The 2006–07 UEFA Cup was the 36th edition of the UEFA Cup, Europe's second-tier club football tournament. On 16 May 2007, at Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Sevilla won their second consecutive UEFA Cup, defeating Espanyol 3–1 on penalties after the match finished 2–2 after extra time. Sevilla became the second side to win the competition for two consecutive seasons, following the hiatus of the original record holder Real Madrid achieved in 1985 and 1986.
Walter Pandiani of Espanyol was the top goals scorer of this UEFA Cup edition with 11 goals.
Association team allocation A total of 155 teams from 52 UEFA associations competed for the 2006–07 UEFA Cup. Associations were allocated places according to their 2005 UEFA league coefficient, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2000–01 to 2004–05.
Below is the qualification scheme for the 2006–07 UEFA Cup: Associations 1–6, 16–21 each have three teams qualify Associations 7 and 8 each have four teams qualify Associations 9–15, 22–39, 41-50 each have two teams qualify Associations 40, 51 and 52 each have one team qualify The top three associations of the 2005–06 UEFA Fair Play ranking each gain an additional berth Eleven winning teams from the 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup 24 teams from the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League (eight third-placed teams from the group stage and the sixteen losers of the third qualifying round)
Association ranking RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 1 73.717 3 2 63.224 3 61.186 4 49.469 5 48.989 6 44.666 7 39.831 4 8 35.498 9 31.750 2 10 31.750 11 29.916 12 27.950 13 25.666 14 24.875 15 24.850 16 21.874 3 17 21.249 18 21.000RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 19 20.875 3 20 20.200 21 18.540 22 18.125 2 23 17.200 24 16.331 25 15.457 26 15.383 27 11.665 28 9.665 29 8.165 30 7.165 31 6.664 32 6.540 33 6.332 34 6.165 35 5.332 36 4.832RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 37 4.497 2 38 4.164 39 4.082 40 4.000 1 41 2.998 2 42 2.998 43 2.665 44 2.498 45 2.165 46 1.832 47 1.665 48 1.332 49 0.999 50 0.666 51 0.000 1 52 0.000
Notes (FP): Additional berth via UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking (Norway, Belgium, Sweden) (IC): Additional berth via 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup (UCL): Additional teams transferred from the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League
Distribution The title holder would have been given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League or UEFA Cup through domestic performance; however, this additional entry was not necessary as Sevilla, winners of the 2005–06 UEFA Cup, qualified for the UEFA Cup through domestic performance. This means that the following changes to the default allocation system were made to compensate for the vacant title holder spot in the group stage:
The first UEFA Cup qualifying entrant of association 14 (Austria) gained direct access to the 1st round – Superfund. The domestic cup winners of associations 19 and 20 (Switzerland and Norway) are moved from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.
Teams entering in this roundTeams advancing from previous roundTeams transferred from Champions LeagueFirst qualifying round (70 teams)2 domestic league champions from associations 51 and 52 31 domestic league runners-up from associations 19–50 (except Liechtenstein) 4 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 18–21 30 domestic cup winning teams from associations 21–50 3 teams which qualified via Fair Play rankingsSecond qualifying round (64 teams)6 domestic cup winners from associations 15–20 3 domestic league runners-up from associations 16–18 9 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 9–17 11 Intertoto Cup winners35 winners from the first qualifying roundFirst round (80 teams)14 domestic cup winners from associations 1–14 2 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 7 and 8 5 domestic league fourth-placed teams from associations 4–8 8 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 1–8 3 domestic league sixth-placed teams from associations 1–332 winners from the second qualifying round16 losers from 2006–07 UEFA Champions League third qualifying roundGroup stage (40 teams)40 winners from the play-off roundRound 3 (32 teams)8 group winners from the group stage 8 group runners-up from the group stage 8 third-placed teams from the group stage8 third-placed teams from the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League group stage
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-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
