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1999–2000 UEFA Champions League

The Stade de France in Saint-Denis held the final
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 13 July – 25 August 1999 Competition proper: 14 September 1999 – 24 May 2000
Teams	Competition proper: 32 Total: 71
Final positions
Champions	Real Madrid (8th title)
Runners-up	Valencia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	157
Goals scored	442 (2.82 per match)
Attendance	5,495,112 (35,001 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Raúl (Real Madrid) Rivaldo (Barcelona) Mário Jardel (Porto) 10 goals each
← 1998–99 2000–01 →

The 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League was the 45th season of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA's premier European club football tournament, and the eighth season since its rebranding from the "European Champion Clubs' Cup" or "European Cup". The competition was won by Real Madrid, who clinched a historic eighth title win by beating fellow La Liga side, Valencia in the final. The final was hosted in the Stade de France in Paris, the city where the original roots of the competition had begun nearly 50 years earlier.

Just after two years of allowing runners-up of strongest continental leagues to enter the tournament, UEFA went even further and expanded the tournament to up to four strongest teams from Europe's top national leagues. As a result, the tournament was a stark contrast from 1996–97 (which took place only three years prior) where only top national champions and title holders participated.

The competition was dominated by the Spanish teams, with three of the four semi-finalists coming from Spain, namely Real Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. The final between Real Madrid and Valencia marked the first time that both finalists in the competition had come from the same country.

Manchester United were the defending champions, but were eliminated by eventual winners Real Madrid in the quarter-finals.

Changes to the competition format

The 1999–2000 edition of the Champions League featured a whole different format to the competition. An additional qualifying round was introduced to generate two group stages, firstly with 32 teams – eight groups of four – who played six matches each to reduce the competition to 16 teams for the second group stage, with the eight third-placed teams moving to the UEFA Cup third round. At the end of the second group stage, eight teams remained to contest the knock-out stage.

Association team allocation

A total of 71 teams participated in the 1999–2000 Champions League, from 47 of 51 UEFA associations. Liechtenstein (who don't have their own league) as well as Andorra and San Marino did not participate. Additionally, Bosnia and Herzegovina were not admitted due to having no nation-wide champion.

Below is the qualification scheme for the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League:

• Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify
• Associations 4–6 each have three teams qualify
• Associations 7–15 each have two teams qualify
• Associations 16–48 each have one team qualify (except Liechtenstein)

Association ranking

Countries are allocated places according to their 1998 UEFA league coefficient, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1993–94 to 1997–98.

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 1  Italy 59.640 4 2  Germany 49.932 3  Spain 48.580 4  France 41.433 3 5  Netherlands 35.916 6  England 35.566 7  Portugal 31.266 2 8  Greece 28.750 9  Czech Republic 28.166 10  Norway 27.449 11  Austria 27.250 12  Russia 26.866 13  Croatia 26.166 14  Turkey 25.650 15  Denmark 24.200 16  Switzerland 22.250 1 17  Ukraine 22.082

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 18  Poland 22.000 1 19  Hungary 21.083 20  Belgium 21.000 21  Slovakia 20.999 22  Romania 20.750 23  Sweden 20.600 24  Georgia 20.333 25  Cyprus 20.332 26  Scotland 19.500 27  Israel 16.749 28  Slovenia 15.998 29  Belarus 14.833 30  Iceland 13.666 31  Finland 13.415 32  Latvia 11.498 33  Bulgaria 10.499 34  Macedonia 8.666

Rank Association Coeff. Teams 35  Lithuania 7.333 1 36  FR Yugoslavia 7.083 37  Moldova 6.666 38  Liechtenstein 5.000 0 39  Estonia 4.999 1 40  Armenia 4.832 41  Northern Ireland 4.665 42  Malta 4.664 43  Wales 3.999 44  Republic of Ireland 3.998 45  Faroe Islands 2.833 46  Albania 2.666 47  Luxembourg 2.333 48  Azerbaijan 1.833 49  Andorra 0.000 0 50  Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.000

Distribution

The title holders (Manchester United) qualified for the Champions League group stage through their domestic league, thus the group stage spot reserved for the title holders was vacated. Additionally, Bosnia and Herzegovina was not admitted as their play-off for Champions League qualification didn't take place. Due to these factors, the following changes to the default access list are made:

• The champions of association 10 (Norway) are promoted from the third qualifying round to the group stage.
• The champions of association 16 (Switzerland) are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
• The champions of associations 27, 28 and 29 (Israel, Slovenia and Belarus) are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

Participants

League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders).

