The 1993–94
UEFA Cup
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was the 23rd season of Europe's then-tertiary club
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tournament organised by
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was played over two legs at the
Ernst-Happel Stadion,
Vienna
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,
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, and at
San Siro,
Milan
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,
Italy
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. The competition was won by Italian club
Internazionale, who beat
Austria 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 thad had been in use since 1968, inherited from the
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., 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 since
Rapid Wien in the
1985 European Cup Winners' Cup.
Association team allocation
A total of 64 teams from 30
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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 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 9–20 each have two teams qualify.
* Associations 21–32 each have one team qualify.
Additionally, associations 9–12 gained a third birth due to
Yugoslavia
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being banned under
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embargo and
Albania
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withdrawing from the competition.
Ukraine
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now had its own allocation as an unranked association alongside
Slovenia
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, after both of them were represented in the previous UEFA Cup. Both associations took over the places of
East Germany
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, which had ceased to exist as a country in 1991 after the
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, 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 birth like it had previously. However,
Poland
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had its UEFA Cup allocation removed due to its
football scandal, and its two places were reassigned to associations 21–22 as a second birth.
Association ranking
For the 1993–94 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1992
UEFA 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 associations
Ukraine
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and
Slovenia
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. Having returned to European competitions in 1990 after a five-year ban,
England
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's score was limited to the last two of the five seasons accounted for in the ranking.
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.
First round
First leg
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Second leg
''Austria Salzburg won 4–0 on aggregate.''
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''Borussia Dortmund won 1–0 on aggregate.''
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''Bordeaux won 6–0 on aggregate.''
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''Eintracht Frankfurt won 7–2 on aggregate.''
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''Juventus won 4–0 on aggregate.''
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''Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk won 4–2 on aggregate.''
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''Boavista won 5–0 on aggregate.''
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''Trabzonspor won 6–2 on aggregate.''
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''Servette won 4–0 on aggregate.''
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''Mechelen won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Atlético Madrid won 4-2 on aggregate.''
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''3–3 on aggregate; Brøndby won on away goals.''
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''Karlsruhe won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Royal Antwerp won 4–2 on aggregate.''
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''Deportivo La Coruña won 5–1 on aggregate.''
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''Lazio won 4–0 on aggregate.''
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''Kongsvinger won 7–2 on aggregate.''
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''OFI won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Maribor won 2–0 on aggregate.''
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''Olympiacos won 8–3 on aggregate.''
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''Internazionale won 5–1 on aggregate.''
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''MTK won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Apollon Limassol won 4–2 on aggregate.''
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''Norwich City won 3–0 on aggregate.''
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''Tenerife won 3–2 on aggregate.''
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''Kuusysi won 6–1 on aggregate.''
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''Celtic won 1–0 on aggregate.''
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''Cagliari won 4–3 on aggregate.''
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''Bayern Munich won 7–3 on aggregate.''
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''Aston Villa won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Sporting CP won 2–0 on aggregate.''
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''Valencia won 4–2 on aggregate.''
Second round
First leg
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Second leg
''Karlsruhe won 8–3 on aggregate.''
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''Mechelen won 6–1 on aggregate.''
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''OFI won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Austria Salzburg won 2–0 on aggregate.''
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''Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.''
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''Eintracht Frankfurt won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Internazionale won 4–3 on aggregate.''
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''Borussia Dortmund won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Brøndby won 7–2 on aggregate.''
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''Norwich City won 3–2 on aggregate.''
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''Deportivo La Coruña won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''1–1 on aggregate; Cagliari won on away goals.''
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''Bordeaux won 3–1 on aggregate.''
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''Sporting CP won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''5–5 on aggregate; Tenerife won on away goals.''
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''Boavista won 2–1 on aggregate.''
Third round
First leg
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Second leg
''Borussia Dortmund won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Eintracht Frankfurt won 2–0 on aggregate.''
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''Karlsruhe won 3–1 on aggregate.''
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''Juventus won 4–2 on aggregate.''
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''Internazionale won 2–0 on aggregate.''
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''Boavista won 6–1 on aggregate.''
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''Austria Salzburg won 3–2 on aggregate.''
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''Cagliari won 5–1 on aggregate.''
Quarter-finals
First leg
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Second leg
''1–1 on aggregate; Austria Salzburg won 5–4 on penalties.''
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''Cagliari won 3–1 on aggregate.''
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''Karlsruhe won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Internazionale won 4–3 on aggregate.''
Semi-finals
First leg
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Second leg
''1–1 on aggregate; Austria Salzburg won on away goals.''
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''Internazionale won 5–3 on aggregate.''
Final
First leg
Second leg
''Internazionale won 2–0 on aggregate.''
Top goalscorers
See also
*
1993–94 UEFA Champions League
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1993–94 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
References
External links
1993–94 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website
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