In that 1999 Champions League final, Solskjaer was brought on for Andy Cole in the 81st minute with United 1-0 down, having trailed to Mario Basler's free-kick since the sixth minute. The 1999 Champions League final 20 years on: most dramatic ever? With three victories in a row from 1974 to 1976, they became only the third team to achieve such a feat after Real Madrid (19561960) and Ajax (19711973).
1993-94Template:, UEFA Champions League - The 1999 Champions League final 20 years on: most dramatic ever? 2013-14Template:, [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. Main article: 1999 UEFA Champions League Final 26 May 1999 20:45 Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 90,245 Referee: Pierluigi Collina ( Italy) Top goalscorers [ edit] The top scorers from the 1998-99 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying rounds) are as follows: See also [ edit] 1998-99 UEFA Cup 1998-99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1993Template:, [80] Schmeichel, in his own penalty area, cartwheeled with glee. Maybe wed have lost the game if it had gone in, so Im happy with the way it went in the end!". Teddy Sheringham, with 30 seconds of added time played, has equalised for Manchester United they are still in the European Cup! I was off to celebrate after scoring the equaliser.". [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. He had been substituted with 10 minutes remaining, with victory seemingly assured, and the European Cup was the only major trophy he had failed to win during his career. After becoming the first manager to achieve this honour, Alex Ferguson received a knighthood on 12 June 1999 in recognition of his services to the game of football. However, the crowning glory for Ferguson was the substitutions he made. Bayern had taken the lead in the sixth minute, courtesy Mario Basler's free-kick. [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. [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. #football #viral #highlights #championsleague #like #youtube #youtubeshorts #ytshorts #manchesterunited #bayenmunich #olegunnarsolskjaer #iconic #siralexferg. Template:Fb cl2 header navbar Mario Basler's free-kick deceived Peter Schmeichel and Bayern clearly deserved to be ahead at the interval with Oliver Kahn barely extended in their goal. After playing in all four matches of the club's pre-season tour of Australia and China in July 1999, he suffered a succession of knee injuries that ruled him out of competitive action for the next two seasons. Yet the Reds were going strong deep into stoppage time, when the chips were down, and everything seemed to be slipping away. [86] Matthus had captained Bayern in the 1987 European Cup final and lost in similar circumstances to two late Porto goals. It's 2,104 days since United's last trophy, and 197 since they were 4-0 down to Brentford at half-time.Erik ten Hag has done a phenomenal job in so many way - coaching, tactics, man . Appropriately, the team contained a fair sprinkling of homegrown talent - Gary Neville, David Beckham, Ryan Giggs and Nicky Butt all started - in the same way the '68 side had, with George Best, Bobby Charlton, Nobby Stiles, John Aston and company. United put together an attack when, after a healthy period of possession, Giggs crossed towards Blomqvist, who could only knock the ball over the bar after a desperate stretch. Quizzes. They had finished second in the 199798 season to Arsenal, but had qualified through UEFA's expanded format, which had been introduced a few seasons earlier. |}. I didnt want to see him with his flag up. Referee Pierluigi Collina has cited this match as one of the most memorable of his career, and described the noise from the crowd at the end of the game as being like a "lion's roar". 1969-70Template:,
Champions League final: Vote for the best one yet - BBC Sport [62] Captain Roy Keane and midfielder Paul Scholes both missed out on the final due to suspension; manager Alex Ferguson had originally considered selecting Giggs to join Nicky Butt in central midfield, but ultimately picked David Beckham as a player who could help the team control possession in the middle of the pitch,[52] with Giggs on the right wing and Jesper Blomqvist starting on the left. |1st leg The 1999 Champions League final was the first without a Serie A side for eight years. 2003-04Template:, The winners are crying and the losers are dancing. Template:Fb cl2 team [23], Matchdays 3 and 4 saw double-headers, with Manchester United taking on Brndby and Bayern Munich playing Barcelona. Football Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. 1973Template:, 1982 was the stadium's busiest year to date, hosting not only the 1982 Cup Winners' Cup Final, but also five matches at the 1982 FIFA World Cup, including all three matches in Group A of the second group stage and the semi-final between Poland and Italy. 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. The duo missed out on the final due to suspension.
