The 2000–01 UEFA Cup was the 30th edition of the

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competition.

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won the

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with a

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in extra-time against Alavés for their third title in the competition. It completed a cup treble for the club, as they also won the

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and the League Cup that season. The conclusion of the tournament by a

is the only instance in any of the major European club cup competitions until the abolition of the rule in 2002.

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could not defend their title as they automatically qualified for the

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and also reached the

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. English clubs had been banned from European competitions between 1985 and 1990 as a result of the

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, and Liverpool were the first English side of the post-Heysel era to win the trophy. The previous English winners were

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in 1984. It was also Liverpool's first European trophy of the post-Heysel era.

Association team allocation

A total of 145 teams from 51

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associations participated in the 2000–01 UEFA Cup. Associations are allocated places according to their 1999

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. Below is the qualification scheme for the 2000–01 UEFA Cup: *Associations 1–6 each enter three teams *Associations 7–8 each enter four teams *Associations 9–15 each enter two teams *Associations 16–21 each enter three teams *Associations 22–49 each enter two teams, with the exception of Liechtenstein who enter one. *Associations 50-51 each enter one team *The top three associations of the 1999–2000

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each gain an additional berth *16 teams eliminated from the

are transferred to the UEFA Cup *8 teams eliminated from the group stage of the

are transferred to the UEFA Cup *3 winners of the

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*The winner of the 1999-2000 UEFA Cup (not used due to Galatasaray's qualification to Champions League)

Association ranking

;Notes *(FP): Additional fair play berth (Norway, Denmark, Scotland) *(UCL): Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League *(IT): Additional teams from Intertoto Cup

Distribution

Redistribution rules

A UEFA Cup place is vacated when a team qualify for both the Champions League and the UEFA Cup, or qualify for the UEFA Cup by more than one method. When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules: * When the domestic cup winners (considered as the "highest-placed" qualifier within the national association) also qualify for the Champions League, their UEFA Cup place is vacated, and the remaining UEFA Cup qualifiers are moved up one place, with the final place (with the earliest starting round) taken by the domestic cup runners-up, provided they do not already qualify for the Champions League or the UEFA Cup. Otherwise, this place is taken by the highest-placed league finisher which do not qualify for the UEFA Cup yet. * When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the UEFA Cup through league position, their place through the league position is vacated, and the UEFA Cup qualifiers which finish lower in the league are moved up one place, with the final place taken by the highest-placed league finisher which do not qualify for the UEFA Cup yet. * A place vacated by the League Cup winners is taken by the highest-placed league finisher which do not qualify for the UEFA Cup yet. * A Fair Play place is taken by the highest-ranked team in the domestic Fair Play table which do not qualify for the Champions League or UEFA Cup yet.

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: * CW: Cup winners * CR: Cup runners-up * LC: League Cup winners * Nth: League position * FP: Fair play * IC: Intertoto Cup winners * CL: Relegated from the Champions League ** GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage ** Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were generally scheduled for Thursdays apart from the final, which took place on a Wednesday, though exceptionally could take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts.

Qualifying round

First round

Second round

Final phase

In the final phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows: *In the draws for the third and fourth rounds, teams were seeded and divided into groups containing an equal number of seeded and unseeded teams. In each group, the seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the first team drawn hosting the first leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. *In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings and teams from the same association could be drawn against each other.

Bracket

Third round

Fourth round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics

Statistics exclude qualifying round.

Top goalscorers

References

External links

2000–01 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website

Official website
* All scorers 2000–01 UEFA Cup (excluding preliminary round) according t
protocols UEFA

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