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.

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.

Matches were scheduled for Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Deportivo La Coruña won 5–1 on aggregate.

Deportivo La Coruña won 2–1 on aggregate.