2002–03 UEFA Cup qualifying round

The qualifying round of the 2002–03 UEFA Cup was contested from 13 to 29 August 2002. A total of 82 teams participated in this round, which decided 41 of the 96 places in the first round.

In the qualifying round, each tie was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. If the aggregate score was level, the away goals rule was applied, i.e., the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs advanced. If away goals were also equal, then thirty minutes of extra time were played, divided into two fifteen-minute halves. The away goals rule was again applied after extra time, i.e., if there were goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team advanced by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, the tie was decided by penalty shoot-out.^[1]

A total of 82 teams from 44 national associations were involved in the qualifying round, including three teams that qualified via the Fair Play ranking (FP).^[2][3]

Below are the participating teams, sorted by their 2002 UEFA club coefficient (in parentheses).

Key to colours
Winners of qualifying round advanced to first round

Qualifying round participants

Team Coeff. Ipswich Town[FP] 32.729 Hapoel Tel Aviv 26.666 Copenhagen 24.687 Servette 24.312 Varteks 22.520 Wisła Kraków 21.750 Red Star Belgrade 18.165 Sigma Olomouc[FP] 17.312 IFK Göteborg 16.620 Amica Wronki 15.750 Maccabi Tel Aviv 15.666 Zenit Saint Petersburg 14.645 Litex Lovech 14.582 CSKA Sofia 14.582 Viktoria Žižkov 14.312 Leixões 14.124 Brann[FP] 13.737 Hajduk Split 13.520 Aberdeen 13.062 Livingston 13.062 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia 12.979

Team Coeff. Mouscron 12.762 Stabæk 12.737 Kärnten 12.625 AIK 12.620 Lugano 11.312 HJK 11.020 Rapid București 10.958 Ferencváros 9.874 Primorje 8.916 Matador Púchov 8.832 Polonia Warsaw 8.750 Midtjylland 8.687 Odense 8.687 Djurgårdens IF 8.620 Sartid 8.165 Újpest 7.874 Koba Senec 7.832 Anorthosis Famagusta 7.666 Național București 6.958 Dinamo Tbilisi 6.499 Gorica 5.916

Team Coeff. AEL Limassol 4.666 Liepājas Metalurgs 4.582 MYPA 4.020 Ventspils 3.582 Zimbru Chișinău 3.582 Locomotive Tbilisi 3.499 Nistru Otaci 2.582 Fylkir 2.416 ÍBV 2.416 Birkirkara 2.249 Dinamo Minsk 2.041 Gomel 2.041 Atlantas 1.915 Sūduva 1.915 Dundalk 1.665 Shamrock Rovers 1.665 Pobeda 1.498 Belasica 1.498 Sliema Wanderers 1.249 Bangor City 0.916

Team Coeff. Total Network Solutions 0.916 TVMK 0.832 Levadia Tallinn 0.832 Zvartnots Yerevan 0.666 Spartak Yerevan 0.666 Sarajevo 0.666 Široki Brijeg 0.666 Linfield 0.665 Glentoran 0.665 KÍ 0.582 GÍ 0.582 Tirana 0.582 Partizani 0.582 Vaduz 0.500 Avenir Beggen 0.416 Grevenmacher 0.416 Domagnano 0.000 Encamp 0.000 Kairat 0.000 Atyrau 0.000

Notes

The draw was held on 21 June 2002 in Geneva.^[4] Before the draw, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams, based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season.^[3] For convenience of the draw and to avoid pairing of teams from the same association, the teams were further divided into 10 groups (nine groups of eight teams and one group of ten teams), each containing an equal number of seeded and unseeded teams.^[2] In the draw, a seeded team from each group was paired with an unseeded team from the same group. The first team to be drawn played the first leg at home.^[1]

Group 1		Group 2		Group 3		Group 4
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Wisła Kraków Zenit Saint Petersburg Litex Lovech Matador Púchov	Atlantas Glentoran Encamp Atyrau	Hapoel Tel Aviv Lugano Primorje Midtjylland	Ventspils Pobeda Zvartnots Yerevan Partizani	Amica Wronki Brann Hajduk Split Ferencváros	AEL Limassol Sūduva Total Network Solutions GÍ	Copenhagen Livingston Kärnten Polonia Warsaw	Liepājas Metalurgs Locomotive Tbilisi Sliema Wanderers Vaduz
Group 5		Group 6		Group 7		Group 8
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Maccabi Tel Aviv Leixões Stabæk Anorthosis Famagusta	Belasica Levadia Tallinn Linfield Grevenmacher	Sigma Olomouc IFK Göteborg Odense Újpest	MYPA Zimbru Chișinău Sarajevo KÍ	Servette CSKA Sofia Djurgårdens IF Dinamo Tbilisi	Dinamo Minsk Shamrock Rovers TVMK Spartak Yerevan	Varteks Aberdeen AIK HJK	Nistru Otaci ÍBV Gomel Dundalk
Group 9		Group 10
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Red Star Belgrade Viktoria Žižkov Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Rapid București	Gorica Birkirkara Kairat Domagnano	Ipswich Town Mouscron Sartid Koba Senec Național București	Fylkir Bangor City Široki Brijeg Tirana Avenir Beggen

