The 1992–93 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 6–1, 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.
Association team allocation A total of 64 teams from 31 UEFA member associations participated in the 1992–93 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 9–21 each have two teams qualify. Associations 22–32 each have one team qualify.
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.
Association ranking For the 1992–93 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1991 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1986–87 to 1990–91. 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.
+Association ranking for 1992–93 UEFA CupRankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes148.1714246.387338.666434.6503534.433629.633726.1508- - 25.566924.5001024.46601124.30031221.000-19.25001317.60021415.748-15.0000RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes1515.00021614.6001714.2501813.0001912.5002012.4162111.6652210.41512310.250248.9990255.9991264.666274.000283.666291.999301.998311.666-0.000 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 1992–93 UEFA Cup Juventus Torino Napoli Roma Borussia Dortmund Eintracht Frankfurt Köln Kaiserslautern Real Madrid Valencia Real Sociedad Zaragoza Paris Saint-Germain Auxerre Caen Anderlecht Standard Liège Mechelen Benfica Sporting CP Vitória de Guimarães Ajax TH Vitesse Groningen Torpedo Moscow Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Moscow Heart of Midlothian Celtic Hibernian Electroputere Craiova Universitatea Craiova Politehnica Timișoara Austria Salzburg Wacker Innsbruck Rapid Wien Norrköping Örebro Copenhagen Frem Neuchâtel Xamax Grasshopper Sigma Olomouc Slavia Prague GKS Katowice Widzew Łódź Panathinaikos PAOK Manchester United Sheffield Wednesday Lokomotiv Plovdiv Botev Plovdiv Fenerbahçe Galatasaray MP Mikkeli Vác Rosenborg Anorthosis Fram Portadown Derry City Spora Luxembourg Floriana Izola Notes
Schedule 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. +Schedule for 1992–93 UEFA CupRoundFirst legSecond legFirst round15–17 September 199229 September – 1 October 1992Second round20–22 October 19923–5 November 1992Third round24–26 November 19928–10 December 1992Quarter-finals2–4 March 199316–18 March 1993Semi-finals6 April 199320–22 April 1993Final5 May 199319 May 1993
First round
1: The match was stopped in the 51st minute, while Paris Saint-Germain were leading by 2–0, due to incidents in the stands. Paris Saint-Germain were later awarded a 0–3 walkover win by UEFA.
First leg
Second leg
Galatasaray won 2–1 on aggregate.
0–0 on aggregate. Torpedo Moscow won 4–3 on penalties.
Borussia Dortmund won 8–2 on aggregate.
Juventus won 10–1 on aggregate.
BK Frem won 6–3 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate. Anderlecht won on away goals.
Kaiserslautern won 7–0 on aggregate.
Vitesse won 5–1 on aggregate.
Auxerre won 9–3 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 5–1 on aggregate.
Standard Liège won 5–0 on aggregate.
Fenerbahçe won 5–3 on aggregate.
Ajax won 6–1 on aggregate.
Sigma Olomouc won 3–1 on aggregate.
Benfica won 8–0 on aggregate.
Copenhagen won 10–1 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 11–2 on aggregate.
Dynamo Moscow won 5–3 on aggregate.
Panathinaikos won 10–0 on aggregate.
Roma won 5–1 on aggregate.
Mechelen won 2–1 on aggregate.
Vác won 2–1 on aggregate.
Vitória de Guimarães won 3–2 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate. Dynamo Kyiv won on away goals.
Celtic won 3–2 on aggregate.
Heart of Midlothian won 4–3 on aggregate.
Napoli won 6–1 on aggregate.
Grasshopper won 4–3 on aggregate.
Sheffield Wednesday won 10–2 on aggregate.
Torino won 3–1 on aggregate.
Match abandoned after 51 minutes due to fan trouble with Paris Saint-Germain leading 2–0 (Weah 15', Sassus 32'), game awarded 3–0 to Paris Saint-Germain. Paris Saint-Germain won 5–0 on aggregate.
Zaragoza won 4–3 on aggregate.
Second round
First leg
Second leg
Vitesse won 2–0 on aggregate.
Borussia Dortmund won 3–1 on aggregate.
Zaragoza won 6–1 on aggregate.
Galatasaray won 1–0 on aggregate.
Sigma Olomouc won 7–2 on aggregate.
Auxerre won 7–0 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 7–5 on aggregate.
Benfica won 6–1 on aggregate.
Anderlecht won 7–2 on aggregate.
Roma won 6–4 on aggregate.
Standard Liège won 2–0 on aggregate.
Ajax won 5–1 on aggregate.
Kaiserslautern won 5–3 on aggregate.
Juventus won 1–0 on aggregate.
Paris Saint-Germain won 2–0 on aggregate.
Dynamo Moscow won 2–1 on aggregate.
Third round
First leg
Second leg
Benfica won 4–2 on aggregate.
Borussia Dortmund won 4–3 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate. Paris Saint-Germain won on away goals.
Ajax won 3–0 on aggregate.
Auxerre won 4–3 on aggregate.
Roma won 5–4 on aggregate.
Juventus won 7–1 on aggregate.
Real Madrid won 2–0 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
First leg
Second leg
Auxerre won 4–3 on aggregate.
Juventus won 4–2 on aggregate.
Paris Saint-Germain won 5–4 on aggregate.
Borussia Dortmund won 2–1 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
First leg
Second leg
2–2 on aggregate. Borussia Dortmund won 6–5 on penalties.
Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.
Final
First leg
Second leg
Juventus won 6–1 on aggregate.
Top scorers The top scorers from the 1992–93 UEFA Cup are as follows: RankNameTeamGoals1 Gérald Baticle Auxerre82 George Weah Paris Saint-Germain73 Roberto Baggio Juventus6 Daniel Fonseca Napoli6 Marcel Witeczek Kaiserslautern66 Dino Baggio Juventus5 Fernando Hierro Real Madrid5 Isaías Benfica5 Gianluca Vialli Juventus5 Tony Yeboah Eintracht Frankfurt5 Iván Zamorano Real Madrid5
See also 1992–93 UEFA Champions League 1992-93 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
External links
1992–93 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website Official Site Results at RSSSF.com All scorers 1992–93 UEFA Cup according to protocols UEFA 1992/93 UEFA Cup - results and line-ups (archive)