The 1993âÂÂ94 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 2âÂÂ0, 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 2025, when Tottenham Hotspur won the 2024-25 UEFA Europa League while finishing 17th in the 2024-25 Premier League
A total of 64 teams from 30 UEFA member associations participated in the 1993âÂÂ94 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:
Additionally, associations 9âÂÂ12 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 21âÂÂ22 as a second berth.
For the 1993âÂÂ94 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1992 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1987âÂÂ88 to 1991âÂÂ92. 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.
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.
Austria Salzburg won 4âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Borussia Dortmund won 1âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Bordeaux won 6âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 7âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Juventus won 4âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Boavista won 5âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Trabzonspor won 6âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Servette won 4âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Mechelen won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Atlético Madrid won 4-2 on aggregate.
3âÂÂ3 on aggregate; Brøndby won on away goals.
Karlsruhe won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Royal Antwerp won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Deportivo La Coruña won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Lazio won 4âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Kongsvinger won 7âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
OFI won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Maribor won 2âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Olympiacos won 8âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
MTK won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Apollon Limassol won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Norwich City won 3âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Tenerife won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Kuusysi won 6âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Celtic won 1âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Cagliari won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Bayern Munich won 7âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Aston Villa won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 2âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Valencia won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Karlsruhe won 8âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Mechelen won 6âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
OFI won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Austria Salzburg won 2âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Juventus won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Borussia Dortmund won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Brøndby won 7âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Norwich City won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Deportivo La Coruña won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
1âÂÂ1 on aggregate; Cagliari won on away goals.
Bordeaux won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
5âÂÂ5 on aggregate; Tenerife won on away goals.
Boavista won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Borussia Dortmund won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 2âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Karlsruhe won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Juventus won 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 2âÂÂ0 on aggregate.
Boavista won 6âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Austria Salzburg won 3âÂÂ2 on aggregate.
Cagliari won 5âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
1âÂÂ1 on aggregate; Austria Salzburg won 5âÂÂ4 on penalties.
Cagliari won 3âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Karlsruhe won 2âÂÂ1 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 4âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
1âÂÂ1 on aggregate; Austria Salzburg won on away goals.
Internazionale won 5âÂÂ3 on aggregate.
Internazionale won 2âÂÂ0 on aggregate.