1992–93 UEFA Cup


The 1992–93 UEFA Cup was the 22nd season of Europe's then-tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at Westfalenstadion, Dortmund, Germany, and at Stadio Delle Alpi, Turin, Italy. The competition was won by Italian club Juventus, who beat Borussia Dortmund 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 and the international sanctions for the ongoing Yugoslav Wars, 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 UEFA 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 and Albania were banned from entering the competition, and their three berths went to associations 9, 11 and 12 as a third berth. East Germany had ceased to exist as a country after the German reunification, and its results were erased from the UEFA ranking. As the place allocation was one team short, the newly formed Slovenia 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
Juventus Torino Napoli Roma
Borussia Dortmund Eintracht Frankfurt Köln Kaiserslautern
Real Madrid Valencia Real Sociedad Zaragoza
Paris Saint-Germain Auxerre Caen Anderlecht
Standard Liège Mechelen Benfica Sporting CP
Vitória de Guimarães Ajax TH Vitesse Groningen
Torpedo Moscow Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Moscow Heart of Midlothian
Celtic Hibernian Electroputere Craiova Universitatea Craiova
Politehnica Timișoara Austria Salzburg Wacker Innsbruck Rapid Wien
Norrköping Örebro Copenhagen Frem
Neuchâtel Xamax Grasshopper Sigma Olomouc Slavia Prague
GKS Katowice Widzew Łódź Panathinaikos PAOK
Manchester United Sheffield Wednesday Lokomotiv Plovdiv Botev Plovdiv
Fenerbahçe Galatasaray MP Mikkeli Vác
Rosenborg Anorthosis Fram Portadown
Derry City Spora Luxembourg Floriana Izola

'''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.
RoundFirst legSecond leg
First round15–17 September 199229 September – 1 October 1992
Second round20–22 October 19923–5 November 1992
Third round24–26 November 19928–10 December 1992
Quarter-finals2–4 March 199316–18 March 1993
Semi-finals6 April 199320–22 April 1993
Final5 May 199319 May 1993

First round

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, 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

Second leg

''Juventus won 6–1 on aggregate.''

Top scorers

The top scorers from the 1992–93 UEFA Cup are as follows:
RankNameTeamGoals
1 Gérald Baticle Auxerre8
2 George Weah Paris Saint-Germain7
3 Roberto Baggio Juventus6
3 Daniel Fonseca Napoli6
3 Marcel Witeczek Kaiserslautern6
6 Dino Baggio Juventus5
6 Fernando Hierro Real Madrid5
6 Isaías Benfica5
6 Gianluca Vialli Juventus5
6 Tony Yeboah Eintracht Frankfurt5
6 Iván Zamorano Real Madrid5