1997–98 UEFA Champions League

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The **1997–98 UEFA Champions League** was the 43rd season of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA's premier club football tournament, and the sixth since its re-branding from the "European Champion Clubs' Cup" or "European Cup". The tournament was won by Real Madrid, winning for the first time in 32 years, beating 1–0 Juventus who were playing in a third consecutive final. It started a run of three victories in five seasons for the Spanish club.

This season was the first to have six groups, instead of previous four, which meant that only two group runners-up qualified for the quarter-finals as opposed to all the second-placed teams. It was also the first to have two qualifying rounds instead of just one. After three years of entering the UEFA Cup, champions of smaller nations returned to the Champions League. For the first time, the runners-up of eight domestic leagues entered into the competition. With Borussia Dortmund being the title holders but finishing third in their domestic league last season, Germany became the first association to provide three teams to the premier European competition.

Borussia Dortmund, the defending champions, were eliminated in the semi-finals by eventual winners Real Madrid.

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Slovakia and the Republic of Macedonia all entered their champions for the first time, while the champion of Yugoslavia returned to this competition for the first time since 1991–92 season after the UN ban was lifted.

## Association team allocation

Number of teams per country as well as the starting round for each club and seeding were based on 1997 UEFA league coefficient, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1992–93 to 1996–97.

* Associations ranked 1–8 each have two participants
* Associations ranked 9–48 each have one participant (except Liechtenstein and Albania)

* 8 runners-up from associations 1–8
 Group stage(24 teams)
* 7 champions from associations 1–7
 Knockout phase(8 teams)
* 2 best-ranked group runners-up from the group stage

### Teams

55 teams entered the competition: the national champions of each of the top 48 nations in the UEFA coefficient rankings (except Liechtenstein and Albania), plus the runners-up from each of the top eight nations and UEFA Champions League holders, Borussia Dortmund. The national champions of the associations ranked 1–7 (Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal and England), plus the title holders, all received a bye to the group stage, while the national champions of the associations ranked 8–16 and the runners-up of the associations ranked 1–8 all entered in the second qualifying round. The remaining national champions from the associations ranked 17–48 entered in the first qualifying round.

Notes
1. **^** **Albania (ALB)**: Clubs from Albania were not admitted to UEFA competitions as 1996–97 Albanian Superliga was suspended for several months due to 1997 Albanian Civil War and eventually ended in mid-August 1997 (won by KF Tirana), past the UEFA deadline.

## Round and draw dates

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

## Qualifying rounds

Main article: 1997–98 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

### Second qualifying round

Losing teams qualified for the first round of the 1997–98 UEFA Cup.

**Note:** Winning teams of the first qualifying round were drawn against teams qualified directly for the second qualifying round. Because of the unequal number of teams (15 and 17), Wüstenrot Salzburg and Sparta Prague had to play against each other.

## Group stage

Main article: 1997–98 UEFA Champions League group stage
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Bayer Leverkusen, Beşiktaş, Košice, Feyenoord, Lierse, Newcastle United, Olympiacos, Parma, Sparta Prague (who already qualified for the 1991-92 European Cup group stage) and Sporting CP made their debut in the group stage. Košice lost all six of their group stage matches and thus became the first team to finish a Champions League group stage with no points. They were also first team from Slovakia to play in group stage.

## Knockout stage

Main article: 1997–98 UEFA Champions League knockout stage
### Bracket

1997–98 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

### Quarter-finals

 Bayern Munich  | 0–1
 **Juventus**  | 5–2
 **Monaco**  | 1–1 (a)

The quarter-final between German clubs Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund marked the first meeting of two teams from the same country in the Champions League (including the European Cup era, the first game between teams from the same country occurred in 1958–59). With Bayer Leverkusen also having qualified, it marked the first time three clubs from the same nation played in the knockout phase.

### Final

Main article: 1998 UEFA Champions League Final

## See also

* 1997 UEFA Intertoto Cup
* 1997–98 UEFA Cup
* 1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

## References

1. ↑ UEFA Country Ranking 1997.
2. ↑ Albania 1996/97 at RSSSF

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* 1997–98 All matches – season at UEFA website
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* Andorra
* Armenia '97 '98
* Austria
* Azerbaijan
* Belarus '97 '98
* Belgium
* Bosnia and Herzegovina (Herzeg-Bosnia, Republika Srpska)
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* England
* Estonia
* Faroe Islands '97 '98
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* France
* Georgia
* Germany
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* Iceland '97 '98
* Israel
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* Kazakhstan '97 '98
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* Netherlands
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* Norway '97 '98
* Poland
* Portugal
* Republic of Ireland
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* Russia '97 '98
* San Marino
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* Sweden '97 '98
* Switzerland
* Turkey
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* Andorra
* Armenia
* Austria
* Azerbaijan
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* England
* Estonia
* Faroe Islands '97 '98
* Finland '97 '98
* France
* Georgia
* Germany
* Greece
* Hungary
* Iceland '97 '98
* Israel
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* Netherlands
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* Norway '97 '98
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