UEFA Intertoto Cup 2008

Standard division of the clubs into three groups. In the 2008 season there are four deviations from this breakdown.

For the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2008 , 50 UEFA member associations were each allowed to send a soccer team into the competition. In three rounds, eleven places were played for the second qualifying round of the 2008/09 UEFA Cup . The teams of the associations, which occupied the top places in the UEFA five-year ranking, only entered the competition later (places 9 to 22 - from the 2nd round, places 1 to 8 - from the 3rd round).

In order to keep travel costs down for the clubs, all teams have been divided into three groups according to geographical and logistical reasons: Northern Europe, Central Europe and Southern Europe. The representatives from the Asian countries Azerbaijan , Armenia , Kazakhstan and Georgia were assigned to the Central Europe group, as were the Eastern European teams from Belarus and Moldova or from the second round on Russia and Ukraine , and Romania from the third round. The Swiss representative , like the Israeli team, joined the Southern Europe group (2nd round) and the Dutch representative joined the Northern Europe group (3rd round).

This year's events were the last of the Intertoto competition. From 2009 the UI-Cup was included in the qualification of the UEFA Cup, which was transformed into the UEFA Europa League .

First round

The first legs took place on 21./22. June, the second leg on 28./29. June 2008.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Southern Europe
KS Besa Kavaja	( a ) 1: 1(a)	Ethnikos Achnas	0-0	1: 1
NK Čelik Zenica	(a)4: 4 ( a )	FK Grbalj Radanovići	3: 2	1: 2
HNK Rijeka	0: 2	FK Renova Džepčište	0-0	0: 2
Hibernians Paola	0: 3	ND Gorica	0: 3	0-0
Central Europe
Shetissu Taldyqorghan	3: 6	Honvéd Budapest	1: 2	2: 4
MIKA Ashtarak	(a)2: 2 ( a )	FC Tiraspol	2: 2	0-0
Neftçi Baku	( a ) 3: 3(a)	FC Nitra	2-0	1: 3
Cracovia Krakow	1: 5	FK Shakhtsor Salihorsk	1: 2	0: 3
Etzella Ettelbruck	( a ) 2: 2(a)	Locomotive Tbilisi	0-0	2: 2
Northern Europe
Ekranas Panevėžys	4-0	JK Trans Narva	1-0	3-0
HB Tórshavn	1: 4	IF Elfsborg	1: 4	0-0
Bohemians Dublin	9: 3	Rhyl FC	5: 1	4: 2
Lisburn Distillery	3: 6	Turku PS	2: 3	1: 3
FK Riga	3: 2	Fylkir Reykjavík	1: 2	2-0

Second round

The first legs took place on 5./6. July, the second legs on 12./13. July 2008.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Southern Europe
FC Chernomorets Burgas	3: 1	ND Gorica	1: 1	2-0
FK Grbalj Radanovići	2: 3	Sivasspor	2: 2	0: 1
Grasshopper Club Zurich	5: 1	KS Besa Kavaja	2: 1	3-0
FK Renova Džepčište	1: 3	FC Bnei Sachnin	1: 2	0: 1
OFK Belgrade	2: 3	Panionios Athens	1-0	1: 3
Central Europe
Germinal beerschot	1: 2	Neftçi Baku	1: 1	0: 1
Saturn Ramenskoye	8: 1	Etzella Ettelbruck	7-0	1: 1
FC Tiraspol	1: 3	Tavriya Simferopol	0-0	1: 3
SK Sturm Graz	2-0	FK Shakhtsor Salihorsk	2-0	0-0
FK Teplice	(a)3: 3 ( a )	Honvéd Budapest	1: 3	2-0
Northern Europe
Turku PS	1: 4	Odense BK	1: 2	0: 2
Hibernian Edinburgh	0: 4	IF Elfsborg	0: 2	0: 2
Ekranas Panevėžys	1: 7	Rosenborg Trondheim	1: 3	0: 4
FK Riga	( a ) 2: 2(a)	Bohemians Dublin	1-0	1: 2

Third round

The first legs took place on 19./20. July, the second legs on 26./27. July 2008.
The 11 teams that emerged victorious took part in the second qualifying round of the 2008-09 UEFA Cup .

	total		First leg	Return leg
Southern Europe
FC Bnei Sachnin	1: 3	Deportivo La Coruña	1: 2	0: 1
Panionios Athens	0: 2	SSC Naples	0: 1	0: 1
Sivasspor	0: 5	Sporting Braga	0: 2	0: 3
Grasshopper Club Zurich	4-0	FC Chernomorets Burgas	3-0	1-0
Central Europe
Saturn Ramenskoye	1: 3	VfB Stuttgart	1-0	0: 3 a.d.
Neftçi Baku	2: 3	FC Vaslui	2: 1	0: 2
Rennes stadium	1: 1 (10: 9 i. E.)	Tavriya Simferopol	1-0	0: 1 a.d.
SK Sturm Graz	2: 1	Honvéd Budapest	0-0	2: 1
Northern Europe
NAC Breda	1: 2	Rosenborg Trondheim	1-0	0: 2
Odense BK	2: 3	Aston Villa	2: 2	0: 1
IF Elfsborg	1-0	FK Riga	1-0	0-0

winner

UI Cup winners can call themselves the team that has come the furthest in the UEFA Cup.

Eliminated in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup	SK Sturm Graz
	IF Elfsborg
	Grasshopper Club Zurich
Eliminated in the first round of the UEFA Cup	SSC Naples
	Rennes stadium
	FC Vaslui
Eliminated in the UEFA Cup group stage	Rosenborg Trondheim
Eliminated in the last sixteen of the UEFA Cup	Aston Villa
	Deportivo La Coruña
	VfB Stuttgart
Winner (Eliminated in the UEFA Cup round of 16)	Sporting Braga

Goal scorers

	Surname	country	society	Gates
1	Dmitri Kirichenko	Russia	Saturn Ramenskoye	5
2	Baye Djiby case	Cameroon	Odense BK	3
	Yssouf Koné	Burkina Faso	Rosenborg Trondheim	3
	Samel Šabanović	Montenegro	Grasshopper Club Zurich	3

See also

• UEFA Champions League 2008/09
• 2008/09 UEFA Cup

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Card of the three regions (English)

Web links

• Results on RSSSF.com