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| Event | 1992–93 UEFA Champions League | ||||||
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| Date | 26 May 1993 | ||||||
| Venue | Olympiastadion,Munich | ||||||
| Referee | Kurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland) | ||||||
| Attendance | 64,444[1] | ||||||
←1992(European Cup) 1994 → | |||||||
The1993 UEFA Champions League final, originally known as the1993 European Cup final, was afootball match between French clubMarseille and Italian clubMilan, played on 26 May 1993 at theOlympiastadion inMunich.
The final, which followed the second-everUEFA Champions League group stage, saw Ivorian-born Marseille defenderBasile Boli score the only goal of the match in the 43rd minute with a header to giveOM their first European Cup title. It was the first time a French team had won the European Cup, Marseille would be the only French club who have won the Champions League until the2025 win ofParis Saint-Germain against anotherMilanese club, also in Munich. No other club from the French league would reach the final untilMonaco in2004; they lost 3-0 to Portuguese sidePorto, however.
Marseille and their club presidentBernard Tapie would later be found to have been involved in amatch-fixing scandal during the 1992–93 season ofDivision 1 (in which Marseille allegedly paidValenciennes to lose a match), which saw them relegated toDivision 2 and banned from participation in European football for the following season. As the scandal affected only aFrench league match, Marseille's status as 1993 European champion was not affected.
The first Champions League final turned out to be the last game of Milan's highly accomplished but injury-prone Dutch forwardMarco van Basten, who was 28 at the time; having been subbed off in the 86th minute due to fatigue and yet anotherankle injury, he would spend the next two years in recovery before announcing his retirement in August 1995.[2]
In the following table, finals until 1992 were in the European Cup era, since 1993 were in the UEFA Champions League era.
| Team | Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners) |
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 Marseille | 1 (1991) |
 Milan | 5 (1958,1963,1969,1989,1990) |
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| Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | Opponent | Agg. | 1st leg | 2nd leg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Glentoran | 8–0 | 5–0 (A) | 3–0 (H) | First round |  Olimpija Ljubljana | 7–0 | 4–0 (H) | 3–0 (A) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Dinamo București | 2–0 | 0–0 (A) | 2–0 (H) | Second round |  Slovan Bratislava | 5–0 | 1–0 (A) | 4–0 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opponent | Result | Group stage | Opponent | Result | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Rangers | 2–2 (A) | Matchday 1 |  IFK Göteborg | 4–0 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Club Brugge | 3–0 (H) | Matchday 2 |  PSV Eindhoven | 2–1 (A) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 CSKA Moscow | 1–1 (A) | Matchday 3 |  Porto | 1–0 (A) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CSKA Moscow | 6–0 (H) | Matchday 4 | Porto | 1–0 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rangers | 1–1 (H) | Matchday 5 | IFK Göteborg | 1–0 (A) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club Brugge | 1–0 (A) | Matchday 6 | PSV Eindhoven | 2–0 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group A winner
Source:UEFA | Final standings | Group B winner
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        Marseille |     Milan |
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Marseille's triumph remains controversial due to accusations ofdoping alleged byMarcel Desailly,Jean-Jacques Eydelie,Chris Waddle andTony Cascarino. According to Eydelie, "all (of them) took a series of injections" in the 1993 Champions League final, exceptRudi Völler. Desailly and Cascarino claimed that club presidentBernard Tapie distributed pills and injections himself. In an interview with French magazineLe 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 tookcaptagon.[3][4][5][6]
