1993 European Cup Winners' Cup final

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Template other The 1993 European Cup Winners' Cup final was a football match contested between Parma of Italy and Antwerp of Belgium. The final was held at Wembley Stadium in London, England on 12 May 1993. It was the final match of the 1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 33rd European Cup Winners' Cup final. Parma beat Antwerp 3–1 and in doing so became the eighth different Italian team to win a European trophy. Upon the abolition of the competition in 1999, this was the last final where the winners won by more than a goal.

The win gave Parma their first European trophy in their first European final; moreover, it was just their second season competing in European competition, and they were the first Italian team to appear in the Cup Winners' Cup final since Sampdoria, who appeared in consecutive years in 1989 and 1990. The most recent occasion on which a Belgian side had appeared in a Cup Winners' Cup final was in the second of Sampdoria's most recent appearances, in 1990. Sampdoria won the match 2–0 against Anderlecht, but needed extra time to do so. The 1993 edition also represented Antwerp's first appearance in a European final.

As the winners, Parma contested the 1993 European Super Cup against 1992–93 UEFA Champions League runners-up Milan, after champions Marseille had been banned from European competition over match-fixing allegations.

This was the last European club tournament final staged at the old Wembley, as it was going to be rebuilt to an all-new stadium.

Background

The 1993 final was the first meeting between Parma and Antwerp. Both sides went into the final chasing their first piece of European silverware and the match was the first time Parma faced Belgian opposition. Neither manager had previously led a team to a European final.

Wembley Stadium in London had hosted the European Cup Winners' Cup final on one previous occasion: in 1965. Londoners West Ham United won the game by two goals to nil against West German opposition 1860 Munich in front of 97,974 people, the biggest ever attendance at a Cup Winners' Cup final.

Route to the final

Template:Flagicon Parma				Opponent	Template:Flagicon Antwerp
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg	Round	Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Template:Flagicon Újpest	2–1	1–0 (H)	1–1 (A)	First round	Template:Flagicon Glenavon	2–2 Template:Pso	1–1 (A)	1–1 Template:Aet (H)
Template:Flagicon Boavista	2–0	0–0 (H)	2–0 (A)	Second round	Template:Flagicon Admira	7–6	4–2 (A)	3–4 Template:Aet (H)
Template:Flagicon Sparta Prague	2–0	0–0 (A)	2–0 (H)	Quarter-finals	Template:Flagicon Steaua București	1–1 (a)	0–0 (H)	1–1 (A)
Template:Flagicon Atlético Madrid	2–2 (a)	2–1 (A)	0–1 (H)	Semi-finals	Template:Flagicon Spartak Moscow	3–2	0–1 (A)	3–1 (H)

Match

Summary

Parma opened the scoring in the 10th minute when goalkeeper Stevan Stojanović misjudged a corner that allowed Parma's captain, Lorenzo Minotti to hook the ball home from the left of the penalty area. But Antwerp replied within two minutes, Alex Czerniatynski played a through-ball to Francis Severeyns who shot past the goalkeeper left footed to level the scores. The Italians began to dominate the game and Alessandro Melli headed them 2–1 ahead after half an hour after a cross from the right. The game was put beyond Antwerp six minutes from time when Stefano Cuoghi curled a shot past the goalkeeper from inside the area.

Details

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GK 1 Template:Flagicon Marco Ballotta CB 6 Template:Flagicon Georges Grün SW 4 Template:Flagicon Lorenzo Minotti (c) CB 5 Template:Flagicon Luigi Apolloni RWB  2 Template:Flagicon Antonio Benarrivo LWB  3 Template:Flagicon Alberto Di Chiara Template:Yel CM 9 Template:Flagicon Marco Osio downward-facing red arrow 75' CM 8 Template:Flagicon Daniele Zoratto downward-facing red arrow 26' CM 10 Template:Flagicon Stefano Cuoghi SS 11 Template:Flagicon Tomas Brolin CF 7 Template:Flagicon Alessandro Melli Substitutes: GK 12 Template:Flagicon Marco Ferrari DF 13 Template:Flagicon Salvatore Matrecano CM 14 Template:Flagicon Gabriele Pin upward-facing green arrow 26' MF 15 Template:Flagicon Fausto Pizzi upward-facing green arrow 75' FW 16 Template:Flagicon Faustino Asprilla Manager: Template:Flagicon Nevio Scala

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GK 1 Template:Flagicon Stevan Stojanović CB 4 Template:Flagicon Rudi Taeymans SW 3 Template:Flagicon Nico Broeckaert Template:Yel CB 5 Template:Flagicon Rudi Smidts (c) RWB 2 Template:Flagicon Wim Kiekens LWB 8 Template:Flagicon Didier Segers Template:Yel downward-facing red arrow 82' CM 7 Template:Flagicon Ronny Van Rethy CM 6 Template:Flagicon Dragan Jakovljević downward-facing red arrow 51' CM 10 Template:Flagicon Hans-Peter Lehnhoff CF 9 Template:Flagicon Francis Severeyns Template:Yel CF 11 Template:Flagicon Alexandre Czerniatynski Substitutes: DF 12 Template:Flagicon Geert Emmerechts MF 13 Template:Flagicon Garry De Graef MF 14 Template:Flagicon Patrick Van Veirdeghem upward-facing green arrow 51' FW 15 Template:Flagicon Noureddine Moukrim upward-facing green arrow 82' GK 16 Template:Flagicon Wim De Coninck Manager: Template:Flagicon Walter Meeuws

Assistant referees: Template:Flagicon Klaus Plettenberg (Germany) Template:Flagicon Hans Wolf (Germany) Fourth official: Template:Flagicon Bernd Heynemann (Germany)

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of golden goal extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Five named substitutes. Maximum of two substitutions.

See also

• 1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup
• 1993 European Cup Final
• 1993 UEFA Cup Final
• Parma Calcio 1913 in European football
• Royal Antwerp F.C. in European football

External links

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation