1997–98 UEFA Champions League

1997–98 UEFA Champions League
	The Amsterdam Arena held the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying:; 23 July – 27 August 1997; Competition proper:; 17 September 1997 – 20 May 1998
Teams	Competition proper: 24; Total: 55
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 (Juventus); 10 goals
	← 1996–97 1998–99 →

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 re-branding from the "European Champion Clubs' Cup" or "European Cup". The tournament was won by Real Madrid, winning for the first time in 32 years, beating 1–0 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, instead of previous four, 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 entered into the competition.^[1] With Borussia Dortmund being the title holders but finishing third in their domestic league the previous season, Germany became the first association to provide three teams to the premier European competition.

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

Armenia, Azerbaijan, 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 since 1991–92 season after the UN ban was lifted.

Association team allocation

Number of teams per country as well as the starting round for each club and seeding were based on UEFA association coefficients.^[2]

Associations ranked 1–8 each have two participants
Associations ranked 9–48 each have one participant (except Liechtenstein and Albania)

Association ranking

For the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League, the associations were allocated places according to their 1997 UEFA association coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 1992–93 to 1996–97.^[2]^[3]

Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, an association could have an additional team participating in the Champions League, as noted below:

(TH) – Additional berth for UEFA Champions League title holders

Association ranking for 1997–98 UEFA Champions League

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
1	Italy	60.735	2
2	Spain	46.532
3	France	45.733
4	Germany	43.949		+1 (TH)
5	Netherlands	36.350
6	Portugal	34.800
7	England	30.816
8	Turkey	25.000
9	Greece	25.000	1
10	Austria	24.950
11	Russia	24.866
12	Belgium	24.400
13	Denmark	22.950
14	Sweden	22.750
15	Norway	22.249
16	Czech Republic	21.666

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams
17	Switzerland	21.500	1
18	Poland	19.500
19	Scotland	18.800
20	Romania	18.650
21	Croatia	18.500
22	Ukraine	17.998
23	Cyprus	16.665
24	Israel	16.416
25	Hungary	16.249
26	Georgia	16.000
27	Slovakia	15.999
28	Latvia	13.832
29	Slovenia	12.998
30	Finland	12.082
31	Belarus	11.500
32	Iceland	10.999

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
33	Bulgaria	10.666	1
34	Macedonia	7.333
35	Lithuania	6.000
36	Moldova	6.000
37	Northern Ireland	5.332
38	Liechtenstein	5.000	0
39	Wales	4.999	1
40	FR Yugoslavia	4.750
41	Estonia	4.666
42	Malta	4.664
43	Republic of Ireland	4.331
44	Armenia	4.166
45	Luxembourg	3.666
46	Faroe Islands	3.000
47	Albania	2.666	0	^{[Note ALB]}
48	Azerbaijan	1.833	1

Distribution

	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round
First qualifying round (30 teams)	30 champions from associations 17–48 (except Liechtenstein and Albania)^{[Note ALB]}
Second qualifying round (32 teams)	9 champions from associations 8–16 8 runners-up from associations 1–8	15 winners from the first qualifying round
Group stage (24 teams)	Champions League title holders (Borussia Dortmund) 7 champions from associations 1–7	16 winners from the second qualifying round
Knockout phase (8 teams)		6 group winners from the group stage 2 best-ranked group runners-up from the group stage

Teams

55 teams entered the competition: the national champions of each of the top 48 nations in the UEFA coefficient rankings (except Liechtenstein and Albania), plus the runners-up from each of the top eight nations and UEFA Champions League holders, Borussia Dortmund. The national champions of the associations ranked 1–7 (Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal and England), plus the title holders, all received a bye to the group stage, while the national champions of the associations ranked 8–16 and the runners-up of the associations ranked 1–8 all entered in the second qualifying round. The remaining national champions from the associations ranked 17–48 entered in the first qualifying round.

Group stage
Borussia Dortmund (TH)	Real Madrid (1st)	Bayern Munich (1st)	Porto (1st)
Juventus (1st)	Monaco (1st)	PSV Eindhoven (1st)	Manchester United (1st)
Second qualifying round
Parma (2nd)	Sporting CP (2nd)	Olympiacos (1st)	Brøndby (1st)
Barcelona (2nd)	Newcastle United (2nd)	Wüstenrot Salzburg (1st)	IFK Göteborg (1st)
Paris Saint-Germain (2nd)	Galatasaray (1st)	Spartak Moscow (1st)	Rosenborg (1st)
Bayer Leverkusen (2nd)	Beşiktaş (2nd)	Lierse (1st)	Sparta Prague (1st)
Feyenoord (2nd)
First qualifying round
Sion (1st)	MTK (1st)	CSKA Sofia (1st)	Lantana Tallinn (1st)
Widzew Łódź (1st)	Dinamo Tbilisi (1st)	Sileks (1st)	Valletta (1st)
Rangers (1st)	Košice (1st)	Kareda Šiauliai (1st)	Derry City (1st)
Steaua București (1st)	Skonto (1st)	Constructorul Chișinău (1st)	Pyunik (1st)
Croatia Zagreb (1st)	Maribor (1st)	Crusaders (1st)	Jeunesse Esch (1st)
Dynamo Kyiv (1st)	Jazz (1st)	Barry Town (1st)	GÍ (1st)
Anorthosis Famagusta (1st)	MPKC Mozyr (1st)	Partizan (1st)	Neftçi (1st)
Beitar Jerusalem (1st)	ÍA (1st)

