2008–09 UEFA Cup

Poster of the final
Tournament details
Dates	17 July 2008 – 20 May 2009
Teams	80 (competition proper) 157 (qualifying)
Final positions
Champions	Shakhtar Donetsk (1st title)
Runners-up	Werder Bremen
Tournament statistics
Matches played	221
Goals scored	572 (2.59 per match)
Top scorer	Vágner Love (11 goals)
← 2007–08 (Europa League) 2009–10 → All statistics correct as of 21:33, 20 May 2009 (UTC).

The UEFA Cup 2008–09 was the 38th edition of the UEFA Cup football tournament. The final was played at the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, home ground of Fenerbahçe, in Istanbul, Turkey, on 20 May 2009.^[1] This season was the final one to use the UEFA Cup format; starting in 2009, the event will be known as the UEFA Europa League.

119 teams qualified directly for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup from 53 UEFA associations. An additional three teams qualified via the UEFA Fair Play league, while 35 further teams will qualify from the UEFA Intertoto Cup and the UEFA Champions League. Each association enters a certain number of teams to the UEFA Cup based on its league coefficient. Through domestic competitions (national championships and cups and league cups in certain countries) an association may qualify up to four teams. Below is the qualification scheme for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup:

• Associations 1–6 each have 3 teams qualify
• Associations 7–8 each have 4 teams qualify
• Associations 9–15 each have 2 teams qualify
• Associations 16–21 each have 3 teams qualify
• Associations 22–53 each have 2 teams qualify, with the exception of Liechtenstein (38), Andorra (51) and San Marino (52) who have 1 team

plus

• 3 UEFA Fair Play entries
• 11 winners of the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2008
• 16 losers from the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round
• 8 third-placed teams from the UEFA Champions League group stage

First 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 Play

Second qualifying round: (64 teams)

• 37 winners from the first qualifying round
• 6 cup winners from associations 15–20
• 7 third-place finishers from associations 9–15
• 3 runners-up from associations 16–18
• 11 entries from UEFA Intertoto Cup

First round: (80 teams)

• 32 winners from the second qualifying round
• 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 3–4
• 16 entries from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round

Group stage: (40 teams)

• 40 winners from the First Round

Knockout stage: (32 teams)

• 24 top-three finishers from the group stage
• 8 entries from UEFA Champions League group stage

Round of 32
Fiorentina1	Marseille1	Zenit St. Petersburg1	Dynamo Kyiv1
Bordeaux1	Werder Bremen1	Shakhtar Donetsk1	Aalborg BK1
First round
Valencia	Hamburg	Heerenveen	Standard Liège2
Sevilla	Wolfsburg	NEC	Slavia Prague2
Racing Santander	Borussia Dortmund	CSKA Moscow	Galatasaray2
Portsmouth	Benfica	Motherwell	Olympiacos2
Everton	Marítimo	Metalist Kharkiv	Levski Sofia2
Tottenham Hotspur	Vitória Setúbal	Club Brugge	Sparta Prague2
Milan	Rapid Bucureşti	Baník Ostrava	Brann2
Sampdoria	Dinamo Bucureşti	Kayserispor3	Partizan2
Udinese	Unirea Urziceni	Schalke 042	Wisła Kraków2
Nancy	Timişoara	Vitória Guimarães2	Artmedia Petržalka2
Saint-Étienne	Feyenoord	Twente2	Dinamo Zagreb2
Paris Saint-Germain	Ajax	Spartak Moscow2	Kaunas2
Second qualifying round
FC Moscow	Aris Thessaloniki	Maccabi Netanya3	Braga4
Queen of the South	Litex Lovech	Red Star Belgrade3	Vaslui4
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Lokomotiv Sofia	Deportivo La Coruña4	Grasshopper4
Gent	Young Boys	Aston Villa4	Rosenborg4
Slovan Liberec	Zürich	Napoli4	Sturm Graz4
Beşiktaş	Lillestrøm	Rennes4	Elfsborg4
AEK Athens	Stabæk	Stuttgart4
First qualifying round
Cherno More	Hajduk Split	Zestaponi	Shakhter Karagandy
Bellinzona	APOEL	WIT Georgia	Glentoran
Viking	Omonia	FC Vaduz	Cliftonville[2]
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Kalmar FF	Milano	Bangor City
Hapoel Tel Aviv	Djurgården	Pelister	The New Saints
Vojvodina	Interblock Ljubljana	FH	EB/Streymur
Borac Čačak[3]	Koper	ÍA	B36 Tórshavn
Brøndby	Zrinjski Mostar	MTZ-RIPO	Grevenmacher
Midtjylland	Široki Brijeg	Gomel	Racing FC
Copenhagen	Liepājas Metalurgs	Vllaznia Shkodër	Birkirkara
Red Bull Salzburg	Olimps	Partizani	Marsaxlokk
Austria Wien[4]	Sūduva	Flora	Sant Julià
Legia Warsaw	Vėtra	TVMK	Juvenes/Dogana
Lech Poznań	Haka	Ararat Yerevan	Mogren
Győri ETO	Honka	Banants Yerevan	Zeta
Debrecen	Dacia Chişinău	Khazar Lenkoran	Manchester City[5][6]
Žilina	Nistru Otaci	Olimpik Baku	Nordsjælland[7][8]
Spartak Trnava	Cork City	Tobol	Hertha BSC[7][9]
Slaven Belupo	St Patrick's Athletic

