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 Inter Milan, 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 21 May 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 CupRankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes152.8374242.927340.266437.6333537.250627.500727.033825.51609- 24.96631024.55011- - 20.0001219.7501319.25021418.0001516.6651616.500-16.0000RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes1714.99821814.7501912.16602012.10022111.5002210.416239.9991-9.0000247.666255.0001264.999274.000283.332292.665301.999311.665-0.000-0.000 Unranked countries entered inother European competitionsAssociationECCWC
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 Inter Milan Juventus TH Lazio Cagliari Bayern Munich Eintracht Frankfurt Borussia Dortmund Karlsruhe Deportivo La Coruña Valencia Tenerife Atlético Madrid Mechelen Waregem Antwerp Bordeaux Nantes Auxerre PSV Eindhoven Vitesse Twente Sporting CP Boavista Marítimo Spartak Vladikavkaz Dynamo Moscow Lokomotiv Moscow Dinamo București Rapid București Gloria Bistrița Slavia Prague Slovan Bratislava DAC Dunajská Celtic Dundee United Heart of Midlothian Aston Villa Norwich City Austria Salzburg Admira/Wacker Brøndby AaB Olympiacos OFI Trabzonspor Kocaelispor Young Boys Servette FC Norrköping Öster Vác MTK Hungária Botev Plovdiv Lokomotiv Plovdiv Kuusysi Lahti KR Kongsvinger Apollon Crusaders Bohemians Valletta Union Luxembourg Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Maribor Notes
Schedule The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. +Schedule for 1993–94 UEFA CupRoundFirst legSecond legFirst round14–16 September 199328–30 September 1993Second round19–20 October 19932–4 November 1993Third round23–25 November 19937–8 December 1993Quarter-finals1–3 March 199415–17 March 1994Semi-finals29–30 March 199412 April 1994Final26 April 199411 May 1994
First round
First leg
Second leg
Austria Salzburg won 4–0 on aggregate.
Borussia Dortmund won 1–0 on aggregate.
Bordeaux won 6–0 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 7–2 on aggregate.
Juventus won 4–0 on aggregate.
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk won 4–2 on aggregate.
Boavista won 5–0 on aggregate.
Trabzonspor won 6–2 on aggregate.
Servette won 4–0 on aggregate.
Mechelen won 2–1 on aggregate.
Atlético Madrid won 4-2 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; Brøndby won on away goals.
Karlsruhe won 2–1 on aggregate.
Royal Antwerp won 4–2 on aggregate.
Deportivo La Coruña won 5–1 on aggregate.
Lazio won 4–0 on aggregate.
Kongsvinger won 7–2 on aggregate.
OFI won 2–1 on aggregate.
Maribor won 2–0 on aggregate.
Olympiacos won 8–3 on aggregate.
Inter Milan won 5–1 on aggregate.
MTK won 2–1 on aggregate.
Apollon Limassol won 4–2 on aggregate.
Norwich City won 3–0 on aggregate.
Tenerife won 3–2 on aggregate.
Kuusysi won 6–1 on aggregate.
Celtic won 1–0 on aggregate.
Cagliari won 4–3 on aggregate.
Bayern Munich won 7–3 on aggregate.
Aston Villa won 2–1 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 2–0 on aggregate.
Valencia won 4–2 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
Second leg
Karlsruhe won 8–3 on aggregate.
Mechelen won 6–1 on aggregate.
OFI won 2–1 on aggregate.
Austria Salzburg won 2–0 on aggregate.
Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 2–1 on aggregate.
Inter Milan won 4–3 on aggregate.
Borussia Dortmund won 2–1 on aggregate.
Brøndby won 7–2 on aggregate.
Norwich City won 3–2 on aggregate.
Deportivo La Coruña won 2–1 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Cagliari won on away goals.
Bordeaux won 3–1 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 2–1 on aggregate.
5–5 on aggregate; Tenerife won on away goals.
Boavista won 2–1 on aggregate.
Third round
First leg
Second leg
Borussia Dortmund won 2–1 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 2–0 on aggregate.
Karlsruhe won 3–1 on aggregate.
Juventus won 4–2 on aggregate.
Inter Milan won 2–0 on aggregate.
Boavista won 6–1 on aggregate.
Austria Salzburg won 3–2 on aggregate.
Cagliari won 5–1 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
1–1 on aggregate; Austria Salzburg won 5–4 on penalties.
Cagliari won 3–1 on aggregate.
Karlsruhe won 2–1 on aggregate.
Inter Milan won 4–3 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
1–1 on aggregate; Austria Salzburg won on away goals.
Inter Milan won 5–3 on aggregate.
Final
First leg
Second leg
Inter Milan won 2–0 on aggregate.
Top goalscorers + 1993–94 UEFA Cup top goalscorersRankPlayerTeamGoals1 Dennis Bergkamp Inter Milan8 Edgar Schmitt Karlsruhe3 Bent Christensen Olympiacos64 Artur Boavista5 Geir Frigård Kongsvinger Wim Jonk Inter Milan Ricky Boavista8 Jorge Cadete Sporting CP4 Stéphane Chapuisat Borussia Dortmund Dénes Eszenyi Mechelen Jesper Kristensen Brøndby Ismo Lius Kuusysi Luís Oliveira Cagliari
See also 1993–94 UEFA Champions League 1993–94 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
References
External links 1993–94 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website Official Site Results at RSSSF.com All scorers 1993–94 UEFA Cup according to 1993/94 UEFA Cup – results and line-ups (archive)