2001–02 UEFA Champions League
European football tournament
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The 2001–02 UEFA Champions League was the 47th season of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA's premier club football tournament, and the 10th since its rebranding from the "European Champion Clubs' Cup" or "European Cup". The tournament was won by Real Madrid, who beat Bayer Leverkusen in the final to claim their ninth European Cup title. The final's winning goal was scored by Zinedine Zidane, with a left-footed volley from the edge of the penalty area into the top left corner.
11 July – 8 September 2001
Competition proper:
11 September 2001 – 15 May 2002
Total: 72
Real Madrid (9th title)
Bayer Leverkusen | |
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | Qualifying: 11 July – 8 September 2001 Competition proper: 11 September 2001 – 15 May 2002 |
| Teams | Competition proper: 32 Total: 72 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Real Madrid (9th title) |
| Runners-up | Bayer Leverkusen |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 157 |
| Goals scored | 393 (2.5 per match) |
| Attendance | 5,411,714 (34,470 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 10 goals |
← 2000–01 2002–03 → | |
Bayer Leverkusen eliminated all three English teams on their way to the final: Arsenal in the second group stage, followed by Liverpool in the quarter-finals and Manchester United in the semi-finals.
Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy was the tournament's top scorer, scoring 10 goals from the first group stage through to the semi-final.
Bayern Munich were the defending champions, but were eliminated by eventual winners Real Madrid in the quarter-finals.
Association team allocation
A total of 72 teams participated in the 2001–02 Champions League, from 48 of 51 UEFA associations. Liechtenstein (who don't have their own league) as well as lowest-ranked associations (Andorra and San Marino) were not admitted.
Below is the qualification scheme for the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League:[1]
- Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify
- Associations 4–6 each have three teams qualify
- Associations 7–15 each have two teams qualify
- Associations 16–49 each have one team qualify (except Liechtenstein)
Association ranking
Countries are allocated places according to their 2000 UEFA league coefficient, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1995–96 to 1999–2000.[2]
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Distribution
Since the title holders (Bayern Munich) qualified for the Champions League group stage through their domestic league, the group stage spot reserved for the title holders was vacated. The following changes to the default access list are made:
- The champions of association 10 (Portugal) are promoted from the third qualifying round to the group stage.
- The champions of association 16 (Austria) are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
- The champions of associations 27 and 28 (Cyprus and FR Yugoslavia) are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.
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| First qualifying round (20 teams) |
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| Second qualifying round (28 teams) |
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| Third qualifying round (32 teams) |
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| Group stage (32 teams) |
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| Second group stage (16 teams) |
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| Knockout phase (8 teams) |
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Teams
League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders).
Notes
- ^ Armenia (ARM): Armenian Premier League winners Araks Ararat had their rights sold to Araks-Impeks. Thus, Araks-Impeks took Armenia's spot in the Champions League.
Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).[3]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | First qualifying round | 22 June 2001 (Geneva) |
11 July 2001 | 18 July 2001 |
| Second qualifying round | 24–25 July 2001 | 31 July – 1 August 2001 | ||
| Third qualifying round | 20 July 2001 | 7–8 August 2001 | 21–22 August 2001 | |
