1996 UEFA Cup final

1996 UEFA Cup final
Event1995–96 UEFA Cup
on aggregate
First leg
Date1 May 1996
VenueOlympiastadion, Munich
RefereeSerge Muhmenthaler (Switzerland)
Attendance63,000
Second leg
Date15 May 1996
VenueStade du Parc Lescure, Bordeaux
RefereeVadim Zhuk (Belarus)
Attendance36,000

The 1996 UEFA Cup final was a two-legged association football match contested by Bayern Munich of Germany and Bordeaux of France to determine the winner of the 1995–96 UEFA Cup. This was the only UEFA Cup final during the 1990s to not feature any Italian sides and Bordeaux—in its only ever European final as of 2026—became the only team in the competition's history to reach the final from qualifying through the UEFA Intertoto Cup.

The first leg was played at the Olympiastadion in Munich on 1 May 1996, and the second leg was played two weeks later at Parc Lescure in Bordeaux. Bayern won the first leg 2–0 and the second leg 3–1 to record a 5–1 aggregate victory. With this victory, Bayern became the third club to have won all three major European trophies at the time (European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, and the Cup Winners' Cup).

Route to the final

Bayern Munich Bordeaux
Opponent Result Legs Round Opponent Result Legs
Lokomotiv Moscow 5–1 0–1 home; 5–0 away First round Vardar 3–1 2–0 away; 1–1 home
Raith Rovers 4–1 2–0 away; 2–1 home Second round Rotor Volgograd 3–1 2–1 home; 1–0 away
Benfica 7–2 4–1 home; 3–1 away Third round Real Betis 3–2 2–0 home; 1–2 away
Nottingham Forest 7–2 2–1 home; 5–1 away Quarter-finals Milan 3–2 0–2 away; 3–0 home
Barcelona 4–3 2–2 home; 2–1 away Semi-finals Slavia Prague 2–0 1–0 away; 1–0 home

Match details

First leg

Bayern Munich 2–0 Bordeaux
Helmer 34'
Scholl 60'
Report
Overview
Bayern Munich
Bordeaux
GK 1 Oliver Kahn
SW 10 Lothar Matthäus (c)  54'
CB 4 Oliver Kreuzer
CB 5 Thomas Helmer
RWB 2 Markus Babbel
LWB 3 Christian Ziege
CM 6 Dietmar Hamann
CM 8 Ciriaco Sforza
AM 7 Mehmet Scholl
CF 9 Jürgen Klinsmann
CF 11 Jean-Pierre Papin  29'  70'
Substitutes:
GK 12 Michael Probst
MF 13 Andi Herzog
MF 14 Christian Nerlinger
MF 15 Dieter Frey  54'
FW 16 Marcel Witeczek  70'
Manager:
Franz Beckenbauer
GK 1 Gaëtan Huard
RB 2 François Grenet
CB 4 Jakob Friis-Hansen
CB 5 Jean-Luc Dogon  16'
LB 3 Bixente Lizarazu (c)
RM 7 Laurent Croci  46'
CM 6 Philippe Lucas  5'
CM 8 Daniel Dutuel
LM 10 Richard Witschge  76'
CF 11 Anthony Bancarel
CF 9 Didier Tholot  90'
Substitutes:
GK 16 Franck Fontan
DF 12 Yannick Fischer
MF 13 Joachim Fernandez
MF 14 Régis Castant
MF 15 Cédric Anselin  90'
Manager:
Gernot Rohr

Assistant referees:
Ernst Felder (Switzerland)
Martin Freiburghaus (Switzerland)
Fourth official:
Urs Meier (Switzerland)

Match rules

  • 90 minutes.
  • Five named substitutes.
  • Maximum of three substitutions.

Second leg

Bordeaux 1–3 Bayern Munich
Dutuel 75' Report
Overview
Scholl 53'
Kostadinov 66'
Klinsmann 77'
Attendance: 36,000
Referee: Vadim Zhuk (Belarus)
Bordeaux
Bayern Munich
GK 1 Gaëtan Huard
RB 2 Anthony Bancarel
CB 4 Jakob Friis-Hansen
CB 5 Jean-Luc Dogon
LB 3 Bixente Lizarazu (c)  31'
RM 8 Laurent Croci  35'  57'
CM 6 Philippe Lucas  81'
CM 7 Zinedine Zidane
LM 10 Richard Witschge  30'
CF 9 Didier Tholot  80'
CF 11 Christophe Dugarry  70'
Substitutes:
GK 16 Franck Fontan
DF 15 François Grenet  81'
MF 12 Cédric Anselin  31'
MF 13 Joachim Fernandez
MF 14 Daniel Dutuel  57'
Manager:
Gernot Rohr
GK 1 Oliver Kahn
SW 10 Lothar Matthäus (c)
CB 2 Markus Babbel  80'
CB 5 Thomas Helmer  42'
RWB 4 Thomas Strunz
LWB 3 Christian Ziege
CM 6 Dieter Frey  57'  60'
CM 8 Ciriaco Sforza
AM 7 Mehmet Scholl
CF 9 Jürgen Klinsmann
CF 11 Emil Kostadinov  75'
Substitutes:
GK 12 Michael Probst
MF 13 Andi Herzog
MF 14 Christian Nerlinger
FW 15 Marcel Witeczek  75'
FW 16 Alexander Zickler  60'
Manager:
Franz Beckenbauer

Assistant referees:
Yuri Dupanov (Belarus)
Aleh Chykun (Belarus)
Fourth official:
Kazimir Znaydinsky (Belarus)

Match rules

See also