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Seeding for group phase of UEFA Cup
Author: AlanK
Date: 25-08-2004, 18:32
Do we know how seeding will work for the group phase of the UEFA Cup? Logically, teams might be divided into five "pots," which, for "my guys," would probably leave Villarreal in Pot 2, Zaragoza maybe in Pot 2, and Bilbao and Sevilla probably in Pot 3. I haven't been able to come up with another reasonable possibility--top 20 seeded and bottom 20 nonseeded doesn't work terribly well, although it could be done . . .

Re: Seeding for group phase of UEFA Cup
Author: Forza-AZ
Date: 25-08-2004, 18:54
Indeed 5 pots of 8 teams. Probably UEFA designes a computer program for the draw to avoid clubs from the same country to draw each other as is done in CL.

Re: Seeding for group phase of UEFA Cup
Author: anita
Date: 26-08-2004, 02:05
Villareal in pot 1 (no.8) and Zaragoza in Pot 2, Bilbao and Sevilla in Pot 3. So far. But they have to qualify first, and lot of seeded teams may disappear in round 1.

Re: Seeding for group phase of UEFA Cup
Author: anita
Date: 26-08-2004, 03:06
Correction, Forgot Brügge and Rangers. So Villareal and Zaragoza in Pot 2 and Sevilla and Bilbao in Pot 3. Both German teams from Aachen and Bochum going down to unseeded.

Re: Seeding for group phase of UEFA Cup
Author: Mauro
Date: 26-08-2004, 09:50
Don't forget that it is possible to have 9 or 10 UEFA teams from the same country!!

2 UEFA + 1 CupW. + 2 CL looser + 1 FairPlay + 3 UI CUP

This is an example for the countries ranked 1 - 3
With countries 6 and 7 you can get even 10...

this would make it impossible to have only one team
from the same land in one group, in this case UEFA
would make a group with 2 teamd or 2 groups with
2 teams from the same country available...

Mauro

Re: Seeding for group phase of UEFA Cup
Author: Jan
Date: 26-08-2004, 19:22
What is the coefficent of Villarreal?
10x!

Re: Seeding for group phase of UEFA Cup
Author: AlanK
Date: 26-08-2004, 19:40
Villarreal is at 42.351--Thanks to all for the immediate feedback. This will be interesting.