First-ever Champions League winners were relegated for match-fixing – but kept trophy
First-ever Champions League winners were relegated for match-fixing – but kept trophy
The first-ever winners of the Champions League have also gone down as one of the most infamous teams in European football history.
It’s 30 years since Marseille shocked football by defeating the dominant team of the era, AC Milan, in the final of the rebranded European Cup. Back then, the Champions League group stage consisted of just two groups of four teams.
The group winners went straight into the final, with the French side finishing just one point ahead of Rangers, who had knocked out English champions Leeds in the second round.
Milan, meanwhile, had stormed through their group with six wins out of six but it was Marseille who were declared kings of Europe thanks to Basile Boli’s goal just before half-time in Munich.
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A few days earlier, Marseille won the game – and Ligue 1 title – that would bring disgrace upon the club. Needing to beat Valenciennes on the final day of the season to keep fellow title chasers Paris Saint-Germain and Monaco at bay, a 1-0 win was enough.
However, Valenciennes player Jacques Glassmann claimed to have been offered 250,000 francs (around £30,000) to "take his foot off the gas" by Marseille midfielder Jean-Jacques Eydelie with team-mates Jorge Burruchaga and Christophe Robert also offered bribes.
Criminal investigations then got underway, with a bag of notes later found buried in the garden of Robert's wife's mother. Marseille were stripped of that Ligue 1 title and relegated.
But although they were denied the right to try and defend their Champions League crown the following season, they kept the trophy with no evidence of any wrongdoing in the competition. That Marseille side, which contained greats such as Fabien Barthez, Rudi Voller and Didier Deschamps, secured promotion back to the French top flight two years later.
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Meanwhile, PSG turned down the chance to become champions and play in the Champions League, with Monaco playing in the tournament the following year.
Eydelie was banned for a year by FIFA for his part in the scandal having allegedly worked on behalf of the Marseille board, with key figures, including owner Bernard Tapie, spending time behind bars. Eydelie even went on to spend time on loan at Walsall before retiring, briefly moving into management back in 2006.
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