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UEFA Cup draw - Results for the five Dutch
teams
Tuesday 07 October 2008
In Lyon the draw for the group
stages of the UEFA Cup has been performed.
Of course it was obvious that with
five Dutch teams in the draw and the rule that states
no two teams from the same country can be in the same
group one or two of the Dutch sides might end up in
a tough group.
And so it was: Heerenveen are in
a group with AC Milan, Portsmouth and Wolfsburg and
Steve McClaren's FC Twente will have to fight it out
with Schalke O4 (!), Paris SG and Manchester City.
The groups of Ajax, Feyenoord and
NEC seem to offer the best chances to claim at least
a third spot and move on to the round of the last 32.
For Feyenoord UEFA had a renewed
encounter in store with Nancy.
Two years ago Feyenoord fans misbehaved
in Nancy and as a consequence Feyenoord were evicted
from the tournament.
The draw also means an encounter
with two Dutch coaches working abroad: Ajax will meet
Hamburg where Martin Jol is at the healm and FC Twente
were paired to Schalke 04 where their former coach Fred
Rutten is the boss.
Germany and Holland are the only
two countries who saw all five teams get through the
first round.
You
can see the game schedule here.
Group 1:
Schalke 04 (Ger)
Paris Saint Germain (Fra)
Manchester City (Eng)
Racing Santander (Spa)
FC Twente (NL)
Group 2:
Benfica (Por)
Olympiakos Piraeus (Gre)
Galatasaray (Tur)
Hertha BSC (Ger)
Metalist Kharkiv (Oek)
Group 3:
Sevilla (Spa)
VfB Stuttgart (Ger)
Sampdoria (Ita)
Partizan (Ser)
Standard Luik (Bel)
Group 4:
Tottenham Hotspur (Eng)
Spartak Moskou (Rus)
Udinese (Ita)
Dinamo Zagreb (Cro)
NEC (NL)
Group 5:
AC Milan (Ita)
SC Heerenveen (NL)
Sporting Braga (Por)
Portsmouth (Eng)
VfL Wolfsburg (Ger)
Group 6:
Hamburger SV (Ger)
Ajax (NL)
Slavia Praag (Cze)
Aston Villa (Eng)
MSK Zilina (Slo)
Group 7:
Valencia (Spa)
Club Brugge (Bel)
Rosenborg BK (Nor)
FC Kopenhagen (Den)
Saint. Etienne (Fra)
Group 8:
CSKA Moskou (Rus)
Deportivo la Coruna (Spa)
Feyenoord (NL)
AS Nancy (Fra)
Lech Poznan (Pol)
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