Round of 32 Bordeaux Benfica CSKA Moscow Shakhtar Donetsk Werder Bremen AEK Athens Spartak Moscow Steaua București First round Espanyol Schalke 04 Skoda Xanthi Heart of Midlothian SevillaTH Bayer Leverkusen Atromitos Fenerbahçe Celta Vigo Eintracht Frankfurt Zulte Waregem Slovan Liberec Tottenham Hotspur Braga Rangers Mladá Boleslav Blackburn Rovers Nacional Beşiktaş Austria Wien West Ham United Vitória de Setúbal Sparta Prague Red Bull Salzburg Palermo Groningen Lokomotiv Moscow Maccabi Haifa Livorno AZ Superfund Red Star Belgrade Parma Feyenoord Osasuna Legia Warsaw Paris Saint-Germain Heerenveen Chievo Dinamo Zagreb Lens Panathinaikos Ajax Ružomberok Nancy Iraklis Standard Liège Rabotnicki Second qualifying round Club Brugge Hapoel Tel Aviv Wisła Kraków Twente Gretna Beitar Jerusalem Sion Kayserispor Trabzonspor Bnei Yehuda Molde Ried Slavia Prague Partizan Newcastle United Grasshopper Rubin Kazan Hajduk Kula Marseille Odense Mattersburg OFK Beograd Auxerre Maribor Chornomorets Odesa Wisła Płock Hertha BSC Ethnikos Achna Metalurh Zaporizhzhia First qualifying round Zagłębie Lubin Artmedia Bratislava Valur Glentoran Basel Spartak Trnava ÍA Portadown Young Boys Koper Makedonija GP Rhyl Start Domžale Vardar Llanelli Lyn APOEL Drogheda United Jeunesse Esch CSKA Sofia Omonia Derry City Etzella Ettelbruck Litex Lovech Orašje BATE Borisov Qarabağ Lokomotiv Sofia Sarajevo Dinamo Minsk Karvan Rijeka Ventspils Vaduz GÍ Varteks Skonto Mika Skála Randers Haka Banants Tobol Brøndby HJK Hibernians Kairat Fehérvár Zimbru Chișinău Sliema Wanderers Rànger's Újpest Nistru Otaci Tirana Murata Rapid București Ameri Tbilisi Dinamo Tirana Gefle IF Dinamo București WIT Georgia Levadia Tallinn Roeselare IFK Göteborg Kaunas Flora Brann Åtvidabergs FF Sūduva Notes
Round and draw dates The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).
+Schedule for 2006–07 UEFA CupPhaseRoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legQualifyingFirst qualifying round23 June 200613 July 200627 July 2006Second qualifying round28 July 200610 August 200624 August 2006First round25 August 2006 (Monaco)14 September 200628 September 2006Group stageMatchday 13 October 200619 October 2006Matchday 22 November 2006Matchday 323 November 2006Matchday 429–30 November 2006Matchday 513–14 December 2006Knockout stageRound of 3215 December 200614–15 February 200722 February 2007Round of 168 March 200714–15 March 2007Quarter-finals16 March 2007(Glasgow)5 April 200712 April 2007Semi-finals26 April 20073 May 2007Final16 May 2007 at Hampden Park, Glasgow
Early issues
Italian match-fixing scandal The 2006 Serie A scandal resulted in major changes to the clubs that originally qualified in Italy. Originally, Roma took the cup winners' place as losing finalists in the 2006 Coppa Italia, as the winners, Internazionale finished in the top four in the league and qualified for the Champions League. The other two UEFA Cup places initially went to Lazio and Chievo.
Lazio, however, as well as the remaining three Champions League qualifiers (Juventus, Milan and Fiorentina), were formally indicted on 22 June on charges relating to the scandal.
On 14 July, all four of the indicated clubs were penalised by an Italian court and the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). Results of the FIGC appeal were announced on 25 July. The impact on the UEFA Cup was: Lazio were barred from European competition. Roma and Chievo were promoted to the Champions League. Palermo, Livorno and Parma were granted Italy's places in the UEFA Cup.
Greek Football Federation FIFA suspended the Hellenic Football Federation (HFF) from all international competitions on 3 July 2006 because of "political interference in sport" after the Greek government passed a law, giving it control of the sports authorities in Greece. After the law was amended to address FIFA's objections, FIFA reinstated the HFF on 12 July. The Greek government in response, decided to withdraw all of its funding to the Hellenic Football Federation.
Qualifying rounds
First qualifying round
Second qualifying round
First round
Group stage
The top three teams (highlighted in green) of each group qualified for the next round. Based on paragraph 4.06 in the UEFA regulations for the current season, if two or more teams are equal on points on completion of all the group matches, the following criteria are 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 6.03 of the UEFA regulations).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Knockout stage
Bracket
Round of 32
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Top goalscorers RankNameTeamGoalsMinutes played1 Walter Pandiani Espanyol111118'2 Claudiu Niculescu Dinamo București8602'3 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Ajax7520' Dimitar Berbatov Tottenham Hotspur7697' Shota Arveladze AZ7942'6 Pauleta Paris Saint-Germain6591' Obafemi Martins Newcastle United6642'8 Cristiano Lucarelli Livorno5616' Tim Matthys Zulte Waregem5642' Coro Espanyol5662' Robbie Keane Tottenham Hotspur5708' Luis García Espanyol51000'
See also 2006–07 UEFA Champions League 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup 2007 UEFA Super Cup
References
External links
2006–07 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website All scorers 2006–07 UEFA Cup according to (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers preliminary round 2006/07 UEFA Cup – results and line-ups (archive) Contenders await group stage draw – 2006/07 UEFA Cup group stage seeding pots