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Arsenal in the Champions League 1998-99 europe

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League stage
Group E table Group E results Group E schedule The groups

Final table

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NB while Arsenal's overall goal difference is better than Lens's, we finish below them because they beat us over the 2 matches between the 2 teams.

Match 6 9th December 1998

Panathinaikos     1 - 3   Arsenal
RC Lens           1 - 3   Dynamo Kiev

Match 5 25th November 1998

Arsenal          0 - 1   RC Lens
Dynamo Kiev      2 - 1   Panathinaikos

Match 4 4th November 1998

Dynamo Kiev      3 - 1 Arsenal
Panathinaikos    1 - 0 RC Lens

Match 3 21st October 1998

Arsenal      1 - 1  Dynamo Kiev
RC Lens      1 - 0  Panathinaikos

Match 2 30th September 1998

Arsenal      2 - 1  Panathinaikos
Dinamo Kiev  1 - 1  RC Lens

Match 1 16th September 1998

Lens           1 - 1 Arsenal
Panathinaikos  2 - 1 Dinamo Kiev

Group E schedule

16th September   Lens vs Arsenal
30th September   Arsenal vs Panathinaikos
21st October     Arsenal vs Dynamo Kiev
 4th November    Dynamo Kiev vs Arsenal
25th November    Arsenal vs Lens
 9th December    Panathinaikos vs Arsenal

The draw

Draw made Thursday 17th August in Monaco.

Group A

Croatia Zagreb
Olympiakos
Porto
Ajax

Group B

Galatasaray
Rosenborg
Athletic Bilbao
Juventus

Group C

Spartak Moscow
Sturm Graz
Internazionale
Real Madrid

Group D

Brondby
Manchester United
Bayern Munich
Barcelona

Group E

Dynamo Kiev
Panathinaikos
Arsenal
Lens

Group F

Helsinki
Benfica
PSV Eindhoven
Kaiserslautern

So.... not too bad at all, except for the fact that we've drawn 2 of the 8 clubs that Bergkamp probably won't travel to (see below).

List of qualifiers

In addition to Arsenal and Manchester United, the 22 non-English qualifiers are:

Relatively easy to get to (within 900miles)

RC Lens
Ajax
PSV Eindhoven
Kaiserslautern
Barcelona
Athletic Bilbao
FC Porto
Inter Milan
Juventus
Real Madrid
Strum Graz
Benfica
Bayern Munich
Brondby

Hard to get to (Dennis almost certainly won't play)

Olympiakos
Panathinaikos
Spartak Moscow
Dinamo Kiev
Galatasary
Rosenborg
HJK Helsinki
Croatia Zagreb

Thanks to Peter Sealy for dividing the above list according to Bergkamp-accessibility.

News 27/08/98.... & the draw

The draw is due to be made at 4pm BST in Monaco on Thursday 27th August. News here as soon as we have it. Apparently it'll be live on Eurosport.

The 6 seeded teams are to be Real Madrid, Lens, Juventus, Kaiserslautern, Barcelona, and Ajax. Arsenal will be drawn in the same group as one of these teams, but the draw will be fixed so that we avoid Man Utd. Arsenal would have been seeded if Juve had not lost to Real Madrid in last year's final. But there's good news on ticket pricing for Wembley (see also entry for 17/08/98 under general info below).

See also ANR for stuff about how the Spice Girls may disrupt our Champions League campaign. I know there's a scouser and a yorkshire lass, and one who presumably now has a soft spot for Man Utd. What about Baby Spice, anyone know? I don't suppose they'll be particularly concerned about the trouble their concert will cause us. Mind you, I guess the gig was arranged when Arsenal booked the place so it's probably not their fault.

News (see above for results, draw, etc)

  • 22/09/98 New ArseWeb Wembley page with links, facts, and a plan of the stadium with block numbers.

  • London's TV station chose to feature ManUtd rather than Arsenal!!!
    Please register your displeasure

  • 21/09/98 more good ticket news
    We've now heard that the people with restricted view tickets (see 15/09 below) have been told by the box office that there's no way they should have been given those tickets, and they will be replaced. So the message is clear - if you're not happy with your Wembley tickets get on to the club about it.
  • 18/09/98 Arsenal come good
    Credit where credit's due, Arsenal do seem to be prepared to correct errors made in ticket allocations.
    The correspondent mentioned under 16/09/98 below writes again: "I had a telephone call from the box office this afternoon, message left on my answerphone to say that they will be replacing my 3 tickets for the CL with tickets for lower tier at Wembley. Someone called Emma left the message. So I guess if you complain enough and write, sending the original tickets back which makes it difficult for them to refuse you, you can beat the system. I recommend anyone who is unhappy with their allocation to do what I did. Nothing to lose."
    Another correspondent, who with his father enjoys adjacent season tickets at Highbury but was allocated 2 tickets in different rows at Wembley, has received a promise from Arsenal that they will be found new adjacent seats at Wembley. As he puts it, "I could hardly believe my ears - admitting a mistake, promising to put it right??!! Would you Adam'n'Eve it!! They actually listened to and acted upon a fan's complaint!".
    What with this, and the success of the complaints to Carlton, we'll have to be careful the power doesn't go to our heads.

