1999–2000 UEFA Cup

1999–2000 UEFA Cup
	Parken Stadium, Østerbro hosted the final.
Dates	10 August 1999 – 17 May 2000
Final positions
Champions	Galatasaray (1st title)
Runners-up	Arsenal
Tournament statistics
Matches played	205
Goals scored	564 (2.75 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Darko Kovačević (10 goals)
	← 1998–99 2000–01 →

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]

Parma were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Werder Bremen in the fourth round. This team entered in 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 champions to qualify for a Club World Cup.

Association team allocation[]

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 2000–01 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 no enter teams, Liechtenstein and Andorra who enter 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[]

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
1	Italy	59.640	3	+1(UCL) +1(IT)
2	Germany	49.932		+2(UCL)
3	Spain	48.580		+1(UCL)
4	France	41.433		+1(UCL) +1(IT)
5	Netherlands	35.916
6	England	35.566		+1(UCL) +1(IT)
7	Portugal	31.266	4
8	Greece	28.750	4	+2(UCL)
9	Czech Republic	28.166	2	+1(UCL)
10	Norway	27.449		+1(FP)
11	Austria	27.250		+2(UCL)
12	Russia	26.866		+1(UCL)
13	Croatia	26.166
14	Turkey	25.650		+1(UCL)
15	Denmark	24.200		+2(UCL)
16	Switzerland	22.250	3	+1(UCL)
17	Ukraine	22.082
18	Poland	22.000		+1(UCL)

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
19	Hungary	21.083	3	+1(UCL)
20	Belgium	21.000
21	Slovakia	20.999
22	Romania	20.750	2
23	Sweden	20.600
24	Georgia	20.333
25	Cyprus	20.332		+1(UCL)
26	Scotland	19.500		+1(UCL) +1(FP)
27	Israel	16.749		+1(UCL)
28	Slovenia	15.998
29	Belarus	14.833
30	Iceland	13.666
31	Finland	13.415
32	Latvia	11.498		+1(UCL)
33	Bulgaria	10.499
34	Macedonia	8.666
35	Lithuania	7.333
36	Yugoslavia	7.083		+1(UCL)
37	Moldova	6.333		+1(UCL)

Rank	Association	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
38	Liechtenstein	5.000	1
39	Estonia	4.999	2	+1(FP)
40	Armenia	4.832
41	Northern Ireland	4.665
42	Malta	4.664
43	Wales	3.999
44	Republic of Ireland	3.998
45	Faroe Islands	2.833
46	Albania	2.666
47	Luxembourg	2.333
48	Azerbaijan	1.833
49	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.000	0
50	Andorra	0.000	1

Notes

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

Distribution[]

	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round	Teams transferred from Champions League
Qualifying round (76 teams)	76 teams from associations 9–50
First round (96 teams)	39 teams from associations 1–21 3 teams from the Intertoto Cup	38 winners from the qualifying round	16 losing teams from Champions League qualifying
Second round (48 teams)		48 winners from the first round
Third round (32 teams)		24 winners from the second round	8 third placed teams from the Champions League first group stage
Fourth round (16 teams)		16 winners from the third round
Play offs (8 teams)		8 winners from the fourth round play the quarter finals, semi finals and final

