2008–09 UEFA Cup group stage
The group stage of the 2008–09 UEFA Cup is the second stage of the competition proper.[1] The draw took place on 7 October 2008 at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[2] Group stage matches began on 23 October 2008 and concluded on 18 December 2008.[3] The top three teams in each group progressed to the Round of 32, to be joined by the eight third-place finishers from the Champions League group stage.[4]
Contents
Seedings
The following teams qualified for the group stage:[5]
Team | Coef. | Team | Coef. | Team | Coef. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | |||
Milan | 119.934 | Stuttgart | 52.078 | Rosenborg | 35.400 |
Sevilla | 102.837 | Ajax | 51.610 | Udinese | 34.934 |
Valencia | 83.837 | Olympiacos | 51.525 | Feyenoord | 33.610 |
Benfica | 77.176 | Deportivo La Coruña | 46.837 | Braga | 33.176 |
Schalke 04 | 67.078 | Club Brugge | 41.810 | Slavia Prague | 31.496 |
CSKA Moscow | 59.437 | Spartak Moscow | 40.437 | Manchester City | 30.996 |
Tottenham Hotspur | 55.996 | Paris Saint-Germain | 37.380 | Galatasaray | 30.469 |
Hamburg | 52.078 | Heerenveen | 35.610 | Sampdoria | 28.934 |
Pot 4 | Pot 5 | ||||
Hertha BSC | 27.078 | Saint-Étienne | 17.380 | ||
Partizan | 25.527 | Wolfsburg | 16.078 | ||
Nancy | 25.380 | Standard Liège | 14.810 | ||
Portsmouth | 24.996 | Twente | 14.610 | ||
Aston Villa | 24.996 | NEC | 12.610 | ||
Racing Santander | 24.837 | Metalist Kharkiv | 10.932 | ||
Copenhagen | 23.748 | Lech Poznań | 6.973 | ||
Dinamo Zagreb | 17.836 | Žilina | 4.070 |
Pot 1 contained teams ranked between 2 and 39: Pot 2 held teams ranked 40 to 71, Pot 3 held teams ranked 72 to 88, and Pot 4 teams ranked 91 to 122 together with unranked teams from England and Spain.[6] Pot 5 held the remaining teams.
Dinamo Zagreb, and all the Pot 5 teams, had beaten higher-ranked teams in the first round. Lech Poznań and Žilina had also beaten higher-ranked teams in the Second Qualifying Round. Seven of the eight teams in Pot 5 qualified for the Round of 32, Žilina being the only exception. In contrast, only five of the eight teams in Pot 1 managed to do the same, as Sevilla, Benfica and Schalke 04 were eliminated.
Tie-breaking criteria
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:[1]
- 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.
Groups
Group A
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Manchester City | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 7 |
Twente | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 6 |
Paris Saint-Germain | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 5 |
Racing Santander | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 5 |
Schalke 04 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 4 |
Schalke 04 | 3–1 | Paris Saint-Germain |
---|---|---|
Mabiala 12' (o.g.) Kurányi 39' Altıntop 70' |
Report | Chantôme 90+2' |
Group B
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Metalist Kharkiv | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | +3 | 10 |
Galatasaray | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 9 |
Olympiacos | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 6 |
Hertha BSC | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 2 |
Benfica | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 1 |
Olympiacos | 5–1 | Benfica |
---|---|---|
Galletti 1' Patsatzoglou 17' Diogo 24', 53' Belluschi 44' |
Report | David Luiz 33' |
Group C
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Standard Liège | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 9 |
Stuttgart | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 7 |
Sampdoria | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 7 |
Sevilla | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 6 |
Partizan | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | −7 | 0 |
Group D
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Udinese | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 9 |
Tottenham Hotspur | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 7 |
NEC | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 6 |
Spartak Moscow | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 4 |
Dinamo Zagreb | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 3 |
Group E
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wolfsburg | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 7 | +6 | 10 |
Milan | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 8 |
Braga | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 6 |
Portsmouth | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 4 |
Heerenveen | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 13 | −10 | 0 |
Group F
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hamburg | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 9 |
Ajax | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 7 |
Aston Villa | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 6 |
Žilina | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 |
Slavia Prague | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 2 |
Group G
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Saint-Étienne | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 8 |
Valencia | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 6 |
Copenhagen | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 5 |
Club Brugge | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 |
Rosenborg | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | −7 | 2 |
Group H
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CSKA Moscow | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 12 |
Deportivo La Coruña | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 7 |
Lech Poznań | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
Nancy | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 4 |
Feyenoord | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | −9 | 0 |
Feyenoord | 1–3 | CSKA Moscow |
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Van Bronckhorst 29' | Report | Van Bronckhorst 14' (o.g.) Vágner Love 40', 81' |
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