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1999–2000 UEFA Cup

29th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1999–2000 UEFA Cup
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The 1999–2000 UEFA Cup season was the 29th edition of the UEFA Cup competition. The final took place at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen and was won by Galatasaray, who defeated Arsenal in the final. The game was scoreless through the first ninety minutes and stayed that way through thirty minutes of extra time. The match went on to penalty kicks in which Gheorghe Popescu scored the winning goal to win the cup. Galatasaray won the cup without losing a single game. The competition was marred by violence involving Turkish and English hooligans in the semi-finals and the final, in particular the fatal stabbings of Leeds United fans Kevin Speight and Christopher Loftus by Galatasaray fans in Istanbul.[1]

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Parma were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Werder Bremen in the fourth round. They entered in the first round due to elimination in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League.

It was the first season of the new format UEFA Cup; it had absorbed the now defunct Cup Winners' Cup to include domestic cup winners, and now featured an additional knockout round. This was the first year when the UEFA Cup winners qualified for the UEFA Super Cup. This season's champions also qualified for the 2001 FIFA Club World Championship, which was never held. So far, Galatasaray are the only UEFA Cup winners to qualify for a Club World Cup.

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Association team allocation

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A total of 142 teams from 49 UEFA associations participated in the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup. Associations are allocated places according to their 1999–2000 UEFA league coefficient.

Below is the qualification scheme for the 1999–00 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 22–50 each enter two teams, with the exception of Bosnia who didn't have a domestic league winner, as well as Liechtenstein and Andorra who enter with only one team each
  • 3 winners of the Intertoto Cup
  • 16 teams eliminated from the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round are transferred to the UEFA Cup
  • 8 teams eliminated from the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League first group stage are transferred to the UEFA Cup

Association ranking

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Notes
  • (UCL): Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
  • (IT): Additional teams from Intertoto Cup

Distribution

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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, UEFA forgot to establish a rule, so each association decided how to assign this place.
  • 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:

  • TH: Title holders
  • CW: Cup winners
  • CR: Cup runners-up
  • LC: League Cup winners
  • Nth: League position
  • PO: End-of-season European competition play-off winners
  • FP: Fair play
  • IT: Intertoto Cup winners
  • CL: Relegated from the Champions League
    • GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
    • Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
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Notes
  1. ^
    Poland (POL): Polish club Wisła Kraków was banned from European competitions by UEFA. As a result, league runners-up Widzew Łódź were promoted to Champions League, while fourth-placed Lech Poznań were awarded UEFA Cup spot.[2]
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    FR Yugoslavia (YUG): League runners-up Obilić were excluded from the UEFA competitions because the club owner Arkan was charged with war crimes. Their place was given to fourth-placed Vojvodina.[2]
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    Estonia (EST): 1998 Meistriliiga runners-up Tallinna Sadam merged into Levadia Maardu (who also won the Cup) after the season. Sadam's UEFA Cup spot was given to third-placed Lantana.[3]
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Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition was as follows.[4] Matches were 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.

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Qualifying round

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  1. Order of legs reversed[5]

First round

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Second round

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Final phase

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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 roundFourth roundQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
Netherlands Ajax000
Spain Mallorca123 Spain Mallorca404
Greece AEK Athens202France Monaco112
France Monaco213 Spain Mallorca112
Scotland Rangers202 (1)Turkey Galatasaray426
Germany Borussia Dortmund (p)022 (3) Germany Borussia Dortmund000
Italy Bologna112Turkey Galatasaray202
Turkey Galatasaray123 Turkey Galatasaray224
Italy Roma101England Leeds United022
England Newcastle United000 Italy Roma000
Russia Spartak Moscow202England Leeds United011
England Leeds United (a)112 England Leeds United314
Czech Republic Slavia Prague415Czech Republic Slavia Prague022
Romania Steaua București112 Czech Republic Slavia Prague (a)112
Italy Udinese (a)022Italy Udinese022 17 May – Copenhagen
Germany Bayer Leverkusen112 Turkey Galatasaray (p)0 (4)
England Arsenal336England Arsenal0 (1)
France Nantes033 England Arsenal516
Spain Deportivo La Coruña415Spain Deportivo La Coruña123
Greece Panathinaikos213 England Arsenal246
Italy Parma (a.e.t.)235Germany Werder Bremen022
Austria Sturm Graz134 Italy Parma112
France Lyon303Germany Werder Bremen033
Germany Werder Bremen044 England Arsenal123
Greece Olympiacos123France Lens011
Italy Juventus314 Italy Juventus101
Spain Celta Vigo718Spain Celta Vigo044
Portugal Benfica011 Spain Celta Vigo011
Germany VfL Wolfsburg213France Lens022
Spain Atlético Madrid325 Spain Atlético Madrid224
France Lens145France Lens246
Germany 1. FC Kaiserslautern213

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Fourth round

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

The final was played on 17 May 2000 at the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Top goalscorers

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