1997/98 UEFA Cup

1997/98 UEFA Cup
Cup winners	Inter Milan (3rd title)
Beginning	July 22, 1997
final	May 6, 1998
Final stadium	Prince Park Stadium , Paris
Top scorer	Schota Arweladse ( Ajax Amsterdam ) Stéphane Guivarc'h ( AJ Auxerre ) (7 goals each)
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The Prince Park Stadium in Paris

The 1997/98 UEFA Cup was the 27th edition of the competition and was won 3-0 by Inter Milan in the final at Prinzenpark in Paris against Lazio Rome . For "Inter" it was the third UEFA Cup victory after 1991 and 1994 in the fourth all-Italian final after 1989/90 , 1990/91 and 1994/95 in the history of the UEFA Cup. From this season onwards, the final was only decided in one game on a neutral pitch.

German participants were TSV 1860 Munich (eliminated in the second round), VfL Bochum, Karlsruher SC (both 3rd round) and FC Schalke 04 as defending champions (quarter-finals). For Austria, FC Tirol Innsbruck (2nd qualifying round), SV Austria Salzburg (1st round) and Rapid Wien (3rd round) started, Switzerland was won by FC Sion, Grasshopper Club Zurich and Neuchâtel Xamax (all 1st round) . Round) represented.

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As in the previous year, three teams qualified for the first round via the UEFA Intertoto Cup . The competition was played in six rounds in two legs. In the event of a tie, the number of goals scored away was decided first , then overtime, if no decision was reached after 15 minutes twice, a penalty shoot-out followed until the winner was determined. All clubs that had occupied one of the UEFA Cup places regulated by the UEFA five-year ranking at the end of last season , as well as the cup winners of the respective countries, were eligible to participate ; the remaining participants were played in two qualifying rounds.

For the first time, the final was no longer played as a return game, but, unlike the other games, was played as a single game on neutral ground.

1st qualifying round

	total		First leg	Return leg
FC Birkirkara	1: 4	Spartak Trnava	0: 1	1: 3
CS Grevenmacher	1: 6	Hajduk Split	1: 4	0: 2
Inter CableTel Cardiff	0: 8	Celtic Glasgow	0: 3	0: 5
Bohemians Dublin	0: 6	Ferencváros Budapest	0: 1	0: 5
Odra Wodzisław Śląski	4: 2	FK Pobeda Prilep	3-0	1: 2
FK Daugava Riga	2: 5	Vorskla Poltava	1: 3	1: 2
Brann Bergen	( a ) 4: 4(a)	FK Neftochimik	2: 1	2: 3
CE Principat	00:17	Dundee United	0: 8	0: 9
ND Gorica	( a ) 4: 4(a)	Oțelul Galați	2-0	2: 4
Hapoel Petach Tikwa	3: 1	FC Flora Tallinn	1-0	2: 1
FK Jablonec	8-0	Qarabağ Agdam	5-0	3-0
Újpest Budapest	9: 2	KÍ Klaksvík	6-0	3: 2
FK Dinamo Minsk	( a ) 2: 2(a)	FC Kolcheti 1913 Poti	1-0	1: 2
FK Dnipro	8: 1	FC Yerevan	6: 1	2-0
FK Inkaras-Grifas Kaunas	4: 7	FC Boby Brno	3: 1	1: 6
Myllycosken Pallo -47	1: 4	Apollon Limassol	1: 1	0: 3
Neuchâtel Xamax	10: 10	Tiligul Tiraspol	7-0	3: 1
Grasshopper Club Zurich	10: 10	Coleraine FC	3-0	7: 1
Vojvodina Novi Sad	2: 2 (4: 5 on account)	Viking Stavanger	0: 2	2: 0 a.d.
KR Reykjavík	4: 1	Dinamo Bucharest	2-0	2: 1

2nd qualifying round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Hajduk Split	5: 2	Malmö FF	3: 2	2-0
RSC Anderlecht	4-0	Vorskla Poltava	2-0	2-0
Neuchâtel Xamax	4: 2	Viking Stavanger	3-0	1: 2
Rotor Volgograd	6: 3	Odra Wodzisław Śląski	2-0	4: 3
Trabzonspor	2: 1	Dundee United	1-0	1: 1
SK Rapid Vienna	6: 3	FC Boby Brno	6: 1	0: 2
FC Tirol Innsbruck	5: 7	Celtic Glasgow	2: 1	3: 6
Helsingborgs IF	1: 1 (3: 4 on account)	Ferencváros Budapest	0: 1	1: 0 a.d.
Vejle BK	0: 1	Hapoel Petach Tikwa	0-0	0: 1
Grasshopper Club Zurich	3: 2	Brann Bergen	3-0	0: 2
ND Gorica	3: 8	Club Bruges	3: 5	0: 3
PAOK Thessaloniki	6: 3	Spartak Trnava	5: 3	1-0
KR Reykjavík	1: 3	OFI Crete	0-0	1: 3
FK Jablonec	(a)1: 1 ( a )	Örebro SK	1: 1	0-0
Apollon Limassol	0: 3	Excelsior Mouscron	0-0	0: 3
FK Dinamo Minsk	0: 3	Lillestrøm SK	0: 2	0: 1
Újpest Budapest	2: 3	Aarhus GF	0-0	2: 3
Alania Vladikavkaz	6: 2	FK Dnipro	2: 1	4: 1

