The 1999–2000 UEFA Cup season was the 29th edition of the UEFA Cup competition. The final took place at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen and was won by Galatasaray, who defeated Arsenal in the final. The game was scoreless through the first ninety minutes and stayed that way through thirty minutes of extra time. The match went on to penalty kicks in which Gheorghe Popescu scored the winning goal to win the cup. Galatasaray won the cup without losing a single game. The competition was marred by violence involving Turkish and English hooligans in the semi-finals and the final, in particular the fatal stabbings of Leeds United fans Kevin Speight and Christopher Loftus by Galatasaray fans in Istanbul.
Parma were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Werder Bremen in the fourth round. They entered in the first round due to elimination in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League.
It was the first season of the new format UEFA Cup; it had absorbed the now defunct Cup Winners' Cup to include domestic cup winners, and now featured an additional knockout round. This was the first year when the UEFA Cup winners qualified for the UEFA Super Cup. This season's champions also qualified for the 2001 FIFA Club World Championship, which was never held. So far, Galatasaray are the only UEFA Cup winners to qualify for a Club World Cup.
Association team allocation A total of 142 teams from 49 UEFA associations participated in the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup. Associations are allocated places according to their 1999–2000 UEFA league coefficient.
Below is the qualification scheme for the 1999–00 UEFA Cup: Associations 1–6 each enter three teams Associations 7–8 each enter four teams Associations 9–15 each enter two teams Associations 16–21 each enter three teams Associations 22–50 each enter two teams, with the exception of Bosnia who didn't have a domestic league winner, as well as Liechtenstein and Andorra who enter with only one team each 3 winners of the Intertoto Cup 16 teams eliminated from the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round are transferred to the UEFA Cup 8 teams eliminated from the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League first group stage are transferred to the UEFA Cup
Association ranking RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 1 59.6403 +1 (UCL)+1 (IT) 2 49.932 +2 (UCL) 3 48.580 +1 (UCL) 4 41.433 +1 (UCL)+1 (IT) 5 35.916 6 35.566 +1 (UCL)+1 (IT) 7 31.2664 8 28.750 +2 (UCL) 9 28.166 2 +1 (UCL) 10 27.449 +1 (FP) 11 27.250 +2 (UCL) 12 26.866 +1 (UCL) 13 26.166 14 25.650 +1 (UCL) 15 24.200 +2 (UCL) 16 22.250 3 +1 (UCL) 17 22.082 18 22.000 +1 (UCL)RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 19 21.083 3 +1 (UCL) 20 21.000 21 20.999 22 20.750 2 23 20.600 24 20.333 25 20.332 +1 (UCL) 26 19.500 +1 (UCL)+1 (FP) 27 16.749 +1 (UCL) 28 15.998 29 14.833 30 13.666 31 13.415 32 11.498 +1 (UCL) 33 10.499 34 8.666 35 7.333 36 7.083 +1 (UCL) 37 6.333 +1 (UCL)RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 38 5.000 1 39 4.999 2 +1 (FP) 40 4.832 41 4.665 42 4.664 43 3.999 44 3.998 45 2.833 46 2.666 47 2.333 48 1.833 49 0.000 0 50 0.000 1 51 0.000 0
Notes (UCL): Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League (IT): Additional teams from Intertoto Cup
Distribution
Teams entering in this roundTeams advancing from previous roundTeams transferred from Champions LeagueQualifying round (76 teams)76 teams from associations 9–50First round (96 teams)39 teams from associations 1–21 3 teams from the Intertoto Cup38 winners from the qualifying round16 losing teams from Champions League qualifyingSecond round (48 teams)48 winners from the first roundThird round (32 teams)24 winners from the second round8 third placed teams from the Champions League first group stageFourth round (16 teams)16 winners from the third roundPlay-offs (8 teams)8 winners from the fourth round play the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final
Redistribution rules A UEFA Cup place is vacated when a team qualify for both the Champions League and the UEFA Cup, or qualify 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) also qualify for the Champions League, their UEFA Cup place is vacated, and the remaining UEFA Cup qualifiers are moved up one place, with the final place (with the earliest starting round) taken by the domestic cup runners-up, provided they do not already qualify for the Champions League or the UEFA Cup. Otherwise, UEFA forgot to establish a rule, so each association decided how to assign this place. When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the UEFA Cup through league position, their place through the league position is vacated, and the UEFA Cup qualifiers which finish lower in the league are moved up one place, with the final place taken by the highest-placed league finisher which do not qualify for the UEFA Cup yet. A place vacated by the League Cup winners is taken by the highest-placed league finisher which do not qualify for the UEFA Cup yet. A Fair Play place is taken by the highest-ranked team in the domestic Fair Play table which do not qualify for the Champions League or UEFA Cup yet.
