1997–98 UEFA Champions League

The 1997–98 UEFA Champions League was the 43rd season of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA's premier club football tournament, and the sixth since its re-branding from the "European Champion Clubs' Cup" or "European Cup". The tournament was won by Real Madrid, winning for the first time in 32 years, beating 1–0 Juventus who were playing in a third consecutive final. It started a run of three victories in five seasons for the Spanish club.

1997–98 UEFA Champions League

The Amsterdam Arena held the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 23 July – 27 August 1997 Competition proper: 17 September 1997 – 20 May 1998
Teams	Competition proper: 24 Total: 55
Final positions
Champions	Real Madrid (7th title)
Runners-up	Juventus
Tournament statistics
Matches played	85
Goals scored	239 (2.81 per match)
Attendance	2,868,568 (33,748 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus) 10 goals
← 1996–97 1998–99 →

This season was the first to have six groups, instead of previous four, which meant that only two group runners-up qualified for the quarter-finals as opposed to all the second-placed teams. It was also the first to have two qualifying rounds instead of just one. After three years of entering the UEFA Cup, champions of smaller nations returned to the Champions League. For the first time, the runners-up of eight domestic leagues entered into the competition.^[1] With Borussia Dortmund being the title holders but finishing third in their domestic league the previous season, Germany became the first association to provide three teams to the premier European competition.

Borussia Dortmund, the defending champions, were eliminated in the semi-finals by eventual winners Real Madrid.

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Slovakia and the Republic of Macedonia all entered their champions for the first time, while the champion of Yugoslavia returned to this competition for the first time since 1991–92 season after the UN ban was lifted.

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.^[2]

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

Association ranking

For the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 1997 UEFA association coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 1992–93 to 1996–97.^[2][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 1997–98 UEFA Champions League

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1  Italy 60.735 2 2  Spain 46.532 3  France 45.733 4  Germany 43.949 +1 (TH) 5  Netherlands 36.350 6  Portugal 34.800 7  England 30.816 8  Turkey 25.000 9  Greece 25.000 1 10  Austria 24.950 11  Russia 24.866 12  Belgium 24.400 13  Denmark 22.950 14  Sweden 22.750 15  Norway 22.249 16  Czech Republic 21.666 17  Switzerland 21.500

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 18  Poland 19.500 1 19  Scotland 18.800 20  Romania 18.650 21  Croatia 18.500 22  Ukraine 17.998 23  Cyprus 16.665 24  Israel 16.416 25  Hungary 16.249 26  Georgia 16.000 27  Slovakia 15.999 28  Latvia 13.832 29  Slovenia 12.998 30  Finland 12.082 31  Belarus 11.500 32  Iceland 10.999 33  Bulgaria 10.666 34  Macedonia 7.333

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 35  Lithuania 6.000 1 36  Moldova 6.000 37  Northern Ireland 5.332 38  Liechtenstein 5.000 0 39  Wales 4.999 1 40  FR Yugoslavia 4.750 41  Estonia 4.666 42  Malta 4.664 43  Republic of Ireland 4.331 44  Armenia 4.166 45  Luxembourg 3.666 46  Faroe Islands 3.000 47  Albania 2.666 0 [Note ALB] 48  Azerbaijan 1.833 1 49  Andorra 0.000 0 50  San Marino 0.000

Distribution

		Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
First qualifying round (30 teams)		30 champions from associations 17–48 (except Liechtenstein and Albania)[Note ALB]
Second qualifying round (32 teams)		9 champions from associations 8–16 8 runners-up from associations 1–8	15 winners from the first qualifying round
Group stage (24 teams)		Champions League title holders (Borussia Dortmund) 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

55 teams entered the competition: the national champions of each of the top 48 nations in the UEFA coefficient rankings (except Liechtenstein and Albania), plus the runners-up from each of the top eight nations and UEFA Champions League holders, Borussia Dortmund. The national champions of the associations ranked 1–7 (Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal and England), plus the title holders, all received a bye to the group stage, while the national champions of the associations ranked 8–16 and the runners-up of the associations ranked 1–8 all entered in the second qualifying round. The remaining national champions from the associations ranked 17–48 entered in the first qualifying round.

