The 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League was the 45th season of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA's premier European club football tournament, and the eighth season since its rebranding from the "European Champion Clubs' Cup" or "European Cup". The competition was won by Real Madrid, who clinched a historic eighth title win by beating fellow La Liga side Valencia in the final held at the Stade de France in Paris, the city where the original roots of the competition had begun nearly 50 years earlier.
After two years of allowing runners-up of strongest continental leagues to enter, UEFA went even further and expanded the tournament to up to four strongest teams from Europe's top national leagues. As a result, the tournament was a stark contrast from the 1996–97 edition three years earlier where only national champions had participated.
The competition was dominated by Spanish teams, with three of the four semi-finalists coming from that nation: Real Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. The final between Real Madrid and Valencia marked the first time that both finalists had come from the same country.
Manchester United were the defending champions, but were eliminated by eventual winners Real Madrid in the quarter-finals.
Changes to the competition format The 1999–2000 edition of the Champions League featured a whole different format to the competition. An additional qualifying round was introduced to generate two group stages, firstly with 32 teams – eight groups of four – who played six matches each to reduce the competition to 16 teams for the second group stage, with the eight third-placed teams moving to the UEFA Cup third round. At the end of the second group stage, eight teams remained to contest the knock-out stage.
Association team allocation A total of 71 teams participated in the 1999–2000 Champions League, from 47 of 51 UEFA associations. Liechtenstein (who don't have their own league) as well as Andorra and San Marino did not participate. Additionally, Bosnia and Herzegovina were not admitted due to having no nation-wide champion.
Below is the qualification scheme for the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League: Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify Associations 4–6 each have three teams qualify Associations 7–15 each have two teams qualify Associations 16–48 each have one team qualify (except Liechtenstein)
Association ranking Countries are allocated places according to their 1998 UEFA league coefficient, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1993–94 to 1997–98.
RankAssociationCoeff.Teams159.6404249.932348.580441.4333535.916635.566731.2662828.750928.1661027.4491127.2501226.8661326.1661425.6501524.2001622.25011722.082RankAssociationCoeff.Teams1822.00011921.0832021.0002120.9992220.7502320.6002420.3332520.3322619.5002716.7492815.9982914.8333013.6663113.4153211.4983310.499348.666RankAssociationCoeff.Teams357.3331367.083376.666385.0000394.9991404.832 414.665424.664433.999443.998452.833462.666472.333481.833490.0000500.000510.000
Distribution The title holders (Manchester United) qualified for the Champions League group stage through their domestic league, thus the group stage spot reserved for the title holders was vacated. Additionally, Bosnia and Herzegovina was not admitted as their play-off for Champions League qualification didn't take place. Due to these factors, the following changes to the default access list are made: The champions of association 10 (Norway) are promoted from the third qualifying round to the group stage. The champions of association 16 (Switzerland) are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round. The champions of associations 27, 28 and 29 (Israel, Slovenia and Belarus) are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.
Teams entering this roundTeams advancing from previous roundFirst qualifying round(18 teams)18 champions from associations 30–48 (except Liechtenstein)Second qualifying round(28 teams)13 champions from associations 17–29 6 runners-up from associations 10–159 winners from the first qualifying roundThird qualifying round(32 teams)6 champions from associations 11–16 3 runners-up from associations 7–9 6 third-place finishers from associations 1–6 3 fourth-place finishers from associations 1–314 winners from the second qualifying roundFirst group stage(32 teams)10 champions from associations 1–10 (including title holders Manchester United) 6 runners-up from associations 1–616 winners from the third qualifying roundSecond group stage(16 teams)8 group winners from the first group stage 8 group runners-up from the first group stageKnockout phase(8 teams)4 group winners from the second group stage 4 group runners-up from the second group stage
Teams League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders).
Group stage Milan Barcelona Feyenoord Porto Lazio Real Madrid Willem II Olympiacos Bayern Munich Bordeaux Manchester United TH Sparta Prague Bayer Leverkusen Marseille Arsenal Rosenborg Third qualifying round Fiorentina Valencia AEK Athens Croatia Zagreb Parma Lyon Teplice Galatasaray Hertha BSC PSV Eindhoven Sturm Graz AaB Borussia Dortmund Chelsea Spartak Moscow Servette Mallorca Boavista Second qualifying round Molde Brøndby Slovan Bratislava Rangers Rapid Wien Dynamo Kyiv Rapid București Hapoel Haifa CSKA Moscow Widzew Łódź AIK Maribor Rijeka MTK Hungária Dinamo Tbilisi Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev Beşiktaş Genk Anorthosis Famagusta First qualifying round ÍBV Žalgiris Glentoran HB Haka Partizan Valletta Tirana Skonto Zimbru Chișinău Barry Town Jeunesse Esch Litex Lovech Flora St Patrick's Athletic Kapaz Sloga Jugomagnat Tsement Ararat Notes
Round and draw dates The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held in Geneva, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).
PhaseRoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legQualifyingFirst qualifying round30 June 199913–14 July 199921 July 1999Second qualifying round28 July 19994 August 1999Third qualifying round23 July 199910–11 August 199925 August 1999First group stageMatchday 126 August 1999(Monaco)14–15 September 1999Matchday 221–22 September 1999Matchday 328–29 September 1999Matchday 419–20 October 1999Matchday 526–27 October 1999Matchday 62–3 November 1999Second group stageMatchday 15 November 199923–24 November 1999Matchday 27–8 December 1999Matchday 329 February – 1 March 2000Matchday 47–8 March 2000Matchday 514–15 March 2000Matchday 621–22 March 2000Knockout phaseQuarter-finals24 March 20004–5 April 200018–19 April 2000Semi-finals2–3 May 20009–10 May 2000Final24 May 2000 at Stade de France, Saint-Denis
Qualifying rounds
First qualifying round
Second qualifying round
Third qualifying round
First group stage
16 winners from the third qualifying round, 10 champions from countries ranked 1–10, and six second-placed teams from countries ranked 1–6 were drawn into eight groups of four teams each. Compared to the two previous seasons, three associations (England, France, The Netherlands) were allowed three teams – the league winner and runner-up from each nation qualified for the first group stage, and the third-placed teams qualified for the third qualifying round – and three associations were allowed four teams (Germany, Italy, Spain) – the league winner and runner-up from each nation qualified for the first group stage, and the third- and fourth-placed teams qualified for the third qualifying round. Nine additional associations were still allowed two teams (Czech Republic, Greece, Norway, Portugal: league winner in group stage; Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Turkey, Russia: league winner in third qualifying round). The top two teams in each group advanced to the Champions League second group stage, while the third-placed teams advanced to round three of the UEFA Cup.
AIK, Boavista, Bordeaux, Chelsea, Fiorentina, Hertha BSC, Lazio, Maribor, Molde, Valencia and Willem II made their debut in the group stage. Maribor was the first Slovenian side to play in group stage. Germany became the first association to have four teams in the Champions League group stage.
Tiebreakers, if necessary, are applied in the following order: Points earned in head-to-head matches between the tied teams. Total goals scored in head-to-head matches between the tied teams. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches between the tied teams. Cumulative goal difference in all group matches. Total goals scored in all group matches. Higher UEFA coefficient going into the competition.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Second group stage
Eight winners and eight runners-up from the first group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams each, each containing two group winners and two runners-up. Teams from the same country or from the same first-round group could not be drawn together. The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter-finals.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Top goalscorers The top scorers from the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying rounds) are as follows:
RankNameTeamGoalsMinutes played1 Mário Jardel Porto101150 Rivaldo Barcelona101229 Raúl Real Madrid1013504 Simone Inzaghi Lazio97005 Serhiy Rebrov Dynamo Kyiv81061 Tore André Flo Chelsea811597 Paulo Sérgio Bayern Munich71007 Patrick Kluivert Barcelona712039 Luis Enrique Barcelona6581 Gabriel Batistuta Fiorentina6875 Roy Keane Manchester United61048 Fernando Morientes Real Madrid61129
See also 1999–2000 UEFA Cup 2000 UEFA Super Cup 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup
References
External links
1999–2000 All matches – season at UEFA website 1999–2000 Season On UEFA Website European Club Football results at RSSSF.com All scorers 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers qualifying round - results and line-ups (archive)