Era · 1990-91 to 1999-00
The greatest squads of the 1990s
Sixteen squads, the largest era in the database — the decade European football changed its format, its economics and its map, all at once.
The decade
The competition itself changed in 1992-93: a group stage, a new name, and Marseille as the first winner of it. What followed was Italian. Five of the sixteen squads here are from Serie A, more than any other country managed in the decade, because that is where the money and the players were until Bosman opened the doors in 1995. The rest is a decade of one-offs: Cruyff's first European Cup for Barcelona at the start, Ajax's unbeaten side in the middle, Dortmund and Real Madrid ending long waits, and United's treble closing it out.
Where the squads come from: Italy (5), England (3), Spain (3), Germany (2), France (1), Netherlands (1) and Serbia (1). The highest-rated player of the era in this database is Ronaldo (94), and 10 different players across these 16 squads are rated 90 or above.
Drafting the 1990s
Sixteen squads and only a handful of genuinely great players between them: Ronaldo's 94 at Inter is the decade's highest rating, and Batistuta, Schmeichel and Roberto Carlos are the only others above 90. That gap between the top of a squad and the rest of it is what makes these teams distinctive to draft — you build around one name and cover for the other ten, which is not how the 2010s squads work at all.
This decade has a draft mode of its own: The 90s narrows the wheel to exactly these squads, so every spin lands in the era. Runs in it rank normally — narrowing the wheel carries no scoring penalty.
However you narrow the wheel, the run itself is the same Champions League draft game: an XI built one spin at a time, then a league phase, two-legged knockouts and a final.
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