1995–96 UEFA Champions League

1995–96 UEFA Champions League
	Stadio Olimpico in Rome held the final.
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying:; 9–23 August 1995; Competition proper:; 13 September 1995 – 22 May 1996
Teams	Competition proper: 16; Total: 24
Final positions
Champions	Juventus (2nd title)
Runners-up	Ajax
Tournament statistics
Matches played	61
Goals scored	159 (2.61 per match)
Attendance	1,870,462 (30,663 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Jari Litmanen (Ajax); 9 goals

The 1995–96 UEFA Champions League was the 41st season 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 for their first European Cup since 1985, and their second overall. It was the only Champions League title that Juventus won in the 1990s, despite reaching the next two finals, and one of only three Italian wins in the final, despite there being a Serie A club in every final for seven consecutive years from 1992 to 1998.

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

Teams

24 teams entered the competition – the national champions of each of the top 24 nations in the UEFA coefficient rankings, including UEFA Champions League holders, Ajax. The national champions of the associations ranked 1–7, plus the title holders, all received a bye to the group stage, while the national champions of the associations ranked 8–24 entered in the qualifying round. The remaining national champions from the associations ranked 25–47 were only allowed to participate in UEFA Cup.[1]

Group stage
Ajax^TH (1st)	Nantes (1st)	Real Madrid (1st)	Porto (1st)
Juventus (1st)	Borussia Dortmund (1st)	Blackburn Rovers (1st)	Spartak Moscow (1st)
Qualifying round
Anderlecht (1st)	AaB (1st)	Legia Warsaw (1st)	Ferencváros (1st)
Beşiktaş (1st)	Göteborg (1st)	Steaua București (1st)	Hajduk Split (1st)
Casino Salzburg (1st)	Rangers (1st)	Rosenborg (1st)	Anorthosis Famagusta (1st)
Panathinaikos (1st)	Grasshopper (1st)	Maccabi Tel Aviv (1st)	Dynamo Kyiv (1st)

Round and draw dates

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

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying round		12 July 1995	9 August 1995	23 August 1995
Group stage	Matchday 1	25 August 1995	13 September 1995
	Matchday 2		27 September 1995
	Matchday 3		18 October 1995
	Matchday 4		1 November 1995
	Matchday 5		22 November 1995
	Matchday 6		6 December 1995
Knockout phase	Quarter-finals		6 March 1996	20 March 1996
	Semi-finals		3 April 1996	17 April 1996
	Final		22 May 1996 at Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Qualifying round

Dynamo Kyiv won their tie against AaB, but, in their first group game against Panathinaikos, they were accused of a failed attempt to bribe the referee, Antonio López Nieto, to get a win. Despite an appeal, they were ejected from the competition and banned for two years, with Aalborg BK replacing them in the group stage. Dynamo's ban was eventually reduced to one season.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
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
Casino Salzburg	0–1	Steaua București	0–0	0–1
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	1–1 (a)	Hajduk Split	0–0	1–1

Group stage

1995–96 UEFA Champions League is located in Europe

Location of teams of the 1995–96 UEFA Champions League group stage.

Brown: Group A;

Red: Group B;

Orange: Group C;

Yellow: Group D.

11 teams of 16 made their debut in the UEFA Champions League group stage: Aalborg BK, Blackburn Rovers, Borussia Dortmund, Ferencváros, Grasshopper, Juventus, Legia Warsaw, Nantes, Panathinaikos, Real Madrid and Rosenborg. Panathinaikos had already played in the group stage of the 1991–92 European Cup. Aalborg, Ferencvaros, Grasshopper, Legia and Rosenborg were the first teams to play in group stage from Denmark, Hungary, Switzerland, Poland and Norway respectively.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	PAN	NAN	POR	AAB
1	Panathinaikos	6	3	2	1	7	3	+4	11	Advance to knockout stage	—	3–1	0–0	2–0
2	Nantes	6	2	3	1	8	6	+2	9	Advance to knockout stage	0–0	—	0–0	3–1
3	Porto	6	1	4	1	6	5	+1	7		0–1	2–2	—	2–0
4	AaB[lower-alpha 1]	6	1	1	4	5	12	−7	4		2–1	0–2	2–2	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

