The 2006–07 UEFA Cup group stage began on 19 October and ended on 14 December 2006. Forty teams were divided into eight groups, with the top three teams of each group advancing to the knockout stage.
Teams The group stage draw took place on 3 October 2006 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The forty teams were divided into five pots of eight teams based on the UEFA club coefficient rankings.
Key to coloursGroup winners, runners-up and third-placed teams advanced to round of 32
+Pot 1Team Sevilla61.006 Newcastle United75.950 Panathinaikos66.587 Parma63.020 Ajax60.640 Bayer Leverkusen57.960 Feyenoord54.640 Auxerre53.757+Pot 2Team Club Brugge49.981 Basel49.537 AZ48.640 Sparta Prague44.769 Rangers43.023 Celta Vigo43.006 Paris Saint-Germain41.757 Lens39.757+Pot 3Team Beşiktaş38.634 Palermo36.020 Espanyol33.006 Heerenveen30.640 Partizan30.600 Rapid București30.381 Wisła Kraków29.104 Slovan Liberec28.769+Pot 4Team Fenerbahçe28.634 Austria Wien27.723 Hapoel Tel Aviv26.108 Osasuna25.006 Blackburn Rovers23.950 Grasshopper23.537 Dinamo București22.381 Livorno22.020+Pot 5Team Tottenham Hotspur20.950 Maccabi Haifa19.108 Braga17.533 Nancy16.757 Eintracht Frankfurt15.960 Zulte Waregem9.981 Mladá Boleslav8.769 Odense8.593
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Tie-breaking criteria 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: superior goal difference from all group matches played; higher number of goals scored; higher number of goals scored away; higher number of wins; higher number of away wins; higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.
Groups All times are CET, as listed by UEFA.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
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