• Template:Fnb UEFA Champions League group stage third-placed team of each group
• Template:Fnb Losers of UEFA Champions League third qualifying round
• Template:Fnb Moved up from the lower qualifying round due to the Title Holder entry not being used.
• Template:Fnb Third round winners of UEFA Intertoto Cup

The calendar shows the dates of the rounds and draw.

The draw for the first qualifying round took place on 1 July 2008.^[10] The first legs were played on 17 July 2008 and the second legs were played on 31 July 2008, with the exception of the Nordsjælland vs TVMK match, which was played on 29 July 2008.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Southern-Mediterranean region
Cherno More	9–0	Sant Julià	4–0	5–0
Pelister	0–1	APOEL	0–0	0–1
Vaduz	1–5	Zrinjski Mostar	1–2	0–3
Široki Brijeg	3–1	Partizani	0–0	3–1
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	4–1	Mogren	1–1	3–0
Koper	1–2	Vllaznia Shkodër	1–2	0–0
Zeta	1–2	Interblock Ljubljana	1–1	0–1
Hapoel Tel Aviv	5–0	Juvenes/Dogana	3–0	2–0
Hajduk Split	7–0	Birkirkara	4–0	3–0
Omonia	4–1	Milano	2–0	2–1
Marsaxlokk	0–8	Slaven Belupo	0–4	0–4
Central-East region
Red Bull Salzburg	10–0	Banants Yerevan	7–0	3–0
Győri ETO	3–2	Zestaponi	1–1	2–1
Ararat Yerevan	1–4	Bellinzona	0–1	1–3
Dacia Chişinău	2–4	Borac Čačak	1–1	1–35
Tobol	1–2	Austria Wien	1–0	0–2
Hertha BSC	8–1	Nistru Otaci	8–16	0–07
Khazar Lenkoran	1–5	Lech Poznań	0–1	1–4
Legia Warsaw	4–1	Gomel	0–0	4–1
Spartak Trnava	2–3	WIT Georgia	2–2	0–1
MTZ-RIPO	2–3	Žilina	2–2	0–1
Shakhter Karagandy	1–2	Debrecen	1–1	0–1
Vojvodina	2–1	Olimpik Baku	1–0	1–1
Northern region
FH	8–3	Grevenmacher	3–2	5–1
Vėtra	1–2	Viking	1–0	0–2
Racing	1–10	Kalmar FF	0–3	1–7
Honka	4–2	ÍA	3–0	1–2
Glentoran	1–3	Liepājas Metalurgs	1–1	0–2
Brøndby	3–0	B36 Tórshavn	1–0	2–0
TVMK	0–8	Nordsjælland	0–3	0–5
EB/Streymur	0–4	Manchester City	0–28	0–29
Olimps	0–3	St Patrick's Athletic	0–1	0–2
Djurgården	(a) 2–2	Flora	0–010	2–2
Sūduva	2–0	The New Saints	1–0	1–0
Cliftonville	0–11	Copenhagen	0–4	0–7
Cork City	2–6	Haka	2–2	0–4
Bangor City	1–1011	Midtjylland	0–4	1–612

