Champions Marseille (1st title) Champion Olympique de Marseille Dates 19 Aug 1992 – 26 May 1993 Matches played 82 | Runners-up Milan Top scorer Romário Goals scored 195 | |
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Teams 8 (UEFA Champions League)
32 (first round)
36 (total) Similar 1993–94 UEFA Champio, 1994–95 UEFA Champio, 1996–97 UEFA Champio, 1995–96 UEFA Champio, 1988–89 European Cup | ||
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 logo (originally adopted only in the group stage).
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It 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. 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. 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 European Cup final. 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. In 1994 Marseille was also relegated to the Division 2.
Barcelona, the defending champions, were eliminated in the second round by CSKA Moscow.
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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Second leg
IFK Göteborg won 3–2 on aggregate.
Lech Poznań won 2–0 on aggregate.
Rangers won 3–0 on aggregate.
Stuttgart 3–3 Leeds United on aggregate.
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.
3–3 on aggregate. AEK Athens won on away goals.
PSV Eindhoven won 8–0 on aggregate.
CSKA Moscow won 5–2 on aggregate.
Barcelona won 1–0 on aggregate.
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.
3–3 on aggregate. Club Brugge won on away goals.
Porto won 6–2 on aggregate.
PSV Eindhoven won 3–1 on aggregate.
CSKA Moscow won 4–3 on aggregate.
UEFA Champions League
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.
Top goalscorers
The top scorers from the 1992–93 UEFA Champions League (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:
