FC Bayern München v SK Rapid Wien PRESS KIT Fußball Arena München, Munich Tuesday, 22 November 2005 - 20:45 CET Group A - Matchday 5 A solitary goal after 60 minutes from José Paolo Guerrero at the Ernst Happel Stadion on Matchday 1 allowed FC Bayern München to beat SK Rapid Wien and get their UEFA Champions League campaign off to a perfect start. The German champions will now look to home advantage in their quest for further points towards qualification for the knockout stages. Meanwhile, their Austrian counterparts Rapid are eliminated from European football this season after four straight defeats. However, they will need no motivation as they are still searching for an elusive first UEFA Champions League victory in their eleventh match in the competition. Previous meeting •Before this season, the clubs had met on one previous occasion in UEFA club competition, in the quarter-finals of the 1966/67 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Rapid took a 1-0 lead from their home leg thanks to a goal from August Starek, but Bayern fought back at home to level the contest. It was Gerd Müller who finally wrapped up the tie for Bayern with a goal after 106 minutes and his team went on to lift the trophy. •Bayern, whose Matchday 1 meeting with Rapid was their first against Austrian opposition in UEFA competition, have also played two other ties against Austrian clubs. Both were against rapid's city rivals FK Austria Wien in successive seasons in the European Champion Clubs' Cup. In the second round of the 1985/86 event, Bayern won 7-5 on aggregate, and at the same stage the following campaign Bayern won 3-1 on aggregate. Perfect record •Bayern's overall home record against Austrian clubs is three wins in three games with eight goals scored and two conceded. Six defeats for Rapid •Rapid, who lost their unbeaten home record against German clubs in the defeat by Bayern on 14 September, have yet to record a win in Germany. In six previous visits going back 45 years, the Austrian team have lost all six matches, scoring just two while conceding 13 goals. First Rapid defeat •The first loss in Germany was on 23 November 1960, in the first round of the European Cup, when FC Wismut Aue levelled the tie at 3-3 with a 2-0 home win. In the days of replays, Rapid eventually triumphed 1-0 in a decisive match played in Basle. Defeat in Munich uefa.com 1/30 FC Bayern München v SK Rapid Wien PRESS KIT •Their last defeat in Germany came in the 1997/98 UEFA Cup second round, when they were beaten 2-1 by Bayern's city rivals TSV 1860 München, although Rapid did triumph in the tie. Early goals from Daniel Borimirov and Bernhard Winkler took 1860 München to within a goal of Rapid's 3-0 first-leg lead, only for Thomas Zingler's 69th- minute goal to make sure of Rapid's progress 4-2 on aggregate. •Bayern midfielder Jens Jeremies was in the 1860 München lineup for both legs of that UEFA Cup tie against Rapid. Champion coincidence •By a strange coincidence, both clubs have won the German championship. Bayern won their first title in 1932, while Rapid appear on the honours list as German champions in 1941. Team facts: Bayern •Bayern are competing in their ninth successive UEFA Champions League having won the competition in the 2000/01 season. The German side have advanced to the knockout stage in the past eight seasons with the exception of their 2002/03 campaign. •Bayern are chasing their first appearance in the European Champion Clubs’ Cup final - and their eighth overall - since their penalty shoot-out defeat of Valencia CF at the end of the 2000/01 season having recovered from the heartbreak of conceding two goals in added time against Manchester United FC in the final two years previously. The German side, together with AFC Ajax, dominated the European football landscape during the 1970s with three successive victories in the competition against Club Atlético de Madrid (1973/74), Leeds United AFC (1974/75) and AS Saint-Etienne (1975/76). They also played in the 1981/82 and 1985/86 finals, but lost out to Aston Villa FC (1-0) and FC Porto (2-1) respectively. •Both Bayern and Juventus hold the distinct record of being the only teams to compete in the European Champion Clubs' Cup final in each of the last four decades. Bayern's record is as follows: 2000/01: FC Bayern München 1-1 Valencia CF (5-4 on penalties after extra time) 1998/99: Manchester United FC 2-1 FC Bayern München 1986/87: FC Bayern München 1-2 FC Porto 1981/82: Aston Villa FC 1-0 FC Bayern München 1975/76: FC Bayern München 1-0 AS Saint-Etienne 1974/75: FC Bayern München 2-0 Leeds