The 2003–04 UEFA Cup was won by

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in the

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against

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. It wrapped up a league and

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for Valencia.

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could not defend their title as they automatically qualified for the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League and also went on to win the

for their second European Cup title.

Association team allocation

A total of 145 teams from 51 of 52

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member associations participated in the 2003–04 UEFA Cup (the exception being Azerbaijan which was suspended). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association: * Associations 1–6 and 16–21 each had three teams qualify. * Associations 7–8 each had four teams qualify. * Associations 9–15 and 22–52 (except

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and

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) each had two teams qualify. * Liechtenstein (as they organized only a domestic cup and no domestic league), Andorra and San Marino had only one team that qualified. Moreover, the following teams also qualified for the competition: * 24 teams eliminated from the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League were transferred to the UEFA Cup. * 3 teams advancing from the 2003 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

For the 2003–04 UEFA Cup, the associations were allocated places according to their 2002 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 1997–98 to 2001–02. Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the UEFA Cup, as noted below: * – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League * – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Intertoto Cup * – Additional berth via Fair Play ranking

Distribution

The following was the access list for this season. Due to the UEFA Cup title holder (

) qualifying for the Champions League via their domestic league, the following changes to the access list were made: * The cup winners of association 15 and 16 (Austria and Switzerland) entered the UEFA Cup first round instead of the qualifying round. Due to the suspension of Azerbaijan, the following changes to the access list were made: * The cup winners of association 17 and 18 (Norway and Israel) entered the UEFA Cup first round instead of the qualifying round.

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 * PO: End-of-season European competition play-offs (winners or position) * IC: Intertoto Cup * FP: Fair play * CL: Relegated from the Champions League ** GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage ** Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round ;Notes

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition was as follows.

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.

Bracket

Third round

Fourth round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Top goalscorers

References

External links

2003–04 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA websiteDetails at guardian.co.uk
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