1 round

The three French clubs Olympique Lyon , SC Bastia and AJ Auxerre qualified via the 1997 UEFA Intertoto Cup .

	total		First leg	Return leg
Sampdoria Genoa	1: 4	Athletic Bilbao	1: 2	0: 2
Girondins Bordeaux	0: 1	Aston Villa	0-0	0: 1 a.d.
Steaua Bucharest	2: 1	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	0-0	2: 1
Rotor Volgograd	6: 1	Örebro SK	2-0	4: 1
FC Jazz Pori	1: 7	TSV 1860 Munich	0: 1	1: 6
Trabzonspor	5: 6	VfL Bochum	2: 1	3: 5
Croatia Zagreb	9: 4	Grasshopper Club Zurich	4: 4	5-0
Vitesse Arnhem	2: 3	Sporting Braga	2: 1	0: 2
SK Rapid Vienna	2: 1	Hapoel Petach Tikwa	1-0	1: 1
Inter Milan	4-0	Neuchâtel Xamax	2-0	2-0
Celtic Glasgow	(a)2: 2 ( a )	Liverpool FC	2: 2	0-0
Excelsior Mouscron	1: 6	FC Metz	0: 2	1: 4
FC Twente Enschede	( a ) 2: 2(a)	Lillestrøm SK	0: 1	2: 1
Beitar Jerusalem	2: 4	Club Bruges	2: 1	0: 3
Atlético Madrid	4: 1	Leicester City	2: 1	2-0
Aarhus GF	3: 2	FC Nantes	2: 2	1-0
Karlsruher SC	3: 2	Anorthosis Famagusta	2: 1	1: 1
OFI Crete	4: 2	Ferencváros Budapest	3-0	1: 2
Deportivo La Coruña	1: 2	AJ Auxerre	1: 2	0-0
SV Austria Salzburg	6: 7	RSC Anderlecht	4: 3	2: 4
PAOK Thessaloniki	2: 1	Arsenal FC	1-0	1: 1
Widzew Łódź	1: 3	Udinese Calcio	1-0	0: 3
NK Maribor	02:10	Ajax Amsterdam	1: 1	1: 9
Olympique Lyon	7: 3	Brøndby IF	4: 1	3: 2
MPKZ Mazyr	1: 2	Dinamo Tbilisi	1: 1	0: 1
Real Valladolid	2: 1	Riga discount	2-0	0: 1
Vitória Guimarães	1: 6	Lazio Rome	0: 4	1: 2
Racing Strasbourg	4: 2	Glasgow Rangers	2: 1	2: 1
MTK Hungária FC	4: 1	Alania Vladikavkaz	3-0	1: 1
FC Schalke 04	5: 2	Hajduk Split	2-0	3: 2
SC Bastia	1-0	Benfica Lisbon	1-0	0-0
FC Sion	1: 6	Spartak Moscow	0: 1	1: 5

2nd round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Ajax Amsterdam	( a ) 2: 2(a)	Udinese Calcio	1-0	1: 2
Sporting Braga	5-0	Dinamo Tbilisi	4-0	1-0
FC Metz	1: 3	Karlsruher SC	0: 2	1: 1
Racing Strasbourg	3: 2	Liverpool FC	3-0	0: 2
Inter Milan	4: 3	Olympique Lyon	1: 2	3: 1
Aarhus GF	(a)1: 1 ( a )	FC Twente Enschede	1: 1	0-0
Athletic Bilbao	1: 2	Aston Villa	0-0	1: 2
AJ Auxerre	5: 4	OFI Crete	3: 1	2: 3
Steaua Bucharest	( a ) 3: 3(a)	SC Bastia	1-0	2: 3
Rotor Volgograd	0: 3	Lazio Rome	0-0	0: 3
Atlético Madrid	9: 6	PAOK Thessaloniki	5: 2	4: 4
MTK Hungária FC	1: 2	Croatia Zagreb	1-0	0: 2
Spartak Moscow	4: 1	Real Valladolid	2-0	2: 1
FC Schalke 04	3: 1	RSC Anderlecht	1-0	2: 1
Club Bruges	2: 4	VfL Bochum	1-0	1: 4
SK Rapid Vienna	4: 2	TSV 1860 Munich	3-0	1: 2

3rd round

	total		First leg	Return leg
SK Rapid Vienna	0: 3	Lazio Rome	0: 2	0: 1
Sporting Braga	0: 2	FC Schalke 04	0-0	0: 2
FC Twente Enschede	0: 3	AJ Auxerre	0: 1	0: 2
Croatia Zagreb	1: 2	Atlético Madrid	1: 1	0: 1
Racing Strasbourg	2: 3	Inter Milan	2-0	0: 3
Steaua Bucharest	2: 3	Aston Villa	2: 1	0: 2
Karlsruher SC	0: 1	Spartak Moscow	0-0	0: 1 a.d.
Ajax Amsterdam	6: 4	VfL Bochum	4: 2	2: 2

