The two substitutes have scored the two goals in stoppage time and the treble looms large! Template:Fb cl2 team Manchester United vs Bayern Munich 2-1 - UCL Final 1999 - (English Commentary) Full Highlights Bayern Munich vs Manchester United 3-1 Highlights (UCL Quarter-Final) 2013-14 Football Skills, Tricks and Best Goals Manchester United v. Bayern Munich 26.05.1999 Champions League 1998/1999 1 Half Manchester United v. 1972-73Template:, [19], In the draw for the group stage, Bayern Munich were placed in Pot 2 and Manchester United in Pot 3 as Germany was higher than England in the UEFA association club coefficient rankings. Sir Alex Ferguson had originally considered selecting Ryan Giggs to join Nicky Butt in central midfield, but ultimately picked David Beckham. Live now, Group C [76] A minute later, Bayern missed a chance to secure the trophy, when an overhead kick from Jancker came off the crossbar. Manchester United left England two days before the final, first flying from Manchester Ringway Airport to Heathrow,[60] where they boarded a Concorde aircraft for the flight to Barcelona. The Champions League final began . Both teams were also playing for the Treble; in addition to their league win, Manchester United had beaten Newcastle United in the 1999 FA Cup Final on 22 May to claim the Double, while Bayern were due to play Werder Bremen in the 1999 DFB-Pokal Final on 12 June. |- 2003-04Template:, 1967Template:, 1983Template:, The duo missed out on the final due to suspension. Here, the PA news agency takes a look back at that. The triumph capped off an amazing season for Sir Alex Fergusons men. |1st leg The match was played at Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain, to determine the winner of the 1998-99 UEFA Champions League. 1998-99Template:, 1976-77Template:, Schmeichel kept his side in the game when tipping another Effenberg shot over the bar after 75 minutes. [109] Had Bayern won the cup, they would have become the first team to achieve this feat, having also finished second in the Bundesliga to Kaiserslautern the season before. Name on the trophy! The bigger picture was the fact United had not won the European Cup since the days of Sir Matt Busby in 1968 and had only reached the semi-finals in the competition's present format as the Champions League. |2nd leg Here are the top scorers for each UEFA Champions League tournament since the new format was adopted in 1992-93. 1989Template:, 2004-05Template:, |43 As Manchester United's top two goalscorers throughout the season, Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke started up front, leaving Teddy Sheringham who had played a part in both goals in the FA Cup Final a few days earlier on the bench. Is this their moment? Of these, around two-thirds were reserved for the two finalist clubs (approximately 30,000 tickets each). The official licensed stores are operated by 3rd party commercial partners appointed under license by UEFA. However, if the Rossoneri thought the job was done, they were sorely mistaken. The Bayern defence remained strong and well organised, as Andy Cole found out when his close-range effort was quickly closed down by three defenders. 2009-10Template:, [45], The Camp Nou was constructed over three years from 1954 to 1957 as a replacement for Barcelona's previous home, the nearby Camp de Les Corts. Manchester United were without two of their best players namely Roy Keane and Paul Scholes for the final. The Camp Nou was constructed over three years from 1954 to 1957 as a replacement for Barcelona's previous home, the nearby Camp de Les Corts, which had reached its limit for expansion. |align=left|Template:Flagicon Internazionale |Agg. He never won the competition, having moved to play in the United States for the MetroStars Major League Soccer team before Bayern next won the European Cup in 2001. Beckham in towards Schmeichel it's come for Dwight Yorke. |11 (A) Milan were underdogs, their suspension-hit back line expected to buckle under the weight of the Spanish side's attacking talent. Penalty shoot-out if no goals occur in extra time. 1992-93Template:, The 1999 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match that took place on Wednesday, 26 May 1999. Live now. Manchester United's only other German opponents in their history were Borussia Dortmund, against whom they had an overall winning record, with three wins, two defeats and a draw in their six matches, including a 101 aggregate win in the second round of the 196465 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and a 20 aggregate defeat in the 199697 UEFA Champions League semi-finals. [87], Assistant referees:[54] Manchester United captain Roy Keane and midfielder Paul Scholes both missed out on the final due to suspension, resulting in David Beckham joining Nicky Butt in centre midfield, Ryan Giggs to the right wing and Jesper Blomqvist starting on the left. Collina was promoted to the FIFA International Referees list in 1995, and took charge of his first UEFA Cup matches in the 199596 season. 