2003 UEFA Cup Final

The 2003 UEFA Cup Final was played on 21 May 2003 between Celtic of Scotland and Porto of Portugal. Porto won the match 3–2 in extra time thanks to a goal from Derlei. This was also the first game to use the silver goal rule, although it did not affect the outcome of the game as Porto scored in the second half of extra-time, thus meaning the game had to be played until the end of extra-time.[2]

2003 UEFA Cup Final
Event2002–03 UEFA Cup
Celtic Porto
2 3
After silver goal extra time
Date21 May 2003
VenueEstadio Olímpico de Sevilla, Seville
Man of the MatchDerlei (Porto)[1]
RefereeĽuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)
Attendance52,972

Prior to this game, no club from Scotland or Portugal had ever won the UEFA Cup.

The game had what UEFA described at the time as "the largest travelling support to have assembled for a single game"[3] – around 80,000 Celtic fans travelled to Seville for the final.[4][5][6] For this turnout and the manner in which they conducted themselves, Celtic fans – dubbed "the Bhoys from Seville" – received an award from FIFA and UEFA, winning the FIFA Fair Play Award that year and being presented with a formal recognition from UEFA at a home match the following season.[7][8]

Route to the final
Porto 1st leg 2nd leg Result Round Celtic 1st leg 2nd leg Result
Polonia Warszawa 6–0 0–2 6–2 First round Sūduva 8–1 2–0 10–1
Austria Wien 1–0 2–0 3–0 Second round Blackburn Rovers 1–0 2–0 3–0
Lens 3–0 0–1 3–1 Third round Celta Vigo 1–0 1–2 2–2 (a)
Denizlispor 6–1 2–2 8–3 Fourth round VfB Stuttgart 3–1 2–3 5–4
Panathinaikos 0–1 2–0 2–1 (a.e.t.) Quarter-finals Liverpool 1–1 2–0 3–1
Lazio 4–1 0–0 4–1 Semi-finals Boavista 1–1 1–0 2–1

Date, venue and officials

The game was played at Estadio Olímpico de Sevilla on 21 May with kick-off at 20:45 local time. A team of officials was selected from Slovakia.

Match

Summary
Celtic fans in the stadium

A rash challenge led to Joos Valgaeren of Celtic getting a yellow card in the eighth minute. After this it was a stoic affair, until 32 minutes into the first half when Capucho played in Deco, but he could do no more than fire his shot straight at Rab Douglas. Straight after this attack, Celtic broke on the counter with Henrik Larsson putting Didier Agathe through on the right but his cross was too high for Chris Sutton. Larsson had a chance to make it 1–0 in the 35th minute but was unable to get enough contact on the ball. Porto came close in the 41st minute when Deco moved past Bobo Baldé to go one on one with Douglas, who saved Deco's shot with his legs.

Porto found a way through on the stroke of half-time. After some great work from Deco, Dmitri Alenichev's shot was parried by Douglas and Derlei slotted the ball in to give Porto a 1–0 lead. It was his 11th goal of the competition. Porto's lead did not last long after the restart as Celtic equalised after 47 minutes when Larsson met Agathe's cross to direct a looping header in over the helpless Vítor Baía to get his tenth goal of the tournament and his 200th Celtic goal. Within five minutes, it was 2–1 when Deco evaded a tackle and slipped a through ball to Alenichev who converted the cross.[9]

Three minutes later, Celtic levelled once again. Larsson took advantage of poor marking when he powerfully headed in Alan Thompson's corner. With Deco remaining a consistent threat, Martin O'Neill brought on Jackie McNamara in 76 minutes to nullify Deco's threat. In the 80th minute, Bobo Baldé picked up a yellow card. A couple of minutes from time, McNamara's errant pass found Alenichev, but he could not find the target and shot over.

Normal time ended with the game at 2–2. Extra time would be played under the silver goal rule, whereby the team leading at the end of the first half of extra time would win the match.

Celtic were down to ten men in the 96th minute when Baldé was dismissed after collecting his second yellow card. O'Neill reconfigured his team by moving McNamara back to fill the gap in defence caused by Baldé's dismissal.[10]

The first half of extra time arrived without a change in the score, so the silver goal rule did not apply.

In the second half of extra time Celtic were unable to hold out for penalties, as Derlei reacted quickest to a Douglas block in the 115th minute and rounded McNamara to make it 3–2. Porto had Nuno Valente sent off in the last minute but no further goals meant that they had ended their 16-year wait for a further European trophy.

Details
Celtic 2–3 (a.e.t.) Porto
Larsson  47', 57' Report Report (archive) Derlei  45+1'  115'
Alenichev  54'
Attendance: 52,972
Celtic
Porto
GK20 Rab Douglas
CB35 Johan Mjällby
CB6 Bobo Baldé 80'  96'
CB5 Joos Valgaeren 8' 64'
DM14 Paul Lambert (c) 76'
RM17 Didier Agathe
CM19 Stiliyan Petrov 102' 105'
CM18 Neil Lennon 59'
LM8 Alan Thompson
CF7 Henrik Larsson
CF9 Chris Sutton
Substitutes:
GK21 Magnus Hedman
DF4 Jackie McNamara 76'
DF16 Ulrik Laursen 64'
MF3 Mohammed Sylla
MF39 Jamie Smith
FW12 David Fernández
FW29 Shaun Maloney 105'
Manager:
Martin O'Neill
GK99 Vítor Baía
RB22 Paulo Ferreira
CB2 Jorge Costa (c) 71'
CB4 Ricardo Carvalho
LB8 Nuno Valente 63'  120+3'
CM10 Deco
CM6 Costinha 9'
CM18 Maniche 120'
AM15 Dmitri Alenichev
CF21 Capucho 98'
CF11 Derlei
Substitutes:
GK13 Nuno
DF3 Pedro Emanuel 71'
DF5 Ricardo Costa 9'
DF14 César Peixoto
MF28 Clayton
FW66 Tiago
FW78 Marco Ferreira 120' 98'
Manager:
José Mourinho

Man of the Match:
Derlei (Porto)[1]

Assistant referees:
Igor Šramka (Slovakia)
Martin Balko (Slovakia)
Fourth official:
Anton Stredák (Slovakia)

Match rules

Statistics

See also

References
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