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  2007/08 Mancshter United -Chelsea 1-1 (United win 5-4 on penalties)
Sir Alex Ferguson said "fate had played its hand" after his Manchester United FC
side defeated Chelsea FC 6-5 on penalties after a 1-1 draw to win the 2007/08
UEFA Champions League. Ronaldo gave United a 1-0 lead, but Lampard struck
back to give Chelsea the draw. The extra time was goalless and United won the
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  2006/07 AC Milan - Liverpool 2-1
As Carlo Ancelotti faced the press after AC Milan had defeated Liverpool FC 2-1 to win the UEFA Champions League in Athens it was clear the Rossoneri coach had completed his own personal odyssey. The journey had been long and arduous, but for the 47-year-old the fact the destination was so unexpected made it all the sweeter.
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  2005/06 Barcelona - Arsenal 2-1
Arsenal took the lead through Sol Campbell eight minutes before half-time and an improbable victory began to look increasingly likely as the second half wore on.
In his last match for the club, though, veteran striker Henrik Larsson turned the course of the match after coming on on the hour mark, creating goals for first Eto'o then Juliano Belletti as the Catalan side fought back to win.

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  2004/05 Liverpool - AC Milan 3-3 (Liverpool win on penalties)
Liverpool FC returned to the top of European football in thrilling style with a remarkable UEFA Champions League final victory against AC Milan. Trailing 3-0 at half-time in Istanbul, Rafael Benítez's side stormed back in the second half with three goals in seven minutes to set up a dramatic penalty shoot-out triumph.
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  2003/04 Porto - Monaco 3-0
FC Porto followed up their 2003 UEFA Cup success by winning the UEFA Champions League in 2004 with a 3-0 victory against AS Monaco FC in Gelsenkirchen.
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  2002/03 AC Milan - Juventus 0-0 (Milan win on penalties)
The 2002/03 UEFA Champions League was dominated by Italy with three Serie A sides reaching the semi-finals. AC Milan, FC Internazionale Milano and Juventus FC all had strong claims to the title, but it was the Rossoneri who emerged victorious at Old Trafford.
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  2001/02 Real Madrid - Bayer Leverkusen 2-1
Seventy-two teams. One hundred and ninety-seven games. Ten months. One winner. The long and winding road to Glasgow took its toll. But for Real Madrid
the journey was well worth the while. The reward for Vicente del Bosque's men was a third UEFA Champions League success, adding to their wins in 98 and 00.
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  2000/01 Bayern München - Valencia 1-1 (BM win on penalties)
Twenty-five years on from their last European Champion Clubs' Cup success, FC Bayern München were at it again, lifting the trophy for a fourth time after a penalties win over Valencia CF.
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  1999/00 Real Madrid -Valencia 3-0
Valencia enjoyed a 4-1 drubbing of Barcelona before confirming their place at the Stade de France with a narrow 2-1 loss at Camp Nou. In hindsight, it was the least Héctor Cúper's side deserved. For they were not their usual exuberant selves in the final and Madrid took full advantage with goals from Fernando Morientes, Steve McManaman and Raúl González. More from UEFA.com
     
  1999/00 Manchester United - Bayern München 2-1
MarioBasler scored the first goal of the Camp Nou final. But then a miracle happened. United scored twice in the dying seconds, through substitutes Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solksjaer, to add the European Champion Clubs' Cup to their FA Premiership/FA Cup double.
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  1997/98 Real Madrid - Juventus 1-0
Most clubs would be happy with one European Champion Clubs' Cup. But not Real Madrid CF. Six times winners of the competition, the last in 1966, the Merengues had been frustrated in their quest for a seventh. That all changed in 1997/98, however, to the delight of traditionalists everywhere.
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  1996/97 Borussia Dortmund -J uventus 3-1
The final followed the same pattern as its two previous editions, with defeat for the holders. Karl-Heinz Riedle scored twice in the first half, Lars Ricken once in the second, making Del Piero's late strike nothing more than a consolation
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  1995/96 Juventus - Ajax 1-1 (Juventus win on penalties)
"We have waited a long time. We never really considered 1985 as a victory because of Heysel." Juventus official Roberto Bettega was in no doubt as to the significance of the club's UEFA Champions League success of 1995/96. Their win against AFC Ajax in Rome was a "real" European Champion Clubs' Cup triumph, the one against Liverpool FC eleven years earlier an empty one.
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  1994/95 Ajax - AC Milan 1-0
Louis van Gaal's talented tyros (average age 23) were to follow in the footsteps of Cruyff and Co, but  they  would have to overcome Milan a third time. The Rossoneri's class and experience had been too much for Benfica and PSG in the knockout phase - yet the elder statesmen were found wanting in the Vienna final. Worn down by Ajax's young legs, they eventually succumbed to a late goal by substitute Patrick Kluivert. More from UEFA.com
     
