2000–01 UEFA Cup

Liverpool won the 2000–01 UEFA Cup with a golden goal in the final against Alavés for their third title in the competition. It completed a cup treble for the club, as they also won the FA Cup and the League Cup that season. The conclusion of the tournament by a golden goal is the only instance in any of the major European club cup competitions until the abolition of the rule in 2002.

2000–01 UEFA Cup

Westfalenstadion, in Dortmund, hosted the final.
Dates	8 August 2000 – 16 May 2001
Final positions
Champions	Liverpool (3rd title)
Runners-up	Alavés
Tournament statistics
Matches played	205
Goals scored	566 (2.76 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Goran Drulić (Red Star Belgrade) Javi Moreno (Alavés) Marcin Kuźba (Lausanne) Demis Nikolaidis (AEK Athens) 6 goals each
← 1999–2000 2001–02 →

Galatasaray could not defend their title as they automatically qualified for the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League and also reached the knockout stage.

English clubs had been banned from European competitions between 1985 and 1990 as a result of the Heysel disaster, and Liverpool were the first English side of the post-Heysel era to win the trophy. The previous English winners were Tottenham Hotspur in 1984. It was also Liverpool's first European trophy of the post-Heysel era.

Association team allocation

A total of 145 teams from 51 UEFA associations participated in the 2000–01 UEFA Cup. Associations are allocated places according to their 1999 UEFA league coefficient.^[1]

Below is the qualification scheme for the 2000–01 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 1999–2000 UEFA Fair Play ranking each gain an additional berth
• 16 teams eliminated from the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the UEFA Cup
• 8 teams eliminated from the group stage of the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the UEFA Cup
• 3 winners of the Intertoto Cup
• The winner of the 1999-2000 UEFA Cup (not used due to Galatasaray's qualification to Champions League)

Association ranking

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 1   Italy 57.212 3 +1(UCL) +1(IT) 2   Spain 49.628 +1(UCL) +1(FP) +1(IT) 3   Germany 45.498 +3(UCL) +1(IT) 4   France 41.442 5   Netherlands 37.816 +2(UCL) 6   England 34.288 7   Russia 27.825 4 +1(UCL) 8   Greece 26.950 +1(UCL) 9   Portugal 24.716 2 +1(UCL) 10   Czech Republic 23.624 +1(UCL) 11   Austria 22.375 +1(UCL) 12   Denmark 21.050 +2(UCL) 13   Croatia 20.374 +1(UCL) 14   Turkey 20.350 15   Ukraine 20.291 +1(UCL) 16   Switzerland 20.000 3 +1(UCL) 17   Norway 19.733 +1(UCL) 18   Belgium 19.600 +1(FP)

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 19   Sweden 17.325 3 +1(FP) 20   Poland 17.250 +1(UCL) 21   Scotland 16.625 +1(UCL) 22   Romania 16.200 2 23   Hungary 15.666 +1(UCL) 24   Slovakia 14.332 +1(UCL) 25   Cyprus 12.665 26   Georgia 12.166 27   Israel 11.541 28   Slovenia 10.831 29   Belarus 9.083 30   Finland 9.041 31   Yugoslavia 8.249 +1(UCL) 32   Bulgaria 7.582 33   Latvia 6.582 34   Iceland 6.332 35   Macedonia 4.915 36   Lithuania 4.832

Rank Association Coeff. Teams Notes 37   Moldova 4.333 2 +1(UCL) 38   Estonia 2.582 39   Armenia 2.416 40   Northern Ireland 1.998 41   Republic of Ireland 1.832 42   Wales 1.832 43   Malta 1.498 44   Faroe Islands 1.249 45   Albania 1.166 46   Luxembourg 1.166 47   Liechtenstein 1.000 1 48   Azerbaijan 0.916 2 49   Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.500 50   Andorra 0.000 1 51   San Marino 0.000

Notes

• (FP): Additional fair play berth (Norway, Denmark, Scotland)
• (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
• FP: Fair play
• IC: Intertoto Cup winners
• CL: Relegated from the Champions League
  • GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
  • Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round

