UEFA Cup Draw 2006/2007

Monaco hosts today’s UEFA Cup First Round draw as 80 teams prepare themselves for their ticket to a European adventure. While the glitz and glamour of yesterday’s Champion’s League draw mightn’t be quite as evident, the UEFA Cup still holds some of it’s old glory and there is a strong selection of Europe’s big footballing names, both seeded and unseeded, with which to make for an interesting tournament this season.

These 80 sides will play each other home and away before the winners progress to the group stages where eight groups of five teams will play each other once.

For today’s draw the sides have been split into seeded and unseeded groups and then further divided into eight pools of ten teams, five seeded, five unseeded from which the draws will be made. Seeded teams can only play unseeded teams from within their own group or pool. Confused yet? Have a look down the following tables to see which of the British clubs involved (Newcastle United, Rangers, West Ham United, Tottenham Hotspur, Hearts, Blackburn Rovers and Derry City) have the toughest possible draw.

We’ll be covering the draw live here at State of the Game from 1200 BST.

(British Clubs in CAPITALS)

GROUP 1
Seeded
NEWCASTLE UNITED FC (ENG)
RANGERS FC (SCO)
RC Celta de Vigo (ESP)
Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC (ISR)
AC Chievo Verona (ITA)

Unseeded
R. Standard de Li?ge (BEL)
SC Braga (POR)
Molde FK (NOR)
FC Chornomorets Odesa (UKR)
FC Levadia Tallinn (EST)

GROUP 2
Seeded
Panathinaikos FC (GRE)
Hertha BSC Berlin (GER)
Paris Saint-Germain FC (FRA)
FK Austria Wien (AUT)
PFC Litex Lovech (BUL)

Unseeded
Maccabi Haifa FC (ISR)
Legia Warszawa (POL)
FC Metalurg Zaporizhzhya (UKR)
Odense BK (DEN)
DERRY CITY FC (IRL)

GROUP 3
Seeded
FC Schalke 04 (GER)
AC Sparta Praha (CZE)
FC Lokomotiv Moskva (RUS)
Fenerbah?e SK (TUR)
BLACKBURN ROVERS FC (ENG)

Unseeded
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN FC (SCO)
AS Nancy-Lorraine (FRA)
SV Sulte Waregem (BEL)
FC Salzburg (AUT)
Randers FC (DEN)

GROUP 4
Seeded
Parma FC (ITA)
AZ Alkmaar (NED)
RC Lens (FRA)
FC Slovan Liberec (CZE)
Br?ndby IF (DEN)

Unseeded
FK Crvena Zvezda (SCG)
Eintracht Frankfurt (GER)
FC Rubin Kazan (RUS)
Kayserispor (TUR)
Ethnikos Achnas FC (CYP)

GROUP 5
Seeded
Sevilla FC (ENG)
Olympique de Marseille (FRA)
Beşiktaş JK (TUR)
SC Heerenveen (NED)
Grasshopper-Club (SUI)

Unseeded
PFC CSKA Sofia (BUL)
Vit?ria FC (POR)
Atromitos FC (GRE)
FK Mlad? Boleslav (CZE)
?tvidabergs FF (SWE)

GROUP 6
Seeded
Feyenoord (NED)
FC Basel 1893 (SUI)
US Citt? di Palermo (ITA)
AFC Rapid Bucuresti (ROU)
CA Osasuna (ESP)

Unseeded
WEST HAM UNITED FC (ENG)
CD Nacional (POR)
Trabzonspor (TUR)
PFC Lokomotiv Sofia (BUL)
FK Rabotnicki (MKD)

GROUP 7
Seeded
Bayer 04 Leverkusen (GER)
Club Brugge KV (BEL)
SK Slavia Praha (CZE)
FK Partizan (SCG)
FC Dinamo 1948 Bucuresti (ROU)

Unseeded
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FC (ENG)
FC Groningen (NED)
Skoda Xanthi FC (GRE)
FC Sion (SUI)
MFK Ru?omberok (SVK)

GROUP 8
Seeded
AFC Ajax (NED)
AJ Auxerre (FRA)
RCD Espanyol (ESP)
Wisła Krak?w (POL)
AS Livorno Calcio (ITA)

Unseeded
NK Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)
FC Artmedia (SVK)
Iraklis FC (GRE)
IK Start (NOR)
SV Pasching (AUT)