1999 UEFA Champions League Final
Match programme cover
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| Event | 1998–99 UEFA Champions League | ||||||
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| Date | 26 May 1999 | ||||||
| Venue | Camp Nou, Barcelona | ||||||
| Referee | Pierluigi Collina (Italy) | ||||||
| Attendance | 90,245 | ||||||
| Weather | Clear 21 °C (70 °F) 64% humidity |
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The 1999 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match between Manchester United of England and Bayern Munich of Germany, played at Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain, on 26 May 1999, to determine the winner of the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League. It is remembered for injury time goals from Manchester United's Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjær, which cancelled out Mario Basler's early goal to give Manchester United a 2–1 win. United's victory completed a treble-winning season, after they had won the Premier League and FA Cup. Bayern were also playing for a treble, having won the Bundesliga and reached the DFB-Pokal final, although they went on to lose that match.
The two sides had played each other earlier in the competition, having both been drawn in Group D in the group stage; Bayern won the group, while Manchester United qualified for the knockout phase as one of the two best runners-up across all six groups. After beating Internazionale in the quarter-finals, Manchester United beat another Italian side, Juventus in the semis to reach the final; meanwhile, Bayern beat fellow Germans Kaiserslautern in the quarter-finals, before overcoming Ukrainian side Dynamo Kyiv in the semis.
Referee Pierluigi Collina has cited this match as one of the most memorable of his career, and described the noise from the crowd at the end of the game as being like a "lion's roar".
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