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1993–94 UEFA Cup

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23rd season of Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA

1993–94 UEFA Cup
Final positions
Dates	14 September 1993 – 11 May 1994
Champions	Internazionale (2nd title)
Runners-up	SV Casino Salzburg
Tournament statistics
Matches played	126
Goals scored	307 (2.44 per match)
Attendance	2,161,952 (17,158 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Dennis Bergkamp (Internazionale) Edgar Schmitt (Karlsruhe) 8 goals each
←1992–93 1994–95 →

International football competition

The1993–94UEFA Cup was the 23rd season of Europe's then-tertiary clubfootball tournament organised byUEFA. Thefinal was played over two legs at theErnst-Happel Stadion,Vienna,Austria, and atSan Siro,Milan,Italy. The competition was won by Italian clubInternazionale, who beatAustria Salzburg of Austria by an aggregate result of 2–0, to claim their second UEFA Cup title in a span of four years.

This would be the final edition of the UEFA Cup with the classic 64-team format that had been in use since 1968, inherited from theInter-Cities Fairs Cup., before the competition was expanded to accommodate both the new European countries and changes in the UEFA Champions League format. This was the only UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League edition where an Austrian side reached the final, the third overall for an Austrian team in European competition and the first sinceRapid Wien in the1985 European Cup Winners' Cup.

Inter Milan's title was previously the lowest finish for a European Cup winning team in their league season as Inter finished 13th in the1993-94 Serie A. This stood until 2025, whenTottenham Hotspur won the2024-25 UEFA Europa League while finishing 17th in the2024-25 Premier League

Association team allocation

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A total of 64 teams from 30UEFA member associations participated in the 1993–94 UEFA Cup, all entering from the first round over six knock-out rounds. The association ranking based on theUEFA country coefficients was originally used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:

Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify.
Associations 4–8 each have three teams qualify.
Associations 9–20 each have two teams qualify.
Associations 21–32 each have one team qualify.

Additionally, associations 9–12 gained a third berth due toYugoslavia being banned underUnited Nations embargo andAlbania withdrawing from the competition.

Ukraine now had its own allocation as an unranked association alongsideSlovenia, after both of them were represented in the previous UEFA Cup. Both associations took over the places ofEast Germany, which had ceased to exist as a country in 1991 after theGerman reunification, and its results had been erased from the UEFA ranking. To rebalance the allocations, the association placed on the 21st spot was not originally slated to have a second berth like it had previously. However,Poland had its UEFA Cup allocation removed due to itsfootball scandal, and its two places were reassigned to associations 21–22 as a second berth.

Association ranking

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For the 1993–94 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1992UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1987–88 to 1991–92. Therefore, it did not include any of the new football federations that had joined UEFA in the previous years, including competing associationsUkraine andSlovenia. Having returned to European competitions in 1990 after a five-year ban,England's score was limited to the last two of the five seasons accounted for in the ranking.

Association ranking for 1993–94 UEFA Cup

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
1	Italy	52.837	4
2	Germany	42.927
3	Spain	40.266
4	Belgium	37.633	3
5	France	37.250
6	Netherlands	27.500
7	Portugal	27.033
8	FR Yugoslavia	25.516	0	^{[Note YUG]}
9	Soviet Union - Russia	24.966	3	^{[Note SOV]}
10	Romania	24.550
11	Czechoslovakia - Czech Republic - Slovakia	20.000		^{[Note TCH]}
12	Scotland	19.750
13	England	19.250	2
14	Austria	18.000
15	Denmark	16.665
16	Greece	16.500
-	East Germany	16.000	0	^{[Note DDR]}

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
17	Turkey	14.998	2
18	Switzerland	14.750	2
19	Poland	12.166	0	^{[Note POL]}
20	Sweden	12.100	2
21	Hungary	11.500
22	Bulgaria	10.416
23	Finland	9.999	1
-	Wales	9.000	0	^{[Note WAL]}
24	Albania	7.666	0	^{[Note ALB]}
25	Iceland	5.000	1
26	Norway	4.999
27	Cyprus	4.000
28	Northern Ireland	3.332
29	Republic of Ireland	2.665
30	Malta	1.999
31	Luxembourg	1.665
-	Slovenia	0.000		^{[Note DDR]}
-	Ukraine	0.000		^{[Note DDR]}