Group stage
Borussia Dortmund (TH)	Real Madrid (1st)	Bayern Munich (1st)	Porto (1st)
Juventus (1st)	Monaco (1st)	PSV Eindhoven (1st)	Manchester United (1st)
Second qualifying round
Parma (2nd)	Sporting CP (2nd)	Olympiacos (1st)	Brøndby (1st)
Barcelona (2nd)	Newcastle United (2nd)	Wüstenrot Salzburg (1st)	IFK Göteborg (1st)
Paris Saint-Germain (2nd)	Galatasaray (1st)	Spartak Moscow (1st)	Rosenborg (1st)
Bayer Leverkusen (2nd)	Beşiktaş (2nd)	Lierse (1st)	Sparta Prague (1st)
Feyenoord (2nd)
First qualifying round
Sion (1st)	MTK (1st)	CSKA Sofia (1st)	Lantana (1st)
Widzew Łódź (1st)	Dinamo Tbilisi (1st)	Sileks (1st)	Valletta (1st)
Rangers (1st)	Košice (1st)	Kareda (1st)	Derry City (1st)
Steaua București (1st)	Skonto (1st)	Constructorul Chișinău (1st)	Pyunik (1st)
Croatia Zagreb (1st)	Maribor (1st)	Crusaders (1st)	Jeunesse Esch (1st)
Dynamo Kyiv (1st)	Jazz (1st)	Barry Town (1st)	GÍ (1st)
Anorthosis Famagusta (1st)	MPKC Mozyr (1st)	Partizan (1st)	Neftçi (1st)
Beitar Jerusalem (1st)	ÍA (1st)

Notes

1. ^
   Albania (ALB): Clubs from Albania were not admitted to UEFA competitions as 1996–97 Albanian Superliga was suspended for several months due to the 1997 Albanian civil unrest and eventually ended in mid-August 1997 (won by Tirana), past the UEFA deadline.^[4]

Round and draw dates

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

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	First qualifying round	9 July 1997	23 July 1997	30 July 1997
	Second qualifying round		13 August 1997	27 August 1997
Group stage	Matchday 1	29 August 1997	17 September 1997
	Matchday 2		1 October 1997
	Matchday 3		22 October 1997
	Matchday 4		5 November 1997
	Matchday 5		26–27 November 1997
	Matchday 6		10 December 1997
Knockout phase	Quarter-finals	17 December 1997	4 March 1998	18 March 1998
	Semi-finals	20 March 1998 (Lausanne)	1 April 1998	15 April 1998
	Final		20 May 1998 at Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 1997–98 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Derry City	0–3	Maribor	0–2	0–1
Pyunik	3–6	MTK	0–2	3–4
Crusaders	2–8	Dinamo Tbilisi	1–3	1–5
Košice	4–0	ÍA	3–0	1–0
Partizan	1–5	Croatia Zagreb	1–0	0–5
Valletta	1–2	Skonto	1–0	0–2
Sileks	1–3	Beitar Jerusalem	1–0	0–3
Steaua București	5–3	CSKA Sofia	3–3	2–0
Constructorul Chișinău	3–4	MPKC Mozyr	1–1	2–3
Lantana	0–3	Jazz	0–2	0–1
GÍ	0–11	Rangers	0–5	0–6
Neftçi	0–10	Widzew Łódź	0–2	0–8
Dynamo Kyiv	6–0	Barry Town	2–0	4–0
Sion	5–0	Jeunesse Esch	4–0	1–0
Anorthosis Famagusta	4–1	Kareda	3–0	1–1

Second qualifying round

The losing teams qualified for the first round of the 1997–98 UEFA Cup.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Beşiktaş	3–1	Maribor	0–0	3–1
MTK	1–4	Rosenborg	0–1[a]	1–3
Sion	2–8	Galatasaray	1–4	1–4
Olympiacos	7–2	MPKC Mozyr	5–0	2–2
Wüstenrot Salzburg	0–3	Sparta Prague	0–0	0–3
IFK Göteborg	4–1	Rangers	3–0	1–1
Barcelona	4–2	Skonto	3–2	1–0
Brøndby	3–4	Dynamo Kyiv	2–4	1–0
Newcastle United	4–3	Croatia Zagreb	2–1	2–2 (a.e.t.)
Feyenoord	8–3	Jazz	6–2	2–1
Bayer Leverkusen	6–2	Dinamo Tbilisi	6–1	0–1
Košice	2–1	Spartak Moscow	2–1	0–0
Steaua București	3–5	Paris Saint-Germain	3–0[b]	0–5
Widzew Łódź	1–7	Parma	1–3	0–4
Beitar Jerusalem	0–3	Sporting CP	0–0	0–3
Anorthosis Famagusta	2–3	Lierse	2–0	0–3

Notes:

1. The original first leg of the MTK v Rosenborg tie was abandoned in the 68th minute with MTK leading 3–2, and replayed from scratch a day later.
2. The match was awarded to Steaua București after Paris Saint-Germain fielded an ineligible player.

Group stage

Main article: 1997–98 UEFA Champions League group stage

Lierse

Sparta

Man. United

Newcastle

Real Madrid

Barcelona

PSG

Monaco

Leverkusen

Dortmund

Bayern

Olympiacos

Juventus

Parma

Feyenoord

PSV

Rosenborg

Sporting

Porto

Košice

Göteborg

Beşiktaş

Galatasaray

Dynamo

Location of teams of the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League group stage.
Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; Orange: Group C; Yellow: Group D; Green: Group E; Blue: Group F.