United AFC 1973/74: Club Atlético de Madrid 0-4 FC Bayern München (final replay after the two sides drew 1-1 in the final). •Bayern advanced as one of the 16 clubs to qualify automatically for the competition having won last season's German Bundesliga by 14 points from FC Schalke 04. It was Bayern's sixth Bundesliga title in the past nine seasons and their 18th since the current league format came into being at the start of the 1963/64 campaign. uefa.com 2/30 FC Bayern München v SK Rapid Wien PRESS KIT •The German giants edged towards their 50th victory in the UEFA Champions League with 1-0 victories away to SK Rapid Wien and at home against Club Brugge KV on the opening two matchdays. José Paulo Guerrero's goal on the hour was enough to gain a win in Vienna while Martin Demichelis (32) was on target against the Belgian champions. •Victory number 49 came on Matchday 3 as first-half goals from Sebastian Deisler (32) and Martin Demichelis (39) helped Bayern exorcise the ghosts of last season's twin defeats by Juventus with an impressive 2-1 win on home soil. Although unnerved by Zlatan Ibrahimovic's last-minute close-range tap-in, Felix Magath's side deserved this prestigious victory and the precious three points it brought, after a courageous attacking display which ruffled the Italian champions throughout. •But Juventus were to avenge their Matchday 3 defeat with a 2-1 success at the Stadio Delle Alpi in the return fixture. Two goals from David Trezeguet (62, 85) provided the Turin club with the win after Sebastian Deisler (66) had restored parity for the Bavarian club. •Having entered the season with 100 matches under their belt in the competition, Bayern are ranked third in the list of the 32 clubs competing in this season’s competition. Of this season’s participating teams, only Manchester United FC (113) and Real Madrid CF (111) had played more than the Bavaria-based club at the start of the group phase. •Bayern have played 202 matches overall in the European Champion Clubs’ Cup and the UEFA Champions League combined. In that time, Bayern won 110, drew 50 and lost 42 times with 377 goals scored and 198 conceded. •Their match against Juventus on Matchday 5 will be their 301st match overall in all UEFA club competition. From their 300 matches to date, Bayern have won 163, drawn 71 and lost 66 times with 567 goals scored against 308 conceded. Team facts: Rapid •Rapid are making their second appearance in the UEFA Champions League group stage having been involved in the 1996/97 season, when they drew two and lost the remaining four of their six matches. Their points both came in Vienna thanks to 1-1 draws against Fenerbahçe SK and Juventus. However, the Austrian side failed to score in their three away defeats, against Manchester United FC (2-0), Juventus (5-0) and Fenerbahçe (1-0). •Rapid featured in a UEFA club competition final as recently as the 1995/96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup when they lost 1-0 to a Bruno N’Gotty goal after 28 minutes for Paris Saint-Germain FC in Brussels. •From the final of the Cup Winners' Cup to this season, their best performance in UEFA club competition came in the 1997/98 UEFA Cup when they reached the third round of the competition before bowing out 3-0 on aggregate to eventual beaten finalists, S.S. uefa.com 3/30 FC Bayern München v SK Rapid Wien PRESS KIT Lazio. •Rapid entered the UEFA Champions League in the second qualifying round after winning last season's Austrian Bundesliga by a point from Grazer AK. It was their 31st championship, but their first since 1995/96 – which was also the last time they advanced to the group stage of the UEFA Champions League. •The Austrian champions overcame F91 Dudelange from Luxembourg in the second qualifying round, running out 9-3 aggregate winners after all but ending the tie with a 6- 1 away win in the first leg. Strike partners Muhammet Akagündüz and Axel Lawaree both helped themselves to two goals apiece. Rapid allowed Dudelange to take a two- goal interval lead in the return leg in Vienna, but two goals from Lawaree (47, 81) and another from Matthias Dollinger (86) eased Austrian nerves. •Rapid were held at home in their third qualifying round first leg by Russian champions FC Lokomotiv Moskva, for whom Aleksandr Samedov opened the scoring after nine minutes. Rapid levelled 15 minutes from time through Josef Valachovič and the Slovakian defender was on target in the return leg in Moscow, scoring the only goal of the game six minutes from time to secure Rapid's passage to the group stage for the second time in their history.