After matchday 1 in the group, Aalborg BK replaced Dynamo Kyiv, who were banned following a failed attempt to bribe a referee.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	SPA	LW	ROS	BR
1	Spartak Moscow	6	6	0	0	15	4	+11	18	Advance to knockout stage	—	2–1	4–1	3–0
2	Legia Warsaw	6	2	1	3	5	8	−3	7	Advance to knockout stage	0–1	—	3–1	1–0
3	Rosenborg	6	2	0	4	11	16	−5	6		2–4	4–0	—	2–1
4	Blackburn Rovers	6	1	1	4	5	8	−3	4		0–1	0–0	4–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	JUV	DOR	STE	RAN
1	Juventus	6	4	1	1	15	4	+11	13	Advance to knockout stage	—	1–2	3–0	4–1
2	Borussia Dortmund	6	2	3	1	8	8	0	9	Advance to knockout stage	1–3	—	1–0	2–2
3	Steaua București	6	1	3	2	2	5	−3	6		0–0	0–0	—	1–0
4	Rangers	6	0	3	3	6	14	−8	3		0–4	2–2	1–1	—

Source: UEFA

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	AJA	RM	FER	GRA
1	Ajax	6	5	1	0	15	1	+14	16	Advance to knockout stage	—	1–0	4–0	3–0
2	Real Madrid	6	3	1	2	11	5	+6	10	Advance to knockout stage	0–2	—	6–1	2–0
3	Ferencváros	6	1	2	3	9	19	−10	5		1–5	1–1	—	3–3
4	Grasshopper	6	0	2	4	3	13	−10	2		0–0	0–2	0–3	—

Source: UEFA

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final

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
								Ajax	1 (2)

								Juventus (p)	1 (4)
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

Quarter-finals

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

Semi-finals

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

Final

22 May 1996

20:30

Ajax	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Juventus
Litmanen 41'	Report	Ravanelli 12'
Penalties
Davids Litmanen Scholten Silooy	2–4	Ferrara Pessotto Padovano Jugović

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 67,000

Referee: Manuel Díaz Vega (Spain)

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Jari Litmanen	Ajax	9
2	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus	6
	Raúl	Real Madrid	6
	Krzysztof Warzycha	Panathinaikos	6
5	Patrick Kluivert	Ajax	5
	Yuriy Nikiforov	Spartak Moscow	5
	Nicolas Ouédec	Nantes	5
	Fabrizio Ravanelli	Juventus	5
9	Mike Newell	Blackburn Rovers	4
9	Iván Zamorano	Real Madrid	4
11	Erik Bo Andersen	Aalborg BK	3
	Karl Petter Løken	Rosenborg	3
	Reynald Pedros	Nantes	3
	Sergei Yuran	Spartak Moscow	3
	Japhet N'Doram	Nantes	3

References

UEFA Country Ranking 1995

External links

1995–96 All matches – season at UEFA website
All matches - Line ups
European Cup results at RSSSF
All scorers 1995–96 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers qualifying round
1995/96 UEFA Champions League – results and line-ups (archive)

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[table_note_AAB0.64959077148214-2] After matchday 1 in the group, Aalborg BK replaced Dynamo Kyiv, who were banned following a failed attempt to bribe a referee.

[1] UEFA Country Ranking 1995

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UEFA competitions	Champions League (Qualifying, group stage, knockout stage, Final) Cup Winners' Cup (Final) UEFA Cup (Final) Intertoto Cup Super Cup

International men's club football
FIFA FIFA Club World Cup Intercontinental Cup (defunct) Afro-Asian Club Championship (defunct) Under-20 Intercontinental Cup World Leagues Forum Lists of association football clubs
Africa	CAF – Champions League Confederation Cup Super Cup
Asia	AFC – Champions League AFC Cup
Europe	UEFA – Champions League Europa League Europa Conference League Super Cup
North, Central America and the Caribbean	CONCACAF – Champions Cup Leagues Cup Central American Cup Caribbean Cup
Oceania	OFC – Champions League
South America	CONMEBOL – Copa Libertadores Copa Sudamericana Recopa Sudamericana
See also: International women's club football

1995–96 UEFA Champions League

Teams

Round and draw dates

Qualifying round

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Top goalscorers

See also

References

External links