Bayer Leverkusen, Beşiktaş, Košice, Feyenoord, Lierse, Newcastle United, Olympiacos, Parma, Sparta Prague (who already qualified for the 1991-92 European Cup group stage) and Sporting CP made their debut in the group stage. Košice lost all six of their group stage matches and thus became the first team to finish a Champions League group stage with no points. They were also first team from Slovakia to play in group stage.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DOR	PRM	SPP	GAL
1	Borussia Dortmund	6	5	0	1	14	3	+11	15	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	4–1	4–1
2	Parma	6	2	3	1	6	5	+1	9			1–0	—	2–2	2–0
3	Sparta Prague	6	1	2	3	6	11	−5	5			0–3	0–0	—	3–0
4	Galatasaray	6	1	1	4	4	11	−7	4			0–1	1–1	2–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MUN	JUV	FEY	KOS
1	Manchester United	6	5	0	1	14	5	+9	15	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–2	2–1	3–0
2	Juventus	6	4	0	2	12	8	+4	12			1–0	—	5–1	3–2
3	Feyenoord	6	3	0	3	8	10	−2	9			1–3	2–0	—	2–0
4	Košice	6	0	0	6	2	13	−11	0			0–3	0–1	0–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DKV	PSV	NEW	BAR
1	Dynamo Kyiv	6	3	2	1	13	6	+7	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–1	2–2	3–0
2	PSV Eindhoven	6	2	3	1	9	8	+1	9			1–3	—	1–0	2–2
3	Newcastle United	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	7			2–0	0–2	—	3–2
4	Barcelona	6	1	2	3	7	14	−7	5			0–4	2–2	1–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RMA	ROS	OLY	POR
1	Real Madrid	6	4	1	1	15	4	+11	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	4–1	5–1	4–0
2	Rosenborg	6	3	2	1	13	8	+5	11			2–0	—	5–1	2–0
3	Olympiacos	6	1	2	3	6	14	−8	5			0–0	2–2	—	1–0
4	Porto	6	1	1	4	3	11	−8	4			0–2	1–1	2–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAY	PAR	BES	GOT
1	Bayern Munich	6	4	0	2	13	6	+7	12	Advance to knockout stage		—	5–1	2–0	0–1
2	Paris Saint-Germain	6	4	0	2	11	10	+1	12			3–1	—	2–1	3–0
3	Beşiktaş	6	2	0	4	6	9	−3	6			0–2	3–1	—	1–0
4	IFK Göteborg	6	2	0	4	4	9	−5	6			1–3	0–1	2–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MON	LEV	SPO	LIE
1	Monaco	6	4	1	1	15	8	+7	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	4–0	3–2	5–1
2	Bayer Leverkusen	6	4	1	1	11	7	+4	13			2–2	—	4–1	1–0
3	Sporting CP	6	2	1	3	9	11	−2	7			3–0	0–2	—	2–1
4	Lierse	6	0	1	5	3	12	−9	1			0–1	0–2	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Ranking of second-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	F	Bayer Leverkusen	6	4	1	1	11	7	+4	13	Advance to knockout stage
2	B	Juventus	6	4	0	2	12	8	+4	12
3	E	Paris Saint-Germain	6	4	0	2	11	10	+1	12
4	D	Rosenborg	6	3	2	1	13	8	+5	11
5	C	PSV Eindhoven	6	2	3	1	9	8	+1	9
6	A	Parma	6	2	3	1	6	5	+1	9

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

Knockout stage

Main article: 1997–98 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

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

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

Semi-finals

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

Final

Main article: 1998 UEFA Champions League final

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

20 May 1998 (1998-05-20)

20:45 UTC+2

Juventus	0–1	Real Madrid
	Report	Mijatović 66'

Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam

Attendance: 48,500^[6]

Referee: Hellmut Krug (Germany)

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus	10
2	Thierry Henry	Monaco	7
3	Filippo Inzaghi	Juventus	6
	Serhiy Rebrov	Dynamo Kyiv	6
5	Andy Cole	Manchester United	5
	Andriy Shevchenko	Dynamo Kyiv	5
7	Stefan Beinlich	Bayer Leverkusen	4
	Oktay Derelioğlu	Beşiktaş	4
	Emerson	Bayer Leverkusen	4
	Victor Ikpeba	Monaco	4
	Carsten Jancker	Bayern Munich	4
	Fernando Morientes	Real Madrid	4
	Sigurd Rushfeldt	Rosenborg	4
	Davor Šuker	Real Madrid	4
	David Trezeguet	Monaco	4
	Stéphane Chapuisat	Borussia Dortmund	4
	Harald Brattbakk	Rosenborg	4
	Roar Strand	Rosenborg	4

See also

• 1997 UEFA Intertoto Cup
• 1997–98 UEFA Cup
• 1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup