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: • Associations 1–3 each have four teams qualify. • Associations 4–8 each have three teams qualify. • Associations 9–20 each have two teams qualify. • Associations 21–32 each have one team qualify. Additionally, associations 9–12 gained a third berth 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 berth 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 berth.
Association ranking 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.
Teams The labels in parentheses show how each team qualified for competition: • TH: Title holders • CW: Cup winners • CR: Cup runners-up • LC: League Cup winners • 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position • P-W: End-of-season European competition play-offs winners
Notes == Schedule ==