The first legs were played on 13 and 15 August, and the second legs were played on 29 August 2002.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Litex Lovech	8–1	Atlantas	5–0	3–1
Encamp	0–13	Zenit Saint Petersburg	0–5	0–8
Atyrau	0–2	Matador Púchov	0–0	0–2
Glentoran	0–6	Wisła Kraków	0–2	0–4
Pobeda	2–3	Midtjylland	2–0	0–3 (a.e.t.)
Primorje	6–3	Zvartnots Yerevan	6–1	0–2
Ventspils	3–1	Lugano	3–0	0–1
Hapoel Tel Aviv	5–1	Partizani	1–0	4–1
Ferencváros	5–2	AEL Limassol	4–0	1–2
Hajduk Split	11–0	GÍ	3–0	8–0
Brann	4–6	Sūduva	2–3	2–3
Amica Wronki	12–2	Total Network Solutions	5–0	7–2
Copenhagen	7–2	Locomotive Tbilisi	3–1	4–1
Liepājas Metalurgs	2–6	Kärnten	0–2	2–4
Vaduz	1–1 (a)	Livingston	1–1	0–0
Sliema Wanderers	1–5	Polonia Warsaw	1–3	0–2
Anorthosis Famagusta	3–2	Grevenmacher	3–0	0–2
Levadia Tallinn	0–4	Maccabi Tel Aviv	0–2	0–2
Leixões	4–3	Belasica	2–2	2–1
Sigma Olomouc	3–3 (3–5 p)	Sarajevo	2–1	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Zimbru Chișinău	5–3	IFK Göteborg	3–1	2–2
KÍ	2–3	Újpest	2–2	0–1
MYPA	1–2	Odense	1–0	0–2
Dinamo Minsk	1–5	CSKA Sofia	1–4	0–1
Dinamo Tbilisi	5–1	TVMK	4–1	1–0
Spartak Yerevan	0–5	Servette	0–2	0–3
Shamrock Rovers	1–5	Djurgårdens IF	1–3	0–2
Varteks	9–0	Dundalk	5–0	4–0
Gomel	5–0	HJK	1–0	4–0
Aberdeen	1–0	Nistru Otaci	1–0	0–0
AIK	5–1	ÍBV	2–0	3–1
Rapid București	5–1	Gorica	2–0	3–1
Domagnano	0–5	Viktoria Žižkov	0–2	0–3
Kairat	0–5	Red Star Belgrade	0–2	0–3
Metalurh Zaporizhzhia	3–0	Birkirkara	3–0	0–0
Bangor City	1–2	Sartid	1–0	0–2
Koba Senec	1–5	Široki Brijeg	1–2	0–3
Tirana	2–3	Național București	0–1	2–2
Avenir Beggen	1–9	Ipswich Town	0–1	1–8
Fylkir	2–4	Mouscron	1–1	1–3
Stabæk	5–1	Linfield	4–0	1–1

Litex Lovech won 8–1 on aggregate.

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Zenit Saint Petersburg won 13–0 on aggregate.

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Matador Púchov won 2–0 on aggregate.

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Wisła Kraków won 6–0 on aggregate.

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Midtjylland won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Primorje won 6–3 on aggregate.

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Ventspils won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Hapoel Tel Aviv won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Ferencváros won 5–2 on aggregate.

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Hajduk Split won 11–0 on aggregate.

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Sūduva won 6–4 on aggregate.

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Amica Wronki won 12–2 on aggregate.

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Copenhagen won 7–2 on aggregate.

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Kärnten won 6–2 on aggregate.

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1–1 on aggregate; Livingston won on away goals.

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Polonia Warsaw won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Anorthosis Famagusta won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Maccabi Tel Aviv won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Leixões won 4–3 on aggregate.

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2–2 on aggregate; Sarajevo won 5–3 on penalties.

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Zimbru Chișinău won 5–3 on aggregate.

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Újpest won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Odense won 2–1 on aggregate.

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CSKA Sofia won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Dinamo Tbilisi won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Servette won 5–0 on aggregate.

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Djurgårdens IF won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Varteks won 9–0 on aggregate.

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Gomel won 5–0 on aggregate.

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Aberdeen won 1–0 on aggregate.

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AIK won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Rapid București won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Viktoria Žižkov won 5–0 on aggregate.

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Red Star Belgrade won 5–0 on aggregate.

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