  1993/94 AC Milan - Barcelona 4-0
Fabio Capello's side made light of the handicap, their glorious 4-0 victory over the Catalan side in Athens giving credibility to the new-look competition. After all the talk of facelifts, here was a team to raise the spirits. Daniele Massaro gave the Rossoneri a 2-0 lead which star men Dejan Savicevic and Marcel Desailly added to in the second half. More from UEFA.com
     
  1992/93 Olympic Marseille - Juventus 1-0
Marseille was champions, That was the good news; the bad came weeks later. Marseille, it emerged, had fixed their title-clinching Division 1 game against ASOA Valence-Clime so they could concentrate on the Milan tie. Soon the ripples of corruption were a tsunami of shame, with Marseille stripped of Le Championnat, relegated, and barred from defending the cup.
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All finals :

 2007: AC Milan -Liverpool 2-1
 2006: Barcelona -Arsenal 2-1
 2005: Liverpool -AC Milan 3-3 (Liverpool won 3-2 on penalties)
 2004: FC Porto 3 - 0 A.S. Monaco
 2003: AC Milan 0 - 0 Juventus (AC Milan won 3-2 on penalties)
 2002: Real Madrid 2 - 1 Bayer Leverkusen
 2001: Bayern Munich 1 - 1 Valencia (Bayern won 5-4 on penalties)
 2000: Real Madrid 3 - 0 Valencia
 1999: Manchester United 2 - 1 Bayern Munich
 1998: Real Madrid 1 - 0 Juventus
 1997: Borussia Dortmund 3 - 1 Juventus
 1996: Juventus 1 - 1 Ajax (Juventus won 4 - 2 on penalites)
 1995: Ajax 1 - 0 AC Milan
 1994: AC Milan 4 - 0 Barcelona
 1993: Ol. Marseilles 1 - 0 AC Milan
 1992: Barcelona 1 - 0 Sampdoria (aet)
 1991: Red Star Belgrade 0 - 0 Marseille (Red Star won 5 - 3 on penalties)
 1990: AC Milan 1 - 0 Benfica
 1989: AC Milan 4 - 0 Steaua Bucharest
 1988: PSV Eindhoven 0 - 0 Benfica (PSV won 6 - 5 on penalties)
 1987: Porto 2 - 1 Bayern Munich
 1986: Steaua Bucharest 0 - 0 Barcelona (Steaua won 2 - 0 on penalties)
 1985: Juventus 1 - 0 Liverpool  The Heysel disaster
 1984: Liverpool 1 - 1 Roma (aet, Liverpool won 4 - 2 on penalties)
 1983: Hamburg 1 - 0 Juventus
 1982: Aston Villa 1 - 0 Bayern Munich
 1981: Liverpool 1 - 0 Real Madrid
 1980: Nottingham Forest 1 - 0 Hamburg
 1979: Nottingham Forest 1 - 0 Malmo
 1978: Liverpool 1 - 0 Brugge
 1977: Liverpool 3 - 1 Borussia M'chengladbach
 1976: Bayern Munich 1 - 0 St Etienne
 1975: Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Leeds United
 1974: Bayern Munich 4 - 0 Atletico Madrid (replay, after 1-1 draw)
 1973: Ajax 1 - 0 Juventus
 1972: Ajax 2 - 0 Inter Milan
 1971: Ajax 2 - 0 Panathinaikos
 1970: Feyenoord 2 - 1 Celtic (aet)
 1969: AC Milan 4 - 1 Ajax
 1968: Manchester United 4 - 1 Benfica (aet)
 1967: Celtic 2 - 1 Inter Milan
 1966: Real Madrid 2 - 1 Partizan Belgrade
 1965: Inter Milan 1 - 0 Benfica
 1964: Inter Milan 3 - 1 Real Madrid
 1963: AC Milan 2 - 1 Benfica
 1962: Benfica 5 - 3 Real Madrid
 1961: Benfica 3 - 2 Barcelona
 1960: Real Madrid 7 - 3 Eintracht Frankfurt
 1959: Real Madrid 2 - 0 Reims
 1958: Real Madrid 3 - 2 AC Milan (aet)
 1957: Real Madrid 2 - 0 Fiorentina
 1956: Real Madrid 4 - 3 Reims

Trivia

The Champions Cup's first hat-trick was scored by Péter Palotás of Budapesti Vörös Lobogó SE
against R.S.C. Anderlecht on September 7, 1955, in the second match ever played in the competition. 

Francisco Gento is the only player to be on 6 Champions Cup-winning sides.

Bob Paisley is the only man to coach 3 Champions Cup-winning sides with Liverpool F.C. in 1977, 1978 and 1981.

Clarence Seedorf is the only player to win the Champions Cup with 3 different teams:
Ajax Amsterdam 1995
Real Madrid 1998
A.C. Milan 2003

The city of Milan, Italy, is the only one that won the Champions Cup with two different teams:
Inter & Milan (the two clubs have won 8 cups in total).

