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2008–09 UEFA Cup

Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium in Istanbul hosted the final.
Tournament details
Dates	17 July 2008 – 20 May 2009
Teams	80 (competition proper) 157 (qualifying)
Final positions
Champions	Shakhtar Donetsk (1st title)
Runners-up	Werder Bremen
Tournament statistics
Matches played	221
Goals scored	572 (2.59 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Vágner Love (11 goals)
← 2007–08 (Europa League) 2009–10 →

The 2008–09 UEFA Cup was the 38th season of the UEFA Cup football tournament. The final was played at the Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, home ground of Fenerbahçe, in Istanbul on 20 May 2009.^[1] This season was the final one to use the UEFA Cup format;^[2] starting in 2009, the event was known as the UEFA Europa League.

Zenit Saint Petersburg were the defending champions but were eliminated by Udinese in the Round of 16.

Association team allocation

A total of 157 teams from 53 UEFA associations participated in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup. Associations were allocated places according to their 2007 UEFA league coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2002–03 to 2006–07.^[3]

Below is the qualification scheme for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup:^[4]

• Associations 1–6 each have three teams qualify


• Associations 7 and 8 each have four teams qualify


• Associations 9–15 and 22-51 each have two teams qualify, except Liechtenstein, which has one team qualify (as Liechtenstein only has a domestic cup and no domestic league)


• Associations 16–21 each have three teams qualify


• Associations 52 and 53 each have one team qualify

plus

• The top three associations of the 2007–08 UEFA Fair Play ranking each gain an additional berth


• 11 winners of the 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup
  


• 16 losers from the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round
  


• 8 third-placed teams from the UEFA Champions League group stage
  

Association ranking

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1 Spain 76.891 3 +1(IT) 2 England 68.540 +1(FP) +1(IT) 3 Italy 66.088 +1(UCL) +1(IT) 4 France 53.656 +2(UCL) +1(IT) 5 Germany 44.364 +2(UCL) +1(IT) +1(FP) 6 Portugal 42.749 +1(UCL) +1(IT) 7 Romania 40.165 4 +1(IT) 8 Netherlands 39.379 +1(UCL) 9 Russia 36.125 2 +2(UCL) 10 Scotland 30.500 11 Ukraine 29.475 +2(UCL) 12 Belgium 29.075 +1(UCL) 13 Czech Republic 26.825 +2(UCL) 14 Turkey 26.641 +1(UCL) 15 Greece 25.497 +1(UCL) 16 Bulgaria 24.582 3 +1(UCL) 17 Switzerland 23.850 +1(IT) 18 Norway 19.725 +1(UCL) +1(IT)

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 19 Israel 19.208 3 20 Serbia 18.958 +1(UCL) 21 Denmark 18.575 +1(UCL) +1(FP) 22 Austria 19.575 2 +1(IT) 23 Poland 17.000 +1(UCL) 24 Hungary 14.165 25 Slovakia 10.832 +1(UCL) 26 Croatia 10.708 +1(UCL) 27 Cyprus 10.582 28 Sweden 10.541 +1(IT) 29 Slovenia 9.915 30 Bosnia and Herzegovina 9.665 31 Latvia 8.664 32 Lithuania 7.332 +1(UCL) 33 Finland 7.331 34 Moldova 7.166 35 Republic of Ireland 6.498 36 Georgia 6.164

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 37 Liechtenstein 6.000 1 38 Macedonia 5.831 2 39 Iceland 4.999 40 Belarus 4.665 41 Albania 3.832 42 Estonia 3.665 43 Armenia 3.498 44 Azerbaijan 3.166 45 Kazakhstan 2.332 46 Northern Ireland 2.165 47 Wales 1.998 48 Faroe Islands 1.665 49 Luxembourg 1.665 50 Malta 1.665 51 Montenegro 0.000 52 Andorra 0.000 1 53 San Marino 0.000

Notes

• (FP): Additional fair play berth (Denmark, England, Germany)


• (UCL): Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League

Distribution

Since the winners of the 2007–08 UEFA Cup, Zenit Saint Petersburg, qualified for the 2008–09 UEFA Champions League through domestic performance, the title holder spot reserved for them in the playoff round was vacated. As a result, the following changes to the default allocation system were made to compensate for the vacant title holder spot in the group stage:^[5]

• The domestic cup winners of associations 14 (Turkey) was promoted from the second qualifying round to the play-off round.


