1992–93 UEFA Champions League
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| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | Qualifying: 19 August – 2 September 1992 Competition proper: 16 September 1992 – 26 May 1993 |
| Teams | Competition proper: 32 Total: 36 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | France Marseille (1st title) |
| Runners-up | Italy Milan |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 74 |
| Goals scored | 194 (2.62 per match) |
| Attendance | 1,896,787 (25,632 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Romário (PSV Eindhoven) 7 goals |
← 1991–92 (European Cup) 1993–94 → | |
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The 1992–93 UEFA Champions League was the 38th European Cup, the premier European club football tournament, and the first season with the UEFA Champions League branding (originally adopted only in the group stage). It was the second season of the competition in which the eight second round winners would be split into two groups, with the winner of each one meeting in the final. In addition, a preliminary round was required as this was the first season after the break-up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, resulting in many new countries eligible to enter the champions of their own leagues into the competition. Israel and the Faroe Islands were also represented for the first time. The tournament was won for the first time by Marseille, defeating Milan in the final, becoming the first and as of 2024 only French team to win the European Cup/Champions League. However, soon after Marseille's victory allegations of match fixing were levelled at them and their president Bernard Tapie. This involved a league game that took place 6 days before the final where Marseille, it emerged, had fixed their title-clinching Division 1 game against Valenciennes so they could concentrate on the final against Milan. It is believed that Tapie bribed Valenciennes to lose so that Marseille would win the French league earlier, and above all that they would not injure the Marseille players before the final against Milan. Before the 1991 European Cup final against Red Star Belgrade, Marseille had a few injured players, Tapie did not want to repeat this mistake. This resulted in Marseille being stripped of their league title by the French Football Federation (although not the European Cup, as the match in question was not in that competition). They were banned from defending their European title in the 1993–94 season, and contesting the Intercontinental Cup and Super Cup. During the 1995 trial over Marseille's financial accounts, it was revealed that they had an annual budget of Fr5 million (about €760,000) dedicated to the purchase of matches from 1989 to 1993. The UEFA, along with the French Federation (FFF) and France authorities, investigated several Marseille matches during the 1992–93 season. These investigations have not established any formal proof concerning alleged match-fixing in the Champions League. Therefore, Marseille's status as 1993 European champion was not affected. Barcelona, the defending champions, were eliminated in the second round by CSKA Moscow.
Teams
File:Purple pog.svg Purple: Eliminated in the preliminary round;File:Yellow pog.svg Yellow: Eliminated in the first round; File:Orange pog.svg Orange: Eliminated in the second round; File:Red pog.svg Red: Qualified for group stage.
| First round | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain Barcelona (1st)TH | France Marseille (1st) | Italy Milan (1st) | Germany VfB Stuttgart (1st) |
| Belgium Club Brugge (1st) | Portugal Porto (1st) | Netherlands PSV Eindhoven (1st) | Poland Lech Poznań (1st) |
| Romania Dinamo București (1st) | Scotland Rangers (1st) | Russia CSKA Moscow (1st) | Sweden IFK Göteborg (1st) |
| Austria Austria Wien (1st) | Switzerland Sion (1st) | Greece AEK Athens (1st) | Czechoslovakia Slovan Bratislava (1st) |
| Bulgaria CSKA Sofia (1st) | Hungary Ferencváros (1st) | Denmark Lyngby (1st) | Turkey Beşiktaş (1st) |
| England Leeds United (1st) | Finland Kuusysi (1st) | Northern Ireland Glentoran (1st) | Lithuania Žalgiris (1st) |
| Iceland Víkingur Reykjavík (1st) | Norway Viking (1st) | Cyprus APOEL (1st) | Luxembourg Union Luxembourg (1st) |
| Preliminary round | |||
| Republic of Ireland Shelbourne (1st) | Malta Valletta (1st) | Faroe Islands KÍ (1st) | Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv (1st) |
| Estonia Norma Tallinn (1st) | Slovenia Olimpija Ljubljana (1st) | Latvia Skonto (1st) | Ukraine Tavriya Simferopol (1st) |
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Preliminary round
{{#section:1992–93 UEFA Champions League preliminary round|PR}}
First round
{{#section:1992–93 UEFA Champions League first round|FR}}
Second round
{{#section:1992–93 UEFA Champions League second round|SR}}
Group stage
File:Brown pog.svg Brown: Group A; File:Red pog.svg Red: Group B
The group stage began on 25 November 1992 and ended on 21 April 1993. The eight teams were divided into two groups of four, and the teams in each group played against each other on a home-and-away basis, meaning that each team played a total of six group matches. For each win, teams were awarded two points, with one point awarded for each draw. At the end of the group stage, the first team in each group advanced to the final.
Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | MAR | RAN | BRU | CSKA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | France Marseille | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 4 | +10 | 9 | Advance to final | — | 1–1 | 3–0 | 6–0 | |
| 2 | Scotland Rangers | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 8 | 2–2 | — | 2–1 | 0–0 | ||
| 3 | Belgium Club Brugge | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 5 | 0–1 | 1–1 | — | 1–0 | ||
| 4 | Russia CSKA Moscow | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | −9 | 2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | — |
Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | MIL | GOT | POR | PSV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italy Milan | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | +10 | 12 | Advance to final | — | 4–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | |
| 2 | Sweden IFK Göteborg | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 6 | 0–1 | — | 1–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 3 | Portugal Porto | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0–1 | 2–0 | — | 2–2 | ||
| 4 | Netherlands PSV Eindhoven | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 | −9 | 1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 0–1 | — |
Final
The final was played on 26 May 1993 at the Olympiastadion in Munich, Germany.
Top goalscorers
The top scorers from the 1992–93 UEFA Champions League (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:
| Rank | Name | Team | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazil Romário | Netherlands PSV Eindhoven | 7 |
| 2 | Netherlands Marco van Basten | Italy Milan | 6 |
| France Franck Sauzée | France Marseille | 6 | |
| Croatia Alen Bokšić | France Marseille | 6 | |
| 5 | Sweden Johnny Ekström | Sweden IFK Göteborg | 5 |
| 6 | Italy Marco Simone | Italy Milan | 4 |
| Belgium Gert Verheyen | Belgium Club Brugge | 4 | |
| Brazil Zé Carlos | Portugal Porto | 4 | |
| Bulgaria Emil Kostadinov | Portugal Porto | 4 | |
| Brazil Túlio | Switzerland Sion | 4 |
See also
References
- ↑ "2. Finals" (PDF). UEFA Champions League Statistics Handbook 2016/17. Nyon: Union of European Football Associations. 2017. p. 1. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
- Thibert, Jacques (1993). L'album 93 du football. Scaneditons. ISBN 2-209-06811-8.
External links
- 1992–93 All matches – season at UEFA website
- European Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
- All scorers 1992–93 UEFA Champions League (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers preliminary round
- 1992/93 UEFA Champions League – results and line-ups (archive)
