UEFA Champions League 2002/03 / AC Milan

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The article below covers the statistics of the Champions League matches of eventual winners AC Milan in the 2002/03 season .

Third qualifying round

As fourth place in the Italian Serie A 2001/02 season , AC Milan first had to prevail in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League against Czech champions Slovan Liberec .

AC Milan - Slovan Liberec 1: 0 (0: 0)

AC Milan		Slovan Liberec
	Third qualifying round, first leg Wednesday 14 August 2002 at 8:30 p.m. in Milan , Giuseppe Meazza Stadium Spectators: 30,064 Referee: Konrad Plautz ( Austria )
	Christian Abbiati (46th Dida ) - Cosmin Contra , Roque Júnior (25th Martin Laursen ), Paolo Maldini , Kacha Kaladse - Gennaro Gattuso , Massimo Ambrosini , Serginho (60th Clarence Seedorf ) - Rui Costa - Filippo Inzaghi , Andrij Schewtschenko Trainer: Carlo Ancelotti	Zbyněk Hauzr - Bohuslav Pilný , Miroslav Holeňák , Petr Johana , Tomáš Janů - Pavel Capek (69th Petr Papoušek ), David Langer , Ivan Hodúr , Martin Zbončák - Miroslav Slepička (90th Juraj Ančic ), Jan Nezmar (83rd Lubomír Blaha ) Coach: Ladislav Škorpil
	1-0 Inzaghi (68th)
	Gattuso (45th + 3 '), Serginho (59th)	Pilný (39.)

Slovan Liberec - AC Milan 2: 1 (0: 1)

Slovan Liberec		AC Milan
	Third qualifying round, second leg Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 9:00 p.m. in Liberec , Stadion u Nisy Spectators: 8,700 (sold out) Referee: Arturo Ibáñez ( Spain )
	Antonín Kinský - Bohuslav Pilný , Miroslav Holeňák , Petr Johana , Tomáš Janů - Petr Papoušek , David Langer , Ivan Hodúr (77th Lubomír Blaha ), Martin Zbončák (65th Juraj Ančic ) - Miroslav Slepička , Jan Nezmar (45th Baffour Gyan ) Coach: Ladislav Škorpil	Dida - Dario Šimić , Martin Laursen , Paolo Maldini , Kacha Kaladse - Gennaro Gattuso , Andrea Pirlo (82nd Samuele Dalla Bona ), Clarence Seedorf - Rui Costa (70th Rivaldo ) - Filippo Inzaghi , Jon Dahl Tomasson (60th Serginho ) coach : Carlo Ancelotti
	1: 1 Slepička (47th) 2: 1 Langer (87th)	0: 1 Inzaghi (20th)
	Pilný (72nd)	Seedorf (8th), Inzaghi (89th)
	Long (90.)

Group stage

AC Milan - RC Lens 2: 1 (0: 0)

AC Milan		RC Lens
	1. Group game Wednesday September 18, 2002 at 8:45 p.m. in Milan , Giuseppe Meazza Stadium Spectators: 70,259 Referee: Kyros Vassaras ( Greece )   Match report
	Dida - Dario Šimić , Alessandro Nesta , Paolo Maldini , Kacha Kaladse - Gennaro Gattuso , Andrea Pirlo , Clarence Seedorf - Rui Costa (82nd Jon Dahl Tomasson ), Rivaldo (77th Massimo Ambrosini ) - Filippo Inzaghi (85th Martin Laursen ) coach : Carlo Ancelotti	Guillaume Warmuz - Ferdinand Coly , Rigobert Song , Jacek Bąk , Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye (63rd Seydou Keita ) - Papa Bouba Diop , Jocelyn Blanchard (84th Dagui Bakari ), Adama Coulibaly - Antoine Sibierski - Daniel Moreira , Olivier Thomert (63rd) John Utaka ) Trainer: Joel Muller
	1: 0 Inzaghi (57.) 2: 0 Inzaghi (61.)	2: 1 Moreira (75th)
	Maldini (40th)	Bouba Diop (53rd)