1987-88Template:, By then, the stadium's capacity had been increased to over 120,000. 1986Template:, With the game seemingly drifting away from the English side, Ferguson introduced striker Ole Gunnar Solskjr with ten minutes remaining. Chelsea clinched the Champions League title on Saturday after beating Manchester City 1-0 in the all-English final. #football #viral #highlights #championsleague #like #youtube #youtubeshorts #ytshorts #manchesterunited #bayenmunich #olegunnarsolskjaer #iconic #siralexferg. Steve Bartram recalls a season like no other in the storied history of Manchester United. "As Giggsy struck the ball from there, and it was coming past me, I can remember the Bayern defender coming off the line past me and pushing up, putting his hand up in the air for offside. The party had just started in the Catalan capital. Solskjr celebrated by sliding on his knees, mimicking Basler's earlier celebration, before quickly being mobbed by the United players, substitutes and coaching staff. Stefan Effenberg had a couple of efforts, as did Mehmet Scholl, who hit a post. Final of the 199899 edition of the UEFA Champions League, Independent Manchester United Supporters Association, FC Bayern Munich in international football competitions, Manchester United F.C. It looked as if, having been behind for most of the match, United had forced extra time. Manchester United were without two of their best players namely Roy Keane and Paul Scholes for the final. Matthus had captained Bayern in the 1987 European Cup Final and lost in similar circumstances to two late Porto goals. [120], On 26 May 2019, Manchester United hosted a reunion match at Old Trafford against a Bayern Munich Legends team to mark the 20th anniversary of winning the treble and to raise money for the Manchester United Foundation. It featured a large "swoosh" across two adjacent hexagonal panels with the Champions League logo on a pentagonal panel above, and a pattern of five-pointed stars similar to those used in the UEFA Champions League logo over the entire surface of the ball. Schmeichel, in his own penalty area, cartwheeled with glee. The Reds had already secured the Premier League title and FA Cup ahead of travelling to Barcelona on Concorde, with Bayern chasing their own Treble after coming out on top domestically in Germany. Bayern raced into the lead after six minutes when Mario Basler deceived Peter Schmeichel from a free kick just outside the box. [28] With Bayern beating Brndby 20 at home, the German side moved onto 10 points and took top spot in the group going into the final round of matches, one point ahead of United. Remember that the results and table are updated in real time. Cleared Giggs with the shot Sheringham! With the 90 minutes up, Schmeichel went up for a Beckham corner in desperation but actually challenged for the set-piece. UNITED 2-1 BAYERN: #UCL 1999 FINAL FLASHBACK UEFA 3.62M subscribers Subscribe 53K 3.5M views 4 years ago Relive. [55], As both Manchester United and Bayern Munich's primary kits featured significant amounts of red, UEFA regulations about kit clashes would normally have required both teams to wear their change kits. Main article: 1999 UEFA Champions League Final 26 May 1999 20:45 Camp Nou, Barcelona Attendance: 90,245 Referee: Pierluigi Collina ( Italy) Top goalscorers [ edit] The top scorers from the 1998-99 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying rounds) are as follows: See also [ edit] 1998-99 UEFA Cup 1998-99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Despite the bad start, United began to dominate possession but failed to create any clear cut chances despite David Beckham's tireless running. 1965Template:, [102] It was the first time the treble had been won since PSV Eindhoven in 1988; it would not be won again until Barcelona beat Manchester United 10 years later in the 2009 UEFA Champions League final. Ferguson threw on Sheringham and Solskjr but could only watch as Carsten Jancker's overhead kick hit the bar late on. The result meant that Bayern finished as group winners, but United's points total was enough to see them go through as one of the two group runners-up with the best record. [113] Greater Manchester Police later estimated that the actual number of people who attended the parade was around 500,000. The crowd were euphoric. Beckham flighted the corner in just over Schmeichel's head, Dwight Yorke put the ball back towards the crowded area, and after Thorsten Fink failed to clear sufficiently, the ball arrived at the feet of Ryan Giggs on the edge of the area. Ferguson took advantage and played a three man attack in the second half. Although Bayern had been waiting 23 years for a European Cup title, Manchester United had had to wait even longer, their only victory having come in 1968. Template:ImportTemplate:Infobox football match 