1994–95 UEFA Champions League

1994–95 UEFA Champions League

The Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna held the final.
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 10–24 August 1994 Competition proper: 14 September 1994 – 24 May 1995
Teams	Competition proper: 16 Total: 24
Final positions
Champions	Ajax (4th title)
Runners-up	Milan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	61
Goals scored	140 (2.3 per match)
Attendance	2,328,515 (38,172 per match)
Top scorer(s)	George Weah (7 goals)
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The 1994–95 UEFA Champions League was the 40th edition of UEFA's premier European club football tournament, and the third since its rebranding as the UEFA Champions League. The tournament was won by Ajax of the Netherlands with a late goal in the final against defending champions Milan of Italy. Ajax won the competition without losing a game, either in the group or the knock-out stage in winning the title for the first time since 1973.

Compared to the previous edition of the European Cup, radical changes were made to the format of the tournament, due to a recently expired contract that bound UEFA to the EBU for the transmission of the final, and this gave occasion for a general review of the format, which attracted the interest of new and financially well-off private television companies. This year included four groups of four teams each in the group stage, up from two groups of four teams each in 1993–94. It was also the first year in which eight teams advanced to the knock-out stage and the first of three years in which the champions of smaller nations entered the UEFA Cup instead of the Champions League. It was also the first time that this competition was known as UEFA Champions League from the first to the last match of the competition, the two previous seasons, the UEFA Champions League involved the round(s) between the round of 16 and the final of the European Champions Cup.

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's entrants were unable to participate for the third season in a row due to the UN economic sanctions. Milan were the defending champions, but were defeated by Ajax in the final.

Teams[]

24 teams entered the competition: the UEFA Champions League holders, AC Milan, as well as 23 best-ranked national champions according to UEFA club ranking. The title holders and other 7 best-ranked national champions received a bye to the group stage, while the national champions ranked 9–24 entered in the qualifying round. The remaining national champions were only allowed to participate in UEFA Cup.^[1]

Group stage
Milan (1st)TH	Bayern Munich (1st)	Anderlecht (1st)	Barcelona (1st)
Benfica (1st)	Spartak Moscow (1st)	Manchester United (1st)	Ajax (1st)
Qualifying round
Paris Saint-Germain (1st)	Casino Salzburg (1st)	AEK Athens (1st)	Galatasaray (1st)
Rangers (1st)	Servette (1st)	Silkeborg (1st)	Steaua București (1st)
Göteborg (1st)	Legia Warsaw (1st)	Maccabi Haifa (1st)	Vác (1st)
Dynamo Kyiv (1st)	Hajduk Split (1st)	Avenir Beggen (1st)	Sparta Prague (1st)

Round and draw dates[]

The schedule of the competition is as follows. The draw was held in Geneva, Switzerland on 20 July 1994, where qualifying round pairs as well as group formations were drawn. The knockout phase pairs were made automatically by a predetermined bracket.

Qualifying round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Group A
Avenir Beggen	1–9	Galatasaray	1–5	0–4
Sparta Prague	1–2	IFK Göteborg	1–0	0–2
Group B
Silkeborg	1–3	Dynamo Kyiv	0–0	1–3
Paris Saint-Germain	5–1	Vác FC-Samsung	3–0	2–1
Group C
Legia Warsaw	0–5	Hajduk Split	0–1	0–4
Steaua București	5–2	Servette	4–1	1–1
Group D
AEK Athens	3–0	Rangers	2–0	1–0
Maccabi Haifa	2–5	Casino Salzburg	1–2	1–3

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Group stage[]

IFK Göteborg

Barcelona

Manchester United

Galatasaray

Paris Saint-Germain

Bayern

Spartak Moscow

Dynamo Kyiv

Benfica

Hajduk Split

Steaua București

Anderlecht

Ajax

Milan

Salzburg

AEK Athens

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Location of teams of the 1994–95 UEFA Champions League group stage.
Brown: Group A; Red: Group B; Orange: Group C; Yellow: Group D.