• Template:Fnb Played in Smederevo at Fortress Stadium as Borac Čačak's home ground did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Template:Fnb Played in Berlin at Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark because Olympiastadion was occupied by another event.^[11]
• Template:Fnb Played in Chisinau at Zimbru Stadium as Nistru Otaci's home ground did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Template:Fnb Played at Tórsvøllur as EB/Streymur's home ground did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Template:Fnb Manchester City played their home game at Oakwell Stadium, home of Barnsley, because the pitch at their home ground needed to be relaid after a Bon Jovi concert.^[12]
• Template:Fnb Played at Råsunda Stadium as Djurgården's home ground did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Template:Fnb Midtjylland were originally drawn to play at home in the first leg, but the order of the games was reversed.
• Template:Fnb Bangor City's home leg was played at Wrexham's Racecourse Ground, as their own ground did not meet UEFA criteria.

In each region of the draw for the first qualifying round, teams were divided into two pots, on the basis of UEFA coefficients. The lower pots contained unranked teams from associations 34–53, together with Vėtra of Lithuania (the 33rd association). The higher pots contained teams from associations 1–32, together with Sūduva of Lithuania, and FH (who had a team ranking, 209).

Three of the 37 ties were won by the lower ranked team, all involving teams whose ranking was that of their association: WIT Georgia (Georgia, ranked 38) beat Spartak Trnava (Slovakia, 24); Vllaznia Shkodër (Albania, 43) beat Koper (Slovenia, 29); and St Patrick's Athletic (Ireland, 35) beat Olimps (Latvia, 31).

The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 1 August 2008 in Nyon, Switzerland,^[13] and featured 16 teams entering directly at the second qualifying round, as well as the 37 winners from the previous round and the 11 third round winners of the UEFA Intertoto Cup. The first legs were played on 14 August 2008 and the second leg on 28 August 2008.

Because there are an odd number of teams in the Central and Northern groups in the 2nd qualifying round, UEFA moved Rennes from the Central-East group to the Northern group. Furthermore Liepājas Metalurgs and Sūduva were moved from the Northern group to the Central-East group, and Vaslui and Interblock Ljubljana were moved from the Southern-Mediterranean group to the Central-East group. It is unknown why UEFA decided on these last moves since it is not strictly required. One of the reasons could be^{[original research?]} to have more balance in the groups with respect to the coefficients.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Southern-Mediterranean region
Široki Brijeg	1–6	Beşiktaş	1–2	0–4
Braga	3–0	Zrinjski Mostar	1–0	2–0
Borac Čačak	2–1	Lokomotiv Sofia	1–013	1–1
Vojvodina	0–3	Hapoel Tel Aviv	0–0	0–3
Aris Thessaloniki	1–2	Slaven Belupo	1–0	0–2
Litex Lovech	2–1	Ironi Kiryat Shmona	0–0	2–1
Deportivo La Coruña	2–0	Hajduk Split	0–0	2–0
APOEL	(a) 5–5	Red Star Belgrade	2–2	3–3 (aet)
Vllaznia Shkodër	0–8	Napoli	0–3	0–5
Maccabi Netanya	1–3	Cherno More	1–1	0–2
AEK Athens	2–314	Omonia	0–1	2–2
Central-East region
Liepājas Metalurgs	1–5	Vaslui	0–2	1–3
Zürich	2–2 (4–2 p)	Sturm Graz	1–1	1–1 (aet)
Stuttgart	6–2	Győri ETO	2–1	4–1
Lech Poznań	6–0	Grasshopper	6–0	0–015
Slovan Liberec	2–4	Žilina	1–2	1–2
WIT Georgia	0–2	Austria Wien	cancelled16	0–2
Young Boys	7–3	Debrecen	4–1	3–2
Legia Warsaw	1–4	FC Moscow	1–2	0–2
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	4–4 (a)	Bellinzona	3–2	1–217
Interblock Ljubljana	0–3	Hertha BSC	0–218	0–119
Sūduva	2–4	Red Bull Salzburg	1–4	1–0
Northern region
Djurgården	2–6	Rosenborg	2–120	0–5
Queen of the South	2–4	Nordsjælland	1–2	1–2
Gent	2–5	Kalmar FF	2–1	0–4
Manchester City	1–1 (4–2 p)	Midtjylland	0–1	1–0 (aet)
Honka	2–1	Viking	0–0	2–1
Haka	0–6	Brøndby	0–4	0–2
Stabæk	2–3	Rennes	2–1	0–2
Copenhagen	7–3	Lillestrøm	3–1	4–2
Elfsborg	3–4	St Patrick's Athletic	2–2	1–2
FH	2–521	Aston Villa	1–4	1–1