Deportivo La Coruña - AC Milan 0: 4 (0: 2)

Deportivo La Coruña		AC Milan
	2. Group game Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at 8:45 p.m. in A Coruña , Estadio Riazor Spectators: 27,614 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen ( Denmark )   Match report
	Juanmi - Lionel Scaloni , César Martín , Noureddine Naybet , Enrique Romero - Mauro Silva (78th Donato ), Roberto Acuña (62nd Aldo Duscher ) - Víctor , Sergio , Fran (62nd Diego Tristán ) - Roy Makaay Trainer: Javier Irureta	Dida - Dario Šimić , Alessandro Nesta , Paolo Maldini , Kacha Kaladse - Gennaro Gattuso , Andrea Pirlo (64th Massimo Ambrosini ), Clarence Seedorf - Rui Costa (80th Samuele Dalla Bona ), Rivaldo - Filippo Inzaghi Trainer: Carlo Ancelotti
		0: 1 Seedorf (17th) 0: 2 Inzaghi (33.) 0: 3 Inzaghi (55.) 0: 4 Inzaghi (62.)
	Silva (26th), Naybet (56th)	Pirlo (7.)

FC Bayern Munich - AC Milan 1: 2 (0: 0)

FC Bayern Munich		AC Milan
	3. Group game Tuesday, October 1st, 2002 at 8:45 p.m. in Munich , Olympiastadion Munich Spectators: 60,000 (sold out) Referee: Hugh Dallas ( Scotland )   Match report
	Oliver Kahn - Owen Hargreaves , Robert Kovač , Thomas Linke , Michael Tarnat (87th Alexander Zickler ) - Hasan Salihamidžić , Jens Jeremies , Michael Ballack , Zé Roberto - Claudio Pizarro , Giovane Élber Trainer: Ottmar Hitzfeld	Dida - Dario Šimić , Alessandro Nesta , Paolo Maldini , Kacha Kaladse - Gennaro Gattuso , Andrea Pirlo (77th Serginho ), Clarence Seedorf - Rui Costa (87th Martin Laursen ), Rivaldo (66th Massimo Ambrosini ) - Filippo Inzaghi Trainer: Carlo Ancelotti
	1: 1 Pizarro (54th)	0: 1 Inzaghi (52nd) 1: 2 Inzaghi (84th)
	Ballack (33.), Left (80.)	Nesta (82.)

AC Milan - FC Bayern Munich 2: 1 (1: 1)

AC Milan		FC Bayern Munich
	4. Group game Wednesday 23 October 2002 at 8:45 p.m. in Milan , Giuseppe Meazza Stadium Spectators: 75,611 Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ ( Slovakia )   Match report
	Dida - Dario Šimić , Alessandro Nesta , Paolo Maldini , Kacha Kaladse - Massimo Ambrosini (46th Gennaro Gattuso ), Andrea Pirlo , Serginho (79th Samuele Dalla Bona ) - Rui Costa (85th Martin Laursen ), Clarence Seedorf - Filippo Inzaghi Trainer : Carlo Ancelotti	Oliver Kahn (51st Stefan Wessels ) - Willy Sagnol , Robert Kovač , Samuel Kuffour , Michael Tarnat - Hasan Salihamidžić (71st Mehmet Scholl ), Jens Jeremies , Michael Ballack , Zé Roberto - Claudio Pizarro (72nd Roque Santa Cruz ), Giovane Elber coach: Ottmar Hitzfeld
	1: 0 Serginho (11th) 2: 1 Inzaghi (64th)	1: 1 Tarnat (23.)
	Ambrosini (43.), Seedorf (45. + 1 ')	Kuffour (19th), Pizarro (32nd), Santa Cruz (84th)

RC Lens - AC Milan 2: 1 (1: 1)