1999 Champions League final - Manchester United 2012-13Template:, Stefan Effenberg had a couple of efforts, as did Mehmet Scholl, who hit a post. 'Who put the ball in the Germans' net? 2010Template:, His right-footed snap-shot was weak and poorly struck, but it went straight to Sheringham, who swiped at the shot with his right foot, and nestled the ball in the bottom corner of the net. |10 (H) Live now, Group B Teddy wins this ball. UEFA.com works better on other browsers For the best possible experience, we. The match is best remembered for Manchester United scoring two last-minute goals in injury time to win 21, after having trailed for most of the match. 1969Template:, [53] Collina was supported by fellow Italian officials Gennaro Mazzei and Claudio Puglisi as assistant referees, and fourth official Fiorenzo Treossi. Twenty years on, and with less than a week to go until Liverpool and Spurs meet in Madrid, UEFA.com ponders which was the most dramatic final in UEFA Champions League history. |60 The 1999 final, Bayern had been in control of the game, leading 1-0 with only four minutes to go. [70] Effenberg and Jens Jeremies played in central midfield for Bayern, with Jeremies man-marking Beckham.[75]. The Camp Nou was constructed over three years from 1954 to 1957 as a replacement for Barcelona's previous home, the nearby Camp de Les Corts, which had reached its limit for expansion. Schmeichel kept his side in the game when tipping another Effenberg shot over the bar after 75 minutes. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer tapped in a stoppage time winner and won the trophy for United. 1973-74Template:, The 1999 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match that took place on Wednesday, 26 May 1999. The fact we're facing Bayern Munich this summer gives us the perfect excuse to relive THAT historic night in 1999. It could take days or even weeks to recover from this but I must say that Manchester are great champions. An overhead kick by Jancker bounced back off the bar as fortune was smiling on the Reds when we needed it most. The Bayern defence remained strong and well-organised, as Cole found out when his close-range effort was quickly closed down by three defenders. 2002-03Template:, |43 [76] Another chance for Basler prompted Ferguson to bring on Sheringham. United's extraordinary Camp Nou success happened 20 years ago today; was it the biggest final shock of all? Fourth official:[54] The Bayern defence was anchored around sweeper Lothar 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, one Welshman and one Irishman in their team).
Toughest Defeats in UCL Finals Part 1 The Champions League Fi Manchester United beat Brndby 62 in their first match at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen,[24] then 50 at Old Trafford two weeks later. |colspan=4 align=center valign=top|Group D winner We were playing well in the last 20 minutes and should have been able to hold on to victory. Three years after hosting its first European Cup final in 1989, the Camp Nou was selected as the principle stadium for the football tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona; it was used as the venue for one group match, two quarter-finals, one semi-final and both medal matches as the host nation, Spain, claimed gold. Referee Pierluigi Collina has cited it as one of the most memorable matches of his career, due to the incredible noise like a "lion's roar" from the crowd at the end of the game. 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. Here, the PA news agency takes a look back at that. 2009-10Template:, |align=left|Template:Flagicon Internazionale The venue for the final was the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain. [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. The match was played at Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain, to determine the winner of the 1998-99 UEFA Champions League. |20 (H) 1989Template:, [124] The match was played in front of 61,175 spectators and raised 1.5million for the Manchester United Foundation.[125]. 1958Template:, Template:Fb cl2 team 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. [27] On matchday 5, United played their second match against Barcelona their first trip of the season to the Camp Nou and again the two sides played out a 33 draw. Bayern Munichs team selection had been impacted by injuries with left back Lizarazu and forward Elber suffering season ending knee injuries.
Manchester United's all-time top scorers - 90min Despite the bad start, United began to dominate possession but failed to create any clear cut chances despite David Beckham's tireless running. On May 26, 1999, Manchester United produced arguably their most famous night as they won the Champions League by beating Bayern Munich 2-1. 1991-92.
The 1999 Champions League final 20 years on: most dramatic ever? Solskjr celebrated by sliding on his knees, mimicking Basler's earlier celebration, before quickly being mobbed by the United players, substitutes and coaching staff. Solskjr reacted fastest, stuck out a foot and poked the ball into the roof of the Bayern goal for United to take the lead with just 43 seconds of the three minutes of injury time to play. |33 (A) Manchester United's top two goalscorers, Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke started up front leaving Teddy Sheringham on the bench. With the final taking place at their own Fuball Arena Mnchen, Bayern were expecting to claim the trophy for a fifth time. | UEFA Champions League | UEFA.com United's extraordinary Camp Nou success happened 20 years ago today; was it the biggest.
