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1999–2000 UEFA Cup

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. 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.

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 1999–00 UEFA Cup:

Association ranking

Notes

Distribution

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:

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

Notes
  1. ^
    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]
  2. ^
    FRY (FRY): 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 4th-placed Vojvodina.[2]
  3. ^
    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

First round

Second round

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:

Bracket

Third round

Fourth round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

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

Parken Stadium, Copenhagen
Attendance: 38,919[5]
Referee: Antonio López Nieto (Spain)[6]

Top goalscorers

See also

References

  1. ^ "Fans killed in Turkey violence". BBC News. 6 April 2000. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  2. ^ a b No Champions League spot for Wisla Krakow
  3. ^ Estonia 1998 (fall season) at RSSSF
  4. ^ "Galatasaray the pride of Turkey". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 1 June 2000. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  5. ^ "UEFA Cup finals" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. pp. 63, 71. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  6. ^ "UEFA Cup Final officials". Arsenal F.C. official website. 15 May 2000. Archived from the original on 18 September 2000. Retrieved 28 July 2013.

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