2008–09 UEFA Cup first round

The first round of the 2008–09 UEFA Cup was played from 16 September to 2 October 2008, which narrowed clubs down to 40 teams in preparation for the group stage.[1]

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA.

Teams

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.[2][3]

Key to colours
Winners of first round advanced to group stage
First round participants
Team Notes Coeff.
Milan 119.934
Sevilla 102.837
Valencia 83.837
Benfica 77.176
Schalke 04 [CL] 67.078
CSKA Moscow 59.437
Tottenham Hotspur 55.996
Hamburger SV 52.078
VfB Stuttgart [Q2] 52.078
Ajax 51.610
Olympiacos [CL] 51.525
Deportivo La Coruña [Q2] 46.837
Everton 43.996
Club Brugge 41.810
Rapid București 41.398
Beşiktaş [Q2] 40.469
Spartak Moscow [CL] 40.437
Paris Saint-Germain 37.380
Sparta Prague [CL] 36.496
Dinamo București 36.398
Team Notes Coeff.
Heerenveen 35.610
Rosenborg [Q2] 35.400
Udinese 34.934
Feyenoord 33.610
Braga [Q2] 33.176
Levski Sofia [CL] 32.644
Austria Wien [Q2] 31.840
Slavia Prague [CL] 31.496
Manchester City [Q2] 30.996
Galatasaray [CL] 30.469
Sampdoria 28.934
Hertha BSC [Q2] 27.078
Partizan [CL] 25.527
Nancy 25.380
Aston Villa [Q2] 24.996
Portsmouth 24.996
Racing Santander 24.837
Rennes [Q2] 24.380
Copenhagen [Q2] 23.748
Hapoel Tel Aviv [Q2] 21.197
Team Notes Coeff.
Borussia Dortmund 21.078
Napoli [Q2] 19.934
Brøndby [Q2] 18.748
Litex Lovech [Q2] 18.644
Vitória de Guimarães [CL] 18.176
Dinamo Zagreb [CL] 17.836
Saint-Étienne 17.380
Zürich [Q2] 16.993
VfL Wolfsburg 16.078
Wisła Kraków [CL] 15.973
Vitória de Setúbal 15.176
Marítimo 15.176
Standard Liège [CL] 14.810
Twente [CL] 14.610
FC Moscow [Q2] 14.437
Artmedia Petržalka [CL] 14.070
Unirea Urziceni 13.398
Vaslui [Q2] 13.398
Timișoara 13.398
NEC 12.610
Team Notes Coeff.
Brann [CL] 12.400
Baník Ostrava 11.496
Kayserispor 11.469
Motherwell 11.013
Metalist Kharkiv 10.932
Red Bull Salzburg [Q2] 10.840
Young Boys [Q2] 7.993
Bellinzona [Q2] 7.993
Cherno More [Q2] 7.644
Lech Poznań [Q2] 6.973
Nordsjælland [Q2] 6.748
Borac Čačak [Q2] 5.527
Kalmar FF [Q2] 4.518
Žilina [Q2] 4.070
Slaven Belupo [Q2] 3.836
APOEL [Q2] 3.327
Omonia [Q2] 3.327
Honka [Q2] 3.176
Kaunas [CL] 2.640
St Patrick's Athletic [Q2] 2.420

Notes

  1. Q2 Winners from the second qualifying round
  2. CL Losers from the Champions League third qualifying round

Seeding

The 80 teams were split into eight groups of ten teams; five seeded teams and five unseeded teams.[4] 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 29 August 2008 at 13:00 CET in Monaco.

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4
Seeded Unseeded Seeded Unseeded Seeded Unseeded Seeded Unseeded
Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8
Seeded Unseeded Seeded Unseeded Seeded Unseeded Seeded Unseeded

Summary

The matches were played on 18 September and 2 October 2008.

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).

Team 1Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Milan 4–1 Zürich3–11–0
Timișoara 1–3 Partizan1–20–1
Hertha BSC 2–0 St Patrick's Athletic2–00–0
Baník Ostrava 1–2 Spartak Moscow0–11–1
Beşiktaş 2–4[a] Metalist Kharkiv1–01–4
Portsmouth 4–2 Vitória de Guimarães2–02–2 (a.e.t.)
Kayserispor 1–2 Paris Saint-Germain1–20–0
Sevilla 4–0 Red Bull Salzburg2–02–0
VfL Wolfsburg 2–1 Rapid București1–01–1
Sampdoria 7–1 Kaunas5–02–1
Marítimo 1–3 Valencia0–11–2
Dinamo Zagreb 3–3 (a) Sparta Prague0–03–3
Omonia 2–4[a] Manchester City1–21–2
Young Boys 2–4 Club Brugge2–20–2
Nancy 3–0 Motherwell1–02–0
Everton 3–4 Standard Liège2–21–2
Napoli 3–4 Benfica3–20–2
Bellinzona 4–6 Galatasaray3–41–2
NEC 1–0 Dinamo București1–00–0
Racing Santander 2–0 Honka1–01–0
APOEL 2–5 Schalke 041–41–1
Litex Lovech 2–4 Aston Villa1–31–1
Austria Wien 4–5 Lech Poznań2–12–4 (a.e.t.)
Vitória de Setúbal 3–6 Heerenveen1–12–5
Brann 2–2 (2–3 p) Deportivo La Coruña2–00–2 (a.e.t.)
Slavia Prague 1–1 (a) Vaslui0–01–1
Slaven Belupo 1–3 CSKA Moscow1–20–1
Brøndby 3–5 Rosenborg1–22–3
Cherno More 3–4 VfB Stuttgart1–22–2
Rennes 2–2 (a) Twente2–10–1
Borac Čačak 1–6[a] Ajax1–40–2
Tottenham Hotspur 3–2 Wisła Kraków2–11–1
FC Moscow 2–3[a] Copenhagen1–21–1
Žilina 2–1 Levski Sofia1–11–0
Borussia Dortmund 2–2 (3–4 p) Udinese0–22–0 (a.e.t.)
Braga 6–0 Artmedia Petržalka4–02–0
Feyenoord 2–2 (a) Kalmar FF0–12–1
Hamburger SV 2–0 Unirea Urziceni0–02–0
Hapoel Tel Aviv 2–4 Saint-Étienne1–21–2
Nordsjælland 0–7 Olympiacos0–20–5
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c d Order of legs reversed

Matches

Hertha BSC 2–0 St Patrick's Athletic
  • Nicu 50'
  • Cícero 77'
 Report
Attendance: 13,045
Referee: Tomasz Mikulski (Poland)
St Patrick's Athletic 0–0 Hertha BSC
Report
Attendance: 7,000

Hertha BSC won 2–0 on aggregate.

APOEL 1–4 Schalke 04
 Report
Attendance: 6,500
Schalke 04 1–1 APOEL
 Report
Attendance: 52,214

Schalke 04 won 5–2 on aggregate.

Nordsjælland 0–2 Olympiacos
Report
Attendance: 5,184
Referee: Stefan Messner (Austria)
Olympiacos 5–0 Nordsjælland
 Report
Attendance: 27,000
Referee: Igor Egorov (Russia)

Olympiacos won 7–0 on aggregate.

Slaven Belupo 1–2 CSKA Moscow
 Report
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: David Malcolm (Northern Ireland)
CSKA Moscow 1–0 Slaven Belupo
 Report
Attendance: 5,000

CSKA Moscow won 3–1 on aggregate.

Brøndby 1–2 Rosenborg
 Report
Attendance: 11,909
Rosenborg 3–2 Brøndby
 Report
Attendance: 16,450

Rosenborg won 5–3 on aggregate.

Cherno More 1–2 VfB Stuttgart
 Report
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Julián Rodríguez Santiago (Spain)
VfB Stuttgart 2–2 Cherno More
 Report
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Mike Dean (England)

VfB Stuttgart won 4–3 on aggregate.

Rennes 2–1 Twente
 Report
Attendance: 12,893
Twente 1–0 Rennes
 Report
Attendance: 20,350
Referee: Guenov (Bulgaria)

2–2 on aggregate; Twente won on away goals.

Borac Čačak 1–4 Ajax
 Report
Attendance: 5,000
Ajax 2–0 Borac Čačak
 Report
Attendance: 18,150
Referee: Bernhard Brugger (Austria)

Ajax won 6–1 on aggregate.

Tottenham Hotspur 2–1 Wisła Kraków
 Report
Attendance: 35,751
Wisła Kraków 1–1 Tottenham Hotspur
 Report
Attendance: 12,900

Tottenham Hotspur won 3–2 on aggregate.

FC Moscow 1–2 Copenhagen
 Report
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Carlo Bertolini (Switzerland)
Copenhagen 1–1 FC Moscow
 Report
Attendance: 18,350

Copenhagen won 3–2 on aggregate.

Žilina 1–1 Levski Sofia
 Report
Attendance: 7,581
Referee: Paulo Costa (Portugal)
Levski Sofia 0–1 Žilina
Report
Attendance: 10,150

Žilina won 2–1 on aggregate.

Borussia Dortmund 0–2 Udinese
Report
Attendance: 52,400

2–2 on aggregate; Udinese won 4–3 on penalties.

Braga 4–0 Artmedia Petržalka
 Report
Attendance: 9,227
Artmedia Petržalka 0–2 Braga
Report
Attendance: 1,100

Braga won 6–0 on aggregate.

Feyenoord 0–1 Kalmar FF
Report
Attendance: 22,000
Kalmar FF 1–2 Feyenoord
 Report
Attendance: 9,000

2–2 on aggregate; Feyenoord won on away goals.

Hamburger SV 0–0 Unirea Urziceni
Report
Attendance: 39,010
Unirea Urziceni 0–2 Hamburger SV
Report
Attendance: 5,500
Referee: Sten Kaldma (Estonia)

Hamburger SV won 2–0 on aggregate.

Hapoel Tel Aviv 1–2 Saint-Étienne
 Report
Attendance: 12,000
Saint-Étienne 2–1 Hapoel Tel Aviv
 Report
Attendance: 27,350

Saint-Étienne won 4–2 on aggregate.

Milan 3–1 Zürich
 Report
Attendance: 25,000
Zürich 0–1 Milan
Report
Attendance: 24,600

Milan won 4–1 on aggregate.

Timișoara 1–2 Partizan
 Report
Attendance: 19,000
Partizan 1–0 Timișoara
 Report
Attendance: 15,625

Partizan won 3–1 on aggregate.

Litex Lovech 1–3 Aston Villa
 Report
Attendance: 7,000
Aston Villa 1–1 Litex Lovech
 Report
Attendance: 27,225
Referee: Tony Chapron (France)

Aston Villa won 4–2 on aggregate.

Austria Wien 2–1 Lech Poznań
 Report
Attendance: 7,500
Lech Poznań 4–2 (a.e.t.) Austria Wien
 Report
Attendance: 23,650

Lech Poznań won 5–4 on aggregate.

Vitória de Setúbal 1–1 Heerenveen
 Report
Attendance: 3,500
Heerenveen 5–2 Vitória de Setúbal
 Report
Attendance: 23,000
Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)

Heerenveen won 6–3 on aggregate.

Brann 2–0 Deportivo La Coruña
 Report
Attendance: 8,777
Referee: Johan Verbist (Austria)

2–2 on aggregate; Deportivo La Coruña won 3–2 on penalties.

Slavia Prague 0–0 Vaslui
Report
Attendance: 7,781
Referee: Levan Paniashvili (Georgia)
Vaslui 1–1 Slavia Prague
 Report
Attendance: 8,750
Referee: Mark Courtney (Northern Ireland)

1–1 on aggregate; Slavia Prague won on away goals.

Baník Ostrava 0–1 Spartak Moscow
Report
Attendance: 4,120
Spartak Moscow 1–1 Baník Ostrava
 Report
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Tony Asumaa (Finland)

Spartak Moscow won 2–1 on aggregate.

Beşiktaş 1–0 Metalist Kharkiv
 Report
Attendance: 28,500
Metalist Kharkiv 4–1 Beşiktaş
 Report
Attendance: 37,000

Metalist Kharkiv won 4–2 on aggregate.

