1995–96 UEFA Champions League

1995–96 UEFA Champions League
Tournament details
The Stadio Olimpico in Rome held the final.
Dates	9 – 23 August 1995 (qualifying) 13 September 1995 – 22 May 1996 (competition proper)
Teams	16 (group stage) 24 (total)
Final positions
Champions	Juventus (2nd title)
Runners-up	Ajax
Tournament statistics
Matches played	61
Goals scored	159 (2.61 per match)
Attendance	1,870,462 (30,663 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Jari Litmanen (9 goals)

The 1995–96 UEFA Champions League was the 41st season of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, and the fourth since its rebranding as the UEFA Champions League. The tournament was won by Juventus, who beat defending champions Ajax on penalties in the final for their first European Cup since 1985, and their second overall. It was the only Champions League title that Juventus won in the 1990s, despite their reaching the next two finals, and one of only two Italian wins in the final, despite there being a Serie A club in every final for seven consecutive years from 1992 to 1998.

It was the first tournament in which three points were awarded for a win instead of two.

Teams

Qualifying round
Casino Salzburg	Anderlecht	Hajduk Split	Anorthosis
Aalborg BK	Panathinaikos	Ferencváros	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Rosenborg	Legia Warsaw	Steaua București	Rangers
Grasshopper	IFK Göteborg	Beşiktaş	Dynamo Kyiv
Group stage
Blackburn Rovers	Nantes	Borussia Dortmund	Juventus
Ajax	Porto	Spartak Moscow	Real Madrid

Qualifying round

Dynamo Kyiv won their tie against Aalborg BK, but, in their first group game against Panathinaikos, they were accused of a failed attempt to bribe referee Antonio López Nieto to get a win. Despite an appeal, they were thrown out of the competition by UEFA and were banned for the subsequent two years. Aalborg BK replaced them in the group stage. Dynamo's ban was eventually reduced to just one season.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Grasshopper	2–1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–1	1–0
Rangers	1–0	Anorthosis	1–0	0–0
Legia Warsaw	3–1	IFK Göteborg	1–0	2–1
Casino Salzburg	0–1	Steaua Bucureşti	0–0	0–1
Dynamo Kyiv	4–1	Aalborg BK	1–0	3–1
Rosenborg	4–3	Beşiktaş	3–0	1–3
Anderlecht	1–2	Ferencváros	0–1	1–1
Panathinaikos	1–1 (a)	Hajduk Split	0–0	1–1

Group stage

Location of teams of the 1995–96 UEFA Champions League group stage.

Brown: Group A;

Red: Group B;

Orange: Group C;

Yellow: Group D.

11 teams of 16 made their debut in the UEFA Champions League group stage: Aalborg BK, Blackburn Rovers, Borussia Dortmund, Ferencváros, Grasshopper, Juventus, Legia Warsaw, Nantes, Panathinaikos, Real Madrid and Rosenborg. Panathinaikos had already played in the group stage of the 1991-92 European Cup.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Panathinaikos	6	3	2	1	7	3	+4	11
Nantes	6	2	3	1	8	6	+2	9
Porto	6	1	4	1	6	5	+1	7
Aalborg BK	6	1	1	4	5	12	−7	4

	AAB	NAN	PAN	POR
Aalborg BK	–	0–2	2–1	2–2
Nantes	3–1	–	0–0	0–0
Panathinaikos	2–0	3–1	–	0–0
Porto	2–0	2–2	0–1	–

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spartak Moscow	6	6	0	0	15	4	+11	18
Legia Warsaw	6	2	1	3	5	8	−3	7
Rosenborg	6	2	0	4	11	16	−5	6
Blackburn Rovers	6	1	1	4	5	8	−3	4

	BR	LW	ROS	SPA
Blackburn Rovers	–	0–0	4–1	0–1
Legia Warsaw	1–0	–	3–1	0–1
Rosenborg	2–1	4–0	–	2–4
Spartak Moscow	3–0	2–1	4–1	–

