2008–09 UEFA Cup#Second qualifying round

A total of 157 teams from 53 UEFA associations participated in the 2008–09 UEFA Cup. Associations were allocated places according to their 2007 UEFA league coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2002–03 to 2006–07.{{cite web|url=https://kassiesa.net/uefa/data/method3/crank2007.html|title=UEFA Country Ranking 2007|publisher=Bert Kassies}}

Below is the qualification scheme for the 2008–09 UEFA Cup:{{cite web |title=Regulations of the UEFA Cup 2008/09 |url=http://www.uefa.com/multimediafiles/download/regulations/uefa/others/70/22/70/702270_download.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010012526/http://www.uefa.com/multimediafiles/download/regulations/uefa/others/70/22/70/702270_download.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 October 2008 |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |location=Nyon |access-date=28 June 2012 |date=March 2008}}

• Associations 1–6 each have three teams qualify
• Associations 7 and 8 each have four teams qualify
• Associations 9–15 and 22–51 each have two teams qualify, except Liechtenstein, which has one team qualify (as Liechtenstein only has a domestic cup and no domestic league)
• Associations 16–21 each have three teams qualify
• Associations 52 and 53 each have one team qualify

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• The top three associations of the 2007–08 UEFA Fair Play ranking each gain an additional berth
• 11 winners of the 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup
• 16 losers from the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round
• 8 third-placed teams from the UEFA Champions League group stage

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• (FP): Additional fair play berth (Denmark, England, Germany){{cite web|title=England earn Fair Play prize |publisher=UEFA |date=13 May 2008 |url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/news/kind=1/newsid=693443.html |access-date=13 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512145828/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/news/kind%3D1/newsid%3D693443.html |archive-date=12 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|title=Fair Play bonus for Germans and Danes |publisher=UEFA |date=13 May 2008 |url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/news/kind=1/newsid=695145.html |access-date=13 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514041421/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/news/kind%3D1/newsid%3D695145.html |archive-date=14 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/7392552.stm |title=Man City claim last Uefa Cup slot |date=16 May 2008 |publisher=BBC Sport |access-date=30 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318204307/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/7392552.stm |archive-date=18 March 2009 |url-status=live }}{{cite news | url=http://www.dbu.dk/news/newsShow.aspx?id=246581| title=FC Nordsjælland i UEFA Cup'en| publisher=Dansk Boldspil-Union| access-date=25 May 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080610063923/http://www.dbu.dk/news/newsShow.aspx?id=246581| archive-date= 10 June 2008 | url-status= live}}{{cite web| title = Hertha BSC gewinnt nationale Fairplay-Wertung| publisher = Bundesliga.de | date = 18 May 2008| url = http://www.bundesliga.de/de/liga/news/2007/index.php?f=94357.php&fla=1| access-date = 18 May 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080612213207/http://bundesliga.de/de/liga/news/2007/index.php?f=94357.php&fla=1| archive-date= 12 June 2008 | url-status= live}}
• (UCL): Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League

Since the winners of the 2007–08 UEFA Cup, Zenit Saint Petersburg, qualified for the 2008–09 UEFA Champions League through domestic performance, the title holder spot reserved for them in the playoff round was vacated. As a result, the following changes to the default allocation system were made to compensate for the vacant title holder spot in the group stage:{{cite web |title=2008/09 UEFA Cup Access list and calendar|url=http://www.uefa.com/news/newsid=727066.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150118001218/http://www.uefa.com/news/newsid=727066.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 January 2015 |work=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=22 December 2008}}

• The domestic cup winners of associations 14 (Turkey) was promoted from the second qualifying round to the play-off round.
• The first UEFA Cup entrant of associations 19 and 20 (Israel and Serbia) were promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

A UEFA Cup place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the UEFA Cup, or qualifies for the UEFA Cup by more than one method. When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules:

• When the domestic cup winners (considered as the "highest-placed" qualifiers within the national association) also qualify for the Champions League, their UEFA Cup place is vacated, and the remaining UEFA Cup qualifiers are moved up one place, with the final place (with the earliest starting round) taken by the domestic cup runners-up, provided they do not already qualify for the Champions League or the UEFA Cup. Otherwise, this place is taken by the highest-placed league finishers that have not yet qualified for the European competitions.
• When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the UEFA Cup through league position, their place through the league position is vacated, and the UEFA Cup qualifiers that finish lower in the league are moved up one place, with the final place taken by the highest-placed league finishers that have not yet qualified for the UEFA Cup.
• A place vacated by the League Cup winners is taken by the highest-placed league finishers that have not yet qualified for the UEFA Cup.
• A Fair Play place is taken by the highest-ranked team in the domestic Fair Play table that has not yet qualified for the Champions League or the UEFA Cup.

