1993 UEFA Champions League final

1993 UEFA Champions League final

The UEFA Champions League trophy replica on display at the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille.

The 1993 UEFA Champions League final, originally known as the 1993 European Cup final, was a football match between French club Marseille and Italian club Milan, played on 26 May 1993 at the Olympiastadion in Munich.

The final, which followed the second-ever UEFA Champions League group stage, saw Ivorian-born Marseille defender Basile Boli score the only goal of the match in the 43rd minute with a header to give OM their first and only European Cup title. It was the first time a French team had won the European Cup. Marseille would be the only French club to have won the Champions League until the (/wiki/2025UEFAChampionsLeaguefinal) win of rivals Paris Saint-Germain against Milan's rivals Inter Milan, also in Munich. No other club from the French league would even reach the final until Monaco in (/wiki/2004UEFAChampionsLeaguefinal).

Marseille and their club president Bernard Tapie would later be found to have been involved in a match-fixing scandal during the 1992–93 Division 1—in which Marseille allegedly paid Valenciennes to lose a match, which saw them relegated to Division 2 and banned from participation in European football for the following season. As the scandal only affected a French league match, while Marseille's status as the 1993 European champions was not affected, they were not able to compete in the 1993 European Super Cup.

The final turned out to be the last game of Milan's highly accomplished but injury-prone Dutch forward Marco van Basten, who was 28 at the time; having been subbed off in the 86th minute due to fatigue and yet another ankle injury, he would spend the next two years in recovery before announcing his retirement in August 1995.

Teams

1993 UEFA Champions League final

In the following table, finals until 1992 were in the European Cup era, since 1993 were in the UEFA Champions League era.

Team	Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners)
Marseille	1 (1991)
Milan	5 (1958, 1963, 1969, 1989, 1990)

Route to the final

1993 UEFA Champions League final

Marseille				Round	Milan
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg		Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Glentoran	8–0	5–0 (A)	3–0 (H)	First round	Olimpija Ljubljana	7–0	4–0 (H)	3–0 (A)
Dinamo București	2–0	0–0 (A)	2–0 (H)	Second round	Slovan Bratislava	5–0	1–0 (A)	4–0 (H)
Opponent	Result			Group stage	Opponent	Result
Rangers	2–2 (A)			Matchday 1	IFK Göteborg	4–0 (H)
Club Brugge	3–0 (H)			Matchday 2	PSV Eindhoven	2–1 (A)
CSKA Moscow	1–1 (A)			Matchday 3	Porto	1–0 (A)
CSKA Moscow	6–0 (H)			Matchday 4	Porto	1–0 (H)
Rangers	1–1 (H)			Matchday 5	IFK Göteborg	1–0 (A)
Club Brugge	1–0 (A)			Matchday 6	PSV Eindhoven	2–0 (H)
Group A winner Source: UEFA				Final standings	Group B winner Source: UEFA
Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Marseille	6	9
2	Rangers	6	8
3	Club Brugge	6	5
4	CSKA Moscow	6	2
Pos	Team	Pld	Pts
1	Milan	6	12
2	IFK Göteborg	6	6
3	Porto	6	5
4	PSV Eindhoven	6	1

Match

Details

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"></td></tr><tr><th></th><th></th></tr><tr><td>GK</td><td>1</td><td>Fabien Barthez</td><td> 70'</td></tr><tr><td>RB</td><td>2</td><td>Jocelyn Angloma</td><td></td><td> 62'</td></tr><tr><td>LB</td><td>3</td><td>Éric Di Meco</td><td> 31'</td></tr><tr><td>SW</td><td>4</td><td>Basile Boli</td><td> 56'</td></tr><tr><td>CM</td><td>5</td><td>Franck Sauzée</td></tr><tr><td>CB</td><td>6</td><td>Marcel Desailly</td></tr><tr><td>CM</td><td>7</td><td>Jean-Jacques Eydelie</td></tr><tr><td>CF</td><td>8</td><td>Alen Bokšić</td></tr><tr><td>LF</td><td>9</td><td>Rudi Völler</td><td></td><td> 79'</td></tr><tr><td>RF</td><td>10</td><td>Abedi Pele</td></tr><tr><td>CM</td><td>11</td><td>Didier Deschamps (c)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">Substitutes:</td></tr><tr><td>MF</td><td>12</td><td>Jean-Christophe Thomas</td><td></td><td> 79'</td></tr><tr><td>DF</td><td>13</td><td>Bernard Casoni</td></tr><tr><td>MF</td><td>14</td><td>Jean-Philippe Durand</td><td></td><td> 62'</td></tr><tr><td>FW</td><td>15</td><td>Jean-Marc Ferreri</td></tr><tr><td>GK</td><td>16</td><td>Pascal Olmeta</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">Manager:</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4">Raymond Goethals</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"></td></tr><tr><th></th><th></th></tr><tr><td>GK</td><td>1</td><td>Sebastiano Rossi</td></tr><tr><td>RB</td><td>2</td><td>Mauro Tassotti</td></tr><tr><td>CB</td><td>5</td><td>Alessandro Costacurta</td></tr><tr><td>CB</td><td>6</td><td>Franco Baresi (c)</td></tr><tr><td>LB</td><td>3</td><td>Paolo Maldini</td></tr><tr><td>RM</td><td>7</td><td>Gianluigi Lentini</td><td> 39'</td></tr><tr><td>CM</td><td>4</td><td>Demetrio Albertini</td></tr><tr><td>CM</td><td>8</td><td>Frank Rijkaard</td></tr><tr><td>LM</td><td>10</td><td>Roberto Donadoni</td><td></td><td> 58'</td></tr><tr><td>CF</td><td>9</td><td>Marco van Basten</td><td></td><td> 86'</td></tr><tr><td>CF</td><td>11</td><td>Daniele Massaro</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">Substitutes:</td></tr><tr><td>GK</td><td>12</td><td>Carlo Cudicini</td></tr><tr><td>CB</td><td>13</td><td>Stefano Nava</td></tr><tr><td>RM</td><td>14</td><td>Stefano Eranio</td><td></td><td> 86'</td></tr><tr><td>LM</td><td>15</td><td>Alberico Evani</td></tr><tr><td>FW</td><td>16</td><td>Jean-Pierre Papin</td><td></td><td> 58'</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">Manager:</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4">Fabio Capello</td></tr></tbody></table>

Aftermath

1993 UEFA Champions League final

Marseille's triumph remains controversial due to accusations of doping alleged by Marcel Desailly, Jean-Jacques Eydelie, Chris Waddle and Tony Cascarino. According to Eydelie, "all (of them) took a series of injections" in the 1993 Champions League final, except Rudi Völler. Desailly and Cascarino claimed that club president Bernard Tapie distributed pills and injections himself. In an interview with French magazine Le Point, Jean-Pierre de Mondenard said Marseille had a blackboard in their team locker room that read "injections for everyone". Tapie only admitted that some players took captagon.