2007–08 UEFA Cup

A total of 157 teams from all 53 UEFA member associations participated in the 2007–08 UEFA Cup. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:{{cite web|url=https://kassiesa.net/uefa/history/access2007.html |title=The access list from UEFA European Cup Football |access-date=20 June 2007 |first=Bert |last=Kassies |date=February 2007 |publisher=UEFA European Cup Football}}

• Associations 1–6 and 16–21 each had three teams qualify.
• Associations 7–8 each had four teams qualify.
• Associations 9–15 and 22–53 (except Liechtenstein, San Marino and Andorra) each had two teams qualify.
• Liechtenstein (as they organized only a domestic cup and no domestic league), San Marino and Andorra had only one team that qualified.

Moreover, the following teams also qualified for the competition:

• 24 teams eliminated from the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League were transferred to the UEFA Cup.
• 11 teams advancing from the 2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup were transferred to the UEFA Cup.
• 3 associations had one additional team qualify via the UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking.

For the 2007–08 UEFA Cup, the associations were allocated places according to their 2006 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 2001–02 to 2005–06.{{cite web|url=https://kassiesa.net/uefa/data/method3/crank2007.html |title=UEFA Country Ranking 2007 |access-date=4 February 2025 |first=Bert |last=Kassies |publisher=UEFA European Cup Football}}

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the UEFA Cup, as noted below:

• {{small|(UCL)}} – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
• {{small|(IC)}} – Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Intertoto Cup
• {{small|(FP)}} – Additional berth via Fair Play ranking

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The following was the access list for this season.{{cite web|url=https://kassiesa.net/uefa/history/index2007.html |title=Year 2007/2008 |access-date=4 February 2025 |first=Bert |last=Kassies |publisher=UEFA European Cup Football}}

Due to the UEFA Cup title holder (Sevilla) qualifying for the Champions League via their domestic league, the following changes to the access list were made:

• The cup winners of association 14 (Czech Republic) entered the UEFA Cup first round instead of the second qualifying round.
• The cup winners of association 19 and 20 (Norway and Austria) entered the UEFA Cup second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:

• CW: Domestic cup winners
• CR: Domestic cup runners-up
• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position of the previous season
• LC: League cup winners
• PO: End-of-season UEFA Cup play-offs winners
• IC: Intertoto Cup third round winners
• FP: Qualified via Fair Play ranking
• CL: Transferred from the Champions League
• Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
• GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage

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{{Cnote2|Note IRL|Republic of Ireland (IRL): Second-placed Derry City (also 2006 FAI Cup winners) were admitted to Champions League after last year champions Shelbourne were denied a Premier Division license for 2007 due to financial violations. FAI Cup runners-up St Patrick's Athletic were added to the UEFA Cup to fill for Derry City.{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2007/0330/216108-shelbourne/|publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann|title=Shels relinquish Champions League place}}}}

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The draw, which was conducted by UEFA's director of professional football Giorgio Marchetti and Michele Centenaro, UEFA's head of club competitions, was held on Tuesday, 9 October 2007 at 12:00 CET in Nyon, Switzerland.

The top three teams (highlighted in green) of each group qualified for the next round. Based on paragraph 6.06 in the UEFA regulations for the current season, if two or more teams were equal on points on completion of all the group matches, the following criteria were applied to determine the rankings:{{cite web|url=https://www.uefa.com/newsfiles/19070.pdf |title=Regulations of the UEFA Cup 2007-08 |publisher=UEFA |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060629100814/http://www.uefa.com/newsfiles/19070.pdf |archive-date=29 June 2006}}

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 8.03 of the UEFA regulations).

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{{main|2007–08 UEFA Cup knockout stage}}

All of the rounds in the final phase are two-legged, except for the final. In the event of aggregate scores being equal after normal time in the second leg, the winning team will be that which scored more goals on their away leg: if the scores in the two matches were identical, extra time is played. The away goals rule also applies if scores are equal at the end of extra time. If there are no goals scored in extra time, the tie is decided on a penalty shoot out. The team first out of the hat in each tie plays the first leg of their tie at home, and the second leg away.

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The top scorers in the 2007–08 UEFA Cup are the following:{{cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/newsfiles/uefacup/2008/md14_1_6.pdf |title=Top Scorers Final – Wednesday 14 May 2008 (after match) |publisher=UEFA |date=14 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327013722/http://www.uefa.com/newsfiles/uefacup/2008/md14_1_6.pdf |archive-date=27 March 2009}}

• 2007–08 UEFA Champions League
• 2007 UEFA Intertoto Cup
• 2008 UEFA Super Cup

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{{commons category}}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120112024635/http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2008/matches/all/index.html 2007–08 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website]
• All scorers 2007–08 UEFA Cup according to (excluding preliminary round) according to [https://web.archive.org/web/20111109113709/http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2008/statistics/round=15118/players/type=topscorers/index.html protocols UEFA] + all scorers [https://web.archive.org/web/20201124131729/https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2008/statistics/round=15116/players/type=topscorers/index.html preliminary round]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100625234536/http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/history/season=2008/intro.html 2007/08 UEFA Cup - results and line-ups (archive)]

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