How Nottingham Forest made £500k from playing Bayern Munich and what happened

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Nottingham Forest have a rich history, but there was one specific matchday where the club were quite literally made rich, as well as breaking a record.

Evangelos Marinakis has invested a lot into getting Nottingham Forest football club to where it is today.

The Greek billionaire has pumped a total of £162 million into Forest over the past seven years, which is made up of an initial £50m purchase price and £112m in funding.

Some of his most recent purchases look set to make the club their money back, as Elliot Anderson, Nikola Milenkovic and Murillo have all surpassed expectations.

However, there was a game back in 1996 that set a record, and it involved Bayern Munich.

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Nottingham Forest set personal receipts record of £499,099 in Europe against Bayern Munich

Forest had reached the quarter-final by a series of brilliant defensive display, with goals often snatched against the run of play.

Bayern Munich travelled to the City Ground for the second leg of their UEFA Cup quarter-final tie with Nottingham Forest on the 19 March 1996.

The German club, who held a 2-1 lead going into the game, were simply unstoppable on the night as they secured a 7-2 aggregate win due to a 5-1 win in the return leg.

Steve Stone scored the only Forest goal against a Bayern Munich side that had the likes of Jean-Pierre Papin, Jurgen Klinsmann, Lothar Matthaus and Oliver Kahn.

It wasn’t all doom and gloom for Forest though, as they recorded their highest ever receipts in that game and the record still stands today.

Nottingham Forest counted it to be £499,099, which is a staggering amount.

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Jurgen Klinsmann was unstoppable at the City Ground

Jürgen Klinsmann showed his class on that night.

The German bagged a brace, scoring with a sideways scissor-kick got Bayern’s third goal on the night

After eight matches he had amounted a whopping 14 goals in the competition, finishing as the UEFA Cup top scorer on 15 goals at the end of the season.

However, on the night, Mark Crossley didn’t put in the best of performances, as he was slow to get down to a free-kick and the ball bobbled past his arms for the opener.