2003–04 UEFA Cup


The 2003–04 UEFA Cup was won by Valencia in the final against Marseille. It wrapped up a league and UEFA Cup double for Valencia.
Porto could not defend their title as they automatically qualified for the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League and also went on to win the final for their second European Cup title.
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Association team allocation

A total of 145 teams from 51 of 52 UEFA member associations participated in the 2003–04 UEFA Cup. The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
  • Associations 1–6 and 16–21 each had three teams qualify.
  • Associations 7–8 each had four teams qualify.
  • Associations 9–15 and 22–52 each had two teams qualify.
  • Liechtenstein, Andorra and San Marino had only one team that qualified.
Moreover, the following teams also qualified for the competition:

Association ranking

For the 2003–04 UEFA Cup, the associations were allocated places according to their 2002 UEFA country coefficients, which took into account their performance in European competitions from 1997–98 to 2001–02.
Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations could have additional teams participating in the UEFA Cup, as noted below:

Distribution

The following was the access list for this season.
RoundTeams entering in this roundTeams advancing from the previous roundTeams transferred from Champions League or Intertoto Cup
Qualifying round

  • 2 domestic league champions from Andorra and San Marino
  • 31 domestic cup winners from associations 19–52
  • 33 domestic league runners-up from associations 16–52
  • 13 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 9–21
  • 3 teams which qualified via Fair Play ranking
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
  • 41 winners from qualifying round
  • 16 losers from Champions League third qualifying round
  • 3 winners from UEFA Intertoto Cup finals
    • Second round
    • 48 winners from first round
    Third round
    • 24 winners from first round
  • 8 group third-placed teams from Champions League group stage
    • Due to the UEFA Cup title holder qualifying for the Champions League via their domestic league, the following changes to the access list were made:
    • The cup winners of association 15 and 16 entered the UEFA Cup first round instead of the qualifying round.
    Due to the suspension of Azerbaijan, the following changes to the access list were made:
    • The cup winners of association 17 and 18 entered the UEFA Cup first round instead of the qualifying round.

    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
    • PO: End-of-season European competition play-offs
    • IC: Intertoto Cup
    • FP: Fair play
    • CL: Relegated from the Champions League
    • * GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
    • * Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
    ;Notes

    Round and draw dates

    The schedule of the competition was as follows.

    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.