The 2003–04 UEFA Cup was won by Valencia in the final against Marseille. It wrapped up a league and UEFA Cup double for Valencia.

Porto could not defend their title as they automatically qualified for the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League and also went on to win the final for their second European Cup title.

Association team allocation A total of 145 teams from 51 of 52 UEFA 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 Azerbaijan, Liechtenstein, Andorra and San Marino) 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

+Association ranking for 2003–04 UEFA CupRankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes168.4673258.668355.459452.990542.352636.116734.1654828.725928.24921027.2911126.6251226.1251325.9581425.5251523.2501622.62531721.4751821.332RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes1921.04132017.5002117.3752217.24122316.3312415.6652515.1652613.9162713.7492811.832299.332308.041317.165326.999335.165344.832354.083RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes363.8312373.331382.997392.498401.832411.665421.333431.332441.331451.165461.165471.1650481.0001490.8322500.0001510.000520.0002

Distribution The following was the access list for this season.

+Access list for 2003–04 UEFA CupRoundTeams entering in this roundTeams advancing from the previous roundTeams transferred from Champions League or Intertoto CupQualifying round(82 teams) 2 domestic league champions from Andorra and San Marino 31 domestic cup winners from associations 19–52 (except Azerbaijan, Andorra and San Marino) 33 domestic league runners-up from associations 16–52 (except Azerbaijan, Liechtenstein, Andorra and San Marino) 13 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 9–21 3 teams which qualified via Fair Play rankingFirst round(96 teams) 18 domestic cup winners from associations 1–18 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) 41 winners from qualifying round 16 losers from Champions League third qualifying round 3 winners from UEFA Intertoto Cup finalsSecond round(48 teams) 48 winners from first roundThird round(32 teams) 24 winners from first round 8 group third-placed teams from Champions League group stage

Due to the UEFA Cup title holder (Porto) 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

Third round Internazionale Panathinaikos Beşiktaş Celtic Marseille PSV Eindhoven Galatasaray Club Brugge First round Mallorca Sochaux Teplice GAK Valencia PAOK Heart of Midlothian Grasshopper Barcelona Panionios Metalurh Donetsk Rosenborg Parma Aris La Louvière Dinamo Zagreb Udinese Utrecht Wüstenrot Salzburg Wisła Kraków Roma Feyenoord Basel Copenhagen Liverpool NAC Breda Vålerenga Žilina Blackburn Rovers NEC Hapoel Ramat Gan CSKA Sofia Southampton Trabzonspor Newcastle United MTK Hungária Hamburger SV Gençlerbirliği Borussia Dortmund Vardar Hertha BSC Gaziantepspor Benfica Villarreal 1. FC Kaiserslautern Malatyaspor Slavia Prague Perugia Auxerre Sporting CP Shakhtar Donetsk Schalke 04 Bordeaux Spartak Moscow Austria Wien Qualifying round União de Leiria Odense Torpedo Kutaisi Željezničar Torpedo Moscow Malmö FF Sioni Bolnisi Sarajevo Viktoria Žižkov AIK Zimbru Chișinău Shirak Dundee Sartid Nistru Otaci Banants Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Red Star Belgrade Fylkir Coleraine Lokeren Matador Púchov Grindavík Portadown Kärnten Artmedia Petržalka Dinamo Minsk Dinamo Tirana Neuchâtel Xamax Levski Sofia Neman Grodno Vllaznia Young Boys Litex Lovech Atlantas NSÍ Molde Dinamo București Ekranas KÍ Lyn Steaua București Derry City Vaduz Maccabi Haifa Ferencváros Shelbourne F91 Dudelange Hapoel Tel Aviv Debrecen Cementarnica 55 Etzella Ettelbruck Hajduk Split Olimpija Ljubljana Belasica FC Santa Coloma Varteks Publikum Birkirkara Domagnano Kamen Ingrad Anorthosis Famagusta Valletta Zhenis Groclin Grodzisk Wielkopolski APOEL Total Network Solutions Atyrau GKS Katowice Haka Cwmbrân Town Manchester City Wisła Płock MYPA TVMK Lens Brøndby Ventspils Levadia Maardu Esbjerg Nordsjælland Liepājas Metalurgs

Notes

Round and draw dates The schedule of the competition was as follows.

+Schedule for 2003–04 UEFA CupRoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legQualifying round20 June 200314 August 200328 August 2003First round29 August 200324 September 200315 October 2003Second round17 October 20036 November 200327 November 2003Third round12 December 200326 February 20043 March 2004Fourth round4 March 200411 March 200425 March 2004Quarter-finals8 April 200414 April 2004Semi-finals22 April 20046 May 2004Final19 May 2004 at Ullevi, Gothenburg

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 RankNameTeamGoalsMinutes played1 Sonny Anderson Villarreal6967 Mateja Kežman PSV Eindhoven6540 Didier Drogba Marseille6635 Alan Shearer Newcastle United69005 Nuno Gomes Benfica5379 Craig Bellamy Newcastle United5502 Mista Valencia5581 Albert Riera Bordeaux5769

See also 2003–04 UEFA Champions League 2003 UEFA Intertoto Cup

References

External links 2003–04 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website Results at RSSSF.com Details at guardian.co.uk All scorers 2003–04 UEFA Cup according to (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers 2003/04 UEFA Cup – results and line-ups (archive) Regulations of UEFA Cup 2003-04