2007–08 UEFA Cup
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37th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA
Key facts
- Dates
- 20 September 2007 – 14 May 2008
- Champions
- Zenit Saint Petersburg (1st title)
- Runners up
- Rangers
- Goals scored
- 563 (2.55 per match)
- Top scorer s
- Pavel Pogrebnyak (Zenit Saint Petersburg), Luca Toni (Bayern Munich), 10 goals each
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- sports season
- Followed by
- 2008–09 UEFA Cup
- Follows
- 2006–07 UEFA Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Official website
- ru.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/history/season=2008/index.html
- Image
- Zenit celebrating 2008 UEFA Cup Final win.png
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- final event
- 2008 UEFA Cup Final
- point in time
- 2007-01-01
- Commons category
- UEFA Cup 2007-08
- topic's main category
- Category:2007–08 UEFA Cup
- statistical leader
- Pavel Pogrebnyak
- number of participants
- 80
- number of points/goals/set scored
- 563
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 221
- sports season of league or competition
- UEFA Europa League
- edition number
- 37
- start time
- 2007-07-19
- end time
- 2008-05-14
- participating team
- FC Zenit Saint Petersburg
- native label
- 2007–08 UEFA Cup
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Encyclopedic overview
The 2007–08 UEFA Cup was the 37th edition of the UEFA Cup, UEFA's former second-tier club football tournament. The final was played at the City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester, England on 14 May 2008 between Rangers of Scotland and Zenit Saint Petersburg of Russia. Zenit won the match 2–0, with goals from Igor Denisov and Konstantin Zyryanov, to claim their first UEFA Cup title. The first qualifying games were played on 19 July 2007 and the main tournament commenced on 20 September 2007. A total of 157 football clubs took part in the tournament (including its qualifying rounds).
Each European football nation is represented by a different number of its associate clubs, depending on the UEFA coefficients. Budućnost Podgorica and Rudar Pljevlja were the first teams from Montenegro to enter the competition.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “2007–08 UEFA Cup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.