RC Lens		AC Milan
	5. Group game Tuesday 29 October 2002 at 8:45 p.m. in Lens , Stade Félix-Bollaert Spectators: 39,474 (sold out) Referee: Graham Barber ( England )   Match report
	Guillaume Warmuz - Adama Coulibaly , Rigobert Song , Jacek Bąk , Cyril Rool - Charles Coridon , Papa Bouba Diop (57th Ferdinand Coly ), Seydou Keita - Antoine Sibierski (87th Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye ) - Daniel Moreira (90th Olivier Thomert ) , John Utaka Trainer: Joel Muller	Christian Abbiati - Thomas Helveg , Alessandro Costacurta , Martin Laursen , Paolo Maldini (65th Kacha Kaladse ) - Samuele Dalla Bona , Andrea Pirlo , Serginho (65th Clarence Seedorf ) - Massimo Ambrosini - Jon Dahl Tomasson , Andrij Schewtschenko (46th Marco Borriello ) Coach: Carlo Ancelotti
	1: 1 Moreira (41st) 2: 1 Utaka (49th)	0: 1 Shevchenko (31st)
	Coly (78.)	Pirlo (73.), Seedorf (75.), Tomasson (87.)

AC Milan - Deportivo La Coruña 1: 2 (1: 0)

AC Milan		Deportivo La Coruña
	6. Group game Wednesday 13 November 2002 at 8:45 p.m. in Milan , Giuseppe Meazza Stadium Spectators: 56,294 Referee: Michael Riley ( England )   Match report
	Christian Abbiati - Thomas Helveg , Dario Šimić , Paolo Maldini , Kacha Kaladse (85th Catilina Aubameyang ) - Samuele Dalla Bona , Andrea Pirlo , Serginho - Rui Costa (75th Filippo Inzaghi ) - Jon Dahl Tomasson , Andrij Shevchenko Coach: Carlo Ancelotti	Juanmi - Lionel Scaloni , Enrique Romero , Héctor Berenguel , Joan Capdevila - Mauro Silva , Sergio - Roy Makaay (78th Aldo Duscher ), Fran (65th Roberto Acuña ), Albert Luque (56th José Emilio Amavisca ) - Diego Tristán Trainers: Javier Irureta
	1-0 Tomasson (34th)	1: 1 Tristán (58th) 1: 2 Makaay (70th)

Final table of group G

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	AC Milan	6th	4th	0	2	012: 700	+5	12
2.	Deportivo La Coruña	6th	4th	0	2	011:120	−1	12
3.	RC Lens	6th	2	2	2	011:110	± 0	08th
4th	FC Bayern Munich	6th	0	2	4th	009:130	−4	02

Intermediate round

AC Milan - Real Madrid 1: 0 (1: 0)

AC Milan		real Madrid
	1st group game intermediate round Wednesday 26 November 2002 at 8:45 p.m. in Milan , Giuseppe Meazza Stadium Spectators: 81,685 (sold out) Referee: Urs Meier ( Switzerland )   Match report
	Dida - Dario Šimić (90th José Chamot ), Alessandro Costacurta , Paolo Maldini , Kacha Kaladse - Gennaro Gattuso , Massimo Ambrosini , Clarence Seedorf - Rui Costa (76th Serginho ), Rivaldo - Andrij Shevchenko (82nd Jon Dahl Tomasson ) Trainers: Carlo Ancelotti	Iker Casillas - Míchel Salgado , Francisco Pavón , Iván Helguera , Roberto Carlos - Esteban Cambiasso (76th Santiago Solari ), Albert Celades - Luís Figo , Zinédine Zidane , Raúl - Fernando Morientes (61st Javier Portillo ) Coach: Vicente del Bosque
	1-0 Shevchenko (40th)
	Gattuso (48th)	Pavón (70th), Helguera (86th)

Borussia Dortmund - AC Milan 0: 1 (0: 1)

