The 2005–06 UEFA Cup, the 35th edition of the UEFA Cup, was won by Sevilla, beating Middlesbrough in the final. It was the first victory for Sevilla in a European competition, and the first appearance by Middlesbrough in a European final. The final took place at Philips Stadion, in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The match was refereed by Herbert Fandel. Middlesbrough sealed their place in the final on the back of two dramatic comebacks. In the quarter-finals they beat FC Basel of Switzerland 4–3 on aggregate (after losing the first leg 2–0 and being 1–0 down in the second leg, they scored 4 goals), this put them into the semi-final to face Steaua București. The first leg finished 1–0 to Steaua, and the second leg (at the Riverside Stadium again) finished 4–2 (after being 2–0 down). Sevilla went on to defend the trophy the following year.
CSKA Moscow were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the group stage.
Association team allocation 113 teams qualified directly for the 2005–06 UEFA Cup from 52 UEFA associations. An additional three teams qualified via the UEFA Fair Play league, while 27 further teams qualified at various stages from the UEFA Intertoto Cup and the UEFA Champions League.
Below is the final qualification scheme for the 2005–06 UEFA Cup:
Associations 1–6 each have 3 teams qualify, with the exception of England (2) who have 2 teams Associations 7–8 each have 4 teams qualify Associations 9–15 each have 2 teams qualify Associations 16–20 each have 3 teams qualify Associations 21–49 each have 2 teams qualify, with the exception of Liechtenstein (43) who have 1 team Associations 50–52 each have 1 team qualify plus Winner of previous years' tournament 3 UEFA Fair Play entries 3 winners of the 2005 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
RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 1 79.851 3 +1(UCL) 2 62.153 −1(CLTH) +1(UCL) 3 59.186 +1(UCL) 4 49.489 +1(UCL) +2(UIC) +1(FP) 5 48.326 +3(UCL) +1(UIC) 6 42.333 7 34.748 4 8 34.081 9 33.075 2 +1(UCL) 10 32.291 11 32.125 12 28.875 +1(UCL) 13 22.375 +2(UCL) 14 22.125 +1(UCL) 15 21.900 +2(UCL) +1(FP)RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 16 21.750 3 +1(UCL) 17 21.249 18 21.125 19 20.165 +1(UCL) 20 19.998 +1(UCL) 21 19.916 2 +1(UCL) 22 17.450 +1(UCL) +1(FP) 23 17.375 24 16.716 +1(UCL) 25 15.290 +1(UCL) 26 14.790 +1(UCL) 27 12.832 +1(UCL) 28 9.165 29 8.998 +1(UCL) 30 6.832 31 5.998 32 5.874 33 5.499RankAssociationCoeff.TeamsNotes 34 4.999 2 35 4.830 36 4.165 37 3.582 38 3.332 39 3.331 40 3.164 41 2.831 42 2.332 43 2.000 1 44 1.831 2 45 1.665 46 1.665 47 1.498 48 1.165 49 0.832 50 0.666 0 51 0.000 1 52 0.000
Notes (CLTH): Berth vacated due to being taken by the UEFA Champions League title holders. (UCL): Teams transferred from the Champions League. (UIC): Additional berths for the 2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup winners. (FP): Additional Fair Play berth (Germany, Norway, Denmark).
Distribution
Each association enters a certain number of teams to the UEFA Cup based on its league coefficient. Through domestic competitions (national championships and cups and league cups in certain countries) an association may qualify up to four teams. The following amendments were made to the 2005–06 qualification scheme:
The defending UEFA Cup holder CSKA Moscow already qualified for the 2nd qualifying round, which means that the first UEFA Cup entrant of the 25th and 26th associations on the ranking list (Hungary and Romania) will gain direct access to the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup. Because Liverpool entered the first qualifying round of the Champions League as title holders, the first UEFA Cup entrant of 11th and 12th associations on the ranking list (Scotland and Belgium) will gain direct access to the first round of the UEFA Cup. In Kazakhstan, only Kairat obtained a UEFA licence for the 2005–06 season. The other teams from Kazakhstan were not allowed to compete. Therefore, the first UEFA Cup entrant of the 27th and 28th countries on the ranking list (Slovakia and Slovenia) will gain direct access to the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup. In Serbia and Montenegro, the cup winner Železnik was replaced by OFK Beograd because they did not obtain a UEFA licence. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the cup winner Sarajevo was replaced by Široki Brijeg, and 2nd in the league Zeljeznicar was replaced by Žepče, because they did not obtain a UEFA licence.