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

Third round
Bayer Leverkusen (CL GS)	Arsenal (CL GS)	Sturm Graz (CL GS)	Galatasaray (CL GS)
Borussia Dortmund (CL GS)	Olympiacos (CL GS)	Spartak Moscow (CL GS)	Rangers (CL GS)
First round
Roma (5th)	Leeds United (4th)	Osijek (CW)	Rapid Wien (CL Q3)
Udinese (6th)	Tottenham Hotspur (LC)	Fenerbahçe (3rd)	AaB (CL Q3)
Bologna (PO)	Newcastle United (CR)	Akademisk Boldklub (CW)	Brøndby (CL Q3)
Werder Bremen (CW)	Beira-Mar (CW)	Lausanne ()	Servette (CL Q3)
Kaiserslautern (5th)	Benfica (3rd)	Karpaty Lviv (CR)	Widzew Łódź (CL Q3)
Wolfsburg (6th)	Sporting CP (4th)	Amica Wronki ()	MTK Hungária (CL Q3)
Celta de Vigo (5th)	Vitória Setúbal (5th)	Debrecen (CW)	Anorthosis (CL Q3)
Deportivo La Coruña (6th)	Panathinaikos (3rd)	Lierse (CW)	Hapoel Haifa (CL Q3)
Atlético Madrid (CR)	PAOK (4th)	Dukla Banská Bystrica (CR)	Skonto (CL Q3)
Nantes (CW)	Ionikos (5th)	Parma^TH (CL Q3)	Partizan (CL Q3)
Monaco (4th)	Aris (6th)	Mallorca (CL Q3)	Zimbru Chişinău (CL Q3)
Lens ()	Slavia Prague (CW)	Lyon (CL Q3)	Juventus (IC)
Ajax (CW)	Stabæk (CW)	AEK Athens (CL Q3)	Montpellier (IC)
Vitesse (4th)	LASK Linz (CR)	Teplice (CL Q3)	West Ham United (IC)
Roda (5th)	Zenit Saint Petersburg (CW)
Qualifying round
Sigma Olomouc (4th)	Steaua București (CW)	VPS (2nd)	Linfield (2nd)
Viking (4th)	Dinamo București (2nd)	FK Rīga ()	Birkirkara (2nd)
Grazer AK (3rd)	Helsingborg (2nd)	Liepājas Metalurgs (2nd)	Sliema Wanderers (3rd)
Lokomotiv Moscow (3rd)	Göteborg ()	CSKA Sofia (CW)	Inter Cardiff ()
Hajduk Split (3rd)	Torpedo Kutaisi (CW)	Levski Sofia (2nd)	Cwmbrân Town (2nd)
Ankaragücü ()	Locomotive Tbilisi (3rd)	Vardar (CW)	Bray Wanderers ()
Lyngby (4th)	APOEL (CW)	Sileks (2nd)	Cork City (2nd)
Grasshopper (2nd)	Omonia (2nd)	Kareda Šiauliai (2nd)	KÍ Klaksvík ()
Zürich (4th)	Celtic (2nd)	FBK Kaunas ()	B36 Tórshavn (3rd)
Shakhtar Donetsk (2nd)	St Johnstone (3rd)	Red Star Belgrade (CW)	Vllaznia (2nd)
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (3rd)	Hapoel Tel Aviv (CW)	Vojvodina (4th)^{[Note FRY]}	Bylis (3rd)
Legia Warsaw (3rd)	Maccabi Tel Aviv (2nd)	Sheriff Tiraspol ()	F91 Dudelange (2nd)
Lech Poznań (4th)^{[Note POL]}	Gorica (2nd)	Constructorul Chişinău (2nd)	Mondercange ()
Ferencváros (2nd)	Olimpija Ljubljana (CR)	Vaduz (CW)	Neftchi Baku ()
Újpest (3rd)	Belshina Bobruisk (CW)	Levadia Maardu ()^{[Note EST]}	Shamkir (2nd)
Club Brugge (2nd)	BATE Borisov (2nd)	Lantana Tallinn (3rd)^{[Note EST]}	Principat (1st)
Anderlecht (3rd)	KR Reykjavík (2nd)	Shirak (2nd)	Bodø/Glimt (FP)
Inter Bratislava (2nd)	Leiftur ()	Yerevan (3rd)	Kilmarnock (FP)
Spartak Trnava (3rd)	HJK Helsinki (CW)	Portadown (CW)	Viljandi Tulevik (FP)

Notes

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Poland (POL): Polish champions Wisła Kraków were banned from European competitions by UEFA. As a result, league runners-up Widzew Łódź were promoted to Champions League, while 4th-placed Lech Poznań were awarded UEFA Cup spot.^[2]
^
FR Yugoslavia (FRY): League runners-up Obilić were excluded from the UEFA competitions because was the club owner Arkan charged with war crimes. Their place was given to 4th-placed Vojvodina.^[2]
^
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 3rd-placed Lantana Tallinn.^[3]