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{{Cnote2|Note BUL|Bulgaria (BUL): After Bulgarian champions CSKA Sofia failed to obtain a UEFA licence and replaced in the Champions League by runners-up Levski Sofia, league 3rd-placed team Lokomotiv Sofia moved up from First to Second qualifying round, while 5th-placed team Cherno More were awarded a spot in the First qualifying round.{{Cite web|url=https://dariknews.bg/novini/sport/cska-bez-licenz-za-uefa-fenovete-besni-tomov-poe-vinata-258773|title=ЦСКА без лиценз за УЕФА, феновете бесни, Томов пое вината|date=3 June 2008|website=dariknews.bg}}}}

{{Cnote2|Note SRB|Serbia (SRB): 2007–08 Serbian Cup runners-up FK Zemun failed to obtain a UEFA licence and were replaced by Serbian Superliga 4th-placed team Borac Čačak.{{Cite web|url=https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/Tech/uefaorg/General/01/58/53/46/1585346_DOWNLOAD.pdf|title=The European Club Footballing Landscape: Club licensing benchmarking report financial year 2009|publisher=UEFA}}}}

{{Cnote2|Note AUT|Austria (AUT): 2007–08 Austrian Cup winners SV Horn were not admitted to UEFA Cup as the Austrian Cup was limited to amateur clubs that season. Austrian Bundesliga 3rd-placed club admitted to UEFA Cup instead.{{Cite web|url=http://www.austriasoccer.at/data/nat/2000_09/200708.html|title=Fussball in Österreich 2007/08|website=www.austriasoccer.at}}}}

{{Cnote2|Note POL|Poland (POL): Polish Ekstraklasa 3rd-placed team Groclin Grodzisk Wielkopolski lost their UEFA Cup spot after merger with Polonia Warsaw and were replaced by 4th-placed team Lech Poznań.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pb.pl/polonia-warszawa-polaczyla-sie-z-groclinem-grodzisk-wlkp-440919|title=Polonia Warszawa połączyła się z Groclinem Grodzisk Wlkp.|date=10 February 2025|website=pb.pl}}}}

{{Cnote2|Note NIR|Northern Ireland (NIR): 2007–08 Irish Cup runners-up Coleraine failed to obtain UEFA license and were replaced by Irish Premier League 3rd-placed team Cliftonville.{{Cite web|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/irish-league/euro-heartache-for-coleraine/28386780.html|title=Euro heartache for Coleraine|date=17 April 2008|via=www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk}}}}

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The calendar shows the dates of the rounds and draw.

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The draw, which was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor, was held on 29 August 2008 at 13:00 CET in Monaco.{{#lst:2008–09 UEFA Cup first round|R1}}

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The draw for the group stage of the 2008–09 UEFA Cup was held at UEFA Headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, on 7 October 2008. The 40 teams in the draw were divided into five pots based on their UEFA coefficients. The eight teams with the highest UEFA coefficient were allocated to Pot 1, the next eight teams to Pot 2, and so on. One team from each pot was drawn for each group, with the restriction that no team could be drawn with one from the same country.{{cite news |title=Draw for UEFA Cup Group Stage |url=http://www.uefa.com/multimediafiles/download/pressrelease/uefa/uefamedia/75/51/72/755172_download.pdf |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=29 September 2008 |access-date=30 September 2008 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081001085047/http://www.uefa.com/multimediafiles/download/pressrelease/uefa/uefamedia/75/51/72/755172_download.pdf| archive-date= 1 October 2008 | url-status= dead}}

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 are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:

1. superior goal difference from all group matches played;
2. higher number of goals scored;
3. higher number of goals scored away;
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.

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In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.{{#lst:2008–09 UEFA Cup knockout stage|Format}}

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Source: Hammond, Mike, ed (2009). The European Football Yearbook 2009/10. London: Carlton Books. {{ISBN|978-1-84732-360-6}}.

• 2008–09 UEFA Champions League
• 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup
• 2009 UEFA Super Cup

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120128102933/http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2009/matches/all/index.html 2008–09 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130917034224/http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/history/season%3D2009/intro.html 2008/09 UEFA Cup - results and line-ups (archive)]
• All scorers 2008–09 UEFA Cup according to (excluding preliminary round) according to [https://web.archive.org/web/20111110094252/http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2009/statistics/round=15284/players/type=topscorers/index.html protocols UEFA] + all scorers [https://web.archive.org/web/20130722143222/http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2009/statistics/round=15282/players/type=topscorers/index.html preliminary round]

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