1992–93 AC Milan season
1992–93 season | |||
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President | Silvio Berlusconi | ||
Manager | Fabio Capello | ||
Stadium | San Siro | ||
Serie A | 1st | ||
Supercoppa Italiana | Winners | ||
Coppa Italia | Semi-finals | ||
UEFA Champions League | Runners-up | ||
Top goalscorer | League: Marco van Basten, Jean-Pierre Papin (13) All: Marco van Basten, Jean-Pierre Papin (20) | ||
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Associazione Calcio Milan won two trophies in the 1992–93 season, which was crowned when it reached the European Cup final and won the domestic league for the second year running.
None of the other Serie A teams came close to challenging Milan in the league, with new signing Jean-Pierre Papin playing a vital role in the absence of lethal striker Marco van Basten, who albeit scored 13 goals in just 15 matches. Some defensive slips were redeemed by the 65 goals scored, which was the most of all teams in the league, and enough to clinch the title in front of city rivals Internazionale by four points. The season also saw memorable displays against Pescara, Fiorentina and Lazio in the beginning of the season. Against Pescara, Milan won 5–4 away from home, then beat Fiorentina 7–3 and Lazio at home by 5–3. In those three matches, van Basten totaled seven goals. Milan also crushed Napoli 5–1 at the Stadio San Paolo in Naples, with van Basten scoring four goals in Serie A for the first (and only) time.
The season also saw Milan set the world transfer record following an intensive bidding battle against Juventus to sign Gianluigi Lentini from 1992's surprise Torino team. Lentini did not perform to expectations, and was considered a disappointment, especially following a car accident in 1993, from which he recovered, but never rediscovered his form prior to the accident.
Players
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Franco Baresi
Alessandro Costacurta
Filippo Galli
Enzo Gambaro
Paolo Maldini
Stefano Nava
Mauro Tassotti
Martino Traversa
Midfielders
Demetrio Albertini
Zvonimir Boban
Fernando De Napoli
Roberto Donadoni
Stefano Eranio
Alberigo Evani
Ruud Gullit
Frank Rijkaard
Dejan Savićević
Gianluigi Lentini
Forwards
Competitions
Serie A
League table
Results summary
Results by round
Matches
2 | Pescara | 4–5 | Milan | Pescara |
Allegri ![]() Baresi ![]() Massara ![]() |
Maldini ![]() Lentini ![]() Van Basten ![]() |
Stadium: Stadio Adriatico |
4 | Fiorentina | 3–7 | Milan | Florence |
Baiano ![]() Effenberg ![]() Di Mauro ![]() |
Massaro ![]() Lentini ![]() Gullit ![]() Van Basten ![]() |
Stadium: Stadio Artemio Franchi |
5 | Milan | 5–3 | Lazio | Milan |
Gullit ![]() Papin ![]() Van Basten ![]() Simone ![]() |
Winter ![]() Fuser ![]() Signori ![]() |
Stadium: San Siro |
8 | Napoli | 1–5 | Milan | Naples |
Zola ![]() |
Van Basten ![]() Eranio ![]() |
Stadium: Stadio San Paolo |
9 | Milan | 1–1 | Internazionale | Milan |
Lentini ![]() |
De Agostini ![]() |
Stadium: San Siro |
10 | Juventus | 0–1 | Milan | Turin |
Simone ![]() |
Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi |
14 | Roma | 0–1 | Milan | Rome |
Gullit ![]() |
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico |
16 | Brescia | 0–1 | Milan | Brescia |
Massaro ![]() |
Stadium: Stadio Mario Rigamonti |
18 | Foggia | 2–2 | Milan | Foggia |
Bresciani ![]() Seno ![]() |
Papin ![]() Rijkaard ![]() |
Stadium: Stadio Pino Zaccheria |
22 | Milan | 2–0 | Fiorentina | Milan |
Savićević ![]() |
Stadium: San Siro |
23 | Lazio | 2–2 | Milan | Rome |
Gascoigne ![]() Bergodi ![]() |
Papin ![]() Winter ![]() |
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico |
29 | Udinese | 0–0 | Milan | Udine |
Stadium: Stadio Friuli |
30 | Ancona | 1–3 | Milan | Ancona |
Vecchiola ![]() |
Gullit ![]() Van Basten ![]() Albertini ![]() |
Stadium: Stadio del Conero |
32 | Cagliari | 1–1 | Milan | Cagliari |
Francescoli ![]() |
Massaro ![]() |
Stadium: Stadio Sant'Elia |
34 | Genoa | 2–2 | Milan | Genoa |
Caricola ![]() Fortunato ![]() |
Simone ![]() Papin ![]() |
Stadium: Stadio Luigi Ferraris |
Top Scorers
