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The 1999 UEFA Super Cup was a football match played on 27 August 1999 between the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League

UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...

winners, Manchester United

Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...

, and Lazio

S.S. Lazio

Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...

, winners of the 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions. The cup is one of the many inter-European club competitions that have been organised by UEFA. The first competition was held in the 1960–61 season—but...

.

Against the odds, Lazio won the match 1–0, the winning goal coming from Chile

Chile

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an striker Marcelo Salas

Marcelo Salas

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in the 35th minute. The match was played at the neutral venue of the Stade Louis II

Stade Louis II

The Stade Louis II is a stadium located in the Fontvieille district of Monaco. It serves primarily as a venue for football, being the home of AS Monaco and the Monaco national football team, as well as the location of the annual UEFA Super Cup match...

in Monaco

Monaco

Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the...

in front of 14,461 fans.

This was the last Super Cup contested by the winners of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

, as the tournament was discontinued after the 1998–99 season. Since 2000, it has been contested by the winners of the UEFA Champions League

UEFA Champions League

and the winners of the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League.

Match details


style="font-size:90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">	MANCHESTER UNITED:
GK	17	Raimond van der Gouw Raimond van der Gouw Raimond van der Gouw is a former Dutch footballer, who played as a goalkeeper.After a successful career with Vitesse and well into his 30s, he moved to Manchester United, also experiencing relative recognition, although he played very sparingly; he scored his only goal in the last game of his...
RB	2	Gary Neville Gary Neville Gary Alexander Neville is a former English footballer. He is England's most capped right-back and was Manchester United's club captain for five years....
CB	6	Jaap Stam Jaap Stam Jakob "Jaap" Stam is a retired Dutch football player who was twice voted best defender in the 1998–99 and 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League. He played for several European clubs like PSV Eindhoven, Manchester United, S.S. Lazio, A.C. Milan and AFC Ajax before retiring in October 2007...
CB	21	Henning Berg Henning Berg Henning Stille Berg is a Norwegian former football player. He played as a central defender or right-back.He is one of only three players to have won the Premier League with two different clubs, the others being Ashley Cole and Nicolas Anelka .-Club career:Born in Eidsvoll, Berg played for...
LB	12	Phil Neville
CM	7	David Beckham David Beckham David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE is an English footballer who plays midfield for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer, having previously played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, and A.C...
CM	16	Roy Keane Roy Keane Roy Maurice Keane is an Irish former footballer and manager. In his 18-year playing career, he played for Cobh Ramblers in the League of Ireland, Nottingham Forest and Manchester United, before ending his career at Celtic in Scotland....
CM	18	Paul Scholes Paul Scholes Paul Scholes is a retired English footballer, a one-club man who played his entire professional career for Manchester United.Born in Salford, but later moving to Langley, Scholes excelled in both cricket and football in school. He first trained with Manchester United at the age of 14 after being...
RF	20	Ole Gunnar Solskjær Ole Gunnar Solskjær Ole Gunnar Solskjær is the manager of Norwegian first division side Molde. He is better known as a former footballer who spent most of his career playing for Manchester United. Often dubbed "the baby-faced assassin," he played 366 times for the Red Devils and scored 126 goals during a very...
CF	9	Andy Cole Andy Cole Andrew Alexander Cole is a retired English footballer. He is most well known by the name Andy Cole , but in 2000, he reputedly asked to be known as Andrew Cole...
LF	10	Teddy Sheringham Teddy Sheringham Edward Paul "Teddy" Sheringham MBE is a retired English footballer, and the father of footballer Charlie Sheringham. Sheringham played as a striker, and had a successful career at the club level, winning almost every domestic honour available with his clubs, most notably the Treble with Manchester...
Substitutes:
GK	31	Nick Culkin Nick Culkin Nicholas James "Nick" Culkin is an English footballer who plays for Radcliffe Borough as a goalkeeper.-Career:Born in York, North Yorkshire, Culkin signed for Premier League club Manchester United in September 1995, costing £100,000 from York City while still in the club's youth system...
DF	13	John Curtis
MF	11	Ryan Giggs Ryan Giggs Ryan Joseph Giggs OBE is a Welsh professional footballer who plays for Manchester United. Giggs made his first appearance for the club during the 1990–91 season and has been a regular player since the 1991–92 season...
MF	33	Mark Wilson
MF	34	Jonathan Greening Jonathan Greening Jonathan Greening is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Nottingham Forest.He began his career in 1996 with York City, but moved to Manchester United in 1998, with whom he won the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League as a non-playing substitute in the final...
FW	14	Jordi Cruyff Jordi Cruyff Johan Jordi Cruijff , anglicised as Jordi Cruyff is a Dutch former footballer and currently AEK Larnaca's Director of Football. He played from 1992 through to 2010, his clubs including Barcelona and Manchester United. He gained nine caps for the Netherlands national football team, playing in the...
FW	19	Dwight Yorke Dwight Yorke Dwight Eversley Yorke is a Trinidad and Tobago former football player. He played for Aston Villa for most of his career, followed by stints with Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, Sydney FC and Sunderland...
Manager:
Sir Alex Ferguson Alex Ferguson Sir Alexander Chapman "Alex" Ferguson, CBE is a Scottish association football manager and former player, currently managing Manchester United, where he has been in charge since 1986...

