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Deutsch2007–08 UEFA Cup
 City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester hosted the final. | |
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | 20 September 2007 – 14 May 2008 |
| Teams | 80 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Zenit Saint Petersburg (1st title) |
| Runners-up |  Rangers |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 221 |
| Goals scored | 563 (2.55 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Pavel Pogrebnyak (Zenit Saint Petersburg) Luca Toni (Bayern Munich) 10 goals each |
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The 2007–08 UEFA Cup was the 37th edition of the UEFA Cup, UEFA's former second-tier club football tournament. The final was played at the City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester, England on 14 May 2008 between Rangers of Scotland and Zenit Saint Petersburg of Russia. Zenit won the match 2–0, with goals from Igor Denisov and Konstantin Zyryanov, to claim their first UEFA Cup title. The first qualifying games were played on 19 July 2007 and the main tournament commenced on 20 September 2007. A total of 157 football clubs took part in the tournament (including its qualifying rounds).
Each European football nation is represented by a different number of its associate clubs, depending on the UEFA coefficients. Budućnost Podgorica and Rudar Pljevlja were the first teams from Montenegro to enter the competition.
The semi-final between Zenit and Bayern Munich was alleged to have been fixed. Both clubs denied the allegations, and the UEFA probe found no wrongdoing on either part.[1][2][3]
Sevilla could not defend their title as they automatically qualified for the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League and also reached the knockout stage.
The tournament's top scorers were Pavel Pogrebnyak of Zenit Saint Petersburg and Luca Toni of Bayern Munich, each with 10 goals.[4]
Association team allocation
[edit]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:[5]
- 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
[edit]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.[6]
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
[edit]The following was the access list for this season.[7]
| Round | Teams entering in this round | Teams advancing from the previous round | Teams transferred from Champions League or Intertoto Cup |
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| First qualifying round (74 teams) |
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| Second qualifying round (64 teams) |
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| First round (80 teams) |
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| Group stage (40 teams) |
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| Knockout stage (32 teams) |
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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
[edit]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
- Notes
- ^ Republic of Ireland (IRL): Second-placed Derry City (also 2006 FAI Cup winners) were admitted to Champions League after last year champions Shelbourne were denied a Premier Division license for 2007 due to financial violations. FAI Cup runners-up St Patrick's Athletic were added to the UEFA Cup to fill for Derry City.[8]
Round and draw dates
[edit]| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Qualifying | First qualifying round | 29 June 2007 | 19 July 2007 | 2 August 2007 |
| Second qualifying round | 3 August 2007 | 16 August 2007 | 30 August 2007 | |
| First round | 31 August 2007 | 20 September 2007 | 4 October 2007 | |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 9 October 2007 | 25 October 2007 | |
| Matchday 2 | 8 November 2007 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 29 November 2007 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 5–6 December 2007 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 19–20 December 2007 | |||
| Knockout stage | Round of 32 | 21 December 2007 | 13–14 February 2008 | 21 February 2008 |
| Round of 16 | 6 March 2008 | 12–13 March 2008 | ||
| Quarter-finals | 14 March 2008 | 3 April 2008 | 10 April 2008 | |
| Semi-finals | 24 April 2008 | 1 May 2008 | ||
| Final | 14 May 2008 at City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester | |||
Qualifying rounds
[edit]First qualifying round
[edit]The draw, which was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Michele Centenaro, UEFA's head of club competitions, was held on Friday, 29 June 2007 at 13:30 CET in Nyon, Switzerland. The matches were played on 19 July and 2 August 2007.[9]
- ^ UEFA expelled Partizan from the 2007–08 UEFA Cup due to crowd trouble at their away tie in Mostar, which forced the match to be interrupted for 10 minutes. UEFA adjudged travelling Partizan fans to have been the culprits of the trouble,[10] but Partizan were allowed to play the return leg while the appeal was being processed.[11] However, Partizan's appeal was rejected so Zrinjski Mostar advanced on a walkover.[12]
Second qualifying round
[edit]The draw, which was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Giorgio Marchetti, UEFA's director of professional football, was held on Friday, 3 August 2007 at 13:00 CET in Nyon, Switzerland. The matches were played on 16 and 30 August 2007.[13]
First round
[edit]The draw, which was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Gérard Houllier, the winning coach in the 2000–01 tournament, was held on Friday, 31 August 2007 at 13:00 CET in Monaco. The matches were played on 20 September and 4 October 2007.[14]
Group stage
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Red: Group A; 
Yellow: Group B; 
Green: Group C; 
Black: Group D;
Purple: Group E; 
Pink: Group F; 
Blue: Group G; 
Orange: Group H.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:[15]
- superior goal difference from all group matches played;
- higher number of goals scored in all group matches played;
- higher number of goals scored away in all group matches played;
- 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 (see paragraph 8.03 of the UEFA regulations).