Unranked countries entered in other European competitions
Association	EC	CWC
Belarus	Yes	Yes
Croatia	Yes	Yes
Estonia	Yes	Yes
Faroe Islands	Yes	Yes
Georgia	Yes	No
Israel	Yes	Yes
Latvia	Yes	Yes
Liechtenstein	No	Yes
Lithuania	Yes	Yes
Moldova	Yes	No

Yugoslavia: Due to thebreakup of the country and the ensuingwarfare, Yugoslavia wasdisqualified from European club competitions, a situation that would last for three seasons. Their three slots in the UEFA Cup were allocated as a third berth for associations 9-11, namelyRussia,Romania, andCzechoslovakia. In Yugoslavia,Vojvodina,Zemun andRad would have qualified by league position.

Soviet Union & Russia: After thedissolution of the Soviet Union and the agreement with Ukraine and UEFA, Russia had become the formal successor for all Soviet football heritage. The 1992 UEFA rankings still reflected the Soviet Union, as the Russian association was yet to make its independent debut at the time, but all three of its places were awarded through the1992 Russian Top League, which only featured Russian teams

Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic & Slovakia: Halfway through the1992–93 Czechoslovak First League,Czechoslovakia was formally dissolved into two new countries, theCzech Republic andSlovakia. With the original allocation of three teams into place, one Czech team and two Slovak teams qualified, each of them now representing their own association. All Czechoslovak football heritage was attributed to both the Czech Republic and Slovakia while they simultaneously have a new ranking moving forward.

East Germany, Slovenia & Ukraine: Teams from East Germany represented the country in the first three years accounted for in the 1992 UEFA rankings, but the country had long beenreunificated into Germany, and UEFA no more considered East Germany, which would've been granted two spots. In the previous season,Slovenia had benefitted from the subsequent reorganization by taking the vacant spot that resulted from other countries moving up, and was awarded one place again despite their previous results not being counted yet towards the rankings. In the other hand,Ukraine had a team in the previous UEFA Cup through the Soviet league, and now had its own league. In order for them to have a spot, it was taken from association 21,Hungary, which would regain it anyway due to the ban imposed onPoland.

Poland:ŁKS Łódź andLech Poznan originally qualified for the UEFA Cup on June 20 by finishing second and third in the1992-93 Ekstraklasa. However, the events of the final game day, known as theSunday of Miracles, prompted the Polish association to cancel the results of the original championsLegia Warsaw andŁKS Łódź on July 10 over allegations of bribery, givingLech Poznan the title. Subsequently, UEFA disqualified both Legia Warsaw and ŁKS Łódź from taking part in the UEFA Cup, and forfeited both berths. These slots were allocated as a second berth for associations 21–22, namelyHungary andBulgaria.

Wales: Despite the formation of theLeague of Wales in 1992, UEFA did not award the country a place in the UEFA Cup due to the 64-team format, like many other of the new football leagues at the time. TheFootball Association of Wales still qualified a team for theUEFA Champions League, while theWelsh Cup continued to provide a winner (or best-placed Welsh team as several English teams also competed) in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Its virtual ranking is only an original research, because the UEFA country ranking was only used to allocate the UEFA Cup spots at time, so Wales was not included.

Albania: After one year of exclusion due to theFall of communism in the country and subsequent instability, Albania rejoined European competitions, but elected not to enter a team in the UEFA Cup. Their slot was allocated as a third berth to association 12,Scotland. In Albania,Teuta would have qualified by league position.

Teams

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The labels in parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:

TH: Title holders
CW: Cup winners
CR: Cup runners-up
LC: League Cup winners
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
P-W: End-of-season European competition play-offs winners

