 It was the first time a French team had won the European Cup.No French side – apart from Monaco-based AS Monaco, which played in French league system – has gone to the final since, let alone won the trophy.Marseille and their club president Bernard Tapie would later be found to have been involved in a match-fixing scandal during the 1992–93 season (in which Marseille allegedly paid Valenciennes to lose a match), which saw them relegated to Division 2 and banned from participation in European football for the following season.