• The first UEFA Cup entrant of associations 19 and 20 (Israel and Serbia) were promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

Redistribution rules

A UEFA Cup place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the UEFA Cup, or qualifies 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:^[4]

• When the domestic cup winners (considered as the "highest-placed" qualifiers within the national association) also qualify for the Champions League, their UEFA Cup place is vacated, and the remaining UEFA Cup qualifiers are moved up one place, with the final place (with the earliest starting round) taken by the domestic cup runners-up, provided they do not already qualify for the Champions League or the UEFA Cup. Otherwise, this place is taken by the highest-placed league finishers that have not yet qualified for the European competitions.


• When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the UEFA Cup through league position, their place through the league position is vacated, and the UEFA Cup qualifiers that finish lower in the league are moved up one place, with the final place taken by the highest-placed league finishers that have not yet qualified for the UEFA Cup.


• A place vacated by the League Cup winners is taken by the highest-placed league finishers that have not yet qualified for the UEFA Cup.


• A Fair Play place is taken by the highest-ranked team in the domestic Fair Play table that has not yet qualified for the Champions League or the UEFA Cup.

Teams

Round of 32
Fiorentina[1]	Marseille[1]	Zenit Saint Petersburg[1]	Dynamo Kyiv[1]
Bordeaux[1]	Werder Bremen[1]	Shakhtar Donetsk[1]	Aalborg BK[1]
First round
Valencia (CW)	Hamburg	Heerenveen	Standard Liège[2]
Sevilla (5th)	Wolfsburg	NEC	Slavia Prague[2]
Racing Santander (6th)	Dortmund	CSKA Moscow	Galatasaray[2]
Portsmouth (CW)	Benfica	Motherwell	Olympiacos[2]
Everton (5th)	Marítimo	Metalist Kharkiv	Levski Sofia[2]
Tottenham Hotspur (LC)	Vitória Setúbal	Club Brugge	Sparta Prague[2]
Milan (5th)	Rapid București	Baník Ostrava	Brann[2]
Sampdoria (6th)	Dinamo București	Kayserispor[3]	Partizan[2]
Udinese (7th)	Unirea Urziceni	Schalke 04[2]	Wisła Kraków[2]
Nancy (4th)	Timișoara	Vitória Guimarães[2]	Artmedia Petržalka[2]
Saint-Étienne (5th)	Feyenoord	Twente[2]	Dinamo Zagreb[2]
Paris Saint-Germain (CR)	Ajax	Spartak Moscow[2]	Kaunas[2]
Second qualifying round
FC Moscow	Aris	Maccabi Netanya[3]	Braga[4]
Queen of the South	Litex Lovech	Red Star Belgrade[3]	Vaslui[4]
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Lokomotiv Sofia	Deportivo La Coruña[4]	Grasshopper[4]
Gent	Young Boys	Aston Villa[4]	Rosenborg[4]
Slovan Liberec	Zürich	Napoli[4]	Sturm Graz[4]
Beşiktaş	Lillestrøm	Rennes[4]	Elfsborg[4]
AEK Athens	Stabæk	Stuttgart[4]
First qualifying round
Cherno More	Hajduk Split	Zestaponi	Shakhter Karagandy
Bellinzona	APOEL	WIT Georgia	Glentoran
Viking	Omonia	Vaduz	Cliftonville[6]
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	Kalmar FF	Milano	Bangor City
Hapoel Tel Aviv	Djurgården	Pelister	The New Saints
Vojvodina	Interblock Ljubljana	FH	EB/Streymur
Borac Čačak[7]	Koper	ÍA	B36 Tórshavn
Brøndby	Zrinjski Mostar	MTZ-RIPO Minsk	Grevenmacher
Midtjylland	Široki Brijeg	Gomel	Racing FC
Copenhagen	Liepājas Metalurgs	Vllaznia Shkodër	Birkirkara
Red Bull Salzburg	Olimps	Partizani	Marsaxlokk
Austria Wien[8]	Sūduva	Flora	Mogren
Legia Warsaw	Vėtra	TVMK	Zeta
Lech Poznań	Haka	Ararat Yerevan	Sant Julià
Győri ETO	Honka	Banants Yerevan	Juvenes/Dogana
Debrecen	Dacia Chișinău	Khazar Lankaran	Manchester City[9][10]
Žilina	Nistru Otaci	Olimpik Baku	Nordsjælland[11][12]
Spartak Trnava	Cork City	Tobol	Hertha BSC[11][13]
Slaven Belupo	St Patrick's Athletic

