The 2000–01 UEFA Cup was the 30th edition of the UEFA Cup competition. Liverpool won the final with a golden goal in against Alavés for their third title in the competition. It completed a cup treble for the club, as they also won the FA Cup and the League Cup that season. The conclusion of the tournament by a golden goal is the only instance in any of the major European club cup competitions until the abolition of the rule in 2002.
 Westfalenstadion, in Dortmund, hosted the final. | |
| Dates | 8 August 2000 – 16 May 2001 |
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| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Liverpool (3rd title) |
| Runners-up |  Alavés |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 205 |
| Goals scored | 566 (2.76 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Goran Drulić (Red Star Belgrade) Javi Moreno (Alavés) Marcin Kuźba (Lausanne) Demis Nikolaidis (AEK Athens) 6 goals each |
2001–02 → | |
Galatasaray could not defend their title as they automatically qualified for the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League and also reached the knockout stage.
English clubs had been banned from European competitions between 1985 and 1990 as a result of the Heysel disaster, and Liverpool were the first English side of the post-Heysel era to win the trophy. The previous English winners were Tottenham Hotspur in 1984. It was also Liverpool's first European trophy of the post-Heysel era.
Association team allocation
editA total of 145 teams from 51 UEFA associations participated in the 2000–01 UEFA Cup. Associations are allocated places according to their 1999 UEFA league coefficient.[1]
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 22–49 each enter two teams, with the exception of Liechtenstein who enter one.
- Associations 50-51 each enter one team
- The top three associations of the 1999–2000 UEFA Fair Play ranking each gain an additional berth
- 16 teams eliminated from the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the UEFA Cup
- 8 teams eliminated from the group stage of the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the UEFA Cup
- 3 winners of the Intertoto Cup
- The winner of the 1999-2000 UEFA Cup (not used due to Galatasaray's qualification to Champions League)
Association ranking
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- Notes
- (FP): Additional fair play berth (Norway, Denmark, Scotland)
- (UCL): Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
- (IT): Additional teams from Intertoto Cup
Distribution
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| Qualifying round (82 teams) |
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| First round (96 teams) |
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| Second round (48 teams) |
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| Third round (32 teams) |
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| Fourth round (16 teams) |
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| Play-offs (8 teams) |
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Redistribution rules
editA 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:
- When the domestic cup winners (considered as the "highest-placed" qualifier 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 finisher which do not qualify for the UEFA Cup yet.
- 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 which finish lower in the league are moved up one place, with the final place taken by the highest-placed league finisher which do not qualify for the UEFA Cup yet.
- A place vacated by the League Cup winners is taken by the highest-placed league finisher which do not qualify for the UEFA Cup yet.
- A Fair Play place is taken by the highest-ranked team in the domestic Fair Play table which do not qualify for the Champions League or UEFA Cup yet.
Teams
editThe labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
- CW: Cup winners
- CR: Cup runners-up
- LC: League Cup winners
- Nth: League position
- FP: Fair play
- IC: Intertoto Cup winners
- CL: Relegated from the Champions League
- GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
- Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
Qualifying round
editFirst round
edit1 This match was played at Prater Stadium in Vienna instead of Red Star's home ground in Belgrade due to UEFA deciding to accommodate Leicester City's request in which the English club claimed that "travelling to FR Yugoslavia poses a security risk due to the political situation in the country". UEFA's decision was revealed on 12 September 2000—only nine days before the match's originally scheduled date (21 September 2000). The sudden decision to not only move the tie to a neutral location but to also postpone it for a week was a highly controversial precedent since no other club drawn to travel to FR Yugoslavia for matches in European competition that season received a similar advantage: Viljandi Tulevik, Sliema Wanderers, Dynamo Kyiv, Porto, OFI, and Celta Vigo.[1]
Second round
edit| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Iraklis 
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4–5 |  1. FC Kaiserslautern
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1–3 | 3–2 |
Osijek 
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4–1 |  Rapid Wien
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2–1 | 2–0 |
Udinese 
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1–3 | PAOK
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1–0 | 0–3 (a.e.t.) |
| Werder Bremen
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9–3 |  Genk
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4–1 | 5–2 |
Halmstads BK 
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4–5 | 1860 Munich
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3–2 | 1–3 |
| AEK Athens
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6–2 |  Herfølge
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5–0 | 1–2 |
| Hertha BSC
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4–2 |  Amica Wronki
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3–1 | 1–1 |
Lillestrøm 
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3–5 | Alavés
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1–3 | 2–2 |
| Internazionale
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(a) 1–1 |  Vitesse
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0–0 | 1–1 |
Bordeaux 
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3–2 |  Celtic
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1–1 | 2–1 (a.e.t.) |
| Espanyol
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4–1 | GAK
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4–0 | 0–1 |
Boavista 
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1–2 | Roma
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0–1 | 1–1 |
| Tirol Innsbruck
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2–3 | VfB Stuttgart
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1–0 | 1–3 |
Red Star Belgrade 
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1–3 | Celta Vigo
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1–0 | 0–31 |
Lokomotiv Moscow 
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3–1 |  Inter Bratislava
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1–0 | 2–1 |
Basel 
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1–3 | Feyenoord
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1–2 | 0–1 |
| Liverpool
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4–2 |  Slovan Liberec
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1–0 | 3–2 |
| Rayo Vallecano
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2–2 (a) | Viborg
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1–0 | 1–2 |
| Lausanne
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3–2 | Ajax
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1–0 | 2–2 |
| Nantes
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3–1 |  MTK Hungária
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2–1 | 1–0 |
| Club Brugge
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3–2 | St. Gallen
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2–1 | 1–1 |
| Parma
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2–1 | Dinamo Zagreb
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2–0 | 0–1 |
| OFI
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3–6 | Slavia Prague
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2–2 | 1–4 |
| Wisła Kraków
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0–3 | Porto
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0–0 | 0–3 |
1 This 2nd leg match in Vigo actually ended with the score 5–3 for the hosts Celta, but was later officially recorded as 3–0 walkover since it was discovered that Red Star fielded two suspended players.
