MADRID, May 20 (Reuters) - A look back at the six previous European Cup/Champions League finals held in Spain ahead of Saturday’s final between Bayern Munich and Inter Milan at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid:
1957 Real Madrid 2 Fiorentina 0
Real Madrid won the first five European Cups and celebrated the second of those triumphs with a 2-0 win over Fiorentina in front of a crowd of 120,000 at their own Santiago Bernabeu stadium on May 30, 1957.
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Alfredo Di Stefano, who had scored in the 1956 final when Real beat Reims in Paris, opened the scoring with a 69th minute penalty and Francisco Gento added the second six minutes later as Real battled to retain the trophy.
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1969 AC Milan 4 Ajax Amsterdam 1
Milan, who won their first European Cup in 1963 before their rivals Inter Milan took the trophy in 1964 and 1965, came back to be crowned champions of Europe for the second time in 1969 when they crushed Ajax.
The Dutch side would go on to win a hat-trick of titles between 1971-73, but on May 28, 1969, it was Milan’s day, with a convincing 4-1 win at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium thanks to a hat-trick from Pier Prati and one from Angelo Sorbrani. Johan Cruyff was in the beaten Ajax team who scored with a penalty from Velibor Vasovic.
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1980 Nottingham Forest 1 SV Hamburg 0
English clubs won the European Cup for six successive seasons between 1977 and 1982 with Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forest victorious in both 1979 in Munich and the following year in Madrid when the Santiago Bernabeu staged the final for the third time exactly 11 years to the day after Milan’s 1969 triumph.
John Robertson scored the only goal in the first half as Forest retained their trophy against a Hamburg side which featured England favourite and former Liverpool European Cup winner Kevin Keegan.
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1986 Steaua Bucharest 0 Barcelona 0
Steaua won 2-0 on penalties
Rarely has a team been so heavily tipped to win a final and failed as Barcelona in 1986. The match, played at the Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium in Seville on May 7, 1986, was the first final that failed to produce a goal and Steaua became the first Eastern European side to win the cup after winning the penalty shootout 2-0.
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1989 AC Milan 4 Steaua Bucharest 0
A final in total contrast to the deadlocked final in 1986 saw majestic Milan become European Champions for the third time, winning for the second time in Spain, crushing Steaua 4-0 at the Nou Camp in Barcelona on May 24 1989.
Ruud Gullit scored twice in the first half, Marco Van Basten added two more. Milan retained the trophy the following year when they beat Benfica 1-0 in Vienna, and remain the last team to have won the European Cup in successive seasons.
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1999 Manchester United 2 Bayern Munich 1
The most dramatic ending to any European final saw Manchester United score twice in stoppage time through Teddy Sheringham and Ole-Gunnar Solskjaer to deprive Bayern of the cup that they had had one hand on from the time Mario Basler scored with a free kick after only six minutes.
Bayern dominated much of the match at the Nou Camp Stadium on May 26, 1999, but could not add to their lead.
Former UEFA president Lennart Johansson, memorably said afterwards: “When I left my seat in the stand to go down and present the cup Bayern were winning. By the time I got out of the lift at pitch level Manchester United had won. I could not believe what happened.”
(Editing by Ian Ransom; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)
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