The 5 best UEFA Champions League finals

# 2: 1999: Manchester United beat Bayern Munich 2-1

Manchester United celebrate their 1999 Champions League title

On a day their only other European Cup winning manager Sir Matt Busby would have celebrated his 90th birthday, Manchester United faced Germany's Bayern Munich in the 1999 final at the Camp Nou in Barcelona.

Mario Basler's 5th minute opener meant that United trailed for the fourth time in a Champions League match that season.

Dwight Yorke shot wide and David Beckham's freekick was cleared away by Bayern captain Lothar Matthaus as the English side sought a way back into the match. Bayern looked content to sit back, soak up the pressure, and hit on the counter. The strategy almost paid dividends as United struggled to carve out clear-cut scoring opportunities and Basler almost put the game to bed, when his shot off a counterattack smacked against the woodwork much to the relief of the United keeper Peter Schmeichel.

Bayern had another opportunity to double their advantage when Basler's superb run released Scholl but the resultant chip over rebounded off the post and back into the grateful arms of Peter Schmeichel. An overhead kick from Jancker again found the United woodwork, with Schmeichel well beaten but it looked like despite their profligacy, Bayern had done enough to hold on to their slender lead as the game entered extra time.

Subsitute Teddy Sheringham scored off a corner to seemingly force extra time. Off another Beckham corner, Sheringham's chip fell kindly to Ole Gunnar Solkjaer who slotted the ball into the Bayern net to spark wild celebrations among the English club faithful as Bayern were left to wonder what might have been.

With the win, United achieved the first-ever treble (League, league Cup, European Cup) by an English club.