The 2000–01 UEFA Cup was the 30th edition of the UEFA Cup competition. Liverpool won the final with a golden goal in extra-time against Alavés for their third title in the competition. It completed a cup treble for the club, as they also won the FA Cup and the League Cup that season. The conclusion of the tournament by a golden goal is the only instance in any of the major European club cup competitions until the abolition of the rule in 2002.
Galatasaray could not defend their title as they automatically qualified for the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League and also reached the knockout stage.
English clubs had been banned from European competitions between 1985 and 1990 as a result of the Heysel disaster, and Liverpool were the first English side of the post-Heysel era to win the trophy. The previous English winners were Tottenham Hotspur in 1984. It was also Liverpool's first European trophy of the post-Heysel era.
Association team allocation A total of 145 teams from 51 UEFA associations participated in the 2000–01 UEFA Cup. Associations are allocated places according to their 1999 UEFA league coefficient.
Below is the qualification scheme for the 2000–01 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 22–49 each enter two teams, with the exception of Liechtenstein who enter one. Associations 50-51 each enter one team The top three associations of the 1999–2000 UEFA Fair Play ranking each gain an additional berth 16 teams eliminated from the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the UEFA Cup 8 teams eliminated from the group stage of the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the UEFA Cup 3 winners of the Intertoto Cup The winner of the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup (not used due to Galatasaray's qualification to Champions League)
Association ranking RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 1 57.212 3 +1(UCL)+1(IT) 2 49.628 +1(UCL)+1(FP)+1(IT) 3 45.498 +3(UCL)+1(IT) 4 41.442 5 37.816 +2(UCL) 6 34.288 7 27.825 4 +1(UCL) 8 26.950 +1(UCL) 9 24.716 2 +1(UCL) 10 23.624 +1(UCL) 11 22.375 +1(UCL) 12 21.050 +2(UCL) 13 20.374 +1(UCL) 14 20.350 15 20.291 +1(UCL) 16 20.000 3 +1(UCL) 17 19.733 +1(UCL) 18 19.600 +1(FP)RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 19 17.325 3 +1(FP) 20 17.250 +1(UCL) 21 16.625 +1(UCL) 22 16.200 2 23 15.666 +1(UCL) 24 14.332 +1(UCL) 25 12.665 26 12.166 27 11.541 28 10.831 29 9.083 30 9.041 31 8.249 +1(UCL) 32 7.582 33 6.582 34 6.332 35 4.915 36 4.832RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 37 4.333 2 +1(UCL) 38 2.582 39 2.416 40 1.998 41 1.832 42 1.832 43 1.498 44 1.249 45 1.166 46 1.166 47 1.000 1 48 0.916 2 49 0.500 50 0.000 1 51 0.000
Notes (FP): Additional fair play berth (Norway, Denmark, Scotland) (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 (82 teams)31 domestic cup winners from associations 19–49 33 domestic league runners-up from associations 16–49 13 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 9–21 3 teams from the Fair Play rankings 2 domestic league champions teams from Andorra and San MarinoFirst 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 3 domestic league sixth-placed teams from associations 1–3 3 winners of the Intertoto Cup41 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, this place is taken by the highest-placed league finisher which do not qualify for the UEFA Cup yet. 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: CW: Cup winners CR: Cup runners-up LC: League Cup winners Nth: League position FP: Fair play IC: 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 Barcelona Hamburger SV Olympiacos Rosenborg Bayer Leverkusen PSV Eindhoven Shakhtar Donetsk Rangers First round Parma Ajax GAK Tirol Innsbruck Roma Chelsea Viborg Herfølge Fiorentina Liverpool Osijek Brøndby Espanyol Leicester City Gaziantepspor Dinamo Zagreb Zaragoza CSKA Moscow Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih St. Gallen Alavés Torpedo Moscow Zürich Polonia Warsaw 1. FC Kaiserslautern Dynamo Moscow Molde Dunaferr Hertha BSC Alania Vladikavkaz Genk Inter Slovnaft Bratislava Werder Bremen AEK Athens Internazionale Red Star Belgrade Nantes OFI 1860 Munich Zimbru Chișinău Bordeaux PAOK Feyenoord Udinese Gueugnon Iraklis Lokomotiv Moscow Celta Vigo Roda JC Benfica Porto VfB Stuttgart Vitesse Slovan Liberec Slavia Prague Qualifying round Boavista Aberdeen CSKA Sofia Bangor City Drnovice Rapid București Neftochimic Burgas Barry Town Rapid Wien Universitatea Craiova Liepājas Metalurgs Sliema Wanderers AB MTK Hungária Ventspils Valletta Rijeka Vasas ÍBV GÍ Antalyaspor Košice ÍA B36 Vorskla Poltava Slovan Bratislava Pobeda Teuta Lausanne-Sports Omonia Rabotnicki Tomori Basel APOEL Ekranas Jeunesse Esch Brann Locomotive Tbilisi Žalgiris Grevenmacher Lillestrøm WIT Georgia Constructorul Chișinău Vaduz Club Brugge Maccabi Haifa Sheriff Tiraspol Kapaz Gent Beitar Jerusalem Viljandi Tulevik Neftçi Örgryte IS Olimpija Ljubljana Flora Željezničar AIK HIT Gorica Mika Budućnost Banovići Halmstads BK Slavia Mozyr Ararat Yerevan Constel·lació Amica Wronki Gomel Glentoran Folgore Wisła Kraków Jokerit Coleraine IFK Norrköping Ruch Chorzów HJK Cork City Rayo Vallecano Celtic Partizan Bohemians Lierse Heart of Midlothian Napredak Kruševac
Round and draw dates The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were generally 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 2000–01 UEFA CupRoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legQualifying round23 June 200010 August 200024 August 2000First round25 August 200014 September 200028 September 2000Second round29 September 200026 October 20009 November 2000Third round10 November 200023 November 20007 December 2000Fourth round13 December 200015 February 200122 February 2001Quarter-finals8 March 200115 March 2001Semi-finals16 March 20015 April 200119 April 2001Final16 May 2001 at Westfalenstadion, Dortmund
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
Statistics Statistics exclude qualifying round.
Top goalscorers RankPlayerTeamGoalsMinutes played1 Goran Drulić Red Star Belgrade6340 Marcin Kuźba Lausanne-Sports527 Javi Moreno Alavés530 Demis Nikolaidis AEK Athens7035 Viorel Moldovan Nantes5391 Álvaro Recoba Internazionale575 Marco Delvecchio Roma586 Rivaldo Barcelona595 Iván Alonso Alavés774 Pena Porto888
See also 2000–01 UEFA Champions League 2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup
References
External links
2000–01 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website Official website Results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation All scorers 2000–01 UEFA Cup (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA 2000/01 UEFA Cup – results and line-ups (archive)