Third round
Barcelona (CL GS)	Hamburg (CL GS)	Olympiacos (CL GS)	Rosenborg (CL GS)
Bayer Leverkusen (CL GS)	PSV Eindhoven (CL GS)	Shakhtar Donetsk (CL GS)	Rangers (CL GS)
First round
Parma (5th)	Ajax (5th)	Grazer AK (CW)	Tirol Innsbruck (CL Q3)
Roma (6th)	Chelsea (CW)	Viborg (CW)	Herfølge (CL Q3)
Fiorentina (7th)	Liverpool (4th)	Osijek (3rd)	Brøndby (CL Q3)
Espanyol (CW)	Leicester City (LC)	Gaziantepspor (3rd)	Dinamo Zagreb (CL Q3)
Zaragoza (4th)	CSKA Moscow (3rd)	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (3rd)	St. Gallen (CL Q3)
Alavés (6th)	Torpedo Moscow (4th)	Zürich (CW)	Polonia Warsaw (CL Q3)
Kaiserslautern (5th)	Dynamo Moscow (5th)	Molde (2nd)	Dunaferr (CL Q3)
Hertha (6th)	Alania Vladikavkaz (6th)	Genk (CW)	Inter Bratislava (CL Q3)
Werder Bremen (CR)	AEK Athens (CW)	Internazionale (CL Q3)	Red Star Belgrade (CL Q3)
Nantes (CW)	OFI (4th)	1860 Munich (CL Q3)	Zimbru Chișinău (CL Q3)
Bordeaux (4th)	PAOK (5th)	Feyenoord (CL Q3)	Udinese (IC)
Gueugnon (LC)	Iraklis (6th)	Lokomotiv Moscow (CL Q3)	Celta Vigo (IC)
Roda (CW)	Benfica (3rd)	Porto (CL Q3)	Stuttgart (IC)
Vitesse (4th)	Slovan Liberec (CW)	Slavia Prague (CL Q3)
Qualifying round
Boavista (4th)	Aberdeen (CR)	CSKA Sofia (2nd)	Bangor City (CW)
Drnovice (3rd)	Rapid București (2nd)	Neftochimic Burgas (CR)	Barry Town (2nd)
Rapid Wien (3rd)	Universitatea Craiova (CR)	Liepājas Metalurgs (2nd)	Sliema Wanderers (CW)
Akademisk Boldklub (3rd)	MTK Budapest (CW)	Ventspils (3rd)	Valletta (3rd)
Rijeka (4th)	Vasas (3rd)	ÍBV (2nd)	GÍ Gøta (2nd)
Antalyaspor (CR)	VSS Košice (2nd)	ÍA Akranes (CR)	B36 Tórshavn (CR)
Vorskla Poltava (4th)	Slovan Bratislava (3rd)	Pobeda (2nd)	Teuta (CW)
Lausanne (2nd)	Omonia (CW)	Rabotnički (3rd)	Tomori (2nd)
Basel (3rd)	APOEL (3rd)	Ekranas (CW)	Jeunesse Esch (CW)
Brann (3rd)	Locomotive Tbilisi (CW)	Žalgiris (2nd)	Grevenmacher (2nd)
Lillestrøm (4th)	WIT Georgia (2nd)	Constructorul Chișinău (CW)	Vaduz (CW)
Club Brugge (2nd)	Maccabi Haifa (2nd)	Sheriff Tiraspol (2nd)	Kapaz (CW)
Gent (3rd)	Beitar Jerusalem (CR)	Viljandi Tulevik (2nd)	Neftchi Baku (3rd)
Örgryte (CW)	Olimpija Ljubljana (CW)	Flora Tallinn (3rd)	Željezničar (CW)
AIK (2nd)	Gorica (2nd)	Mika (CW)	Budućnost Banovići (2nd)
Halmstad (3rd)	Slavia Mozyr (CW)	Ararat Yerevan (2nd)	Constel·lació Esportiva (1st)
Amica Wronki (CW)	Gomel (3rd)	Glentoran (CW)	Folgore (1st)
Wisła Kraków (2nd)	Jokerit (CW)	Coleraine (2nd)	Norrköping (FP)
Ruch Chorzów (3rd)	HJK Helsinki (2nd)	Cork City (2nd)	Rayo Vallecano (FP)
Celtic (2nd)	Partizan (2nd)	Bohemians (3rd)	Lierse (FP)
Hearts (3rd)	Napredak Kruševac (CR)

