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Cautious progress through the group stage in Milan's 1993-94 Champions League campaign mirrored their Serie A campaign with few goals scored and even fewer conceded. Monaco were dispatched comfortably in the semi-final to take Milan to Athens for a Final match-up against Johann Cruyff's...

1998 represented the year in which the Club Nacional de Football returned to Uruguayan national supremacy. Under the management of their former legendary defender Hugo De Leon, Nacional won both the Apertura and Clausura championships to comfortably win the overall title. From that year...

Milan's three previous European Cup campaigns had been ended by Spanish teams, so while the 1962-63 European Cup avoided the Spanish champions, it did reach its climax against another mighty team from the Iberian peninsula - Benfica. This was the hardest match of a...

Big-name signings Dennis Bergkamp and Wim Jonk brought huge optimism that the 1993-94 season could be a successful one for FC Internazionale. That optimism was only partly realised - domestically this proved a disappointing season with redemption coming in Europe as Inter secured a...

Hopes were high at Craven Cottage that the 1999/00 season would bring a Fulham push for promotion to the Premier League. Paul Bracewell's team started the campaign strongly with a run of 15 games unbeaten in all competitions, but a sticky run that yielded...

The 1998-99 season brought the penta for FC Porto - a fifth successive Portuguese title win and an 18th overall for the club. Fernando Santos took over at the start of the season and kept the successful run going with the club finishing a...

The 1984-85 League campaign was a successful one for Servette Geneva, which saw the club finish as Swiss champions for the fifteenth time in their history. That title was won with a four-point margin over runners-up FC Aarau and was forged by excellent form...

A new president in Urgel Horta took over at FC Porto before the start of the 1951-52 season but was unable to bring any immediate success to the Portuguese giants. Striker Carlos Vieira scored 23 League goals but even so Porto could finish no...

The 1972 - 73 season saw Hennes Weisweiler's thrilling Mönchengladbach side excel in cup competitions. A Bundesliga campaign bringing a fifth-placed finish, but more memorable was the famous extra-time success in the final of the DFB-Pokal against Köln, the winner scored by substitute Günter...

Founded in 1898 and joining the Swiss Football Association two years later, BSC Young Boys were quickly thrust into competitive action for the 1900-01 League season. The newcomers kicked off their regional second-tier West group in style, winning 7 of their 8 games and...

The first foray of the University of Guadalajara into professional football occurred in the early 70s, with a team made up of students. After a few years in the lower divisions, the team bought a franchise and this is how 'Leones' reached the First...

France's first 'golden generation' emerged in the immediate post-war years and peaked with a wonderful showing at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. Featuring a brilliant forward line with playmaker Raymond Kopa, winger Jean Vincent, and Just Fontaine at center forward, France played delightful...

The period from 1981 to 1983 represented solid if unspectacular times for BSC Young Boys. Under coach Bert Theunissen there was a mix of top six finishes, but outside the European places, and a mid-table Nationalliga A campaign in 1983 which led to a...

With the 1985-86 season representing an undistinguished one domestically, it was the European arena in which Atlético Madrid shone and nearly brought what would have been a second success in the Cup Winners' Cup. Atlético’s away form in the competition was exceptional, and all...

Norway entered the late 1980s with a young and developing national team, still searching for consistency but beginning to show signs of the progress that would define the years ahead. The qualifying campaign for Euro ’88 proved challenging, with Norway drawn into a demanding...

Having established himself as a Bayern München legend for his coaching success there in the 70s, Udo Lattek returned and repeated the same trick the following decade too. His four-year second spell came to an end at the climax of the 1986-87 season with...

Servette Geneva began the 21st century as Switzerland's champions after winning its 17th Swiss title at the climax of the 1998/99 season. Emphatic form in the Fall season saw them finish 6 points clear of Grasshoppers and the bonus points they took into the...

The 1985-86 season did not quite reach the same heights as the previous campaign for Atlético Madrid with coach Luis Aragonés unable to build on that runner’s-up spot in La Liga and Copa del Rey win. The 13 goals scored by both the South...

Big-name signings Dennis Bergkamp and Wim Jonk brought huge optimism that the 1993-94 season could be a successful one for FC Internazionale. That optimism was only partly realised - domestically this proved a disappointing season with redemption coming in Europe as Inter secured a...

The 1985-86 campaign brought a new Benfica coach in Englishman John Mortimore and a firm attempt to wrest back the title from Porto. Leading the table for much of the season, a 2-1 loss in the penultimate championship round to Sporting Clube saw Porto...

Despite having won the Portuguese title the previous season, Benfica’s coach Toni was replaced by the bigger name of Artur Jorge. This was a season of major change in the playing squad with two major stars in Rui Costa and Stefan Schwarz moving on....

1905 was the year of the first Dutch national team fixture, the first national team victory and the emergence of the first national team superstar. On the 30th of April the Oranje travelled to Antwerp for a debut match against future classic rivals, Belgium....

There were fine players like Paul Van Himst, Leon Semeling, Jef Jurion, Wilfried Van Moer, and Raoul Lambert, but there was little to cheer for the Belgian national team during the 1960s. A failure to qualify for any significant international tournament meant Belgium's only...

With plans rapidly advancing to establish Japan's first professional football league, the late 1980s saw the country's national team also start to take its first positive steps in the international arena. During 1987 under coach Yoshinobu Ishii, the national team would successfully secure qualification...

The 1965 - 66 season represented the pinnacle of TSV 1860 München's long and illustrious history as die Löwen became German champions for the first and only time. Max Merkel's fine side rounded off a magnificent three-year period which had brought DFP Pokal success,...

The second-half of the 1970s had established Club Brugge as a major force in both the domestic and international game, but by the start of the 1980s that incredible cycle of success had ended and a difficult transition was happening. The departure of experienced...

Champions both the year before and the year after, the 1984-85 season saw Panathinaikos miss out on the Greek title as they finished 3 points behind PAOK. Much attention was focused on the club's European run which took them all the way to the...

A number ten, a playmaker, an unerring finisher, a devastating set-piece taker, a physical powerhouse, endlessly brave, a leader of men, an inspiration, an otherworldly talent. Quite simply Diego Armando Maradona was all of these things and one of the few footballers in history...

Frank Clark had the unenviable task of replacing the legendary Brian Clough as Nottingham Forest manager in 1993, but against the odds, he established a new team with a new identity. Based around the experience of Stuart Pearce and with well-chosen additions including Stan...

The much-traveled Carlos Alberto Silva took over coaching duties at FC Porto for the 1991-92 season and successfully wrested the Portuguese title back from Benfica after the club had missed out narrowly the previous season. A talented squad featured domestic stars like Vítor Baía,...