1993–94 UEFA Champions League

The 1993–94 UEFA Champions League 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 AC Milan, their fifth title, beating 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).

1993–94 UEFA Champions League

The Olympic Stadium in Athens hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	Qualifying: 18 August – 1 September 1993 Competition proper: 15 September 1993 – 18 May 1994
Teams	Competition proper: 32 Total: 42
Final positions
Champions	AC Milan (5th title)
Runners-up	Barcelona
Tournament statistics
Matches played	75
Goals scored	217 (2.89 per match)
Attendance	2,082,730 (27,770 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ronald Koeman (Barcelona) Wynton Rufer (Werder Bremen) 8 goals each
← 1992–93 1994–95 →

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. FK 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

 

 

Partizani

 

Austria

 

Anderlecht

 

Din Minsk

 

Levski

 

Zagreb

 

Omonia

 

Sparta

 

Copenhagen

 

Man. United

 

Barcelona

 

Norma Tallinn

 

HJK

 

Monaco

 

B68 Toftir

 

Din. Tbilisi

 

Bremen

 

AEK

 

Honvéd

 

Cork

 

ÍA

 

Beitar

 

Milan

 

Ekranas

 

Avenir

 

Skonto

 

Zimbru Chișinău

 

Floriana

 

Feyenoord

 

Linfield

 

Lech

 

Rosenborg

 

Porto

 

Steaua

 

Spartak

 

Rangers

 

Aarau

 

Olimpija

 

AIK

 

Galatasaray

 

Dyn. Kyiv

 

Cwmbrân Town

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Location of teams of the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League.
  Purple: Eliminated in the preliminary round;  Yellow: Eliminated in the first round;   Orange: Eliminated in the second round;   Red: Qualified for group stage.

42 national champions participated in 1993–94 UEFA Champions League season. 20 lowest-ranked of them by 1993 UEFA club ranking^[1] entered in the Preliminary Round, 22 best-ranked champions entered in the First Round.

First round
Milan (1st)	Barcelona (1st)	Manchester United (1st)	Werder Bremen (1st)
Anderlecht (1st)	Monaco (3rd)^[Note FRA]	Porto (1st)	Spartak Moscow (1st)
Rangers (1st)	Steaua București (1st)	Feyenoord (1st)	Galatasaray (1st)
Sparta Prague (1st)^[Note CZE]	Lech Poznań (1st)	Austria Wien (1st)	Copenhagen (1st)
AEK Athens (1st)	AIK (1st)	Dynamo Kyiv (1st)	Kispest Honvéd (1st)
Dinamo Minsk (1st)	Levski Sofia (1st)
Preliminary round
Rosenborg (1st)	Aarau (1st)	HJK (1st)	Linfield (1st)
Croatia Zagreb (1st)	ÍA (1st)	Partizani (1st)	Avenir Beggen (1st)
Omonia (1st)	Cwmbrân Town (1st)	Floriana (1st)	Cork City (1st)
Skonto (1st)	B68 Toftir (1st)	Beitar Jerusalem (1st)	Dinamo Tbilisi (1st)
Ekranas (1st)	Norma Tallinn (1st)	Olimpija Ljubljana (1st)	Zimbru Chișinău (1st)

Notes

1. France (FRA): Champions League title holders Marseille (who also finished 1st in 1992–93 French Division 1) were not allowed to enter due to their involvement in a match-fixing scandal in Division 1. They were subsequently stripped of their league title and demoted to Division 2 at the end of the 1993–94 season. Third-placed Monaco took the vacated French berth since league runners-up Paris Saint-Germain refused to take the title from Marseille on commercial grounds, instead participating in the 1993–94 European Cup Winners' Cup as 1992–93 Coupe de France winners.
2. Czech Republic (CZE): Sparta Prague qualified as winners of Czechoslovakia domestic league, but represented its successor association Czech Republic.
3. FR Yugoslavia (FRY): 1992–93 First League of FR Yugoslavia champions FK Partizan not admitted as a result of UN economic sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia.