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
Ajax Amsterdam	1: 4	Spartak Moscow	1: 3	0: 1
Inter Milan	2: 1	FC Schalke 04	1-0	1: 1 a.d.
Lazio Rome	3: 2	AJ Auxerre	1-0	2: 2
Atlético Madrid	( a ) 2: 2(a)	Aston Villa	1-0	1: 2

In the quarter-finals of the cup there was a new edition of the final of the previous year : defending champion Schalke 04 met the eventual winner Inter Milan. In the first leg in front of 45,000 spectators in San Siro, Schalke lost 1-0 after an initially rather moderate performance by a goal by the then 21-year-old Brazilian star Ronaldo , who was able to overcome Schalke's goalkeeper Jens Lehmann in the 17th minute .

In the second leg on March 17th, Schalke showed a very good performance in the Parkstadion , which was sold out with 56,824 spectators . Nevertheless, the team failed again and again on Milan goalkeeper Gianluca Pagliuca and their own nerves. In the 93rd minute, Michaël Goossens scored with a shot from the corner of the penalty area the no longer considered possible 1-0 for the Gelsenkirchen team, which meant an extension due to the balanced goal difference. After only 60 seconds in extra time, Inter then managed to equalize by the Nigerian international and later Lauterer Taribo West , the weakened Schalke players could not recover from this blow and missed the possible semi-finals.

Semifinals

	total		First leg	Return leg
Atlético Madrid	0: 1	Lazio Rome	0: 1	0-0
Inter Milan	4: 2	Spartak Moscow	2: 1	2: 1

final

Inter Milan		Lazio Rome		Lineup
	May 6, 1998 in Paris ( Prinzenpark ) Result: 3: 0 (1: 0) Spectators: 44,412 Referee: Antonio López Nieto ( Spain )
	Gianluca Pagliuca - Francesco Colonnese , Salvatore Fresi , Javier Zanetti , Taribo West - Youri Djorkaeff (68th Francesco Moriero ), Aron Winter (68th Benoît Cauet ), Zé Elias , Diego Simeone - Iván Zamorano (72nd Luigi Sartor ), Ronaldo coach : Luigi Simoni	Luca Marchegiani - Giuseppe Favalli , Paolo Negro , Alessandro Nesta , Alessandro Grandoni (55th Guerino Gottardi ) - Diego Fuser , Giorgio Venturin (50th Matías Almeyda ), Pavel Nedvěd , Vladimir Jugović - Pierluigi Casiraghi , Roberto Mancini Trainer: Sven-Göran ( Sweden )
	1-0 Iván Zamorano (5th) 2-0 Javier Zanetti (60th) 3-0 Ronaldo (70th)
	Salvatore Fresi, Javier Zanetti, Ronaldo	Vladimir Jugović
		Matías Almeyda (89.)
	Taribo West (82nd)

Best goal scorers

without qualifying rounds

rank	player	club	Gates
1	Stéphane Guivarc'h	AJ Auxerre	7th
2	Shota Arweladze	Ajax Amsterdam	6th
	Alexander Schirko	Spartak Moscow	6th
	Ronaldo	Inter Milan	6th
5	Robert Prosinečki	Croatia Zagreb	5
	Christian Vieri	Atlético Madrid	5
7th	Nordin Jbari	Club Bruges	4th
	Gérald Baticle	Racing Strasbourg	4th
	Igor Cvitanović	Croatia Zagreb	4th
	Pierluigi Casiraghi	Lazio Rome	4th
	Andrei Tikhonov	Spartak Moscow	4th

→ Main article : List of UEFA Europa League top scorers

Players used Inter Milan

1.

Inter Milan

Goal: Gianluca Pagliuca (11 / -) Defense: Giuseppe Bergomi (9 / -); Luigi Sartor (9 / -); Taribo West (8/1); Fabio Galante (7 / -); Francesco Colonnese (5 / -); Salvatore Fresi (5 / -); Luca Mezzano (2 / -); Martín Rivas (1 / -) Midfield: Francesco Moriero (10/2); Javier Zanetti (9/2); Benoit Cauet (9/1); Diego Simeone (9/1); Youri Djorkaeff (9 / -); Aron Winter (8 / -); Zé Elias (7/1) Forward: Ronaldo (11/6); Álvaro Recoba (6 / -); Iván Zamorano (5/2); Nwankwo canoe (5 / -) Coach: Luigi Simoni

* Maurizio Ganz (3/2), Nicola Berti (2 / -) and Marco Branca (1 / -) left the club during the season.

See also

• UEFA Champions League 1997/98
• European Cup Winners' Cup 1997/98
• UEFA Intertoto Cup 1997

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of goalscorers on uefa.com

Web links

• Official UEFA website for the 1997/98 season
• Game details for the 1997/98 season at fussballdaten.de
• Uefa Cup scorers 1997/1998 on weltfussball.de