The 1992–93
UEFA Cup
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was the 22nd season of Europe's then-tertiary club
football
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tournament organised by
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. The
final was played over two legs at
Westfalenstadion,
Dortmund,
Germany
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, and at
Stadio Delle Alpi,
Turin
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,
Italy
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. The competition was won by Italian club
Juventus, who beat
Borussia Dortmund
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of Germany by an aggregate result of 6–1, to claim their third UEFA Cup title.
Juventus became the first club to win the UEFA Cup three times, and registered a
record score for a two-legged UEFA Cup final. Due to the
breakup of Yugoslavia
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and the international sanctions for the ongoing
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, UEFA banned all Yugoslavian teams from competing. Slovenia, a former Yugoslav republic, was represented for the first time in the UEFA Cup, although
Olimpija Ljubljana competed in its unofficial predecessor
Inter-Cities Fairs' Cup in the late 1960s.
Association team allocation
A total of 64 teams from 31
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member associations participated in the 1992–93 UEFA Cup, all entering from the first round over six knock-out rounds. The association ranking based on the
UEFA 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 9–21 each have two teams qualify.
* Associations 22–32 each have one team qualify.
The various political reorganizations and disputes in Europe resulted in various changes in the team allocation.
Yugoslavia
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(association 10 in the ranking) and
Albania
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were banned from entering the competition, and their three berths went to associations 9, 11 and 12 as a third berth.
East Germany
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had ceased to exist as a country after the
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, and its results were erased from the UEFA ranking. As the place allocation was one team short, the newly formed
Slovenia
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was allowed to enter the competition without a ranking coefficient.
Association ranking
For the 1992–93 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1991
UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1986–87 to 1990–91. Therefore, it did not include any of the new football federations that had join UEFA in the prior months. Having returned to European competitions in 1990 after a five-year ban, England's score was limited to the last of the five seasons accounted for in the ranking, and only two English clubs competed in the UEFA Cup.
Teams
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
Notes
Schedule
The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, with the first four rounds effectively splitting matches across all three days. The first leg of the semi-finals was played on a Tuesday, while the second leg was played on a Tuesday and a Thursday, but the final was still played on Wednesdays.
First round
1: The match was stopped in the 51st minute, while
Paris Saint-Germain were leading by 2–0, due to incidents in the stands.
Paris Saint-Germain were later awarded a 0–3 walkover win by
UEFA
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First leg
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Second leg
''Galatasaray won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''0–0 on aggregate. Torpedo Moscow won 4–3 on penalties.''
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''Borussia Dortmund won 8–2 on aggregate.''
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''Juventus won 10–1 on aggregate.''
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''BK Frem won 6–3 on aggregate.''
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''3–3 on aggregate. Anderlecht won on away goals.''
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''Kaiserslautern won 7–0 on aggregate.''
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''Vitesse won 5–1 on aggregate.''
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''Auxerre won 9–3 on aggregate.''
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''Real Madrid won 5–1 on aggregate.''
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''Standard Liège won 5–0 on aggregate.''
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''Fenerbahçe won 5–3 on aggregate.''
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''Ajax won 6–1 on aggregate.''
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''Sigma Olomouc won 3–1 on aggregate.''
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''Benfica won 8–0 on aggregate.''
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''Copenhagen won 10–1 on aggregate.''
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''Eintracht Frankfurt won 11–2 on aggregate.''
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''Dynamo Moscow won 5–3 on aggregate.''
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''Panathinaikos won 10–0 on aggregate.''
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''Roma won 5–1 on aggregate.''
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''Mechelen won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Vác won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Vitória de Guimarães won 3–2 on aggregate.''
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''3–3 on aggregate. Dynamo Kyiv won on away goals.''
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''Celtic won 3–2 on aggregate.''
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''Heart of Midlothian won 4–3 on aggregate.''
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''Napoli won 6–1 on aggregate.''
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''Grasshopper won 4–3 on aggregate.''
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''Sheffield Wednesday won 10–2 on aggregate.''
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''Torino won 3–1 on aggregate.''
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''Match abandoned after 51 minutes due to fan trouble with Paris Saint-Germain leading 2–0 (
Weah 15',
Sassus 32'), game awarded 3–0 to Paris Saint-Germain. Paris Saint-Germain won 5–0 on aggregate.''
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''Zaragoza won 4–3 on aggregate.''
Second round
First leg
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Second leg
''Vitesse won 2–0 on aggregate.''
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''Borussia Dortmund won 3–1 on aggregate.''
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''Zaragoza won 6–1 on aggregate.''
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''Galatasaray won 1–0 on aggregate.''
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''Sigma Olomouc won 7–2 on aggregate.''
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''Auxerre won 7–0 on aggregate.''
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''Real Madrid won 7–5 on aggregate.''
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''Benfica won 6–1 on aggregate.''
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''Anderlecht won 7–2 on aggregate.''
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''Roma won 6–4 on aggregate.''
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''Standard Liège won 2–0 on aggregate.''
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''Ajax won 5–1 on aggregate.''
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''Kaiserslautern won 5–3 on aggregate.''
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''Juventus won 1–0 on aggregate.''
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''Paris Saint-Germain won 2–0 on aggregate.''
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''Dynamo Moscow won 2–1 on aggregate.''
Third round
First leg
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Second leg
''Benfica won 4–2 on aggregate.''
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''Borussia Dortmund won 4–3 on aggregate.''
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''1–1 on aggregate. Paris Saint-Germain won on away goals.''
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''Ajax won 3–0 on aggregate.''
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''Auxerre won 4–3 on aggregate.''
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''Roma won 5–4 on aggregate.''
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''Juventus won 7–1 on aggregate.''
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''Real Madrid won 2–0 on aggregate.''
Quarter-finals
First leg
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Second leg
''Auxerre won 4–3 on aggregate.''
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''Juventus won 4–2 on aggregate.''
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''Paris Saint-Germain won 5–4 on aggregate.''
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''Borussia Dortmund won 2–1 on aggregate.''
Semi-finals
First leg
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Second leg
''2–2 on aggregate. Borussia Dortmund won 6–5 on penalties.''
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''Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.''
Final
First leg
Second leg
''Juventus won 6–1 on aggregate.''
Top scorers
The top scorers from the 1992–93 UEFA Cup are as follows:
See also
*
1992–93 UEFA Champions League
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1992-93 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
External links
1992–93 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website
* All scorers 1992–93 UEFA Cup according t
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