  • 16/09/98 Ticketing update
    another correspondent writes: "I have sent my CL tickets back to Arsenal in disgust at where I have been allocated a seat at Wembley for the league rounds. It is way up in the gods and with my eyesight I`d need binoculars to view the match in comfort. The seat they have given me for the 3 games bears absolutely no resemblence to where I sit at Highbury, which is what I was led to believe would be the case. Whilst grateful that I don`t have to pay anymore for a ticket, it nevertheless was a very big disappointment to receive my allocation in the Upper East at Wembley. There was a letter which accompanied the folder containing the tickets with the telephone number of the firm in the midlands who were responsible for mailing them out to season ticket holders. I `phoned them up explaining my disappointment and they seemed quite sure that if I were to send them back to the box office at Highbury with a covering letter outlining the reasons for doing so, the club would almost certainly mail out replacements to me. I sent the tickets by recorded post last Friday, the day they were received and I hope and expect Arsenal to exchange them for seats in an area more suitable for me. I did also state that if they were unable to satisfy my request I would expect them to give me a refund. There is no point in telephoning the box office, its` a complete waste of time far better to write and keep a copy, and if posting tickets back at the same time make sure you record it."

    So, if you're really unhappy with your allocation, it might be worth sending them back (if nervous about this, making it clear that you want the tickets back if there is no possibility of being allocated alternative tickets might help)

  • 15/09/98 concerns over Wembley ticket allocations
    It appears that the club's promise to season ticket holders over the allocation of tickets at Wembley is not being honoured. The club said that they intended to reserve the best 20000 seats at Wembley for the 20000 seaosn ticket (and bond) holders ("after allowing for UEFA requirements") and yet some season ticket holders have been sent tickets that offer a restricted view. We have heard from 2 season ticket holders, one of whom has been sent tickets with "restricted view" written on them, and the other has been sent tickets with "pillar in view". This is very poor show. The club have been informed and it remains to be seen what they will do about it.
    When we first heard about this we wondered if it was down to Wembley's strange ticketing policy (sometimes the cheaper seats for England games seem to offer a better view), but even Wembley tend not to rate "pillar in view" as a positive feature!

General Info

  • 27/10/98 League ranking rules
    Where two or more teams are level on points, the criteria for determining the ranking is as follows:
    • 1: the greater number of points obtained in the matches between the teams in question,
    • 2: the goal difference resulting from the matches between the teams in question,
    • 3: the greater number of goals scored away from home in matches between the teams in question, and
    • 4: the overall goal difference within the group.
  • Following approval from UEFA and the FA, Arsenal will be playing their home matches in Europe this year at Wembley rather than at Highbury.
  • This year the Champions League stays with the format of previous seasons: 6 groups of 4 playing each other home and away, with the top team from each group going forward to the quarter-finals together with the 2 best runners-up.
    Next season there are plans to change it to 4 groups of 6.

  • Dates

    1st qualifying round
    • 1st leg 22 Jul
    • 2nd leg 29 Jul
    2nd qualifying round (inc ManUtd)
    • 1st leg 12 Aug
    • 2nd leg 26 Aug
    Draw for league groups
    • 27 Aug
    Group games
    • 16 Sep
    • 30 Sep
    • 21 Oct
    • 4 Nov
    • 25 Nov
    • 9 Dec
    Quarter finals
    draw to be made in Geneva, December 11th.
    • 1st leg 3 Mar
    • 2nd leg 17 Mar
    Semi finals
    • 1st leg 7 Apr
    • 2nd leg 21 Apr
    The Final
    • 26th May

Trivia

  • We have it on good authority that the current holders, Real Madrid, keep the Champions Cup in a cupboard under the stairs.

Links

  • Next season's European campaign (Champs League plus UEFA Cup)
  • WSP European competitions page
    News, results, archives.
  • Official UEFA site
    Eagle-eyed correspondent Simon Dickson found this for us. It doesn't go live till 28th August (I guess till then they'll all be busy painting the numbers on the balls for the Champs League draw). It's still worth a quick look for the all-action graphic. We think the legs on the left might belong to Patrick Vieira.
  • Champions League page on Colm Ó Riain's UEFA site
    What we all hope the official uefa site will have: results, draws, fixtures, and general info on all 4 European competitions current and historical)
  • AFCi page with fixtures & results for group E, and tables for all 6 groups.
  • FinalWhistle
    Not very up to date at the moment but promises to be updated after 30th August (they're doing a "server upgrade")
  • EuroRecord
    Searchable database of all matches played in the European cups since 1955.
  • Soccernet European Cup page
  • Last year's results.
    This site doesn't have this year's competition details up yet, but maybe it will sometime soon.
  • Please let us know if you come across any other good sites for this list.

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