:1994–95 UEFA Champions League

24 teams entered the competition: the UEFA Champions League holders, Milan, who also won their domestic league, as well as the 23 best-ranked national champions according to the 1994 UEFA club seeding coefficients. The title holders and the other 7 best-ranked national champions received a bye to the group stage, while the national champions ranked 9–24 entered in the qualifying round. The remaining national champions were only allowed to participate in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup.

Since the title holders (Milan) qualified via their domestic league and club seeding coefficient, the title holder spot was vacated and the following changes to the default access list were made:

• The champions ranked 8th (Anderlecht) were promoted from the qualifying round to the group stage.
• The champions ranked 24th (Avenir Beggen) were promoted from the UEFA Cup preliminary round to the Champions League qualifying round.

The teams were ranked according to their 1995 UEFA seeding coefficients, which took into account performances in European competitions from 1989–90 to 1993–94. Each club and national association had a seeding coefficient calculated (total points divided by total matches), with clubs taking the higher of these values as their final coefficient. This ranking then determined the competition (Champions League or UEFA Cup) and round (group stage or qualifying round) the teams would enter.{{cite web |url=http://www.mogiel.net/EC/seeding.php#1994/95 |title=Seeding for the European Cups (from 1979/80): 1994/95 |publisher=Pawel Mogielnicki |access-date=29 January 2025}}{{cite web |url=http://www.mogiel.net/EC/remarks.php |title=Remarks to the UEFA tables |publisher=Pawel Mogielnicki |access-date=29 January 2025}}{{cite web |last=Protzen |first=Martin |url=https://kassiesa.net/uefa/history/faq1994.txt |title=FAQ: Qualification and Seeding for the European Cups |publisher=RSSSF |date=29 July 1994 |access-date=29 January 2025}} Therefore, which associations had a participating team in the 1994–95 Champions League was partially dependant upon which club won the national championship.

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{{Cnote2|Note LIE|Liechtenstein (LIE): The teams affiliated with the Liechtenstein Football Association (LFV) played in the Swiss football league system, and thus were ineligible for a spot regardless of the association ranking. The only competition organised by the LFV was the Liechtenstein Football Cup – the winners of which qualified for the 1994–95 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.}}

{{Cnote2|Note YUG|FR Yugoslavia (YUG): Due to the breakup of the country and the ensuing warfare, Yugoslavia was still disqualified from European club competitions. Thus, Partizan, champions of the 1993–94 First League of FR Yugoslavia, did not participate.}}

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The schedule of the competition is as follows. The draw was held in Geneva, Switzerland on 20 July 1994, where qualifying round pairs as well as group formations were drawn. The knockout phase pairs were made automatically by a predetermined bracket.

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Ten of the sixteen participating teams made their UEFA Champions League group stage debut: AEK Athens, Ajax, Bayern Munich, Benfica, Casino Salzburg, Dynamo Kyiv, Hajduk Split, Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain and Steaua București. Two of these teams, Benfica and Dynamo Kyiv, had previously contested the 1991–92 European Cup group stage. Casino Salzburg, Hajduk Split, Manchester United and Steaua București were the first teams to qualify for group stage from Austria, Croatia, England and Romania respectively.

It was also the last edition of the Champions League that saw teams in the group stage awarded two points for each win, with one point awarded for each draw.

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• 1994–95 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
• 1994–95 UEFA Cup

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• [https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/history/seasons/1994/matches/ 1994–95 All matches – season at UEFA website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305075744/http://www.rsssf.com/ec/ec199495.html#cc European Cup results at RSSSF]
• All scorers 1994–95 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying round) according to [https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/history/seasons/1994/ protocols UEFA]
• All scorers [https://web.archive.org/web/20140317195209/http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=1994/statistics/round=59/players/type=topscorers/index.html qualifying round]
• [https://archive.today/20120708193528/http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/UCL/history/Season=1994/intro.html 1994/95 UEFA Champions League] - results and line-ups (archive)

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