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2003–04 UEFA Cup
33rd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 2003–04 UEFA Cup was won by Valencia in the final against Marseille. It wrapped up a league and UEFA Cup double for Valencia.
Porto could not defend their title as they automatically qualified for the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League and also went on to win the final for their second European Cup title.
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Association team allocation
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A total of 145 teams from 51 of 52 UEFA member associations participated in the 2003–04 UEFA Cup (the exception being Azerbaijan which was suspended). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[1]
- Associations 1–6 and 16–21 each had three teams qualify.
- Associations 7–8 each had four teams qualify.
- Associations 9–15 and 22–52 (except Azerbaijan, Liechtenstein, Andorra and San Marino) each had two teams qualify.
- Liechtenstein (as they organized only a domestic cup and no domestic league), Andorra and San Marino had only one team that qualified.
Moreover, the following teams also qualified for the competition:
- 24 teams eliminated from the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League were transferred to the UEFA Cup.
- 3 teams advancing from the 2003 UEFA Intertoto Cup were transferred to the UEFA Cup.
- 3 associations had one additional team qualify via the UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking.
Association ranking
For the 2003–04 UEFA Cup, the associations were allocated places according to their 2002 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 1997–98 to 2001–02.[2]
Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the UEFA Cup, as noted below:
- (UCL) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
- (IC) – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Intertoto Cup
- (FP) – Additional berth via Fair Play ranking
Distribution
The following was the access list for this season.[3]
Due to the UEFA Cup title holder (Porto) qualifying for the Champions League via their domestic league, the following changes to the access list were made:
- The cup winners of association 15 and 16 (Austria and Switzerland) entered the UEFA Cup first round instead of the qualifying round.
Due to the suspension of Azerbaijan, the following changes to the access list were made:
- The cup winners of association 17 and 18 (Norway and Israel) entered the UEFA Cup first round instead of the qualifying round.
Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:[4]
- CW: Cup winners
- CR: Cup runners-up
- LC: League Cup winners
- Nth: League position
- PO: End-of-season European competition play-offs (winners or position)
- IC: Intertoto Cup
- FP: Fair play
- CL: Relegated from the Champions League
- GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
- Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
- Notes
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Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition was as follows.[6]
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Qualifying round
The first legs were played on 12, 13 and 14 August, and the second legs were played on 27 and 28 August 2003.
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First round
The first round featured the 41 winners of the qualifying round, joined by 36 directly qualified teams, the 16 losers of the Champions League third qualifying round and the 3 winners for the Intertoto Cup. The first legs were played on 24 and 25 September, and the second legs were played on 15 and 16 October 2003.
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Second round
The second round featured the 41 winners of the first round. The first legs were played on 29 October and 6 November, and the second legs were played on 27 November and 11 December 2003.
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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:[1]
- 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
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Third round
The draw for the third round was held on 12 December 2003, 13:00 CET.[7] The first legs were played on 26 February, and the second legs were played on 3 March 2004.[8]
Fourth round
The draw for the fourth round was held on 4 March 2004, 14:00 CET.[9] The first legs were played on 11 March, and the second legs were played on 25 March 2004.
Quarter-finals
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 4 March 2004, 14:00 CET, immediately after the fourth round draw.[9] The first legs were played on 8 April, and the second legs were played on 14 April 2004.
Semi-finals
The draw for the semi-finals was held on 4 March 2004, 14:00 CET, immediately after the fourth round and quarter-final draws.[9] The first legs were played on 22 April, and the second legs were played on 6 May 2004.
Final
The final was played on 19 May 2004 at the Ullevi in Gothenburg, Sweden. A draw was held on 4 March 2004 (after the fourth round, quarter-final and semi-final draws) to determine the "home" team for administrative purposes.[9]
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