2000–01 UEFA Cup

The 2000–01 UEFA Cup was the 30th edition of the UEFA Cup competition. Liverpool won the final with a golden goal in extra-time 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. 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. 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 === 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 === === 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 == Round and draw dates == The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were generally 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. == Qualifying round == == First round == == Second round == == 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. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows: In the draws for the third and fourth rounds, teams were seeded and divided into groups containing an equal number of seeded and unseeded teams. In each group, the seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the first team drawn hosting the first leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other. In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings and teams from the same association could be drawn against each other. === Bracket === === Third round === === Fourth round === === Quarter-finals === === Semi-finals === === Final === The final was played on 16 May 2001 at the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund, Germany. == Statistics == Statistics exclude qualifying round. === Top goalscorers === == See also == 2000–01 UEFA Champions League 2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup == References == == External links == 2000–01 All matches UEFA Cup – season at UEFA website Official website Results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation All scorers 2000–01 UEFA Cup (excluding preliminary round) according to protocols UEFA 2000/01 UEFA Cup – results and line-ups (archive)