1995 UEFA Cup final

1995 UEFA Cup final
Event1994–95 UEFA Cup
on aggregate
First leg
Date3 May 1995
VenueStadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
RefereeAntonio López Nieto (Spain)
Attendance22,062
Second leg
Date17 May 1995
VenueSan Siro, Milan
RefereeFrans Van Den Wijngaert (Belgium)
Attendance80,754

The 1995 UEFA Cup final was played over two legs between two Italian teams Juventus and Parma. The first leg at Parma's Stadio Ennio Tardini ended in a 1–0 victory for the home team. The second leg at the San Siro in Milan finished in a 1–1 draw, and a win on aggregate for Parma. It was their first UEFA Cup final victory, with Juventus having won three in the past.

Background

This was the fifth time a continental final had been played by two teams from the same country and the third all-Italian final. The first also featured Juventus, who overcame Fiorentina by three goals to one over two legs in the 1990 UEFA Cup final. It was Parma's first appearance in a UEFA Cup final, but represented the third consecutive year in which they had contested a European final, following European Cup Winners' Cup final appearances in 1993 (a win) and 1994 (a defeat). It was Juventus' fourth appearance in a UEFA Cup final; the previous finals were all two-legged affairs ending in victory for the Turin club, against Athletic Bilbao in 1977 on the away goals rule, Fiorentina in 1990 and Borussia Dortmund in 1993.

Parma's only previous experience in Europe against another Italian side was in the 1993 European Super Cup when they emerged victorious over AC Milan by two goals to one over two legs, having lost the first leg at home by a single goal. Juventus were meanwhile attempting to complete the second part of a potential treble of titles: Serie A, Coppa Italia and the UEFA Cup.

While Parma played their home tie at their home ground, Stadio Ennio Tardini, Juventus chose to play their home leg away from Turin at the San Siro, home ground of Inter Milan and Milan, because they had difficulties with the landlord at their own stadium, Stadio delle Alpi, and had experienced poor attendances there, in contrast to the big crowds they attracted playing in other cities.[1] They had already played the semi-final of the competition in Milan (and would later play the 1996 UEFA Super Cup even further from home, in Palermo).[2]

The two sides would also meet the following month in the 1995 Coppa Italia final, which Juventus won 3–0 on aggregate.[3]

Route to the final

Parma Juventus
Opponent Result Legs Round Opponent Result Legs
Vitesse 2–1 0–1 away; 2–0 home First round CSKA Sofia 8–1 3–0 away; 5–1 home
AIK 3–0 1–0 away; 2–0 home Second round Marítimo 3–1 1–0 away; 2–1 home
Athletic Bilbao 4–3 0–1 away; 4–2 home Third round Admira Wacker 5–2 3–1 away; 2–1 home
Odense 1–0 1–0 home; 0–0 away Quarter-finals Eintracht Frankfurt 4–1 1–1 away; 3–0 home
Bayer Leverkusen 5–1 2–1 away; 3–0 home Semi-finals Borussia Dortmund 4–3 2–2 home; 2–1 away

First leg

Summary

Parma, the home team, went into a fifth-minute lead through Dino Baggio, which they held and subsequently took to the return at Milan's San Siro.

Details

Parma 1–0 Juventus
Baggio 5' Report
Parma
Juventus
GK 1 Luca Bucci
CB 5 Luigi Apolloni  16'
CB 6 Fernando Couto
CB 4 Lorenzo Minotti (c)
RWB 2 Antonio Benarrivo  8'
LWB 3 Alberto Di Chiara
CM 7 Gabriele Pin  42'
CM 8 Dino Baggio
CM 9 Roberto Sensini  60'
CF 10 Gianfranco Zola  54'  89'
CF 11 Faustino Asprilla
Substitutes:
GK 12 Giovanni Galli
DF 15 Roberto Mussi  8'
MF 13 Massimo Susic
MF 16 Stefano Fiore  89'
FW 14 Marco Branca
Manager:
Nevio Scala
GK 1 Michelangelo Rampulla
RB 2 Massimo Carrera  46'
CB 4 Luca Fusi  72'
CB 6 Alessio Tacchinardi  82'
LB 3 Robert Jarni
RM 7 Angelo Di Livio
CM 5 Paulo Sousa
LM 8 Didier Deschamps  61'
RF 9 Gianluca Vialli
CF 11 Fabrizio Ravanelli
LF 10 Roberto Baggio (c)
Substitutes:
GK 12 Lorenzo Squizzi
CB 13 Sergio Porrini
CM 14 Giancarlo Marocchi  46'
CM 15 Simone Tognon
LF 16 Alessandro Del Piero  72'
Manager:
Marcello Lippi

Assistant referees:
Victoriano Giráldez Carrasco (Spain)
Joaquín Olmos González (Spain)
Fourth official:
Juan Ansuátegui Roca (Spain)

Match rules

Second leg

Summary

Gianluca Vialli restored parity in the tie overall before Dino Baggio struck again to give Parma a 2–1 aggregate victory. Thus provincial Parma added the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup they had won two years before.[4][5]

Details

Juventus 1–1 Parma
Vialli 35' Report Baggio 53'
Attendance: 80,754
Referee: Frans Van Den Wijngaert (Belgium)
Juventus
Parma
GK 1 Angelo Peruzzi
RB 4 Moreno Torricelli
CB 2 Ciro Ferrara  63'
CB 5 Sergio Porrini
LB 3 Robert Jarni
RM 7 Angelo Di Livio  82'
CM 8 Giancarlo Marocchi  75'
LM 6 Paulo Sousa
RF 9 Gianluca Vialli  43'
CF 11 Fabrizio Ravanelli  16'
LF 10 Roberto Baggio (c)
Substitutes:
GK 12 Michelangelo Rampulla
DF 13 Luca Fusi
DF 14 Massimo Carrera  82'
MF 15 Simone Tognon
LF 16 Alessandro Del Piero  75'
Manager:
Marcello Lippi
GK 1 Luca Bucci
CB 6 Fernando Couto  2'
CB 4 Lorenzo Minotti (c)  29'
CB 5 Massimo Susic
RWB 2 Antonio Benarrivo  46'
LWB 3 Alberto Di Chiara  81'
CM 7 Stefano Fiore
CM 8 Dino Baggio
CM 9 Massimo Crippa  47'
CF 10 Gianfranco Zola
CF 11 Faustino Asprilla  72'
Substitutes:
GK 12 Giovanni Galli
DF 13 Marcello Castellini  86'  81'
DF 15 Roberto Mussi  46'
FW 14 Marco Branca
FW 16 Tomas Brolin
Manager:
Nevio Scala

Assistant referees:
Luc Matthys (Belgium)
Marc Van den Broeck (Belgium)
Fourth official:
Marnix Sandra (Belgium)

Match rules

See also

References

  1. ^ "Will a Spoonful of Sugar Make a Bad Boy Nice?". The New York Times. 5 April 1995. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  2. ^ Juventus: A History in Black and White Archived 2020-01-26 at the Wayback Machine, Adam Digby, 2015, 9781783016914
  3. ^ Di Maggio, Roberto (25 June 2005). "Coppa Italia 1994/95". RSSS.com. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  4. ^ Mocciaro, Gaetano (17 May 2018). "17 maggio 1995, il Parma vince la Coppa UEFA battendo in finale la Juve" [17 May 1995, Parma wins th UEFA Cup beating Juve in the final] (in Italian). Tutto Mercato Web. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  5. ^ Ruggiero, Michele (18 May 1995). "Il Parma si rifà in Europa" [Parma redeems itself in Europe]. l'Unità (in Italian). Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2002.