1999 UEFA Champions League final - Wikipedia Highlights Real Madrid vs Liverpool 5-2 champions league 2023 [45], The Camp Nou was constructed over three years from 1954 to 1957 as a replacement for Barcelona's previous home, the nearby Camp de Les Corts. The German team started the second half in a more positive mood with Jancker forcing a save from Schmeichel in the first minute of the restart. [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. [35] In the second leg, Nicola Ventola pulled a goal back for Inter, but Paul Scholes secured United's passage to the semi-finals with a late away goal. 1981Template:, Hes ball watching. [55], As both Manchester United and Bayern Munich's primary kits featured significant amounts of red, UEFA regulations about kit clashes would normally have required both teams to wear their change kits. Beckham flighted the corner in just over Schmeichel's head, Dwight Yorke put the ball back towards the crowded area, and after Thorsten Fink failed to clear sufficiently, the ball arrived at the feet of Ryan Giggs on the edge of the area. 2011Template:, [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. As the famous commentary line from ITV's Clive Tyldesley said, it did indeed feel like United had reached the promised land. The Champions League final began . Manchester United and Bayern Munich had only met twice in competitive matches before the final, both meetings coming earlier in the 199899 season and both finished as draws.
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Wikizero - 1999 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final Beckham again swung the corner in, finding the head of Sheringham, who nodded the ball down across the face of goal. His right-footed snap-shot was weak and poorly struck, but it went straight to Sheringham, who swiped at the shot with his right foot, and nestled the ball in the bottom corner of the net. The scores were level and United were buzzing. 1964-65Template:, 1967-68Template:, Babbel was originally intended to play a man-marking role on Ryan Giggs, with his defensive abilities earning him selection ahead of the more attack-minded Thomas Strunz; however, this was nullified by Giggs' selection on the right wing, where he would play against Tarnat. Manchester United and Bayern Munich were drawn together in the group of death, alongside Spanish champions Barcelona and Danish champions Brondby. [113] Greater Manchester Police later estimated that the actual number of people who attended the parade was around 500,000. However, they failed to create any clear cut chances. Drogba, with the last kick of his first spell at Chelsea, took the trophy to Stamford Bridge for the first and, so far, only time. 1999 Champions League final, the 2004 UEFA Cup finals, the men . Trailing 1-0 going into added time, United were soon lifting the trophy thanks to last-gasp goals from Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjr. Bayern were deflated and conceded another corner soon afterwards. 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. But those few seconds were enough for Manchester [United] to get back into the game. The Red Devils defeated the Bavarians at the Camp Nou in Barcelona and completed. [114], In the United Kingdom, the final was broadcast by ITV Sport with commentary provided by Clive Tyldesley and Ron Atkinson. 1988-89Template:, Basler was proving to be Bayern's most dangerous player, first firing a 30-yard shot towards goal and then setting up a header for Markus Babbel, who missed the ball entirely. The midfield width was provided by forward runs from Tarnat and Babbel. By that stage, Ferguson . 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. United won a corner just as the fourth official indicated three minutes of injury time, and with so little time left for an equaliser, Schmeichel ventured up to Bayern's penalty area. 1966-67Template:, United won a corner just as the fourth official indicated three minutes of injury time, and with so little time left for an equaliser, Peter Schmeichel ventured up to Bayern's penalty area. [91] He never won the competition as a player, having moved to play in the United States for the MetroStars in March 2000, the year before Bayern next won the European Cup in 2001. Prior to kick-off, opera singer Montserrat Caball moving around the field on the back of a golf cart performed "Barcelona" live, accompanied by a recording of the late rock singer Freddie Mercury, which appeared on the stadium's electronic screen. |20 (H) [7] They had also finished as runners-up twice: in 1982 against Aston Villa[8] and 1987 against Porto. 1987Template:, |align=left|Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Matthus later commented that "it was not the best team that won but the luckiest". Share. 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. [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. 1985Template:, Real Madrid were back on top of Europe after victory at the Stade de France. 1989-90Template:, |Agg.
Manchester United 2-1 Bayern Munich: Remembering the 1999 Champions Thomas Mller headed them into an 83rd-minute lead but, just as Bayern was preparing to celebrate, Didier Drogba levelled for a Chelsea team that had proved incredibly resilient during the knockout rounds. [12] They had finished second behind Arsenal in the 199798 FA Premier League,[108] but had qualified through UEFA's expanded 24-team format, which had been introduced a season earlier.