The 2002–03 UEFA Cup was the 32nd edition of the UEFA Cup, the second-tier European club football tournament organised by UEFA. The final was played between Portuguese side Porto and Scottish side Celtic at the Estadio Olímpico de Sevilla, Seville, on 21 May 2003. Porto won 3–2 after silver goal extra time and became the first Portuguese team to win the competition.
Feyenoord could not defend their title as they automatically qualified for the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League and were also eliminated from all European competitions after finishing bottom of their group.
Association team allocation A total of 145 teams from 51 UEFA member associations participated in the 2002–03 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 each had three teams qualified; Associations 7–8 each had four teams qualified; Associations 9–15 each had two teams qualified; Associations 16–21 each had three teams qualified; Associations 22–52 (except Azerbaijan, Liechtenstein, San Marino and Andorra) each had two teams qualified; Liechtenstein (as they organized only a domestic cup and no domestic league), San Marino and Andorra had one team qualified; The top three associations of the 2001–02 UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking each gained an additional berth; Moreover, 24 teams eliminated from the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League were transferred to the UEFA Cup. The winners of the 2001–02 UEFA Cup were given an additional entry as title holders if they did not qualify for the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League or UEFA Cup through their domestic performance. However, this additional entry was not necessary for this season since the title holders (Feyenoord) qualified for European competitions through their domestic performance.
Association ranking For the 2002–03 UEFA Cup, the associations were allocated places according to their 2001 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 1996–97 to 2000–01.
Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations had additional teams participating in the UEFA Cup, as noted below: – Additional berth via Fair Play ranking (Norway, England, Czech Republic) – Additional teams transferred from the Champions League – Additional teams qualified from the Intertoto Cup
RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes165.2103256.239351.288448.632542.352630.249729.9754828.366927.70821026.2741124.7911224.1501323.8331423.7501523.6001622.62531721.8751819.999RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes1918.20832017.5002117.1752215.79122315.4152415.0822514.6652614.1242711.9982811.6652910.832309.666318.541327.832335.332344.832354.499RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes364.4982373.497382.998392.498402.165412.165421.6650431.6652441.5001451.3312461.000470.665480.665490.499500.0001510.000520.0002
Distribution Since the title holders (Feyenoord) qualified for the Champions League through their domestic performance, the first round spot reserved for the title holders was vacated, and the following changes to the default allocation system were made: The domestic cup winners of associations 17 (Switzerland) and 18 (Croatia) were promoted from the qualifying round to the first round.
Teams entering in this roundTeams advancing from previous roundTeams transferred from Champions League and 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 the qualifying round16 losers from the Champions League third qualifying round 3 Intertoto Cup winnersSecond 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 stage
Redistribution rules A UEFA Cup place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the UEFA Cup, or qualifies 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 with the latest starting round) also qualify for the Champions League, their UEFA Cup place is vacated. As a result, either of the following teams qualify for the UEFA Cup: The domestic cup runners-up, provided they have not yet qualified for European competitions, qualify for the UEFA Cup as the "lowest-placed" qualifier (with the earliest starting round), with the other UEFA Cup qualifiers moved up one "place". Otherwise, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the UEFA Cup, with the UEFA Cup qualifiers that finish above them in the league, moved up one "place". When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the UEFA Cup through league position, their place through the league position is vacated. As a result, the highest-placed team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions qualify for the UEFA Cup, with the UEFA Cup qualifiers that finish above them in the league moved up one "place" if possible. For associations where a UEFA Cup place is reserved for the League Cup winners, they always qualify for the UEFA Cup as the "lowest-placed" qualifier (or as the second "lowest-placed" qualifier in cases where the cup runners-up qualify as stated above). If the League Cup winners have already qualified for European competitions through other methods, this reserved UEFA Cup place is taken by the highest-placed league team in the league which have not yet qualified for European competitions. A Fair Play place is taken by the highest-ranked team in the domestic Fair Play table which have not yet qualified for European competitions.
