2001–02 UEFA Cup explained

Tourney Name:	UEFA Cup
Year:	2001–02
Size:	275px
Dates:	9 August 2001 – 8 May 2002
Champion Other:	Feyenoord
Count:	2
Second Other:	Borussia Dortmund
Matches:	204
Goals:	552
Attendance:	2889630
Top Scorer:	Pierre van Hooijdonk (Feyenoord) 8 goals
Prevseason:	2000–01
Nextseason:	2002–03

The 2001–02 UEFA Cup was won by Feyenoord at their home ground in the final against Borussia Dortmund. It was the second time they won the competition.

Liverpool could not defend their title as they automatically qualified for the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League and also reached the knockout stage.

Association team allocation

A total of 145 teams from 51 UEFA associations participated in the 2001–02 UEFA Cup. Associations are allocated places according to their 2000 UEFA league coefficient.^[1]

Below is the qualification scheme for the 2001–02 UEFA Cup:

Associations 1–6 each enter three teams
Associations 7–8 each enter four teams
Associations 9–15 each enter two teams
Associations 16–21 each enter three teams
Associations 22–49 each enter two teams, with the exception of Liechtenstein who enter one.
Associations 50-51 each enter one team
The top three associations of the 2000–2001 UEFA Fair Play ranking each gain an additional berth
16 teams eliminated from the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds
8 teams eliminated from the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League group stage are transferred to the UEFA Cup
3 winners of the Intertoto Cup
The winner of the 2000–01 UEFA Cup (not used due to Liverpool's qualification to Champions League)

Association ranking

Rank	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
1	59.599	3	+1(UCL)
2	55.927		+1(UCL)
3	44.403		+1(UCL)
4	42.727		+2(UCL) +2(IT)
5	41.455		+1(IT)
6	36.666		+3(UCL)
7	29.275	4	+1(UCL)
8	29.124	4	+1(UCL)
9	28.866	2
10	24.549
11	23.850
12	23.166		+1(UCL)
13	22.100
14	21.000		+1(UCL)
15	20.500		+2(UCL)
16	20.500	3	+1(UCL)
17	19.050
18	18.175		+1(UCL)

Rank	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
19	18.000	3	+1(UCL)
20	17.833		+1(UCL)
21	16.124		+1(UCL)
22	15.533	2	+1(UCL)
23	15.416
24	13.541
25	12.832		+1(UCL) +1(FP)
26	11.831
27	11.498
28	11.415		+1(UCL)
29	10.540		+1(UCL)
30	9.666
31	8.332
32	8.041		+1(UCL) +1(FP)
33	7.583		+1(FP)
34	6.333
35	6.332

Rank	Coeff.	Teams
36	5.081	2
37	4.665
38	2.582
39	2.332
40	2.249
41	1.665
42	1.498
43	1.498
44	1.415
45	1.332
46	1.249
47	1.000	1
48	0.832	2
49	0.500	2
50	0.000	1
51	0.000	1

Notes

(FP): Additional fair play berth (Finland, Slovakia, Belarus)
(UCL): Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
(IT): Additional teams from Intertoto Cup

Distribution

	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round	Teams transferred from Champions League
Qualifying round (82 teams)	31 domestic cup winners from associations 19–49 33 domestic league runners-up from associations 16–49 13 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 9–21 3 teams from the Fair Play rankings 2 domestic league champions teams from Andorra and San Marino
First round (96 teams)	18 domestic cup winners from associations 1–18 2 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 7–8 5 domestic league fourth-placed teams from associations 4–8 8 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 1–8 3 domestic league sixth-placed teams from associations 1–3 3 winners of the Intertoto Cup	41 winners from the qualifying round	16 losing teams from Champions League qualifying
Second round (48 teams)		48 winners from the first round
Third round (32 teams)		24 winners from the second round	8 third placed teams from the Champions League first group stage
Fourth round (16 teams)		16 winners from the third round
Play-offs (8 teams)		8 winners from the fourth round play the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final

Redistribution rules

A UEFA Cup place is vacated when a team qualify for both the Champions League and the UEFA Cup, or qualify 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" qualifier 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 finisher which do not qualify for the UEFA Cup yet.
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 which finish lower in the league are moved up one place, with the final place taken by the highest-placed league finisher which do not qualify for the UEFA Cup yet.
A place vacated by the League Cup winners is taken by the highest-placed league finisher which do not qualify for the UEFA Cup yet.
A Fair Play place is taken by the highest-ranked team in the domestic Fair Play table which do not qualify for the Champions League or UEFA Cup yet.

Teams

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

CW: Cup winners
CR: Cup runners-up
LC: League Cup winners
Nth: League position
P-W: End-of-season European competition play-off winners
FP: Fair play
IT: Intertoto Cup winners
CL: Relegated from the Champions League
- GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
- Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round

Qualifying round

See main article: 2001–02 UEFA Cup qualifying round.

First round

See main article: 2001–02 UEFA Cup first round.

Second round

See main article: 2001–02 UEFA Cup second round.

Final phase

See main article: 2001–02 UEFA Cup final phase.

In the final phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.

Final

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[2]	Minutes played
1	Pierre van Hooijdonk	Feyenoord	8	750'
2	Mário Jardel	Sporting CP	6	490'
	Richard Núñez	Grasshopper		516'
	Mohamed Kallon	Inter Milan		902'
5	Jan Nezmar	Slovan Liberec	5	355'
	Yiasoumis Yiasoumi	PAOK		382'
	Pauleta	Bordeaux		539'
	Márcio Amoroso	Borussia Dortmund		644'
	Milan Osterc	Hapoel Tel Aviv		797'

External links

2001–02 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website
Official Site
Results at RSSSF.com
All scorers 2001–02 UEFA Cup according to (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA + all scorers preliminary round
2001/02 UEFA Cup – results and line-ups (archive)
Regulations of UEEFA Cup 2001–02

Notes and References

Web site: UEFA European Cups 2001/2002: Results and Qualification. 2 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20111219171901/http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/history/index2001.html. 19 December 2011. dead.
Web site: UEFA Europa League 2001/02 - History - Statistics . UEFA . 20 November 2013.