[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. After becoming the first manager to achieve this honour, Alex Ferguson received a knighthood on 12 June 1999 in recognition of his services to the game of football. 30 March 2010: With Manchester United playing Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals tonight, we look back at contemporary accounts of the 1999 final in which United achieved. With Keane out, goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel was named as captain. His right-footed snap-shot was weak and poorly struck, but it went straight to Sheringham, who swiped at the shot with his right foot, and nestled the ball in the bottom corner of the net. With Keane out, goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel was named as captain for his final Manchester United appearance. Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson and the 1999 Treble - Eurosport lber's absence resulted in Bayern playing a three-man attack of Mario Basler, Carsten Jancker and Alexander Zickler, while Lizarazu was replaced by Michael Tarnat playing in a wing-back role opposite Markus Babbel on the right. Champions League 1999/2000 You are in old season. 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. Champions League 1999/2000 Advertisements On the following page an easy way you can check the results of recent matches and statistics for Champions League. 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. For the best possible experience, we recommend using. Nevertheless, both went into the match as champions, having won their domestic leagues in 199899; Bayern Munich claimed the Bundesliga title with a 11 draw against Hertha BSC on 9 May with three games to go, while Manchester United left it until the last day of the season (16 May), when they came back from 10 down against Tottenham Hotspur to win 21 and beat Arsenal to the title by a point. The 1999 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match that took place on Wednesday, 26 May 1999. 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. Fourth official:[54] On this day 21 years ago, United came back from 1-0 to beat Bayern Munich with two stoppage-time goals to win a historic treble. |Opponent |1st leg 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 in order to present the European Cup trophy, already decorated with Bayern ribbons. was manager Sir Alex Ferguson's pithy summary of a remarkable evening in Barcelona. [7] They had also finished as runners-up twice: in 1982 against Aston Villa[8] and 1987 against Porto. [35] In the second leg, Nicola Ventola pulled a goal back for Inter, but Paul Scholes secured United's passage to the semi-finals with a late away goal. 1970Template:, [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. 1979Template:, Referee Pierluigi Collina has cited this match as one of the most memorable of his career, and described the noise from the crowd at the end of the game as being like a "lion's roar". [114], In the United Kingdom, the final was broadcast by ITV Sport with commentary provided by Clive Tyldesley and Ron Atkinson. 1997Template:, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer tapped in a stoppage time winner and won the trophy for United. No use for commercial purposes may be made of such trademarks. |1st leg United held onto their lead to record their second European Cup title. It had also hosted two Cup Winners' Cup finals, in 1972 and 1982; the latter was won on home turf by Barcelona. 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. 1956Template:, "That was one of my strengths as well to know that I can come on and make a difference. 1960-61Template:, 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. Solskjr reacted fastest, shot out a foot and poked the ball into the roof of the Bayern goal for United to take the lead. Six minutes into the match, Johnsen fouled Bayern striker Jancker just outside the area,[76] and Basler placed a low free kick around the United wall to score the first goal, as Schmeichel was caught flat-footed. [46] The original capacity of the Camp Nou was just over 93,000,[46] but its first major European final, the 1972 Cup Winners' Cup Final, was attended by just 35,000 spectators. 2007Template:, Manchester United have reached the promised land! Sir Alex Ferguson had originally considered selecting Ryan Giggs to join Nicky Butt in central midfield, but ultimately picked David Beckham. It has become one of the most famous matches. Here, the PA news agency takes a look back at that. We were playing well in the last 20 minutes and should have been able to hold on to victory. When emerging from the tunnel at the final whistle, he was stunned. Schmeichel kept his side in the game when tipping another Effenberg shot over the bar after 75 minutes. Bayern were deflated and conceded another corner soon afterwards. Chelsea beats Manchester City to win Champions League title Live now, Group D [113] Greater Manchester Police later estimated that the actual number of people who attended the parade was around 500,000. Here, the PA news agency takes a look back at that. United did not play well, that is almost universally accepted, and fell behind after only six minutes. [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. [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. [9] 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. |31 The final was contested by Manchester United and Bayern Munich. The party had just started in the Catalan capital. Manchester United were without two of their best players namely Roy Keane and Paul Scholes for the final. 1958-59Template:, Denied victory in the dying seconds of their only previous European Cup final in 1974, Atltico suffered the same fate 40 years later. 30 minutes of golden goal extra time if necessary. When the trophy was presented to Manchester United, the captain on the night, Peter Schmeichel, who had just finished his final match for the club, and manager Alex Ferguson raised the trophy together. Manchester United's top two goalscorers, Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke started up front leaving Teddy Sheringham on the bench. Busby died in 1994; the day of the 1999 Champions League final would have been his 90th birthday. Bayern Munich 1 - 2 Manchester United | Soccer | The Guardian 1959Template:, 2002-03Template:, [92] Matthus later commented that "it was not the best team that won but the luckiest". [42] The selection process had begun more than four months earlier, in May 1998, when FC Barcelona submitted the Camp Nou as a contender to host the match in recognition of the club's centenary year. 1984Template:, Manchester United became the first team to win the European Cup or Champions League having failed to be the champions of Europe, champions of their country, or the winners of their country's domestic cup the preceding season. [74] Babbel was originally intended to play a man-marking role on Giggs, with his defensive abilities earning him selection ahead of the more attack-minded Thomas Strunz;[71] however, this was nullified by Giggs' selection on the right wing, where he would play against Tarnat. |Knockout stage 1975-76Template:, 2014Template:, [76] Hitzfeld responded with a substitution of his own, bringing on Mehmet Scholl, who immediately set up Effenberg for a long-range shot that went narrowly wide. 