1999–2000 UEFA Cup

The 1999–2000 UEFA Cup season was the 29th edition of the UEFA Cup. The final was played at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen. It was won by Galatasaray, who beat   in the final. The defending champions were  they were eliminated by Werder Bremen in the fourth round.

It was the first season of the new UEFA Cup format. Domestic cup winners would qualify for the UEFA Cup, after the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was disbanded. This change also added an additional knockout round. This was the first year when the UEFA Cup winners qualified for the UEFA Super 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
RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 1  Italy 59.6403 +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 31.2664  8  Greece 28.750 +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)RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 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)RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 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

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

 Qualifying round 

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 First round 

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 Second round 

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 Third round 

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 Fourth round 

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 Quarter-finals 

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First leg

Second leg

Leeds United won 4–2 on aggregate.

Galatasaray won 6–2 on aggregate.

Arsenal won 6–2 on aggregate.

Lens won 2–1 on aggregate.

 Semi-finals 

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First leg

Second leg

Arsenal won 3–1 on aggregate.

Galatasaray won 4–2 on aggregate.

 Final 

Top goalscorers
RankNameTeamGoalsMinutes played1 Darko Kovačević Juventus10720'2 Marco Di Vaio Parma7460'  Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink Atlético Madrid574' Thierry Henry Arsenal592' Pascal Nouma Lens875'6 Benni McCarthy Celta Vigo6796' Hakan Şükür Galatasaray833'

References

 Other websites 
1999–2000 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website
Official Site
Results at RSSSF.com
 All scorers 1999–2000 UEFA Cup according to (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers preliminary round
1999/2000 UEFA Cup – results and line-ups (archive)

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