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1992–93 European Cup

The 1992–93 season of the European Cup football club tournament was the second tournament to have a group stage involving the eight second round winners split into two groups, and the winner of each one met in the final. In addition, a preliminary round was required as this was the first season after the break-up of the USSR and Yugoslavia, resulting in a large number of new countries eligible to enter the champions of their own leagues into the competition.

The tournament was won for the first time by Marseille, defeating Milan in the final. However, soon after Marseille's victory allegations of match fixing were levelled at them and their president Bernard Tapie. This involved a league game where Marseille, it emerged, had fixed their title-clinching Division 1 game against Valenciennes so they could concentrate on the Milan tie. It is believed that Tapie bribed Valenciennes to lose so that Marseille would win the French league earlier, giving them more time to prepare for the Champions League final. This resulted in Marseille being stripped of their league title by the French Football Federation (although not the Champions League, as the match in question was not in that competition). They were also forcibly relegated to the second tier in the league, and banned from defending their European title in the 1993–94 season, and contesting the 1993 Intercontinental Cup and Super Cup.

Barcelona, the defending champions, were eliminated in the second round by CSKA Moscow.

Preliminary round

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Second leg
Tavriya Simferopol won 2–1 on aggregate.

Maccabi Tel Aviv won 3–1 on aggregate.

Skonto won 6–1 on aggregate.

Olimpija Ljubljana won 5–0 on aggregate.

First round

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Notes:

Second leg
IFK Göteborg won 3–2 on aggregate.

Lech Poznań won 2–0 on aggregate.

Rangers won 3–0 on aggregate.

Stuttgart 4–4 Leeds United on aggregate.


 * Play-off

Slovan Bratislava won 4–1 on aggregate.

Milan won 7–0 on aggregate.

Dinamo Bucureşti won 2–1 on aggregate.

Marseille won 8–0 on aggregate.

Club Brugge won 4–0 on aggregate.

Austria Wien won 5–4 on aggregate.

Sion won 7–2 on aggregate.

Porto won 9–1 on aggregate.

AEK Athens won 3–3 on away goals.

PSV Eindhoven won 8–0 on aggregate.

CSKA Moscow won 5–2 on aggregate.

Barcelona won 1–0 on aggregate.

Second round

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Second leg
IFK Göteborg won 4–0 on aggregate.

Rangers won 4–2 on aggregate.

Milan won 5–0 on aggregate.

Marseille won 2–0 on aggregate.

Club Brugge won 3–3 on away goals.

Porto won 6–2 on aggregate.

PSV Eindhoven won 3–1 on aggregate.

CSKA Moscow won 4–3 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers
The top scorers from the 1992–93 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:

1993–94 European Cup

The The 1993–94 season of the European Cup football club tournament was the 39th edition of UEFA's top club football tournament. The competition was won by A.C. Milan, their fifth title, beating Barcelona 4–0 in the final. Marseille were the defending champions, but were not allowed to enter the competition after a match-fixing scandal revealed after the final that Marseille came out victorious in the preceding season. This saw them relegated to Division 2 and stripped of their league title.

Previous year were made ​​changes to the UEFA Champions League's format, who from two seasons, with the groups, formed the heart of the event: it was introduced one legged semi-finals taking place after the group stage, meaning that two sides qualified from each group.

Preliminary round

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First round

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Second leg
Porto won 2–0 on aggregate.

Feyenoord won 3–1 on aggregate.

AS Monaco won 2–1 on aggregate.

''Croatia 4–4 Steaua on aggregate. Steaua Bucureşti won on away goals rule.''

''Levski Sofia 4–4 Rangers on aggregate. Levski Sofia won on away goals rule.''

Werder Bremen won 6–3 on aggregate.

Copenhagen won 4–3 on aggregate.

Milan won 1–0 on aggregate.

Sparta Prague won 2–1 on aggregate.

Anderlecht won 6–0 on aggregate.

Manchester United won 5–3 on aggregate.

Galatasaray won 3–1 on aggregate.

Lech Poznań won 7–2 on aggregate.

Spartak Moscow won 9–0 on aggregate.

Barcelona won 5–4 on aggregate.

Austria Wien won 5–4 on aggregate.

Second round

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Second leg
Porto won 1–0 on aggregate.

AS Monaco won 4–2 on aggregate. -

Werder Bremen won 3–2 on aggregate.

Milan won 7–0 on aggregate.

Anderlecht won 5–2 on aggregate.

''Galatasaray 3–3 Manchester United on aggregate. Galatasaray won on away goals rule.''

Spartak Moscow won 7–2 on aggregate.

Barcelona won 5–1 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers
The top scorers from the 1993-94 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) are as follows: