The first round of the 2007–08 UEFA Cup began on 20 September 2007, which narrowed clubs down to 40 teams in preparation for the group stage.

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

Teams The following 80 teams participated in the first round.

Key to coloursWinners of first round advanced to group stage

+ First round participantsTeamNotes Villarreal 78.374 Bayern Munich 73.640 Ajax 65.995 AZ 63.995 Panathinaikos 55.415 Basel 54.869 Lens 51.706 Bordeaux 49.706 Bayer Leverkusen 45.640 Club Brugge 45.594 Palermo 42.808 Anderlecht 41.594 Tottenham Hotspur 40.618 Zaragoza 40.374 Rapid București 40.255 Lokomotiv Moscow 38.920 Zenit Saint Petersburg 38.920 Sparta Prague 37.851 Sochaux 36.706 Blackburn Rovers 36.618TeamNotes AEK Athens 36.415 Heerenveen 35.995 Hamburger SV 34.640 Dinamo București 34.255 Bolton Wanderers 32.618 Austria Wien 30.104 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 29.726 Sampdoria 28.808 Spartak Moscow 27.920 Braga 27.107 Galatasaray 26.791 Getafe 25.374 Atlético Madrid 25.374 Everton 24.618 Fiorentina 21.808 Empoli 21.808 Rennes 20.706 CSKA Sofia 20.112 Hapoel Tel Aviv 19.338 Crvena zvezda 19.256TeamNotes Copenhagen 19.129 Litex Lovech 19.112 Toulouse 17.706 Dinamo Zagreb 17.533 Panionios 16.415 União de Leiria 16.107 Odense 15.129 Groningen 14.995 1. FC Nürnberg 14.640 Standard Liège 14.594 Belenenses 14.107 Paços de Ferreira 14.107 Mladá Boleslav 13.851 Artmedia Petržalka 13.575 Aris 13.415 Twente 12.995 Groclin Grodzisk Wielkopolski 11.609 Vålerenga 11.509 Aberdeen 11.064 Lokomotiv Sofia 10.112TeamNotes Rapid Wien 10.104 Zürich 9.869 Metalist Kharkiv 9.726 Midtjylland 9.129 Red Bull Salzburg 9.104 Sion 8.869 Kayseri Erciyesspor 8.791 AEL 8.415 AaB 7.129 Brann 6.509 Anorthosis Famagusta 5.492 IF Elfsborg 4.478 AIK 4.478 Sarajevo 4.190 Helsingborgs IF 3.478 Hammarby IF 3.478 BK Häcken 3.478 Tampere United 2.420 Rabotnicki 1.925 BATE Borisov 1.540

Notes

Seeding UEFA allocated the teams into eight groups, each with five seeded and five unseeded teams.

Group 1Group 2Group 3Group 4SeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseededGroup 5Group 6Group 7Group 8SeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseededSeededUnseeded

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Summary

The draw, which was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Gérard Houllier, the winning coach in the 2000–01 tournament, was held on Friday, 31 August 2007 at 13:00 CET in Monaco. The matches were played on 20 September and 4 October 2007.

Matches

Lokomotiv Moscow won 5–1 on aggregate.

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

Bolton Wanderers won 2–1 on aggregate.

AEK Athens won 3–1 on aggregate.

2–2 on aggregate; 1. FC Nürnberg won on away goals.

Everton won 4–3 on aggregate.

Zenit Saint Petersburg won 4–1 on aggregate.

Bayer Leverkusen won 5–4 on aggregate.

Villarreal won 6–1 on aggregate.

Galatasaray won 7–4 on aggregate.

Atlético Madrid won 9–0 on aggregate.

Bordeaux won 4–3 on aggregate.

Panathinaikos won 5–1 on aggregate.

0–0 on aggregate; Sparta Prague won 4–3 on penalties.

Zürich won 4–2 on aggregate.

Panionios won 2–1 on aggregate.

Anderlecht won 2–1 on aggregate.

AZ won 1–0 on aggregate.

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

Spartak Moscow won 8–1 on aggregate.

Braga won 5–2 on aggregate.

AEL won 3–2 on aggregate.

1–1 on aggregate; Mladá Boleslav won 4–2 on penalties.

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

Rennes won 4–3 on aggregate.

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

Bayern Munich won 3–0 on aggregate.

1–1 on aggregate; Aberdeen won on away goals.

Helsingborgs IF won 8–6 on aggregate.

1–1 on aggregate; Toulouse won on away goals.

Hamburger SV won 4–1 on aggregate.

Basel won 8–1 on aggregate.

Austria Wien won 4–2 on aggregate.

Hapoel Tel Aviv won 1–0 on aggregate.

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

2–2 on aggregate; IF Elfsborg won on away goals.

Tottenham Hotspur won 7–2 on aggregate.

Copenhagen won 3–2 on aggregate.

3–3 on aggregate; Getafe won on away goals.

Crvena zvezda won 2–0 on aggregate.

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References

External links Qualifying Rounds Information