The group stage of the 2004–05 UEFA Cup is the second stage of the competition proper. Group stage matches began on 21 October 2004 and concluded on 16 December 2004. The top three teams in each group progressed to the Round of 32, to be joined by the eight third-place finishers from the Champions League group stage.
Teams The group stage draw took place on 5 October 2004. The 40 teams were divided into five pots. Pot 1 comprised the top eight clubs in the team ranking. Pot 2 contained the following eight clubs in the rankings and likewise for Pots 3, 4 and 5. Each group contained one team from each pot. A team's seeding was determined by the UEFA coefficients.
Key to coloursGroup winners, runners-up and third-placed teams advanced to round of 32
+Pot 1Team Lazio83.531 Parma66.531 Feyenoord65.247 Newcastle United61.511 AEK Athens51.467 VfB Stuttgart47.331 Club Brugge43.528 Rangers42.600+Pot 2Team Villarreal42.350 Auxerre34.947 Schalke 0434.331 Sporting CP33.969 Zaragoza33.350 Beşiktaş32.656 Benfica29.969 Lille27.947+Pot 3Team Athletic Bilbao26.350 Sevilla26.350 Dinamo Zagreb25.733 Basel25.382 Sochaux24.947 Middlesbrough20.511 Utrecht20.247 GAK19.970+Pot 4Team Partizan18.655 Steaua București17.881 Heart of Midlothian17.600 Heerenveen17.247 Alemannia Aachen16.331 Amica Wronki16.176 Panionios15.467 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk14.300+Pot 5Team Ferencváros13.046 Standard Liège12.528 Egaleo11.467 AZ11.247 Zenit Saint Petersburg9.572 Beveren9.528 Austria Wien8.970 Dinamo Tbilisi1.650
Groups Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
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