2005–06 UEFA Cup
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35th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA
Key facts
- Dates
- 12 July 2005 – 10 May 2006
- Teams
- 80 (competition proper), 144 (qualifying)
- Champions
- Sevilla (1st title)
- Runners up
- Middlesbrough
- Goals scored
- 526 (2.38 per match)
- Attendance
- 3,489,789 (15,791 per match)
- Top scorer s
- Matías Delgado (Basel), 7 goals
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- sports season
- Followed by
- 2006–07 UEFA Cup
- Follows
- 2004–05 UEFA Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Image
- Sevilla UEFA Cup 2006.jpg
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- native label
- 2005–06 UEFA Cup
- Commons category
- UEFA Cup 2005-06
- topic's main category
- Category:2005–06 UEFA Cup
- statistical leader
- Matías Emilio Delgado
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 333
- sports season of league or competition
- UEFA Europa League
- point in time
- 2005-01-01
- winner
- Sevilla FC
- edition number
- 35
- start time
- 2005-07-12
- end time
- 2006-05-10
- participating team
- Sevilla FC
- number of participants
- 88
- number of points/goals/set scored
- 840
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Encyclopedic overview
The 2005–06 UEFA Cup, the 35th edition of the UEFA Cup, was won by Sevilla, beating Middlesbrough in the final. It was the first victory for Sevilla in a European competition, and the first appearance by Middlesbrough in a European final. The final took place at Philips Stadion, in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The match was refereed by Herbert Fandel. Middlesbrough sealed their place in the final on the back of two dramatic comebacks. In the quarter-finals they beat FC Basel of Switzerland 4–3 on aggregate (after losing the first leg 2–0 and being 1–0 down in the second leg, they scored 4 goals), this put them into the semi-final to face Steaua București. The first leg finished 1–0 to Steaua, and the second leg (at the Riverside Stadium again) finished 4–2 (after being 2–0 down). Sevilla went on to defend the trophy the following year.
CSKA Moscow were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the group stage.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “2005–06 UEFA Cup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.