2001–02 UEFA Cup

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.
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

Association ranking

;Notes

: Additional fair play berth
: Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
: Additional teams from Intertoto Cup

Distribution

	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round	Teams transferred from Champions League
Qualifying round	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	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 winners from the first round
Third round		24 winners from the second round	8 third placed teams from the Champions League first group stage
Fourth round		16 winners from the third round
Play-offs		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 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 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

Round and draw dates

The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Thursdays apart from the final, which took place on a Wednesday, though exceptionally could take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts.

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.