1998–99 UEFA Champions League

The 1998–99 UEFA Champions League was the 44th season of the UEFA Champions League, Europe's premier club football tournament, and the seventh since it was renamed from the "European Champion Clubs' Cup" or "European Cup". The competition was won by Manchester United, coming back from a goal down in the last two minutes of injury time to defeat Bayern Munich 2–1 in the final. Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored United's goals after Bayern had hit the post and the bar. They were the first English club to win Europe's premier club football tournament since 1984 and were also the first English club to reach a Champions League final since the Heysel Stadium disaster and the subsequent banning of English clubs from all UEFA competitions between 1985 and 1990. It was the first time since 1968 that Manchester United won the Champions League, giving them their second title.

1998–99 UEFA Champions League

The final was played at Camp Nou in Barcelona
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 22 July – 26 August 1998 Competition proper: 16 September 1998 – 26 May 1999
Teams	Competition proper: 24 Total: 56
Final positions
Champions	Manchester United (2nd title)
Runners-up	Bayern Munich
Tournament statistics
Matches played	85
Goals scored	238 (2.8 per match)
Attendance	3,549,002 (41,753 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Andriy Shevchenko (Dynamo Kyiv) Dwight Yorke (Manchester United) 8 goals each
← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

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.

Manchester United won the trophy without losing a single match, despite having competed in a group with Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Brøndby, plus two highly rated Italian clubs in the knock-out stages. However, United became champions with just five wins in total, the lowest number of wins recorded by a champion in the Champions League era to date, though the competition now has an extra round of two matches in the knock-out stages.

It was the first time the Champions League was won by a team that had neither won their domestic league nor the Champions League the previous season and therefore would not have qualified for the tournament under the old qualification rules (title holder or national league champion). For the second time, the runners-up of eight domestic leagues entered the competition.

Real Madrid were the defending champions but were eliminated in the quarter-finals by Dynamo Kyiv.

Association team allocation

Number of teams per country as well as the starting round for each club and seeding were based on UEFA association coefficients.^[1][2]

• Associations ranked 1–8 each have two participants
• Associations ranked 9–48 each have one participant (except Liechtenstein)

Association ranking

For the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 1998 UEFA association coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 1993–94 to 1997–98.^[1][3]

Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, an association could have an additional team participating in the Champions League, as noted below:

• (TH) – Additional berth for UEFA Champions League title holders

Association ranking for 1998–99 UEFA Champions League

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1  Italy 59.640 2 2  Germany 49.932 3  Spain 48.580 +1 (TH) 4  France 41.433 5  Netherlands 35.916 6  England 35.566 7  Portugal 31.266 8  Greece 28.750 9  Czech Republic 28.166 1 10  Norway 27.449 11  Austria 27.250 12  Russia 26.866 13  Croatia 26.166 14  Turkey 25.650 15  Denmark 24.200 16  Switzerland 22.250 17  Ukraine 22.082

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 18  Poland 22.000 1 19  Hungary 21.083 20  Belgium 21.000 21  Slovakia 20.999 22  Romania 20.750 23  Sweden 20.600 24  Georgia 20.333 25  Cyprus 20.332 26  Scotland 19.500 27  Israel 16.749 28  Slovenia 15.998 29  Belarus 14.833 30  Iceland 13.666 31  Finland 13.415 32  Latvia 11.498 33  Bulgaria 10.499 34  Macedonia 8.666

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 35  Lithuania 7.333 1 36  FR Yugoslavia 7.083 37  Moldova 6.666 38  Liechtenstein 5.000 0 39  Estonia 4.999 1 40  Armenia 4.832 41  Northern Ireland 4.665 42  Malta 4.664 43  Wales 3.999 44  Republic of Ireland 3.998 45  Faroe Islands 2.833 46  Albania 2.666 47  Luxembourg 2.333 48  Azerbaijan 1.833 49  Andorra 0.000 0 50  Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.000 51  San Marino 0.000

Distribution

		Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
First qualifying round (32 teams)		32 champions from associations 16–48 (except Liechtenstein)
Second qualifying round (32 teams)		8 champions from associations 8–15 8 runners-up from associations 1–8	16 winners from the first qualifying round
Group stage (24 teams)		Champions League title holders (Real Madrid) 7 champions from associations 1–7	16 winners from the second qualifying round
Knockout phase (8 teams)			6 group winners from the group stage 2 best-ranked group runners-up from the group stage

