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 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
Tournament details
Dates18 August – 1 September 1993 (qualifying)
15 September 1993 – 18 May 1994 (competition proper)
24 November 1993 – 27 April 1994 (UEFA Champions League)
Teams8 (UEFA Champions League)
32 (first round)
42 (total)
Final positions
Champions Milan (5th title)
Runners-up Barcelona
Tournament statistics
Matches played75
Goals scored217 (2.89 per match)
Top scorer(s) Ronald Koeman
Wynton Rufer
(8 goals each)

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 this edition.

Teams

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

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
HJK Helsinki 2–1 FC Norma 1–1 1–0
FK Ekranas 0–2 Floriana 0–1 0–1
B68 0–11 Croatia Zagreb 0–5 0–6
Skonto 1–1 (11–10 p) Olimpija Ljubljana 0–1 1–0
Cwmbran Town 4–4 (a) Cork City 3–2 1–2
Dinamo Tbilisi 3–21 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 FC Aarau 2–1 0–2
Zimbru Chişinău 1–3 Beitar Jerusalem 1–1 0–2

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

First round

Team 1 Agg. 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.)
FC Aarau 0–1 Milan 0–1 0–0
AIK 1–2 Sparta Prague 1–0 0–2
HJK Helsinki 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

First leg

Porto 2–0 Floriana
Kostadinov  8'
Semedo  78'		 Report
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Roger Philippi (Luxembourg)
IA Akranes 1–0 Feyenoord
Thordarsson  75' Report
Attendance: 6,327
Referee: Sandor Varga (Hungary)
Monaco 1–0 AEK Athens
Vlachos  80' (o.g.) Report
Attendance: 7,000
Steaua București 1–2 Croatia Zagreb
Panduru  34' Report Cvitanovic  15'
Jelicic  62'
Attendance: 16,700
Referee: Vadim Zhuk (Belarus)
Rangers 3–2 Levski Sofia
McPherson  45'
Hateley  57', 78'		 Report Borimirov  76'
Todorov  81'
Attendance: 37,013
Werder Bremen 5–2 Dinamo Minsk
Hobsch  26', 32', 60'
Rufer  55', 90'		 Report Gerasimets  51'
Velichko  76'
Attendance: 10,274
Linfield 3–0 Copenhagen
Haylock  38'
McConnell  43'
R. Johnston  60'		 Report
Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Freddy Philipoz (Switzerland)
FC Aarau 0–1 Milan
Report Papin  54'
Attendance: 9,400
AIK 1–0 Sparta Prague
Lidman  36' Report
Attendance: 5,854
Referee: Andrey Butenko (Russia)
HJK Helsinki 0–3 Anderlecht
Report Bosman  50'
Versavel  77'
Boffin  84'
Attendance: 1,500
Kispest Honvéd 2–3 Manchester United
Szabados  40'
Stefanov  70'		 Report Keane  9', 43'
Cantona  44'
Attendance: 9,000
Galatasaray 2–1 Cork City
Turkyilmaz  30'
Arif  51'		 Report Barry  67'
Attendance: 17,804
Lech Poznań 3–0 Beitar Jerusalem
Moskal  8'
Podbrozny  32' (pen.)
Trzeciak  60'		 Report
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: George Ionescu (Romania)
Skonto 0–5 Spartak Moscow
Report Pogodin  2'
Rodionov  7', 40', 43'
Beschastnykh  70'
Attendance: 2,900
Referee: Dimitar Ivanov (Bulgaria)
Dynamo Kyiv 3–1 Barcelona
Shkapenko  5'
Leonenko  45' (pen.), 56'		 Report Koeman  28' (pen.)
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Philip Don (England)
Rosenborg 3–1 Austria Wien
Tangen  28' (pen.)
Leonhardsen  35'
Løken  42'		 Report Zsak  33' (pen.)
Attendance: 9,619
Referee: Simo Ruokonen (Finland)

Second leg

Floriana 0–0 Porto
Report
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Bujar Pregja (Albania)

Porto won 2–0 on aggregate.

Feyenoord 3–0 IA Akranes
Refos  26'
Obiku  61'
Blinker  79'		 Report
Attendance: 24,000
Referee: Keith Burge (Wales)

Feyenoord won 3–1 on aggregate.

AEK Athens 1–1 Monaco
Slišković  12' Report Djorkaeff  5'
Attendance: 31,500

Monaco won 2–1 on aggregate.

Croatia Zagreb 2–3 Steaua București
Vlaovic  8'
Adžić  71'		 Report Panduru  40'
Vlădoiu  49', 61'
Attendance: 6,000

4–4 on aggregate; Steaua București won on away goals.

Levski Sofia 2–1 Rangers
Sirakov  36'
Todorov  90'		 Report Durrant  43'
Attendance: 52,500

4–4 on aggregate; Levski Sofia won on away goals.

Dinamo Minsk 1–1 Werder Bremen
Byalkevich  40' Report Rufer  81' (pen.)
Attendance: 8,700

Werder Bremen won 6–3 on aggregate.

Copenhagen 4–0 (a.e.t.) Linfield
Møller  2'
M. Johansen  26'
Højer Nielsen  90'
Mikkelsen  96'		 Report
Attendance: 4,890
Referee: Roman Steindl (Austria)

Copenhagen won 4–3 on aggregate.

Milan 0–0 FC Aarau
Report
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Marc Batta (France)

Milan won 1–0 on aggregate.

Sparta Prague 2–0 AIK
H. Siegl  15', 81' Report
Attendance: 16,654
Referee: Jan Damgaard (Denmark)

Sparta Prague won 2–1 on aggregate.