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. It was high, and only . A minute later, Bayern missed a chance to secure the trophy when an overhead kick from Jancker came off the crossbar. Template:Fb cl2 header navbar Manchester United 2-1 Bayern Munich: Remembering the 1999 Champions By that stage, Ferguson . It was the first time a team needing to score two injury-time goals to triumph in the Champions League has done so since Manchester United in the 1999 final Dortmund remain the only. 1994-95Template:, Use of UEFA.com signifies your agreement to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. 1963-64Template:, 1977Template:, Bayern Munich's fans, meanwhile, created a mosaic of the name of their team with thousands of coloured cards. Also on the bench were fellow striker Ole Gunnar Solskjr, back-up goalkeeper Raimond van der Gouw, defenders David May, Phil Neville and Wes Brown, and midfielder Jonathan Greening. 1999 UEFA Champions League final - Wikipedia Beckham again swung the corner in, finding the head of Sheringham, who nodded the ball down across the face of goal. 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. It would have been Sir Matt's 90th birthday, after all, so maybe it was fate. 1978-79Template:, UEFA Champions League - The 1999 Champions League final 20 years on: most dramatic ever? [15], Manchester United received 2million in prize money from UEFA for winning the competition, on top of the 10million they had already won just for reaching the final; by comparison, Bayern Munich received 1.6million for finishing as runners-up. [76][77] The substitute immediately forced Kahn into a diving save with a header; it was the closest United had come to scoring all game. The following year, the stadium underwent a remodelling that reduced the capacity to around 115,000. |bgcolor=#c1e0ff|Semi-finals 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. The night, which eventually became one of Manchester Uniteds most memorable nights, didn't start well. Real Madrid were back on top of Europe after victory at the Stade de France. 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With three victories in a row from 1974 to 1976,[5] they became only the third team to achieve such a feat after Real Madrid (1956 to 1960)[6] and Ajax (1971 to 1973). Thomas Mller headed them into an 83rd-minute lead but, just as Bayern was preparing to celebrate, Didier Drogba levelled for a Chelsea team that had proved incredibly resilient during the knockout rounds. 1999 UEFA Champions League Final - FootballOldCopy Wiki The 1999 final, Bayern had been in control of the game, leading 1-0 with only four minutes to go. [76] As Bayern began to look increasingly dangerous on the counter-attack than their opponents did in possession, Jancker repeatedly tested the United back four with a number of clever runs, some of which were flagged offside. The 1999 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match that took place on Wednesday, 26 May 1999. Manchester United and Bayern Munich had only met twice in competitive matches before the final, both meetings coming earlier in the 199899 season and both finished as draws. 2012Template:, Manchester United vs Bayern Munich 2-1 - UCL Final 1999 - HD He made two more appearances for the first team during the 200001 pre-season campaign, as well as three matches for the reserves in September and October 2001, before a free transfer to Everton in November that year. [48] After an initial announcement that the clubs would only receive 25,000 tickets each, the Independent Manchester United Supporters Association (IMUSA) called that figure "ridiculous", claiming it would push black market prices to "astronomical levels"; the group's spokesman, Lee Hodgkiss, suggested a figure closer to 50,000 would be more appropriate, given the stadium's usual capacity of around 115,000. Manchester United won the toss and therefore wore their usual European colours of red shirts, white shorts and white socks, while Bayern wore silver shirts, shorts and socks, all with maroon trim. I didnt want to see him with his flag up. [25] Bayern also recorded a pair of victories over Barcelona, winning 10 at the Olympiastadion[26] and 21 at the Camp Nou. 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. 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.. |60 Im lucky enough to guide it in.". On this day 1999: Manchester United's amazing Champions League final Man of the Match: --http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=uefaFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/uefacomTwitter: https://twitter.com/UEFAcomG+: https://plus.google.com/+UEFAcomhttp://uefa.com United put out both Italian teams, Internazionale in the quarter-final and Juventus in the semis.. Newsletter. 1989Template:, [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. 2006-07Template:, The Reds came from behind to beat Bayern Munich, win the Champions League and seal an unprecedented Treble in 1999 With a third Double in the bag, could we go one step further at the Nou Camp? 1955-56Template:, The Champions League final began . [123] Despite not having been with Manchester United during the 199899 season, Karel Poborsk, Mikal Silvestre and Louis Saha completed the squad as regular participants in Manchester United Legends matches. It was the 63rd game of a taxing campaign and the FA Cup final at Wembley had been staged on the previous weekend. [110] While Manchester United finished the season as treble champions, Bayern ultimately lost the DFB-Pokal final to Werder Bremen, which meant they finished the season with the Bundesliga title as their only silverware. Benzema has 10 goals in his last five Champions League games which is a record for a . National Football Teams without an confederation, Champions League era, 1992present finals, North America, Central America and the Caribbean. 1991-92. [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. [18] In the second leg, played at Partizan's ground in Belgrade, an 88th-minute goal from Lothar Matthus rescued a 11 draw to give Bayern a 51 win on aggregate. Manchester United's treble winners of 1999: Where are they now? 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 over the entire surface of the ball. [103] After becoming the first manager of an English club to achieve this honour, Ferguson was made a Knight Bachelor on 12 June 1999 in recognition of his services to football,[104] as well as a bonus from the club reported to be in the region of 350,000 (the players received bonuses of 150,000 each).

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