Qualified teams for 1993–94 UEFA Cup
Internazionale(2nd)	Juventus(4th)^TH	Lazio(5th)	Cagliari(6th)
Bayern Munich(2nd)	Eintracht Frankfurt(3rd)	Borussia Dortmund(4th)	Karlsruhe(6th)
Deportivo La Coruña(3rd)	Valencia(4th)	Tenerife(5th)	Atlético Madrid(6th)
Mechelen(3rd)	Waregem(4th)	Antwerp(5th)	Bordeaux(4th)
Nantes(5th)	Auxerre(6th)^{[Note FRA]}	PSV Eindhoven(2nd)	Vitesse(4th)
Twente(5th)	Sporting CP(3rd)	Boavista(4th)	Marítimo(5th)
Spartak Vladikavkaz(2nd)	Dynamo Moscow(3rd)	Lokomotiv Moscow(4th)	Dinamo București(2nd)
Rapid București(4th)	Gloria Bistrița(5th)	Slavia Prague(2nd)	Slovan Bratislava(3rd)
DAC Dunajská(4th)	Celtic(3rd)	Dundee United(4th)	Heart of Midlothian(5th)
Aston Villa(2nd)	Norwich City(3rd)	Austria Salzburg(2nd)	Admira/Wacker(3rd)
Brøndby(2nd)	AaB(3rd)	Olympiacos(3rd)	OFI(4th)
Trabzonspor(3rd)	Kocaelispor(4th)	Young Boys(2nd)	Servette FC(3rd)
Norrköping(2nd)	Öster(3rd)	Vác(2nd)	MTK Hungária(4th)
Botev Plovdiv(3rd)	Lokomotiv Plovdiv(4th)	Kuusysi Lahti(2nd)	KR(2nd)
Kongsvinger(2nd)	Apollon(2nd)	Crusaders(2nd)	Bohemians(2nd)
Valletta(P-W)	Union Luxembourg(2nd)	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk(2nd)	Maribor(2nd)

Notes

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France:Monaco qualified for the UEFA Cup by finishing third in the1992–93 French Division 1, but the team was promoted to theUEFA Champions League afterMarseille was disqualified due to its involvement in theFrench football bribery scandal andParis Saint-Germain refused to take the title or Marseille's UEC place, remaining in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup instead.Auxerre, the next best team not qualified for European competition, took its place in the UEFA Cup.

Schedule

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The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Schedule for 1993–94 UEFA Cup
Round	First leg	Second leg
First round	14–16 September 1993	28–30 September 1993
Second round	19–20 October 1993	2–4 November 1993
Third round	23–25 November 1993	7–8 December 1993
Quarter-finals	1–3 March 1994	15–17 March 1994
Semi-finals	29–30 March 1994	12 April 1994
Final	26 April 1994	11 May 1994

First round

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AaB	1–5	Deportivo La Coruña	1–0	0–5
Bohemians	0–6	Bordeaux	0–1	0–5
Borussia Dortmund	1–0	Spartak Vladikavkaz	0–0	1–0
Brøndby	3–3 (a)	Dundee United	2–0	1–3 (a.e.t.)
Young Boys	0–1	Celtic	0–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Tenerife	3–2	Auxerre	2–2	1–0
Crusaders	0–4	Servette	0–0	0–4
Dinamo București	3–4	Cagliari	3–2	0–2
Dynamo Moscow	2–7	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–6	2–1
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	4–2	Admira Wacker	1–0	3–2
Kuusysi	6–1	Waregem	4–0	2–1
Nantes	2–4	Valencia	1–1	1–3 (a.e.t.)
Twente	3–7	Bayern Munich	3–4	0–3
Gloria Bistrița	0–2	Maribor	0–0	0–2
Heart of Midlothian	2–4	Atlético Madrid	2–1	0–3
IFK Norrköping	1–2	Mechelen	0–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Internazionale	5–1	Rapid București	3–1	2–0
Juventus	4–0	Lokomotiv Moscow	3–0	1–0
Karlsruhe	2–1	PSV Eindhoven	2–1	0–0
KR	1–2	MTK	1–2	0–0
Kocaelispor	0–2	Sporting CP	0–0	0–2
Norwich City	3–0	Vitesse	3–0	0–0
Östers IF	2–7	Kongsvinger	1–3	1–4
Botev Plovdiv	3–8	Olympiacos	2–3	1–5
Royal Antwerp	4–2	Marítimo	2–0	2–2
Austria Salzburg	4–0	DAC Dunajská Streda	2–0	2–0
Lazio	4–0	Lokomotiv Plovdiv	2–0	2–0
Slavia Prague	1–2	OFI	1–1	0–1
Slovan Bratislava	1–2	Aston Villa	0–0	1–2
Trabzonspor	6–2	Valletta	3–1	3–1
Union Luxembourg	0–5	Boavista	0–1	0–4
Vác	2–4	Apollon Limassol	2–0	0–4 (a.e.t.)

First leg

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14 September 1993

16:30

Vác	2–0	Apollon Limassol
Szedlacsek 42' Nyilas 80'	Report

Ligeti Stadion,Vác

Attendance: 1,687

Referee:Wilfred Wallace (Republic of Ireland)

14 September 1993