The UEFA Cup was firstly introduced 1971/72. There are various ways for clubs to qualify for the UEFA Cup.
There are teams qualified which are placed directly behind the Champions League participant of their country. Furthermore the winners of the national cups and leage cups are qualified as well as the 11 winners of the UEFA Intertoto Cup and 3 clubs out of the UEFA Fair Play competition.
Some national champions which didn’t qualify for the CHampions League also take part in the UEFA Cup as well as the 8 3rd placed teams of the UEFA Champions League group stage. The number of the participants of a country depends on the position of the association’s in the UEFA’s coefficient ranking.
In this section you can find tables, results and fixtures for the all of the groups and the knockout rounds of the UEFA Cup.