Final phase
editIn 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:
- In the draws for the third and fourth rounds, teams were seeded and divided into groups containing an equal number of seeded and unseeded teams. In each group, the seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the first team drawn hosting the first leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
- In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings and teams from the same association could be drawn against each other.
Bracket
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Third round
edit| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Hertha BSC
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1–2 | Internazionale
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0–0 | 1–2 |
| Parma
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4–2 | 1860 Munich
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2–2 | 2–0 |
| Feyenoord
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3–4 | VfB Stuttgart
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2–2 | 1–2 |
| Lokomotiv Moscow
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0–2 | Rayo Vallecano
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0–0 | 0–2 |
| PSV Eindhoven
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4–0 | PAOK
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3–0 | 1–0 |
| Roma
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4–0 | Hamburger SV
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1–0 | 3–0 |
| Nantes
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7–4 | Lausanne
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4–3 | 3–1 |
| Bordeaux
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4–1 | Werder Bremen
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4–1 | 0–0 |
| Olympiacos
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2–4 | Liverpool
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2–2 | 0–2 |
| Bayer Leverkusen
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4–6 | AEK Athens
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4–4 | 0–2 |
Shakhtar Donetsk 
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0–1 | Celta Vigo
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0–0 | 0–1 |
| Alavés
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4–2 | Rosenborg
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1–1 | 3–1 |
| Espanyol
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0–2 | Porto
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0–2 | 0–0 |
| Osijek
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3–5 | Slavia Prague
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2–0 | 1–5 |
| Club Brugge
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1–3 | Barcelona
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0–2 | 1–1 |
| Rangers
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1–3 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern
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1–0 | 0–3 |
Fourth round
edit| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Slavia Prague
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0–1 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern
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0–0 | 0–1 |
| VfB Stuttgart
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1–2 | Celta Vigo
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0–0 | 1–2 |
| PSV Eindhoven
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(a) 4–4 | Parma
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2–1 | 2–3 |
| AEK Athens
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0–6 | Barcelona
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0–1 | 0–5 |
| Alavés
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5–3 | Internazionale
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3–3 | 2–0 |
| Porto
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4–3 | Nantes
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3–1 | 1–2 |
| Rayo Vallecano
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6–2 | Bordeaux
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4–1 | 2–1 |
| Roma
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1–2 | Liverpool
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0–2 | 1–0 |
Quarter-finals
edit| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Barcelona
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(a) 4–4 | Celta Vigo
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2–1 | 2–3 |
| Porto
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0–2 | Liverpool
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0–0 | 0–2 |
| Alavés
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4–2 | Rayo Vallecano
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3–0 | 1–2 |
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern
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2–0 | PSV Eindhoven
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1–0 | 1–0 |
Semi-finals
edit| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Alavés
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9–2 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern
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5–1 | 4–1 |
| Barcelona
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0–1 | Liverpool
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0–0 | 0–1 |
Final
editThe final was played on 16 May 2001 at the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund, Germany.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "UEFA European Cups 2001/2002: Results and Qualification". Archived from the original on 16 August 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
- ^ "4. UEFA Cup Finals" (PDF). UEFA Europa League Statistics Handbook 2012/13. Nyon: Union of European Football Associations. 28 May 2013. p. 71. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
- ^ "Match officials appointed for UEFA Cup final" (PDF). Union of European Football Associations. 14 May 2001. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
External links
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- 2000–01 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website
- Official website
- Results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
- All scorers 2000–01 UEFA Cup (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA
- 2000/01 UEFA Cup – results and line-ups (archive)