1997–98 UEFA Champions League
Juventus | |
Tournament statistics | |
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Matches played | 85 |
Goals scored | 239 (2.81 per match) |
Attendance | 2,868,568 (33,748 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus) 10 goals |
The 1997–98 UEFA Champions League was the 43rd season of the
This season was the first to have six groups, instead of previous four, which meant that only two group runners-up qualified for the quarter-finals as opposed to all the second-placed teams. It was also the first to have two qualifying rounds instead of just one. After three years of entering the UEFA Cup, champions of smaller nations returned to the Champions League. For the first time, the runners-up of eight domestic leagues entered into the competition.[1] With Borussia Dortmund being the title holders but finishing third in their domestic league the previous season, Germany became the first association to provide three teams to the premier European competition.
Borussia Dortmund, the defending champions, were eliminated in the semi-finals by eventual winners
Association team allocation
Number of teams per country as well as the starting round for each club and seeding were based on 1997 UEFA league coefficient, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1992–93 to 1996–97.[2]
- Associations ranked 1–8 each have two participants
- Associations ranked 9–48 each have one participant (except Liechtenstein and Albania)
Teams entering in this round | Teams advancing from previous round | ||
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First qualifying round (30 teams) |
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Second qualifying round (32 teams) |
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Group stage (24 teams) |
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Knockout phase (8 teams) |
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Teams
55 teams entered the competition: the national champions of each of the top 48 nations in the UEFA coefficient rankings (except Liechtenstein and Albania), plus the runners-up from each of the top eight nations and UEFA Champions League holders, Borussia Dortmund. The national champions of the associations ranked 1–7 (Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal and England), plus the title holders, all received a bye to the group stage, while the national champions of the associations ranked 8–16 and the runners-up of the associations ranked 1–8 all entered in the second qualifying round. The remaining national champions from the associations ranked 17–48 entered in the first qualifying round.
- Notes
- 1996–97 Albanian Superliga was suspended for several months due to the 1997 Albanian civil unrest and eventually ended in mid-August 1997 (won by KF Tirana), past the UEFA deadline.[3]
Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held in Geneva, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).
Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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Qualifying | First qualifying round | 9 July 1997 | 23 July 1997 | 30 July 1997 |
Second qualifying round | 13 August 1997 | 27 August 1997 | ||
Group stage | Matchday 1 | 29 August 1997 | 17 September 1997 | |
Matchday 2 | 1 October 1997 | |||
Matchday 3 | 22 October 1997 | |||
Matchday 4 | 5 November 1997 | |||
Matchday 5 | 26–27 November 1997 | |||
Matchday 6 | 10 December 1997 | |||
Knockout phase | Quarter-finals | 17 December 1997 | 4 March 1998 | 18 March 1998 |
Semi-finals | 20 March 1998 (Lausanne) |
1 April 1998 | 15 April 1998 | |
Final | 20 May 1998 at Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam
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Qualifying rounds
First qualifying round
Team 1 | Agg.
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Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Derry City | 0–3 | Maribor Branik | 0–2 | 0–1 |
Košice | 4–0 | ÍA | 3–0 | 1–0 |
Partizan | 1–5 | Croatia Zagreb | 1–0 | 0–5 |
Valletta | 1–2 | Skonto | 1–0 | 0–2 |
Pyunik | 3–6 | MTK Hungária | 0–2 | 3–4 |
Crusaders | 2–8 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 1–3 | 1–5 |
Sileks | 1–3 | Beitar Jerusalem | 1–0 | 0–3 |
Steaua București | 5–3 | CSKA Sofia | 3–3 | 2–0 |
Constructorul Chişinău | 3–4 | MPKC Mozyr | 1–1 | 2–3 |
Lantana | 0–3 | Jazz | 0–1 | 0–2 |
GÍ | 0–11 | Rangers | 0–5 | 0–6 |
Neftchi Baku | 0–10 | Widzew Łódź | 0–2 | 0–8 |
Dynamo Kyiv | 6–0 | Barry Town
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2–0 | 4–0 |
Sion | 5–0 | Jeunesse Esch | 4–0 | 1–0 |
Anorthosis Famagusta | 4–1 | Kareda Šiauliai | 3–0 | 1–1 |
Second qualifying round
Losing teams qualified for the first round of the 1997–98 UEFA Cup.
Team 1 | Agg.
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Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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1–4 | Rosenborg | 0–1 | 1–3 | |
Beşiktaş | 3–1 | Maribor Branik | 0–0 | 3–1 |
Sion | 2–8 | Galatasaray | 1–4 | 1–4 |
Olympiacos | 7–2 | MPKC Mozyr | 5–0 | 2–2 |
Wüstenrot Salzburg | 0–3 | Sparta Prague | 0–0 | 0–3 |
IFK Göteborg | 4–1 | Rangers | 3–0 | 1–1 |
Barcelona | 4–2 | Skonto | 3–2 | 1–0 |
Brøndby | 3–4 | Dynamo Kyiv | 2–4 | 1–0 |
Newcastle United | 4–3 | Croatia Zagreb | 2–1 | 2–2( aet )
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Feyenoord | 8–3 | Jazz | 6–2 | 2–1 |
Bayer Leverkusen | 6–2 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 6–1 | 0–1 |
Košice | 2–1 | Spartak Moscow | 2–1 | 0–0 |
Steaua București | 3–5 | Paris Saint-Germain | 3–0 | 0–5 |
Widzew Łódź | 1–7 | Parma | 1–3 | 0–4 |
Beitar Jerusalem | 0–3 | Sporting CP | 0–0 | 0–3 |
Anorthosis Famagusta | 2–3 | Lierse | 2–0 | 0–3 |
Note: Winning teams of the first qualifying round were drawn against teams qualified directly for the second qualifying round. Because of the unequal number of teams (15 and 17), Wüstenrot Salzburg and Sparta Prague had to play against each other.