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		If this place is not used then the cup winner of the 14th country on the country ranking list will gain direct access to the 1st round round, and the cup winners of the 19th and 20th country on the country ranking list will gain direct access to the 2nd qualifying round.
		The basis for the UEFA rankings is the performance of teams in the European Cups during a five year period.
		The UEFA team coefficients are calculated as the sum of the number of points of each individual team, and 33% of the country coefficient.
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	uefa.com - UEFA Cup
		Nigerian striker Joseph Akpala has joined UEFA Cup contenders Club Brugge KV from Belgian rivals R Charleroi SC for a fee believed to be in the region of €3m.
		AS Nancy-Lorraine have continued to reinforce their defensive ranks with the signing of 20-year-old right-back Helder from EC Juventude in his native Brazil.
		Northern round-up: Manchester City FC were forceful winners in the Faroe Islands while the four Danish teams stamped their authority in their UEFA Cup ties.
	www.uefa.com /competitions/uefacup (156 words)

	UEFA Cup News
		Zenit St Petersburg reached the UEFA Cup semi-finals on Thursday despite drawing a blank in their quarter-final return, a 1-0 reverse to German side Bayer Leverkusen.The result gave the Russians a 4-2 aggregate win after their surprise stroll in Germany, rendering academic the only goal scored by Leverkusen’s Russian star Dimitri Bulykin on 18 minutes.
		Juande Ramos’ grip on the UEFA Cup was finally relinquished at the Phillips Stadion, almost three years to the day the Spaniard first scooped the trophy on this very ground, with former club Seville.
		It was a great night, for the most part, for British sides in the UEFA Cup on Thursday night, as four of the five British participants still in the competition advanced to the round of 16.
	soccerlens.com /tags/competitions/uefa-cup (3452 words)

	UEFA Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams, organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).
		A few countries have secondary cup competitions, but the only countries which grant a UEFA Cup place to their secondary cup winners are England and France.
		The eleven winners in the third round of the UEFA Intertoto Cup enter the UEFA Cup at the second qualifying round stage from the 2006-07 season.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UEFA_Cup (1362 words)

	UEFA Intertoto Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The UEFA Intertoto Cup, also abbreviated as UI Cup is a summer football competition for European clubs that have not qualified for one of the two major UEFA competitions, the Champions League and the UEFA Cup.
		The cup bills itself as providing both an opportunity for clubs to enter the UEFA Cup who otherwise would not get the chance, but also as an opportunity for sports lotteries (or pools) to continue during the summer.
		The Intertoto Cup was conceived by the later FIFA vice president and founder of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Ernst B. Thommen, and the Austrian coach, Karl Rappan, who coached the Swiss national team at the 1938 World Cup and the Austrian national team at the 1954 World Cup.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UEFA_Intertoto_Cup (1054 words)

	UEFA CUP
		Later, in 1999, the UEFA Cup Winnerâ€™s Cup was removed and the competition was merged with the modern UEFA Cup.
		There is a tradition that the cup is handed over to any club that manages to win the cup three times in a row or can win it five times overall.
		The UEFA Cup is one of the biggest tournaments for the European clubs and still draws hundreds of fans every year.
	www.managerleague.com /written/ManagerLeague-uefa_cup.html (495 words)

	UEFA Cup 2008 Tickets – pictures, videos, blogs, history, results.
		While lacking the prestige and money of the Champions League, the UEFA Cup is still an excellent opportunity for the smaller clubs to make a name for themselves, and as a result provides a more competitive contest, with less tense and more entertaining football.
		The UEFA Cup has involved from a purely knockout tournament into one that involves an initial qualifying and knockout stage, after which teams are then sorted into groups, with the top teams going on to the final knockout phase of 32 teams.
		This is beneficial to the UEFA Cup, as they receive a number of generally big teams in the latter part of the competition (recent years have included Arsenal and Barcelona), as well to the teams, who get a further opportunity to win a trophy and earn TV and match revenue after their Champions League disappointments.
	www.oleole.com /uefa/competitions/uefacup/2008/cl4.html (793 words)