Group stage
Milan (1st)	Barcelona (1st)	Feyenoord (1st)	Porto (1st)
Lazio (2nd)	Real Madrid (2nd)	Willem II (2nd)	Olympiacos (1st)
Bayern Munich (1st)	Bordeaux (1st)	Manchester United (1st)	Sparta Prague (1st)
Bayer Leverkusen (2nd)	Marseille (2nd)	Arsenal (2nd)	Rosenborg (1st)
Third qualifying round
Fiorentina (3rd)	Valencia (4th)	AEK Athens (2nd)	Croatia Zagreb (1st)
Parma (4th)	Lyon (3rd)	Teplice (2nd)	Galatasaray (1st)
Hertha BSC (3rd)	PSV Eindhoven (3rd)	Sturm Graz (1st)	AaB (1st)
Borussia Dortmund (4th)	Chelsea (3rd)	Spartak Moscow (1st)	Servette (1st)
Mallorca (3rd)	Boavista (2nd)
Second qualifying round
Molde (2nd)	Brøndby (2nd)	Slovan Bratislava (1st)	Rangers (1st)
Rapid Wien (2nd)	Dynamo Kyiv (1st)	Rapid București (1st)	Hapoel Haifa (1st)
CSKA Moscow (2nd)	Widzew Łódź (2nd)	AIK (1st)	Maribor (1st)
Rijeka (2nd)	MTK Hungária (1st)	Dinamo Tbilisi (1st)	Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev (1st)
Beşiktaş (2nd)	Genk (1st)	Anorthosis Famagusta (1st)
First qualifying round
ÍBV (1st)	Žalgiris Vilnius (1st)	Glentoran (1st)	HB Tórshavn (1st)
Haka (1st)	Partizan (1st)	Valletta (1st)	Tirana (1st)
Skonto (1st)	Zimbru Chișinău (1st)	Barry Town (1st)	Jeunesse Esch (1st)
Litex Lovech (1st)	Flora Tallinn (1st)	St Patrick's Athletic (1st)	Kapaz (1st)
Sloga Jugomagnat (1st)	Tsement Ararat (1st)

Notes

1. Poland (POL): Polish champions Wisła Kraków were banned by UEFA due to fan behaviour in the 1998–99 UEFA Cup and replaced by runners-up Widzew Łódź.

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held in Geneva, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).

Qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
ÍBV	3–1	Tirana	1–0	2–1
Litex Lovech	5–0	Glentoran	3–0	2–0
Žalgiris Vilnius	5–0	Tsement Ararat	2–0	3–0
HB Tórshavn	1–7	Haka	1–1	0–6
Partizan	10–1	Flora	6–0	4–1
Jeunesse Esch	0–10	Skonto	0–2	0–8
Sloga Jugomagnat	2–2 (a)	Kapaz	1–0	1–2
Barry Town	2–3	Valletta	0–0	2–3
St Patrick's Athletic	0–10	Zimbru Chișinău	0–5	0–5

Second qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Rapid Wien	5–0	Valletta	3–0	2–0
Anorthosis Famagusta	3–2	Slovan Bratislava	2–1	1–1
Partizan	6–1	Rijeka	3–1	3–0
CSKA Moscow	2–4	Molde	2–0	0–4
Litex Lovech	5–5 (2–3 p)	Widzew Łódź	4–1	1–4 (aet)
Haka	1–7	Rangers	1–4	0–3
Dinamo Tbilisi	2–3	Zimbru Chișinău	2–1	0–2
Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev	0–3	AIK	0–1	0–2
Sloga Jugomagnat	0–2	Brøndby	0–1	0–1
Rapid București	4–5	Skonto	3–3	1–2
Beşiktaş	1–1 (a)	Hapoel Haifa	1–1	0–0
Dynamo Kyiv	3–0	Žalgiris Vilnius	2–0	1–0
ÍBV	1–5	MTK Hungária	0–2	1–3
Maribor	5–4	Genk	5–1	0–3

Third qualifying round

The losing teams advanced to the first round of the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Zimbru Chișinău	0–2	PSV Eindhoven	0–0	0–2
Spartak Moscow	5–1	Partizan	2–0	3–1
Chelsea	3–0	Skonto	3–0	0–0
Rapid Wien	0–4	Galatasaray	0–3	0–1
Fiorentina	5–1	Widzew Łódź	3–1	2–0
AaB	3–4	Dynamo Kyiv	1–2	2–2
Rangers	2–1	Parma	2–0	0–1
Brøndby	3–6	Boavista	1–2	2–4 (aet)
AEK Athens	0–1	AIK	0–0	0–1
Hapoel Haifa	0–4	Valencia	0–2	0–2
Hertha BSC	2–0	Anorthosis Famagusta	2–0	0–0
Sturm Graz	4–3	Servette	2–1	2–2
Molde	1–1 (a)	Mallorca	0–0	1–1
Lyon	0–3	Maribor	0–1	0–2
Croatia Zagreb	2–0	MTK Hungária	0–0	2–0
Teplice	0–2	Borussia Dortmund	0–1	0–1

