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The 1993–94 UEFA Champions League was the 39th season of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA's premier club football tournament, and the second season with the UEFA Champions League logo (it was adopted in the group stage and semi-finals, the rest of the tournament continued to be called "European Champion Clubs' Cup" or "European Cup"). The competition was won by 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.
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There were changes made to the UEFA Champions League's format from the previous year. After two seasons, with the groups, it introduced one legged semi-finals taking place after the group stage, meaning that two sides qualified from each group with the group winners playing the semi-finals at home.
Regarding participants, this edition was marked by the absence of the Yugoslav participant due to the fact that Yugoslavia was under UN economic sanctions. Yugoslav participants were frequent presence in advanced stages of the competition with Red Star Belgrade having won the European Cup in 1991 and finished second in the group last season. FK Partizan were to represent the country in this edition, however, they were not allowed to participate due to the fact that the economic sanctions included country's participation in sports international events as well. Meanwhile, Croatia and Georgia entered their champions for the first time this edition.
Preliminary round
1 Dinamo Tbilisi was disqualified for attempting to bribe the referee in the first leg.
Porto won 2–0 on aggregate.
Feyenoord won 3–1 on aggregate.
Monaco won 2–1 on aggregate.
Steaua București 4–4 Croatia Zagreb on aggregate. Steaua București won on away goals.
Rangers 4–4 Levski Sofia on aggregate. Levski Sofia won on away goals.
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 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.
Manchester United 3–3 Galatasaray on aggregate. Galatasaray won on away goals.
Spartak Moscow won 7–2 on aggregate.
Barcelona won 5–1 on aggregate.
Group stage
The group stage began on 24 November 1993 and ended on 13 April 1994. 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 two teams in each group with the most points advanced to the semi-finals.
All teams except Milan and Porto made their group stage debuts. Two of these teams, Barcelona and Anderlecht, had previously contested the 1991-92 European Cup group stage
Knockout stage
The knockout stage of the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League was played on 27 April 1994, over one leg. If both teams scored the same number of goals, matches would go to extra time and then penalties if the teams could not be separated after extra time.
Top goalscorers
The top scorers from the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League (excluding preliminary round) are as follows: