1998 UEFA Champions League Final

1998 UEFA Champions League Final
Event 1997–98 UEFA Champions League
Date 20 May 1998
Venue Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam
Referee Hellmut Krug (Germany)
Attendance 48,500

The 1998 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match that took place at the Amsterdam Arena in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 20 May 1998 to determine the winner of the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League. It pitted Real Madrid of Spain and Juventus of Italy. Juventus appeared in their third consecutive final, while Real Madrid were in their first of the Champions League era. Real Madrid won 1–0, the only goal scored by Predrag Mijatović, to clinch their seventh European title, their first for 32 years.

Route to the final

For more details on this topic, see 1997–98 UEFA Champions League.
Italy Juventus Round Spain Real Madrid
Opponent Result Group stage Opponent Result
Netherlands Feyenoord 5–1 (H) Matchday 1 Norway Rosenborg 5–1 (H)
England Manchester United 2–3 (A) Matchday 2 Portugal Porto 2–0 (A)
Slovakia Košice 1–0 (A) Matchday 3 Greece Olympiacos 5–1 (H)
Slovakia Košice 3–2 (H) Matchday 4 Greece Olympiacos 0–0 (A)
Netherlands Feyenoord 0–2 (A) Matchday 5 Norway Rosenborg 0–2 (A)
England Manchester United 1–0 (H) Matchday 6 Portugal Porto 4–0 (H)
Group B runners-up
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
England Manchester United 6501145+915
Italy Juventus 6402128+412
Netherlands Feyenoord 6303810−29
Slovakia Košice 6006213−110
Final standings Group C winner
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Spain Real Madrid 6411154+1113
Norway Rosenborg 6321138+511
Greece Olympiacos 6123614−85
Portugal Porto 6114311−84
Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg Knockout phase Opponent Agg. 1st leg 2nd leg
Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv 5–2 1–1 (H) 4–1 (A) Quarter-finals Germany Bayer Leverkusen 4–1 1–1 (A) 3–0 (H)
France Monaco 6–4 4–1 (H) 2–3 (A) Semi-finals Germany Borussia Dortmund 2–0 2–0 (H) 0–0 (A)

Match

Details

20 May 1998
20:45 CEST
Juventus Italy 0–1 Spain Real Madrid
Report Mijatović  66'
Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam
Attendance: 48,500
Referee: Hellmut Krug (Germany)
Juventus
Real Madrid
GK 1 Italy Angelo Peruzzi (c)
CB 3 Italy Moreno Torricelli
CB 13Italy Mark Iuliano
CB 4 Uruguay Paolo Montero  79'
RM 7 Italy Angelo Di Livio  46'
CM 14France Didier Deschamps  77'
CM 26Netherlands Edgar Davids  34'
LM 22Italy Gianluca Pessotto  70'
AM 21France Zinedine Zidane
CF 9 Italy Filippo Inzaghi
CF 10Italy Alessandro Del Piero
Substitutes:
GK 12Italy Michelangelo Rampulla
DF 6 Portugal Dimas Teixeira
DF 15Italy Alessandro Birindelli
MF 8 Italy Antonio Conte  77'
MF 20Italy Alessio Tacchinardi  46'
FW 16Italy Nicola Amoruso
FW 18Uruguay Daniel Fonseca  70'
Manager:
Italy Marcello Lippi
GK 25Germany Bodo Illgner
RB 17Italy Christian Panucci
CB 5 Spain Manuel Sanchís (c)
CB 4 Spain Fernando Hierro  23'
LB 3 Brazil Roberto Carlos  37'
DM 6 Argentina Fernando Redondo
RM 27France Christian Karembeu  56'
LM 10Netherlands Clarence Seedorf  90+4'
AM 7 Spain Raúl  90'
CF 15Spain Fernando Morientes  81'
CF 8 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Predrag Mijatović  89'
Substitutes:
GK 1 Spain Santiago Cañizares
DF 19Spain Fernando Sanz
MF 11Spain José Emilio Amavisca  90'
MF 16Spain Jaime  81'
MF 18Spain Víctor Sánchez
MF 20Brazil Sávio
FW 9 Croatia Davor Šuker  89'
Manager:
Germany Jupp Heynckes

Assistant referees:
Germany Thorsten Bastian (Germany)
Germany Christian Schräer (Germany)
Fourth official:
Germany Hans-Jürgen Weber (Germany)

Match rules

Statistics

First half
Juventus Real Madrid
Goals scored 0 0
Total shots 3 6
Shots on target 1 2
Ball possession
Corner kicks 1 2
Fouls committed 13 10
Offsides 1 0
Yellow cards 1 2
Red cards 0 0

Second half
Juventus Real Madrid
Goals scored 0 1
Total shots 6 2
Shots on target 3 1
Ball possession
Corner kicks 2 1
Fouls committed 16 12
Offsides 2 1
Yellow cards 1 2
Red cards 0 0

Overall
Juventus Real Madrid
Goals scored 0 1
Total shots 9 8
Shots on target 4 3
Ball possession 49% 51%
Corner kicks 3 3
Fouls committed 29 22
Offsides 3 1
Yellow cards 2 4
Red cards 0 0

Source: UEFA Champions League Final 1998 Full-Time Report

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