1993 European Cup Winners' Cup final

1993 European Cup Winners' Cup final

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Event	1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup
Parma Antwerp 3 1
Date	12 May 1993
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Referee	Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Germany)
Attendance	37,393

The 1993 European Cup Winners' Cup final was a football match contested between Parma of Italy and Antwerp of Belgium. The final was held at Wembley Stadium in London, England on 12 May 1993. It was the final match of the 1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 33rd European Cup Winners' Cup final. Parma beat Antwerp 3–1 and in doing so became the eighth different Italian team to win a European trophy. Upon the abolition of the competition in 1999, this was the last final where the winners won by more than a goal.

The victory marked Parma’s first European trophy in only their second season of European competition. They were the first Italian team to appear in the Cup Winners' Cup final since Sampdoria, who had appeared in 1989 and 1990. Antwerp, meanwhile, made their first-ever appearance in a European final. The most recent Belgian finalist before 1993 had been Anderlecht in 1990, who lost 2–0 to Sampdoria after extra time.

As the winners, Parma contested the 1993 European Super Cup against 1992–93 UEFA Champions League runners-up Milan, after champions Marseille had been banned from European competition over match-fixing allegations.

This was the last European club tournament final staged at the old Wembley, as it was going to be rebuilt to an all-new stadium.

Background

The 1993 final marked the first meeting between Parma and Antwerp. Both teams were seeking their first piece of European silverware, and it was Parma’s first encounter with Belgian opposition. Additionally, neither manager had previously guided a team to a European final.

Wembley Stadium in London had hosted the European Cup Winners' Cup final on one previous occasion: in 1965. Londoners West Ham United won the game by two goals to nil against West German opposition 1860 Munich in front of 97,974 people, the biggest ever attendance at a Cup Winners' Cup final.

Route to the final

Further information: 1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup

Parma				Opponent	Antwerp
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg	Round	Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Újpest	2–1	1–0 (H)	1–1 (A)	First round	Glenavon	2–2 (3–1 p)	1–1 (A)	1–1 (a.e.t.) (H)
Boavista	2–0	0–0 (H)	2–0 (A)	Second round	Admira	7–6	4–2 (A)	3–4 (a.e.t.) (H)
Sparta Prague	2–0	0–0 (A)	2–0 (H)	Quarter-finals	Steaua București	1–1 (a)	0–0 (H)	1–1 (A)
Atlético Madrid	2–2 (a)	2–1 (A)	0–1 (H)	Semi-finals	Spartak Moscow	3–2	0–1 (A)	3–1 (H)

Match

Summary

Parma opened the scoring in the 10th minute when goalkeeper Stevan Stojanović misjudged a corner that allowed Parma's captain, Lorenzo Minotti to hook the ball home from the left of the penalty area. But Antwerp replied within two minutes, Alex Czerniatynski played a through-ball to Francis Severeyns who shot past the goalkeeper left footed to level the scores. The Italians began to dominate the game and Alessandro Melli headed them 2–1 ahead after half an hour after a cross from the right. The game was put beyond Antwerp six minutes from time when Stefano Cuoghi curled a shot past the goalkeeper from inside the area.

Details

12 May 1993

19:15 BST

Parma	3–1	Antwerp
Minotti 9' Melli 30' Cuoghi 84'	Report	Severeyns 11'

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 37,393

Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Germany)

Parma

Antwerp

GK 1 Marco Ballotta CB 6 Georges Grün SW 4 Lorenzo Minotti (c) CB 5 Luigi Apolloni RWB  2 Antonio Benarrivo LWB  3 Alberto Di Chiara  32' CM 9 Marco Osio  75' CM 8 Daniele Zoratto  26' CM 10 Stefano Cuoghi SS 11 Tomas Brolin CF 7 Alessandro Melli Substitutes: GK 12 Marco Ferrari DF 13 Salvatore Matrecano CM 14 Gabriele Pin  26' MF 15 Fausto Pizzi  75' FW 16 Faustino Asprilla Manager: Nevio Scala

GK 1 Stevan Stojanović CB 4 Rudi Taeymans SW 3 Nico Broeckaert  82' CB 5 Rudi Smidts (c) RWB 2 Wim Kiekens LWB 8 Didier Segers  65'  82' CM 7 Ronny Van Rethy CM 6 Dragan Jakovljević  51' CM 10 Hans-Peter Lehnhoff CF 9 Francis Severeyns  37' CF 11 Alexandre Czerniatynski Substitutes: DF 12 Geert Emmerechts MF 13 Garry De Graef MF 14 Patrick Van Veirdeghem  51' FW 15 Noureddine Moukrim  82' GK 16 Wim De Coninck Manager: Walter Meeuws

Assistant referees: Klaus Plettenberg (Germany) Hans Wolf (Germany) Fourth official: Bernd Heynemann (Germany)

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of golden goal extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Five named substitutes. Maximum of two substitutions.

See also

• 1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup
• 1993 European Cup Final
• 1993 UEFA Cup Final
• Parma Calcio 1913 in European football
• Royal Antwerp F.C. in European football

External links

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation