1994 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final
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The 1994 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was a football match on 4 May 1994 contested between Arsenal
of England
and Parma of Italy
. It was the final match of the 1993–94 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 34th European Cup Winners' Cup
Final. The final was held at the Parken Stadium
in Copenhagen
, and Arsenal won 1–0 with the goal coming from Alan Smith
. It is widely considered as the peak of Arsenal's famous defence. Arsenal became the fourth London club to win the trophy after Tottenham Hotspur
, Chelsea
and West Ham United
.
in the same competition in the previous year, Parma
were aiming to become the first side to win consecutive finals; four sides had previously failed to do so. The final was the first time that Parma had come up against English opposition. On the other hand, Arsenal had three times played out two-legged affairs with Italian clubs. The first meeting was in the 1970–71 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, when they overcame Lazio
by a margin of four goals to two, drawing the first leg in Rome
and winning the second leg two nil at home. Arsenal had also faced Italians was in the 1979–80 European Cup Winners' Cup at the semi-final stage; Arsenal won 2–1 on aggregate. The most recent meeting was in the quarter-finals of this year's competition, where they overcame Torino
by a solitary goal to nil over two legs.
It was the first time Parken Stadium
had hosted the a major European competition's final and the first time any European competition's final had been held in Denmark
. The stadium had opened only recently — in 1992 — and was the home of Copenhagen
and the Danish national football team
, taking two years to construct at the cost of 640 million Danish krone
r. It was built on the site of the national team's previous home, Idrætsparken
.
hit the post early on but, in the 20th minute, Lorenzo Minotti
miss-hit an overhead clearance and Alan Smith capitalised, beating Luca Bucci
with a left-footed volley. Arsenal then invited pressure from Parma but, by shackling Gianfranco Zola
and Faustino Asprilla
, defended their lead and became the fourth London club to win the trophy.
Arsenal were without their leading goalscorer Ian Wright
, who missed the final through suspension.
Arsenal F.C.
Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...
of England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and Parma of Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. It was the final match of the 1993–94 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 34th European Cup Winners' Cup
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions. The cup is one of the many inter-European club competitions that have been organised by UEFA. The first competition was held in the 1960–61 season—but...
Final. The final was held at the Parken Stadium
Parken Stadium
Parken Stadium is a football stadium in the Indre Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built from 1990–1992. It currently has a capacity of 38,065 for football games, and is the home ground of F.C. Københaven and the Danish national football team...
in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, and Arsenal won 1–0 with the goal coming from Alan Smith
Alan M. Smith
Alan Martin Smith is an English former football striker. He played for Leicester City and Arsenal at professional level, and won thirteen caps for England.-Leicester City:...
. It is widely considered as the peak of Arsenal's famous defence. Arsenal became the fourth London club to win the trophy after Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....
, Chelsea
Chelsea F.C.
Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...
and West Ham United
West Ham United F.C.
West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Upton Park, Newham, East London. They play in The Football League Championship. The club was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks FC and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. In 1904 the club relocated to their current...
.
Background
Having beaten AntwerpRoyal Antwerp F.C.
Royal Antwerp Football Club, often simply referred to as Antwerp, is a Belgian football club based in the city of Antwerp.Antwerp is the oldest football club to register to the Royal Belgian Football Association in 1895 and they consequently received the matriculate number one when matriculation...
in the same competition in the previous year, Parma
Parma F.C.
Parma Football Club , commonly referred to as just Parma, is an Italian professional football club based in Parma, Emilia–Romagna that will compete in Serie A for the 2011–12 season, having finished in twelfth position last season. Founded as Verdi Foot Ball Club in July 1913, the club changed its...
were aiming to become the first side to win consecutive finals; four sides had previously failed to do so. The final was the first time that Parma had come up against English opposition. On the other hand, Arsenal had three times played out two-legged affairs with Italian clubs. The first meeting was in the 1970–71 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, when they overcame Lazio
S.S. Lazio
Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
by a margin of four goals to two, drawing the first leg in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
and winning the second leg two nil at home. Arsenal had also faced Italians was in the 1979–80 European Cup Winners' Cup at the semi-final stage; Arsenal won 2–1 on aggregate. The most recent meeting was in the quarter-finals of this year's competition, where they overcame Torino
Torino F.C.
Torino Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Torino, is a professional Italian football club based in Turin, Piedmont, that was founded in 1906. The club has spent most of its history in the top tier in Italian football....
by a solitary goal to nil over two legs.
It was the first time Parken Stadium
Parken Stadium
Parken Stadium is a football stadium in the Indre Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built from 1990–1992. It currently has a capacity of 38,065 for football games, and is the home ground of F.C. Københaven and the Danish national football team...
had hosted the a major European competition's final and the first time any European competition's final had been held in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
. The stadium had opened only recently — in 1992 — and was the home of Copenhagen
F.C. Copenhagen
F.C. Copenhagen is a professional Danish football club in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is part of the Parken Sport & Entertainment....
and the Danish national football team
Denmark national football team
The Denmark national football team represents Denmark in association football and is controlled by the Danish Football Association , the governing body for the football clubs which are organized under DBU...
