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1993 was the second season Russia held its own national football competition since the breakup of theSoviet Union.
FC Spartak Moscow won the league for the second time in a row.
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The first ever edition of the Russian Cup,1992–93 Russian Cup was won byFC Torpedo Moscow, who beatPFC CSKA Moscow in the finals in a shootout 5-3 after finishing extra time at 1-1.
Early stages of the1993–94 Russian Cup were played later in the year.
PFC CSKA Moscow continued their group campaign and finished it without much success, only gaining 2 points in 6 games, coming in last in the group and suffering a 0-6 defeat against Marseille.[1] They could not play their home games in Moscow due to the lack of a stadium meeting the Champions League standards at the time.
54' -Pelé 27') /Berlin,Olympic Stadium / Attendance: 10,000 4' (pen.) 34' 48'Pelé 42'Ferreri 72'Desailly 79') /Marseille,Stade Vélodrome / Attendance: 35,000 19' -Schaessens 44'Verheyen 84') /Berlin,Olympic Stadium / Attendance: 2,500FC Spartak Moscow reached the semifinals, tying the best European result in club's history.[2]
36') /Rotterdam,de Kuip / Attendance: 33,187 7' 83'Radchenko 90'Cherenkov
85' -Kiprich 14'van Gobbel 85') /Moscow,Torpedo Stadium / Attendance: 15,000 36') /Moscow,Luzhniki Stadium / Attendance: 75,000 38'Jakovljević 67'Lehnhoff 78' (pen.) -Radchenko 9'Onopko
77' ) /Antwerp,Bosuilstadion / Attendance: 27,000FC Spartak Moscow qualified for the group stage and continued to play in the group into the 1994.[3]
2'Rodionov 7' 39' 41'Beschastnykh 65') /Riga,Daugava Stadium / Attendance: 2,900 7' 39'Pisarev 14'Onopko 89') /Moscow,Luzhniki Stadium / Attendance: 3,500 44' (pen.) -Pisarev 8' 62'Karpin 10'Onopko 30' 53') /Poznań,Miejski / Attendance: 12,000 7'Khlestov 81' -Dembiński 30') /Moscow,Luzhniki Stadium / Attendance: 10,000 17'Ikpeba 40'Djorkaeff 62' (pen.)Thuram 89' -Pisarev 48') /Monaco,Stade Louis II / Attendance: 20,000 26' -Stumpf 73' 
) /Moscow,Luzhniki Stadium / Attendance: 50,000FC Torpedo Moscow went out in the first round.[4]
88') /Moscow,Torpedo Stadium / Attendance: 4,000 6'Pets 72'Holtzman 75' -Kalaychev 12') /Haifa,Kiryat Eliezer Stadium / Attendance: 9,000All three participating Russian teams drew very tough opponents in the first round and all were eliminated.[5] FC Spartak Vladikavkaz and FC Lokomotiv Moscow played in Europe for the first time in their history.
9'Weber 25'Furtok 45'Bein 48'Okocha 81'Yeboah 89') /Moscow,Dynamo Stadium / Attendance: 14,000 49' 86'Ravanelli 69') /Turin,Stadio delle Alpi / Attendance: 26,267 65' –Simutenkov 23'Dobrovolski 53') /Frankfurt am Main,Waldstadion / Attendance: 4,900 62'Kutowski 88' ) /Vladikavkaz,Republican Spartak Stadium / Attendance: 33,000 53') /Moscow,Lokomotiv Stadium / Attendance: 7,000Russia national football team qualified for1994 FIFA World Cup after coming second in the qualifying group behind the winners Greece.Pavel Sadyrin was the manager in 1993.[6]
12') /Orlando,Citrus Bowl / Attendance: 13,650 60' -Onopko 53' (pen.)Tedeyev 55'Radchenko 40') /Pasadena,Rose Bowl / Attendance: 16,000 64' 70' -Popov 50' 62'Kiriakov 41'Onopko 73' ) /Haifa,Kiryat Eliezer Stadium / Attendance: 3,000 11' 46'Shalimov 58'Kulkov 90') /Luxembourg,Stade Josy Barthel / Attendance: 3,200 55'Kolyvanov 61'Yuran 85') /Moscow,Luzhniki Stadium / Attendance: 25,000 70' (pen.) -Mitropoulos 45') /Moscow,Luzhniki Stadium / Attendance: 45,000 26' -Kiriakov 39') /Reykjavík,Laugardalsvöllur / Attendance: 12,500 17'Cantona 20'Papin 37' -Blanc 23' (o.g.)) /Caen,Stade Michel d'Ornano / Attendance: 22,000 20' (o.g.) -Piatnitski 15'Kiriakov 52'Borodyuk 90') /Budapest,Stadion Üllői Út / Attendance: 15,000 33' (pen.)Galiamin 60' (o.g.)Idris 65'Al-Mehallel 88' -Mostovoi 23' 72') /Dammam,Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium / Attendance: 20,000 70') /Athens,Olympic Stadium / Attendance: 70,000