The 2002–03 UEFA Cup was the 32nd edition of the
UEFA Cup
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, the second-tier European club
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tournament organised by
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. The
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was played between Portuguese side
Porto
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and Scottish side
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at the
Estadio Olímpico de Sevilla
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,
Seville
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, on 21 May 2003. Porto won 3–2 after
silver goal extra time
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and became the first Portuguese team to win the competition.
Feyenoord
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could not defend their title as they automatically qualified for the
2002–03 UEFA Champions League
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and were also eliminated from all European competitions after finishing bottom of their
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.
Association team allocation
A total of 145 teams from 51
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member associations participated in the 2002–03 UEFA Cup. The association ranking based on the
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s was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
*Associations 1–6 each had three teams qualified;
*Associations 7–8 each had four teams qualified;
*Associations 9–15 each had two teams qualified;
*Associations 16–21 each had three teams qualified;
*Associations 22–52 (except
Azerbaijan
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,
Liechtenstein
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,
San Marino
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and
Andorra
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) each had two teams qualified;
*Liechtenstein (as they organized only a domestic cup and no domestic league), San Marino and Andorra had one team qualified;
*The top three associations of the 2001–02
UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking
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each gained an additional berth;
*Moreover, 24 teams eliminated from the
2002–03 UEFA Champions League
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were transferred to the UEFA Cup.
The winners of the
2001–02 UEFA Cup were given an additional entry as title holders if they did not qualify for the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League or UEFA Cup through their domestic performance. However, this additional entry was not necessary for this season since the title holders (
Feyenoord
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) qualified for European competitions through their domestic performance.
Association ranking
For the 2002–03 UEFA Cup, the associations were allocated places according to their 2001 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 1996–97 to 2000–01.
Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations had additional teams participating in the UEFA Cup, as noted below:
* – Additional berth via Fair Play ranking (Norway, England, Czech Republic)
* – Additional teams transferred from the Champions League
* – Additional teams qualified from the Intertoto Cup
Distribution
Since the title holders (
Feyenoord
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) qualified for the Champions League through their domestic performance, the first round spot reserved for the title holders was vacated, and the following changes to the default allocation system were made:
*The domestic cup winners of associations 17 (Switzerland) and 18 (Croatia) were promoted from the qualifying round to the first round.
Redistribution rules
A UEFA Cup place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the UEFA Cup, or qualifies 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 with the latest starting round) also qualify for the Champions League, their UEFA Cup place is vacated. As a result, either of the following teams qualify for the UEFA Cup:
**The domestic cup runners-up, provided they have not yet qualified for European competitions, qualify for the UEFA Cup as the "lowest-placed" qualifier (with the earliest starting round), with the other UEFA Cup qualifiers moved up one "place".
**Otherwise, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the UEFA Cup, with the UEFA Cup qualifiers that finish above them in the league, moved up one "place".
*When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the UEFA Cup through league position, their place through the league position is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the UEFA Cup, with the UEFA Cup qualifiers that finish above them in the league moved up one "place" if possible.
*For associations where a UEFA Cup place is reserved for the League Cup winners, they always qualify for the UEFA Cup as the "lowest-placed" qualifier (or as the second "lowest-placed" qualifier in cases where the cup runners-up qualify as stated above). If the League Cup winners have already qualified for European competitions through other methods, this reserved UEFA Cup place is taken by the highest-placed league team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions.
*A Fair Play place is taken by the highest-ranked team in the domestic Fair Play table which have not yet qualified for European competitions.
Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
*TH: Title holders
*CW: Cup winners
*CR: Cup runners-up
*LC: League Cup winners
*1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
*FP: Fair Play
*IC: UEFA Intertoto Cup winners
*CL: Transferred from the Champions League
**GS1: Third-placed teams from the first group stage
**Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
;Notes
Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws held at UEFA headquarters in
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, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).
Qualifying round
The draw was held on 21 June 2002 in
Geneva
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, Switzerland.
First round
The draw was held on 30 August 2002 in
Monaco
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.
Second round
The draw was held on 8 October 2002 in
Nyon
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, Switzerland.
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
The draw was held on 15 November 2002 in
Geneva
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, Switzerland.
Fourth round
The draw for the fourth round was held on 13 December 2002.
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Top goalscorers
See also
*
2002–03 UEFA Champions League
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*
2003 UEFA Super Cup
References
External links
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UEFA
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