1959Template:, Bayern were deflated and conceded another corner soon afterwards. "There was a cross from David Beckham and I was very close to the goal but I misjudged it a little bit and had to throw myself," said the Swede. Man Utd 2 Bayern Munich 1 | 1999 Champions League final | Manchester United Glory Days: How we secured the Treble by Adam Marshall Monday 25 May 2020 23:00 Manchester United defeated Bayern. With the final taking place at their own Fuball Arena Mnchen, Bayern were expecting to claim the trophy for a fifth time. Trailing 1-0 going into added time, United were soon lifting the trophy thanks to last-gasp goals from Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjr. The remaining third was divided between fans of FC Barcelona (around 7,500 tickets), UEFA, and competition sponsors. Fellow striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, back up goalkeeper Raimond Van Der Gouw, defenders David May, Phil Neville and Wes Brown and midfielder Jonathan Greening were also on the bench. 1977Template:, [122] Ferguson returned to manage the side, six years after his retirement from full-time management, joined by his 1999 assistant Steve McClaren and former club captain Bryan Robson as head coach. |Agg. 1969-70Template:, "I hit it over the bar. The goal was timed at 36 seconds into injury time. [94], Staying true to his word from earlier in the season, the match was Schmeichel's last in a Manchester United shirt, and a month later he signed for Portuguese club Sporting CP. A first-half goal from summer signing Kai Havertz, the most expensive. [76][77] Scholl then almost scored from a delicate 20-yard chip after a run from Basler, but the ball bounced back off the post and into Schmeichel's arms. They were stunned to have lost a game they had thought won just minutes before (several celebratory flares had already been ignited by the Munich fans moments before United equalised, and Bayern Munich ribbons had already been secured to the trophy itself in preparation for the presentation ceremony). "This was perfection," stated Capello. Live now, Group D 2012-13Template:, 2005Template:, Beckham again swung the corner in, finding the head of Sheringham, who nodded the ball down across the face of goal. Six minutes into the match, Ronny Johnsen fouled Bayern striker Carsten Jancker just outside the area, and Mario Basler placed a low free kick around the United wall to score the first goal. He had only refereed eight Champions League matches before the 1999 final, three of which came in the group stage earlier in the season, including the match between Barcelona and Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou on 4 November 1998; however, he had also taken charge of four matches at the 1996 Summer Olympics, including the final between Nigeria and Argentina, and two group stage matches at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. |- The veteran defender is one of. The 1999 UEFA Champions League final was an association football match between Manchester United of England and Bayern Munich of Germany, played at Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain, on 26 May 1999, to determine the winner of the 199899 UEFA Champions League. Despite the club receiving only 30,000 tickets, it is estimated that more than 50,000 Manchester United fans travelled to Barcelona for the final. [25] Bayern also recorded a pair of victories over Barcelona, winning 10 at the Olympiastadion[26] and 21 at the Camp Nou. 1984Template:, The victory completed a treble-winning season for Manchester United, after they had won the Premier League and FA Cup. 2012Template:, 1957Template:, 1988-89Template:, 1991Template:, [121] Most of the Manchester United squad from the 199899 season returned for the match,[122] with the exception of Giggs, who was on coaching duty with the Wales national team. [61] They stayed in the Meli Gran hotel in the town of Sitges, about 20 miles (32 kilometres) down the coast south-west of Barcelona. [65] Norwegian defender Henning Berg also missed out through injury, meaning that his compatriot Ronny Johnsen who had been an early contender to play alongside Butt in midfield[66] played in central defence alongside Jaap Stam, who overcame an Achilles injury. Solskjr reacted fastest, shot out a foot and poked the ball into the roof of the Bayern goal for United to take the lead. Norwegian defender Henning Berg also missed out through injury, meaning that his compatriot Ronny Johnsen who had been an early contender to play alongside Butt in midfield played in central defence alongside Jaap Stam, who overcame an Achilles injury. [93] As captain of Manchester United, Schmeichel should have received his medal last, but instead he went up first before having to return to the back of the queue with Ferguson; the pair then lifted the trophy together, surrounded by the rest of Manchester United's players, including May, who climbed the presentation podium to a position of prominence in the celebration photographs. In the process, Manchester United won their second Champions League title. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! And all this with a reshuffled team due to the suspension of Paul Scholes and Roy Keane. The game attracted an average of 15million viewers on British television with a peak audience of 19million in injury time. It was, for the spectators, one of the best goals in a Champions League final. For the best possible experience, we recommend using. The game restarted, but many Bayern players were overwhelmed with despair, virtually unable to continue and needed the assistance of referee Pierluigi Collina to drag themselves off the ground. United's route to the 1999 Champions League final was by no means straightforward - it was grouped with eventual runner-up Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Brondby, with the Catalans ultimately the one of the three giants to fall before the knockout phase. Despite the introduction of Sheringham for Blomqvist and our dire need for a goal, Bayern looked the likelier scorers. United took the lead just before half-time through a Roy Keane strike from just outside the penalty area; however, Hasan Salihamidi equalised for Bayern in the 55th minute and the game finished as a 11 draw. The 1999 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final was a football match between Mallorca of Spain and Lazio of Italy played on 19 May 1999 at Villa Park, Birmingham, England.It was the final match of the 1998-99 season of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and the culmination of the competition before it was absorbed into the UEFA Cup1998-99 season of the UEFA Cup Winners [96][97] It was also Blomqvist's last competitive appearance for the club. [2] Manchester United's only other German opponents in their history were Borussia Dortmund, against whom they had an overall winning record, with three wins, two defeats and a draw in their six matches, including a 101 aggregate win in the second round of the 196465 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and a 20 aggregate defeat in the 199697 UEFA Champions League semi-finals. Beckham, into Sheringham and Solskjr has won it! |32 (A) 2009Template:, |31 |40 (A) Another chance for Basler prompted United manager Alex Ferguson to bring on striker Teddy Sheringham. [10] Their manager then was Matt Busby, who had been seriously injured 10 years earlier in the Munich air disaster, which killed eight of his players on the way back from a European Cup tie in Belgrade, before rebuilding the team to become European Cup winners. . UEFA.com works better on other browsers For the best possible experience, we. 1986-87Template:, But for Clive Tyldesley as much as Manchester United, the night of May 26, 1999 was about seizing unexpected chances and turning them into memories. [116] The climax of the game was voted as the fourth-greatest sporting moment ever by Channel 4 viewers in a 2002 poll. Seven named substitutes, of which a maximum of three may be used. After playing in all four matches of the club's pre-season tour of Australia and China in July 1999, he suffered a succession of knee injuries that ruled him out of competitive action for the next two seasons. 2008Template:, Bayern raced into the lead after six minutes when Mario Basler deceived Peter Schmeichel from a free kick just outside the box. Share. 2000-01Template:, [112], Manchester United planned an open-top bus tour of the city of Manchester the day after the game, at which they would parade their three trophies for an expected 700,000 people lining the streets between Sale and the city centre. 2008-09Template:, |10 (H) [89] When emerging from the tunnel at the final whistle, he was stunned, and he later said: "I can't believe it. The final was contested by Manchester United and Bayern Munich. [29] Qualification for the quarter-finals was only guaranteed for the group winners,[30] meaning that both United and Bayern had to play for victory in their final match against each other at Old Trafford. The Bayern defence was anchored around sweeper Matthus, who played behind Thomas Linke and Ghana international Samuel Kuffour the only non-German in the Bayern side (by comparison, Manchester United had four Englishmen in their team); Linke and Kuffour's partnership at centre-back meant club captain Thomas Helmer had to settle for a place on the bench. Giggs started on the right wing whereas Jesper Blomqvist starting on the left. |align=left|Template:Flagicon Juventus Manchester United have reached the promised land! Despite the bad start United began to dominate possession. 1984-85Template:, 1956-57Template:, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer'. Im lucky enough to guide it in.". 