The 2008–09 UEFA Cup was the 38th season of the UEFA Cup football tournament. The final was played at the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, home ground of Fenerbahçe, in Istanbul on 20 May 2009. It was the last season to use the UEFA Cup format; starting in 2009, the competition was known as the UEFA Europa League. Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk defeat Werder Bremen 2–1 after extra time to win their first European title. Zenit Saint Petersburg, the defending champions, were eliminated by Udinese in the Round of 16.
Association team allocation A total of 157 teams from 53 UEFA associations participated in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup. Associations were allocated places according to their 2007 UEFA league coefficients, which took into account performances in European competitions from 2002–03 to 2006–07.
Below is the qualification scheme for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup: Associations 1–6 each have three teams qualify Associations 7 and 8 each have four teams qualify Associations 9–15 and 22–51 each have two teams qualify, except Liechtenstein, which has one team qualify (as Liechtenstein only has a domestic cup and no domestic league) Associations 16–21 each have three teams qualify Associations 52 and 53 each have one team qualify plus The top three associations of the 2007–08 UEFA Fair Play ranking each gain an additional berth 11 winners of the 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup 16 losers from the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round 8 third-placed teams from the UEFA Champions League group stage
Association ranking
RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 1 76.891 3 +1(IT) 2 68.540 +1(FP)+1(IT) 3 66.088 +1(UCL)+1(IT) 4 53.656 +2(UCL)+1(IT) 5 44.364 +2(UCL)+1(IT)+1(FP) 6 42.749 +1(UCL)+1(IT) 7 40.165 4 +1(IT) 8 39.379 +1(UCL) 9 36.125 2 +2(UCL) 10 30.500 11 29.475 +2(UCL) 12 29.075 +1(UCL) 13 26.825 +2(UCL) 14 26.641 +1(UCL) 15 25.497 +1(UCL) 16 24.582 3 +1(UCL) 17 23.850 +1(IT) 18 19.725 +1(UCL)+1(IT)RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 19 19.208 3 20 18.958 +1(UCL) 21 18.575 +1(UCL)+1(FP) 22 18.500 2 +1(IT) 23 17.000 +1(UCL) 24 14.165 25 10.832 +1(UCL) 26 10.708 +1(UCL) 27 10.582 28 10.541 +1(IT) 29 9.915 30 9.665 31 8.664 32 7.332 +1(UCL) 33 7.331 34 7.166 35 6.498 36 6.164 RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 37 6.000 1 38 5.831 2 39 4.999 40 4.665 41 3.832 42 3.665 43 3.498 44 3.166 45 2.332 46 2.165 47 1.998 48 1.665 49 1.665 50 1.665 51 0.000 52 0.000 1 53 0.000
Notes (FP): Additional fair play berth (Denmark, England, Germany) (UCL): Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
Distribution Since the winners of the 2007–08 UEFA Cup, Zenit Saint Petersburg, qualified for the 2008–09 UEFA Champions League through domestic performance, the title holder spot reserved for them in the playoff round was vacated. As a result, the following changes to the default allocation system were made to compensate for the vacant title holder spot in the group stage:
The domestic cup winners of associations 14 (Turkey) was promoted from the second qualifying round to the first round. The first UEFA Cup entrant of associations 19 and 20 (Israel and Serbia) were promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.
Teams entering in this roundTeams advancing from previous roundTeams transferred from Champions LeagueTeams transferred from Intertoto CupFirst qualifying round (74 teams)33 cup winners from associations 21–53 32 runners-up from associations 19–37, 39–50 and 53 6 third-place finishers from associations 16–21 3 entries through UEFA Fair PlaySecond qualifying round (64 teams)6 cup winners from associations 15–20 7 third-place finishers from associations 9–15 3 runners-up from associations 16–1837 winners from the first qualifying round11 entries from UEFA Intertoto CupFirst round (80 teams)14 national cup winners from associations 1–14 2 third-place finishers from associations 7–8 5 fourth-place finishers from associations 4–8 7 fifth-place finishers from associations 1–3, 5–8 2 sixth-place finishers from associations 1–2 2 League Cup winners from associations 3–432 winners from the second qualifying round16 losers from the UEFA Champions League third qualifying roundGroup stage (40 teams)40 winners from the First RoundKnockout phase (32 teams)24 top-three finishers from the group stage8 entries from UEFA Champions League 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" qualifiers 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, this place is taken by the highest-placed league finishers that have not yet qualified for the European competitions. 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 that finish lower in the league are moved up one place, with the final place taken by the highest-placed league finishers that have not yet qualified for the UEFA Cup. A place vacated by the League Cup winners is taken by the highest-placed league finishers that have not yet qualified for the UEFA Cup. A Fair Play place is taken by the highest-ranked team in the domestic Fair Play table that has not yet qualified for the Champions League or the UEFA Cup.