style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align=center> LAZIO: | GK 1

Luca Marchegiani

Luca Marchegiani is a former Italian football goalkeeper.He played mostly for Torino FC and SS Lazio.At one time, Marchegiani was the most expensive goalkeeper in the world, when he joined Lazio from Torino in 1993 for £6m He played for Italy national football team and was a participant at the...

RB 2

Paolo Negro

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CB 13

Alessandro Nesta

Alessandro Nesta, Ufficiale OMRI , is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Milan. Considered by many as one of the best centre backs to have ever played the game, he is a four-time member of the annual UEFA Team of the Year.-Early life:Nesta was raised in...

CB 11 Siniša Mihajlović

Siniša Mihajlovic

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LB 15

Giuseppe Pancaro

Giuseppe Pancaro is a former Italian football defender.Pancaro started his career with Cagliari Calcio in 1992. After Cagliari were relegated in 1997, he transferred to S.S. Lazio. In summer 2003, Pancaro transferred to A.C. Milan in exchange for Demetrio Albertini. In 2004, he signed a one year...

RM 18

Pavel Nedvěd

Pavel Nedved

Pavel Nedvěd is a retired Czech football midfielder. He is one of the most successful Czech players to emerge from the newly formed Czech Republic, winning numerous accolades with Lazio and Juventus, including the last ever Cup Winners' Cup...

CM 25

Matías Almeyda

Matías Jesús Almeyda is a retired Argentine footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, and the current manager of Club Atlético River Plate....

CM 23

Juan Sebastián Verón

Juan Sebastián Verón is an Argentinian professional football player who is the current captain and midfielder for Estudiantes de La Plata in the Argentine Primera División....

LM 20 Dejan Stanković

Dejan Stankovic

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CF 21

Simone Inzaghi

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CF 10

Roberto Mancini

Roberto Mancini is an Italian football manager, formerly an international player and current manager of Premier League club Manchester City.As a player Mancini was best known for his time at Sampdoria, where he played more than 550 matches, and helped them win the Serie A league title, four Coppa...

Substitutes: GK 22

Marco Ballotta

Marco Ballotta is a retired Italian footballer who played as a goalkeeper.His senior club career spanned a quarter of a century, but Ballotta was never capped for the Italian national team...

DF 5

Giuseppe Favalli

Giuseppe Favalli is a retired Italian footballer who played as a defender for Serie A clubs Lazio, Internazionale and Milan.-Cremonese:He started his career with then-Serie B squad Cremonese...

MF 7

Sérgio Conceição

Sérgio Paulo Marceneiro da Conceição is a retired Portuguese footballer who played mostly as a right winger.Known for his speed and strength, combined with his good dribbling and crossing skills, and fairly accurate shooting. During his extensive career, he played for ten different teams, in five...

MF 14

Diego Simeone MF 16

Attilio Lombardo

Attilio Lombardo is a retired football player turned manager.-Playing:...

CF 19

Kennet Andersson

Bernt Kennet Andersson is a Swedish former football player and a key member of the Swedish national team that finished third in the 1994 World Cup....

CF 9

Marcelo Salas

Manager:

Sven-Göran Eriksson

Sven-Göran Eriksson , in Sweden commonly referred to just by his nickname Svennis, is a Swedish ex-football manager. From October 2010 to October 2011 he managed Football League Championship side Leicester City....

Man of the Match:

Juan Sebastián Verón

Juan Sebastián Verón is an Argentinian professional football player who is the current captain and midfielder for Estudiantes de La Plata in the Argentine Primera División....

(Lazio

S.S. Lazio

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Assistant referees:

Eugeniusz Koczar (Poland

Polish Football Association

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)

Jacek Pocięgiel (Poland

Polish Football Association

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