The 1993 UEFA Champions League final, originally known as the 1993 European Cup final, was a football match between French club Marseille and Italian club Milan, played on 26 May 1993 at the Olympiastadion in Munich.

The final, which followed the second-ever UEFA Champions League group stage, saw Ivorian-born Marseille defender Basile Boli score the only goal of the match in the 43rd minute with a header to give OM their first and only European Cup title. It was the first time a French team had won the European Cup. Marseille would be the only French club to have won the Champions League until the 2025 win of rivals Paris Saint-Germain against Milan's rivals Inter Milan, also in Munich. No other club from the French league would even reach the final until Monaco in 2004.

Marseille and their club president Bernard Tapie would later be found to have been involved in a match-fixing scandal during the 1992–93 Division 1—in which Marseille allegedly paid Valenciennes to lose a match, which saw them relegated to Division 2 and banned from participation in European football for the following season. As the scandal only affected a French league match, while Marseille's status as the 1993 European champions was not affected, they were not able to compete in the 1993 European Super Cup.

The final turned out to be the last game of Milan's highly accomplished but injury-prone Dutch forward Marco van Basten, who was 28 at the time; having been subbed off in the 86th minute due to fatigue and yet another ankle injury, he would spend the next two years in recovery before announcing his retirement in August 1995.

Teams In the following table, finals until 1992 were in the European Cup era, since 1993 were in the UEFA Champions League era. TeamPrevious final appearances (bold indicates winners) Marseille1 (1991) Milan5 (1958, 1963, 1969, 1989, 1990)

Route to the final

MarseilleRound MilanOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd leg Glentoran8–05–0 (A)3–0 (H)First round Olimpija Ljubljana7–04–0 (H)3–0 (A) Dinamo București2–00–0 (A)2–0 (H)Second round Slovan Bratislava5–01–0 (A)4–0 (H)OpponentResultGroup stageOpponentResult Rangers2–2 (A)Matchday 1 IFK Göteborg4–0 (H) Club Brugge3–0 (H)Matchday 2 PSV Eindhoven2–1 (A) CSKA Moscow1–1 (A)Matchday 3 Porto1–0 (A) CSKA Moscow6–0 (H)Matchday 4 Porto1–0 (H) Rangers1–1 (H)Matchday 5 IFK Göteborg1–0 (A) Club Brugge1–0 (A)Matchday 6 PSV Eindhoven2–0 (H)Group A winnerFinal standingsGroup B winner

Match Details

GK 1 Fabien Barthez RB 2 Jocelyn Angloma LB 3 Éric Di Meco SW 4 Basile Boli CM 5 Franck SauzéeCB 6 Marcel DesaillyCM 7 Jean-Jacques EydelieCF 8 Alen BokšićLF 9 Rudi Völler RF 10 Abedi PeleCM 11 Didier Deschamps (c)Substitutes:MF 12 Jean-Christophe Thomas DF 13 Bernard CasoniMF 14 Jean-Philippe Durand FW 15 Jean-Marc FerreriGK 16 Pascal OlmetaManager: Raymond Goethals GK 1 Sebastiano RossiRB 2 Mauro TassottiCB 5 Alessandro CostacurtaCB 6 Franco Baresi (c)LB 3 Paolo MaldiniRM 7 Gianluigi Lentini CM 4 Demetrio AlbertiniCM 8 Frank RijkaardLM 10 Roberto Donadoni CF 9 Marco van Basten CF 11 Daniele MassaroSubstitutes:GK 12 Carlo CudiciniCB 13 Stefano NavaRM 14 Stefano Eranio LM 15 Alberico EvaniFW 16 Jean-Pierre Papin Manager: Fabio Capello

Linesmen: Zivanko Popović (Switzerland) Erwin Kreig (Switzerland) Fourth official: Serge Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)

Aftermath Marseille's triumph remains controversial due to accusations of doping alleged by Marcel Desailly, Jean-Jacques Eydelie, Chris Waddle and Tony Cascarino. According to Eydelie, "all (of them) took a series of injections" in the 1993 Champions League final, except Rudi Völler. Desailly and Cascarino claimed that club president Bernard Tapie distributed pills and injections himself. In an interview with French magazine Le Point, Jean-Pierre de Mondenard said Marseille had a blackboard in their team locker room that read "injections for everyone". Tapie only admitted that some players took captagon.

See also 1993 European Cup Winners' Cup final 1993 European Super Cup 1993 UEFA Cup final 1992–93 AC Milan season 1992–93 Olympique de Marseille season AC Milan in international football Olympique de Marseille in European football

References

External links 1992–93 season at UEFA website