Teams
Round of 32 Fiorentina Marseille Zenit Saint PetersburgTH Dynamo Kyiv Bordeaux Werder Bremen Shakhtar Donetsk AaB First round Valencia Hamburger SV Heerenveen Standard Liège Sevilla VfL Wolfsburg NEC Slavia Prague Racing Santander Borussia Dortmund CSKA Moscow Sparta Prague Portsmouth Benfica Motherwell Galatasaray Everton Marítimo Metalist Kharkiv Olympiacos Tottenham Hotspur Vitória de Setúbal Club Brugge Levski Sofia Milan Rapid București Baník Ostrava Brann Sampdoria Dinamo București Kayserispor Partizan Udinese Unirea Urziceni Schalke 04 Wisła Kraków Nancy Timișoara Vitória de Guimarães Artmedia Petržalka Saint-Étienne Feyenoord Twente Dinamo Zagreb Paris Saint-Germain Ajax Spartak Moscow Kaunas Second qualifying round FC Moscow Aris Maccabi Netanya Braga Queen of the South Litex Lovech Red Star Belgrade Vaslui Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Lokomotiv Sofia Deportivo La Coruña Grasshopper Gent Young Boys Aston Villa Rosenborg Slovan Liberec Zürich Napoli Sturm Graz Beşiktaş Lillestrøm Rennes IF Elfsborg AEK Athens Stabæk VfB Stuttgart First qualifying round Cherno More Hajduk Split Zestaponi Shakhter Karagandy Bellinzona APOEL WIT Georgia Glentoran Viking Omonia Vaduz Cliftonville Ironi Kiryat Shmona Kalmar FF Milano Bangor City Hapoel Tel Aviv Djurgårdens IF Pelister The New Saints Vojvodina Interblock FH EB/Streymur Borac Čačak Koper ÍA B36 Brøndby Zrinjski Mostar MTZ-RIPO Minsk Grevenmacher Midtjylland Široki Brijeg Gomel Racing Union Copenhagen Liepājas Metalurgs Vllaznia Birkirkara Red Bull Salzburg Olimps/ASK Partizani Marsaxlokk Austria Wien Sūduva Flora Mogren Legia Warsaw Vėtra TVMK Zeta Lech Poznań Haka Ararat Yerevan Sant Julià Debrecen Honka Banants Juvenes/Dogana Győri ETO Dacia Chișinău Khazar Lankaran Manchester City Žilina Nistru Otaci Olimpik Baku Hertha BSC Spartak Trnava Cork City Tobol Nordsjælland Slaven Belupo St Patrick's Athletic Notes
Round and draw dates The calendar shows the dates of the rounds and draw.
+Schedule for 2008–09 UEFA CupPhaseRoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legQualifyingFirst qualifying round1 July 200817 July 200831 July 2008Second qualifying round1 August 200814 August 200828 August 2008First round29 August 200818 September 20082 October 2008Group stageMatchday 17 October 200823 October 2008Matchday 26 November 2008Matchday 327 November 2008Matchday 43–4 December 2008Matchday 517–18 December 2008Knockout stageRound of 3219 December 200818–19 February 200926 February 2009Round of 1612 March 200918–19 March 2009Quarter-finals20 March 20099 April 200916 April 2009Semi-finals30 April 20097 May 2009Final20 May 2009 at Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, Istanbul
Qualifying rounds
First qualifying round
Second qualifying round
First round
The draw, which was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor, was held on 29 August 2008 at 13:00 CET in Monaco.
Group stage
The draw for the group stage of the 2008–09 UEFA Cup was held at UEFA Headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, on 7 October 2008. The 40 teams in the draw were divided into five pots based on their UEFA coefficients. The eight teams with the highest UEFA coefficient were allocated to Pot 1, the next eight teams to Pot 2, and so on. One team from each pot was drawn for each group, with the restriction that no team could be drawn with one from the same country.
The top three teams (highlighted in green) of each group qualified for the next round. Based on paragraph 6.06 in the UEFA regulations for the current season, if two or more teams are equal on points on completion of 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; higher number of goals scored away; 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.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Knockout stage
In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.
Bracket
Round of 32
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Top goalscorers RankNameTeamGoals1 Vágner Love CSKA Moscow112 Ivica Olić Hamburger SV93 Fabio Quagliarella Udinese84 Diego Werder Bremen6 Mario Gómez VfB Stuttgart6 Luis Aguiar Braga6 Peguy Luyindula Paris Saint-Germain68 Milan Baroš Galatasaray5 Diogo Olympiacos5 Ilan Saint-Étienne5 Albert Meyong Braga5 Mladen Petrić Hamburger SV5 Claudio Pizarro Werder Bremen5 Hernán Rengifo Lech Poznań5 Luis Suárez Ajax5
Source: Hammond, Mike, ed (2009). The European Football Yearbook 2009/10. London: Carlton Books. .
See also 2008–09 UEFA Champions League 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup 2009 UEFA Super Cup
References
External links
2008–09 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website 2008/09 UEFA Cup - results and line-ups (archive) All scorers 2008–09 UEFA Cup according to (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers preliminary round