• Template:Fnb Played at Fortress Stadium in Smederevo as Borac Čačak's home ground did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Template:Fnb Order of legs reversed due to APOEL playing the same day at Omonia's stadium
• Template:Fnb The return leg was played in AFG Arena, St. Gallen as Grasshoppers' home ground, the Letzigrund is occupied by a Golden League athletics meet the following day.^[14]
• Template:Fnb Due to the current conflict in Georgia and the ensuing safety concerns, UEFA ordered the first leg to be cancelled. The match was held as a single leg tie in Vienna.^[15]
• Template:Fnb Played at Stadio Cornaredo in Lugano as Stadio Comunale in Bellinzona did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Template:Fnb Played at Petrol Arena in Celje as Interblock's home ground in Ljubljana did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Template:Fnb Played at Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark because Hertha BSC's usual home ground, Olympiastadion, was occupied with a Madonna concert.
• Template:Fnb Played at Råsunda Stadium as Djurgården's home ground did not meet UEFA criteria.
• Template:Fnb Order of legs reversed at the request of both clubs.^[16]

In each region of the draw for the second qualifying round, teams were divided into two pots, on the basis of UEFA coefficients. The higher pots contained teams with a ranking of 176 or higher, and unranked teams from associations ranked 1 to 15 (or 17 in the Southern-Mediterranean region).

12 of the 32 ties were won by the lower-ranked team. The 12 teams that lost to a lower team were: AEK Athens, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Aris Thessaloniki, Red Star Belgrade, Grasshopper, Slovan Liberec, Viking, Lokomotiv Sofia, Elfsborg, Gent, Queen of the South and Debrecen. St Patrick's Athletic were the only team to beat a higher-seeded team in each of the two qualifying rounds.

32 teams entered the tournament at the first round, along with the 32 winners from the previous round and the 16 losers from the Champions League third qualifying round. The 80 teams were then split into eight groups of 10 teams; five seeded teams and five unseeded teams. The draw was based on their coefficient ranking with one exception: no country can have multiple teams in any group. Teams ranked 108 or higher were seeded, as were unranked teams from England and Spain.

The draw, which was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor, was held on Friday, 29 August 2008 at 13:00 CET in Monaco. The matches were played on 18 September and 2 October 2008.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Group 1
Milan	4–1	FC Zürich	3–1	1–0
Timişoara	1–3	Partizan	1–2	0–1
Hertha BSC	2–0	St Patrick's Athletic	2–0	0–0
Baník Ostrava	1–2	Spartak Moscow	0–1	1–1
Beşiktaş	2–422	Metalist Kharkiv	1–0	1–4
Group 2
Portsmouth	4–2	Vitória Guimarães	2–0	2–2 (aet)
Kayserispor	1–2	Paris Saint-Germain	1–2	0–0
Sevilla	4–0	Red Bull Salzburg	2–0	2–0
Wolfsburg	2–1	Rapid Bucureşti	1–0	1–1
Sampdoria	7–1	Kaunas	5–0	2–1
Group 3
Marítimo	1–3	Valencia	0–1	1–2
Dinamo Zagreb	(a) 3–3	Sparta Prague	0–0	3–3
Omonia	2–423	Manchester City	1–2	1–2
Young Boys	2–4	Club Brugge	2–2	0–2
Nancy	3–0	Motherwell	1–0	2–0
Group 4
Everton	3–4	Standard Liège	2–2	1–2
Napoli	3–4	Benfica	3–2	0–2
Bellinzona	4–6	Galatasaray	3–4	1–2
NEC	1–0	Dinamo Bucureşti	1–0	0–0
Racing Santander	2–0	Honka	1–0	1–0
Group 5
APOEL	2–5	Schalke 04	1–4	1–1
Litex Lovech	2–4	Aston Villa	1–3	1–1
Austria Wien	4–5	Lech Poznań	2–1	2–4 (aet)
Vitória Setúbal	3–6	Heerenveen	1–124	2–5
Brann	2–2 (2–3 p)	Deportivo	2–0	0–2 (aet)
Group 6
Slavia Prague	(a) 1–1	Vaslui	0–0	1–1
Slaven Belupo	1–3	CSKA Moscow	1–2	0–1
Brøndby	3–5	Rosenborg	1–2	2–3
Cherno More	3–4	Stuttgart	1–2	2–2
Rennes	2–2 (a)	Twente	2–1	0–1
Group 7
Borac Čačak	1–622	Ajax	1–4	0–2
Tottenham Hotspur	3–2	Wisła Kraków	2–1	1–1
FC Moscow	2–325	Copenhagen	1–2	1–1
Žilina	2–1	Levski Sofia	1–1	1–0
Borussia Dortmund	2–2 (3–4 p)	Udinese	0–2	2–0 (aet)
Group 8
Braga	6–0	Artmedia Petržalka	4–0	2–0
Feyenoord	(a) 2–2	Kalmar FF	0–1	2–126
Hamburg	2–0	Unirea Urziceni	0–0	2–0
Hapoel Tel Aviv	2–4	Saint-Étienne	1–2	1–2
Nordsjælland	0–7	Olympiacos	0–2	0–5

