1994–95 Uefa Champions League

The tournament was won by Ajax of the Netherlands with a late goal in the final against defending champions AC Milan of Italy. Ajax won the competition without losing a game, either in the group or the knock-out stage, clinching the title for the first time since 1973.

1994–95 UEFA Champions League

The Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna held the final.
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 10–24 August 1994 Competition proper: 14 September 1994 – 24 May 1995
Teams	Competition proper: 16 Total: 24
Final positions
Champions	Ajax (4th title)
Runners-up	AC Milan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	61
Goals scored	140 (2.3 per match)
Attendance	2,328,515 (38,172 per match)
Top scorer(s)	George Weah (Paris Saint-Germain) 7 goals
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Compared to the previous edition of the European Cup, radical changes were made to the format of the tournament, due to a recently expired contract that bound UEFA to the EBU for the transmission of the final. This gave occasion for a general review of the format, which attracted the interest of new and financially well-off private television companies. This edition included four groups of four teams each in the group stage, up from two groups of four teams each in 1993–94. It was also the first year in which eight teams advanced to the knock-out stage and the first of three years in which the champions of smaller nations entered the UEFA Cup instead of the Champions League. It was also the first time that this competition was known as the UEFA Champions League from the first to the last match of the competition: in two previous seasons, the UEFA Champions League involved the matches played between the second round and the European Cup final.

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's entrants were unable to participate for the third season in a row due to the UN economic sanctions. Milan were the defending champions, but were defeated by Ajax in the final.

24 teams entered the competition: the UEFA Champions League holders, Milan, who also won their domestic league, as well as the 23 best-ranked national champions according to UEFA club ranking. The title holders and the other 7 best-ranked national champions received a bye to the group stage, while the national champions ranked 9–24 entered in the qualifying round. The remaining national champions were only allowed to participate in UEFA Cup.

Group stage
Milan (1st)TH	Bayern Munich (1st)	Anderlecht (1st)	Barcelona (1st)
Benfica (1st)	Spartak Moscow (1st)	Manchester United (1st)	Ajax (1st)
Qualifying round
Paris Saint-Germain (1st)	Casino Salzburg (1st)	AEK Athens (1st)	Galatasaray (1st)
Rangers (1st)	Servette (1st)	Silkeborg (1st)	Steaua București (1st)
Göteborg (1st)	Legia Warsaw (1st)	Maccabi Haifa (1st)	Vác (1st)
Dynamo Kyiv (1st)	Hajduk Split (1st)	Avenir Beggen (1st)	Sparta Prague (1st)

The schedule of the competition is as follows. The draw was held in Geneva, Switzerland on 20 July 1994, where qualifying round pairs as well as group formations were drawn. The knockout phase pairs were made automatically by a predetermined bracket.

 

 

IFK Göteborg

 

Barcelona

 

Manchester United

 

Galatasaray

 

Paris Saint-Germain

 

Bayern

 

Spartak Moscow

 

Dynamo Kyiv

 

Benfica

 

Hajduk Split

 

Steaua București

 

Anderlecht

 

Ajax

 

Milan

 

Salzburg

 

AEK Athens

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Location of teams of the 1994–95 UEFA Champions League group stage.
  Brown: Group A;   Red: Group B;   Orange: Group C;   Yellow: Group D.

Ten of the sixteen participating teams made their UEFA Champions League group stage debut: AEK Athens, Ajax, Bayern Munich, Benfica, Casino Salzburg, Dynamo Kyiv, Hajduk Split, Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain and Steaua București. Two of these teams, Benfica and Dynamo Kyiv, had previously contested the 1991–92 European Cup group stage. Casino Salzburg, Hajduk Split, Manchester United and Steaua București were the first teams to qualify for group stage from Austria, Croatia, England and Romania respectively.

It was also the last edition of the Champions League that saw teams in the group stage awarded two points for each win, with one point awarded for each draw.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		GOT	BAR	MU	GAL
1	IFK Göteborg	6	4	1	1	10	7	+3	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–1	3–1	1–0
2	Barcelona	6	2	2	2	11	8	+3	6			1–1	—	4–0	2–1
3	Manchester United	6	2	2	2	11	11	0	6			4–2	2–2	—	4–0
4	Galatasaray	6	1	1	4	3	9	−6	3			0–1	2–1	0–0	—

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PSG	BM	SPA	DK
1	Paris Saint-Germain	6	6	0	0	12	3	+9	12	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	4–1	1–0
2	Bayern Munich	6	2	2	2	8	7	+1	6			0–1	—	2–2	1–0
3	Spartak Moscow	6	1	2	3	8	12	−4	4			1–2	1–1	—	1–0
4	Dynamo Kyiv	6	1	0	5	5	11	−6	2			1–2	1–4	3–2	—

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BEN	HAJ	SB	AND
1	Benfica	6	3	3	0	9	5	+4	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–1	2–1	3–1
2	Hajduk Split	6	2	2	2	5	7	−2	6			0–0	—	1–4	2–1
3	Steaua București	6	1	3	2	7	6	+1	5			1–1	0–1	—	1–1
4	Anderlecht	6	0	4	2	4	7	−3	4			1–1	0–0	0–0	—

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AJA	MIL	CAS	AEK
1	Ajax	6	4	2	0	9	2	+7	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	1–1	2–0
2	Milan	6	3	1	2	6	5	+1	5			0–2	—	3–0	2–1
3	Casino Salzburg	6	1	3	2	4	6	−2	5			0–0	0–1	—	0–0
4	AEK Athens	6	0	2	4	3	9	−6	2			1–2	0–0	1–3	—