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1992–93 UEFA Champions League
Tournament details
Teams	36 (from UEFA confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Marseille (1st title)
Runner-up	Milan

The 1992–93 UEFA Champions League was the 38th European Cup, the premier European club football tournament, and the first edition under the current UEFA Champions League format.

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.

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 Ligue 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 Champions League final. This resulted in Marseille being stripped of their league title by the French Football Federation (although not the Champions League, as the match in question was not in that competition). They were also forcibly relegated to the second tier in the league, and banned from defending their European title in the 1993–94 season.

[edit] Preliminary round

Team #1	Agg.	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

[edit] First round

Team #1	Agg.	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	4–4^{[Remark 1]}	Leeds United	3–0	1–4
Slovan Bratislava	4–1	Ferencváros	4–1	0–0
Milan	7–0	Olimpija Ljubljana	4–0	3–0
Kuusysi Lahti	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	(a)3–3	APOEL	1–1	2–2
PSV	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

Remarks:

^ Stuttgart would have won on away goals; however, it was realised that in the second leg between Leeds United and Stuttgart, Stuttgart had substituted a fourth foreign player. At the time, a maximum of three foreign players was allowed. The game was awarded to Leeds United with a score of 3–0, making it 3–3 on aggregate with no difference in away goals. A play-off match in Barcelona was ordered, which Leeds United won 2–1.

[edit] Second round

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
IFK Göteborg	4–0	Lech Poznań	1–0	3–0
Rangers	4–2	Leeds United	2–1	2–1
Slovan Bratislava	0–5	Milan	0–1	0–4
Dinamo Bucureşti	0–2	Marseille	0–0	0–2
Club Brugge	(a)3–3	Austria Wien	2–0	1–3
Sion	2–6	Porto	2–2	0–4
AEK Athens	1–3	PSV	1–0	0–3
CSKA Moscow	4–3	Barcelona	1–1	3–2

[edit] Group stage

[edit] Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Marseille	6	3	3	0	14	4	+10	9
Rangers	6	2	4	0	7	5	+2	8
Club Brugge	6	2	1	3	5	8	−3	5
CSKA Moscow	6	0	2	4	2	11	−9	2


Matchday One
Club Brugge	1–0	CSKA Moscow
Rangers	2–2	Marseille
Matchday Two
Marseille	3–0	Club Brugge
CSKA Moscow	0–1	Rangers
Matchday Three
Club Brugge	1–1	Rangers
CSKA Moscow	1–1	Marseille
Matchday Four
Marseille	6–0	CSKA Moscow
Rangers	2–1	Club Brugge
Matchday Five
Marseille	1–1	Rangers
CSKA Moscow	1–2	Club Brugge
Matchday Six
Club Brugge	0–1	Marseille
Rangers	0–0	CSKA Moscow

[edit] Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Milan	6	6	0	0	11	1	+10	12
IFK Göteborg	6	3	0	3	7	8	−1	6
Porto	6	2	1	3	5	5	0	5
PSV	6	0	1	5	4	13	−9	1


Matchday One
Milan	4–0	IFK Göteborg
Porto	2–2	PSV
Matchday Two
PSV	1–2	Milan
IFK Göteborg	1–0	Porto
Matchday Three
Porto	0–1	Milan
PSV	1–3	IFK Göteborg
Matchday Four
Milan	1–0	Porto
IFK Göteborg	3–0	PSV
Matchday Five
IFK Göteborg	0–1	Milan
PSV	0–1	Porto
Matchday Six
Milan	2–0	PSV
Porto	2–0	IFK Göteborg