	soccer365.com \| uefa cup news \| soccer365 has all of the latest soccer news, results, scores and features together with ...
		UEFA have begun an investigation after Marseille defender Ronald Zubar claimed he was the victim of racist abuse from Zenit St Petersburg fans during their UEFA Cup last-16 tie on Wednesday.
		Tottenham's UEFA Cup last-16 second leg in Eindhoven could be under threat of being postponed because of industrial action by police in Holland.
		Bolton will have to conjure another of their UEFA Cup away-day specials if this season's European adventure is to continue after a 1-1 draw in their first leg against Sporting Lisbon.
	www.soccer365.com /uefa_cup (1464 words)

	UEFA football competitions - results, seedings and coefficients calculation
		Since the 1999/2000 season, the UEFA Cup comprises eight rounds from the qualifying round to the final.
		From 2004/05, the UEFA Cup format is based on a first round knockout phase of 80 teams, followed by a group phase involving 40 teams in eight groups of five, whith each team playing with other only a single match.
		For the world cup 2006 (qualifying groups draw) the teams will be classified on the basis of results achieved in the qualifying competition of the 2002/04 UEFA European Football Championship, as well as their results in the qualifying competition of the 2000/2002 World Cup.
	europeancups.altervista.org (2329 words)

	SI.com - Soccer - UEFA Cup: First Arab team to face Magpies - Friday August 27, 2004 9:16AM
		Their promotion of peace and co-operation has earned the respect of all Israelis and representatives of Israel's other clubs in the UEFA Cup, among them Maccabi Petah Tikva, were helping to make the arrangements with Newcastle on Sakhnin's behalf because of their absence.
		Since UEFA have relaxed their ban on matches taking place in Israel the game will be played in Tel Aviv and Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd said he had no problems with that.
		The UEFA Cup has a new format this season with the 40 survivors from the first round advancing to a new group stage.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/soccer/08/27/bc.sport.soccer.uefa (665 words)

	UEFA Cup News Scores & Reports :: Soccerphile
		UEFA Cup 2007-8 preview of the upcoming round of 32 games.
		UEFA Cup 2007-8 all the action and results from the opening group games.
		The UEFA Cup 2007-8 Groups are now known with Bayern Munich the early favorites.
	www.soccerphile.com /soccerphile/uefa-cup/index.html (169 words)

	UEFA Cup Tournament Football Blog - UEFA Cup
		And to welcome you back to the UEFA Cup Offside, here’s a less than welcoming performance from Ireland’s Bohemians, who hosted Rhyl of Wales in the first round of the Intertoto Cup this past week and bested them 5-1.
		Tomorrow, the 37th champion of the UEFA Cup will be crowned, and it will be the first UEFA Cup for either side if they manage it.
		Bayern started dusting off a place for the UEFA Cup in their trophy case months ago, but Getafe might very well play spoilers for that predictable result, as they hold the advantage with 90 minutes at home to play.
	uefa.theoffside.com (4581 words)

	euFootball.BIZ covering the professional football (soccer) business - UEFA Cup could be re-branded
		UEFA is interested in refreshing the image of the UEFA Cup competition.
		A senior UEFA source confirmed to Reuters that a vote will be held to decide on the matter by UEFA's executive committee this September, but UEFA officials expressed their irritation that news had been made public without their approval.
		In December 2007 UEFA revamped the UEFA Cup's format, dropping the unpopular five-team groups in which teams play each opponent just once either home or away in favour of a simpler home and away system.
	www.eufootball.biz /Sponsorship/0907087-UEFA-Cup-re-branded.html (332 words)

	UEFA Cup A to Z - Goal - Soccer - New York Times Blog
		The UEFA Cup, the second-tier continental tournament in Europe which got its start as the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in the 1950s, will be decided Wednesday in Manchester, England.
		Uefa cup may be one of the more generous competitions in Euro-Football.
		In addition, a club may advance to the UEFA Cup by means of the UEFA Inter-Toto Cup, a summer competition for luckless clubs who couldn’t advance by the traditional means.
	goal.blogs.nytimes.com /2008/05/14/uefa-cup-a-to-z (2269 words)

