supreme talent and in 2002 became the first and only goalkeeper in history towin the Golden Ball, per BBC Sport. The top scorers from the 199899 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying rounds) are as follows: 199899 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, 199899 UEFA Champions League group stage, 199899 UEFA Champions League knockout stage, "UEFA European Football Calendar 1998/1999", 199899 All matches season at UEFA website, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=199899_UEFA_Champions_League&oldid=1152674518, Associations ranked 18 each have two participants, Associations ranked 948 each have one participant (except Liechtenstein), 32 champions from associations 1648 (except Liechtenstein), 16 winners from the first qualifying round, 16 winners from the second qualifying round, 2 best-ranked group runners-up from the group stage, greater number of points obtained in the matches between the teams in question, goal difference resulting from the matches between the teams in question, greater number of goals scored away from home in matches between the teams in question, superior goal difference from all the matches played, national association's coefficient at the start of the season in question, highest number of points obtained in the group matches, greater number of goals scored in all group matches, greater number of goals scored away from home, individual club coefficient at the start of the season in question, All scorers 199898 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying round) according to, This page was last edited on 1 May 2023, at 16:40. [81], The game restarted, but many Bayern players were overwhelmed with despair, virtually unable to continue and needed the assistance of referee Collina to drag themselves off the ground. [23], Matchdays 3 and 4 saw double-headers, with Manchester United taking on Brndby and Bayern Munich playing Barcelona. In partnership with StatsBomb, The Independent has analysed three key games in Uniteds run-in in the hope of offering fresh perspective and insight on an iconic team and a historic achievement. Manchester United have reached the promised land! [109] Had Bayern won the cup, they would have become the first team to achieve this feat, having also finished second in the Bundesliga to Kaiserslautern the season before. He made two more appearances for the first team during the 200001 pre-season campaign, as well as three matches for the reserves in September and October 2001, before a free transfer to Everton in November that year. Yet just because Bayern took a lot of low-value shots does not mean they did not come close to scoring with them. So it is hard to believe that a couple of years later he was packed on his way and sold to Lazio. 1998 Playoffs Summary 2000 Playoffs Summary. The shot is saveable, bouncing on the ground before tucking into the far corner. [42] The selection process had begun more than four months earlier, in May 1998, when FC Barcelona submitted the Camp Nou as a contender to host the match in recognition of the club's centenary year. He was also nominated for the Ballon d'Or in 2001 and was twice runner-up in the African Footballer of the Year award. It had also hosted two Cup Winners' Cup finals, in 1972 and 1982; the latter was won on home turf by Barcelona. [99][100], Bayern president Franz Beckenbauer recognised that it was a loss of concentration in the last few minutes that led to his side's defeat: "That was the cruellest defeat possible because victory was so close. If both teams scored the same number of goals during extra time, the visiting team would qualify for the next round by virtue of having scored more goals away from home. The man is a sensation. Beckham again swung the corner in, finding the head of Sheringham, who nodded the ball down across the face of goal. [22] The first group stage meeting between United and Bayern took place at the Olympiastadion on matchday 2 and finished in a 22 draw; lber opened the scoring for Bayern before goals from Dwight Yorke and Paul Scholes gave United the lead, only for a Teddy Sheringham own goal brought about by an error by Peter Schmeichel to level the scores in the 89th minute. Oliver Kahn was very much Peter Schmeichel's main competitor for the position of the greatest goalkeeper in the world, back in 1999. The score remained 1-0 till the start of stoppage time, when two substitutes stepped up. You might say that there was nothing expected about Sheringham and Solskjaers goals at all. But after one year Tarnat was on his way from England, returning to Germany to play for Hannover 96 where he stayed for five seasons and ended his playing career. [10] Their manager then was Matt Busby, who had been seriously injured 10 years earlier in the Munich air disaster, which killed eight of his players on the way back from a European Cup tie in Belgrade, before rebuilding the team to become European Cup winners. Bloody hell". The former Trindad and Tobago striker stayed with United until 2002 before signing for Blackburn Rovers. [11], Although it was the second Champions League season to feature clubs that had not won their national leagues the year before, Manchester United and Bayern Munich were the first such clubs to reach the final of the competition. [122] The Bayern squad featured six players who appeared in the 1999 final Babbel, Kuffour, Effenberg, Matthus, Jancker and Fink as well as striker lber, who missed the original match through injury. With Transfermarkt's Groundhopping tool, you can collect all of your matches in one list and view lots of statistics. Giggs started on the right wing whereas Jesper Blomqvist starting on the left. We already had victory in the bag and there were only a few seconds to go. 1-0. Ferguson took advantage and played a three man attack in the second half. [95] He spent two seasons in Portugal before returning to England for spells with Aston Villa and Manchester City. quarterfinal ; Chelsea 3 1. This was an even contest. Schmeichel stumbled on his way back to goal and watched the ball drop only a few yards over. The player left Old Trafford in 2002 and signed for Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he played for two more years. In the 1999 Champions League semifinal, Manchester United was paired with Juventus, with the winner going to the Champions League final. After the game the press said: 'You must be disappointed in that pass back.' 81' Solskjr(in) - Cole(out) . Kuffour won six Bundesliga titles with Bayern and the Champions League. Sir Alex Ferguson had originally considered selecting Ryan Giggs to join Nicky Butt in central midfield, but ultimately picked David Beckham. In the breakdown of the FA Cup final, we noted how influential Sheringham was when appearing off the substitutes bench. German striker Alexander Zickler spent 12 season with Bayern Munich before joining Austrian team Red Bull Salzburg. [3] Bayern Munich had an equally narrow advantage in their 22 matches against English opposition, with seven wins, nine draws and six defeats, including a win over Leeds United in the 1975 European Cup final and a defeat to Aston Villa in the 1982 final. The Great Dane represented United for seven seasons making 252 league appearances and winning the Premier League title an astonishing five times. Manchester United left England two days before the final, first flying from Manchester Ringway Airport to Heathrow,[60] where they boarded a Concorde aircraft for the flight to Barcelona. The triumph capped off an amazing season for Sir Alex Fergusons men. It was the first time since 1968 that Manchester United won the Champions League, giving them their second title. Your login session has expired. During his time at Anfield the player won the F.A. Their next meeting saw the pair again play out a draw as the game finished 1-1. On 26th of May 1999, Manchester United and Bayern Munich battled each other in the UEFA Champions League final. Each tie in the quarter-finals and semi-finals was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home, while the final was played as a single match at a neutral venue. Twenty-four teams took part in the group stage: the national champions of Italy, Germany, Spain, France, Netherlands, England and Portugal, the title holders, and the 16 winning teams from the second qualifying round. Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjr scored United's goals after Bayern had hit the post and the bar. Live now. And given they were 1-0 up for the majority of the evening, perhaps Bayern felt they could afford to try their luck. You might say that there was nothing expected about Sheringham and Solskjaers goals at all. On 26th of May 1999, Manchester United and Bayern Munich battled each other in the UEFA Champions League final. Irwin spent 12 years at United, playing 529 times and scoring on 33 occasions, perAboutManUtd.com. United famously stole the trophy from German hands on the day with two goals in injury time from substitutes Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. [117] In Germany, the match was shown on RTL Television,[118] and was seen by an average of 13.59million people over the course of the broadcast. Yorke made it 20 on the half-hour mark, before second-half goals from Butt, Saha and Beckham completed the scoring. After this he had spells at Portsmouth and West Ham, before finishing his playing career at Colchester in 2008, where he was the oldest player playing in all four of the professional divisions.
