# 2005–06 UEFA Cup group stage

The group stage of the 2005–06 UEFA Cup is the second stage of the competition proper. Group stage matches began on 20 October 2005 and concluded on 15 December 2005. The top three teams in each group progressed to the Round of 32, to be joined by the eight third-place finishers from the Champions League group stage.

## Teams

The group stage draw took place on 4 October 2005 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The following teams qualified for the group stage:
* Key to colours
* Group winners, runners-up and third-placed teams advanced to round of 32
Pot 1 :
| Team | Coeff. |
| CSKA Moscow | 34.469 |
| Roma | 73.191 |
| VfB Stuttgart | 58.166 |
| Monaco | 53.324 |
| Hertha BSC | 46.166 |
| Lokomotiv Moscow | 38.469 |
| Beşiktaş | 37.872 |
| AZ | 37.145 |
Pot 2 :
| Team | Coeff. |
| Sevilla | 36.326 |
| Marseille | 36.324 |
| PAOK | 35.715 |
| Slavia Prague | 35.233 |
| Basel | 33.887 |
| Middlesbrough | 32.864 |
| Espanyol | 29.326 |
| Lens | 29.324 |
Pot 3 :
| Team | Coeff. |
| Shakhtar Donetsk | 28.200 |
| Heerenveen | 26.145 |
| Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 24.200 |
| Hamburger SV | 24.166 |
| Red Star Belgrade | 21.012 |
| Bolton Wanderers | 20,864 |
| Sampdoria | 20.191 |
| Palermo | 20.191 |
Pot 4 :
| Team | Coeff. |
| Steaua București | 20.101 |
| Brøndby | 19.676 |
| Grasshopper | 18.887 |
| Zenit Saint Petersburg | 18.469 |
| Levski Sofia | 18.118 |
| Strasbourg | 17.324 |
| Rennes | 16.324 |
| CSKA Sofia | 15.118 |
Pot 5 :
| Team | Coeff. |
| Vitória de Guimarães | 14.739 |
| Litex Lovech | 14.118 |
| Halmstads BK | 13.076 |
| Viking | 12.665 |
| Dinamo București | 12.101 |
| Rapid București | 8.101 |
| Maccabi Petah Tikva | 7.218 |
| Tromsø | 6.665 |
Notes
* $^{TH}$ Title holders

## Tie-breaking criteria

Based on paragraph 6.06 in the UEFA regulations for the current season, if two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:
* superior goal difference from all group matches played;
* higher number of goals scored;
* higher number of goals scored away;
* higher number of wins;
* higher number of away wins;
* higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

## Groups

All times are CET, as listed by UEFA.

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | MON | HSV | SLA | VIK | CSS |
| 1 | Monaco | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 2–0 | — | — | 2–1 |
| 2 | Hamburger SV | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage | — | — | 2–0 | 2–0 | — |
| 3 | Slavia Prague | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 4 | Advance to knockout stage | 0–2 | — | — | — | 4–2 |
| 4 | Viking | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 4 | | 1–0 | — | 2–2 | — | — |
| 5 | CSKA Sofia | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | −2 | 3 | | — | 0–1 | — | 2–0 | — |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | PAL | ESP | LOK | BRØ | MPT |
| 1 | Palermo | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 8 | Advance to knockout stage | — | — | 0–0 | 3–0 | — |
| 2 | Espanyol | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 8 | Advance to knockout stage | 1–1 | — | — | — | 1–0 |
| 3 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 0–1 | — | 4–2 | — |
| 4 | Brøndby | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 4 | | — | 1–1 | — | — | 2–0 |
| 5 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 9 | −8 | 0 | | 1–2 | — | 0–4 | — | — |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | STE | RCL | BSC | SAM | HBK |
| 1 | Steaua București | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 8 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 4–0 | — | — | 3–0 |
| 2 | Lens | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage | — | — | — | 2–1 | 5–0 |
| 3 | Hertha BSC | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage | 0–0 | 0–0 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Sampdoria | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 5 | | 0–0 | — | 0–0 | — | — |
| 5 | Halmstads BK | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 12 | −11 | 0 | | — | — | 0–1 | 1–3 | — |

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | MID | AZ | LIT | DNI | GRA |
| 1 | Middlesbrough | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | 10 | Advance to knockout stage | — | — | 2–0 | 3–0 | — |
| 2 | AZ | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 10 | Advance to knockout stage | 0–0 | — | — | — | 1–0 |
| 3 | Litex Lovech | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 0–2 | — | — | 2–1 |
| 4 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 3 | | — | 1–2 | 0–2 | — | — |
| 5 | Grasshopper | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 0 | | 0–1 | — | — | 2–3 | — |

### Group E

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | STR | ROM | BSL | RSB | TRO |
| 1 | Strasbourg | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 8 | Advance to knockout stage | — | — | — | 2–2 | 2–0 |
| 2 | Roma | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage | 1–1 | — | 3–1 | — | — |
| 3 | Basel | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | −2 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage | 0–2 | — | — | — | 4–3 |
| 4 | Red Star Belgrade | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 4 | | — | 3–1 | 1–2 | — | — |
| 5 | Tromsø | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | −2 | 3 | | — | 1–2 | — | 3–1 | — |

### Group F

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | OM | LS | HVN | CSM | DB |
| 1 | Marseille | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage | — | — | 1–0 | — | 2–1 |
| 2 | Levski Sofia | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage | 1–0 | — | — | — | 1–0 |
| 3 | Heerenveen | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 2–1 | — | 0–0 | — |
| 4 | CSKA Moscow | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 | | 1–2 | 2–1 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Dinamo București | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 4 | | — | — | 0–0 | 1–0 | — |

### Group G

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | RAP | SHK | STU | PAOK | REN |
| 1 | Rapid București | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage | — | — | — | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage | 0–1 | — | — | 1–0 | — |
| 3 | VfB Stuttgart | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage | 2–1 | 0–2 | — | — | — |
| 4 | PAOK | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 3 | | — | — | 1–2 | — | 5–1 |
| 5 | Rennes | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | −9 | 0 | | — | 0–1 | 0–2 | — | — |

### Group H

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | SEV | ZEN | BOL | BJK | VIT |
| 1 | Sevilla | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage | — | — | — | 3–0 | 3–1 |
| 2 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage | 2–1 | — | — | — | 2–1 |
| 3 | Bolton Wanderers | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage | 1–1 | 1–0 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Beşiktaş | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 5 | | — | 1–1 | 1–1 | — | — |
| 5 | Vitória de Guimarães | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 1 | | — | — | 1–1 | 1–3 | — |