2007–08 UEFA Cup

Association team allocation

A total of 157 teams from all 53 UEFA member associations participated in the 2007–08 UEFA Cup. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:

• Associations 1–6 and 16–21 each had three teams qualify.
• Associations 7–8 each had four teams qualify.
• Associations 9–15 and 22–53 (except Liechtenstein, San Marino and Andorra) each had two teams qualify.
• Liechtenstein (as they organized only a domestic cup and no domestic league), San Marino and Andorra had only one team that qualified.

Moreover, the following teams also qualified for the competition:

• 24 teams eliminated from the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League were transferred to the UEFA Cup.
• 11 teams advancing from the 2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup were transferred to the UEFA Cup.
• 3 associations had one additional team qualify via the UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking.

Association ranking

For the 2007–08 UEFA Cup, the associations were allocated places according to their 2006 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2001–02 to 2005–06.

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the UEFA Cup, as noted below:

• (UCL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
• (IC) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Intertoto Cup
• (FP) – Additional berth via Fair Play ranking

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Distribution

The following was the access list for this season.

Due to the UEFA Cup title holder (Sevilla) qualifying for the Champions League via their domestic league, the following changes to the access list were made:

• The cup winners of association 14 (Czech Republic) entered the UEFA Cup first round instead of the second qualifying round.
• The cup winners of association 19 and 20 (Norway and Austria) entered the UEFA Cup second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• CW: Domestic cup winners
• CR: Domestic cup runners-up
• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position of the previous season
• LC: League cup winners
• PO: End-of-season UEFA Cup play-offs winners
• IC: Intertoto Cup third round winners
• FP: Qualified via Fair Play ranking
• CL: Transferred from the Champions League
  • Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
  • GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage

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Round and draw dates

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 2007–08 UEFA Cup qualifying rounds

First qualifying round

Second qualifying round

First round

Main article: 2007–08 UEFA Cup first round

Group stage

Main article: 2007–08 UEFA Cup group stage

The draw, which was conducted by UEFA's director of professional football Giorgio Marchetti and Michele Centenaro, UEFA's head of club competitions, was held on Tuesday, 9 October 2007 at 12:00 CET in Nyon, Switzerland.

The top three teams (highlighted in green) of each group qualified for the next round. Based on paragraph 6.06 in the UEFA regulations for the current season, if two or more teams were equal on points on completion of all the group matches, the following criteria were applied to determine the rankings:

1. superior goal difference from all group matches played;
2. higher number of goals scored in all group matches played;
3. higher number of goals scored away in all group matches played;
4. higher number of wins;
5. higher number of away wins;
6. higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons (see paragraph 8.03 of the UEFA regulations).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Knockout stage

Main article: 2007–08 UEFA Cup knockout stage

All of the rounds in the final phase are two-legged, except for the final. In the event of aggregate scores being equal after normal time in the second leg, the winning team will be that which scored more goals on their away leg: if the scores in the two matches were identical, extra time is played. The away goals rule also applies if scores are equal at the end of extra time. If there are no goals scored in extra time, the tie is decided on a penalty shoot out. The team first out of the hat in each tie plays the first leg of their tie at home, and the second leg away.

Bracket

Round of 32

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Top goalscorers

The top scorers in the 2007–08 UEFA Cup are the following:

References

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