| Tourney Name: | UEFA Cup |
| Year: | 1993–94 |
| Dates: | 14 September 1993 – 11 May 1994 |
| Champion Other: | Internazionale |
| Count: | 2 |
| Second Other: | Austria Salzburg |
| Matches: | 126 |
| Goals: | 307 |
| Attendance: | 2161952 |
| Top Scorer: | Dennis Bergkamp (Internazionale) Edgar Schmitt (Karlsruhe) 8 goals each |
| Prevseason: | 1992–93 |
| Nextseason: | 1994–95 |
The 1993–94 UEFA Cup was the 23rd season of Europe's then-tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA. The final was played over two legs at the Ernst-Happel Stadion, Vienna, Austria, and at San Siro, Milan, Italy. The competition was won by Italian club Internazionale, who beat Austria Salzburg of Austria by an aggregate result of 2–0, to claim their second UEFA Cup title in a span of four years.
This would be the final edition of the UEFA Cup with the classic 64-team format thad had been in use since 1968, inherited from the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup., before the competition was expanded to accommodate both the new European countries and changes in the UEFA Champions League format. This was the only UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League edition where an Austrian side reached the final, the third overall for an Austrian team in European competition and the first since Rapid Wien in the 1985 European Cup Winners' Cup.
A total of 64 teams from 30 UEFA member associations participated in the 1993–94 UEFA Cup, all entering from the first round over six knock-out rounds. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was originally used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
Additionally, associations 9–12 gained a third birth due to Yugoslavia being banned under United Nations embargo and Albania withdrawing from the competition.
Ukraine now had its own allocation as an unranked association alongside Slovenia, after both of them were represented in the previous UEFA Cup. Both associations took over the places of East Germany, which had ceased to exist as a country in 1991 after the German reunification, and its results had been erased from the UEFA ranking. To rebalance the allocations, the association placed on the 21st spot was not originally slated to have a second birth like it had previously. However, Poland had its UEFA Cup allocation removed due to its football scandal, and its two places were reassigned to associations 21–22 as a second birth.
For the 1993–94 UEFA Cup, the associations are allocated places according to their 1992 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 1987–88 to 1991–92. Therefore, it did not include any of the new football federations that had joined UEFA in the previous years, including competing associations Ukraine and Slovenia. Having returned to European competitions in 1990 after a five-year ban, England's score was limited to the last two of the five seasons accounted for in the ranking.
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The labels in parentheses show how each team qualified for competition:
The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
| First round | 14–16 September 1993 | 28–30 September 1993 | |
| Second round | 19–20 October 1993 | 2–4 November 1993 | |
| Third round | 23–25 November 1993 | 7–8 December 1993 | |
| Quarter-finals | 1–3 March 1994 | 15–17 March 1994 | |
| Semi-finals | 29–30 March 1994 | 12 April 1994 | |
| Final | 26 April 1994 | 11 May 1994 |
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Austria Salzburg won 4–0 on aggregate.----Borussia Dortmund won 1–0 on aggregate.----Bordeaux won 6–0 on aggregate.----Eintracht Frankfurt won 7–2 on aggregate.----Juventus won 4–0 on aggregate.----Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk won 4–2 on aggregate.----Boavista won 5–0 on aggregate.----Trabzonspor won 6–2 on aggregate.----Servette won 4–0 on aggregate.----Mechelen won 2–1 on aggregate.----Atlético Madrid won 4-2 on aggregate.----3–3 on aggregate; Brøndby won on away goals.----Karlsruhe won 2–1 on aggregate.----Royal Antwerp won 4–2 on aggregate.----Deportivo La Coruña won 5–1 on aggregate.----Lazio won 4–0 on aggregate.----Kongsvinger won 7–2 on aggregate.----OFI won 2–1 on aggregate.----Maribor won 2–0 on aggregate.----Olympiacos won 8–3 on aggregate.----Internazionale won 5–1 on aggregate.----MTK won 2–1 on aggregate.----Apollon Limassol won 4–2 on aggregate.----Norwich City won 3–0 on aggregate.----Tenerife won 3–2 on aggregate.----Kuusysi won 6–1 on aggregate.----Celtic won 1–0 on aggregate.----Cagliari won 4–3 on aggregate.----Bayern Munich won 7–3 on aggregate.----Aston Villa won 2–1 on aggregate.----Sporting CP won 2–0 on aggregate.----Valencia won 4–2 on aggregate.
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See main article: FC Bayern Munich 1–2 Norwich City F.C. (1993). ----------------------------------------
Karlsruhe won 8–3 on aggregate.----Mechelen won 6–1 on aggregate.----OFI won 2–1 on aggregate.----Austria Salzburg won 2–0 on aggregate.----Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate.----Eintracht Frankfurt won 2–1 on aggregate.----Internazionale won 4–3 on aggregate.----Borussia Dortmund won 2–1 on aggregate.----Brøndby won 7–2 on aggregate.----Norwich City won 3–2 on aggregate.----Deportivo La Coruña won 2–1 on aggregate.----1–1 on aggregate; Cagliari won on away goals.----Bordeaux won 3–1 on aggregate.----Sporting CP won 2–1 on aggregate.----5–5 on aggregate; Tenerife won on away goals.----Boavista won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Borussia Dortmund won 2–1 on aggregate.----Eintracht Frankfurt won 2–0 on aggregate.----Karlsruhe won 3–1 on aggregate.----Juventus won 4–2 on aggregate.----Internazionale won 2–0 on aggregate.----Boavista won 6–1 on aggregate.----Austria Salzburg won 3–2 on aggregate.----Cagliari won 5–1 on aggregate.
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1–1 on aggregate; Austria Salzburg won 5–4 on penalties.----Cagliari won 3–1 on aggregate.----Karlsruhe won 2–1 on aggregate.----Internazionale won 4–3 on aggregate.
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1–1 on aggregate; Austria Salzburg won on away goals.----Internazionale won 5–3 on aggregate.
See main article: 1994 UEFA Cup final.
Internazionale won 2–0 on aggregate.
| Rank | Player | Team | Goals |
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| 1 | Dennis Bergkamp | Internazionale | 8 |
| Edgar Schmitt | Karlsruhe | ||
| 3 | Bent Christensen | Olympiacos | 6 |
| 4 | Artur | Boavista | 5 |
| Geir Frigård | Kongsvinger | ||
| Wim Jonk | Internazionale | ||
| Ricky | Boavista | ||
| 8 | Jorge Cadete | Sporting CP | 4 |
| Stéphane Chapuisat | Borussia Dortmund | ||
| Dénes Eszenyi | Mechelen | ||
| Jesper Kristensen | Brøndby | ||
| Ismo Lius | Kuusysi | ||
| Luís Oliveira | Cagliari |