Teams

Group stage
Real Madrid (TH)	1. FC Kaiserslautern (1st)	Lens (1st)	Arsenal (1st)
Juventus (1st)	Barcelona (1st)	Ajax (1st)	Porto (1st)
Second qualifying round
Internazionale (2nd)	PSV Eindhoven (2nd)	Panathinaikos (2nd)	Spartak Moscow (1st)
Bayern Munich (2nd)	Manchester United (2nd)	Sparta Prague (1st)	Croatia Zagreb (1st)
Athletic Bilbao (2nd)	Benfica (2nd)	Rosenborg (1st)	Galatasaray (1st)
Metz (2nd)	Olympiacos (1st)	Sturm Graz (1st)	Brøndby (1st)
First qualifying round
Grasshopper (1st)	Dinamo Tbilisi (1st)	Skonto (1st)	Cliftonville (1st)
Dynamo Kyiv (1st)	Anorthosis Famagusta (1st)	Litex Lovech (1st)	Valletta (1st)
ŁKS Łódź (1st)	Celtic (1st)	Sileks (1st)	Barry Town (1st)
Újpest (1st)	Beitar Jerusalem (1st)	Kareda (1st)	St Patrick's Athletic (1st)
Club Brugge (1st)	Maribor (1st)	Obilić (1st)	B36 (1st)
Košice (1st)	Dinamo Minsk (1st)	Zimbru Chișinău (1st)	Vllaznia (1st)
Steaua București (1st)	ÍBV (1st)	Flora (1st)	Jeunesse Esch (1st)
Halmstads BK (1st)	HJK (1st)	Yerevan (1st)	Kapaz (1st)

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held in Geneva, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).^[4]

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	First qualifying round	6 July 1998	22 July 1998	29 July 1998
	Second qualifying round		12 August 1998	26 August 1998
Group stage	Matchday 1	27 August 1998 (Monaco)	16 September 1998
	Matchday 2		30 September 1998
	Matchday 3		21 October 1998
	Matchday 4		4 November 1998
	Matchday 5		25 November 1998
	Matchday 6		9 December 1998
Knockout phase	Quarter-finals	16 December 1998	3 March 1999	17 March 1999
	Semi-finals	19 March 1999	7 April 1999	21 April 1999
	Final		26 May 1999 at Camp Nou, Barcelona

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 1998–99 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sileks	1–2	Club Brugge	0–0	1–2
ŁKS Łódź	7–2	Kapaz	4–1	3–1
Litex Lovech	3–2	Halmstads BK	2–0	1–2
Grasshopper	8–0	Jeunesse Esch	6–0	2–0
Celtic	2–0	St Patrick's Athletic	0–0	2–0
Kareda	0–4	Maribor	0–3	0–1
Dynamo Kyiv	10–1	Barry Town	8–0	2–1
Cliftonville	1–13	Košice	1–5	0–8
Skonto	2–1	Dinamo Minsk	0–0	2–1
Valletta	0–8	Anorthosis Famagusta	0–2	0–6
Beitar Jerusalem	5–1	B36	4–1	1–0
Dinamo Tbilisi	4–3	Vllaznia	3–0[a]	1–3
HJK	5–0	Yerevan	2–0	3–0
Obilić	4–1	ÍBV	2–0	2–1
Zimbru Chișinău	2–3	Újpest	1–0	1–3
Steaua București	5–4	Flora	4–1	1–3

Notes:

1. Match forfeited

Second qualifying round

The losing teams qualified for the first round of the 1998–99 UEFA Cup. The winning teams of the first qualifying round were drawn against teams qualified directly for the second qualifying round.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rosenborg	4–4 (a)	Club Brugge	2–0	2–4
Manchester United	2–0	ŁKS Łódź	2–0	0–0
Litex Lovech	2–11	Spartak Moscow	0–5	2–6
Galatasaray	5–3	Grasshopper	2–1	3–2
Celtic	1–3	Croatia Zagreb	1–0	0–3
Maribor	3–5	PSV Eindhoven	2–1	1–4 (a.e.t.)
Dynamo Kyiv	1–1 (3–1 p)	Sparta Prague	0–1	1–0 (a.e.t.)
Košice	1–2	Brøndby	0–2	1–0
Internazionale	7–1	Skonto	4–0	3–1
Olympiacos	6–3	Anorthosis Famagusta	2–1	4–2
Benfica	8–4	Beitar Jerusalem	6–0	2–4
Dinamo Tbilisi	2–2 (a)	Athletic Bilbao	2–1	0–1
HJK	2–1	Metz	1–0	1–1
Bayern Munich	5–1	Obilić	4–0	1–1
Sturm Graz	7–2	Újpest	4–0	3–2
Steaua București	5–8	Panathinaikos	2–2	3–6

Group stage

Main article: 1998–99 UEFA Champions League group stage

Sturm Graz

Croatia Zagreb

Brøndby

Man. United

Arsenal

Real Madrid

Athletic Bilbao

Barcelona

HJK

Lens

Kaiserslautern

Bayern Munich

Olympiacos

Panathinaikos

Juventus

Internazionale

PSV

Ajax

Rosenborg

Benfica

Porto

Spartak Moscow

Galatasaray

Dynamo Kyiv

Location of teams of the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League group stage.
Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; Orange: Group C; Yellow: Group D; Green: Group E; Blue: Group F.

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. Arsenal, Athletic Bilbao, Brøndby, Croatia Zagreb, HJK, Internazionale, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Lens and Sturm Graz made their debuts in the group stage of the competition. This was the first time that a team from Finland played in the group stage.

The teams were divided into six groups of four teams each, with the teams in each group playing each other twice (home and away) in a double round-robin format. Three points were awarded for each win, with one point each for a draw and none for a defeat. The winners of each group progressed to the quarter-finals, along with the two best second-placed teams. In the event that two or more teams had the same number of points at the end of the group stage, the rankings of the teams in question were determined by the following criteria:^[5]

1. greater number of points obtained in the matches between the teams in question
2. goal difference resulting from the matches between the teams in question
3. greater number of goals scored away from home in matches between the teams in question
4. superior goal difference from all the matches played
5. greater number of goals scored
6. national association's coefficient at the start of the season in question

The two best runners-up were determined by the following criteria:^[6]

1. highest number of points obtained in the group matches
2. goal difference from all group matches
3. greater number of goals scored in all group matches
4. greater number of goals scored away from home
5. national association's coefficient at the start of the season in question
6. individual club coefficient at the start of the season in question

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		OLY	CZG	POR	AJX
1	Olympiacos	6	3	2	1	8	6	+2	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	2–1	1–0
2	Croatia Zagreb	6	2	2	2	5	7	−2	8			1–1	—	3–1	0–0
3	Porto	6	2	1	3	11	9	+2	7			2–2	3–0	—	3–0
4	Ajax	6	2	1	3	4	6	−2	7			2–0	0–1	2–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JUV	GAL	ROS	ATH
1	Juventus	6	1	5	0	7	5	+2	8	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–2	2–0	1–1
2	Galatasaray	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8			1–1	—	3–0	2–1
3	Rosenborg	6	2	2	2	7	8	−1	8			1–1	3–0	—	2–1
4	Athletic Bilbao	6	1	3	2	5	6	−1	6			0–0	1–0	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		INT	RMA	SPM	STM
1	Internazionale	6	4	1	1	9	5	+4	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–1	2–1	1–0
2	Real Madrid	6	4	0	2	17	8	+9	12			2–0	—	2–1	6–1
3	Spartak Moscow	6	2	2	2	7	6	+1	8			1–1	2–1	—	0–0
4	Sturm Graz	6	0	1	5	2	16	−14	1			0–2	1–5	0–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAY	MUN	BAR	BRO
1	Bayern Munich	6	3	2	1	9	6	+3	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–2	1–0	2–0
2	Manchester United	6	2	4	0	20	11	+9	10			1–1	—	3–3	5–0
3	Barcelona	6	2	2	2	11	9	+2	8			1–2	3–3	—	2–0
4	Brøndby	6	1	0	5	4	18	−14	3			2–1	2–6	0–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DKV	LEN	ARS	PAN
1	Dynamo Kyiv	6	3	2	1	11	7	+4	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–1	3–1	2–1
2	Lens	6	2	2	2	5	6	−1	8			1–3	—	1–1	1–0
3	Arsenal	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8			1–1	0–1	—	2–1
4	Panathinaikos	6	2	0	4	6	9	−3	6			2–1	1–0	1–3	—

