1997–98 UEFA Champions League

1997–98 UEFA Champions League

The Amsterdam Arena held the final
Tournament details
Dates	23 July – 27 August 1997 (qualifying) 17 September 1997 – 20 May 1998 (competition proper)
Teams	24 (group stage) 55 (total)
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 (10 goals)

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 rebranding from the "European Champion Clubs' Cup" or "European Cup". The tournament was won 1–0 by Real Madrid, winning for the first time in 32 years, beating Juventus who were playing in a third consecutive final. It started a run of three victories in five seasons for the Spanish club.

This season was the first to have six groups, as opposed to four in the previous tournament, 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 (three teams: Germany (Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund as UEFA Champions League title holder); two teams: England (Newcastle United, Manchester United), France (Monaco, Paris Saint-Germain), Netherlands (Feyenoord, PSV Eindhoven), Italy (Juventus, Parma), Portugal (Porto, Sporting CP), Spain (Barcelona, Real Madrid) and Turkey (Beşiktaş, Galatasaray) were entered into the competition. The runners-up entered the second qualifying round, while the league winners entered directly the group stage (except for Turkey where both winner and runner-up entered the second qualifying round).

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

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, 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 after 1991–92 season and the abolishment of UN ban.

Teams

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

Qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Derry City	0–3	Maribor Branik	0–2	0–1
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
Pyunik	3–6	MTK Hungária	0–2	3–4
Crusaders	2–8	Dinamo Tbilisi	1–3	1–5
Sileks	1–3	Beitar Jerusalem	1–0	0–3
Steaua București	5–3	CSKA Sofia	3–3	2–0
Constructorul Chişinău	3–4	MPKC Mozyr	1–1	2–3
Lantana	0–3	Jazz	0–1	0–2
GÍ	0–11	Rangers	0–5	0–6
Neftchi Baku	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	4–1	Kareda Šiauliai	3–0	1–1

Second qualifying round

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

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
MTK Hungária	1–4	Rosenborg	0–1	1–3
Beşiktaş	3–1	Maribor Branik	0–0	3–1
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(aet)
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	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

Note: Winning teams of the first qualifying round were drawn against teams qualified directly for the second qualifying round. Because of the unequal number of teams (15 and 17), Wüstenrot Salzburg and Sparta Prague had to play against each other.

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 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.

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Borussia Dortmund 6 5 0 1 14 3 +11 15 Parma 6 2 3 1 6 5 +1 9 Sparta Prague 6 1 2 3 6 11 −5 5 Galatasaray 6 1 1 4 4 11 −7 4

DOR GAL PAR SPR Borussia Dortmund – 4–1 2–0 4–1 Galatasaray 0–1 – 1–1 2–0 Parma 1–0 2–0 – 2–2 Sparta Prague 0–3 3–0 0–0 –

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Manchester United 6 5 0 1 14 5 +9 15 Juventus 6 4 0 2 12 8 +4 12 Feyenoord 6 3 0 3 8 10 −2 9 Košice 6 0 0 6 2 13 −11 0

FEY JUV KOS MU Feyenoord – 2–0 2–0 1–3 Juventus 5–1 – 3–2 1–0 Košice 0–1 0–1 – 0–3 Manchester United 2–1 3–2 3–0 –

Group C

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Dynamo Kyiv 6 3 2 1 13 6 +7 11 PSV Eindhoven 6 2 3 1 9 8 +1 9 Newcastle United 6 2 1 3 7 8 −1 7 Barcelona 6 1 2 3 7 14 −7 5

BAR DK NEW PSV Barcelona – 0–4 1–0 2–2 Dynamo Kyiv 3–0 – 2–2 1–1 Newcastle United 3–2 2–0 – 0–2 PSV Eindhoven 2–2 1–3 1–0 –

Group D

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Real Madrid 6 4 1 1 15 4 +11 13 Rosenborg 6 3 2 1 13 8 +5 11 Olympiacos 6 1 2 3 6 14 −8 5 Porto 6 1 1 4 3 11 −8 4

OLY POR RM ROS Olympiacos – 1–0 0–0 2–2 Porto 2–1 – 0–2 1–1 Real Madrid 5–1 4–0 – 4–1 Rosenborg 5–1 2–0 2–0 –

Group E

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Bayern Munich 6 4 0 2 13 6 +7 12 Paris Saint-Germain 6 4 0 2 11 10 +1 12 Beşiktaş 6 2 0 4 6 9 −3 6 IFK Göteborg 6 2 0 4 4 9 −5 6

BAY BJK GÖT PSG Bayern Munich – 2–0 0–1 5–1 Beşiktaş 0–2 – 1–0 3–1 IFK Göteborg 1–3 2–1 – 0–1 Paris Saint-Germain 3–1 2–1 3–0 –

Group F

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Monaco 6 4 1 1 15 8 +7 13 Bayer Leverkusen 6 4 1 1 11 7 +4 13 Sporting CP 6 2 1 3 9 11 −2 7 Lierse 6 0 1 5 3 12 −9 1

MON LEV LIE SCP Monaco – 4–0 5–1 3–2 Bayer Leverkusen 2–2 – 1–0 4–1 Lierse 0–1 0–2 – 1–1 Sporting CP 3–0 0–2 2–1 –

Ranking of runners-up

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Bayer Leverkusen 6 4 1 1 11 7 +4 13 Juventus 6 4 0 2 12 8 +4 12 Paris Saint-Germain 6 4 0 2 11 10 +1 12 Rosenborg 6 3 2 1 13 8 +5 11 PSV Eindhoven 6 2 3 1 9 8 +1 9 Parma 6 2 3 1 6 5 +1 9

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
	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	0	1	1

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	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 (aet)
Juventus	5–2	Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	4–1
Monaco	1–1 (a)	Manchester United	0–0	1–1

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. With Bayer Leverkusen also having qualified, it marked the first time three clubs from the same nation played in the knockout phase.

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	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

20 May 199820:45

Juventus	0–1	Real Madrid
	Report	Mijatović  66'

Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam

Attendance: 48,500

Referee: Hellmut Krug (Germany)

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying rounds) are as follows:

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

External links

• 1997–98 All matches – season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at RSSSF
• All scorers 1997–98 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers qualifying round
• 1997/98 UEFA Champions League - results and line-ups (archive)