Bayern Munich 1–2 Norwich City (1993)
Norwich City beat Bayern Munich 2–1 in the second round of the 1993–94 UEFA Cup. The result was the only victory by a British club against Bayern Munich in their Olympiastadion. The second leg was played on 3 November 1993 and ended in a 1–1 draw, meaning that Norwich won the tie 3–2 on aggregate. They went on to be defeated by eventual champions Internazionale 2–0 in the third round.
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Norwich City beat Bayern Munich 2–1 in the second round of the 1993–94 UEFA Cup. Jeremy Goss and Mark Bowen scored for Norwich and Christian Nerlinger replied for Bayern. The result was the only victory by a British club against Bayern Munich in their Olympiastadion. The second leg was played on 3 November 1993 and ended in a 1–1 draw, meaning that Norwich won the tie 3–2 on aggregate. They went on to be defeated by eventual champions Internazionale 2–0 over the two legs in the third round. The match is considered the greatest goal in Norwich’s history, and the victory the pinnacle of the club’s history. It was Norwich’s third competitive match in European football, having defeated SBV Vitesse 3–0 on aggregate in the first round. Bayern had won four European trophies, as well as twelve Bundesliga titles, and a host of domestic cups, and this was their 185th tie in EuropeanFootball. The UEFA Cup was an annual football club competition organised by UEFA between 1971 and 1999, for eligible European football clubs. Clubs qualified for the competition based on their performance in their national leagues and cup competitions. Norwich ended their domestic season in 12th place in the Premier League, while Bayern Munich won the Bundesliga, one point ahead of Kaiserslautern. In contrast, Liverpool, Everton, Tottenham Hotspur, Leeds United, and Coventry City had all failed to beat Bayern at the Olympiastsadion in the previous season’s European Cup.
The apparent mismatch between the sides led to an overwhelming Munich victory. In The Times, columnist Martin Samuel summarised the situation: ‘The Germans had never lost at home to an English side and Norwich’s expedition was regarded as little more than an exotic football match attached to a football match’ The match was played as a knockout tournament; in each round teams contested two-legged ties, from which the team who scored the most goals across the two matches progressed to the next round. This was Norwich City’s first European campaign, achieved by virtue of finishing third in the 1992–93 FA Premier League. The club were on an unbeaten run of nine matches in all competitions. By contrast, Bayern had lost two of their twelve matches so far that season, and went into the UEFA Cup tie having won their last three matches, scoring eleven goals and conceding one. They had progressed to second round having defeated Dutch club FC Twente 7–3 on aggregate with a 4–3 win at Diekman Stadion and a 3-0 victory in the OlympIastadions. The German club had won the previous European tournament, the 185th European cup tie, and were playing their first European Cup tie of the 1990s. The first leg of the tie was played in Munich on 19 October 1993, and Norwich won 3–1 on aggregate to progress to the quarter-finals of the competition. The tie was Norwich’s first ever competitive European match.
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