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2008–09 UEFA Cup group stage

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The group stage of the 2008–09 UEFA Cup is the second stage of the competition proper. The draw took place on 7 October 2008 at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. Group stage matches began on 23 October 2008 and concluded on 18 December 2008. The top three teams in each group progressed to the Round of 32, to be joined by the eight third-place finishers from the Champions League group stage.

Teams

The following teams qualified for the group stage:

Key to colours
Group winners, runners-up and third-placed teams advanced to [round of 32](2008-09-uefa-cup-knockout-stage-round-of-32)

Team	Coeff.
Milan	119.934
Sevilla	102.837
Valencia	83.837
Benfica	77.176
Schalke 04	67.078
CSKA Moscow	59.437
Tottenham Hotspur	55.996
Hamburger SV	52.078

Team	Coeff.
VfB Stuttgart	52.078
Ajax	51.610
Olympiacos	51.525
Deportivo La Coruña	46.837
Club Brugge	41.810
Spartak Moscow	40.437
Paris Saint-Germain	37.380
Heerenveen	35.610

Team	Coeff.
Rosenborg	35.400
Udinese	34.934
Feyenoord	33.610
Braga	33.176
Slavia Prague	31.496
Manchester City	30.996
Galatasaray	30.469
Sampdoria	28.934

Team	Coeff.
Hertha BSC	27.078
Partizan	25.527
Nancy	25.380
Portsmouth	24.996
Aston Villa	24.996
Racing Santander	24.837
Copenhagen	23.748
Dinamo Zagreb	17.836

Team	Coeff.
Saint-Étienne	17.380
VfL Wolfsburg	16.078
Standard Liège	14.810
Twente	14.610
NEC	12.610
Metalist Kharkiv	10.932
Lech Poznań	6.973
Žilina	4.070

Pot 1 contained teams ranked between 2 and 39: Pot 2 held teams ranked 40 to 71, Pot 3 held teams ranked 72 to 88, and Pot 4 teams ranked 91 to 122 together with unranked teams from England and Spain. Pot 5 held the remaining teams.

Dinamo Zagreb, and all the Pot 5 teams, had beaten higher-ranked teams in the first round. Lech Poznań and Žilina had also beaten higher-ranked teams in the Second Qualifying Round. Seven of the eight teams in Pot 5 qualified for the Round of 32, Žilina being the only exception. In contrast, only five of the eight teams in Pot 1 managed to do the same, as Sevilla, Benfica and Schalke 04 were eliminated.

Tie-breaking criteria

Based on paragraph 6.06 in the UEFA regulations for the current season, if two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:

superior goal difference from all group matches played;
higher number of goals scored;
higher number of goals scored away;
higher number of wins;
higher number of away wins;
higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

Groups

Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A

Mabiala
Kurányi
Altıntop
Chantôme
Denneboom

Tchité
Engelaar
Wright-Phillips
Robinho
Benjani
Elia
Wielaert

Benjani
Ireland
Kežman
Luyindula
Traoré
Colsa

Wielaert
Perez
Asamoah

Luyindula
Sessègnon
Kežman
Pereira
Serrano
Valera
Caicedo

Group B

Kewell
Pantelić
Di María

Aşık
Karan

Edmar
Galletti
Patsatzoglou
Diogo
Belluschi
David Luiz

Edmar
Baroš

Dudu
Galletti
Torosidis
Diogo
Rykun

Group C

Romaric
Renato
Diarra
Bonazzoli
Dessena

Gómez
Mbokani

Sammarco
Marica
De Camargo

De Camargo
Onyewu
Jovanović
Luís Fabiano
Renato

Bottinelli
Khedira
Hilbert
Marica

Group D

Di Natale
Pepe
Mandžukić
Balaban
Vrdoljak
Carlos
Janssen

Rodríguez
Quagliarella
Bent
Huddlestone

O'Hara
Saenko

Covalciuc
Van Beukering
Schöne
Quagliarella
Obodo
Bišćan

John
Van Beukering
Modrić
Huddlestone
Dzyuba

Group E

Pranjić
Jong-a-Pin
Gattuso
Inzaghi
Aguiar
Rentería
Alan

Džeko
Grafite
Misimović
Krzynówek
Väyrynen
Ronaldinho

Kaboul
Kanu
Ronaldinho
Inzaghi
Barzagli
Meyong
Džeko
Misimović

Džeko
Gentner
Misimović
Defoe
Mvuemba
Sibon
Rentería
Aguiar

Crouch
Hreiðarsson
Ambrosini
Pato
Zaccardo
Sağlık

Group F

Rilke
Petrić
Olić
Laursen
Barry
Vermaelen

Suárez
Carew

Leonardo

Olić
Petrić
Delfouneso
Leitner
Štyvar

Petrić
Olić
Delfouneso
Vertonghen
Suárez
Černý
Jarolím

Group G

Santin
Gomis
Perrin
Payet

Ilan
Machado
Mirallas
Morientes
Santin

Vargas
Gigliotti
Mata
Hernández
Baraja
Joaquín

Žigić
Alcaraz
Antonsson
Iversen

Santin
Ilan
Morientes
Žigić

Group H

Dzagoev
Vágner Love
Zerka
Féret
Hélder Maurílio

Peszko
Štilić
Malonga
Zerka
Van Bronckhorst
Van Bronckhorst
Vágner Love

Dzagoev
Zhirkov
Štilić
Lopo
Hofland
Guardado

Rengifo
Colotto
Zerka
Féret
Camerling
Vágner Love
Ramón

Bodipo
Đurđević

Notes

References

"Regulations of the UEFA Cup 2008/09". UEFA.
(8 October 2008). "Tough groups for former champions". UEFA.
(2 July 2008). "2008/09 Draw and match calendar". UEFA.
(13 July 2005). "Competition format". UEFA.
(7 October 2008). "Forty teams await UEFA Cup draw". UEFA.
"UEFA club coefficients 2008". UEFA.

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