| First group stage | Matchday 1 | 23 August 2001 (Monaco) |
11 September & 10 October 2001[a] | |
| Matchday 2 | 18–19 September 2001 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 25–26 September 2001 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 16–17 October 2001 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 23–24 October 2001 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 30–31 October 2001 | |||
| Second group stage | Matchday 1 | 2 November 2001 (Geneva) |
20–21 November 2001 | |
| Matchday 2 | 4–5 December 2001 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 19–20 February 2002 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 26–27 February 2002 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 12–13 March 2002 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 19–20 March 2002 | |||
| Knockout phase | Quarter-finals | 22 March 2002 | 2–3 April 2002 | 9–10 April 2002 |
| Semi-finals | 23–24 April 2002 | 30 April – 1 May 2002 | ||
| Final | 15 May 2002 at Hampden Park, Glasgow | |||
- Notes
- All 8 games originally scheduled on 12 September 2001 were postponed to 10 October following the September 11 attacks; matches played on 11 September were allowed to continue and be completed.[4]
Qualifying rounds
First qualifying round
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Araks-Impeks  | 0–3 |  Sheriff Tiraspol | 0–1 | 0–2 |
Linfield  | 0–1 |  Torpedo Kutaisi | 0–0 | 0–1 |
Bohemians  | 3–0 |  Levadia Maardu | 3–0 | 0–0 |
F91 Dudelange  | 2–6 |  Skonto | 1–6 | 1–0 |
Levski Sofia  | 4–0 |  Željezničar | 4–0 | 0–0 |
VB  | 0–5 |  Slavia Mozyr | 0–0 | 0–5 |
Valletta  | 0–5 |  Haka | 0–0 | 0–5 |
Sloga Jugomagnat  | 1–1 (a) |  Kaunas | 0–0 | 1–1 |
KR  | 2–2 (a) |  Vllaznia | 2–1 | 0–1 |
Barry Town  | 3–0 |  Shamkir | 2–0 | 1–0 |
Second qualifying round
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haka | 3–1 |  Maccabi Haifa | 0–1 | 3–0[a] |
Shakhtar Donetsk  | 4–2 |  Lugano | 3–0 | 1–2 |
Omonia  | 2–3 |  Red Star Belgrade | 1–1 | 1–2 |
Ferencváros  | 0–0 (4–5 p) |  Hajduk Split | 0–0 | 0–0 (a.e.t.) |
Porto  | 9–3 | Barry Town | 8–0 | 1–3 |
Maribor  | 1–6 |  Rangers | 0–3 | 1–3 |
Galatasaray  | 6–1 | Vllaznia | 2–0 | 4–1 |
| Slavia Mozyr | 0–2 |  Inter Slovnaft Bratislava | 0–1 | 0–1 |
Anderlecht  | 6–1 | Sheriff Tiraspol | 4–0 | 2–1 |
| Torpedo Kutaisi | 2–4 |  Copenhagen | 1–1 | 1–3 |
| Levski Sofia | 1–1 (a) |  Brann | 0–0 | 1–1 |
| Skonto | 1–3 |  Wisła Kraków | 1–2 | 0–1 |
| Bohemians | 1–4 |  Halmstads BK | 1–2 | 0–2 |
Steaua București  | 5–1 | Sloga Jugomagnat | 3–0 | 2–1 |
- UEFA awarded Haka a 3–0 win due to Maccabi Haifa fielding suspended player Walid Badir in the second leg. The original match had ended in a 4–0 win for Maccabi Haifa.[5]
Third qualifying round
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Shakhtar Donetsk | 1–5 | Borussia Dortmund | 0–2 | 1–3 |
Lokomotiv Moscow  | 3–2 |  Tirol Innsbruck | 3–1 | 0–1[a] |
| Steaua București | 3–5 | Dynamo Kyiv | 2–4 | 1–1 |
| Haka | 1–9 |  Liverpool | 0–5 | 1–4 |
| Hajduk Split | 1–2 | Mallorca | 1–0 | 0–2 (a.e.t.) |
| Red Star Belgrade | 0–3 | Bayer Leverkusen | 0–0 | 0–3 |
| Wisła Kraków | 3–5 | Barcelona | 3–4 | 0–1 |
| Copenhagen | 3–5 |  Lazio | 2–1 | 1–4 |
| Inter Slovnaft Bratislava | 3–7 | Rosenborg | 3–3 | 0–4 |
| Halmstads BK | 3–4 | Anderlecht | 2–3 | 1–1 |
Slavia Prague  | 1–3 |  Panathinaikos | 1–2 | 0–1 |
| Galatasaray | 3–2 | Levski Sofia | 2–1 | 1–1 |
Ajax  | 2–3 | Celtic | 1–3 | 1–0 |
| Porto | 5–4 | Grasshopper | 2–2 | 3–2 |
| Parma | 1–2 |  Lille | 0–2 | 1–0 |
| Rangers | 1–2 | Fenerbahçe | 0–0 | 1–2 |
- UEFA decided to replay the second leg (which originally ended in 1–0 win to Lokomotiv) after accepting Tirol's protest on refereeing mistake, which resulted in Lokomotiv player not being shown a red card after receiving a second yellow card.[6]
First group stage
Brown: Group A; 
Red: Group B; 
Orange: Group C; 
Yellow: Group D;
Green: Group E; 
Blue: Group F; 
Purple: Group G; 
Pink: Group H.16 winners from the third qualifying round, 10 champions from countries ranked 1–10, and six second-placed teams from countries ranked 1–6 were drawn into eight groups of four teams each. The top two teams in each group advance to the second group stage, and the third placed team in each group advance to the Third Round of the UEFA Cup.