Borussia Dortmund		AC Milan
	2nd group game intermediate round Wednesday, December 11, 2002 at 8:45 p.m. in Dortmund , Westfalenstadion Spectators: 52,000 (sold out) Referee: Anders Frisk ( Sweden )   Match report
	Jens Lehmann - Jörg Heinrich (71st Evanilson ), Christoph Metzelder , Christian Wörns , Dedê - Torsten Frings , Tomáš Rosický , Sebastian Kehl (83rd Giuseppe Reina ) - Ewerthon (64th Lars Ricken ), Jan Koller , Márcio Amoroso Trainer: Matthias Sammer	Dida - Dario Šimić , Alessandro Nesta , Paolo Maldini , Kacha Kaladse - Clarence Seedorf , Andrea Pirlo , Massimo Ambrosini - Rui Costa (78th Serginho ) - Filippo Inzaghi (86th Rivaldo ), Andrij Shevchenko (90th + 1 ' Marin Laursen ) Coach: Carlo Ancelotti
		0: 1 Inzaghi (49th)

AC Milan - Locomotive Moscow 1: 0 (0: 0)

AC Milan		Moscow locomotive
	3rd group game intermediate round Wednesday 19 February 2003 at 8:45 p.m. in Milan , Giuseppe Meazza Stadium Spectators: 77,000 Referee: Gilles Veissière ( France )   Match report
	Dida - Cristian Brocchi (78th Dario Šimić ), Alessandro Nesta , Paolo Maldini , Alessandro Costacurta - Gennaro Gattuso , Andrea Pirlo , Rui Costa (62nd Serginho ) - Jon Dahl Tomasson (68th Clarence Seedorf ), Rivaldo - Filippo Inzaghi Trainer: Carlo Ancelotti	Sergei Ovchinnikov - Gennadi Nischegorodow , Oleg Pashinin , Dmitri Sennikow - Milan Obradović , Vladimir Maminow , Sergei Ignashevich (82. Winston Parks ), Jacob Lekgetho - Dmitri Loskow - Ruslan Pimenov , Maksim Busch equipmentIn (46. Marat Izmailov ) Coach: Yuri Syomin
	1-0 Tomasson (61.)
		Obradović (24.), Lekgetho (73.)

Locomotive Moscow - AC Milan 0: 1 (0: 1)

Moscow locomotive		AC Milan
	4th group game intermediate round Tuesday, February 25, 2003 at 6:30 p.m. in Moscow , Lokomotiv Stadium Spectators: 29,000 (sold out) Referee: Kyros Vassaras ( Greece )   Match report
	Sergei Ovchinnikov - Dmitri Sennikow , Gennadi Nischegorodow , Sergei Ignashevich , Vadim Yevseyev - Marat Izmailov , Vladimir Maminow , Bennett Mnguni , Narwik Sirxajew (58. Ruslan Pimenov ) - Dmitri Loskow - Júlio César (82. Winston Parks ) Coach: Yuri Syomin	Dida - Alessandro Costacurta , Alessandro Nesta , Paolo Maldini , Kacha Kaladse - Gennaro Gattuso , Fernando Redondo (76th Cristian Brocchi ), Clarence Seedorf - Serginho (87th Rui Costa ), Rivaldo - Filippo Inzaghi (83rd Jon Dahl Tomasson ) Trainers: Carlo Ancelotti
		0: 1 Rivaldo (34th, foul penalty)

Real Madrid - AC Milan 3: 1 (1: 0)

real Madrid		AC Milan
	5th group game intermediate round Wednesday March 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m. in Madrid , Estadio Santiago Bernabéu Spectators: 77,824 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen ( Denmark )   Match report
	Iker Casillas - Míchel Salgado , Francisco Pavón , Iván Helguera , Roberto Carlos - Claude Makélélé , Flávio Conceição - Luís Figo , Zinédine Zidane (88th Santiago Solari ), Raúl (89th Javier Portillo ) - Ronaldo (67th Guti ) Coach: Vicente del Bosque	Christian Abbiati - Dario Šimić (62nd Alessandro Nesta ), Martin Laursen , Paolo Maldini , Alessandro Costacurta - Cristian Brocchi , Fernando Redondo (79th Andrea Pirlo ), Samuele Dalla Bona (46th Rui Costa ) - Clarence Seedorf - Rivaldo , Andrij Shevchenko Coach: Carlo Ancelotti
	1: 0 Raúl (12th) 2: 0 Raúl (57th) 3: 1 Guti (86th)	2: 1 Rivaldo (81st)
	Roberto Carlos (39.)	Dalla Bona (17th), Shevchenko (48th)