Many clubs won the Cup unbeaten: Internazionale (1964), Ajax Amsterdam (1972)
and Liverpool (1984) are those with the best record, 7 wins and 2 draws. Ajax, Liverpool and A.C.
Milan are the only teams to have won the trophy unbeaten twice.

Real Madrid have the record number of consecutive participations in the Champions'
Cup with 15, from 1955/56 to 1969/70.

Only on two occasions has the Final of the Champions Cup/League involved
two teams from the same country: Real Madrid v Valencia (1999/00) and
A.C. Milan v Juventus (2002/03).

In the long history of the cup, only four derbies between teams
of the same city have been played:

1958/59 Real Madrid vs Atlético de Madrid (semifinal)
2002/03 Internazionale (Milan) vs A.C. Milan (semifinal)
2003/04 Chelsea vs Arsenal (quarterfinal)
2004/05 Internazionale vs A.C. Milan (quarterfinal)
2nd leg was abandoned because of disturbances among the Inter fans.

Only four teams have completed the "treble" — win their domestic league championship,
their primary domestic cup, and the Champions League/European Cup.
These were (in order) Celtic, Ajax Amsterdam, PSV Eindhoven and Manchester United.
Celtic managed this in 1966/67, also winning the Scottish League Cup and Glasgow Cup that year.
In 1972 Ajax won the European Cup, their domestic league and cup. The following season they also
won the European Super Cup and the European/South American Cup. PSV did this in 1987/88.
Manchester United won their treble during the 1998/99 season.

Ajax Amsterdam was unbeaten in the Champions Cup/League for 20 matches from 1985/86
to March 1996, when they lost 0-1 to Panathinaikos in Amsterdam.

The 2002/03 semifinal between bitter city rivals A.C. Milan and Internazionale was the
first time both games of a two-legged tie were in the same stadium (San Siro).
This matchup was repeated in the 2004/05 quarterfinals.

Only two individuals have won the Champions League with the same club as
a player then later as a coach. Miguel Muñoz of Real Madrid did it as a player in
1955/56 and 1956/57, before winning it as a coach in 1965/66. Carlo Ancelotti
did it as an A.C. Milan player in 1988/89 and 1989/90 before coaching them to
victory in 2002/03.

Cesare Maldini and his son Paolo are the only father and son duo to skipper the
same club to victory in the competition. Cesare led A.C. Milan to victory in 1962/63,
and Paolo captained them to victory in 2002/03.

The anthem of the Champions League, which is played during prematch ceremonies
before each match and introduces television coverage of the competition, is by Tony
Britten, based on George Frideric Handel's coronation anthem "Zadok the Priest", and
is performed by the Chorus of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Ottmar Hitzfeld and Ernst Happel are the only coaches in the history of the
European Cup/UEFA Champions League to win the title with two different clubs.
Hitzfeld did so with Borussia Dortmund in 1997 and Bayern Munich in 2001; Happel
led Feijenoord (now Feyenoord) in 1970 and Hamburg in 1983.

Olympique de Marseille were the first winners of the new format UEFA Champions League in 1993.

Manchester United's treble-winners of 1998/99 were the first winners of the
tournament to have won neither their domestic title nor the European Cup/Champions League
the previous season. In 1997/98, United finished runners-up in the Premiership to Arsenal and
lost in the quarterfinals of the Champions League to Monaco.

Nottingham Forest are the only club to have won the European Cup more times (twice)
than they have won their domestic league (once). Forest won the English League in 1978
before winning the European Cup in 1979 and defending it in 1980.

Nottingham Forest also have the unfortunate distinction of being the only winners of the
European Cup to have later been relegated out of the top two divisions in their country
(they remain in the English football league system's third tier (Football League One) today).

Paolo Maldini of Milan scored the fastest ever goal in Champions League in
2005 final against Liverpool inside 53 seconds. He was also the oldest (37 year old)
to score in Champions League final.

All 11 goals, including the penalty shoot-out, were scored in the same goal in 2005's
final between AC Milan and Liverpool.

With Liverpool's win in the 2005 final, the number of teams permitted to wear UEFA's
special badge of honour is now five. The badge is awarded in perpetuity to teams that
have either won the competition a total of five times, or have won it three years in succession.

Five or more wins: Real Madrid, AC Milan, Liverpool
Three wins in succession: Ajax Amsterdam, Bayern Munich

Five men have scored a hat-trick on their debut in the Champions League

Marco van Basten (A.C. Milan), Faustino Asprilla (Newcastle United),
Aiyegbeni Yakubu (Maccabi Haifa), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United),
Vincenzo Iaquinta (Udinese)

Five men have also scored 4 goals in one Champions League match
Marco van Basten (A.C. Milan), Filippo Inzaghi (Juventus), Dado Prso (AS Monaco FC)
Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) and Andrej Sjevtsjenko (AC Milan)

Raúl becomes the first player in the history of the competiton to reach 50 goals,
he did this by scoring in Real Madrid 2:1 victory over Olympiakos in the UEFA
Champions League 2005-06 season.
 

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