Qualifying round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Shakhtar Donetsk	4–3	Sileks Kratovo	3–1	1–2
HJK Helsinki	2–1	Shirak	2–0	0–1
Locomotive Tbilisi	2–1	Linfield	1–0	1–1
Sheriff Tiraspol	1–1 (a)	Sigma Olomouc	1–1	0–0
Yerevan	1–4	Hapoel Tel Aviv	0–2	1–2
Neftchi	2–4	Red Star Belgrade	2–3	0–1
Vllaznia	1–3	Spartak Trnava	1–1	0–2
BATE Borisov	1–12	Lokomotiv Moscow	1–7	0–5
Lantana	2–9	Torpedo Kutaisi	0–5	2–4
Liepājas Metalurgs	4–5	Lech Poznań	3–2	1–3
Gorica	2–1	Inter Cardiff	2–0	0–1
Vojvodina	5–1	Újpest FC	4–0	1–1
Viljandi Tulevik	0–5	Club Brugge	0–3	0–2
Belshina Bobruisk	1–8	Omonia	1–5	0–3
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	5–0	Shamkir	3–0	2–0
KÍ Klaksvík	0–9	Grazer AK	0–5	0–4
Riga	0–5	Helsingborg	0–0	0–5
VPS	1–3	St Johnstone	1–1	0–2
Inter Bratislava	5–1	Bylis	3–1	2–0
Bodø/Glimt	3–1	Vaduz	1–0	2–1
Viking	18–0	Principat	7–0	11–0
Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.	4–3	FBK Kaunas	3–1	1–2
Steaua București	7–1	Levadia	3–0	4–1
Lyngby BK	7–0	Birkirkara	7–0	0–0
Ankaragücü	2–0	B36 Tórshavn	1–0	1–0
Sliema Wanderers	0–4	Zürich	0–3	0–1
Grasshopper Club Zürich	8–0	Bray Wanderers	4–0	4–0
IFK Göteborg	3–1	Cork City	3–0	0–1
Mondercange	2–13	Dinamo București	2–6	0–7
Vardar	0–9	Legia Warszawa	0–5	0–4
APOEL	0–2	Levski Sofia	0–0	0–2
Anderlecht	9–1	Leiftur Ólafsfjörður	6–1	3–0
Olimpija Ljubljana	3–3 (a)	Kareda Šiauliai	1–1	2–2
Hajduk Split	6–1	F91 Dudelange	5–0	1–1
Cwmbran Town	0–10	Celtic	0–6	0–4
Portadown	0–8	CSKA Sofia	0–3	0–5
Ferencváros	4–2	Constructorul Chişinău	3–1	1–1
KR Reykjavík	1–2	Kilmarnock	1–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)

First round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Steaua București	5–2	LASK Linz	2–0	3–2
Wolfsburg	3–2	Debrecen	2–0	1–2
Red Star Belgrade	2–3	Montpellier	0–1	2–2
Udinese	3–1	Aalborg	1–0	2–1
Stabæk	1–2	Deportivo La Coruña	1–0	0–2
Partizan	1–4	Leeds United	1–3	0–1
HJK Helsinki	1–6	Lyon	0–1	1–5
Atlético Madrid	3–1	Ankaragücü	3–0	0–1
MTK Hungária	2–0	Fenerbahçe	0–0	2–0
Anderlecht	6–1	Olimpija Ljubljana	3–1	3–0
Roda JC	5–1	Shakhtar Donetsk	2–0	3–1
Bodø/Glimt	1–6	Werder Bremen	0–5	1–1
Viking	3–1	Sporting CP	3–0	0–1
Maccabi Tel Aviv	3–4	Lens	2–2	1–2
Kaiserslautern	5–0	Kilmarnock	3–0	2–0
Helsingborg	2–2 (4–2 p)	Karpaty Lviv	1–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Lech Poznań	1–2	Göteborg	1–2	0–0
Teplice	4–2	Ferencváros	3–1	1–1
CSKA Sofia	2–4	Newcastle United	0–2	2–2
Gorica	0–3	Panathinaikos	0–1	0–2
Amica Wronki	5–4	Brøndby	2–0	3–4
Beira-Mar	1–2	Vitesse	1–2	0–0
GAK	4–2	Spartak Trnava	3–0	1–2
Hajduk Split	0–3	Levski Sofia	0–0	0–3
Celtic	3–0	Hapoel Tel Aviv	2–0	1–0
Lausanne-Sports	3–6	Celta Vigo	3–2	0–4
Ionikos FC	1–4	Nantes	1–3	0–1
Aris	3–2	Servette	1–1	2–1 (a.e.t.)
Monaco	6–3	St Johnstone	3–0	3–3
Inter Bratislava	3–1	Rapid Wien	1–0	2–1
Lyngby	1–5	Lokomotiv Moscow	1–2	0–3
Skonto	1–2	Widzew Łódź	1–0	0–2
Roma	7–1	Vitória de Setúbal	7–0	0–1
Parma	6–2	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	3–2	3–0
Hapoel Haifa	5–5 (a)	Club Brugge	3–1	2–4
Torpedo Kutaisi	1–7	AEK Athens	0–1	1–6
Omonia	2–10	Juventus	2–5	0–5
West Ham United	6–1	Osijek	3–0	3–1
Vojvodina	2–3	Slavia Prague	0–0	2–3
Sigma Olomouc	1–3	Mallorca	1–3	0–0
Benfica	2–1	Dinamo București	0–1	2–0
Ajax	9–2	Dukla Banská Bystrica	6–1	3–1
Tottenham Hotspur	3–0	Zimbru Chişinău	3–0	0–0
Zenit Saint Petersburg	2–5	Bologna	0–3	2–2
Anorthosis	1–2	Legia Warsaw	1–0	0–2
Locomotive Tbilisi	0–9	PAOK	0–7	0–2
AB Copenhagen	1–3	Grasshopper	0–2	1–1
Zürich	5–3	Lierse	1–0	4–3