AC Milan - Borussia Dortmund 0: 1 (0: 0)

AC Milan		Borussia Dortmund
	6. Group game, intermediate round Tuesday March 18, 2003 at 8:45 p.m. in Milan , Giuseppe Meazza Stadium Spectators: 70,577 Referee: Graham Barber ( England )   Match report
	Christian Abbiati - Dario Šimić , Alessandro Nesta , Martin Laursen , Paolo Maldini (46th Alessandro Costacurta ) - Gennaro Gattuso , Fernando Redondo , Cristian Brocchi (82nd Andrea Pirlo ) - Rui Costa (62nd Filippo Inzaghi ), Rivaldo - Jon Dahl Tomasson Coach: Carlo Ancelotti	Jens Lehmann - Evanilson , Christoph Metzelder , Christian Wörns , Dedê (83rd Ahmed Madouni ) - Stefan Reuter (50th Lars Ricken ), Torsten Frings , Sebastian Kehl - Ewerthon (74th David Odonkor ), Jan Koller , Márcio Amoroso Trainer: Matthias Sammer
		0: 1 Koller (80th)
	Gattuso (16.)	Ewerthon (34th), Frings (59th)

Final table of group C

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	AC Milan	6th	4th	0	2	005: 400	+1	12
2.	real Madrid	6th	3	2	1	009: 600	+3	11
3.	Borussia Dortmund	6th	3	1	2	008: 500	+3	10
4th	Moscow locomotive	6th	0	1	5	003:100	−7	01

Quarter finals

Ajax Amsterdam 0-0 AC Milan

Ajax Amsterdam		AC Milan
	Quarter-finals, first leg Tuesday, April 8, 2003 at 8:45 p.m. in Amsterdam , Amsterdam Arena Spectators: 50,967 (sold out) Referee: Terje Hauge ( Norway )   Match report
	Bogdan Lobonț - Hatem Trabelsi , Petri Pasanen (74th Nigel de Jong ), Cristian Chivu , John O'Brien - Steven Pienaar , Tomáš Galásek (67th Wesley Sneijder ), Abubakari Yakubu , Maxwell - Rafael van der Vaart - Zlatan Ibrahimović (73rd . Jari Litmanen ) coach: Ronald Koeman	Dida - Dario Šimić , Alessandro Nesta , Paolo Maldini , Alessandro Costacurta - Gennaro Gattuso , Massimo Ambrosini , Clarence Seedorf (26th Serginho ) - Rui Costa - Filippo Inzaghi (73rd Jon Dahl Tomasson ), Andrij Shevchenko (79th Rivaldo ) Trainers: Carlo Ancelotti
		Gattuso (35th / 4th, suspended), Ambrosini (67th)

AC Milan - Ajax Amsterdam 3: 2 (1: 0)

AC Milan		Ajax Amsterdam
	Quarter-finals, second leg Wednesday 23 April 2003 at 8:45 p.m. in Milan , Giuseppe Meazza Stadium Spectators: 76,079 Referee: Manuel Mejuto González ( Spain )   Match report
	Dida - Dario Šimić (83rd Jon Dahl Tomasson ), Alessandro Nesta , Paolo Maldini , Alessandro Costacurta - Cristian Brocchi , Massimo Ambrosini , Kacha Kaladse (80th Rivaldo ) - Rui Costa (85th Fernando Redondo ) - Filippo Inzaghi , Andrij Shevchenko coach : Carlo Ancelotti	Bogdan Lobonț - Hatem Trabelsi , Petri Pasanen , Cristian Chivu , Jelle Van Damme (46th Jari Litmanen ) - Abubakari Yakubu , Wesley Sneijder , John O'Brien - Steven Pienaar (84th Nigel de Jong ), Zlatan Ibrahimović , Andy van der Meyde (89. André Bergdølmo ) Coach: Ronald Koeman
	1: 0 Inzaghi (30th) 2: 1 Shevchenko (65th) 3: 2 Tomasson (90th + 1 ')	1: 1 Litmanen (63.) 2: 2 Pienaar (78.)
	Ambrosini (18th), Costacurta (63rd)	Pasanen (76.)

Semifinals

AC Milan - Inter Milan 0-0

AC Milan		Inter Milan
	Semi-finals, first leg Wednesday 7 May 2003 at 8:45 p.m. in Milan , Giuseppe Meazza Stadium Spectators: 77,069 Referee: Valentin Ivanov ( Russia )   Match report
	Dida - Alessandro Costacurta , Alessandro Nesta , Paolo Maldini , Kacha Kaladse - Gennaro Gattuso (78th Fernando Redondo ), Cristian Brocchi (74th Serginho ), Clarence Seedorf - Rui Costa - Filippo Inzaghi , Andrij Shevchenko (81st Rivaldo ) Trainer: Carlo Ancelotti	Francesco Toldo - Iván Córdoba , Marco Materazzi , Fabio Cannavaro , Francesco Coco (84th Giovanni Pasquale ) - Javier Zanetti , Luigi Di Biagio , Emre Belözoğlu , Sérgio Conceição (66th Guly ) - Hernán Crespo , Álvaro Recoba (72nd Mohamed Kallon ) Coach: Héctor Cúper

Inter Milan - AC Milan 1: 1 (0: 1)

Inter Milan		AC Milan
	Semi-finals, second leg Tuesday 13 May 2003 at 8:45 p.m. in Milan , Giuseppe Meazza Stadium Spectators: 76,854 Referee: Gilles Veissière ( France )   Match report
	Francesco Toldo - Iván Córdoba , Marco Materazzi , Fabio Cannavaro - Javier Zanetti , Cristiano Zanetti , Luigi Di Biagio (46th Stéphane Dalmat ), Sérgio Conceição - Emre Belözoğlu - Hernán Crespo (71st Mohamed Kallon ), Álvaro Recoba (46th Obafemi Martinsi ) ) Coach: Héctor Cúper	Christian Abbiati - Alessandro Costacurta , Alessandro Nesta , Paolo Maldini , Kacha Kaladse - Gennaro Gattuso , Andrea Pirlo (89th Cristian Brocchi ), Clarence Seedorf - Rui Costa (64th Massimo Ambrosini ) - Filippo Inzaghi (80th Serginho ), Andrij Shevchenko coach : Carlo Ancelotti
	1: 1 Martins (83rd)	0: 1 Shevchenko (45th + 1 ')
	Di Biagio (40th)	Inzaghi (37th), Gattuso (38th), Costa (40th), Kaladze (84th)

final

Juventus Turin - AC Milan 0-0 aet, 2-3 pi E.

Juventus Turin		AC Milan
	final Wednesday 28 May 2003 at 8:45 pm in Manchester , Old Trafford Spectators: 63,215 (sold out) Referee: Markus Merk ( Germany )   Match report
	Gianluigi Buffon - Lilian Thuram , Ciro Ferrara , Igor Tudor (42nd Alessandro Birindelli ), Paolo Montero - Mauro Camoranesi (46th Antonio Conte ), Alessio Tacchinardi , Edgar Davids (65th Marcelo Zalayeta ), Gianluca Zambrotta - David Trezeguet , Alessandro Del Piero Trainer: Marcello Lippi	Dida - Alessandro Costacurta (66th Roque Júnior ), Alessandro Nesta , Paolo Maldini , Kacha Kaladse - Gennaro Gattuso , Andrea Pirlo (71st Serginho ), Clarence Seedorf - Rui Costa (87th Massimo Ambrosini ) - Filippo Inzaghi , Andrij Shevchenko Trainers: Carlo Ancelotti
	penalties shoot
	Dida holds 1: 1 against Trezeguet Birindelli Dida holds against Zalayeta Dida holds 2: 2 against Montero Del Piero	0: 1 Serginho Buffon holds against Seedorf Buffon holds against Kaladze 1: 2 Nesta 2: 3 Shevchenko
	Tacchinardi (69th), Del Piero (111.)	Costacurta (18.)