1994–95 UEFA Champions League

The 1994–95 UEFA Champions League was the 40th edition of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, and the third since its rebranding as the UEFA Champions League. The tournament was won by Ajax of the Netherlands with a late goal in the final against defending champions Milan of Italy. Ajax won the competition without losing a game, either in the group or the knock-out stage in winning the title for the first time since 1973.

Compared to the previous edition of the European Cup were made ​​radical changes to the format of the tournament, was in fact just expired contract which bound the UEFA to EBU for the transmission of the final, and this gave occasion for a general review of the format, which attracted the interest of new and moneyed private televisions. This year included four groups of four teams each in the group stage, up from two groups of four teams each in 1993–94. It was also the first year in which eight teams advanced to the knock-out stage and the first of three years in which champions of smaller nations entered the UEFA Cup instead of the Champions League.

Qualifying round

First leg

Second leg

Group stage

10 teams of 16 made their group stage debut: AEK Athens, Ajax, Bayern Munich, Benfica, Casino Salzburg, Dynamo Kyiv, Hajduk Split, Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain and Steaua Bucureşti.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Milan were deducted two points for crowd trouble against Casino Salzburg on Matchday Two.

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 1994-95 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying round) are as follows:

See also

• 1994–95 UEFA Cup

External links

• 1994–95 All matches - season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at RSSSF
• All scorers 1994-95 European Cup (excluding qualifying round) according to protocols UEFA
  

+ all scorers qualifying round