First group stage

16 winners from the third qualifying round, 10 champions from countries ranked 1–10, and six second-placed teams from countries ranked 1–6 were drawn into eight groups of four teams each. Compared to the two previous seasons, three associations (England, France, The Netherlands) were allowed three teams – the league winner and runner-up from each nation qualified for the first group stage, and the third-placed teams qualified for the third qualifying round – and three associations were allowed four teams (Germany, Italy, Spain) – the league winner and runner-up from each nation qualified for the first group stage, and the third- and fourth-placed teams qualified for the third qualifying round. Nine additional associations were still allowed two teams (Czech Republic, Greece, Norway, Portugal: league winner in group stage; Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Turkey, Russia: league winner in third qualifying round). The top two teams in each group advanced to the Champions League second group stage, while the third-placed teams advanced to round three of the UEFA Cup.

AIK, Boavista, Bordeaux, Chelsea, Fiorentina, Hertha BSC, Lazio, Maribor, Molde, Valencia and Willem II made their debut in the group stage. Maribor was the first Slovenian side to play in group stage. Germany became the first association to have four teams in the Champions League group stage.

Tiebreakers, if necessary, are applied in the following order:

1. Points earned in head-to-head matches between the tied teams.
2. Total goals scored in head-to-head matches between the tied teams.
3. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches between the tied teams.
4. Cumulative goal difference in all group matches.
5. Total goals scored in all group matches.
6. Higher UEFA coefficient going into the competition.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LAZ	DKV	LEV	MRB
1	Lazio	6	4	2	0	13	3	+10	14	Advance to second group stage		—	2–1	1–1	4–0
2	Dynamo Kyiv	6	2	1	3	8	8	0	7			0–1	—	4–2	0–1
3	Bayer Leverkusen	6	1	4	1	7	7	0	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–1	1–1	—	0–0
4	Maribor	6	1	1	4	2	12	−10	4			0–4	1–2	0–2	—

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	FIO	ARS	AIK
1	Barcelona	6	4	2	0	19	9	+10	14	Advance to second group stage		—	4–2	1–1	5–0
2	Fiorentina	6	2	3	1	9	7	+2	9			3–3	—	0–0	3–0
3	Arsenal	6	2	2	2	9	9	0	8	Transfer to UEFA Cup		2–4	0–1	—	3–1
4	AIK	6	0	1	5	4	16	−12	1			1–2	0–0	2–3	—

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ROS	FEY	DOR	BOA
1	Rosenborg	6	3	2	1	12	5	+7	11	Advance to second group stage		—	2–2	2–2	2–0
2	Feyenoord	6	1	5	0	7	6	+1	8			1–0	—	1–1	1–1
3	Borussia Dortmund	6	1	3	2	7	9	−2	6	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–3	1–1	—	3–1
4	Boavista	6	1	2	3	4	10	−6	5			0–3	1–1	1–0	—

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MUN	MAR	STM	CZG
1	Manchester United	6	4	1	1	9	4	+5	13	Advance to second group stage		—	2–1	2–1	0–0
2	Marseille	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	10			1–0	—	2–0	2–2
3	Sturm Graz	6	2	0	4	5	12	−7	6	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–3	3–2	—	1–0
4	Croatia Zagreb	6	1	2	3	7	7	0	5			1–2	1–2	3–0	—

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RMA	POR	OLY	MOL
1	Real Madrid	6	4	1	1	15	7	+8	13	Advance to second group stage		—	3–1	3–0	4–1
2	Porto	6	4	0	2	9	6	+3	12			2–1	—	2–0	3–1
3	Olympiacos	6	2	1	3	9	12	−3	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		3–3	1–0	—	3–1
4	Molde	6	1	0	5	6	14	−8	3			0–1	0–1	3–2	—

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		VAL	BAY	RAN	PSV
1	Valencia	6	3	3	0	8	4	+4	12	Advance to second group stage		—	1–1	2–0	1–0
2	Bayern Munich	6	2	3	1	7	6	+1	9			1–1	—	1–0	2–1
3	Rangers	6	2	1	3	7	7	0	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–2	1–1	—	4–1
4	PSV Eindhoven	6	1	1	4	5	10	−5	4			1–1	2–1	0–1	—

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SPP	BOR	SPM	WIL
1	Sparta Prague	6	3	3	0	14	6	+8	12	Advance to second group stage		—	0–0	5–2	4–0
2	Bordeaux	6	3	3	0	7	4	+3	12			0–0	—	2–1	3–2
3	Spartak Moscow	6	1	2	3	9	12	−3	5	Transfer to UEFA Cup		1–1	1–2	—	1–1
4	Willem II	6	0	2	4	7	15	−8	2			3–4	0–0	1–3	—