Marco van Basten 13
Jean-Pierre Papin 13
Ruud Gullit 8
Gianluigi Lentini 7
Daniele Massaro 5
Marco Simone 5
Dejan Savićević 4
Coppa Italia
Second round
26 August 1992 First Leg | Milan | 4 – 0 | Ternana | San Siro, Milan |
20:30 | Savicević ![]() Gullit ![]() Massaro ![]() |
Referee: Luciano Luci |
2 September 1992 Second Leg | Ternana | 2 – 6 | Milan | Stadio Libero Liberati, Terni |
20:30 | Negri ![]() Ghezzi ![]() |
Massaro ![]() Cavezzi ![]() Savicević ![]() Gullit ![]() Evani ![]() |
Referee: Pasquale Rodomonti |
Third round
7 October 1992 First Leg | Milan | 3 – 0 | Cagliari | San Siro, Milan |
20:30 | Papin ![]() Lentini ![]() |
Referee: Roberto Bettin |
28 October 1992 Second Leg | Cagliari | 0 – 0 | Milan | Stadio Sant'Elia, Cagliari |
20:30 | Referee: Pasquale Rodomonti |
Quarter-finals
27 January 1993 First Leg | Milan | 0 – 0 | Internazionale | San Siro, Milan |
20:30 | Referee: Gianni Beschin |
10 February 1993 Second Leg | Internazionale | 0 – 3 | Milan | San Siro, Milan |
20:30 | Papin ![]() Gullit ![]() |
Referee: Fabio Baldas |
Semi-finals
10 March 1993 First Leg | Roma | 2 – 0 | Milan | Stadio Olimpico, Rome |
20:30 | Muzzi ![]() Caniggia ![]() |
Referee: Pierluigi Pairetto |
31 March 1993 Second Leg | Milan | 1 – 0 | Roma | San Siro, Milan |
20:30 | Eranio ![]() |
Referee: Arcangelo Pezzella |
Supercoppa Italiana
30 August 1992 | Milan | 2 – 1 | Parma | San Siro, Milan |
20:30 | Van Basten ![]() Massaro ![]() |
Report | Melli ![]() |
Referee: Pierluigi Pairetto |
European Cup
First round
16 September 1992 First Leg | Milan ![]() | 4 – 0 | ![]() | San Siro, Milan |
20:30 | Van Basten ![]() Albertini ![]() Papin ![]() |
Report | Attendance: 14,324 Referee: Roman Steindl (Austria) |
30 September 1992 Second Leg | Olimpija Ljubljana ![]() | 0 – 3 | ![]() | Bežigrad Stadium, Ljubljana |
20:30 | Report | Massaro ![]() Rijkaard ![]() Tassotti ![]() |
Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Jiri Ulrich (Czechoslovakia) |
Second round
21 October 1992 First Leg | Slovan Bratislava ![]() | 0 – 1 | ![]() | Tehelné pole, Bratislava |
20:15 | Report | Maldini ![]() |
Attendance: 33,467 Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark) |
4 November 1992 Second Leg | Milan ![]() | 4 – 0 | ![]() | San Siro, Milan |
20:30 | Boban ![]() Rijkaard ![]() Simone ![]() Papin ![]() |
Report | Attendance: 26,798 Referee: Antonio Martin Navarrete (Spain) |
UEFA Champions League
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | +10 | 12 |
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6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 6 |
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6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
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6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 | −9 | 1 |
25 November 1992 Round 1 | Milan ![]() | 4 – 0 | ![]() | San Siro, Milan |
20:30 | Van Basten ![]() |
Report | Attendance: 55,697 Referee: Frans van den Wijngaert (Belgium) |
9 December 1992 Round 2 | PSV Eindhoven ![]() | 1 – 2 | ![]() | Philips Stadion, Eindhoven |
20:30 | Romário ![]() |
Report | Rijkaard ![]() Simone ![]() |
Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Alexey Spirin (Russia) |
3 March 1993 Round 3 | Porto ![]() | 0 – 1 | ![]() | Estádio das Antas, Porto |
19:30 | Report | Papin ![]() |
Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany) |
17 March 1993 Round 4 | Milan ![]() | 1 – 0 | ![]() | San Siro, Milan |
20:30 | Eranio ![]() |
Report | Attendance: 67,389 Referee: Philip Don (England) |
7 April 1993 Round 5 | IFK Göteborg ![]() | 0 – 1 | ![]() | Ullevi, Gothenburg |
20:30 | Report | Massaro ![]() |
Attendance: 40,323 Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Germany) |
21 April 1993 Round 6 | Milan ![]() | 2 – 0 | ![]() | San Siro, Milan |
20:30 | Simone ![]() |
Report | Attendance: 56,862 Referee: Sándor Puhl (Hungary) |
Final
26 May 1993 | Marseille ![]() | 1 – 0 | ![]() | Olympiastadion, Munich |
20:15 | Boli ![]() |
Report | Attendance: 64,400 Referee: Kurt Röthlisberger (Switzerland) |