2001 UEFA Champions League Final

2001 UEFA Champions League Final

Match programme cover
Event	2000–01 UEFA Champions League
Bayern Munich Valencia 1 1
Bayern Munich won 5–4 on penalties
Date	23 May 2001
Venue	San Siro, Milan
Man of the Match	Oliver Kahn (Bayern Munich)
Referee	Dick Jol (Netherlands)
Attendance	71,500
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The 2001 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match that took place at San Siro in Milan, Italy, on 23 May 2001, to decide the winner of the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League. The match pitted Bayern Munich against Valencia. The match finished in a 1–1 draw, but Bayern clinched their fourth title by winning 5–4 on penalties. This was also their first European title in a quarter-century, also representing Valencia's second consecutive final defeat (2000 and 2001). Due to all the goals scored and the penalty shootout needed to decide the winner, this UEFA Champions League match became an "all-penalty" final and the only one ever to happen to this day. This was the sixth European Cup final to be decided on penalties, and the second under the Champions League format). This was Héctor Cúper's third consecutive European final defeat (after his Mallorca side lost the 1999 Cup Winners' Cup Final and Valencia lost to Real Madrid in the 2000 Champions League final) while Ottmar Hitzfeld claimed his second Champions League title after he won it with Borussia Dortmund in 1997. He became the second coach in European Cup history, after Ernst Happel, to win the competition with two different clubs.

Match

Summary

Valencia opened the score early on with a Gaizka Mendieta penalty in the 2nd minute after a prostrate Patrik Andersson was deemed to have handled the ball in the penalty area. Only a few minutes later, Bayern Munich were awarded a penalty after Jocelyn Angloma fouled Stefan Effenberg in the penalty box, but Mehmet Scholl's kick was saved by the legs of Santiago Cañizares. Bayern were awarded another penalty early in the second half, this time after Amedeo Carboni handled the ball while competing for a header with Carsten Jancker. This time, Stefan Effenberg took the penalty kick and sent Cañizares the wrong way to level the scores at 1–1. The scores remained level for the remainder of normal time and throughout the 30 minutes of extra time, so the match went to penalties.

Again, Valencia took the lead early on as Paulo Sérgio put the first kick of the shoot-out over the bar before Mendieta sent Kahn the wrong way. Hasan Salihamidžić, John Carew and Alexander Zickler then traded penalty goals before Kahn saved Zlatko Zahovič's kick to tie the scores at 2–2 after three kicks each. The next kick from Patrik Andersson was also saved by Cañizares, and then Kahn stretched out a hand to tip Amedeo Carboni's shot onto the crossbar. Both Ruben Baraja and Stefan Effenberg then scored to take the shoot-out to sudden death. Bixente Lizarazu and Kily González both scored their teams' sixth kicks of the shoot-out, and then Thomas Linke scored for Bayern to set Mauricio Pellegrino up for the game-deciding kick. Kahn guessed the right direction and saved Pellegrino's kick, winning the cup for Bayern.

Details

23 May 2001 20:45 CEST	Bayern Munich	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Valencia	San Siro, Milan Attendance: 71,500 Referee: Dick Jol (Netherlands)
	Effenberg  50' (pen.)	Report	Mendieta  2' (pen.)
		Penalties
	Paulo Sérgio Salihamidžić Zickler Andersson Effenberg Lizarazu Linke	5–4	Mendieta Carew Zahovič Carboni Baraja Kily González Pellegrino

Bayern Munich

Valencia

GK 1 Oliver Kahn RWB 2 Willy Sagnol 46' CB 4 Samuel Kuffour CB 5 Patrik Andersson 38' CB 25 Thomas Linke LWB 3 Bixente Lizarazu CM 23 Owen Hargreaves CM 11 Stefan Effenberg (c) AM 20 Hasan Salihamidžić AM 7 Mehmet Scholl 39' 108' CF 9 Élber Giovane 100' Substitutes: GK 22 Bernd Dreher MF 10 Ciriaco Sforza MF 18 Michael Tarnat FW 13 Paulo Sérgio 108' FW 19 Carsten Jancker 46' FW 21 Alexander Zickler 100' FW 24 Roque Santa Cruz Manager: Ottmar Hitzfeld

GK 1 Santiago Cañizares RB 20 Jocelyn Angloma CB 12 Roberto Ayala 90' CB 2 Mauricio Pellegrino LB 15 Amedeo Carboni 25' DM 19 Rubén Baraja RM 6 Gaizka Mendieta (c) LM 18 Kily González 116' AM 35 Pablo Aimar 46' CF 7 John Carew CF 17 Juan Sánchez 66' Substitutes: GK 25 Andrés Palop DF 5 Miroslav Đukić 90' DF 16 Fábio Aurélio MF 4 Didier Deschamps MF 8 Zlatko Zahovič 66' MF 14 Vicente MF 23 David Albelda 46' Manager: Héctor Cúper

See also

• 2000–01 UEFA Champions League

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