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

Main article: 1993–94 UEFA Champions League preliminary round

The first legs were played on 18 and 22 August, and the second legs on 1 September 1993.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
HJK	2–1	Norma Tallinn	1–1	1–0
Ekranas	0–2	Floriana	0–1	0–1
B68 Toftir	0–11	Croatia Zagreb	0–5	0–6
Skonto	1–1 (11–10 p)	Olimpija Ljubljana	0–1	1–0 (a.e.t.)
Cwmbrân Town	4–4 (a)	Cork City	3–2	1–2
Dinamo Tbilisi	w/o^[note 1]	Linfield	2–1	1–1
Avenir Beggen	0–3	Rosenborg	0–2	0–1
Partizani	0–3	ÍA	0–0	0–3
Omonia	2–3	Aarau	2–1	0–2
Zimbru Chișinău	1–3	Beitar Jerusalem	1–1	0–2

First round

Main article: 1993–94 UEFA Champions League first round

The first legs were played on 15 and 16 September, and the second legs on 28 and 29 September 1993.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Porto	2–0	Floriana	2–0	0–0
ÍA	1–3	Feyenoord	1–0	0–3
Monaco	2–1	AEK Athens	1–0	1–1
Steaua București	4–4 (a)	Croatia Zagreb	1–2	3–2
Rangers	4–4 (a)	Levski Sofia	3–2	1–2
Werder Bremen	6–3	Dinamo Minsk	5–2	1–1
Linfield	3–4	Copenhagen	3–0	0–4 (a.e.t.)
Aarau	0–1	Milan	0–1	0–0
AIK	1–2	Sparta Prague	1–0	0–2
HJK	0–6	Anderlecht	0–3	0–3
Kispest Honvéd	3–5	Manchester United	2–3	1–2
Galatasaray	3–1	Cork City	2–1	1–0
Lech Poznań	7–2	Beitar Jerusalem	3–0	4–2
Skonto	0–9	Spartak Moscow	0–5	0–4
Dynamo Kyiv	4–5	Barcelona	3–1	1–4
Rosenborg	4–5	Austria Wien	3–1	1–4

Second round

Main article: 1993–94 UEFA Champions League second round

The first legs were played on 20 October, and the second legs on 3 November 1993.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Porto	1–0	Feyenoord	1–0	0–0
Monaco	4–2	Steaua București	4–1	0–1
Levski Sofia	2–3	Werder Bremen	2–2	0–1
Copenhagen	0–7	Milan	0–6	0–1
Sparta Prague	2–5	Anderlecht	0–1	2–4
Manchester United	3–3 (a)	Galatasaray	3–3	0–0
Lech Poznań	2–7	Spartak Moscow	1–5	1–2
Barcelona	5–1	Austria Wien	3–0	2–1

Group stage

Main article: 1993–94 UEFA Champions League group stage

 

 

Anderlecht

 

Barcelona

 

Monaco

 

Bremen

 

Milan

 

Porto

 

Spartak

 

Galatasaray

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Location of teams of the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League.
  Brown: Group A;   Red: Group B;

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

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		BAR	MON	SPA	GAL
1	Barcelona	6	4	2	0	13	3	+10	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	5–1	3–0
2	Monaco	6	3	1	2	9	4	+5	7			0–1	—	4–1	3–0
3	Spartak Moscow	6	1	3	2	6	12	−6	5			2–2	0–0	—	0–0
4	Galatasaray	6	0	2	4	1	10	−9	2			0–0	0–2	1–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MIL	POR	BRM	AND
1	Milan	6	2	4	0	6	2	+4	8	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–0	2–1	0–0
2	Porto	6	3	1	2	10	6	+4	7			0–0	—	3–2	2–0
3	Werder Bremen	6	2	1	3	11	15	−4	5			1–1	0–5	—	5–3
4	Anderlecht	6	1	2	3	5	9	−4	4			0–0	1–0	1–2	—

Source: UEFA

Knockout stage

Main article: 1993–94 UEFA Champions League knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	27 April 1994 – Milan
	Milan	3
					18 May 1994 – Athens
	Monaco	0
					Milan	4
	27 April 1994 – Barcelona
					Barcelona	0
	Barcelona	3
	Porto	0

Semi-finals

The matches were played on 27 April 1994.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Milan	3–0	Monaco
Barcelona	3–0	Porto

Final

Main article: 1994 UEFA Champions League final

The final was played on 18 May 1994 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens.

18 May 1994 (1994-05-18)

21:15 EEST

Milan	4–0	Barcelona
Massaro   22', 45+2' Savićević   47' Desailly   58'	Report

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 70,000^[2]

Referee: Philip Don (England)

Top goalscorers

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

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

See also

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

Notes

1. Dinamo Tbilisi were ejected from the competition by UEFA after a failed attempt to bribe the referee for the first leg.

References

1. Seeding for the European Cups - 1993/94 Champions League
2. "2. Finals" (PDF). UEFA Champions League Statistics Handbook 2016/17. Nyon: Union of European Football Associations. 2017. p. 1. Retrieved 22 April 2017.

External links

• 1993–94 All matches – season at UEFA website
• All scorers 1993–94 UEFA Champions League (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers
• 1993/94 UEFA Champions League - results and line-ups (archive)