Qualifying round

Main article: 2000–01 UEFA Cup qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Universitatea Craiova	1–2	Pobeda	1–1	0–1
Folgore/Falciano	1–12	Basel	1–5	0–7
Neftçi	2–3	HIT Gorica	1–0	1–3
Rapid Wien	6–0	Teuta	2–0	4–0
Clube Brugge	6–1	Flora	4–1	2–0
ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar	0–5	Hearts	0–2	0–3
AB	9–0	B36	8–0	1–0
Coleraine	1–3	Örgryte	1–2	0–1
Ararat Yerevan	3–4	VSS Košice	2–3	1–1
Napredak Kruševac	6–2	Viljandi Tulevik	5–1	1–1
MTK Hungária	5–2	Jokerit	1–0	4–2
Vorskla Poltava	4–0	Rabotnički	2–0	2–0
ÍA Akraness	2–6	Gent	2–3	0–3
Bangor City	0–11	Halmstad	0–7	0–4
Ventspils	3–4	Vasas	2–1	1–3 (a.e.t.)
Jeunesse Esch	0–11	Celtic	0–4	0–7
Drnovice	4–0	Budućnost Banovići	3–0	1–0
Tomori	2–5	APOEL	2–3	0–2
Rapid București	3–1	Mika	3–0	0–1
WIT Georgia	1–4	Beitar Jerusalem	0–3	1–1
Omonia	1–2	Naftex Burgas	0–0	1–2
Željezničar	1–3	Wisła Kraków	0–0	1–3
Sheriff Tiraspol	0–3	Olimpija Ljubljana	0–0	0–3
Gandja	0–7	Antalyaspor	0–2	0–5
Žalgiris Vilnius	2–7	Ruch Chorzów	2–1	0–6
Aberdeen	2–2(a)	Bohemian	1–2	1–0
GÍ Gøta	1–4	Norrköping	0–2	1–2
Liepājas Metalurgs	1–2	Brann	1–1	0–1
Slavia Mozyr	1–1(a)	Maccabi Haifa	1–1	0–0
Slovan Bratislava	4–0	Locomotive Tbilisi	2–0	2–0
Sliema Wanderers	3–5	Partizan	2–1	1–4
Constructorul Chişinău	2–11	CSKA Sofia	2–3	0–8
AIK	3–0	Gomel	1–0	2–0
HJK Helsinki	4–3	Grevenmacher	4–1	0–2
Glentoran	0–4	Lillestrøm	0–3	0–1
Ekranas	0–7	Lierse	0–3	0–4
Boavista	5–0	Barry Town	2–0	3–0
Constelació Esportiva	0–16	Rayo Vallecano	0–10	0–6
Lausanne	2–0	Cork City	1–0	1–0
Rijeka	8–6	Valletta	3–2	5–4 (a.e.t.)
Amica Wronki	6–3	Vaduz	3–0	3–3

First round

Main article: 2000–01 UEFA Cup first round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Zimbru Chișinău	1–4	Hertha BSC	1–2	0–2
Antalyaspor	2–6	Werder Bremen	2–0	0–6
Bohemian	2–3	Kaiserslautern	1–3	1–0
Stuttgart	(a) 3–3	Hearts	1–0	2–3
Drnovice	0–1	1860 Munich	0–0	0–1
Lokomotiv Moscow	4–2	Naftex Burgas	4–2	0–0
Norrköping	3–4	Slovan Liberec	2–2	1–2
Rapid București	0–1	Liverpool	0–1	0–0
Zürich	1–4	Genk	1–2	0–2
Olimpija Ljubljana	2–3	Espanyol	2–1	0–2
Vorskla Poltava	2–4	Boavista	1–2	1–2
Brøndby	1–2	Osijek	1–2	0–0
Ruch Chorzów	1–7	Internazionale	0–3	1–4
Pobeda	0–6	Parma	0–2	0–4
Lausanne	5–2	Torpedo Moscow	3–2	2–0
Celta Vigo	1–0	Rijeka	0–0	1–0 (a.e.t.)
Leicester City	2–4	Red Star Belgrade	1–1	1–3^1
Roda JC	1–4	Inter Bratislava	0–2	1–2
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	0–6	Nantes	0–1	0–5
PAOK	6–4	Beitar Jerusalem	3–1	3–3
Slavia Prague	5–0	AB	3–0	2–0
Rapid Wien	4–1	Örgryte	3–0	1–1
Gent	0–9	Ajax	0–6	0–3
Lillestrøm	4–3	Dynamo Moscow	3–1	1–2
VSS Košice	2–3	Grazer AK	2–3	0–0
CSKA Sofia	2–2 (a)	MTK Hungária	1–2	1–0
Alavés	4–3	Gaziantepspor	0–0	4–3
Tirol Innsbruck	5–3	Fiorentina	3–1	2–2
Club Brugge	3–0	APOEL	2–0	1–0
CSKA Moscow	0–1	Viborg	0–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Celtic	3–2	HJK Helsinki	2–0	1–2 (a.e.t.)
Gueugnon	0–1	Iraklis	0–0	0–1
Chelsea	1–2	St. Gallen	1–0	0–2
Real Zaragoza	5–5 (3–4 p)	Wisła Kraków	4–1	1–4 (a.e.t.)
Molde	1–2	Rayo Vallecano	0–1	1–1
HIT Gorica	1–11	Roma	1–4	0–7
AIK	1–2	Herfølge	0–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Vitesse	4–2	Maccabi Haifa	3–0	1–2
Vasas	2–4	AEK Athens	2–2	0–2
Partizan	1–2	Porto	1–1	0–1
Alania Vladikavkaz	0–5	Amica Wronki	0–3	0–2
Halmstad	4–3	Benfica	2–1	2–2
Dunaferr	1–4	Feyenoord	0–1	1–3
Lierse	1–5	Bordeaux	0–0	1–5
Polonia Warsaw	0–3	Udinese	0–1	0–2
Basel	7–6	Brann	3–2	4–4
Napredak Kruševac	0–6	OFI	0–0	0–6
Slovan Bratislava	1–4	Dinamo Zagreb	0–3	1–1