Notes

^
Albania (ALB): Clubs from Albania were not admitted to UEFA competitions as 1996–97 Albanian Superliga was suspended for several months due to the 1997 Albanian civil unrest and eventually ended in mid-August 1997 (won by Tirana), past the UEFA deadline.^[4]

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held in Geneva, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	First qualifying round	9 July 1997	23 July 1997	30 July 1997
Qualifying	Second qualifying round	9 July 1997	13 August 1997	27 August 1997
Group stage	Matchday 1	29 August 1997	17 September 1997
	Matchday 2		1 October 1997
	Matchday 3		22 October 1997
	Matchday 4		5 November 1997
	Matchday 5		26–27 November 1997
	Matchday 6		10 December 1997
Knockout phase	Quarter-finals	17 December 1997	4 March 1998	18 March 1998
	Semi-finals	20 March 1998 (Lausanne)	1 April 1998	15 April 1998
	Final	20 March 1998 (Lausanne)	20 May 1998 at Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam

Qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Derry City	0–3	Maribor	0–2	0–1
Pyunik	3–6	MTK	0–2	3–4
Crusaders	2–8	Dinamo Tbilisi	1–3	1–5
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
Sileks	1–3	Beitar Jerusalem	1–0	0–3
Steaua București	5–3	CSKA Sofia	3–3	2–0
Constructorul Chișinău	3–4	MPKC Mozyr	1–1	2–3
Lantana Tallinn	0–3	Jazz	0–1	0–2
GÍ	0–11	Rangers	0–5	0–6
Neftçi	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 Famagusta	4–1	Kareda Šiauliai	3–0	1–1

Second qualifying round

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

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Beşiktaş	3–1	Maribor	0–0	3–1
MTK Hungária	1–4	Rosenborg	0–1^[a]	1–3
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^[b]	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

Notes

^ The first leg of the MTK Hungária v Rosenborg was abandoned in the 68th minute with MTK Hungária leading 3–2, and replayed from scratch a day later.
^ The match was awarded to Steaua București after Paris Saint-Germain fielded an ineligible player.

Group stage

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 (who already qualified for the 1991-92 European Cup group stage) 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. They were also first team from Slovakia to play in group stage.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	DOR	PRM	SPP	GAL
1	Borussia Dortmund	6	5	0	1	14	3	+11	15	Advance to knockout stage	—	2–0	4–1	4–1
2	Parma	6	2	3	1	6	5	+1	9		1–0	—	2–2	2–0
3	Sparta Prague	6	1	2	3	6	11	−5	5		0–3	0–0	—	3–0
4	Galatasaray	6	1	1	4	4	11	−7	4		0–1	1–1	2–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	MUN	JUV	FEY	KOS
1	Manchester United	6	5	1	14	5	+9	15	Advance to knockout stage	—	3–2	2–1	3–0
2	Juventus	6	4	2	12	8	+4	12	Advance to knockout stage	1–0	—	5–1	3–2
3	Feyenoord	6	3	3	8	10	−2	9		1–3	2–0	—	2–0
4	Košice	6	0	6	2	13	−11	0		0–3	0–1	0–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	DKV	PSV	NEW	BAR
1	Dynamo Kyiv	6	3	2	1	13	6	+7	11	Advance to knockout stage	—	1–1	2–2	3–0
2	PSV Eindhoven	6	2	3	1	9	8	+1	9		1–3	—	1–0	2–2
3	Newcastle United	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	7		2–0	0–2	—	3–2
4	Barcelona	6	1	2	3	7	14	−7	5		0–4	2–2	1–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	RMA	ROS	OLY	POR
1	Real Madrid	6	4	1	1	15	4	+11	13	Advance to knockout stage	—	4–1	5–1	4–0
2	Rosenborg	6	3	2	1	13	8	+5	11		2–0	—	5–1	2–0
3	Olympiacos	6	1	2	3	6	14	−8	5		0–0	2–2	—	1–0
4	Porto	6	1	1	4	3	11	−8	4		0–2	1–1	2–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	BAY	PAR	BES	GOT
1	Bayern Munich	6	4	2	13	6	+7	12	Advance to knockout stage	—	5–1	2–0	0–1
2	Paris Saint-Germain	6	4	2	11	10	+1	12		3–1	—	2–1	3–0
3	Beşiktaş	6	2	4	6	9	−3	6		0–2	3–1	—	1–0
4	IFK Göteborg	6	2	4	4	9	−5	6		1–3	0–1	2–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	MON	LEV	SPO	LIE
1	Monaco	6	4	1	1	15	8	+7	13	Advance to knockout stage	—	4–0	3–2	5–1
2	Bayer Leverkusen	6	4	1	1	11	7	+4	13	Advance to knockout stage	2–2	—	4–1	1–0
3	Sporting CP	6	2	1	3	9	11	−2	7		3–0	0–2	—	2–1
4	Lierse	6	0	1	5	3	12	−9	1		0–1	0–2	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Ranking of second-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	F	Bayer Leverkusen	6	4	1	1	11	7	+4	13	Advance to knockout stage
2	B	Juventus	6	4	0	2	12	8	+4	12	Advance to knockout stage
3	E	Paris Saint-Germain	6	4	0	2	11	10	+1	12
4	D	Rosenborg	6	3	2	1	13	8	+5	11
5	C	PSV Eindhoven	6	2	3	1	9	8	+1	9
6	A	Parma	6	2	3	1	6	5	+1	9

