The group stage of the 2004–05 UEFA Cup is the second stage of the competition proper. Group stage matches began on 21 October 2004 and concluded on 16 December 2004. 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.

The group stage draw took place on 5 October 2004. The 40 teams were divided into five pots. Pot 1 comprised the top eight clubs in the team ranking. Pot 2 contained the following eight clubs in the rankings and likewise for Pots 3, 4 and 5. Each group contained one team from each pot. A team's seeding was determined by the UEFA coefficients.^[1][2]

Key to colours
Group winners, runners-up and third-placed teams advanced to round of 32

Pot 1 Team Coeff. Lazio 83.531 Parma 66.531 Feyenoord 65.247 Newcastle United 61.511 AEK Athens 51.467 VfB Stuttgart 47.331 Club Brugge 43.528 Rangers 42.600

Pot 2 Team Coeff. Villarreal 42.350 Auxerre 34.947 Schalke 04 34.331 Sporting CP 33.969 Zaragoza 33.350 Beşiktaş 32.656 Benfica 29.969 Lille 27.947

Pot 3 Team Coeff. Athletic Bilbao 26.350 Sevilla 26.350 Dinamo Zagreb 25.733 Basel 25.382 Sochaux 24.947 Middlesbrough 20.511 Utrecht 20.247 GAK 19.970

Pot 4 Team Coeff. Partizan 18.655 Steaua București 17.881 Heart of Midlothian 17.600 Heerenveen 17.247 Alemannia Aachen 16.331 Amica Wronki 16.176 Panionios 15.467 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 14.300

Pot 5 Team Coeff. Ferencváros 13.046 Standard Liège 12.528 Egaleo 11.467 AZ 11.247 Zenit Saint Petersburg 9.572 Beveren 9.528 Austria Wien 8.970 Dinamo Tbilisi 1.650

Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FEY	SCH	BSL	FER	HOM
1	Feyenoord	4	2	1	1	6	3	+3	7	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–1	—	—	3–0
2	Schalke 04	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2	7			—	—	1–1	2–0	—
3	Basel	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7			1–0	—	—	—	1–2
4	Ferencváros	4	1	1	2	3	5	−2	4			1–1	—	1–2	—	—
5	Heart of Midlothian	4	1	0	3	2	6	−4	3			—	0–1	—	0–1	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ATH	STE	PAR	BJK	STD
1	Athletic Bilbao	4	3	0	1	11	4	+7	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	2–0	—	—
2	Steaua București	4	2	0	2	4	3	+1	6			—	—	—	2–1	2–0
3	Parma	4	2	0	2	5	6	−1	6			—	1–0	—	3–2	—
4	Beşiktaş	4	1	1	2	7	7	0	4			3–1	—	—	—	1–1
5	Standard Liège	4	1	1	2	4	11	−7	4			1–7	—	2–1	—	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DNI	ZAR	AUS	BRU	UTR
1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	4	3	0	1	7	5	+2	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	—	1–0	3–2	—
2	Zaragoza	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2	7			2–1	—	—	—	2–0
3	Austria Wien	4	2	1	1	4	3	+1	7			—	1–0	—	1–1	—
4	Club Brugge	4	1	2	1	5	5	0	5			—	1–1	—	—	1–0
5	Utrecht	4	0	0	4	2	7	−5	0			1–2	—	1–2	—	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		NEW	SOC	SCP	PAN	DTB
1	Newcastle United	4	3	1	0	8	1	+7	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	—	1–1	—	2–0
2	Sochaux	4	3	0	1	4	4	0	9			0–4	—	—	1–0	—
3	Sporting CP	4	2	1	1	9	3	+6	7			—	0–1	—	4–1	—
4	Panionios	4	1	0	3	6	8	−2	3			0–1	—	—	—	5–2
5	Dinamo Tbilisi	4	0	0	4	2	13	−11	0			—	0–2	0–4	—	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MID	VIL	PTZ	LAZ	EGA
1	Middlesbrough	4	3	0	1	6	2	+4	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	—	3–0	2–0	—
2	Villarreal	4	2	2	0	8	2	+6	8			2–0	—	—	—	4–0
3	Partizan	4	1	2	1	7	6	+1	5			—	1–1	—	—	4–0
4	Lazio	4	0	3	1	5	7	−2	3			—	1–1	2–2	—	—
5	Egaleo	4	0	1	3	2	11	−9	1			0–1	—	—	2–2	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AZ	AUX	GAK	RAN	AMC
1	AZ	4	3	0	1	6	3	+3	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	—	1–0	—
2	Auxerre	4	2	1	1	7	3	+4	7			—	—	0–0	—	5–1
3	GAK	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7			2–0	—	—	—	3–1
4	Rangers	4	2	0	2	8	3	+5	6			—	0–2	3–0	—	—
5	Amica Wronki	4	0	0	4	3	16	−13	0			1–3	—	—	0–5	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		STU	BEN	HVN	DZ	BEV
1	VfB Stuttgart	4	3	0	1	10	3	+7	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–0	—	2–1	—
2	Benfica	4	3	0	1	9	5	+4	9			—	—	4–2	2–0	—
3	Heerenveen	4	2	1	1	6	6	0	7			1–0	—	—	—	1–0
4	Dinamo Zagreb	4	1	1	2	9	7	+2	4			—	—	2–2	—	6–1
5	Beveren	4	0	0	4	2	15	−13	0			1–5	0–3	—	—	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		LIL	SEV	AAC	ZEN	AEK
1	Lille	4	3	0	1	5	3	+2	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	—	2–1	—
2	Sevilla	4	2	1	1	6	4	+2	7			—	—	2–0	—	3–2
3	Alemannia Aachen	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7			1–0	—	—	2–2	—
4	Zenit Saint Petersburg	4	1	2	1	9	6	+3	5			—	1–1	—	—	5–1
5	AEK Athens	4	0	0	4	4	12	−8	0			1–2	—	0–2	—	—

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