• Template:Fnb Order of legs reversed.
• Template:Fnb Order of legs reversed due to AC Omonia's ground-share fixture congestion.
• Template:Fnb Played at Alvalade XXI, since Vitória FC's homeground at Setubal does not meet UEFA criteria
• Template:Fnb Order of legs reversed due to Spartak Moscow playing the same day in Moscow.
• Template:Fnb Played at Borås Arena as Kalmar FF's home ground did not meet UEFA criteria.

Nine of the 40 ties were won by the unseeded team. The nine seeded losing teams, with their ranking, were: Everton (50), Rapid Bucureşti (58), Beşiktaş (60), Sparta Prague (68), Dinamo Bucureşti (69), Levski Sofia (80), Austria Wien (82), Rennes (97) and Hapoel Tel Aviv (108).

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.^[17]

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;
2. higher number of goals scored;
3. higher number of goals scored away;
4. higher number of wins;
5. higher number of away wins;
6. higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

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 23 October 2008 Twente 1–0 Racing Santander Schalke 04 3–1 Paris Saint-Germain 6 November 2008 Racing Santander 1–1 Schalke 04 Manchester City 3–2 Twente 27 November 2008 Paris Saint-Germain 2–2 Racing Santander Schalke 04 0–2 Manchester City 3 December 2008 Manchester City 0–0 Paris Saint-Germain Twente 2–1 Schalke 04 18 December 2008 Paris Saint-Germain 4–0 Twente Racing Santander 3–1 Manchester City

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 23 October 2008 Hertha BSC 1–1 Benfica Galatasaray 1–0 Olympiacos 6 November 2008 Benfica 0–2 Galatasaray Metalist Kharkiv 0–0 Hertha BSC 27 November 2008 Olympiacos 5–1 Benfica Galatasaray 0–1 Metalist Kharkiv 3 December 2008 Metalist Kharkiv 1–0 Olympiacos Hertha BSC 0–1 Galatasaray 18 December 2008 Olympiacos 4–0 Hertha BSC Benfica 0–1 Metalist Kharkiv

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 23 October 2008 Sevilla 2–0 Stuttgart Partizan 1–2 Sampdoria 6 November 2008 Stuttgart 2–0 Partizan Standard Liège 1–0 Sevilla 27 November 2008 Sampdoria 1–1 Stuttgart Partizan 0–1 Standard Liège 3 December 2008 Standard Liège 3–0 Sampdoria Sevilla 3–0 Partizan 18 December 2008 Sampdoria 1–0 Sevilla Stuttgart 3–0 Standard Liège