Anderlecht 3–0 HJK Helsinki
Nilis  16', 21', 42' Report
Attendance: 11,500
Referee: Antonio Almeida Marcal (Portugal)

Anderlecht won 6–0 on aggregate.

Manchester United 2–1 Kispest Honvéd
Bruce  55', 64' Report Sallói  78'
Attendance: 35,718

Manchester United won 5–3 on aggregate.

Cork City 0–1 Galatasaray
Report Turkyilmaz  76'
Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Didier Pauchard (France)

Galatasaray won 3–1 on aggregate.

Beitar Jerusalem 2–4 Lech Poznań
Ohana  12'
Schwartz  73'		 Report Lukasik  4'
Trzeciak  24'
Podbrozny  31'
Dembinski  70'
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: John Purcell (Republic of Ireland)

Lech Poznań won 7–2 on aggregate.

Spartak Moscow 4–0 Skonto
Tsymbalar  7', 73'
Pisarev  14'
Onopko  89'		 Report
Attendance: 10,000

Spartak Moscow won 9–0 on aggregate.

Barcelona 4–1 Dynamo Kyiv
Laudrup  9'
Bakero  17', 47'
Koeman  67'		 Report Rebrov  28'
Attendance: 88,600
Referee: Angelo Amendolia (Italy)

Barcelona won 5–4 on aggregate.

Austria Wien 4–1 Rosenborg
Narbekovas  12'
Schmid  50'
Zsak  74'
Kogler  81'		 Report Dahlum  32'
Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Zbigniew Przesmycki (Poland)

Austria Wien won 5–4 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1 Agg. 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

First leg

Porto 1–0 Feyenoord
Domingos  90' Report
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Rémi Harrel (France)
Monaco 4–1 Steaua București
Ikpeba  50', 75'
Klinsmann  52', 64'		 Report Dumitrescu  22' (pen.)
Attendance: 5,500
Levski Sofia 2–2 Werder Bremen
Yankov  75'
Ginchev  90'		 Report Bode  50'
Rufer  52'
Attendance: 45,000
Copenhagen 0–6 Milan
Report Papin  1', 72'
Simone  6', 16'
Laudrup  44'
Orlando  61'
Attendance: 34,285
Sparta Prague 0–1 Anderlecht
Report Nilis  74'
Attendance: 25,621
Referee: Christer Fällström (Sweden)
Manchester United 3–3 Galatasaray
Robson  3'
Stumpf  14' (o.g.)
Cantona  80'		 Report Arif  16'
Bruce  32' (o.g.)
Türkyilmaz  64'
Attendance: 39,396
Lech Poznań 1–5 Spartak Moscow
Podbrozny  44' (pen.) Report Pisarev  8', 62'
Karpin  10'
Onopko  30', 53'
Attendance: 8,762
Barcelona 3–0 Austria Wien
Koeman  37' (pen.), 73'
Estebaranz  89'		 Report
Attendance: 87,600

Second leg

Feyenoord 0–0 Porto
Report
Attendance: 42,395

Porto won 1–0 on aggregate.

Steaua București 1–0 Monaco
Dumitrescu  85' Report
Attendance: 21,000

AS Monaco won 4–2 on aggregate.

Werder Bremen 1–0 Levski Sofia
Basler  73' Report
Attendance: 26,953

Werder Bremen won 3–2 on aggregate.

Milan 1–0 Copenhagen
Papin  45' Report
Attendance: 10,000

Milan won 7–0 on aggregate.

Anderlecht 4–2 Sparta Prague
Bosman  2'
Nilis  47', 73'
Versavel  87'		 Report Dvirnyk  17', 69'
Attendance: 19,000
Referee: Antonio Martin Navarrete (Spain)

Anderlecht won 5–2 on aggregate.

Galatasaray 0–0 Manchester United
Report
Attendance: 30,356

3–3 on aggregate; Galatasaray won on away goals.

Spartak Moscow 2–1 Lech Poznań
Karpin  7'
Khlestov  81'		 Report Dembiński  30'
Attendance: 10,000

Spartak Moscow won 7–2 on aggregate.

Austria Wien 1–2 Barcelona
Ogris  39' Report Stoichkov  5', 77'
Attendance: 22,000

Barcelona won 5–1 on aggregate.

UEFA Champions League

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

Group stage

Main article: 1993–94 UEFA Champions League 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
Pos Team
 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
 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

The knockout stage of the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League was played on 27 April 1994, over one leg. If both teams scored the same number of goals, matches would go to extra time and then penalties if the teams could not be separated after extra time.

Bracket
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
27 April – Milan
 
 
 Milan3
 
18 May – Athens
 
 Monaco0
 
 Milan4
 
27 April – Barcelona
 
 Barcelona0
 
 Barcelona3
 
 
 Porto0
 
Semi-finals
Team 1  Score  Team 2
Milan 3–0 Monaco
Barcelona 3–0 Porto
Milan 3–0 Monaco
Desailly  14'
Albertini  48'
Massaro  66'		 Report
Attendance: 78,650
Barcelona 3–0 Porto
Stoichkov  10', 35'
Koeman  72'		 Report
Attendance: 98,000
Referee: Vadim Zhuk (Belarus)

Final

Main article: 1994 UEFA Champions League Final
Milan 4–0 Barcelona
Massaro  22', 45+2'
Savićević  47'
Desailly  58'		 Report
Attendance: 70,000
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

References

  1. Seeding for the European Cups - 1993/94 Champions League