UEFA Champions League 1993/94

UEFA Champions League 1993/94
Cup winners	AC Milan (5th title)
Beginning	August 18, 1993
final	May 18, 1994
Final stadium	Olympic Stadium ,  Athens
Teams	8 (42 with qualifying rounds)
Games	95
Gates	263  (ø 2.77 per game)
Top scorer	Ronald Koeman Wynton Rufer (8 each)
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The Athens Olympic Stadium (2004)

The 1993/94 UEFA Champions League was the 2nd season of the most important European competition for club teams in football under this name and the 39th overall. Another record number of 42 national champions took part in the competition this year. With Cwmbran Town , a representative from Wales was for the first time in the national championship competition at the start, since a championship was held there for the first time in the 1992/93 season with the League of Wales . For the first time teams from Georgia , Moldova , Belarus and Croatia took part as representatives of the new successor states of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia . Defending champion Olympique Marseille was not allowed to compete due to a one-year suspension due to the bribery scandal in the preseason. The final took place on May 18, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

mode

This season there have been changes to the previous season. After the group stage, there was a semi-final in which the first and second place finishers from both groups crossed over against each other. The two winners advanced to the final.

Preliminary round

The first legs took place on 18/19/22. August, the second leg on 1/2. September 1993.

	total		First leg	Return leg
HJK Helsinki	2: 1	FC Norma Tallinn	1: 1	1-0
Ekranas Panevėžys	0: 2	FC Floriana	0: 1	0: 1
B68 Toftir	00:11	Croatia Zagreb	0: 5	0: 6
Riga discount	1: 1 (11:10 i. E.)	NK Olimpija Ljubljana	0: 1	1: 0 a.d.
Cwmbran Town	(a)4: 4 ( a )	Cork City	3: 2	1: 2
Dinamo Tbilisi	( 1 )3: 2 ( 1 )	Linfield FC	2: 1	1: 1
FC Avenir Beggen	0: 3	Rosenborg Trondheim	0: 2	0: 1
Omonia Nicosia	2: 3	FC Aarau	2: 1	0: 2
Zimbru Chișinău	1: 3	Beitar Jerusalem	1: 1	0: 2
FK Partizani Tirana	0: 3	ÍA Akranes	0-0	0: 3

¹ Dinamo Tbilisi has been disqualified for attempted referee bribery.

1 round

The first leg took place on September 15, the second leg on September 29, 1993.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Steaua Bucharest	( a ) 4: 4(a)	Croatia Zagreb	1: 2	3: 2
Rosenborg Trondheim	4: 5	FK Austria Vienna	3: 1	1: 4
FC Porto	2-0	FC Floriana	2-0	0-0
Riga discount	0: 9	Spartak Moscow	0: 5	0: 4
FC Aarau	0: 1	AC Milan	0: 1	0-0
Dynamo Kiev	4: 5	FC Barcelona	3: 1	1: 4
AS Monaco	2: 1	AEK Athens	1-0	1: 1
Honvéd Budapest	3: 5	Manchester United	2: 3	1: 2
Glasgow Rangers	(a)4: 4 ( a )	Levski -1913 Sofia	3: 2	1: 2
AIK Solna	1: 2	Sparta Prague	1-0	0: 2
Lech poses	7: 2	Beitar Jerusalem	3-0	4: 2
Galatasaray Istanbul	3: 1	Cork City	2: 1	1-0
HJK Helsinki	0: 6	RSC Anderlecht	0: 3	0: 3
ÍA Akranes	1: 3	Feyenoord Rotterdam	1-0	0: 3
Werder Bremen	6: 3	FK Dinamo Minsk	( 2 )5: 2 ( 2 )	1: 1
Linfield FC	3: 4	FC Copenhagen	3-0	0: 4 a.d.

² The first leg did not take place until September 16, 1993.

2nd round

The first leg took place on October 20, the second leg on November 3, 1993.

	total		First leg	Return leg
FC Porto	1-0	Feyenoord Rotterdam	1-0	0-0
AS Monaco	4: 2	Steaua Bucharest	4: 1	0: 1
Levski -1913 Sofia	2: 3	Werder Bremen	2: 2	0: 1
FC Copenhagen	0: 7	AC Milan	0: 6	0: 1
Sparta Prague	2: 5	RSC Anderlecht	0: 1	2: 4
Manchester United	(a)3: 3 ( a )	Galatasaray Istanbul	3: 3	0-0
Lech poses	2: 7	Spartak Moscow	1: 5	1: 2
FC Barcelona	5: 1	FK Austria Vienna	3-0	2: 1

Group stage

Group A

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	FC Barcelona	6th	4th	2	0	013: 300	+10	10: 20
2.	AS Monaco	6th	3	1	2	009: 400	+5	07: 50
3.	Spartak Moscow	6th	1	3	2	006:120	−6	05: 70
4th	Galatasaray Istanbul	6th	0	2	4th	001:100	−9	02:10

November 24, 1993
Galatasaray Istanbul	0-0	FC Barcelona	Ali Sami Yen Stadium
AS Monaco	4: 1	Spartak Moscow	Stade Louis II
December 8, 1993
FC Barcelona	2-0	AS Monaco	Camp Nou
Spartak Moscow	0-0	Galatasaray Istanbul	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
March 2, 1994
Spartak Moscow	2: 2	FC Barcelona	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
AS Monaco	3-0	Galatasaray Istanbul	Stade Louis II
March 16, 1994
FC Barcelona	5: 1	Spartak Moscow	Camp Nou
Galatasaray Istanbul	0: 2	AS Monaco	Ali Sami Yen Stadium
March 30, 1994
FC Barcelona	3-0	Galatasaray Istanbul	Camp Nou
Spartak Moscow	0-0	AS Monaco	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
April 13, 1994
AS Monaco	0: 1	FC Barcelona	Stade Louis II
Galatasaray Istanbul	1: 2	Spartak Moscow	Ali Sami Yen Stadium

Group B

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	AC Milan	6th	2	4th	0	006: 200	+4	08: 40
2.	FC Porto	6th	3	1	2	010: 600	+4	07: 50
3.	Werder Bremen	6th	2	1	3	011:150	−4	05: 70
4th	RSC Anderlecht	6th	1	2	3	005: 900	−4	04: 80

November 24, 1993
RSC Anderlecht	0-0	AC Milan	Constant Vanden Stock Stadium
FC Porto	3: 2	Werder Bremen	Estádio das Antas
1st / 8th December 1993
AC Milan	3-0	FC Porto	Giuseppe Meazza Stadium
Werder Bremen	5: 3	RSC Anderlecht	Weser Stadium
March 2, 1994
AC Milan	2: 1	Werder Bremen	Giuseppe Meazza Stadium
RSC Anderlecht	1-0	FC Porto	Constant Vanden Stock Stadium
March 16, 1994
Werder Bremen	1: 1	AC Milan	Weser Stadium
FC Porto	2-0	RSC Anderlecht	Estádio das Antas
March 30, 1994
AC Milan	0-0	RSC Anderlecht	Giuseppe Meazza Stadium
Werder Bremen	0: 5	FC Porto	Weser Stadium
April 13, 1994
FC Porto	0-0	AC Milan	Estádio das Antas
RSC Anderlecht	1: 2	Werder Bremen	Constant Vanden Stock Stadium

Knockout phase

Semifinals

The semi-finals took place on April 27, 1994.

	Result
FC Barcelona	3-0	FC Porto
AC Milan	3-0	AS Monaco

final

AC Milan		FC Barcelona
	May 18, 1994 in Athens ( Olympic Stadium ) Result: 4: 0 (2: 0) Spectators: 70,000 Referee: Philip Don ( England )
	Sebastiano Rossi - Mauro Tassotti , Filippo Galli , Paolo Maldini (83rd Stefano Nava ), Christian Panucci - Marcel Desailly , Demetrio Albertini - Zvonimir Boban , Dejan Savićević , Roberto Donadoni - Daniele Massaro Trainer: Fabio Capello	Andoni Zubizarreta - Albert Ferrer , Miguel Ángel Nadal , Ronald Koeman , Sergi Barjuán (72nd Quique Estebaranz ) - Pep Guardiola , José Mari Bakero , Guillermo Amor - Txiki Begiristain (51st Eusebio Mena ), Romário , Christo Stoitschkow Trainer: Johan Cruyff ( Netherlands )
	1-0 Daniele Massaro (22nd) 2-0 Daniele Massaro (45th) 3-0 Dejan Savićević (47th) 4-0 Marcel Desailly (58th)
	Tassotti (35.), Massaro (45.), Albertini (53.), Panucci (88.)	Stoitschkow (24th), Bakero (48th), Nadal (54th), Sergi (55th), Ferrer (58th)

Best goal scorers

rank	player	club	Gates
1	Ronald Koeman	FC Barcelona	8th
	Wynton Rufer	Werder Bremen	8th
3	Luc Nilis	RSC Anderlecht	7th
	Christo Stoitschkow	FC Barcelona	7th
5	Bernd Hobsch	Werder Bremen	5
	Valery Karpin	Spartak Moscow	5
7th	Marco Bode	Werder Bremen	4th
	Jürgen Klinsmann	AS Monaco	4th
	Daniele Massaro	AC Milan	4th
	Viktor Onopko	Spartak Moscow	4th
	Jean-Pierre Papin	AC Milan	4th
	Nikolai Pissarev	Spartak Moscow	4th
	Sergei Rodionov	Spartak Moscow	4th

→ Main article : List of UEFA Champions League top scorer

Players used AC Milan

AC Milan

Goal: Sebastiano Rossi (11 / -) Defense: Alessandro Costacurta (11 / -); Paolo Maldini (10/1); Franco Baresi (9 / -); Mauro Tassotti (9 / -); Christian Panucci (7/1); Filippo Galli (6 / -); Alessandro Orlando (5/1); Stefano Nava (2 / -) Midfield: Demetrio Albertini (11/1); Roberto Donadoni (8 / -); Zvonimir Boban (8 / -); Dejan Savicevic (7/3); Marcel Desailly (6/2); Angelo Carbone (4 / -); Stefano Eranio (3 / -); Fernando De Napoli (2 / -); Gianluigi Lentini (1 / -) Storm: Daniele Massaro (11/4); Marco Simone (7/2); Jean-Pierre Papin (6/4); Brian Laudrup (6/1); Florin Raducioiu (2/1); Coach: Fabio Capello

See also

• European Cup Winners' Cup 1993/94
• 1993/94 UEFA Cup

Web links

• Official website for the 1993/94 UEFA Champions League
• Game details for the 1993/94 season on fussballdaten.de