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.
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.
Association team allocation 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: 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 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
+Association ranking for 2007–08 UEFA CupRankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes172.7483266.731363.486450.781548.364644.041741.3314832.081931.83321031.4571130.3751230.2501326.6001426.5751526.1661625.87531724.2901821.541RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes1920.97532020.3752119.9992218.50022316.9502414.6652514.0832613.2492712.3322810.1652910.165308.165317.373327.164336.832346.331355.832365.331RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes374.8322384.5001394.4152404.331413.665422.998432.665442.665452.332462.332471.999481.832491.666501.665510.0001520.000530.0002
Distribution The following was the access list for this season.
+Access list for 2007–08 UEFA CupRoundTeams entering in this roundTeams advancing from the previous roundTeams transferred from Champions League or Intertoto CupFirst qualifying round(74 teams) 33 domestic cup winners from associations 21–53 32 domestic league runners-up from associations 19–53 (except Liechtenstein, San Marino and Andorra) 6 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 16–21 3 teams which qualified via Fair Play rankingSecond qualifying round(64 teams) 6 domestic cup winners from associations 15–20 3 domestic league runners-up from associations 16–18 7 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 9–15 37 winners from the first qualifying round 11 winners from UEFA Intertoto Cup third roundFirst round(80 teams) 14 domestic cup winners from associations 1–14 2 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 7–8 5 domestic league fourth-placed teams from associations 4–8 8 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 1–8 (league cup winners for France) 3 domestic league sixth-placed teams from associations 1–3 (league cup winners for England) 32 winners from the second qualifying round 16 losers from Champions League third qualifying roundGroup stage(40 teams) 40 winners from the first roundKnockout stage(32 teams) 8 group winners from the group stage 8 group runners-up from the group stage 8 group third-placed teams from the group stage 8 group third-placed teams from Champions League group stage
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 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
Round of 32 Marseille Sporting CP PSV Eindhoven Slavia Prague Werder Bremen Benfica Rangers Rosenborg First round Villarreal 1. FC Nürnberg Aris Dinamo București Zaragoza Bayern Munich Panionios Anderlecht Getafe Bayer Leverkusen Lokomotiv Moscow Sparta Prague Palermo Braga Rapid București Zürich Fiorentina Belenenses Aberdeen Red Bull Salzburg Empoli Paços de Ferreira Club Brugge Crvena zvezda Tottenham Hotspur AZ Metalist Kharkiv Copenhagen Everton Twente Mladá Boleslav Dinamo Zagreb Bolton Wanderers Heerenveen Toulouse IF Elfsborg Sochaux Groningen Ajax Sarajevo Rennes AEL AEK Athens Tampere United Bordeaux Panathinaikos Spartak Moscow BATE Borisov Second qualifying round Zenit Saint Petersburg Kayseri Erciyesspor Fredrikstad União de Leiria CFR Cluj Basel Austria Wien Oțelul Galați Dunfermline Athletic Sion Atlético Madrid Rapid Wien Standard Liège CSKA Sofia Sampdoria AaB Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Lokomotiv Sofia Blackburn Rovers Hammarby IF Jablonec Hapoel Tel Aviv Lens Tobol Galatasaray Maccabi Netanya Hamburger SV First qualifying round Young Boys AIK Vardar Rhyl Litex Lovech ViOn Zlaté Moravce Rabotnicki Glentoran Maccabi Tel Aviv Artmedia Petržalka Keflavík Dungannon Swifts Brann Anorthosis Famagusta KR Neftçi Vålerenga Omonia Vaduz MKT Araz Ried Koper Dynamo Brest Etzella Ettelbruck Mattersburg HIT Gorica Dinamo Minsk Käerjéng 97 Partizan Široki Brijeg Drogheda United Alma-Ata Vojvodina Zrinjski Mostar St Patrick's Athletic Aktobe Bežanija HJK Besa B36 Groclin Grodzisk Wielkopolski Haka Teuta EB/Streymur Bełchatów Liepājas Metalurgs Banants Libertas Odense Skonto Mika FC Santa Coloma Midtjylland Zimbru Chișinău Narva Trans Rudar Pljevlja Honvéd Nistru Otaci Flora Budućnost Podgorica MTK Budapest Ameri Tbilisi Hibernians BK Häcken Hajduk Split Dinamo Tbilisi Sliema Wanderers Lillestrøm Slaven Belupo Sūduva Carmarthen Town MYPA Helsingborgs IF Ekranas Notes
Round and draw dates +Schedule for 2007–08 UEFA CupPhaseRoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legQualifyingFirst qualifying round29 June 200719 July 20072 August 2007Second qualifying round3 August 200716 August 200730 August 2007First round31 August 200720 September 20074 October 2007Group stageMatchday 19 October 200725 October 2007Matchday 28 November 2007Matchday 329 November 2007Matchday 45–6 December 2007Matchday 519–20 December 2007Knockout stageRound of 3221 December 200713–14 February 200821 February 2008Round of 166 March 200812–13 March 2008Quarter-finals14 March 20083 April 200810 April 2008Semi-finals24 April 20081 May 2008Final14 May 2008 at City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester
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 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:
RankNameTeamGoalsAppearances1 Pavel Pogrebnyak Zenit Saint Petersburg1013 Luca Toni Bayern Munich10113 Stefan Kießling Bayer Leverkusen7124 Adrian Mutu Fiorentina610 Henrik Larsson Helsingborgs IF68 Razak Omotoyossi Helsingborgs IF687 Sergio Agüero Atlético Madrid57 Dimitar Berbatov Tottenham Hotspur58 Fernando Cavenaghi Bordeaux57 Miroslav Klose Bayern Munich512 Roland Linz Braga58 Dimitrios Papadopoulos Panathinaikos57 Lukas Podolski Bayern Munich512 Jon Dahl Tomasson Villarreal58
See also 2007–08 UEFA Champions League 2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup 2008 UEFA Super Cup
References
External links
2007–08 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website All scorers 2007–08 UEFA Cup according to (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers preliminary round 2007/08 UEFA Cup - results and line-ups (archive)