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Association coefficient; 6) Club coefficient.^[5]

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
								20 May – Amsterdam
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 (a.e.t.)	0	1	1

Quarter-finals

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 (including the European Cup era, the first game between teams from the same country occurred in 1958–59). With Bayer Leverkusen also having qualified, it marked the first time three clubs from the same nation played in the knockout phase.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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 (a.e.t.)
Juventus	5–2	Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	4–1
Monaco	1–1 (a)	Manchester United	0–0	1–1

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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

The final was played on 20 May 1998 at the Amsterdam Arena in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

20 May 1998

20:45 CEST

Juventus	0–1	Real Madrid
	Report	Mijatović 66'

Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam

Attendance: 48,500^[6]

Referee: Hellmut Krug (Germany)

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus	10
2	Thierry Henry	Monaco	7
3	Filippo Inzaghi	Juventus	6
3	Serhiy Rebrov	Dynamo Kyiv	6
5	Andy Cole	Manchester United	5
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

References

^ Berlin, Peter (September 19, 1997). "European Soccer: Fans Aren't Cheering Champions League". New York Times. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
^ ^a ^b "UEFA Country Ranking 1997". Retrieved 17 October 2019.
^ Protzen, Martin (3 June 1997). "FAQ: Qualification and Seeding for the European Cups". RSSSF. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
^ Albania 1996/97 at RSSSF
^ "UEFA Champions League: Format". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
^ "2. Finals" (PDF). UEFA Champions League Statistics Handbook 2016/17. Nyon: Union of European Football Associations. 2017. p. 1. Retrieved 22 April 2017.

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)

[cnote_Note_ALB] 
Albania (ALB): Clubs from Albania were not admitted to UEFA competitions as 1996–97 Albanian Superliga was suspended for several months due to the 1997 Albanian civil unrest and eventually ended in mid-August 1997 (won by Tirana), past the UEFA deadline.^[4]

[5] The first leg of the MTK Hungária v Rosenborg was abandoned in the 68th minute with MTK Hungária leading 3–2, and replayed from scratch a day later.

[6] The match was awarded to Steaua București after Paris Saint-Germain fielded an ineligible player.

[1] Berlin, Peter (September 19, 1997). "European Soccer: Fans Aren't Cheering Champions League". New York Times. Retrieved December 22, 2023.

[country_ranking-2] "UEFA Country Ranking 1997". Retrieved 17 October 2019.

[3] Protzen, Martin (3 June 1997). "FAQ: Qualification and Seeding for the European Cups". RSSSF. Retrieved 29 January 2025.

[4] Albania 1996/97 at RSSSF

[7] "UEFA Champions League: Format". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 12 September 2024.

[attendance-8] "2. Finals" (PDF). UEFA Champions League Statistics Handbook 2016/17. Nyon: Union of European Football Associations. 2017. p. 1. Retrieved 22 April 2017.

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1997–98 UEFA Champions League

Association team allocation

Association ranking

Distribution

Teams

Round and draw dates

Qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

Second qualifying round

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Ranking of second-placed teams

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Top goalscorers

See also

References

External links

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