The 1992âÂÂ93 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 6âÂÂ1, 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.
A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1992âÂÂ93 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:
The various political reorganizations and disputes in Europe resulted in various changes in the team allocation. Yugoslavia (association 10 in the ranking) 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.
For the 1992âÂÂ93 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1991 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1986âÂÂ87 to 1990âÂÂ91. 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.
The labels in parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:
Notes
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.
<sup>1</sup>: The match was stopped in the 51st minute, while Paris Saint-Germain were leading by 2âÂÂ0, due to incidents in the stands. Paris Saint-Germain were later awarded a 0âÂÂ3 walkover win by UEFA.
Galatasaray won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
0âÂÂ0 on aggregate. Torpedo Moscow won 4âÂÂ3 on penalties.
Borussia Dortmund won 8âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Juventus won 10âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
BK Frem won 6âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
3âÂÂ3 on aggregate. Anderlecht won on away goals.
Kaiserslautern won 7âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Vitesse won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Auxerre won 9âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Standard Liège won 5âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Fenerbahçe won 5âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Ajax won 6âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Sigma Olomouc won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Benfica won 8âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Copenhagen won 10âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 11âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Dynamo Moscow won 5âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Panathinaikos won 10âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Roma won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Mechelen won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Vác won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Vitória de Guimarães won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
3âÂÂ3 on aggregate. Dynamo Kyiv won on away goals.
Celtic won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Heart of Midlothian won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Napoli won 6âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Grasshopper won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Sheffield Wednesday won 10âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Torino won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Match abandoned after 51 minutes due to fan trouble with Paris Saint-Germain leading 2âÂÂ0 (Weah 15', Sassus 32'), game awarded 3âÂÂ0 to Paris Saint-Germain. Paris Saint-Germain won 5âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Zaragoza won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Vitesse won 2âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Borussia Dortmund won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Zaragoza won 6âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Galatasaray won 1âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Sigma Olomouc won 7âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Auxerre won 7âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 7âÂÂ5 on aggregate.
Benfica won 6âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Anderlecht won 7âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Roma won 6âÂÂ4 on aggregate.
Standard Liège won 2âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Ajax won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Kaiserslautern won 5âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Juventus won 1âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Paris Saint-Germain won 2âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Dynamo Moscow won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Benfica won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Borussia Dortmund won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
1âÂÂ1 on aggregate. Paris Saint-Germain won on away goals.
Ajax won 3âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Auxerre won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Roma won 5âÂÂ4 on aggregate.
Juventus won 7âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 2âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Auxerre won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Juventus won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Paris Saint-Germain won 5âÂÂ4 on aggregate.
Borussia Dortmund won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
2âÂÂ2 on aggregate. Borussia Dortmund won 6âÂÂ5 on penalties.
Juventus won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Juventus won 6âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
The top scorers from the 1992âÂÂ93 UEFA Cup are as follows: