The UEFA Cup

UEFA Cup

The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...

 1999-2000 season was won by Galatasaray

Galatasaray S.K. (football team)

Galatasaray Anonim Şirketi is a Turkish football club, part of the Galatasaray S.K. multi-sport club of Istanbul. Galatasaray is a major sports club in Turkey, holding 17 Turkish Super League titles and the highest number of Turkish Cups....

 of Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

, who defeated Arsenal

Arsenal F.C.

Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...

 of England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 in the final. The game was scoreless through the first ninety minutes and stayed that way through thirty minutes of extra time. The game went on to penalty kicks in which Gheorghe Popescu

Gheorghe Popescu

Gheorghe Gică Popescu is a former Romanian footballer who played as a defender, and was a key part of the Romania national team in the 1990s. He played for a string of European clubs in an illustrious career that saw him amass many honours...

, the Romanian national team team captain, scored the winning kick to win the cup. Galatasaray became the first team to win a UEFA cup competition without losing a single game.

Parma

Parma F.C.

Parma Football Club , commonly referred to as just Parma, is an Italian professional football club based in Parma, Emilia–Romagna that will compete in Serie A for the 2011–12 season, having finished in twelfth position last season. Founded as Verdi Foot Ball Club in July 1913, the club changed its...

 were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Werder Bremen

SV Werder Bremen

SV Werder Bremen is a German sports club best known for its association football team playing in Bremen, in the northwest German federal state of the same name. The club was founded on 4 February 1899 as Fußballverein Werder by a group of sixteen vocational high school students who had won a prize...

 in the fourth round.

It was the first season of the new format UEFA Cup; it had absorbed the now defunct Cup Winners' Cup

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions. The cup is one of the many inter-European club competitions that have been organised by UEFA. The first competition was held in the 1960–61 season—but...

 to include domestic cup winners, and now featured an additional knockout round.

Qualifying round

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First round

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First leg

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Second leg

Udinese won 3–1 on aggregate.
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Roma won 7–1 on aggregate.
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Parma won 6–2 on aggregate.
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Juventus won 10–2 on aggregate.
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West Ham United won 6–1 on aggregate.
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Bologna won 5–2 on aggregate.

Second round

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Second leg

Udinese won 2–1 on aggregate.
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Bologna won 4–2 on aggregate.
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Parma won 4–1 on aggregate.
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Newcastle United won 5–2 on aggregate.
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Steaua Bucureşti won 2–0 on aggregate.
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Juventus won 4–2 on aggregate.
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Roma won 3–0 on aggregate.

Third round

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Second leg

Juventus won 4–3 on aggregate.
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Borussia Dortmund 2–2 Rangers on aggregate. Borussia Dortmund won 3–1 on penalties.
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Werder Bremen won 4–3 on aggregate.
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Leeds United 2–2 Spartak Moscow on aggregate. Leeds United won on away goals rule.
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Celta Vigo won 8–1 on aggregate.
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Roma won 1–0 on aggregate.
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Deportivo La Coruña won 5–3 on aggregate.
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Arsenal won 6–3 on aggregate.
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Mallorca won 3–0 on aggregate.
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Monaco won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Lens won 5–3 on aggregate.
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Parma won 5–4 on aggregate.
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Slavia Prague won 5–2 on aggregate.
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Atlético Madrid won 5–3 on aggregate.
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Galatasaray won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Bayer Leverkusen 2–2 Udinese on aggregate. Udinese won on away goals rule.

Fourth round

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Second leg

Udinese 2–2 Slavia Prague on aggregate. Slavia Prague won on away goals rule.
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Werder Bremen won 3–2 on aggregate.
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Leeds United won 1–0 on aggregate.
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Galatasaray won 2–0 on aggregate.
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Lens won 6–4 on aggregate.
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Celta Vigo won 4–1 on aggregate.
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Arsenal won 6–3 on aggregate.
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Mallorca won 4–2 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

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Second leg

Leeds United won 4–2 on aggregate.
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Arsenal won 6–2 on aggregate.
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Galatasaray won 6–2 on aggregate.
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Lens won 2–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

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First leg

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Second leg

Galatasaray won 4–2 on aggregate.
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Arsenal won 3–1 on aggregate.

Final

Winner of 1999–2000 UEFA Cup
Galatasaray Galatasaray S.K. (football team) Galatasaray Anonim Şirketi is a Turkish football club, part of the Galatasaray S.K. multi-sport club of Istanbul. Galatasaray is a major sports club in Turkey, holding 17 Turkish Super League titles and the highest number of Turkish Cups.... First Title

External links

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