Round and draw dates

The calendar shows the dates of the rounds and draw.^[5]

Qualifying rounds

The three UEFA Cup regions, used for the regionalised qualifying stage draws, in a map

First qualifying round

The draw for the first qualifying round took place on 1 July 2008.^[14] The first legs were played on 17 July 2008 and the second legs were played on 31 July 2008, with the exception of the Nordsjælland vs TVMK match, which was played on 29 July 2008.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Southern-Mediterranean region
Cherno More	9–0	Sant Julià	4–0	5–0
Pelister	0–1	APOEL	0–0	0–1
Vaduz	1–5	Zrinjski Mostar	1–2	0–3
Široki Brijeg	3–1	Partizani	0–0	3–1
Ironi Kiryat Shmona	4–1	Mogren	1–1	3–0
Koper	1–2	Vllaznia	1–2	0–0
Zeta	1–2	Interblock Ljubljana	1–1	0–1
Hapoel Tel Aviv	5–0	Juvenes/Dogana	3–0	2–0
Hajduk Split	7–0	Birkirkara	4–0	3–0
Omonia	4–1	Milano	2–0	2–1
Marsaxlokk	0–8	Slaven Belupo	0–4	0–4
Central-East region
Red Bull Salzburg	10–0	Banants Yerevan	7–0	3–0
Győri ETO	3–2	Zestaponi	1–1	2–1
Ararat Yerevan	1–4	Bellinzona	0–1	1–3
Dacia Chișinău	2–4	Borac Čačak	1–1	1–3[5]
Tobol	1–2	Austria Wien	1–0	0–2
Hertha BSC	8–1	Nistru Otaci	8–1[6]	0–0[7]
Khazar Lankaran	1–5	Lech Poznań	0–1	1–4
Legia Warsaw	4–1	Gomel	0–0	4–1
Spartak Trnava	2–3	WIT Georgia	2–2	0–1
MTZ-RIPO Minsk	2–3	Žilina	2–2	0–1
Shakhter Karagandy	1–2	Debrecen	1–1	0–1
Vojvodina	2–1	Olimpik Baku	1–0	1–1
Northern region
FH	8–3	Grevenmacher	3–2	5–1
Vėtra	1–2	Viking	1–0	0–2
Racing	1–10	Kalmar FF	0–3	1–7
Honka	4–2	ÍA	3–0	1–2
Glentoran	1–3	Liepājas Metalurgs	1–1	0–2
Brøndby	3–0	B36 Tórshavn	1–0	2–0
TVMK	0–8	Nordsjælland	0–3	0–5
EB/Streymur	0–4	Manchester City	0–2[8]	0–2[9]
Olimps	0–3	St Patrick's Athletic	0–1	0–2
Djurgården	2–2 (a)	Flora	0–0[10]	2–2
Sūduva	2–0	The New Saints	1–0	1–0
Cliftonville	0–11	Copenhagen	0–4	0–7
Cork City	2–6	Haka	2–2	0–4
Bangor City	1–10[11]	Midtjylland	0–4	1–6[12]

In each region of the draw for the first qualifying round, teams were divided into two pots, on the basis of UEFA coefficients. The lower pots contained unranked teams from associations 34–53, together with Vėtra of Lithuania (the 33rd association). The higher pots contained teams from associations 1–32, together with Sūduva of Lithuania, and FH (who had a team ranking, 209).

Three of the 37 ties were won by the lower ranked team, all involving teams whose ranking was that of their association: WIT Georgia (Georgia, ranked 38) beat Spartak Trnava (Slovakia, 24); Vllaznia (Albania, 43) beat Koper (Slovenia, 29); and St Patrick's Athletic (Ireland, 35) beat Olimps (Latvia, 31).

Second qualifying round

The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 1 August 2008 in Nyon, Switzerland,^[17] and featured 16 teams entering directly at the second qualifying round, as well as the 37 winners from the previous round and the 11 third round winners of the UEFA Intertoto Cup. The first legs were played on 14 August 2008 and the second leg on 28 August 2008.