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 Nth: League position PO: End-of-season European competition play-off winners FP: Fair play IT: Intertoto Cup winners CL: Relegated from the Champions League GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
Third round Bayer Leverkusen Arsenal Sturm Graz Galatasaray Borussia Dortmund Olympiacos Spartak Moscow Rangers First round Roma Leeds United Osijek Rapid Wien Udinese Tottenham Hotspur Fenerbahçe AaB Bologna Newcastle United AB Brøndby Werder Bremen Beira-Mar Lausanne-Sports Servette 1. FC Kaiserslautern Benfica Karpaty Lviv Widzew Łódź VfL Wolfsburg Sporting CP Amica Wronki MTK Hungária Celta Vigo Vitória de Setúbal Debrecen Anorthosis Famagusta Deportivo La Coruña Panathinaikos Lierse Hapoel Haifa Atlético Madrid PAOK Dukla Banská Bystrica Skonto Nantes Ionikos ParmaTH Partizan Monaco Aris Mallorca Zimbru Chișinău Lens Slavia Prague Lyon Juventus Ajax Stabæk AEK Athens Montpellier Vitesse LASK Teplice West Ham United Roda JC Zenit Saint Petersburg Qualifying round Sigma Olomouc Steaua București VPS Linfield Viking Dinamo București Rīga Birkirkara GAK Helsingborgs IF Liepājas Metalurgs Sliema Wanderers Lokomotiv Moscow IFK Göteborg CSKA Sofia Inter Cardiff Hajduk Split Torpedo Kutaisi Levski Sofia Cwmbrân Town Ankaragücü Locomotive Tbilisi Vardar Bray Wanderers Lyngby APOEL Sileks Cork City Grasshopper Omonia Kareda KÍ Zürich Celtic Kaunas B36 Shakhtar Donetsk St Johnstone Red Star Belgrade Vllaznia Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Hapoel Tel Aviv Vojvodina Bylis Legia Warsaw Maccabi Tel Aviv Sheriff Tiraspol F91 Dudelange Lech Poznań HIT Gorica Constructorul Chișinău Mondercange Ferencváros Olimpija Ljubljana Vaduz Neftçi Újpest Belshina Bobruisk Levadia Maardu Shamkir Club Brugge BATE Borisov Lantana Principat Anderlecht KR Shirak Bodø/Glimt Inter Slovnaft Bratislava Leiftur Yerevan Kilmarnock Spartak Trnava HJK Portadown Viljandi Tulevik Notes
Round and draw dates The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Thursdays apart from the final, which took place on a Wednesday, though exceptionally could take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts.
+Schedule for 1999–2000 UEFA CupRoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legQualifying round30 June 199912 August 199926 August 1999First round27 August 199916 September 199930 September 1999Second round1 October 199921 October 19994 November 1999Third round5 November 199925 November 19999 December 1999Fourth round15 December 19992 March 20009 March 2000Quarter-finals16 March 200023 March 2000Semi-finals24 March 20006 April 200020 April 2000Final17 May 2000 at Parken Stadium, Copenhagen
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. 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
Fourth round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Top goalscorers RankNameTeamGoalsMinutes played1 Darko Kovačević Juventus10720'2 Marco Di Vaio Parma7460' Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink Atlético Madrid574' Thierry Henry Arsenal592' Pascal Nouma Lens875'6 Benni McCarthy Celta Vigo6796' Hakan Şükür Galatasaray833'
See also 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence
References
External links
1999–2000 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website Official Site Results at RSSSF.com All scorers 1999–2000 UEFA Cup according to (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers preliminary round 1999/2000 UEFA Cup – results and line-ups (archive)