2006–07 UEFA Cup#First qualifying round

A total of 155 teams from 52 UEFA associations competed for the 2006–07 UEFA Cup. Associations were allocated places according to their 2005 UEFA league coefficient, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2000–01 to 2004–05.{{cite web |url=https://kassiesa.net/uefa/data/method3/crank2005.html |title=UEFA Country Ranking 2005 |last=Kassies |first=Bert |publisher=UEFA European Cup Football}}

Below is the qualification scheme for the 2006–07 UEFA Cup:{{Cite web|url=http://kassiesa.net/uefafiles/2006-07-uefa-access-list.pdf|title=Access List for the 2006/07 UEFA Club Competitions}}

• Associations 1–6, 16–21 each have three teams qualify
• Associations 7 and 8 each have four teams qualify
• Associations 9–15, 22–39, 41-50 each have two teams qualify
• Associations 40, 51 and 52 each have one team qualify
• The top three associations of the 2005–06 UEFA Fair Play ranking each gain an additional berth
• Eleven winning teams from the 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup
• 24 teams from the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League (eight third-placed teams from the group stage and the sixteen losers of the third qualifying round)

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• (FP): Additional berth via UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking (Norway, Belgium, Sweden)
• (IC): Additional berth via 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup
• (UCL): Additional teams transferred from the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League

The title holder would have been given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League or UEFA Cup through domestic performance; however, this additional entry was not necessary as Sevilla, winners of the 2005–06 UEFA Cup, qualified for the UEFA Cup through domestic performance. This means that the following changes to the default allocation system were made to compensate for the vacant title holder spot in the group stage:

• The first UEFA Cup qualifying entrant of association 14 (Austria) gained direct access to the 1st round – Pasching.
• The domestic cup winners of associations 19 and 20 (Switzerland and Norway) are moved from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:{{Cite web |url=https://kassiesa.net/uefa/history/qual2006.html |title=Qualification for European Cup Football 2006/2007 |access-date=2011-08-02 |archive-date=2011-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111220033220/http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/history/qual2006.html |url-status=dead }}

• 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

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{{Cnote2|Note ITA|Italy (ITA): Based on the initial final league positions, Roma, Lazio and Chievo earned direct entries to the UEFA Cup first round. Following 2006 Italian football scandal investigations (resulting in massive points deductions), Lazio lost their European entry entirely while Roma and Chievo were promoted to Champions League. Three Italian UEFA Cup berths were given to Palermo, Livorno, and Parma.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/5215178.stm|title=Punishments cut for Italian clubs|publisher=BBC|date=25 July 2006|access-date=30 July 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822214348/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/5215178.stm|archive-date=22 August 2006|url-status=live}}}}

{{Cnote2|Note GRE|Greece (GRE): Greek league 6th-placed team PAOK failed to obtain UEFA licence and were replaced by the 7th-placed team, Atromitos.{{cite web|url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UEFACup/news/Kind=1/newsId=430235.html |title=UEFA confirms PAOK absence |publisher=UEFA |access-date=2013-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060706213828/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UEFACup/news/Kind%3D1/newsId%3D430235.html |archive-date=2006-07-06 |url-status=dead }}}}

{{Cnote2|Note SRB|Serbia (SRB): Serbia and Montenegro 3rd-placed team Voždovac failed to obtain UEFA licence and were replaced by the 4th-placed team, Hajduk Kula.{{Cite web|url=https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/uefaorg/FinancialFairPlay/02/32/60/65/2326065_DOWNLOAD.pdf|title=Club Licensing: 10 Years on...|publisher=UEFA|year=2015}} All Serbian club qualified for this season's UEFA competitions though Serbia and Montenegro domestic tournaments, but represented its official successor Serbia.{{cite news |author=Aleksandar Bošković |title=Farewell to Yugoslavia |url=http://www.uefa.com/magazine/news/Kind=4194304/newsId=433131.html |work=Magazine |publisher=UEFA |date=30 June 2006 |access-date=21 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108172348/http://www.uefa.com/magazine/news/Kind=4194304/newsId=433131.html |archive-date=8 January 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }}}}

{{Cnote2|Note KAZ|Kazakhstan (KAZ): Kazakhstan Cup winners Astana failed to obtain UEFA licence and were replaced by Cup runners-up, Kairat.}}

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The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).{{cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/uefa/Keytopics/kind=64/newsId=425702.html |title=2006/07 Draw and match calendar |publisher=UEFA |date=20 June 2006 |access-date=31 January 2025 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060624051426/http://www.uefa.com/uefa/Keytopics/kind=64/newsId=425702.html |archive-date=24 June 2006}}

The 2006 Serie A scandal resulted in major changes to the clubs that originally qualified in Italy. Originally, Roma took the cup winners' place as losing finalists in the 2006 Coppa Italia, as the winners, Internazionale finished in the top four in the league and qualified for the Champions League. The other two UEFA Cup places initially went to Lazio and Chievo.

Lazio, however, as well as the remaining three Champions League qualifiers (Juventus, Milan and Fiorentina), were formally indicted on 22 June on charges relating to the scandal.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/top-italian-football-teams-charged-with-fraud-mptj5nmfv9j|title=Top Italian football teams charged with fraud|access-date=2025-01-19|publisher=Times Online | location=London | date=22 June 2006 | first=Richard | last=Owen}}

On 14 July, all four of the indicated clubs were penalised by an Italian court and the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). Results of the FIGC appeal were announced on 25 July. The impact on the UEFA Cup was:

• Lazio were barred from European competition.
• Roma and Chievo were promoted to the Champions League.
• Palermo, Livorno and Parma were granted Italy's places in the UEFA Cup.

FIFA suspended the Hellenic Football Federation (HFF) from all international competitions on 3 July 2006 because of "political interference in sport" after the Greek government passed a law, giving it control of the sports authorities in Greece. After the law was amended to address FIFA's objections, FIFA reinstated the HFF on 12 July. The Greek government in response, decided to withdraw all of its funding to the Hellenic Football Federation.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/5141866.stm |title=Greece given suspension by FIFA |work=BBC Sport |date=4 July 2006}}

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The top three teams (highlighted in green) of each group qualified for the next round. Based on paragraph 4.06 in the UEFA regulations for the current season, if two or more teams are equal on points on completion of all the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:{{cite web | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060629100814/http://www.uefa.com/newsfiles/19070.pdf| archive-date= 29 June 2006| title=Regulations of UEFA CUP 2006–07 | publisher=UEFA | url=http://www.uefa.com/Competitions/UEFACup/Format/newsId=316965.html |url-status= dead}}

1. superior goal difference from all group matches played;
2. higher number of goals scored in all group matches played;
3. higher number of goals scored away in all group matches played;
4. higher number of wins;
5. higher number of away wins;
6. higher number of 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).

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• 2006–07 UEFA Champions League
• 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup
• 2007 UEFA Super Cup

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• [https://archive.today/20130630195813/http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2006/matches/all/index.html 2006–07 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website]
• All scorers 2006–07 UEFA Cup according to (excluding preliminary round) according to [https://archive.today/20130630195744/http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2006/statistics/round=2364/players/type=topscorers/index.html protocols UEFA] + all scorers [https://web.archive.org/web/20201021134723/https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2006/statistics/round=2362/players/type=topscorers/index.html preliminary round]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100623152646/http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/history/season=2006/intro.html 2006/07 UEFA Cup – results and line-ups (archive)]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150913074555/http://www.uefa.com/news/newsid=463456.html Contenders await group stage draw] – 2006/07 UEFA Cup group stage seeding pots

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