1992–93 UEFA Champions League

1992–93 UEFA Champions League
	The final was played at the Olympiastadion in Munich.
Tournament details
Dates	19 August – 2 September 1992 (qualifying); 16 September 1992 – 26 May 1993 (competition proper); 25 November 1992 – 21 April 1993 (UEFA Champions League)
Teams	8 ; 32 (first round); 36 (total)
Final positions
Champions	Marseille (1st title)
Runners-up	Milan
Tournament statistics
Matches played	82
Goals scored	195 (2.38 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Romário ; (7 goals)
	← 1991–92 (European Cup) 1993–94 →

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).

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 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 were also relegated to the Division 2.

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

Teams

Location of teams of the 1992–93 UEFA Champions League.

Purple: Eliminated in the preliminary round;

Yellow: Eliminated in the first round;

Orange: Eliminated in the second round;

Red: Qualified for group stage.

Preliminary round
Norma Tallinn	KÍ	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Skonto
Valletta	Shelbourne	Olimpija Ljubljana	Tavriya Simferopol
First round
Austria Wien	Club Brugge	CSKA Sofia	APOEL
Slovan Bratislava	Lyngby	Leeds United	Kuusysi
Marseille	Stuttgart	AEK Athens	Ferencváros
Víkingur Reykjavík	Milan	Žalgiris Vilnius	Union Luxembourg
PSV Eindhoven	Glentoran	Viking	Lech Poznań
Porto	Dinamo București	CSKA Moscow	Rangers
Barcelona	IFK Göteborg	Sion	Beşiktaş

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Shelbourne	1–2	Tavriya Simferopol	0–0	1–2
Valletta	1–3	Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–2	0–1
KÍ	1–6	Skonto	1–3	0–3
Olimpija Ljubljana	5–0	Norma Tallinn	3–0	2–0

First leg

19 August 1992

18:30 UTC+1

Shelbourne	0–0	Tavriya Simferopol
	Report

Tolka Park, Dublin

Attendance: 3,500

Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)^[1]

19 August 1992

17:30 UTC+1

Valletta	1–2	Maccabi Tel Aviv
Zerafa 75'	Report	Cohen 83' Nimni 88'

Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Referee: Ahmet Çakar (Turkey)

19 August 1992

16:00 UTC+1

KÍ	1–3	Skonto
Danielsen 46'	Report	Astafjevs 28', 46' Semjonovs 90'

Svangaskarð, Toftir

Referee: Rune Pedersen (Norway)^{[citation needed]}

19 August 1992

18:15 UTC+1

Olimpija Ljubljana	3–0	Norma Tallinn
Ubavič 48' Topič 50' Vrabac 60'	Report

Bežigrad Stadium, Ljubljana

Referee: Daniel Roduit (Switzerland)^{[citation needed]}

Second leg

2 September 1992

19:00 UTC+1

Tavriya Simferopol	2–1	Shelbourne
Shevchenko 10' Sheykhametov 15'	Report	Dully 42'

Lokomotiv Stadium, Simferopol

Attendance: 16,000^[2]

Referee: Gerd Grabher (Switzerland)^[2]

Tavriya Simferopol won 2–1 on aggregate.

2 September 1992

19:00 UTC+1

Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–0	Valletta
Melika 24'	Report

Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Vassilios Nikakis (Greece)^{[citation needed]}

Maccabi Tel Aviv won 3–1 on aggregate.

2 September 1992

18:00 UTC+2

Skonto	3–0	KÍ
Jelisejevs 4' Semjonovs 38' Astafjevs 52'	Report

Skonto Stadium, Riga

Referee: Ilkka Koho (Finland)^{[citation needed]}

Skonto won 6–1 on aggregate.

2 September 1992

17:00 UTC+1

Norma Tallinn	0–2	Olimpija Ljubljana
	Report	Zulič 26' Djuranovič 80'

Rannavärava, Tallinn

Referee: Finn Lambek (Denmark)

Olimpija Ljubljana won 5–0 on aggregate.

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
IFK Göteborg	3–2	Beşiktaş	2–0	1–2
Lech Poznań	2–0	Skonto	2–0	0–0
Rangers	3–0	Lyngby	2–0	1–0
Stuttgart	3–3 (1–2) ^{[notes 1]}	Leeds United	3–0	0–3
Slovan Bratislava	4–1	Ferencváros	4–1	0–0
Milan	7–0	Olimpija Ljubljana	4–0	3–0
Kuusysi	1–2	Dinamo Bucureşti	1–0	0–2(aet)
Glentoran	0–8	Marseille	0–5	0–3
Maccabi Tel Aviv	0–4	Club Brugge	0–1	0–3
Austria Wien	5–4	CSKA Sofia	3–1	2–3
Sion	7–2	Tavriya Simferopol	4–1	3–1
Union Luxembourg	1–9	Porto	1–4	0–5
AEK Athens	3–3 (a)	APOEL	1–1	2–2
PSV Eindhoven	8–0	FK Žalgiris	6–0	2–0
Víkingur	2–5	CSKA Moscow	0–1	2–4
Barcelona	1–0	Viking	1–0	0–0

Notes:

^ Following a 3–0 win at home and a 4–1 defeat away, Stuttgart would have won on away goals after with the scores level at 4–4 on aggregate; however, it was realised that in the second leg, Stuttgart had fielded more than the allowed maximum of three foreign players. The match was awarded to Leeds United with a score of 3–0, making it 3–3 on aggregate with no difference on away goals. A play-off match in Barcelona was ordered, which Leeds won 2–1.

First leg

16 September 1992