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CHE	HER	GAL	MIL
1	Chelsea	6	3	2	1	10	3	+7	11	Advance to second group stage		—	2–0	1–0	0–0
2	Hertha BSC	6	2	2	2	7	10	−3	8			2–1	—	1–4	1–0
3	Galatasaray	6	2	1	3	10	13	−3	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup		0–5	2–2	—	3–2
4	Milan	6	1	3	2	6	7	−1	6			1–1	1–1	2–1	—

Second group stage

Eight winners and eight runners-up from the first group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams each, each containing two group winners and two runners-up. Teams from the same country or from the same first-round group could not be drawn together. The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter-finals.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	POR	SPP	HER
1	Barcelona	6	5	1	0	17	5	+12	16	Advance to knockout stage		—	4–2	5–0	3–1
2	Porto	6	3	1	2	8	8	0	10			0–2	—	2–2	1–0
3	Sparta Prague	6	1	2	3	5	12	−7	5			1–2	0–2	—	1–0
4	Hertha BSC	6	0	2	4	3	8	−5	2			1–1	0–1	1–1	—

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MUN	VAL	FIO	BOR
1	Manchester United	6	4	1	1	10	4	+6	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–0	3–1	2–0
2	Valencia	6	3	1	2	9	5	+4	10			0–0	—	2–0	3–0
3	Fiorentina	6	2	2	2	7	8	−1	8			2–0	1–0	—	3–3
4	Bordeaux	6	0	2	4	5	14	−9	2			1–2	1–4	0–0	—

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAY	RMA	DKV	ROS
1	Bayern Munich	6	4	1	1	13	8	+5	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	4–1	2–1	2–1
2	Real Madrid	6	3	1	2	11	12	−1	10			2–4	—	2–2	3–1
3	Dynamo Kyiv	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	10			2–0	1–2	—	2–1
4	Rosenborg	6	0	1	5	5	11	−6	1			1–1	0–1	1–2	—

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LAZ	CHE	FEY	MAR
1	Lazio	6	3	2	1	10	4	+6	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	0–0	1–2	5–1
2	Chelsea	6	3	1	2	8	5	+3	10			1–2	—	3–1	1–0
3	Feyenoord	6	2	2	2	7	7	0	8			0–0	1–3	—	3–0
4	Marseille	6	1	1	4	2	11	−9	4			0–2	1–0	0–0	—

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Final
	Real Madrid		0	3	3
	Manchester United		0	2	2
								Real Madrid		2	1	3
								Bayern Munich		0	2	2
	Porto		1	1	2
															24 May – Saint-Denis
	Bayern Munich		1	2	3
															Real Madrid		3
															Valencia		0
	Valencia		5	0	5
	Lazio		2	1	3
								Valencia		4	1	5
								Barcelona		1	2	3
	Chelsea		3	1	4
	Barcelona (a.e.t.)		1	5	6

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Real Madrid	3–2	Manchester United	0–0	3–2
Porto	2–3	Bayern Munich	1–1	1–2
Chelsea	4–6	Barcelona	3–1	1–5 (a.e.t.)
Valencia	5–3	Lazio	5–2	0–1

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Valencia	5–3	Barcelona	4–1	1–2
Real Madrid	3–2	Bayern Munich	2–0	1–2

Final

The final was played on 24 May 2000 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France.

Real Madrid	3–0	Valencia
Morientes 39' McManaman 67' Raúl 75'	Report

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying rounds) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	Mário Jardel	Porto	10	1150
	Rivaldo	Barcelona	10	1229
	Raúl	Real Madrid	10	1350
4	Simone Inzaghi	Lazio	9	700
5	Serhiy Rebrov	Dynamo Kyiv	8	1061
	Tore André Flo	Chelsea	8	1159
7	Paulo Sérgio	Bayern Munich	7	1007
	Patrick Kluivert	Barcelona	7	1203
9	Luis Enrique	Barcelona	6	581
	Gabriel Batistuta	Fiorentina	6	875
	Roy Keane	Manchester United	6	1048
	Fernando Morientes	Real Madrid	6	1129

Source:

See also

• 1999–2000 UEFA Cup
• 2000 UEFA Super Cup
• 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup

References

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External links

• 1999–2000 All matches – season at UEFA website
• 1999–2000 Season On UEFA Website
• European Club Football results at RSSSF.com
• All scorers 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers qualifying round
• 1999/2000 UEFA Champions League - results and line-ups (archive)

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