Source: UEFA

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		KAI	BEN	PSV	HJK
1	1. FC Kaiserslautern	6	4	1	1	12	6	+6	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	3–1	5–2
2	Benfica	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	8			2–1	—	2–1	2–2
3	PSV Eindhoven	6	2	1	3	10	11	−1	7			1–2	2–2	—	2–1
4	HJK	6	1	2	3	8	12	−4	5			0–0	2–0	1–3	—

Source: UEFA

Ranking of second-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C	Real Madrid	6	4	0	2	17	8	+9	12	Advance to knockout stage
2	D	Manchester United	6	2	4	0	20	11	+9	10
3	B	Galatasaray	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8
4	F	Benfica	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	8
5	E	Lens	6	2	2	2	5	6	−1	8
6	A	Croatia Zagreb	6	2	2	2	5	7	−2	8

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Association coefficient; 6) Club coefficient.^[7]

Knockout stage

Main article: 1998–99 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

The knockout stage was played in a single-elimination tournament format consisting of three rounds: quarter-finals, semi-finals and 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. In the quarter-finals and semi-finals, in the event that two teams scored the same number of goals over the two legs of their tie, the winner would be determined by the number of goals scored away from home. If both sides scored the same number of goals away from home, two 15-minute periods of extra time would be played. If both teams scored the same number of goals during extra time, the visiting team would qualify for the next round by having scored more goals away from home. If neither side scored during extra time, the match would be decided by a penalty shoot-out. In the final, if the scores were level after 90 minutes, two 15-minute periods of golden goal extra time would be played; i.e. whichever team scored first would be declared the winner. If neither side scored during golden goal extra time, a penalty shoot-out would again be used to determine the winner.^[6]

In the quarter-finals, the two best runners-up cannot be drawn together, nor could the winners and runners-up from the same group. Both runners-up played the first leg of their quarter-final at home, as did the other two teams drawn first in the other two quarter-finals.^[6]

Bracket

	Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	Manchester United		2	1	3
	Internazionale		0	1	1
								Manchester United		1	3	4
								Juventus		1	2	3
	Juventus		2	1	3
															26 May – Barcelona
	Olympiacos		1	1	2
															Manchester United		2
															Bayern Munich		1
	Real Madrid		1	0	1
	Dynamo Kyiv		1	2	3
								Dynamo Kyiv		3	0	3
								Bayern Munich		3	1	4
	Bayern Munich		2	4	6
	1. FC Kaiserslautern		0	0	0

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Real Madrid	1–3	Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	0–2
Manchester United	3–1	Internazionale	2–0	1–1
Juventus	3–2	Olympiacos	2–1	1–1
Bayern Munich	6–0	1. FC Kaiserslautern	2–0	4–0

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Manchester United	4–3	Juventus	1–1	3–2
Dynamo Kyiv	3–4	Bayern Munich	3–3	0–1

Final

Main article: 1999 UEFA Champions League final

The final was played on 26 May 1999 at the Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain.

26 May 1999 (1999-05-26)

20:45 UTC+2

Manchester United	2–1	Bayern Munich
Sheringham 90+1' Solskjær 90+3'	Report	Basler 6'

Camp Nou, Barcelona

Attendance: 90,245^[8]

Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying rounds) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Andriy Shevchenko	Dynamo Kyiv	8
	Dwight Yorke	Manchester United
3	Zlatko Zahovič	Porto	7
4	Filippo Inzaghi	Juventus	6
5	Ruud van Nistelrooy	PSV Eindhoven	5
	Nuno Gomes	Benfica
7	Sonny Anderson	Barcelona	4
	Mario Basler	Bayern Munich
	Andy Cole	Manchester United
	Stefan Effenberg	Bayern Munich
	Ryan Giggs	Manchester United
	Siniša Gogić	Olympiacos
	Serhiy Rebrov	Dynamo Kyiv
	Jürgen Rische	1. FC Kaiserslautern
	Paul Scholes	Manchester United

See also

• 1998–99 UEFA Cup
• 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
• 1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup