1993–94 UEFA Cup

1993–94 UEFA Cup
Dates	14 September 1993 – 11 May 1994
Final positions
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 →

Last updated October 10, 2025

The 1993–94 UEFA Cup was the 23rd season of Europe's then-tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at the Ernst-Happel Stadion, Vienna, Austria, and at San Siro, Milan, Italy. 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 that had been in use since 1968, inherited from the Inter-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 since Rapid Wien in the 1985 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 the 1993-94 Serie A. This stood until 2025, when Tottenham Hotspur won the 2024-25 UEFA Europa League while finishing 17th in the 2024-25 Premier League

Association team allocation

A total of 64 teams from 30 UEFA 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 berth due to Yugoslavia being banned under United Nations embargo and Albania withdrawing from the competition.

Ukraine now had its own allocation as an unranked association alongside Slovenia, after both of them were represented in the previous UEFA Cup. Both associations took over the places of East Germany, which had ceased to exist as a country in 1991 after the German 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 its football scandal, and its two places were reassigned to associations 21–22 as a second berth.

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 and Slovenia. 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

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Yugoslavia: Due to the breakup of the country and the ensuing warfare, Yugoslavia was disqualified 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, namely Russia, Romania, and Czechoslovakia. In Yugoslavia, Vojvodina, Zemun and Rad would have qualified by league position.

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Soviet Union & Russia: After the dissolution 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 the 1992 Russian Top League, which only featured Russian teams

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Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic & Slovakia: Halfway through the 1992–93 Czechoslovak First League, Czechoslovakia was formally dissolved into two new countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. 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.

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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 been reunificated 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 on Poland.

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Poland: ŁKS Łódź and Lech Poznan originally qualified for the UEFA Cup on June 20 by finishing second and third in the 1992-93 Ekstraklasa. However, the events of the final game day, known as the Sunday of Miracles, prompted the Polish association to cancel the results of the original champions Legia Warsaw and ŁKS Łódź on July 10 over allegations of bribery, giving Lech 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, namely Hungary and Bulgaria.

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Wales: Despite the formation of the League 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. The Football Association of Wales still qualified a team for the UEFA Champions League, while the Welsh 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.

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Albania: After one year of exclusion due to the Fall 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

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 the 1992–93 French Division 1, but the team was promoted to the UEFA Champions League after Marseille was disqualified due to its involvement in the French football bribery scandal and Paris 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

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

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

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