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

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.

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 French side – apart from Monaco-based AS Monaco, who play in the French league system – would reach the final until Paris Saint-Germain in 2020.

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

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)
France Marseille 1 (1991)
Italy Milan 5 (1958, 1963, 1969, 1989, 1990)

Road to the final

France Marseille Round Italy Milan
Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg
Northern Ireland Glentoran 8–0 5–0 (A) 3–0 (H) First round Slovenia Olimpija Ljubljana 7–0 4–0 (H) 3–0 (A)
Romania Dinamo București 2–0 0–0 (A) 2–0 (H) Second round Czechoslovakia Slovan Bratislava 5–0 1–0 (A) 4–0 (H)
Opponent Result Group stage Opponent Result
Scotland Rangers 2–2 (A) Matchday 1 Sweden IFK Göteborg 4–0 (H)
Belgium Club Brugge 3–0 (H) Matchday 2 Netherlands PSV Eindhoven 2–1 (A)
Russia CSKA Moscow 1–1 (A) Matchday 3 Portugal Porto 1–0 (A)
Russia CSKA Moscow 6–0 (H) Matchday 4 Portugal Porto 1–0 (H)
Scotland Rangers 1–1 (H) Matchday 5 Sweden IFK Göteborg 1–0 (A)
Belgium Club Brugge 1–0 (A) Matchday 6 Netherlands PSV Eindhoven 2–0 (H)
Group A winner

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

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

Match

Details

Marseille France1–0Italy Milan
Boli 44' Report
Marseille
Milan
GK1France Fabien BarthezYellow card 70'
CB2France Jocelyn Anglomadownward-facing red arrow 62'
LB3France Éric Di MecoYellow card 31'
SW4France Basile BoliYellow card 56'
CM5France Franck Sauzée
CB6France Marcel Desailly
RB7France Jean-Jacques Eydelie
CF8Croatia Alen Bokšić
LF9Germany Rudi Völlerdownward-facing red arrow 79'
RF10Ghana Abedi Pele
CM11France Didier Deschamps (c)
Substitutes:
MF12France Jean-Christophe Thomasupward-facing green arrow 79'
DF13France Bernard Casoni
MF14France Jean-Philippe Durandupward-facing green arrow 62'
FW15France Jean-Marc Ferreri
GK16France Pascal Olmeta
Manager:
Belgium Raymond Goethals
GK1Italy Sebastiano Rossi
RB2Italy Mauro Tassotti
LB3Italy Paolo Maldini
CM4Italy Demetrio Albertini
CB5Italy Alessandro Costacurta
CB6Italy Franco Baresi (c)
LM7Italy Gianluigi LentiniYellow card 39'
CM8Netherlands Frank Rijkaard
CF9Netherlands Marco van Bastendownward-facing red arrow 86'
RM10Italy Roberto Donadonidownward-facing red arrow 58'
CF11Italy Daniele Massaro
Substitutes:
GK12Italy Carlo Cudicini
DF13Italy Stefano Nava
MF14Italy Stefano Eranioupward-facing green arrow 86'
MF15Italy Alberico Evani
FW16France Jean-Pierre Papinupward-facing green arrow 58'
Manager:
Italy Fabio Capello

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

Aftermath

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

References

  1. 1 2 "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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