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 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position FP: Fair Play IC: UEFA Intertoto Cup winners CL: Transferred from the Champions League GS1: Third-placed teams from the first group stage Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
Third round Liverpool Lens AEK Athens Dynamo Kyiv Lyon Auxerre Club Brugge Maccabi Haifa First round Celta Vigo Bordeaux Slavia Prague Sturm Graz Real Betis Heerenveen Anderlecht GAK Alavés Vitesse Metalurh Donetsk Celtic Parma Utrecht Austria Wien Legia Warsaw Chievo Kocaelispor Viking Brøndby Lazio Beşiktaş Rangers Partizan Leeds United Ankaragücü Grasshopper Zalaegerszeg Chelsea Denizlispor Dinamo Zagreb Levski Sofia Blackburn Rovers Panathinaikos Fenerbahçe APOEL Schalke 04 PAOK Sporting CP Željezničar Hertha BSC Skoda Xanthi Boavista Málaga Werder Bremen Iraklis Slovan Liberec Fulham Lorient CSKA Moscow Sparta Prague VfB Stuttgart Paris Saint-Germain Porto Shakhtar Donetsk Qualifying round Zenit Saint Petersburg Midtjylland Ventspils Birkirkara Leixões Rapid București Liepājas Metalurgs Sliema Wanderers Viktoria Žižkov Național București Fylkir Vaduz Mouscron Red Star Belgrade ÍBV Linfield Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Sartid Gomel Glentoran Kärnten Újpest Dinamo Minsk Sarajevo Stabæk Ferencváros Nistru Otaci Široki Brijeg Livingston Koba Senec Zimbru Chișinău Avenir Beggen Aberdeen Matador Púchov Atlantas Grevenmacher Lugano Maccabi Tel Aviv Sūduva GÍ Servette Hapoel Tel Aviv Pobeda KÍ Hajduk Split Gorica Belasica Tirana Varteks Primorje Dundalk Partizani Djurgårdens IF Litex Lovech Shamrock Rovers Domagnano AIK CSKA Sofia Levadia Tallinn Encamp IFK Göteborg Anorthosis Famagusta TVMK Kairat Wisła Kraków AEL Limassol Zvartnots Yerevan Atyrau Amica Wronki Locomotive Tbilisi Spartak Yerevan Ipswich Town Polonia Warsaw Dinamo Tbilisi Total Network Solutions Sigma Olomouc Odense HJK Bangor City Brann Copenhagen MYPA
Notes
Round and draw dates The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).
RoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legQualifying round21 June 200215 August 200229 August 2002First round30 August 200219 September 20023 October 2002Second round8 October 200231 October 200214 November 2002Third round15 November 200228 November 200212 December 2002Fourth round13 December 200220 February 200327 February 2003Quarter-finals13 March 200320 March 2003Semi-finals21 March 200310 April 200324 April 2003Final21 May 2003 at Estadio Olímpico, Seville
Qualifying round
The draw was held on 21 June 2002 in Geneva, Switzerland.
First round
The draw was held on 30 August 2002 in Monaco.
Second round
The draw was held on 8 October 2002 in Nyon, Switzerland.
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 The draw was held on 15 November 2002 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Fourth round The draw for the fourth round was held on 13 December 2002.
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Top goalscorers RankNameTeamGoalsMinutes played1 Derlei Porto121,1592 Henrik Larsson Celtic118873 Maciej Żurawski Wisła Kraków97234 Nenad Jestrović Anderlecht74135 Mustafa Özkan Denizlispor66306 Stanko Svitlica Legia Warsaw5334 Jean-Claude Darcheville Bordeaux460 Imre Szabics Sturm Graz532 Alan Smith Leeds United540 Štěpán Vachoušek Slavia Prague687 Hélder Postiga Porto736 Julio Dely Valdés Málaga822Source: UEFA
See also 2002–03 UEFA Champions League 2003 UEFA Super Cup
References
External links
2002–03 UEFA Cup at UEFA 2002–03 UEFA Cup at RSSSF