Teams entering in this roundTeams advancing from previous roundTeams transferred from Champions LeagueTeams transferred from Intertoto CupFirst qualifying round (50 teams)2 league winners from associations 51 and 52 21 cup winners from associations 29–49 24 runners-up from associations 25–42 and 44-49 3 entries through UEFA Fair PlaySecond qualifying round (62 teams)17 cup winners from associations 13–28 9 runners-up from associations 16–24 11 third-place finishers from associations 9–2025 winners from the first qualifying roundFirst round (80 teams)12 national cup winners from associations 1–12 2 third-place finishers from associations 7–8 5 fourth-place finishers from associations 4–8 7 fifth-place finishers from associations 1 and 3–8 2 sixth-place finishers from associations 1 and 3 1 League Cup winners from association 2 1 current UEFA Cup holder31 winners from the second qualifying round16 losers from the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round3 winners of the 2005 UEFA Intertoto CupGroup stage (40 teams)40 winners from the First RoundKnockout phase (32 teams)24 top-three finishers from the group stage8 entries from UEFA Champions League group stage
Teams The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: TH: Title holders CW: Cup winners CR: Cup runners-up LC: League Cup winners Nth: League position PO: End-of-season European competition play-offs (winners or position) IC: Intertoto Cup FP: Fair play CL: Relegated from the Champions League GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
Round of 32 Real Betis Schalke 04 Club Brugge Rosenborg Udinese Lille Thun Artmedia Bratislava First round CSKA Moscow TH Rennes Willem II Wisła Kraków Espanyol Strasbourg Baník Ostrava Partizan Sevilla Vitória de Setúbal Galatasaray CSKA Sofia Osasuna Braga Hibernian Lokomotiv Moscow Bolton Wanderers Vitória de Guimarães Germinal Beerschot Brøndby Middlesbrough AEK Athens Everton Malmö FF Sampdoria Skoda Xanthi Monaco Debrecen Palermo PAOK Sporting CP Steaua București Roma Aris Slavia Prague Anorthosis Famagusta Hertha BSC AZ Basel Hamburger SV VfB Stuttgart Feyenoord Shakhtar Donetsk Marseille Bayer Leverkusen Heerenveen Vålerenga Lens Auxerre Second qualifying round Teplice Groclin Grodzisk Wielkopolski Red Star Belgrade Midtjylland Beşiktaş Legia Warsaw Zeta Rijeka Dundee United Wisła Płock OFK Beograd Inter Zaprešić Genk Maccabi Tel Aviv Levski Sofia Djurgårdens IF Zürich Maccabi Petah Tikva Lokomotiv Plovdiv Halmstads BK Grasshopper Ashdod Litex Lovech Sopron Metalurh Donetsk Austria Wien Krylia Sovetov Samara Dinamo București Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk GAK Zenit Saint Petersburg Dukla Banská Bystrica Brann Superfund Copenhagen Publikum Tromsø First qualifying round Ferencváros Žepče Longford Town Flora Rapid București Locomotive Tbilisi Cork City Pétange Žilina Torpedo Kutaisi Mika Etzella Ettelbruck Domžale Bashkimi Banants Baku Omonia Vardar Carmarthen Town Khazar Lankaran APOEL Ekranas Rhyl B36 Nistru Otaci Atlantas Vaduz NSÍ Dacia Chișinău MTZ-RIPO Minsk Teuta Sant Julià Ventspils BATE Borisov Elbasani Domagnano Liepājas Metalurgs Keflavík Portadown Viking MYPA ÍBV Linfield Mainz 05 Allianssi Birkirkara TVMK Esbjerg Široki Brijeg Hibernians
Notes
Round and draw dates The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).
+Schedule for 2005–06 UEFA CupPhaseRoundDraw dateFirst legSecond legQualifyingFirst qualifying round24 June 200514 July 200528 July 2005Second qualifying round29 July 200511 August 200525 August 2005First round26 August 2005 (Monaco)15 September 200529 September 2005Group stageMatchday 14 October 200520 October 2005Matchday 23 November 2005Matchday 324 November 2005Matchday 430 November – 1 December 2005Matchday 514–15 December 2005Knockout stageRound of 3216 December 200515–16 February 200623 February 2006Round of 169 March 200615–16 March 2006Quarter-finals17 March 200630 March 20066 April 2006Semi-finals20 April 200627 April 2006Final10 May 2006 at Philips Stadion, Eindhoven
Qualifying rounds
First qualifying round
Second qualifying round
First round
Group stage
Based on paragraph 4.06 in the UEFA regulations for the current season, tiebreakers, if necessary, are applied in the following order: Cumulative goal difference in group matches Total goals scored in group matches Away goals scored in group matches Higher number of UEFA coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons (see paragraph 6.03 of the UEFA regulations)
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Knockout stage
Bracket
Round of 32
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Top goalscorers
RankNameTeamGoalsMinutes played1 Matías Delgado Basel79922 Nicolae Dică Steaua București61157 Mark Viduka Middlesbrough6667 Javier Saviola Sevilla6669 Frédéric Kanouté Sevilla6727
See also 2005–06 UEFA Champions League 2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup 2006 UEFA Super Cup
References
External links
2005–06 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website Results at RSSSF.com Qualification and Seeding Information All scorers 2005–06 UEFA Cup according to (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers preliminary round 2005/06 UEFA Cup – results and line-ups (archive) Group stage lineup complete – list of the group stage participants with club coefficients, the draw was based on