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Juventus	6	4	1	1	15	4	+11	13
Borussia Dortmund	6	2	3	1	8	8	0	9
Steaua București	6	1	3	2	2	5	−3	6
Rangers	6	0	3	3	6	14	−8	3

	DOR	JUV	RAN	STE
Borussia Dortmund	–	1–3	2–2	1–0
Juventus	1–2	–	4–1	3–0
Rangers	2–2	0–4	–	1–1
Steaua București	0–0	0–0	1–0	–

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ajax	6	5	1	0	15	1	+14	16
Real Madrid	6	3	1	2	11	5	+6	10
Ferencváros	6	1	2	3	9	19	−10	5
Grasshopper	6	0	2	4	3	13	−10	2

	AJA	FER	GRA	RM
Ajax	–	4–0	3–0	1–0
Ferencváros	1–5	–	3–3	1–1
Grasshopper	0–0	0–3	–	0–2
Real Madrid	0–2	6–1	2–0	–

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final

Borussia Dortmund	0	0	0
Ajax	2	1	3
				Ajax	0	3	3

				Panathinaikos	1	0	1
Legia Warszawa	0	0	0

Panathinaikos	0	3	3
								Ajax	1 (2)
								Juventus (p)	1 (4)
Real Madrid	1	0	1
Juventus	0	2	2
				Juventus	2	2	4

				Nantes	0	3	3
Nantes	2	2	4

Spartak Moscow	0	2	2

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Borussia Dortmund	0–3	Ajax	0–2	0–1
Legia Warsaw	0–3	Panathinaikos	0–0	0–3
Real Madrid	1–2	Juventus	1–0	0–2
Nantes	4–2	Spartak Moscow	2–0	2–2

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ajax	3–1	Panathinaikos	0–1	3–0
Juventus	4–3	Nantes	2–0	2–3

Final

Ajax v Juventus

22 May 1996
20:30

Ajax	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Juventus
Litmanen 41'	Report	Ravanelli 12'
	Penalties
Davids Litmanen Scholten Silooy	2–4	Ferrara Pessotto Padovano Jugović

Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Attendance: 67,000
Referee: Manuel Díaz Vega (Spain)

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 1995–96 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying round) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Jari Litmanen	Ajax	9
2	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus	6
	Raúl	Real Madrid	6
	Krzysztof Warzycha	Panathinaikos	6
5	Patrick Kluivert	Ajax	5
	Yuriy Nikiforov	Spartak Moscow	5
	Nicolas Ouédec	Nantes	5
	Fabrizio Ravanelli	Juventus	5
9	Mike Newell	Blackburn Rovers	4
9	Iván Zamorano	Real Madrid	4
11	Erik Bo Andersen	Aalborg BK	3
	Karl Petter Løken	Rosenborg	3
	Reynald Pedros	Nantes	3
	Sergei Yuran	Spartak Moscow	3
	Japhet N'Doram	Nantes	3

External links

1995–96 All matches – season at UEFA website
European Cup results at RSSSF
All scorers 1995–96 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers qualifying round
1995/96 UEFA Champions League - results and line-ups (archive)

European Cup and UEFA Champions League

European Cup era, 1955–1992
Seasons	1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92
Finals	1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992

UEFA Champions League era, 1992–present
Seasons	1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18
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1995–96 in European football (UEFA)
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League cups	England Finland '95 '96 France Iceland Israel Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Wales
UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying, group stage, knockout stage, Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup

International men's club football
FIFA FIFA Club World Cup List of association football clubs
Africa	CAF – Champions League Confederation Cup Super Cup Top-division clubs
Asia	AFC – Champions League AFC Cup Top-division clubs
Europe	UEFA – Champions League Europa League Super Cup Top-division clubs
North, Central America and the Caribbean	CONCACAF – Champions League Top-division clubs
Oceania	OFC – Champions League Top-division clubs
South America	CONMEBOL – Copa Libertadores Copa Sudamericana Recopa Sudamericana Top-division clubs
See also: International women's club football

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