UEFA European Cups 2001/2002
Results and Qualification
by Bert Kassies
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This page was the main page of the 2001/2002 season. All text
has to be interpreted within that context. No changes are
applied.
On this site you will find everything about the calculation
of coefficients and rankings used for the
qualification and seeding of teams for the Champions
League and the UEFA Cup. There are no data on
individual matches other then the results. Results and qualification
data for the UEFA Intertoto Cup are not available at this site.
Specific data for the qualification of teams and formats of the
Champions League and UEFA Cup for the 2001/2002 season can be found at
the pages below.
The remainder of this page contains the general format of the
Champions League and the UEFA Cup, along with an
explanation of the calculation of the UEFA coefficients.
Champions League
The Champions League contains 32 teams in
the first group stage, and is be preceeded by three
qualifying stages. The champions of all countries enter
the Champions League, but high ranked countries can send
up to 4 teams. Some teams of high ranked countries are
directly qualified for the group stage, while others
have to play qualifying rounds.
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CHAMPIONS LEAGUE |
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1st Qualifying Round |
July |
22 champions from countries ranked 27 or lower |
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2nd Qualifying Round |
Jul-Aug |
involving 28 teams:
11 winners from 1st qualifying round
11 champions from countries ranked 16-26
6 second-placed teams from countries ranked 10-15 |
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3rd Qualifying Round |
August |
involving 32 teams:
14 winners from 2nd qualifying round
6 champions from countries ranked 10-15
3 second-placed teams from countries ranked 7-9
6 third-placed teams from countries ranked 1-6
3 fourth-placed teams from countries ranked 1-3 |
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1st League Stage |
Sep-Oct |
involving 8 groups of 4 teams each:
16 winners from 3rd qualifying round
9 champions from countries ranked 1-9
6 second-placed teams from countries ranked 1-6
1 defending cup holder |
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2nd League Stage |
Nov-Mar |
involving 4 groups of 4 teams each:
8 group second-placed teams from 1st group stage
8 winners from 1st group stage |
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Play-offs |
Mar-May |
involving 8 teams:
4 group second-placed teams and 4 winners from 2nd group stage
play the quarter finals, the semi finals, and the final
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Losing teams in the 3rd qualifying round enter the 1st round of the UEFA
Cup, and third-placed teams from the 1st group stage
enter the 3rd round of the UEFA Cup.
No country can have more than 4 representatives in the Champions
League. This implies that, if the defending cup holder comes from one
of the top three ranked countries, and did not qualify directly for
the Champions League, the fourth-placed team of that country has to
participate in the UEFA Cup (e.g. Real Zaragoza in 2000).
If the defending cup holder already qualified directly for the
1st group stage of the Champions League, the champion of the 10th
country on the country ranking list will gain direct access to the
1st group stage, the champion of the 16th country on the country
ranking list will gain direct access to the 3rd qualifying round, and
the champions of the 27th and 28th country on the country ranking list
will gain direct access to the 2nd qualifying round. Similar changes
are made if the cup holder already qualified directly for one of the
qualification rounds, or if the cup holder did not qualify directly
but is from one of the top three ranked countries.
If in the group stages of the Champions League two or more teams
finish equal on points after all the group matches have been played,
the following criteria are applied to determine the group rankings:
- Higher number of points obtained in the matches between the
teams in question
- Superior goal difference from the matches between the teams
in question
- Higher number of goals scored away from home in the matches
between the teams in question
- Superior goal difference from all group matches played
- Higher number of goals scored
- Coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as
well as its association, over the previous five seasons
See the
Regulations of the UEFA Champions League 2001/2002
(pdf file of 1MB at uefa.com)
for a complete and formal description of all regulations.
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Cup is a competition for the runners-up and the Cup Winners
of each country, some teams expelled from the Champions
League, the best teams of the Intertoto Cup, and teams from countries
who top the UEFA Fair Play competition.
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UEFA CUP |
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Qualifying Round |
August |
involving 84 teams:
33 Cup Winners from countries ranked 17-49
33 second-placed teams from countries ranked 16-48
13 third-placed teams from countries ranked 9-21
3 teams of the Fair Play competition
2 champions of Andorra and San Marino |
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Round 1 |
September |
involving 96 teams:
42 winners from the qualifying round
16 Cup Winners from countries ranked 1-16
2 third-placed teams from countries ranked 7-8
5 fourth-placed teams from countries ranked 4-8
8 fifth-placed teams from countries ranked 1-8
3 sixth-placed teams from countries ranked 1-3
16 teams eliminated from the 3rd qualifying round
of the Champions League
3 Intertoto teams
1 defending cup holder |
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Round 2 |
October |
involving 48 teams:
48 winners of the first round |
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Round 3 |
November |
involving 32 teams:
24 winners of the secound round
8 third-placed teams from the 1st group stage
of the Champions League |
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Round 4 |
March |
involving 16 teams:
16 winners of the third round |
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Play-offs |
March-May |
involving 8 teams:
8 winners of the fourth round play the quarter finals,
the semi finals, and the final
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If the cup winner of a country also qualifies for the Champions League,
then the losing team of the cup final is qualified for the UEFA Cup.
If both cup finalists qualify for the Champions League, then an additional
team based on league position will be qualified.
However, the losing cup finalist does not get the UEFA Cup cup-winner
spot, but is treated as a league entrant. The 'cup-winner' spot of
that country goes to the team with the highest league position.
In some countries (England and France) the
last league entrant position is given to the League Cup Winner.
The place for the defending cup holder is only used when that team has
not otherwise qualified for either the Champions League or the UEFA Cup.
If this place is not used then the cup winners of the 17th and 18th
countries on the country ranking list will gain direct access to
the 1st round.
See the
Regulations of the UEFA Cup 2001/2002
(pdf file of 800 kB at uefa.com)
for a complete and formal description of all regulations.
UEFA Country Ranking
The basis for the UEFA rankings is the performance of teams in the
European Cups during a five year period. During that period each team
gets two points for a win and one point for a draw.
From 1999 on these points are halved for qualification matches: one
point for a win and halve a point for a draw.
One bonus point is allocated for reaching the quarter final,
the semi final and the final.
Reaching the first round of the Champions League yields one bonus point.
The so-called UEFA coefficients are calculated by taking an average, based
on the total number of points divided by the total number of teams of
each country.
Because the UEFA changed the calculation of the yearly coefficients
suddenly with the calculation of the rankings of 1999, there are
two sets of coefficients for 1995-1998. Also for this reason I split
my archive in 2 sections: see database.
The UEFA country ranking is computed by the sum of 5 coefficients in the
last 5 years.
To determine the participants in
the Champions League and the UEFA Cup the last year ranking is used,
because each country should know at the start of the season how many
places it disposes.
UEFA Team Ranking
The UEFA team coefficients are calculated as the sum of the number
of points of each individual team, and 50% of the country coefficient.
For the calculation of the team coefficients games played in
qualifying or preliminary rounds are not taken into account.
The UEFA team ranking is computed by the sum of 5 coefficients in the
last 5 years.
In this list the yellow lines
with country information indicate the lowest possible value for a
team of that country (even if that team didn't play any game in the last
five years).
The most recent team ranking is used for seeding of clubs for draws
in the Champions League and the UEFA Cup.
Before 1999 a number of strong teams in the UEFA Cup were seeded
such that those teams do not meet in the first two rounds.
To determine these teams,
the sum of the ratio of the number of points achieved, divided by
the number of games played by each team, was calculated for the past
five years.
Results
The results of the European Cup matches since 1990, the UEFA coefficients,
the UEFA country ranking and team ranking are available in
the archive.