Ten of the sixteen participating teams made their UEFA Champions League group stage debut: AEK Athens, Ajax, Bayern Munich, Benfica, Casino Salzburg, Dynamo Kyiv, Hajduk Split, Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain and Steaua București. Two of these teams, Benfica and Dynamo Kyiv, had previously contested the 1991–92 European Cup group stage. Casino, Hajduk and Steaua were the first teams to qualify for group stage from Austria, Croatia and Romania respectively.

Group A[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GOT	BAR	MU	GAL
1	IFK Göteborg	6	4	1	1	10	7	+3	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–1	3–1	1–0
2	Barcelona	6	2	2	2	11	8	+3	6			1–1	—	4–0	2–1
3	Manchester United	6	2	2	2	11	11	0	6			4–2	2–2	—	4–0
4	Galatasaray	6	1	1	4	3	9	−6	3			0–1	2–1	0–0	—

Group B[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PSG	BM	SPA	DK
1	Paris Saint-Germain	6	6	0	0	12	3	+9	12	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	4–1	1–0
2	Bayern Munich	6	2	2	2	8	7	+1	6			0–1	—	2–2	1–0
3	Spartak Moscow	6	1	2	3	8	12	−4	4			1–2	1–1	—	1–0
4	Dynamo Kyiv	6	1	0	5	5	11	−6	2			1–2	1–4	3–2	—

Group C[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BEN	HAJ	SB	AND
1	Benfica	6	3	3	0	9	5	+4	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–1	2–1	3–1
2	Hajduk Split	6	2	2	2	5	7	−2	6			0–0	—	1–4	2–1
3	Steaua București	6	1	3	2	7	6	+1	5			1–1	0–1	—	1–1
4	Anderlecht	6	0	4	2	4	7	−3	4			1–1	0–0	0–0	—

Group D[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AJA	MIL	CAS	AEK
1	Ajax	6	4	2	0	9	2	+7	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	1–1	2–0
2	Milan	6	3	1	2	6	5	+1	5[a]			0–2	—	3–0	2–1
3	Casino Salzburg	6	1	3	2	4	6	−2	5			0–0	0–1	—	0–0
4	AEK Athens	6	0	2	4	3	9	−6	2			1–2	0–0	1–3	—

Knockout stage[]

Bracket[]

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Bayern Munich (a)	0	2	2
	IFK Göteborg	0	2	2
							Bayern Munich	0	2	2
							Ajax	0	5	5
	Hajduk Split	0	0	0
	Ajax	0	3	3
													Ajax	1
													Milan	0
	Barcelona	1	1	2
	Paris Saint-Germain	1	2	3
							Paris Saint-Germain	0	0	0
							Milan	1	2	3
	Milan	2	0	2
	Benfica	0	0	0

Quarter-finals[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayern Munich	2–2 (a)	IFK Göteborg	0–0	2–2
Hajduk Split	0–3	Ajax	0–0	0–3
Barcelona	2–3	Paris Saint-Germain	1–1	1–2
Milan	2–0	Benfica	2–0	0–0

Semi-finals[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bayern Munich	2–5	Ajax	0–0	2–5
Paris Saint-Germain	0–3	Milan	0–1	0–2

Final[]

24 May 1995

20:30

Ajax	1–0	Milan
Kluivert 85'	Report

Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna

Attendance: 49,730

Referee: Ion Crăciunescu (Romania)

Top goalscorers[]

The top scorers from the 1994–95 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying round) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	George Weah	Paris Saint-Germain	7
2	Jari Litmanen	Ajax	6
3	Magnus Erlingmark	IFK Göteborg	4
	Marco Simone	Milan	4
5	José Mari Bakero	Barcelona	3
	Romário	Barcelona	3
	Hristo Stoichkov	Barcelona	3
	Claudio Caniggia	Benfica	3
	Christian Nerlinger	Bayern Munich	3
	Mehmet Scholl	Bayern Munich	3
	Viktor Leonenko	Dynamo Kyiv	3

See also[]

• 1994–95 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
• 1994–95 UEFA Cup

References[]

External links[]

• 1994–95 All matches – season at UEFA website
• European Cup results at RSSSF
• All scorers 1994–95 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying round) according to protocols UEFA
• All scorers qualifying round
• 1994/95 UEFA Champions League - results and line-ups (archive)