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 23 October 2008 Udinese 2–0 Tottenham Hotspur Dinamo Zagreb 3–2 NEC 6 November 2008 Tottenham Hotspur 4–0 Dinamo Zagreb Spartak Moscow 1–2 Udinese 27 November 2008 NEC 0–1 Tottenham Hotspur Dinamo Zagreb 0–1 Spartak Moscow 3 December 2008 Spartak Moscow 1–2 NEC Udinese 2–1 Dinamo Zagreb 18 December 2008 NEC 2–0 Udinese Tottenham Hotspur 2–2 Spartak Moscow

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 23 October 2008 Heerenveen 1–3 Milan Braga 3–0 Portsmouth 6 November 2008 Milan 1–0 Braga Wolfsburg 5–1 Heerenveen 27 November 2008 Portsmouth 2–2 Milan Braga 2–3 Wolfsburg 4 December 2008 Wolfsburg 3–2 Portsmouth Heerenveen 1–2 Braga 17 December 2008 Portsmouth 3–0 Heerenveen Milan 2–2 Wolfsburg

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 23 October 2008 Aston Villa 2–1 Ajax Žilina 1–2 Hamburg 6 November 2008 Ajax 1–0 Žilina Slavia Prague 0–1 Aston Villa 27 November 2008 Hamburg 0–1 Ajax Žilina 0–0 Slavia Prague 4 December 2008 Slavia Prague 0–2 Hamburg Aston Villa 1–2 Žilina 17 December 2008 Hamburg 3–1 Aston Villa Ajax 2–2 Slavia Prague

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 23 October 2008 Copenhagen 1–3 Saint-Étienne Rosenborg 0–0 Club Brugge 6 November 2008 Saint-Étienne 3–0 Rosenborg Valencia 1–1 Copenhagen 27 November 2008 Club Brugge 1–1 Saint-Étienne Rosenborg 0–4 Valencia 4 December 2008 Valencia 1–1 Club Brugge Copenhagen 1–1 Rosenborg 17 December 2008 Club Brugge 0–1 Copenhagen Saint-Étienne 2–2 Valencia

Group H Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts CSKA Moscow 4 4 0 0 12 5 +7 12 Deportivo 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 23 October 2008 Nancy 3–0 Feyenoord CSKA Moscow 3–0 Deportivo 6 November 2008 Feyenoord 1–3 CSKA Moscow Lech Poznań 2–2 Nancy 27 November 2008 Deportivo 3–0 Feyenoord CSKA Moscow 2–1 Lech Poznań 4 December 2008 Lech Poznań 1–1 Deportivo Nancy 3–4 CSKA Moscow 17 December 2008 Deportivo 1–0 Nancy Feyenoord 0–1 Lech Poznań

All of the rounds in the final phase are two-legged, except for the final. In the event of aggregate scores being equal after normal time in the second leg, the winning team will be that which scored more goals on their away leg: if the scores in the two matches were identical, extra time is played. The away goals rule also applies if scores are equal at the end of extra time. If there are no goals scored in extra time, the tie is decided on a penalty shoot out. The team first out of the hat in each tie plays the first leg of their tie at home, and the second leg away.

The draw for the Round of 32 was both held on Friday, 19 December 2008 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor, Giorgio Marchetti, UEFA's director of professional football and 2009 UEFA Cup Final ambassador Can Bartu. In this round, each UEFA Cup group winner paired with the third-placed team from another UEFA Cup group and each UEFA Cup group runner-up paired with a third-placed team from the UEFA Champions League, with the only restriction on the draw being that teams from the same national association could not be drawn together. The UEFA Cup group winners and runners-up each played the second leg of their Round of 32 ties at home.^[18]

The draw for the Round of 16 also took place on 19 December 2008, immediately after the draw for the Round of 32. Each tie in the Round of 32 was numbered and teams were drawn for the Round of 16 as "Winners of match 1", "Winners of match 2", etc. Unlike the Round of 32, teams from the same group or country may be drawn together from the Round of 16 onwards, meaning that they were entirely random draw.

The draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were both held on Friday, 20 March 2009 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by David Taylor and Can Bartu.

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The first legs were played on 18 February and 19 February, while the second leg matches were played on 26 February 2009.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Paris Saint-Germain	5–1	Wolfsburg	2–0	3–1
Copenhagen	3–4	Manchester City	2–2	1–2
NEC	0–4	Hamburg	0–3	0–1
Sampdoria	0–3	Metalist Kharkiv	0–1	0–2
Braga	4–1	Standard Liège	3–0	1–1
Aston Villa	1–3	CSKA Moscow	1–1	0–2
Lech Poznań	3–4	Udinese	2–2	1–2
Olympiacos	2–5	Saint-Étienne	1–3	1–2
Fiorentina	1–2	Ajax	0–1	1–1
Aalborg BK	6–1	Deportivo	3–0	3–1
Werder Bremen	(a) 3–3	Milan	1–1	2–2
Bordeaux	3–4	Galatasaray	0–0	3–4
Dynamo Kyiv	(a) 3–3	Valencia	1–1	2–2
Zenit St. Petersburg	4–2	Stuttgart	2–1	2–1
Marseille	1–1 (7–6 p)	Twente	0–1	1–0 (aet)
Shakhtar Donetsk	3–1	Tottenham Hotspur	2–0	1–1

Manchester City were the only team from the first qualifying round to reach the Round of 16. Braga were the only team from the Intertoto Cup to reach the Round of 16 and were therefore awarded the title of Intertoto Cup winners.

Of the eight teams who had been placed in Pot 5 of the group stage draw, only Metalist Kharkiv and Saint-Étienne reached the Round of 16. Of the eight teams that entered the Round of the 32 from the UEFA Champions League group stage, two lost: Fiorentina and Bordeaux. Of the eight ties between a third-placed team and a first-placed team from the UEFA Cup group stage, two were won by the third-placed team; the winners were Braga and Paris Saint-Germain.

The first leg matches were played on 12 March, while the second leg matches were played on 18 March and 19 March 2009.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Werder Bremen	3–2	Saint-Étienne	1–0	2–2
CSKA Moscow	1–2	Shakhtar Donetsk	1–0	0–2
Udinese	2–1	Zenit St. Petersburg	2–0	0–1
Paris Saint-Germain	1–0	Braga	0–0	1–0
Dynamo Kyiv	(a) 3–3	Metalist Kharkiv	1–0	2–3
Manchester City	2–2 (4–3 p)	Aalborg BK	2–0	0–2 (aet)
Marseille	4–3	Ajax	2–1	2–2 (aet)
Hamburg	4–3	Galatasaray	1–1	3–2

The first legs were played on 9 April and the second legs were played on 16 April.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Hamburg	4–3	Manchester City	3–1	1–2
Paris Saint-Germain	0–3	Dynamo Kyiv	0–0	0–3
Shakhtar Donetsk	4–1	Marseille	2–0	2–1
Werder Bremen	6–4	Udinese	3–1	3–3

The first legs were played on 30 April and the second legs on 7 May.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Werder Bremen	(a) 3–3	Hamburg	0–1	3–2
Dynamo Kyiv	2–3	Shakhtar Donetsk	1–1	1–2

The final of the UEFA Cup 2008–09 was held on 20 May 2009 at the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey. This was the first time that the UEFA Cup Final had been held in Turkey and followed the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final, which was held in Istanbul's Atatürk Olympic Stadium.

20 May 2009

20:45

Shakhtar Donetsk	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Werder Bremen
Luiz Adriano 25' Jádson 97'	Report	Naldo 35'

Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 37,357

Referee: Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain)

UEFA Cup 2008–09 Winner
Shakhtar Donetsk First Title

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Vágner Love	CSKA Moscow	11
2	Ivica Olić	Hamburg	9
3	Fabio Quagliarella	Udinese	8
4	Diego	Werder Bremen	6
	Mario Gómez	Stuttgart	6
	Luis Bernardo Aguiar	Braga	6
	Péguy Luyindula	Paris Saint-Germain	6
8	Milan Baroš	Galatasaray	5
	Diogo Luis Santo	Olympiacos	5
	Ilan	Saint-Étienne	5
	Albert Meyong	Braga	5
	Mladen Petrić	Hamburg	5
	Claudio Pizarro	Werder Bremen	5
	Hernán Rengifo	Lech Poznań	5
	Luis Suárez	Ajax	5

Source: Hammond, Mike, ed (2009). The European Football Yearbook 2009/10. London: Carlton Books. ISBN 978-1-84732-360-6.

• 2008–09 UEFA Champions League
• 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup
• 2009 UEFA Super Cup

• UEFA Cup website

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