The 2007–08 UEFA Cup was the 37th edition of the
UEFA Cup
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, UEFA's former second-tier club
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tournament. The
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was played at the
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,
Manchester
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, 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
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.
Budućnost Podgorica and
Rudar Pljevlja were the first teams from
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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.
Sevilla
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could not defend their title as they automatically qualified for the
2007–08 UEFA Champions League
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and also reached the
knockout stage
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.
The tournament's top scorers were
Pavel Pogrebnyak of Zenit Saint Petersburg and
Luca Toni of
Bayern Munich, each with 10 goals.
Association team allocation
A total of 157 teams from all 53
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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:
* 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
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,
San Marino
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and
Andorra
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) 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
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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
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.
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 (
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) 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
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
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Round and draw dates
Qualifying rounds
First qualifying round
Second qualifying round
First round
Group stage
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:
#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
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Knockout stage
All of the rounds in the final phase are two-legged, except for the final. In the event of aggregate scores being equal after normal time in the second leg, the winning team will be that which scored more goals on their away leg: if the scores in the two matches were identical, extra time is played. The
away goals rule
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also applies if scores are equal at the end of extra time. If there are no goals scored in extra time, the tie is decided on a penalty shoot out. The team first out of the hat in each tie plays the first leg of their tie at home, and the second leg away.
Bracket
Round of 32
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Top goalscorers
The top scorers in the 2007–08 UEFA Cup are the following:
See also
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2007–08 UEFA Champions League
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The 2008 UEFA Champion ...
*
2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup
*
2008 UEFA Super Cup
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References
External links
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