1993 UEFA Champions League Final - Wikipedia

Association football match Football match1993 UEFA Champions League final

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Event	1992–93 UEFA Champions League
Marseille Milan 1 0
Date	26 May 1993
Venue	Olympiastadion, Munich
Referee	Kurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland)
Attendance	64,444[1]
← 1992 (European Cup) 1994 →

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

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 OM their first European Cup title. It was the first time a French team had won the European Cup, Marseille would be the only French club who have won the Champions League until the 2025 win of Paris Saint-Germain against another Milanese club, also in Munich. No other club from the French league would reach the final until Monaco in 2004; they lost 3-0 to Portuguese side Porto, however.

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 of Division 1 (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 a French league match, while Marseille's status as 1993 European champion was not affected, Marseille were not able to compete in the 1993 European Super Cup.

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 v t e 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 v t e 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

[edit] 26 May 1993 (1993-05-26)20:15 UTC+2

Marseille	1–0	Milan
Boli 44'	Report

Olympiastadion, MunichAttendance: 64,444[1]Referee: Kurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland)

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 CB 5 Alessandro Costacurta CB 6 Franco Baresi (c) LB 3 Paolo Maldini RM 7 Gianluigi Lentini  39' CM 4 Demetrio Albertini CM 8 Frank Rijkaard LM 10 Roberto Donadoni  58' CF 9 Marco van Basten  86' CF 11 Daniele Massaro Substitutes: GK 12 Carlo Cudicini CB 13 Stefano Nava RM 14 Stefano Eranio  86' LM 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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• 1993 European Cup Winners' Cup final
• 1993 European Super Cup
• 1993 UEFA Cup final
• 1992–93 AC Milan season
• 1992–93 Olympique de Marseille season
• AC Milan in international football
• Olympique de Marseille in European football

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.

External links

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• 1992–93 season at UEFA website

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