1993–94 UEFA Champions League

In total, 42 national champions participated in 1993–94 UEFA Champions League season. The 20 lowest-ranked champions according to the 1993 club seeding coefficients entered in the preliminary round, while the 22 best-ranked champions entered in the first round.

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

• The champions ranked 21st and 22nd (Dinamo Minsk and Levski Sofia) were promoted from the preliminary round to the first round.

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8px Purple: Eliminated in the preliminary round;8px Yellow: Eliminated in the first round; 8px Orange: Eliminated in the second round; 8px Red: Qualified for group stage.

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The teams were ranked according to their 1993 UEFA seeding coefficients, which took into account performances in European competitions from 1988–89 to 1992–93. Each club and national association had a seeding coefficient calculated (total points divided by total matches), with both values added together to determine the club's final coefficient. This ranking then determined the round each team would enter.{{cite web |url=http://www.mogiel.net/EC/seeding.php#1993/94 |title=Seeding for the European Cups (from 1979/80): 1993/94 |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}}

;Notes

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{{Cnote2|Note FRA|France (FRA): Champions League title holders Marseille (who also finished 1st in 1992–93 French Division 1) were disqualified from the competition by the UEFA Executive Committee on 6 September 1993 due to their involvement in a match-fixing scandal in Division 1.{{cite news |location=Zurich |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19930907-1.2.46.20 |title=Marseille's future in Uefa's hand |newspaper=The Straits Times |agency=Associated Press |date=7 September 1993 |access-date=29 January 2025 |page=33}}{{cite news |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19930907-1.2.46.7.1 |title=Marseille thrown out |newspaper=The Straits Times |date=7 September 1993 |access-date=29 January 2025 |page=30}} They were subsequently stripped of their league title and demoted to Division 2 at the end of the 1993–94 season. Third-placed Monaco took the vacated French berth on 8 September since league runners-up Paris Saint-Germain refused to take the title from Marseille on commercial grounds, instead participating in the 1993–94 European Cup Winners' Cup as 1992–93 Coupe de France winners.{{cite news |location=Paris |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19930910-1.2.53.9 |title=Monaco agrees to step in for Marseille |newspaper=The Straits Times |date=10 September 1993 |access-date=29 January 2025 |page=38 |quote=Monaco accepted reluctantly an invitation to take Marseille's place in the European Cup on Wednesday as the defending champion continued its fight to stay in the competition.}} Therefore, in the access list, Monaco effectively took the spot of Marseille (who were ranked 2nd with a coefficient of 3.145, but were automatically top as title holders).}}

{{Cnote2|Note CZE|Czech Republic (CZE): Sparta Prague qualified as winners of Czechoslovakia domestic league, but represented its successor association Czech Republic.}}

{{Cnote2|Note YUG|FR Yugoslavia (YUG): 1992–93 First League of FR Yugoslavia champions Partizan not admitted as a result of UN economic sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia.}}

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The schedule of the competition is as follows. All draws were held in Geneva, Switzerland.

{{main|1993–94 UEFA Champions League preliminary round}}

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{{main|1993–94 UEFA Champions League first round}}

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{{main|1993–94 UEFA Champions League second round}}

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{{main|1993–94 UEFA Champions League group stage}}

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8px Brown: Group A; 8px Red: Group B;

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The group stage began on 24 November 1993 and ended on 13 April 1994. The eight teams were divided into two groups of four, and the teams in each group played against each other on a home-and-away basis, meaning that each team played a total of six group matches. For each win, teams were awarded two points, with one point awarded for each draw. At the end of the group stage, the two teams in each group with the most points advanced to the semi-finals.

All teams except Milan and Porto made their group stage debuts. Two of these teams (Barcelona and Anderlecht) had previously contested the 1991–92 group stage, the only season of the European Cup to adopt such a format.

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{{main|1993–94 UEFA Champions League knockout stage}}

{{#lst:1993–94 UEFA Champions League knockout stage|Bracket}}

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The top scorers from the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:

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

{{Reflist}}

{{commons category}}

• [https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/history/seasons/1993/matches/ 1993–94 All matches – season at UEFA website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130304022919/http://www.rsssf.com/ec/ec199394.html#cc European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]
• All scorers 1993–94 UEFA Champions League (excluding preliminary round) according to [https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/history/seasons/1993/ protocols UEFA] + all scorers [https://web.archive.org/web/20140427155924/http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=1993/statistics/round=52/players/type=topscorers/index.html preliminary round]
• [https://archive.today/20120709110540/http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/UCL/history/Season=1993/intro.html 1993/94 UEFA Champions League] - results and line-ups (archive)

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