1993–94 UEFA Champions League

Template:Short description Template:Short description 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 which 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

Round	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from the previous round
Preliminary round (20 teams)	20 champions ranked 23–42 by seeding coefficient
First round (32 teams)	22 champions ranked 1–22 by seeding coefficient (originally including title holders)Template:Cref2	10 winners from the qualifying round
Second round (16 teams)		16 winners from the first round
Group stage (8 teams)		8 winners from the second round
Knockout 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)

Rank	Association	Team	Coeff.
First round
6	Template:Fba	Monaco (3rd)Template:Cref2	2.667
1	Template:Fba	Milan (1st)	3.408
2	Template:Fba	Barcelona (1st)	2.986
3	Template:Fba	Manchester United (1st)	2.910
4	Template:Fba	Werder Bremen (1st)	2.848
5	Template:Fba	Anderlecht (1st)	2.671
7	Template:Fba	Porto (1st)	2.589
8	Template:Fba	Spartak Moscow (1st)	2.536
9	Template:Fba	Rangers (1st)	2.504
10	Template:Fba	Steaua București (1st)	2.366
11	Template:Fba	Feyenoord (1st)	2.325
12	Template:Fba	Galatasaray (1st)	2.227
13	Template:Fba	Sparta Prague (1st)Template:Cref2	2.205
14	Template:Fba	Lech Poznań (1st)	2.089
15	Template:Fba	Austria Wien (1st)	2.076
16	Template:Fba	Copenhagen (1st)	2.053
17	Template:Fba	AEK Athens (1st)	1.994
18	Template:Fba	AIK (1st)	1.954
19	Template:Fba	Dynamo Kyiv (1st)	1.692
20	Template:Fba	Kispest Honvéd (1st)	1.573
21	Template:Fba	Dinamo Minsk (1st)	1.250
22	Template:Fba	Levski Sofia (1st)	1.125
Preliminary round
23	Template:Fba	Rosenborg (1st)	0.971
24	Template:Fba	Aarau (1st)	0.939
25	Template:Fba	HJK (1st)	0.855
26	Template:Fba	Linfield (1st)	0.833
27	Template:Fba	Croatia Zagreb (1st)	0.750
28	Template:Fba	ÍA (1st)	0.656
29	Template:Fba	Partizani (1st)	0.634
30	Template:Fba	Avenir Beggen (1st)	0.633
31	Template:Fba	Omonia (1st)	0.623
32	Template:Fba	Cwmbrân Town (1st)	0.571
33	Template:Fba	Floriana (1st)	0.563
34	Template:Fba	Cork City (1st)	0.500
	Template:Fba	Skonto (1st)	0.500
36	Template:Fba	B68 (1st)	0.000
	Template:Fba	Beitar Jerusalem (1st)	0.000
	Template:Fba	Dinamo Tbilisi (1st)	0.000
	Template:Fba	Ekranas (1st)	0.000
	Template:Fba	Norma Tallinn (1st)	0.000
	Template:Fba	Olimpija Ljubljana (1st)	0.000
	Template:Fba	Zimbru Chișinău (1st)	0.000

Associations without a participating team

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Notes

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition is as follows. All draws were held in Geneva, Switzerland.

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying round		14 July 1993	18 August 1993	1 September 1993
First round			15 September 1993	29 September 1993
Second round		1 October 1993	20 October 1993	3 November 1993
Group stage	Matchday 1	5 November 1993	24 November 1993
	Matchday 2		8 December 1993
	Matchday 3		2 March 1994
	Matchday 4		16 March 1994
	Matchday 5		30 March 1994
	Matchday 6		13 April 1994
Knockout phase	Semi-finals		27 April 1994
	Final		18 May 1994 at Olympic Stadium, Athens

Preliminary round

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First round

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Second round

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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

1993–94 UEFA Champions League group stage

Group B

1993–94 UEFA Champions League group stage

Knockout stage

Bracket

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Semi-finals

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Final

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Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Template:Flagicon Ronald Koeman	Template:Fbaicon Barcelona	8
	Template:Flagicon Wynton Rufer	Template:Fbaicon Werder Bremen	8
3	Template:Flagicon Luc Nilis	Template:Fbaicon Anderlecht	7
	Template:Flagicon Hristo Stoichkov	Template:Fbaicon Barcelona	7
5	Template:Flagicon Bernd Hobsch	Template:Fbaicon Werder Bremen	5
	Template:Flagicon Valery Karpin	Template:Fbaicon Spartak Moscow	5
7	Template:Flagicon Marco Bode	Template:Fbaicon Werder Bremen	4
	Template:Flagicon Jürgen Klinsmann	Template:Fbaicon Monaco	4
	Template:Flagicon Daniele Massaro	Template:Fbaicon Milan	4
	Template:Flagicon Viktor Onopko	Template:Fbaicon Spartak Moscow	4
	Template:Flagicon Jean-Pierre Papin	Template:Fbaicon Milan	4
	Template:Flagicon Nikolai Pisarev	Template:Fbaicon Spartak Moscow	4
	Template:Flagicon Sergey Rodionov	Template:Fbaicon Spartak Moscow	4
	Template:Flagicon Kubilay Türkyilmaz	Template:Fbaicon Galatasaray	4

See also

• 1993–94 European Cup Winners' Cup
• 1993–94 UEFA Cup

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
• 1993/94 UEFA Champions League - results and line-ups (archive)