1998Template:, It could take days or even weeks to recover from this but I must say that Manchester are great champions. [47] 1982 was the stadium's busiest year to date, hosting not only the 1982 Cup Winners' Cup Final, but also five matches at the FIFA World Cup, including the opening match, all three matches in Group A of the second group stage and the semi-final between Poland and Italy. 2004Template:, However, they failed to create any clear cut chances. Solskjr reacted fastest, stuck out a foot and poked the ball into the roof of the Bayern goal for United to take the lead with just 43 seconds of the three minutes of injury time to play. Paul Scholes was suspended for the 1999 UEFA Champions League final A foul on Juventus' Didier Deschamps in the semi-final cost Scholes his place He watched from the stands but felt. I saw the flag was down and that was it. Yet the Reds were going strong deep into stoppage time, when the chips were down, and everything seemed to be slipping away. In winning the trophy, Manchester United became the first English team to be crowned European Champions since the Heysel ban in 1985, and also the first team to achieve a unique treble of the Premiership, FA Cup and European Cup in the same season. 1973Template:, The match ball for the final was the Nike NK 800 Geo, a white ball with a standard 32-panel design. Newsletter. In the ensuing panic, the Bavarians failed to clear the lines properly and Giggs hit a right-foot volley that was diverted into the net by Sheringham for the equaliser. |align=left|Template:Flagicon Dynamo Kyiv Daniele Massaro's double before the break seized the initiative, with Dejan Savievi's exquisite lob and Marcel Desailly's cool finish wrapping up a fifth final triumph for the Italian team. Template:Flagicon Claudio Puglisi (Italy) UNITED 2-1 BAYERN: #UCL 1999 FINAL FLASHBACK - YouTube 0:00 / 9:57 MAN. [39] A single goal from Basler proved the difference between Bayern and Dynamo in the second leg, giving the Germans a 43 aggregate win. Had Bayern won the cup, they would have become the first team to achieve this feat, having also finished second in the Bundesliga to Kaiserslautern the season before. After the treble was secured, much debate arose among English football fans as to whether the 1999 Manchester United team was the greatest club side ever, alongside past European Cup-winning teams. Fiorenzo Treossi (Italy), The game's ending was so unexpected that UEFA President Lennart Johansson had left his seat in the stands before Sheringham's equaliser to make his way down to the pitch to present the European Cup trophy, which was already decorated with Bayern ribbons. The Bayern defence remained strong and well-organised, as Cole found out when his close-range effort was quickly closed down by three defenders. 1966Template:, 1975Template:, |1st leg Benzema has 10 goals in his last five Champions League games which is a record for a . Manchester United UEFA Champions League Manchester United legend Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has explained the bizarre reason he wore blacked-out boots to seal the club's historic treble in 1999.. It had also hosted two Cup Winners' Cup finals, in 1972 and 1982; the latter was won on home turf by FC Barcelona. 1997-98Template:, 2001Template:, [107] It was such a significant achievement for an English football club that Prime Minister Tony Blair took the time to watch part of the match and congratulate Manchester United from the opening of the new National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff. Manchester United beat Brndby 62 in their first match at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen,[24] then 50 at Old Trafford two weeks later. Referee Pierluigi Collina has cited it as one of the most memorable matches of his career, due to the incredible noise like a "lion's roar" from the crowd at the end of the game. United won a corner just as the fourth official indicated three minutes of injury time, and with so little time left for an equaliser, Schmeichel ventured up to Bayern's penalty area. With Keane out, goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel was named as captain for his final Manchester United appearance. [11], Although it was the second Champions League season to feature clubs that had not won their national leagues the year before, Manchester United and Bayern Munich were the first such clubs to reach the final of the competition. The Bayern defence was anchored around sweeper Lothar Matthus, who played behind Thomas Linke and Ghana international Samuel Kuffour the only non-German in the Bayern side (by comparison, Manchester United had four Englishmen, one Welshman and one Irishman in their team). Bayern took full advantage of a United side missing influential midfield pair Paul Scholes and Roy Keane, seizing control through Mario Basler's early free-kick and holding sway thereafter. The former United manager had envisaged that Bayern would substitute their wingers to protect a lead and drop back. 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