2005–06 UEFA Cup group stage

The group stage of the 2005–06 UEFA Cup is the second stage of the competition proper. Group stage matches began on 20 October 2005 and concluded on 15 December 2005. The top three teams in each group progressed to the Round of 32, to be joined by the eight third-place finishers from the Champions League group stage.

The group stage draw took place on 4 October 2005 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[1][2] The following teams qualified for the group stage:^[3]

Key to colours
Group winners, runners-up and third-placed teams advanced to round of 32

Pot 1 Team Coeff. CSKA Moscow[TH] 34.469 Roma 73.191 VfB Stuttgart 58.166 Monaco 53.324 Hertha BSC 46.166 Lokomotiv Moscow 38.469 Beşiktaş 37.872 AZ 37.145

Pot 2 Team Coeff. Sevilla 36.326 Marseille 36.324 PAOK 35.715 Slavia Prague 35.233 Basel 33.887 Middlesbrough 32.864 Espanyol 29.326 Lens 29.324

Pot 3 Team Coeff. Shakhtar Donetsk 28.200 Heerenveen 26.145 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 24.200 Hamburger SV 24.166 Red Star Belgrade 21.012 Bolton Wanderers 20,864 Sampdoria 20.191 Palermo 20.191

Pot 4 Team Coeff. Steaua București 20.101 Brøndby 19.676 Grasshopper 18.887 Zenit Saint Petersburg 18.469 Levski Sofia 18.118 Strasbourg 17.324 Rennes 16.324 CSKA Sofia 15.118

Pot 5 Team Coeff. Vitória de Guimarães 14.739 Litex Lovech 14.118 Halmstads BK 13.076 Viking 12.665 Dinamo București 12.101 Rapid București 8.101 Maccabi Petah Tikva 7.218 Tromsø 6.665

Notes

Based on paragraph 6.06 in the UEFA regulations for the current season, if two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:

1. superior goal difference from all group matches played;
2. higher number of goals scored;
3. higher number of goals scored away;
4. higher number of wins;
5. higher number of away wins;
6. higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

All times are CET, as listed by UEFA.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MON	HSV	SLA	VIK	CSS
1	Monaco	4	3	0	1	6	2	+4	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	—	—	2–1
2	Hamburger SV	4	3	0	1	5	2	+3	9			—	—	2–0	2–0	—
3	Slavia Prague	4	1	1	2	6	8	−2	4			0–2	—	—	—	4–2
4	Viking	4	1	1	2	3	6	−3	4			1–0	—	2–2	—	—
5	CSKA Sofia	4	1	0	3	5	7	−2	3			—	0–1	—	2–0	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PAL	ESP	LOK	BRØ	MPT
1	Palermo	4	2	2	0	6	2	+4	8	Advance to knockout stage		—	—	0–0	3–0	—
2	Espanyol	4	2	2	0	4	2	+2	8			1–1	—	—	—	1–0
3	Lokomotiv Moscow	4	2	1	1	8	3	+5	7			—	0–1	—	4–2	—
4	Brøndby	4	1	1	2	5	8	−3	4			—	1–1	—	—	2–0
5	Maccabi Petah Tikva	4	0	0	4	1	9	−8	0			1–2	—	0–4	—	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		STE	RCL	BSC	SAM	HBK
1	Steaua București	4	2	2	0	7	0	+7	8	Advance to knockout stage		—	4–0	—	—	3–0
2	Lens	4	2	1	1	7	5	+2	7			—	—	—	2–1	5–0
3	Hertha BSC	4	1	3	0	1	0	+1	6			0–0	0–0	—	—	—
4	Sampdoria	4	1	2	1	4	3	+1	5			0–0	—	0–0	—	—
5	Halmstads BK	4	0	0	4	1	12	−11	0			—	—	0–1	1–3	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MID	AZ	LIT	DNI	GRA
1	Middlesbrough	4	3	1	0	6	0	+6	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	—	2–0	3–0	—
2	AZ	4	3	1	0	5	1	+4	10			0–0	—	—	—	1–0
3	Litex Lovech	4	2	0	2	4	5	−1	6			—	0–2	—	—	2–1
4	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	4	1	0	3	4	9	−5	3			—	1–2	0–2	—	—
5	Grasshopper	4	0	0	4	3	7	−4	0			0–1	—	—	2–3	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		STR	ROM	BSL	RSB	TRO
1	Strasbourg	4	2	2	0	7	3	+4	8	Advance to knockout stage		—	—	—	2–2	2–0
2	Roma	4	2	1	1	7	6	+1	7			1–1	—	3–1	—	—
3	Basel	4	2	0	2	7	9	−2	6			0–2	—	—	—	4–3
4	Red Star Belgrade	4	1	1	2	7	8	−1	4			—	3–1	1–2	—	—
5	Tromsø	4	1	0	3	7	9	−2	3			—	1–2	—	3–1	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		OM	LS	HVN	CSM	DB
1	Marseille	4	3	0	1	5	3	+2	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	—	1–0	—	2–1
2	Levski Sofia	4	2	0	2	4	4	0	6			1–0	—	—	—	1–0
3	Heerenveen	4	1	2	1	2	2	0	5			—	2–1	—	0–0	—
4	CSKA Moscow	4	1	1	2	3	4	−1	4			1–2	2–1	—	—	—
5	Dinamo București	4	1	1	2	2	3	−1	4			—	—	0–0	1–0	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RAP	SHK	STU	PAOK	REN
1	Rapid București	4	3	0	1	5	2	+3	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	—	—	1–0	2–0
2	Shakhtar Donetsk	4	3	0	1	4	1	+3	9			0–1	—	—	1–0	—
3	VfB Stuttgart	4	3	0	1	6	4	+2	9			2–1	0–2	—	—	—
4	PAOK	4	1	0	3	6	5	+1	3			—	—	1–2	—	5–1
5	Rennes	4	0	0	4	1	10	−9	0			—	0–1	0–2	—	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SEV	ZEN	BOL	BJK	VIT
1	Sevilla	4	2	1	1	8	4	+4	7	Advance to knockout stage		—	—	—	3–0	3–1
2	Zenit Saint Petersburg	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7			2–1	—	—	—	2–1
3	Bolton Wanderers	4	1	3	0	4	3	+1	6			1–1	1–0	—	—	—
4	Beşiktaş	4	1	2	1	5	6	−1	5			—	1–1	1–1	—	—
5	Vitória de Guimarães	4	0	1	3	4	9	−5	1			—	—	1–1	1–3	—

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• Group stage standings