1994 UEFA Champions League Final

Match programme cover

Event

1993–94 UEFA Champions League

Milan	Barcelona

4	0

Date

18 May 1994

Venue

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Referee

Philip Don (England)

Attendance

70,000

The 1994 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match between Italian club Milan and Spanish club Barcelona, played on 18 May 1994 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece.

Barcelona were favourites to win their second European Cup/UEFA Champions League in three years, having just won La Liga for the fourth year in a row. Milan's preparation before the final was in disarray: legendary striker Marco van Basten was still out with a long-term injury, and £13 million young sensation Gianluigi Lentini (then world's most expensive footballer) was also injured; sweeper and captain, Franco Baresi was suspended, as was defender Alessandro Costacurta; and UEFA regulations at the time that limited teams to fielding a maximum of three non-nationals meant that coach Fabio Capello was forced to leave out Florin Răducioiu, Jean-Pierre Papin and Brian Laudrup. On Barcelona's side, the rule saw Johan Cruyff choosing not to pick Michael Laudrup in his squad for the final which caused Capello to state after the game: "Laudrup was the guy I feared but Cruyff left him out, and that was his mistake".^[1] Laudrup was to leave Barcelona at the end of the season for their arch-rivals, Real Madrid.

Milan played in their all-white away strip, which historically they use in finals of the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, while Barcelona played in their red and blue strip. Milan dominated early and were rewarded when Dejan Savićević ran down the right flank and passed to Daniele Massaro, who tapped the ball into an empty net. Massaro banged in his second just before half-time to make it 2–0 after a solo run by Roberto Donadoni down the left wing.

In the 47th minute, Savićević capitalised on a defensive error by Miguel Ángel Nadal to lob goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta for the third goal. Eight minutes later, after Savićević had hit a post and the Barcelona defence had failed to clear, Milan defender Marcel Desailly beat the offside trap to make it 4–0, which ended up being the final score. Many pundits have described Milan's performance against Barcelona in the final as the greatest ever by a team in European Cup/UEFA Champions League history. Desailly became the first player to win the trophy in consecutive years with different clubs after winning with Marseille in 1993.

Road to the final

Milan

Round

Barcelona

Opponent

Agg.

1st leg

2nd leg

Opponent

Agg.

1st leg

2nd leg

FC Aarau

1–0

1–0 (A)

0–0 (H)

First round

Dynamo Kyiv

5–4

1–3 (A)

4–1 (H)

Copenhagen

7–0

6–0 (A)

1–0 (H)

Second round

Austria Wien

5–1

3–0 (H)

2–1 (A)

Opponent

Result

Group stage

Opponent

Result

Anderlecht

0–0 (A)

Matchday 1

Galatasaray

0–0 (A)

Porto

3–0 (H)

Matchday 2

Monaco

2–0 (H)

Werder Bremen

2–1 (H)

Matchday 3

Spartak Moscow

2–2 (A)

Werder Bremen

1–1 (A)

Matchday 4

Spartak Moscow

5–0 (H)

Anderlecht

0–0 (H)

Matchday 5

Galatasaray

3–0 (H)

Porto

0–0 (A)

Matchday 6

Monaco

1–0 (A)

Group B winner

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Milan	6	2	4	0	6	2	+4	8
Porto	6	3	1	2	10	6	+4	7
Werder Bremen	6	2	1	3	11	15	−4	5
Anderlecht	6	1	2	3	5	9	−4	4

Final standings

Group A winner

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Barcelona	6	4	2	0	13	3	+10	10
Monaco	6	3	1	2	9	4	+5	7
Spartak Moscow	6	1	3	2	6	12	−6	5
Galatasaray	6	0	2	4	1	10	−9	2

Opponent

Result

Knockout phase

Opponent

Result

Monaco

3–0 (H)

Semi-finals

Porto

3–0 (H)

Match details

Milan v Barcelona

18 May 1994
21:15 EEST

Milan	4–0	Barcelona
Massaro 22', 45+2' Savićević 47' Desailly 58'	Report ^[2]

Olympic Stadium, Athens
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Philip Don (England)

Milan

Barcelona



GK	1	Sebastiano Rossi
RB	2	Mauro Tassotti (c)	35'
LB	3	Christian Panucci	88'
CM	4	Demetrio Albertini	53'
CB	5	Filippo Galli
CB	6	Paolo Maldini		83'
LM	7	Roberto Donadoni
CM	8	Marcel Desailly
AM	9	Zvonimir Boban
RM	10	Dejan Savićević
CF	11	Daniele Massaro	45'
Substitutes:
GK	12	Mario Ielpo
DF	13	Stefano Nava		83'
MF	14	Angelo Carbone
MF	15	Gianluigi Lentini
FW	16	Marco Simone
Manager:
Fabio Capello



GK	1	Andoni Zubizarreta
RB	2	Albert Ferrer	58'
CM	3	Pep Guardiola
CB	4	Ronald Koeman
CB	5	Miguel Ángel Nadal	54'
CM	6	José Mari Bakero (c)	48'
LB	7	Sergi	55'	71'
RW	8	Hristo Stoichkov	24'
CM	9	Guillermo Amor
CF	10	Romário
LW	11	Txiki Begiristain		51'
Substitutes:
DF	12	Juan Carlos
GK	13	Carles Busquets
MF	14	Eusebio		51'
MF	15	Ion Andoni Goikoetxea
MF	16	Quique Estebaranz		71'
Manager:
Johan Cruyff

Assistant referees:
Rob Harris (England)
Roy Pearson (England)
Fourth official:
Martin Bodenham (England)

References

↑ ABC(spanish newspaper), 20 May 1994
↑ Wilson, Jonathan (2008). Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics. Orion. p. 318. ISBN 978-1-4091-0204-5.

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A.C. Milan matches
Italian football championship Finals	1901 1902
Coppa Italia Finals	1942 1967 1968 1971 1972 1973 1975 1977 1985 1990 1998 2003 2016
Supercoppa Italiana	1988 1992 1993 1994 1996 1999 2003 2004 2011 2016
UEFA Champions League Finals	1958 1963 1969 1989 1990 1993 1994 1995 2003 2005 2007
European Cup Winners' Cup Finals	1968 1973 1974
UEFA Super Cups	1973 1989 1990 1993 1994 2003 2007
Intercontinental Cups	1963 1969 1989 1990 1993 1994 2003
FIFA Club World Cup Final	2007
Other matches	CNE Cup of Champions (1968)

FC Barcelona matches
Copa del Rey Finals	1902 1910 1912 1913 (UECF) 1919 1920 1922 1925 1926 1928 1932 1936 1942 1951 1952 1953 1954 1957 1959 1963 1968 1971 1974 1978 1981 1983 1984 1986 1988 1990 1996 1997 1998 2009 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2017
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Supercopa de España	1983 1985 1988 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1996 1997 1998 1999 2005 2006 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017
UEFA Champions League Finals	1961 1986 1992 1994 2006 2009 2011 2015
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Finals	1969 1979 1982 1989 1991 1997
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Finals	1958 1960 1962 1966 Trophy Play-Off
UEFA Super Cup	1979 1982 1989 1992 1997 2006 2009 2011 2015
Intercontinental Cup	1992
FIFA Club World Cup Finals	2006 2009 2011 2015
Other matches	Uli Hoeneß Cup (2013) FC Barcelona 1–1 Atlético Madrid (2014)

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