¹ This match was played at Prater Stadium in Vienna instead of Red Star's home ground in Belgrade due to UEFA deciding to accommodate Leicester City's request in which the English club claimed that "travelling to FR Yugoslavia poses a security risk due to the political situation in the country". UEFA's decision was revealed on 12 September 2000—only nine days before the match's originally scheduled date (21 September 2000). The sudden decision to not only move the tie to a neutral location but to also postpone it for a week was a highly controversial precedent since no other club drawn to travel to FR Yugoslavia for matches in European competition that season received a similar advantage: Viljandi Tulevik, Sliema Wanderers, Dynamo Kyiv, Porto, OFI, and Celta Vigo.[1]

Second round

Main article: 2000–01 UEFA Cup second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Iraklis	4–5	Kaiserslautern	1–3	3–2
Osijek	4–1	Rapid Wien	2–1	2–0
Udinese	1–3	PAOK	1–0	0–3 (a.e.t.)
Werder Bremen	9–3	Genk	4–1	5–2
Halmstad	4–5	1860 Munich	3–2	1–3
AEK Athens	6–2	Herfølge	5–0	1–2
Hertha BSC	4–2	Amica Wronki	3–1	1–1
Lillestrøm	3–5	Alavés	1–3	2–2
Internazionale	(a) 1–1	Vitesse	0–0	1–1
Bordeaux	3–2	Celtic	1–1	2–1 (a.e.t.)
Espanyol	4–1	Grazer AK	4–0	0–1
Boavista	1–2	Roma	0–1	1–1
Tirol Innsbruck	2–3	Stuttgart	1–0	1–3
Red Star Belgrade	1–3	Celta Vigo	1–0	0–3^1
Lokomotiv Moscow	3–1	Inter Bratislava	1–0	2–1
Basel	1–3	Feyenoord	1–2	0–1
Liverpool	4–2	Slovan Liberec	1–0	3–2
Rayo Vallecano	(a) 2–2	Viborg	1–0	1–2
Lausanne	3–2	Ajax	1–0	2–2
Nantes	3–1	MTK Hungária	2–1	1–0
Club Brugge	3–2	St. Gallen	2–1	1–1
Parma	2–1	Dinamo Zagreb	2–0	0–1
OFI	3–6	Slavia Prague	2–2	1–4
Wisła Kraków	0–3	Porto	0–0	0–3

¹ This 2nd leg match in Vigo actually ended with the score 5–3 for the hosts Celta, but was later officially recorded as 3–0 walkover since it was discovered that Red Star fielded two suspended players.

Third round

Main article: 2000–01 UEFA Cup third round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Hertha BSC	1–2	Internazionale	0–0	1–2
Parma	4–2	1860 Munich	2–2	2–0
Feyenoord	3–4	Stuttgart	2–2	1–2
Lokomotiv Moscow	0–2	Rayo Vallecano	0–0	0–2
PSV Eindhoven	4–0	PAOK	3–0	1–0
Roma	4–0	Hamburg	1–0	3–0
Nantes	7–4	Lausanne	4–3	3–1
Bordeaux	4–1	Werder Bremen	4–1	0–0
Olympiacos	2–4	Liverpool	2–2	0–2
Bayer Leverkusen	4–6	AEK Athens	4–4	0–2
Shakhtar Donetsk	0–1	Celta Vigo	0–0	0–1
Alavés	4–2	Rosenborg	1–1	3–1
Espanyol	0–2	Porto	0–2	0–0
Osijek	3–5	Slavia Prague	2–0	1–5
Club Brugge	1–3	Barcelona	0–2	1–1
Rangers	1–3	Kaiserslautern	1–0	0–3

Fourth round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Slavia Prague	0–1	Kaiserslautern	0–0	0–1
Stuttgart	1–2	Celta Vigo	0–0	1–2
PSV Eindhoven	(a) 4–4	Parma	2–1	2–3
AEK Athens	0–6	Barcelona	0–1	0–5
Alavés	5–3	Internazionale	3–3	2–0
Porto	4–3	Nantes	3–1	1–2
Rayo Vallecano	6–2	Bordeaux	4–1	2–1
Roma	1–2	Liverpool	0–2	1–0

First leg

15 February 2001

18:15

Slavia Prague	0–0	Kaiserslautern
	Report UEFA Report

Strahov Stadium, Prague

Attendance: 17,840

Referee: Eric Romain (France)

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