Second round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Aris	2–4	Celta Vigo	2–2	0–2
Udinese	2–1	Legia Warsaw	1–0	1–1
Deportivo La Coruña	5–1	Montpellier	3–1	2–0
Widzew Łódź	1–3	Monaco	1–1	0–2
MTK Hungária	2–2 (a)	AEK Athens	2–1	0–1
Roda	0–1	Wolfsburg	0–0	0–1
Anderlecht	2–4	Bologna	2–1	0–3
PAOK	3–3 (1–4 p)	Benfica	1–2	2–1 (a.e.t.)
Inter Bratislava	0–7	Nantes	0–3	0–4
Atlético Madrid	5–1	Amica Wronki	1–0	4–1
Parma	4–1	Helsingborg	1–0	3–1
Grazer AK	2–2 (a)	Panathinaikos	2–1	0–1
Steaua București	2–0	West Ham United	2–0	0–0
Levski Sofia	2–4	Juventus	1–3	1–1
Leeds United	7–1	Lokomotiv Moscow	4–1	3–0
Hapoel Haifa	1–3	Ajax	0–3	1–0
Slavia Prague	3–2	Grasshopper	3–1	0–1
Zürich	2–5	Newcastle United	1–2	1–3
Werder Bremen	2–2 (a)	Viking	0–0	2–2
Teplice	1–5	Mallorca	1–2	0–3
IFK Göteborg	0–3	Roma	0–2	0–1
Lyon	2–0	Celtic	1–0	1–0
Lens	5–2	Vitesse	4–1	1–1
Tottenham Hotspur	1–2	Kaiserslautern	1–0	0–2

Third round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ajax	0–3	Mallorca	0–1	0–2
AEK Athens	2–3	Monaco	2–2	0–1
Rangers	2–2 (1–3 p)	Borussia Dortmund	2–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Bologna	2–3	Galatasaray	1–1	1–2
Roma	1–0	Newcastle United	1–0	0–0
Spartak Moscow	2–2 (a)	Leeds United	2–1	0–1
Slavia Prague	5–2	Steaua București	4–1	1–1
Udinese	2–2 (a)	Bayer Leverkusen	0–1	2–1
Arsenal	6–3	Nantes	3–0	3–3
Deportivo La Coruña	5–3	Panathinaikos	4–2	1–1
Parma	5–4	Sturm Graz	2–1	3–3 (a.e.t.)
Lyon	3–4	Werder Bremen	3–0	0–4
Olympiacos	3–4	Juventus	1–3	2–1
Celta Vigo	8–1	Benfica	7–0	1–1
Wolfsburg	3–5	Atlético Madrid	2–3	1–2
Lens	5–3	Kaiserslautern	1–2	4–1

Fourth round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mallorca	4–2	Monaco	4–1	0–1
Borussia Dortmund	0–2	Galatasaray	0–2	0–0
Roma	0–1	Leeds United	0–0	0–1
Slavia Prague	2–2 (a)	Udinese	1–0	1–2
Arsenal	6–3	Deportivo La Coruña	5–1	1–2
Parma	2–3	Werder Bremen	1–0	1–3
Juventus	1–4	Celta Vigo	1–0	0–4
Atlético Madrid	4–6	Lens	2–2	2–4

First leg[]

29 February 2000

16:00

Slavia Prague	1–0	Udinese
Zanchi 79' (o.g.)	Report

Stadion Evžena Rošického, Prague

Attendance: 13,149

Referee: Karl-Erik Nilsson (Sweden)

29 February 2000