Because there are an odd number of teams in the Central and Northern groups in the 2nd qualifying round, UEFA moved Rennes from the Central-East group to the Northern group. Furthermore, Liepājas Metalurgs and Sūduva were moved from the Northern group to the Central-East group, and Vaslui and Interblock Ljubljana were moved from the Southern-Mediterranean group to the Central-East group. It is unknown why UEFA decided on these last moves since it is not strictly required. One of the reasons could be^{[original research?]} to have more balance in the groups with respect to the coefficients.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Southern-Mediterranean region
Široki Brijeg	1–6	Beşiktaş	1–2	0–4
Braga	3–0	Zrinjski Mostar	1–0	2–0
Borac Čačak	2–1	Lokomotiv Sofia	1–0[13]	1–1
Vojvodina	0–3	Hapoel Tel Aviv	0–0	0–3
Aris	1–2	Slaven Belupo	1–0	0–2
Litex Lovech	2–1	Ironi Kiryat Shmona	0–0	2–1
Deportivo La Coruña	2–0	Hajduk Split	0–0	2–0
APOEL	5–5 (a)	Red Star Belgrade	2–2	3–3 (aet)
Vllaznia Shkodër	0–8	Napoli	0–3	0–5
Maccabi Netanya	1–3	Cherno More	1–1	0–2
AEK Athens	2–3[14]	Omonia	0–1	2–2
Central-East region
Liepājas Metalurgs	1–5	Vaslui	0–2	1–3
Zürich	2–2 (4–2 p)	Sturm Graz	1–1	1–1 (aet)
Stuttgart	6–2	Győri ETO	2–1	4–1
Lech Poznań	6–0	Grasshopper	6–0	0–0[15]
Slovan Liberec	2–4	Žilina	1–2	1–2
WIT Georgia	0–2	Austria Wien	cancelled[16]	0–2
Young Boys	7–3	Debrecen	4–1	3–2
Legia Warsaw	1–4	FC Moscow	1–2	0–2
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	4–4 (a)	Bellinzona	3–2	1–2[17]
Interblock Ljubljana	0–3	Hertha BSC	0–2[18]	0–1[19]
Sūduva	2–4	Red Bull Salzburg	1–4	1–0
Northern region
Djurgården	2–6	Rosenborg	2–1[20]	0–5
Queen of the South	2–4	Nordsjælland	1–2	1–2
Gent	2–5	Kalmar FF	2–1	0–4
Manchester City	1–1 (4–2 p)	Midtjylland	0–1	1–0 (aet)
Honka	2–1	Viking	0–0	2–1
Haka	0–6	Brøndby	0–4	0–2
Stabæk	2–3	Rennes	2–1	0–2
Copenhagen	7–3	Lillestrøm	3–1	4–2
Elfsborg	3–4	St Patrick's Athletic	2–2	1–2
FH	2–5[21]	Aston Villa	1–4	1–1

In each region of the draw for the second qualifying round, teams were divided into two pots, on the basis of UEFA coefficients. The higher pots contained teams with a ranking of 176 or higher, and unranked teams from associations ranked 1 to 15 (or 17 in the Southern-Mediterranean region).

12 of the 32 ties were won by the lower-ranked team. The 12 teams that lost to a lower team were: AEK Athens, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Aris, Red Star Belgrade, Grasshopper, Slovan Liberec, Viking, Lokomotiv Sofia, Elfsborg, Gent, Queen of the South and Debrecen. St Patrick's Athletic were the only team to beat a higher-seeded team in each of the two qualifying rounds.

First round

The number of each teams from each nation which qualified for the First Round

32 teams entered the tournament at the first round, along with the 32 winners from the previous round and the 16 losers from the Champions League third qualifying round. The 80 teams were then split into eight groups of ten teams; five seeded teams and five unseeded teams. The draw was based on their coefficient ranking with one exception: no country can have multiple teams in any group. Teams ranked 108 or higher were seeded, as were unranked teams from England and Spain.

