2007–08 UEFA Cup

City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	20 September 2007 – 14 May 2008
Teams	80
Final positions
Champions	Zenit Saint Petersburg (1st title)
Runners-up	Rangers
Tournament statistics
Matches played	221
Goals scored	563 (2.55 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Pavel Pogrebnyak (Zenit Saint Petersburg) Luca Toni (Bayern Munich) 10 goals each
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The 2007–08 UEFA Cup was the 37th edition of the UEFA Cup, UEFA's former second-tier club football tournament. The final was played at the City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester, England on 14 May 2008 between Rangers of Scotland and Zenit Saint Petersburg of Russia. Zenit won the match 2–0, with goals from Igor Denisov and Konstantin Zyryanov, to claim their first UEFA Cup title. The first qualifying games were played on 19 July 2007 and the main tournament commenced on 20 September 2007. A total of 157 football clubs took part in the tournament (including its qualifying rounds).

Each European football nation is represented by a different number of its associate clubs, depending on the UEFA coefficients. Budućnost Podgorica and Rudar Pljevlja were the first teams from Montenegro to enter the competition.

The semi-final between Zenit and Bayern Munich was alleged to have been fixed. Both clubs denied the allegations, and the UEFA probe found no wrongdoing on either part.^[1][2][3]

Sevilla could not defend their title as they automatically qualified for the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League and also reached the knockout stage.

The tournament's top scorers were Pavel Pogrebnyak of Zenit Saint Petersburg and Luca Toni of Bayern Munich, each with 10 goals.^[4]

Round and draw dates

Date	Event
29 June 2007	Draw for first qualifying round
19 July 2007	First qualifying round, first leg
2 August 2007	First qualifying round, second leg
3 August 2007	Draw for second qualifying round
16 August 2007	Second qualifying round, first leg
30 August 2007	Second qualifying round, second leg
31 August 2007	Draw for first round
20 September 2007	First round, first leg
4 October 2007	First round, second leg
9 October 2007	Draw for group stage
25 October 2007	Group stage, 1st matchday
8 November 2007	Group stage, 2nd matchday
29 November 2007	Group stage, 3rd matchday
5 December / 6 December 2007	Group stage, 4th matchday
19 December / 20 December 2007	Group stage, 5th matchday
21 December 2007	Draw for Round of 32 and Round of 16
13 February / 14 February 2008	Round of 32, first leg
21 February 2008	Round of 32, second leg
6 March 2008	Round of 16, first leg
12 March / 13 March 2008	Round of 16, second leg
14 March 2008	Draw for remaining rounds
3 April 2008	Quarter-finals, first leg
10 April 2008	Quarter-finals, second leg
24 April 2008	Semi-finals, first leg
1 May 2008	Semi-finals, second leg
14 May 2008	Final in Manchester

Teams

Round of 32
Marseille (CL GS)	Sporting CP (CL GS)	PSV Eindhoven (CL GS)	Rosenborg (CL GS)
Werder Bremen (CL GS)	Benfica (CL GS)	Rangers (CL GS)	Slavia Prague (CL GS)
First round
Villarreal (5th)	Nürnberg (CW)	Aris (4th)	Dinamo București (CL Q3)
Zaragoza (6th)	Bayern Munich (4th)	Panionios (5th)	Anderlecht (CL Q3)
Getafe (CR)	Bayer Leverkusen (5th)	Lokomotiv Moscow (CW)	Sparta Prague (CL Q3)
Palermo (5th)	Braga (4th)	Rapid București (CW)	Zürich (CL Q3)
Fiorentina (6th)	Belenenses (5th)	Aberdeen (3rd)	Red Bull Salzburg (CL Q3)
Empoli (7th)	Paços de Ferreira (6th)	Club Brugge (CW)	Red Star Belgrade (CL Q3)
Tottenham Hotspur (5th)	AZ Alkmaar (PO)	Metalist Kharkiv (3rd)	Copenhagen (CL Q3)
Everton (6th)	Twente (PO)	Mladá Boleslav (3rd)	Dinamo Zagreb (CL Q3)
Bolton Wanderers (7th)	Heerenveen (PO)	Toulouse (CL Q3)	Elfsborg (CL Q3)
Sochaux (CW)	Groningen (PO)	Ajax (CL Q3)	Sarajevo (CL Q3)
Rennes (4th)	AEL (CW)	AEK Athens (CL Q3)	Tampere United (CL Q3)
Bordeaux (LC)	Panathinaikos (3rd)	Spartak Moscow (CL Q3)	BATE Borisov (CL Q3)
Second qualifying round
Zenit Saint Petersburg (4th)	Kayseri Erciyesspor (CR)	Fredrikstad (CW)	Leiria (IC)
CFR Cluj (3rd)	Basel (CW)	Austria Wien (CW)	Oțelul Galați (IC)
Dunfermline (CR)	Sion (3rd)	Atlético Madrid (IC)	Rapid Wien (IC)
Standard Liège (3rd)	CSKA Sofia (2nd)	Sampdoria (IC)	AaB (IC)
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (4th)	Lokomotiv Sofia (3rd)	Blackburn Rovers (IC)	Hammarby (IC)
Jablonec (CR)	Hapoel Tel Aviv (CW)	Lens (IC)	Tobol Kostanay (IC)
Galatasaray (3rd)	Maccabi Netanya (2nd)	Hamburg (IC)
First qualifying round
Young Boys (4th)	AIK (2nd)	Vardar (CW)	Rhyl (2nd)
Litex Lovech (4th)	Zlaté Moravce (CW)	Rabotnički (2nd)	Glentoran (2nd)
Maccabi Tel Aviv (3rd)	Artmedia Bratislava (2nd)	Keflavík (CW)	Dungannon Swifts (CR)
Brann (2nd)	Anorthosis Famagusta (CW)	KR Reykjavík (2nd)	Neftçi Baku (2nd)
Vålerenga (3rd)	Omonia (2nd)	Vaduz (CW)	MKT Araz (CR)
Ried (2nd)	Koper (CW)	Dinamo Brest (CW)	Etzella Ettelbruck (2nd)
Mattersburg (3rd)	Gorica (2nd)	Dinamo Minsk (2nd)	Käerjéng 97 (CR)
Partizan (2nd)	Široki Brijeg (CW)	Drogheda United (3rd)	Alma-Ata (CW)
Vojvodina (3rd)	Zrinjski Mostar (2nd)	St Patrick's Athletic (CR)	Aktobe (3rd)
Bežanija (4th)	HJK Helsinki (CW)	Besa (CW)	B36 Tórshavn (CW)
Dyskobolia (CW)	Haka (3rd)	Teuta (2nd)	EB/Streymur (2nd)
GKS Bełchatów (2nd)	Liepājas Metalurgs (CW)	Banants (CW)	Libertas (CR)
Odense BK (CW)	Skonto (3rd)	Mika (3rd)	FC Santa Coloma (CW)
Midtjylland (2nd)	Zimbru Chișinău (CW)	Narva Trans (2nd)	Rudar Pljevlja (CW)
Budapest Honvéd (CW)	Nistru Otaci (3rd)	Flora Tallinn (3rd)	Budućnost Podgorica (2nd)
MTK Budapest (2nd)	Ameri Tbilisi (CW)	Hibernians (CW)	Häcken (FP)
Hajduk Split (2nd)	Dinamo Tbilisi (2nd)	Sliema Wanderers (2nd)	Lillestrøm (FP)
Slaven Belupo (CR)	Sūduva (CW)	Carmarthen Town (CW)	MYPA (FP)
Helsingborg (CW)	Ekranas (2nd)

Notes

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