1993 UEFA Champions League final

The 1993 UEFA Champions League final was a football match between French club Marseille and Italian club Milan, played on 26 May 1993 at the Olympiastadion in Munich.

1993 UEFA Champions League final
Event1992–93 UEFA Champions League
Date26 May 1993
VenueOlympiastadion, Munich
RefereeKurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland)
Attendance64,444[1]
1992 (European Cup)
1994

The final, which followed the second-ever UEFA Champions League group stage, saw Ivorian-born Marseille defender Basile Boli score the only goal of the match in the 43rd minute with a header to give l'OM their first European Cup title. It was the first time a French team had won the European Cup. No other club from the French league would reach the final until Monaco in 2004.

Marseille and their club president Bernard Tapie would later be found to have been involved in a match-fixing scandal during the 1992–93 season (in which Marseille allegedly paid Valenciennes to lose a match), which saw them relegated to Division 2 and banned from participation in European football for the following season. As the scandal affected only French league matches, Marseille's status as 1993 European champion was not affected.

The first Champions League final turned out to be the last game of Milan's highly accomplished but injury-prone Dutch forward Marco van Basten, who was 28 at the time; having been subbed off in the 86th minute due to fatigue and yet another ankle injury, he would spend the next two years in recovery before announcing his retirement in August 1995.[2]

Teams

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In the following table, finals until 1992 were in the European Cup era, since 1993 were in the UEFA Champions League era.

Team Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners)
  Marseille 1 (1991)
  Milan 5 (1958, 1963, 1969, 1989, 1990)

Route to the final

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  Marseille Round   Milan
Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg
  Glentoran 8–0 5–0 (A) 3–0 (H) First round   Olimpija Ljubljana 7–0 4–0 (H) 3–0 (A)
  Dinamo București 2–0 0–0 (A) 2–0 (H) Second round   Slovan Bratislava 5–0 1–0 (A) 4–0 (H)
Opponent Result Group stage Opponent Result
  Rangers 2–2 (A) Matchday 1   IFK Göteborg 4–0 (H)
  Club Brugge 3–0 (H) Matchday 2   PSV Eindhoven 2–1 (A)
  CSKA Moscow 1–1 (A) Matchday 3   Porto 1–0 (A)
  CSKA Moscow 6–0 (H) Matchday 4   Porto 1–0 (H)
  Rangers 1–1 (H) Matchday 5   IFK Göteborg 1–0 (A)
  Club Brugge 1–0 (A) Matchday 6   PSV Eindhoven 2–0 (H)
Group A winner

Pos Team Pld Pts
1   Marseille 6 9
2   Rangers 6 8
3   Club Brugge 6 5
4   CSKA Moscow 6 2
Source: UEFA
Final standings Group B winner

Pos Team Pld Pts
1   Milan 6 12
2   IFK Göteborg 6 6
3   Porto 6 5
4   PSV Eindhoven 6 1
Source: UEFA

Match

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Details

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Marseille  1–0  Milan
Boli   44' Report
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Marseille
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Milan
GK 1   Fabien Barthez   70'
RB 2   Jocelyn Angloma   62'
LB 3   Éric Di Meco   31'
SW 4   Basile Boli   56'
CM 5   Franck Sauzée
CB 6   Marcel Desailly
CM 7   Jean-Jacques Eydelie
CF 8   Alen Bokšić
LF 9   Rudi Völler   79'
RF 10   Abedi Pele
CM 11   Didier Deschamps (c)
Substitutes:
MF 12   Jean-Christophe Thomas   79'
DF 13   Bernard Casoni
MF 14   Jean-Philippe Durand   62'
FW 15   Jean-Marc Ferreri
GK 16   Pascal Olmeta
Manager:
  Raymond Goethals
 
GK 1   Sebastiano Rossi
RB 2   Mauro Tassotti
LB 3   Paolo Maldini
CM 4   Demetrio Albertini
CB 5   Alessandro Costacurta
CB 6   Franco Baresi (c)
LM 7   Gianluigi Lentini   39'
CM 8   Frank Rijkaard
CF 9   Marco van Basten   86'
RM 10   Roberto Donadoni   58'
CF 11   Daniele Massaro
Substitutes:
GK 12   Carlo Cudicini
DF 13   Stefano Nava
MF 14   Stefano Eranio   86'
MF 15   Alberico Evani
FW 16   Jean-Pierre Papin   58'
Manager:
  Fabio Capello

Linesmen:
Zivanko Popović (Switzerland)
Erwin Kreig (Switzerland)
Fourth official:
Serge Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)

Aftermath

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Marseille's triumph remains controversial due to accusations of doping alleged by Marcel Desailly, Jean-Jacques Eydelie, Chris Waddle and Tony Cascarino. According to Eydelie, "all (of them) took a series of injections" in the 1993 Champions League final, except Rudi Völler. Desailly and Cascarino claimed that club president Bernard Tapie distributed pills and injections himself. In an interview with French magazine Le Point, Jean-Pierre de Mondenard said Marseille had a blackboard in their team locker room that read "injections for everyone". Tapie only admitted that some players took captagon.[3][4][5][6]

See also

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References

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  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. ^ "Oggi su 7 Marco van Basten: "Ho visto la depressione. Ma adesso sono sereno"". 28 February 2020.
  3. ^ Weir, Christopher (30 October 2018). "The glory and the corruption of Marseille's kings of 1993, the team that conquered Europe". These Football Times. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  4. ^ Kistner, Thomas (2015). Schuss. Die geheime Dopinggeschichte des Fußballs. Droemer. p. 62. ISBN 978-3-426-27652-5. OCLC 948696330.
  5. ^ Oberschelp, Malte; Theweleit, Daniel (12 April 2006). "Doping im Fußball: "Schärfer und hungriger"". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  6. ^ Décugis, Jean-Michel (17 November 2010). "DOPAGE DANS LE FOOTBALL - Mondenard : "Les footballeurs sont de grands malades"". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 23 September 2022.
  • Dixon, James (2020). The Fix: How the first Champions League was won and why we all lost. Pitch. ISBN 9781785317781.
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