Celtic, Lille, Liverpool, Lokomotiv Moscow, Mallorca, Roma and Schalke 04 made their debut in the group stage.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | DEP | MUN | LIL | OLY | |
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| 1 | Deportivo La Coruña |
6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 10 | Advance to second group stage | — | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | |
| 2 | Manchester United |
6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 10 | 2–3 | — | 1–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 3 | Lille |
6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 6 | Transfer to UEFA Cup | 1–1 | 1–1 | — | 3–1 | |
| 4 | Olympiacos |
6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | −6 | 5 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | — |
Group H
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | BAY | SPP | FEY | SPM | |
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| 1 | Bayern Munich |
6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 5 | +9 | 14 | Advance to second group stage | — | 0–0 | 3–1 | 5–1 | |
| 2 | Sparta Prague |
6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 11 | 0–1 | — | 4–0 | 2–0 | ||
| 3 | Feyenoord |
6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | −7 | 5 | Transfer to UEFA Cup | 2–2 | 0–2 | — | 2–1 | |
| 4 | Spartak Moscow |
6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 16 | −9 | 2 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 2–2 | — |
Second group stage
Eight winners and eight runners-up from the first group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams each, each containing two group winners and two runners-up. Teams from the same country or from the same first round group could not be drawn together. The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter-finals.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout phase
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||||||
| Deportivo La Coruña | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Manchester United | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Manchester United | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Bayer Leverkusen (a) | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Liverpool | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 15 May – Glasgow | |||||||||||||||||
| Bayer Leverkusen | 0 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| Bayer Leverkusen | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Real Madrid | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Panathinaikos | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Barcelona | 0 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Barcelona | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Real Madrid | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Bayern Munich | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Real Madrid | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
Quarter-finals
The first legs were played on 2 and 3 April, and the second legs were played on 9 and 10 April 2002.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Panathinaikos | 2–3 | Barcelona | 1–0 | 1–3 |
| Bayern Munich | 2–3 | Real Madrid | 2–1 | 0–2 |
| Deportivo La Coruña | 2–5 | Manchester United | 0–2 | 2–3 |
| Liverpool | 3–4 | Bayer Leverkusen | 1–0 | 2–4 |
Semi-finals
The first legs were played on 23 and 24 April, and the second legs were played on 30 April and 1 May 2002.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Barcelona | 1–3 | Real Madrid | 0–2 | 1–1 |
| Manchester United | 3–3 (a) | Bayer Leverkusen | 2–2 | 1–1 |
Final
The final was played on 15 May 2002 at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland.
| Bayer Leverkusen | 1–2 | Real Madrid |
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Report |
Statistics
The top scorers from the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying rounds) are as follows:[8]
Top goalscorers
| Rank | Name | Team | Goals | Appearances | Minutes played |
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| 1 | Ruud van Nistelrooy |
Manchester United |
10 | 14 | 1,207 |
| 2 | David Trezeguet |
Juventus |
8 | 10 | 841 |
| 3 | Ole Gunnar Solskjær |
Manchester United |
7 | 15 | 630 |
| Thierry Henry |
Arsenal |
7 | 11 | 981 | |
| 5 |  Giovane Élber |
Bayern Munich |
6 | 11 | 730 |
| Diego Tristán |
Deportivo La Coruña |
6 | 12 | 797 | |
| Michalis Konstantinou |
Panathinaikos |
6 | 14 | 955 | |
| Raúl |
Real Madrid |
6 | 12 | 1,080 | |
| Patrick Kluivert |
Barcelona |
6 | 15 | 1,300 | |
| Michael Ballack |
Bayer Leverkusen |
6 | 15 | 1,346 |