, taking two years to construct at the cost of 640 million Danish krone
Danish krone
The krone is the official currency of the Kingdom of Denmark consisting of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. It is subdivided into 100 øre...
r. It was built on the site of the national team's previous home, Idrætsparken
Idrætsparken
Københavns Idrætspark, in daily use Idrætsparken, also known as Parken, was a multi-purpose stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was initially used as the stadium of Denmark national football team and Kjøbenhavns Boldklub. It was replaced by the Parken Stadium in 1992. The capacity of the stadium was...
.
Route to the final
| Arsenal | Parma | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opponent | Result | Legs | Round | Opponent | Result | Legs |
 Odense |
3–2 | 2–1 away; 1–1 home | First round |  DegerforsDegerfors IF Degerfors IF is a Swedish football club located in Degerfors. The club, formed 13 January 1907, is currently playing in the second highest Swedish league, Superettan.-Background:... |
4–1 | 2–1 away; 2–0 home |
 Standard LiègeStandard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège (Dutch: Standard Luik [], German: Standard Lüttich , is a Belgian football club from the city of Liège.... |
10–0 | 3–0 home; 7–0 away | Second round |  Maccabi HaifaMaccabi Haifa Maccabi Haifa is a sports club in Israel, founded in 1913, and part of the Maccabi association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Haifa which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as Football, Weightlifting, swimming, Tennis, Table tennis, Volleyball, Team handball,... |
1–1 (3–1 p) | 0–1 away; 1–0 home |
 TorinoTorino F.C. Torino Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Torino, is a professional Italian football club based in Turin, Piedmont, that was founded in 1906. The club has spent most of its history in the top tier in Italian football.... |
1–0 | 0–0 away; 1–0 home | Quarter-finals |  Ajax |
2–0 | 0–0 away; 2–0 home |
 Paris Saint-Germain |
2–1 | 1–1 away; 1–0 home | Semi-finals |  Benfica |
2–2 (a Away goals rule The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" will win if scores are otherwise equal... ) |
1–2 away; 1–0 home |
Summary
A crowd of 34,000 witnessed a tense, tactical battle. Parma’s Tomas BrolinTomas Brolin
Per Tomas Brolin is a Swedish former professional football player who had a successful period with A.C. Parma during the early nineties winning the 1992 Coppa Italia, the 1993 Cup Winners' Cup, the 1993 UEFA Super Cup and the 1995 UEFA Cup.Brolin also played for the Swedish national team,...
hit the post early on but, in the 20th minute, Lorenzo Minotti
Lorenzo Minotti
Lorenzo Minotti is an Italian former football player in defender role. Minotti was born in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna.-Playing career:...
miss-hit an overhead clearance and Alan Smith capitalised, beating Luca Bucci
Luca Bucci
Luca Bucci is a retired Italian football goalkeeper.-Club career:After a few years in the third and second levels, Bucci made his Serie A debut playing for Parma F.C., in a league match against Udinese Calcio on August 29, 1993...
with a left-footed volley. Arsenal then invited pressure from Parma but, by shackling Gianfranco Zola
Gianfranco Zola
Gianfranco Zola, OBE, Ufficiale OMRI is a retired Italian footballer and manager, who most recently managed West Ham United from 2008 to 2010, after having been assistant manager of the Italy U-21 under Pierluigi Casiraghi...
and Faustino Asprilla
Faustino Asprilla
Faustino Hernán "Tino" Asprilla Hinestroza is a former Colombian football player. He was known by his supporters in his home country as The Octopus for his voracious appetite...
, defended their lead and became the fourth London club to win the trophy.
Arsenal were without their leading goalscorer Ian Wright
Ian Wright
Ian Edward Wright, MBE is a retired English footballer turned television and radio personality.Wright enjoyed success with London clubs Crystal Palace and Arsenal, spending six years with the former and seven years with the latter. With Arsenal he has lifted the Premier League title and both major...
, who missed the final through suspension.
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See also
- 1993–94 European Cup Winners' Cup
- 1994 UEFA Champions League Final
- 1994 UEFA Cup Final1994 UEFA Cup FinalThe 1994 UEFA Cup Final was played on April 26, 1994 and May 11, 1994 between Internazionale of Italy and SV Casino Salzburg of Austria. Inter won both games 1–0 to record a 2–0 aggregate victory.-First leg:-Second leg:-References:*...
External links
- 1994 European Cup Winners' Cup Final at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics FoundationRec.Sport.Soccer Statistics FoundationThe Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation is an international amateur organization dedicated to collecting statistics about association football...