The draw, which was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor, was held on Friday, 29 August 2008 at 13:00 CET in Monaco. The matches were played on 18 September and 2 October 2008.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Group 1
Milan	4–1	Zürich	3–1	1–0
Timișoara	1–3	Partizan	1–2	0–1
Hertha BSC	2–0	St Patrick's Athletic	2–0	0–0
Baník Ostrava	1–2	Spartak Moscow	0–1	1–1
Beşiktaş	2–4[22]	Metalist Kharkiv	1–0	1–4
Group 2
Portsmouth	4–2	Vitória Guimarães	2–0	2–2 (aet)
Kayserispor	1–2	Paris Saint-Germain	1–2	0–0
Sevilla	4–0	Red Bull Salzburg	2–0	2–0
Wolfsburg	2–1	Rapid București	1–0	1–1
Sampdoria	7–1	Kaunas	5–0	2–1
Group 3
Marítimo	1–3	Valencia	0–1	1–2
Dinamo Zagreb	3–3 (a)	Sparta Prague	0–0	3–3
Omonia	2–4[23]	Manchester City	1–2	1–2
Young Boys	2–4	Club Brugge	2–2	0–2
Nancy	3–0	Motherwell	1–0	2–0
Group 4
Everton	3–4	Standard Liège	2–2	1–2
Napoli	3–4	Benfica	3–2	0–2
Bellinzona	4–6	Galatasaray	3–4	1–2
NEC	1–0	Dinamo București	1–0	0–0
Racing Santander	2–0	Honka	1–0	1–0
Group 5
APOEL	2–5	Schalke 04	1–4	1–1
Litex Lovech	2–4	Aston Villa	1–3	1–1
Austria Wien	4–5	Lech Poznań	2–1	2–4 (aet)
Vitória Setúbal	3–6	Heerenveen	1–1[24]	2–5
Brann	2–2 (2–3 p)	Deportivo La Coruña	2–0	0–2 (aet)
Group 6
Slavia Prague	1–1 (a)	Vaslui	0–0	1–1
Slaven Belupo	1–3	CSKA Moscow	1–2	0–1
Brøndby	3–5	Rosenborg	1–2	2–3
Cherno More	3–4	Stuttgart	1–2	2–2
Rennes	2–2 (a)	Twente	2–1	0–1
Group 7
Borac Čačak	1–6[22]	Ajax	1–4	0–2
Tottenham Hotspur	3–2	Wisła Kraków	2–1	1–1
FC Moscow	2–3[25]	Copenhagen	1–2	1–1
Žilina	2–1	Levski Sofia	1–1	1–0
Borussia Dortmund	2–2 (3–4 p)	Udinese	0–2	2–0 (aet)
Group 8
Braga	6–0	Artmedia Petržalka	4–0	2–0
Feyenoord	2–2 (a)	Kalmar FF	0–1	2–1[26]
Hamburg	2–0	Unirea Urziceni	0–0	2–0
Hapoel Tel Aviv	2–4	Saint-Étienne	1–2	1–2
Nordsjælland	0–7	Olympiacos	0–2	0–5

Nine of the 40 ties were won by the unseeded team. The nine seeded losing teams, with their ranking, were: Everton (50), Rapid București (58), Beşiktaş (60), Sparta Prague (68), Dinamo București (69), Levski Sofia (80), Austria Wien (82), Rennes (97) and Hapoel Tel Aviv (108).

Group stage

Club Brugge

Standard

Din. Zagreb

Slavia

Copenhagen

Portsmouth

Aston Villa

Man. City

Tottenham

Sevilla

Deportivo

Valencia

Racing

St. Étienne

PSG

Nancy

Stuttgart

Schalke

Wolfsburg

Hamburg

Hertha

Olympiacos

Sampdoria

Milan

Udinese

Feyenoord

Ajax

NEC

Heerenveen

Twente

Rosenborg

Lech Poznań

Benfica

Braga

Spartak

CSKA

Partizan

MŠK Žilina

Galatasaray

Metalist Kharkiv

Teams that have qualified for the group stage of the 2008–09 UEFA Cup
Red: Group A; Yellow: Group B; Green: Group C; Black: Group D;
Purple: Group E; Pink: Group F; Blue: Group G; Orange: Group H.

The draw for the group stage of the 2008–09 UEFA Cup was held at UEFA Headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, on 7 October 2008. The 40 teams in the draw were divided into five pots based on their UEFA coefficients. The eight teams with the highest UEFA coefficient were allocated to Pot 1, the next eight teams to Pot 2, and so on. One team from each pot was drawn for each group, with the restriction that no team could be drawn with one from the same country.^[21]

The top three teams (highlighted in green) of each group qualified for the next round. 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:^[4]

1. superior goal difference from all group matches played;


2. higher number of goals scored;


3. higher number of goals scored away;


4. higher number of wins;


5. higher number of away wins;


6. higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

Group A Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Manchester City 4 2 1 1 6 5 +1 7 Twente 4 2 0 2 5 8 −3 6 Paris Saint-Germain 4 1 2 1 7 5 +2 5 Racing Santander 4 1 2 1 6 5 +1 5 Schalke 04 4 1 1 2 5 6 −1 4 23 October 2008 Twente 1–0 Racing Santander Schalke 04 3–1 Paris Saint-Germain 6 November 2008 Racing Santander 1–1 Schalke 04 Manchester City 3–2 Twente 27 November 2008 Paris Saint-Germain 2–2 Racing Santander Schalke 04 0–2 Manchester City 3 December 2008 Manchester City 0–0 Paris Saint-Germain Twente 2–1 Schalke 04 18 December 2008 Paris Saint-Germain 4–0 Twente Racing Santander 3–1 Manchester City

