The 1993–94 UEFA Champions League, originally known as the 1993–94 European Cup, was the 39th season of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA's premier club football tournament, and the second season with the UEFA Champions League logo (it was adopted in the group stage and semi-finals, the rest of the tournament continued to be called "European Champion Clubs' Cup" or "European Cup"). The competition was won by Italian club Milan, their fifth title, beating Spanish club Barcelona 4–0 in the final. Marseille were the defending champions, but were not allowed to enter the competition due their involvement in a match-fixing scandal in Division 1 the season prior. This saw them stripped of their league title and demoted to Division 2 at the end of 1993–94. This was the first and only time when the defending champions did not participate in the following season of the competition. Third-placed Monaco took the vacated French berth (second-placed Paris Saint-Germain, who refused the defaulted French title, competed in the Cup Winners' Cup instead as Coupe de France winners).
There were changes made to the UEFA Champions League's format from the previous year. After two seasons, with the groups, it introduced one legged semi-finals taking place after the group stage, meaning the two sides qualified from each group as group winners playing the semi-finals at home.
This edition was marked by the absence of Yugoslav participants because Yugoslavia was under UN economic sanctions. Yugoslav participants were frequently present in advanced stages of the competition with Red Star Belgrade having won the European Cup in 1991 and finished second in the group the following season. Partizan were to represent Yugoslavia in this edition, but were not allowed to participate. Meanwhile, Croatia, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia and Wales entered their champions for the first time in this edition.
Teams In total, 42 national champions participated in 1993–94 UEFA Champions League season. The 20 lowest-ranked champions according to the 1993 club seeding coefficients entered in the preliminary round, while the 22 best-ranked champions entered in the first round.
Distribution RoundTeams entering in this roundTeams advancing from the previous roundPreliminary round(20 teams) 20 champions ranked 23–42 by seeding coefficientFirst round(32 teams) 22 champions ranked 1–22 by seeding coefficient(originally including title holders) 10 winners from the qualifying roundSecond round(16 teams) 16 winners from the first roundGroup stage(8 teams) 8 winners from the second roundKnockout stage(4 teams) 2 group winners from the group stage 2 group runners-up from the group stage
Since the title holders (Marseille) originally qualified via their domestic league, the title holder spot was vacated and the following changes to the default access list were made: The champions ranked 21st and 22nd (Dinamo Minsk and Levski Sofia) were promoted from the preliminary round to the first round.
Ranking
The teams were ranked according to their 1993 UEFA seeding coefficients, which took into account performances in European competitions from 1988–89 to 1992–93. Each club and national association had a seeding coefficient calculated (total points divided by total matches), with both values added together to determine the club's final coefficient. This ranking then determined the round each team would enter.
+ Qualified teams for 1993–94 UEFA Champions League (by ranking)AssociationTeamFirst round6Monaco 2.6671Milan 3.4082Barcelona 2.9863Manchester United 2.9104Werder Bremen 2.8485Anderlecht 2.6717Porto 2.5898Spartak Moscow 2.5369Rangers 2.50410Steaua București 2.36611Feyenoord 2.32512Galatasaray 2.22713Sparta Prague 2.20514Lech Poznań 2.08915Austria Wien 2.07616Copenhagen 2.05317AEK Athens 1.99418AIK 1.95419Dynamo Kyiv 1.69220Kispest Honvéd 1.57321Dinamo Minsk 1.25022Levski Sofia 1.125Preliminary round23Rosenborg 0.97124Aarau 0.93925HJK 0.85526Linfield 0.83327Croatia Zagreb 0.75028ÍA 0.65629Partizani 0.63430Avenir Beggen 0.63331Omonia 0.62332Cwmbrân Town 0.57133Floriana 0.56334Cork City 0.500Skonto 0.50036B68 0.000Beitar Jerusalem 0.000Dinamo Tbilisi 0.000Ekranas 0.000Norma Tallinn 0.000Olimpija Ljubljana 0.000Zimbru Chișinău 0.000
+Associations without a participating team
Notes
Round and draw dates The schedule of the competition was as follows. All draws were held in Geneva, Switzerland.
PhaseRoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legQualifying round14 July 199318 August 19931 September 1993First round15 September 199329 September 1993Second round1 October 199320 October 19933 November 1993Group stageMatchday 15 November 199324 November 1993Matchday 28 December 1993Matchday 32 March 1994Matchday 416 March 1994Matchday 530 March 1994Matchday 613 April 1994Knockout phaseSemi-finals27 April 1994Final18 May 1994 at Olympic Stadium, Athens
Preliminary round
First round
Second round
Group stage
The group stage began on 24 November 1993 and ended on 13 April 1994. The eight teams were divided into two groups of four, and the teams in each group played against each other on a home-and-away basis, meaning that each team played a total of six group matches. For each win, teams were awarded two points, with one point awarded for each draw. At the end of the group stage, the two teams in each group with the most points advanced to the semi-finals.
All teams except Milan and Porto made their group stage debuts. Two of these teams (Barcelona and Anderlecht) had previously contested the 1991–92 group stage, the only season of the European Cup to adopt such a format.
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
Bracket
Semi-finals
Final
Top goalscorers The top scorers from the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:
RankNameTeamGoals1 Ronald Koeman Barcelona8 Wynton Rufer Werder Bremen83 Luc Nilis Anderlecht7 Hristo Stoichkov Barcelona75 Bernd Hobsch Werder Bremen5 Valery Karpin Spartak Moscow57 Marco Bode Werder Bremen4 Jürgen Klinsmann Monaco4 Daniele Massaro Milan4 Viktor Onopko Spartak Moscow4 Jean-Pierre Papin Milan4 Nikolai Pisarev Spartak Moscow4 Sergey Rodionov Spartak Moscow4 Kubilay Türkyilmaz Galatasaray4
See also 1993–94 European Cup Winners' Cup 1993–94 UEFA Cup
References
External links
1993–94 All matches – season at UEFA website European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation All scorers 1993–94 UEFA Champions League (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers preliminary round - results and line-ups (archive)