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2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup
Tournament details
Dates	21 June – 27 July 2008
Teams	50
Final positions
Champions	Braga
Tournament statistics
Matches played	78
Goals scored	186 (2.38 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Dmitri Kirichenko (5 goals)

The regions in a map

The 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup was the last UEFA Intertoto Cup football tournament, the 14th to be organised by UEFA and the third since the competition's format was given a major overhaul. Three rounds were held, and eleven teams qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup. The draw took place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on 21 April 2008. The final winner of the competition was Braga.

[edit] Association team allocation

50 teams participated in the 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup from 50 UEFA associations. Below is the scheme for the 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup. The rankings throughout are based on the 2007 UEFA coefficients.

First round: (28 teams)

28 from associations 23-36, 38-50 and 53

Second round: (28 teams)

14 winners from the First Round
14 from associations 9-22

Third round: (22 teams)

14 winners from the Second Round
8 from associations 1-8

[edit] First round

First leg matches were played on June 21 and 22 2008 and second leg matches were played on June 28 and 29 2008.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Southern-Mediterranean region
Besa Kavaje	(a) 1–1	Ethnikos Achnas^[2]	0–0	1–1
Čelik	4–4 (a)	Grbalj	3–2	1–2
Rijeka	0–2	Renova^[3]	0–0	0–2
Hibernians	0–3	Gorica	0–3	0–0
Central-East region
Zhetysu	3–6	Budapest Honvéd^[4]	1–2	2–4
MIKA	2–2 (a)	Tiraspol	2–2	0–0
Neftchi Baku	(a) 3–3	Nitra	2–0	1–3
Cracovia	1–5	Shakhtyor Soligorsk	1–2	0–3
Etzella Ettelbruck	(a) 2–2	Lokomotivi Tbilisi	0–0	2–2
Northern region
Ekranas	4–0	Narva Trans	1–0	3–0
HB Tórshavn	1–4	Elfsborg	1–4	0–0
Bohemians	9–3	Rhyl	5–1	4–2
Lisburn Distillery	3–6	TPS Turku	2–3	1–3
Riga	3–2	Fylkir	1–2	2–0

[edit] Second round

The first leg was held on 5 and 6 July 2008, while the second leg was held on 12 July and 13 July 2008.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Southern-Mediterranean region
Chernomorets Burgas	3–1	Gorica	1–1	2–0
Grbalj	2–3	Sivasspor	2–2	0–1
Grasshopper Zürich	5–1	Besa Kavaje	2–1	3–0
Renova	1–3	Bnei Sakhnin	1–2	0–1
OFK Beograd	2–3	Panionios	1–0	1–3
Central-East region
Germinal Beerschot^[5]	1–2	Neftchi Baku	1–1	0–1
Saturn Moscow Oblast	8–1	Etzella Ettelbruck	7–0	1–1
Tiraspol	1–3	Tavriya Simferopol	0–0	1–3
Sturm Graz	2–0	Shakhtyor Soligorsk	2–0	0–0
Teplice^[6]	3–3 (a)	Budapest Honvéd	1–3	2–0
Northern region
TPS Turku	1–4	Odense	1–2	0–2
Hibernian	0–4	Elfsborg	0–2	0–2
Ekranas	1–7	Rosenborg	1–3	0–4
Riga	(a) 2–2	Bohemians	1–0	1–2

[edit] Third round

The first leg was held on 19 and 20 July 2008, while the second leg was held on 26 July and 27 July 2008. The 11 winners enter the 2nd qualifying round of the UEFA Cup.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Southern-Mediterranean region
Bnei Sakhnin	1–3	Deportivo La Coruña^[7]	1–2	0–1
Panionios	0–2	Napoli	0–1	0–1
Sivasspor	0–5	Braga	0–2	0–3
Grasshopper Zürich	4–0	Chernomorets Burgas	3–0	1–0
Central-East region
Saturn Moscow Oblast	1–3	VfB Stuttgart	1–0	0–3 (aet)
Neftchi Baku	2–3	Vaslui	2–1	0–2
Rennes	1–1 (10–9 p)	Tavriya Simferopol	1–0	0–1 (aet)
Sturm Graz	2–1	Budapest Honvéd	0–0	2–1
Northern region
NAC Breda	1–2	Rosenborg	1–0	0–2
Odense	2–3	Aston Villa	2–2	0–1
Elfsborg	1–0	Riga	1–0	0–0

[edit] Overall winners

Eight of the eleven sides who entered the UEFA Cup via the Intertoto Cup won their qualifying ties and progressed to the First Round. Five of those eight sides survived the First Round and entered the Group Stage. Four of those five qualified for the Round of 32. Only Braga progressed to the Round of 16, making them the overall winners.

Braga (Overall winners) (Round of 16, lost to Paris Saint-Germain)
Aston Villa (Round of 32, lost to CSKA Moscow)
Deportivo La Coruña (Round of 32, lost to AaB)
Stuttgart (Round of 32, lost to Zenit Saint Petersburg)
Rosenborg (Group stage, fifth in Group G)
Napoli (First round, lost to Benfica)
Rennes (First round, lost to Twente)
Vaslui (First round, lost to Slavia Prague)
Elfsborg (Second qualifying round, lost to St Patrick's Athletic)
Grasshopper Zürich (Second qualifying round, lost to Lech Poznań)
Sturm Graz (Second qualifying round, lost to Zürich)

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes and references

^ Intertoto Cup results, scorers and fixtures
^ Apollon Limassol declined the participation, so Ethnikos Achna will participate instead
^ Vardar did not gain a UEFA license
^ FC Fehérvár, Újpest FC and Kaposvári Rákóczi FC declined the participation
^ "Cercle laat Intertoto-ticket aan G.Beerschot" (in Dutch). sporza.be. 2008-05-13. http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza.be/voetbal/eersteklasse/Cercle_Brugge/080513_Cercle_geen_Intertoto.
^ 1. FC Brno (4th team of Gambrinus liga) did not apply for the Intertoto Cup.
^ "El Deportivo no cumplió con su parte, pero estará en la Intertoto" (in spanish). as.com. 2008-05-18. http://www.as.com/futbol/articulo/deportivo-cumplio-parte-estara-intertoto/dasftb/20080518dasdasftb_25/Tes.

[edit] External links

Official UEFA site

[0] Intertoto Cup results, scorers and fixtures

[1] Apollon Limassol declined the participation, so Ethnikos Achna will participate instead

[2] Vardar did not gain a UEFA license

[3] FC Fehérvár, Újpest FC and Kaposvári Rákóczi FC declined the participation

[4] "Cercle laat Intertoto-ticket aan G.Beerschot" (in Dutch). sporza.be. 2008-05-13. http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza.be/voetbal/eersteklasse/Cercle_Brugge/080513_Cercle_geen_Intertoto.

[5] 1. FC Brno (4th team of Gambrinus liga) did not apply for the Intertoto Cup.

[6] "El Deportivo no cumplió con su parte, pero estará en la Intertoto" (in spanish). as.com. 2008-05-18. http://www.as.com/futbol/articulo/deportivo-cumplio-parte-estara-intertoto/dasftb/20080518dasdasftb_25/Tes.

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