Group B Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Metalist Kharkiv 4 3 1 0 3 0 +3 10 Galatasaray 4 3 0 1 4 1 +3 9 Olympiacos 4 2 0 2 9 3 +6 6 Hertha BSC 4 0 2 2 1 6 −5 2 Benfica 4 0 1 3 2 9 −7 1 23 October 2008 Hertha BSC 1–1 Benfica Galatasaray 1–0 Olympiacos 6 November 2008 Benfica 0–2 Galatasaray Metalist Kharkiv 0–0 Hertha BSC 27 November 2008 Olympiacos 5–1 Benfica Galatasaray 0–1 Metalist Kharkiv 3 December 2008 Metalist Kharkiv 1–0 Olympiacos Hertha BSC 0–1 Galatasaray 18 December 2008 Olympiacos 4–0 Hertha BSC Benfica 0–1 Metalist Kharkiv

Group C Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Standard Liège 4 3 0 1 5 3 +2 9 Stuttgart 4 2 1 1 6 3 +3 7 Sampdoria 4 2 1 1 4 5 −1 7 Sevilla 4 2 0 2 5 2 +3 6 Partizan 4 0 0 4 1 8 −7 0 23 October 2008 Sevilla 2–0 Stuttgart Partizan 1–2 Sampdoria 6 November 2008 Stuttgart 2–0 Partizan Standard Liège 1–0 Sevilla 27 November 2008 Sampdoria 1–1 Stuttgart Partizan 0–1 Standard Liège 3 December 2008 Standard Liège 3–0 Sampdoria Sevilla 3–0 Partizan 18 December 2008 Sampdoria 1–0 Sevilla Stuttgart 3–0 Standard Liège

Group D Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Udinese 4 3 0 1 6 4 +2 9 Tottenham Hotspur 4 2 1 1 7 4 +3 7 NEC 4 2 0 2 6 5 +1 6 Spartak Moscow 4 1 1 2 5 6 −1 4 Dinamo Zagreb 4 1 0 3 4 9 −5 3 23 October 2008 Udinese 2–0 Tottenham Hotspur Dinamo Zagreb 3–2 NEC 6 November 2008 Tottenham Hotspur 4–0 Dinamo Zagreb Spartak Moscow 1–2 Udinese 27 November 2008 NEC 0–1 Tottenham Hotspur Dinamo Zagreb 0–1 Spartak Moscow 3 December 2008 Spartak Moscow 1–2 NEC Udinese 2–1 Dinamo Zagreb 18 December 2008 NEC 2–0 Udinese Tottenham Hotspur 2–2 Spartak Moscow

Group E Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Wolfsburg 4 3 1 0 13 7 +6 10 Milan 4 2 2 0 8 5 +3 8 Braga 4 2 0 2 7 5 +2 6 Portsmouth 4 1 1 2 7 8 −1 4 Heerenveen 4 0 0 4 3 13 −10 0 23 October 2008 Heerenveen 1–3 Milan Braga 3–0 Portsmouth 6 November 2008 Milan 1–0 Braga Wolfsburg 5–1 Heerenveen 27 November 2008 Portsmouth 2–2 Milan Braga 2–3 Wolfsburg 4 December 2008 Wolfsburg 3–2 Portsmouth Heerenveen 1–2 Braga 17 December 2008 Portsmouth 3–0 Heerenveen Milan 2–2 Wolfsburg

Group F Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Hamburg 4 3 0 1 7 3 +4 9 Ajax 4 2 1 1 5 4 +1 7 Aston Villa 4 2 0 2 5 6 −1 6 Žilina 4 1 1 2 3 4 −1 4 Slavia Prague 4 0 2 2 2 5 −3 2 23 October 2008 Aston Villa 2–1 Ajax Žilina 1–2 Hamburg 6 November 2008 Ajax 1–0 Žilina Slavia Prague 0–1 Aston Villa 27 November 2008 Hamburg 0–1 Ajax Žilina 0–0 Slavia Prague 4 December 2008 Slavia Prague 0–2 Hamburg Aston Villa 1–2 Žilina 17 December 2008 Hamburg 3–1 Aston Villa Ajax 2–2 Slavia Prague