1993 UEFA Champions League Final
The 1993 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match between French club Marseille and Italian club A.C. Milan, played on 26 May 1993 at the Olympiastadion in Munich.
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| Event | 1992–93 UEFA Champions League | ||||||
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| Date | 26 May 1993 | ||||||
| Venue | Olympiastadion, Munich | ||||||
| Referee | Kurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland) | ||||||
| Attendance | 64,400 | ||||||
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 French side – apart from Monaco-based AS Monaco, which played in French league system – has gone to the final since, let alone won the trophy.
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 ever 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.[1]
Teams
In the following table, finals until 1992 were in the European Cup era, since 1993 were in the UEFA Champions League era.
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1 (1991) |
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5 (1958, 1963, 1969, 1989, 1990) |
Road to the final
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8–0 | 5–0 (A) | 3–0 (H) | First round |  |
7–0 | 4–0 (H) | 3–0 (A) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2–0 | 0–0 (A) | 2–0 (H) | Second round |  |
5–0 | 1–0 (A) | 4–0 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2–2 (A) | Matchday 1 |  |
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3–0 (H) | Matchday 2 |  |
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1–1 (A) | Matchday 3 |  |
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6–0 (H) | Matchday 4 | |
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1–1 (H) | Matchday 5 | |
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1–0 (A) | Matchday 6 | |
2–0 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group A winner
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Final standings | Group B winner
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Match
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Boli  |
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   A.C. Milan
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Assistant referees:
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