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1993–94 UEFA Champions League
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<p>The 1993–94 UEFA Champions League, originally known as the 1993–94 European Cup, was the 39th season of the <a href="/facts/UEFA_Champions_League/h1ao7NDp">UEFA Champions League</a>, <a href="/facts/UEFA/UafFnEBe">UEFA</a>'s premier club <a href="/facts/Association_football/yttjeD0D">football</a> 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 Italian club <a href="/facts/AC_Milan/yDRPqvJI">Milan</a>, their fifth title, beating Spanish club <a href="/facts/FC_Barcelona/x2H1EFug">Barcelona</a> 4–0 in the <a href="/facts/1994_UEFA_Champions_League_final/JHCGHJsP">final</a>. <a href="/facts/Olympique_de_Marseille/VBbXDk7l">Marseille</a> were the defending champions, but were not allowed to enter the competition due their involvement in a <a href="/facts/French_football_bribery_scandal/vFKzPdNY">match-fixing scandal</a> in <a href="/facts/Ligue_1/jtGrnX8g">Division 1</a> the season prior. This saw them stripped of their league title and demoted to <a href="/facts/Ligue_2/abJk5y88">Division 2</a> at the end of 1993–94. This was the first and only time which the defending champions did not participate in the following season of the competition. Third-placed <a href="/facts/AS_Monaco_FC/f80Ms5Au">Monaco</a> took the vacated French berth (second-placed <a href="/facts/Paris_Saint-Germain_FC/pyF66zLV">Paris Saint-Germain</a>, who refused the defaulted French title, competed in the <a href="/facts/1993%25E2%2580%259394_European_Cup_Winners%2527_Cup/u3rpL76U">Cup Winners' Cup</a> instead as <a href="/facts/1992%25E2%2580%259393_Coupe_de_France/peJFf3F8">Coupe de France</a> winners). </p><p>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 the two sides qualified from each group as group winners playing the semi-finals at home. </p><p>This edition was marked by the absence of Yugoslav participants because <a href="/facts/Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia/FR15c0Jn">Yugoslavia</a> was under <a href="/facts/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_757/blrkqYLY">UN economic sanctions</a>. Yugoslav participants were frequently present in advanced stages of the competition with <a href="/facts/Red_Star_Belgrade/ofek7ScB">Red Star Belgrade</a> having won the European Cup in <a href="/facts/1991_European_Cup_final/exS4yPAy">1991</a> and finished second in the group the following season. <a href="/facts/FK_Partizan/lhkdkwTL">Partizan</a> were to represent Yugoslavia in this edition, but were not allowed to participate. Meanwhile, <a href="/facts/Croatia/MSS0yyvw">Croatia</a>, <a href="/facts/Belarus/vweHwgob">Belarus</a>, <a href="/facts/Moldova/qGBNGewt">Moldova</a>, <a href="/facts/Georgia_(country)/ccBF8bBE">Georgia</a> and <a href="/facts/Wales/xa3W6PHH">Wales</a> entered their champions for the first time in this edition. </p>