2008–09 UEFA Cup group stage

The group stage of the 2008–09 UEFA Cup is the second stage of the competition proper.^[1] The draw took place on 7 October 2008 at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[2] Group stage matches began on 23 October 2008 and concluded on 18 December 2008.^[3] The top three teams in each group progressed to the Round of 32, to be joined by the eight third-place finishers from the Champions League group stage.^[4]

The following teams qualified for the group stage:^[5]

Key to colours
Group winners, runners-up and third-placed teams advanced to round of 32

Pot 1 Team Coeff. Milan 119.934 Sevilla 102.837 Valencia 83.837 Benfica 77.176 Schalke 04 67.078 CSKA Moscow 59.437 Tottenham Hotspur 55.996 Hamburger SV 52.078

Pot 2 Team Coeff. VfB Stuttgart 52.078 Ajax 51.610 Olympiacos 51.525 Deportivo La Coruña 46.837 Club Brugge 41.810 Spartak Moscow 40.437 Paris Saint-Germain 37.380 Heerenveen 35.610

Pot 3 Team Coeff. Rosenborg 35.400 Udinese 34.934 Feyenoord 33.610 Braga 33.176 Slavia Prague 31.496 Manchester City 30.996 Galatasaray 30.469 Sampdoria 28.934

Pot 4 Team Coeff. Hertha BSC 27.078 Partizan 25.527 Nancy 25.380 Portsmouth 24.996 Aston Villa 24.996 Racing Santander 24.837 Copenhagen 23.748 Dinamo Zagreb 17.836

Pot 5 Team Coeff. Saint-Étienne 17.380 VfL Wolfsburg 16.078 Standard Liège 14.810 Twente 14.610 NEC 12.610 Metalist Kharkiv 10.932 Lech Poznań 6.973 Žilina 4.070

Pot 1 contained teams ranked between 2 and 39: Pot 2 held teams ranked 40 to 71, Pot 3 held teams ranked 72 to 88, and Pot 4 teams ranked 91 to 122 together with unranked teams from England and Spain.^[6] Pot 5 held the remaining teams.

Dinamo Zagreb, and all the Pot 5 teams, had beaten higher-ranked teams in the first round. Lech Poznań and Žilina had also beaten higher-ranked teams in the Second Qualifying Round. Seven of the eight teams in Pot 5 qualified for the Round of 32, Žilina being the only exception. In contrast, only five of the eight teams in Pot 1 managed to do the same, as Sevilla, Benfica and Schalke 04 were eliminated.

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]

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.

Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MC	TWE	PSG	RSA	SCH
1	Manchester City	4	2	1	1	6	5	+1	7	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–2	0–0	—	—
2	Twente	4	2	0	2	5	8	−3	6			—	—	—	1–0	2–1
3	Paris Saint-Germain	4	1	2	1	7	5	+2	5			—	4–0	—	2–2	—
4	Racing Santander	4	1	2	1	6	5	+1	5			3–1	—	—	—	1–1
5	Schalke 04	4	1	1	2	5	6	−1	4			0–2	—	3–1	—	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MET	GAL	OLY	HER	BEN
1	Metalist Kharkiv	4	3	1	0	3	0	+3	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	—	1–0	0–0	—
2	Galatasaray	4	3	0	1	4	1	+3	9			0–1	—	1–0	—	—
3	Olympiacos	4	2	0	2	9	3	+6	6			—	—	—	4–0	5–1
4	Hertha BSC	4	0	2	2	1	6	−5	2			—	0–1	—	—	1–1
5	Benfica	4	0	1	3	2	9	−7	1			0–1	0–2	—	—	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		STD	STU	SAM	SEV	PTZ
1	Standard Liège	4	3	0	1	5	3	+2	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	—	3–0	1–0	—
2	VfB Stuttgart	4	2	1	1	6	3	+3	7			3–0	—	—	—	2–0
3	Sampdoria	4	2	1	1	4	5	−1	7			—	1–1	—	1–0	—
4	Sevilla	4	2	0	2	5	2	+3	6			—	2–0	—	—	3–0
5	Partizan	4	0	0	4	1	8	−7	0			0–1	—	1–2	—	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		UDI	TOT	NEC	SPA	DZ
1	Udinese	4	3	0	1	6	4	+2	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	—	—	2–1
2	Tottenham Hotspur	4	2	1	1	7	4	+3	7			—	—	—	2–2	4–0
3	NEC	4	2	0	2	6	5	+1	6			2–0	0–1	—	—	—
4	Spartak Moscow	4	1	1	2	5	6	−1	4			1–2	—	1–2	—	—
5	Dinamo Zagreb	4	1	0	3	4	9	−5	3			—	—	3–2	0–1	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		WOL	ACM	BRA	POR	HVN
1	VfL Wolfsburg	4	3	1	0	13	7	+6	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	—	—	3–2	5–1
2	Milan	4	2	2	0	8	5	+3	8			2–2	—	1–0	—	—
3	Braga	4	2	0	2	7	5	+2	6			2–3	—	—	3–0	—
4	Portsmouth	4	1	1	2	7	8	−1	4			—	2–2	—	—	3–0
5	Heerenveen	4	0	0	4	3	13	−10	0			—	1–3	1–2	—	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		HSV	AJA	AST	ZIL	SLA
1	Hamburger SV	4	3	0	1	7	3	+4	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	0–1	3–1	—	—
2	Ajax	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7			—	—	—	1–0	2–2
3	Aston Villa	4	2	0	2	5	6	−1	6			—	2–1	—	1–2	—
4	Žilina	4	1	1	2	3	4	−1	4			1–2	—	—	—	0–0
5	Slavia Prague	4	0	2	2	2	5	−3	2			0–2	—	0–1	—	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		STE	VAL	FCK	BRU	ROS
1	Saint-Étienne	4	2	2	0	9	4	+5	8	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–2	—	—	3–0
2	Valencia	4	1	3	0	8	4	+4	6			—	—	1–1	1–1	—
3	Copenhagen	4	1	2	1	4	5	−1	5			1–3	—	—	—	1–1
4	Club Brugge	4	0	3	1	2	3	−1	3			1–1	—	0–1	—	—
5	Rosenborg	4	0	2	2	1	8	−7	2			—	0–4	—	0–0	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		CSK	DEP	LPO	NAN	FEY
1	CSKA Moscow	4	4	0	0	12	5	+7	12	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–0	2–1	—	—
2	Deportivo La Coruña	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7			—	—	—	1–0	3–0
3	Lech Poznań	4	1	2	1	5	5	0	5			—	1–1	—	2–2	—
4	Nancy	4	1	1	2	8	7	+1	4			3–4	—	—	—	3–0
5	Feyenoord	4	0	0	4	1	10	−9	0			1–3	—	0–1	—	—

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• Group stage standings