Group A
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | EVE | NÜR | ZEN | AZ | AEL | |
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| 1 |  Everton | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 12 | Advance to knockout stage | — | — | 1–0 | — | 3–1 | |
| 2 |  1. FC Nürnberg | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 7 | 0–2 | — | — | 2–1 | — | ||
| 3 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 | — | 2–2 | — | 1–1 | — | ||
| 4 |  AZ | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 4 | 2–3 | — | — | — | 1–0 | ||
| 5 |  AEL | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 0 | — | 1–3 | 2–3 | — | — |
Group B
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ATL | PAN | ABE | FCK | LOK | |
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| 1 |  Atlético Madrid | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 10 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 2–1 | 2–0 | — | — | |
| 2 | Panathinaikos | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 9 | — | — | 3–0 | — | 2–0 | ||
| 3 | Aberdeen | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 4 | — | — | — | 4–0 | 1–1 | ||
| 4 |  Copenhagen | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | −6 | 3 | 0–2 | 0–1 | — | — | — | ||
| 5 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 2 | 3–3 | — | — | 0–1 | — |
Group C
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | VIL | FIO | AEK | MLA | ELF | |
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| 1 | Villarreal | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 10 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 1–1 | — | — | 2–0 | |
| 2 |  Fiorentina | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 8 | — | — | — | 2–1 | 6–1 | ||
| 3 | AEK Athens | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1–2 | 1–1 | — | — | — | ||
| 4 |  Mladá Boleslav | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 3 | 1–2 | — | 0–1 | — | — | ||
| 5 |  IF Elfsborg | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 1 | — | — | 1–1 | 1–3 | — |
Group D
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | HSV | BAS | BRA | DZ | REN | |
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| 1 | Hamburger SV | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | +6 | 10 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 1–1 | — | — | 3–0 | |
| 2 |  Basel | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 8 | — | — | 1–0 | — | 1–0 | ||
| 3 |  Brann | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 | 0–1 | — | — | 2–1 | — | ||
| 4 |  Dinamo Zagreb | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | — | — | — | ||
| 5 |  Rennes | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 2 | — | — | 1–1 | 1–1 | — |
Group E
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | LEV | SPM | ZÜR | PRA | TOU | |
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| 1 | Bayer Leverkusen | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage | — | — | — | 1–0 | 1–0 | |
| 2 | Spartak Moscow | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 7 | 2–1 | — | 1–0 | — | — | ||
| 3 | Zürich | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 6 | 0–5 | — | — | — | 2–0 | ||
| 4 | Sparta Prague | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 4 | — | 0–0 | 1–2 | — | — | ||
| 5 | Toulouse | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 3 | — | 2–1 | — | 2–3 | — |
Group F
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | BAY | BRA | BOL | ARI | RSB | |
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| 1 | Bayern Munich | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 8 | Advance to knockout stage | — | — | 2–2 | 6–0 | — | |
| 2 |  Braga | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 6 | 1–1 | — | — | — | 2–0 | ||
| 3 | Bolton Wanderers | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 6 | — | 1–1 | — | 1–1 | — | ||
| 4 | Aris | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 5 | — | 1–1 | — | — | 3–0 | ||
| 5 |  Red Star Belgrade | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 0 | 2–3 | — | 0–1 | — | — |
Group G
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
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