The 1993 UEFA Champions League Final was a football match between French club Marseille and Italian club Milan, played on 26 May 1993 at the Olympiastadion in Munich, Germany.
The final, which followed the first-ever UEFA Champions League group stage, saw Ivorian-born Marseille defender Basile Boli score the only goal of the game in the 43rd minute to give l'OM their first European Cup title. It was the first time that a French team had won the European Cup, and no French side has won the trophy since.
The club and their president Bernard Tapie would later be found to have been involved in a match-fixing scandal during the 1992-93 season (in which Marseille allegedly paid Valenciennes FC to lose a match), which saw them relegated to Division 2 and banned from participation in European football for the following season. As the scandal affected only French league matches, Marseille's status as 1993 UEFA champion was not affected.
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