	UEFA
		UEFA is one of the six continental confederations of FIFA.
		UEFA was founded on June 15, 1954 in Basel, Switzerland following discussions between the French, Italian and Belgian FAs.
		UEFA, as a representative of the national associations, has had a number of bruising clashes with the European Commission.
	www.solarnavigator.net /sport/UEFA.htm (362 words)

	UEFA Intertoto Cup
		The UEFA Intertoto Cup is a sort of a consolation prize for the teams that fail to make it through to Europe's top club competitions, namely the UEFA Champion's League and the UEFA Cup.
		Back in the 1970s the Intertoto Cup was viewed as a tournament that was designed to allow teams that had not qualified for the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Cup to gain some European exposure.
		In fact it is now viewed as a stepping stone to UEFA Cup success even if teams do not finish in the top half of their domestic leagues.
	www.free-football.tv /articles/Intertoto-Cup.html (1113 words)

	UEFA Cup factfile
		Arsenal are attempting to become the first English club to win the UEFA Cup since Tottenham Hotspur in 1984.
		Tottenham were the first winners of the UEFA Cup in 1972 when they beat Wolves in an all-English final.
		When Bayern Munich won the UEFA cup in 1996, German international striker Jürgen Klinsmann scored 15 goals in the campaign - the record number of goals scored by one player in any European competition in a season.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/05/17/sfnfac17.html (290 words)

	ESPNsoccernet - UEFA Cup - UEFA Cup
		Brazilian striker Jo is expected to make his Manchester City debut tomorrow in the first leg of the club's UEFA Cup first qualifying round tie in the Faroe Islands.
		European soccer's governing body UEFA is considering changing the name of its second tier UEFA Cup competition to the UEFA Europa League.
		UEFA president Michel Platini has warned that the governing body are going to 'fight very seriously' to restrict entry into the Champions League and UEFA Cup by clubs that are in debt.
	soccernet.espn.go.com /league?id=uefa.uefa&cc=5739 (292 words)

	Former UEFA Cup winners meet in knockout stage
		Former UEFA Cup winners Galatasaray and Bayer Leverkusen will meet in the first knockout round of the UEFA Cup with a possible clash with Hamburg SV awaiting the winners.
		Galatasaray, the first and only Turkish club to win a European trophy when they won the UEFA Cup in 2000, qualified from their group despite winning only one of their four matches.
		Former winners Tottenham Hotspur, the first club to lift the UEFA Cup in 1972 and triumphant again in 1984, and PSV Eindhoven, the 1978 winners, could also face each other in the round of 16 if they both come through their first round ties.
	in.rediff.com /sports/2007/dec/22uefa.htm (503 words)

	Football - Results & Fixtures - UEFA Cup
		The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams, organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).
		Clubs qualify for the UEFA Cup based on their performance in national leagues and cup competitions.
		While the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup is considered a pre-cursor to the UEFA Cup for records purposes, this does not apply to the Cup Winners' Cup.
	www.portugal.com /football/results/uefacup (167 words)

	UEFA Cup Latest News \| UEFA Cup News
		The UEFA Cup's fist ever tournament season was 1971/1972, with Tottenham Hotspur from England being the first Cup Winner.
		The UEFA Cup replaced the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, which was a tournament between Clubs from cities which participated in trade fairs at the time.
		The first round of the 2006-2007 UEFA Cup starts in the middle of July, with some teams participating for the first time in their history.
	www.uefacuplatest.com (160 words)

	UEFA - The Union of European Football Associations
		The Union of European Football Associations, almost always called UEFA (you-way-fa), is one of the six continental football federations that are part of FIFA.
		Michael Platini is the current President of UEFA and sets the vision and scope as the confederation prepares for EURO 2012 in Poland and the Ukraine.
		UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations, is one of the six continental football federations that are part of FIFA.
	www.oleole.com /uefa/fl5.html (569 words)

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