Portsmouth 2–0 Vitória de Guimarães
 Report
Attendance: 19,612
Vitória de Guimarães 2–2 (a.e.t.) Portsmouth
 Report
Attendance: 12,000

Portsmouth won 4–2 on aggregate.

Kayserispor 1–2 Paris Saint-Germain
 Report
Attendance: 20,000
Paris Saint-Germain 0–0 Kayserispor
Report
Attendance: 20,000

Paris Saint-Germain won 2–1 on aggregate.

Sevilla 2–0 Red Bull Salzburg
 Report
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Rob Styles (England)
Red Bull Salzburg 0–2 Sevilla
Report
Attendance: 22,500

Sevilla won 4–0 on aggregate.

VfL Wolfsburg 1–0 Rapid București
 Report
Attendance: 16,245
Rapid București 1–1 VfL Wolfsburg
 Report
Attendance: 7,000

VfL Wolfsburg won 2–1 on aggregate.

Sampdoria 5–0 Kaunas
 Report
Attendance: 16,870
Kaunas 1–2 Sampdoria
 Report
Attendance: 1,500

Sampdoria won 7–1 on aggregate.

Marítimo 0–1 Valencia
Report
Attendance: 3,000
Valencia 2–1 Marítimo
 Report
Attendance: 28,000
Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

Valencia won 3–1 on aggregate.

Dinamo Zagreb 0–0 Sparta Prague
Report
Attendance: 12,000
Sparta Prague 3–3 Dinamo Zagreb
 Report
Attendance: 11,934

3–3 on aggregate; Dinamo Zagreb won on away goals.

Omonia 1–2 Manchester City
 Report
Attendance: 15,907
Referee: Paolo Dondarini (Italy)
Manchester City 2–1 Omonia
 Report
Attendance: 26,600

Manchester City won 4–2 on aggregate.

Young Boys 2–2 Club Brugge
 Report
Attendance: 10,204
Club Brugge 2–0 Young Boys
 Report
Attendance: 17,225

Club Brugge won 4–2 on aggregate.

Nancy 1–0 Motherwell
 Report
Attendance: 16,094
Motherwell 0–2 Nancy
Report
Attendance: 11,300

Nancy won 3–0 on aggregate.

Everton 2–2 Standard Liège
 Report
Attendance: 28,312
Standard Liège 2–1 Everton
 Report
Attendance: 27,150

Standard Liège won 4–3 on aggregate.

Napoli 3–2 Benfica
 Report
Attendance: 51,597
Benfica 2–0 Napoli
 Report
Attendance: 56,500

Benfica won 4–3 on aggregate.

Bellinzona 3–4 Galatasaray
 Report
Attendance: 12,300
Referee: Sorin Corpodean (Romania)
Galatasaray 2–1 Bellinzona
 Report
Attendance: 19,850

Galatasaray won 6–4 on aggregate.

NEC 1–0 Dinamo București
 Report
Attendance: 11,750
Referee: Jouni Hyytiä (Finland)
Dinamo București 0–0 NEC
Report
Attendance: 12,000

NEC won 1–0 on aggregate.

Racing Santander 1–0 Honka
 Report
Attendance: 18,637
Referee: Fritz Stuchlik (Austria)
Honka 0–1 Racing Santander
Report
Attendance: 9,100

Racing Santander won 2–0 on aggregate.

Notes

  1. ^ Played at Borås Arena as Kalmar FF's home ground did not meet UEFA criteria.
  2. ^ Played at Alvalade XXI, since Vitória FC's home ground at Setúbal does not meet UEFA criteria

References

  1. ^ "Europa League 2008/2009 » 1. Round". WorldFootball.net. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  2. ^ "2008/09 Access list". UEFA. 25 June 2008. Archived from the original on 22 April 2009. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  3. ^ Kassies, Bert. "Seeding in the UEFA Cup 2008/2009". UEFA European Cup Football. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  4. ^ "All-star lineup primed for UEFA Cup draw". UEFA. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
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