1995–96 UEFA Champions League

Tournament details
Teams	24 (from UEFA confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Juventus (2nd title)
Runner-up	Ajax

The 1995–96 UEFA Champions League was the 41st edition 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. 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 straight years from 1992 to 1998.

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

Contents 1 Qualifying round 2 Group stage 2.1 Group A 2.2 Group B 2.3 Group C 2.4 Group D 3 Bracket 4 Quarter-finals 5 Semi-finals 6 Final 7 See also 8 External links

[edit] Qualifying round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Casino Salzburg	0–1	Steaua Bucureşti	0–0	0–1
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
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	(a)1–1	Hajduk Split	0–0	1–1

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1995-08-09	Anderlecht	0 – 1	Ferencváros	Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Hellmut Krug
		[1]	Kuntic  58'

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1995-08-23	Ferencváros	1 – 1	Anderlecht	Üllői út, Budapest Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Leslie Mottram assistants: Fleming, Simpson
	Kopunovic  50'	[2]	De Bilde  65'

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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.

[edit] Group stage

[edit] 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

Matchday One
Nantes	0–0	Porto
Aalborg BK	2–1	Panathinaikos
Matchday Two

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1995-09-27	Panathinaikos	3 – 1	Nantes	Attendance: 65,000
	Georgiadis  17' Warzycha  30'  46'		N'Doram  88'

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1995-09-27	Porto	2 – 0	Aalborg BK	Estádio das Antas, Porto Attendance: 25,000
	Rui Barros  41' 62'

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				Matchday Three
Porto	0–1	Panathinaikos
Nantes	3–1	Aalborg BK
Matchday Four
Panathinaikos	0–0	Porto
Aalborg BK	0–2	Nantes
Matchday Five
Porto	2–2	Nantes
Panathinaikos	2–0	Aalborg
Matchday Six
Nantes	0–0	Panathinaikos
Aalborg BK	2–2	Porto

[edit] 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

Matchday One
Legia Warsaw	3–1	Rosenborg
Blackburn Rovers	0–1	Spartak Moscow
Matchday Two

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1995-09-27	Spartak Moscow	2 – 1	Legia Warsaw	Referee: László Vágner
	Nikiforov  13' (pen.) Yuran  52'		Jozwiak  82'

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1995-09-27	Rosenborg	2 – 1	Blackburn Rovers	Referee: Günter Benkö
	Løken  29' Jakobsen Stensaas  85'		Newell  62'

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Matchday Three
Legia Warsaw	1–0	Blackburn Rovers
Rosenborg	2–4	Spartak Moscow
Matchday Four
Blackburn Rovers	0–0	Legia Warsaw
Spartak Moscow	4–1	Rosenborg
Matchday Five
Rosenborg	4–0	Legia Warsaw
Spartak Moscow	3–0	Blackburn Rovers
Matchday Six
Legia Warsaw	0–1	Spartak Moscow
Blackburn Rovers	4–1	Rosenborg

[edit] 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 Bucureşti	6	1	3	2	2	5	−3	6
Rangers	6	0	3	3	6	14	−8	3

1995-09-13	Steaua Bucureşti	1 – 0	Rangers

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1995-09-13	Borussia Dortmund	1 – 3	Juventus

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1995-09-27	Juventus	3 – 0	Steaua Bucureşti	Stadio delle Alpi, Torino Attendance: 60,000
	Di Livio  34' Del Piero  39' Ravanelli  49'

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1995-09-27	Rangers	2 – 2	Borussia Dortmund	Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow
	Gough  63' Ferguson  73'		Herrlich  19' Kree  69'

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1995-10-18	Borussia Dortmund	1 – 0	Steaua Bucureşti

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1995-10-18	Juventus	4 – 1	Rangers

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1995-11-01	Steaua Bucureşti	0 – 0	Borussia Dortmund

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1995-11-01	Rangers	0 – 4	Juventus	Ibrox Glasgow Attendance: 49,000

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1995-11-22	Rangers	1 – 1	Steaua Bucureşti

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1995-11-22	Juventus	1 – 2	Borussia Dortmund

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1995-12-06	Steaua Bucureşti	0 – 0	Juventus

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1995-12-06	Borussia Dortmund	2 – 2	Rangers
			Laudrup

[edit] 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

Matchday One
Ajax	1–0	Real Madrid

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1995-09-13	Grasshopper	0 – 3	Ferencváros	Referee: Rune Pedersen
			Lisztes  61' Vincze  81'  90'

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1995-09-27	Ferencváros	1 – 5	Ajax	Űllői út, Budapest Attendance: 18000 Referee: Vassilios Nikakis assistants: Panavotis Varouchas, Nikolaos Kakoulidis
	Nyilas  59' (pen.)		Litmanen  57'  80' (pen.)  88' Kluivert  67' F. De Boer  85'

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1995-09-27	Real Madrid	2 – 0	Grasshopper	Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 90,000
	Zamorano  70'  89'

Matchday Three
Ajax	3–0	Grasshopper

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1995-10-18	Real Madrid	6 – 1	Ferencváros	Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid Referee: Atanas Ouzounov
	Raúl  24'  25'  84' Zamorano  34'  47' Hierro  54'		Kopunovic  63'

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Matchday Four
Grasshopper	0–0	Ajax

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1995-11-01	Ferencváros	1 – 1	Real Madrid	Üllői út, Budapest Attendance: 18000 Referee: Paul Durkin assistants: Philip Joslin, Denis Madgwick
	Albert  36'		Raúl  74'

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Matchday Five
Real Madrid	0–2	Ajax

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1995-11-22	Ferencváros	3 – 3	Grasshopper	Üllői út, Budapest Attendance: 18000 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen
	Albert  20' Lisztes  24' Nyilas  86' (pen.)		Subiat  21' Comisetti  48' Ibrahim  64'

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Matchday Six

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1995-12-06	Ajax	4 – 0	Ferencváros	Referee: Illka Koho
	Overmars  17' R. De Boer  22' Litmanen  62' 66'

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Grasshopper	0–2	Real Madrid

[edit] Bracket

	Quarterfinals							Semifinals							Final
		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
																Juventus	-	1	1 (4)
																Ajax	-	1	1 (2)
		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

[edit] Quarter-finals

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

[edit] Semi-finals

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

[edit] Final

1996-05-22	Juventus	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Ajax	Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 67,000 Referee: Manuel Díaz Vega
	Ravanelli  12'		Litmanen  41'

		Penalties
	Ciro Ferrara Gianluca Pessotto Michele Padovano Vladimir Jugović	4 – 2	Edgar Davids Jari Litmanen Arnold Scholten Sonny Silooy

UEFA Champions League 1995-96 Winners
Juventus Second Title

[edit] See also

• UEFA Cup 1995-96
• UEFA Intertoto Cup 1995

[edit] External links

• 1995-96 season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at RSSSF

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