1995–96 UEFA Champions League
Juventus (2nd title) | |
Runners-up | Ajax |
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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 (Ajax) 9 goals |
The 1995–96 UEFA Champions League was the 41st season of
It was the first tournament in which three points were awarded for a win instead of two.
Teams
24 teams entered the competition – the national champions of each of the top 24 nations in the UEFA coefficient rankings, including UEFA Champions League holders,
Group stage | |||
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AjaxTH (1st) | Nantes (1st) | Real Madrid (1st )
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Porto (1st) |
Juventus (1st )
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Borussia Dortmund (1st) | Blackburn Rovers (1st) | Spartak Moscow (1st) |
Qualifying round | |||
Anderlecht (1st) | AaB (1st) | Legia Warsaw (1st) | Ferencváros (1st) |
Beşiktaş (1st) | Göteborg (1st) | Steaua București (1st) | Hajduk Split (1st) |
Casino Salzburg (1st) | Rangers (1st) | Rosenborg (1st) | Anorthosis Famagusta (1st) |
Panathinaikos (1st) | Grasshopper (1st) | Maccabi Tel Aviv (1st) | Dynamo Kyiv (1st) |
Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held in Geneva, Switzerland).
Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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Qualifying round | 12 July 1995 | 9 August 1995 | 23 August 1995 | |
Group stage | Matchday 1 | 25 August 1995 | 13 September 1995 | |
Matchday 2 | 27 September 1995 | |||
Matchday 3 | 18 October 1995 | |||
Matchday 4 | 1 November 1995 | |||
Matchday 5 | 22 November 1995 | |||
Matchday 6 | 6 December 1995 | |||
Knockout phase | Quarter-finals | 6 March 1996 | 20 March 1996 | |
Semi-finals | 3 April 1996 | 17 April 1996 | ||
Final | 22 May 1996 at Stadio Olimpico, Rome |
Qualifying round
Dynamo Kyiv won their tie against AaB, but, in their first group game against Panathinaikos, they were accused of a failed attempt to bribe the referee, Antonio López Nieto, to get a win. Despite an appeal, they were ejected from the competition and banned for two years, with Aalborg BK replacing them in the group stage. Dynamo's ban was eventually reduced to one season.
Team 1 | Agg.
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Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Grasshopper | 2–1 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 1–1 | 1–0 |
Rangers | 1–0 | Anorthosis Famagusta | 1–0 | 0–0 |
Legia Warsaw | 3–1 | IFK Göteborg | 1–0 | 2–1 |
Casino Salzburg | 0–1 | Steaua București | 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
Yellow: Group D.11 teams of 16 made their debut in the UEFA Champions League group stage:
Group A
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | PAN | NAN | POR | AAB | |
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1 | Panathinaikos | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 11 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | |
2 | Nantes | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 9 | 0–0 | — | 0–0 | 3–1 | ||
3 | Porto | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 7 | 0–1 | 2–2 | — | 2–0 | ||
4 | AaB[a] | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | −7 | 4 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–2 | — |
Notes:
- ^ After matchday 1 in the group, Aalborg BK replaced Dynamo Kyiv, who were banned following a failed attempt to bribe a referee.
Group B
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | SPA | LW | ROS | BR | |
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1 | Spartak Moscow | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | +11 | 18 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 2–1 | 4–1 | 3–0 | |
2 | Legia Warsaw | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 7 | 0–1 | — | 3–1 | 1–0 | ||
3 | Rosenborg | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 16 | −5 | 6 | 2–4 | 4–0 | — | 2–1 | ||
4 | Blackburn Rovers | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 4 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 4–1 | — |
Group C
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | JUV
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DOR | STE | RAN | |
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1 | Juventus
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6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 4 | +11 | 13 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 1–2 | 3–0 | 4–1 | |
2 | Borussia Dortmund | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 1–3 | — | 1–0 | 2–2 | ||
3 | Steaua București | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 6 | 0–0 | 0–0 | — | 1–0 | ||
4 | Rangers | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 14 | −8 | 3 | 0–4 | 2–2 | 1–1 | — |
Group D
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | AJA | RM
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FER | GRA | |
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1 | Ajax | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 1 | +14 | 16 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 1–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | |
2 | Real Madrid
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6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 10 | 0–2 | — | 6–1 | 2–0 | ||
3 | Ferencváros | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 19 | −10 | 5 | 1–5 | 1–1 | — | 3–3 | ||
4 | Grasshopper | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 13 | −10 | 2 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–3 | — |
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 Warsaw
| 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
Panathinaikos | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||
Ajax | 1 (2) | ||||||||||||||
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| 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.
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Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Borussia Dortmund | 0–3 | Ajax | 0–2 | 0–1 |
0–3 | Panathinaikos | 0–0 | 0–3 | |
1–2 | Juventus
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1–0 | 0–2 | |
Nantes | 4–2 | Spartak Moscow | 2–0 | 2–2 |
Semi-finals
Team 1 | Agg.
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Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Ajax | 3–1 | Panathinaikos | 0–1 | 3–0 |
4–3 | Nantes | 2–0 | 2–3 |
Final
Juventus | ||
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Litmanen 41' | Report | Ravanelli 12' |
Penalties | ||
Davids Litmanen Scholten Silooy |
2–4 | Ferrara Pessotto Padovano Jugović |
Top goalscorers
Rank | Name | Team | Goals |
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1 | Jari Litmanen | Ajax | 9 |
2 | Alessandro Del Piero | Juventus
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6 |
Raúl | Real Madrid
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6 | |
Krzysztof Warzycha | Panathinaikos | 6 | |
5 | Patrick Kluivert | Ajax | 5 |
Yuriy Nikiforov | Spartak Moscow | 5 | |
Nicolas Ouédec | Nantes | 5 | |
Fabrizio Ravanelli | Juventus
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5 | |
9 | Mike Newell | Blackburn Rovers | 4 |
Iván Zamorano | Real Madrid
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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 |
See also
References
External links
- 1995–96 All matches – season at UEFA website
- All matches - Line ups
- 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)