UEFA Intertoto Cup Totally Explained

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The UEFA Intertoto Cup, also abbreviated as UI Cup and originally entitled the International Football Cup, is a summer football competition for European clubs that have not qualified for one of the two major UEFA competitions, the Champions League and the UEFA Cup. The competition will be discontinued in 2009. Teams who originally would have entered the Intertoto cup will be directly entered in the Qualifying stages of the UEFA cup from this point.
   The tournament was founded in 1961-62, but was only taken over by UEFA in 1995.
   Any club which wishes to participate must apply for entry, with the highest placed club (by league position in their domestic league) at the end of the season entering the competition. The club doesn't necessarily have to be ranked directly below the clubs which have qualified for another UEFA competition; if the club which is in this position didn't apply, they won't be eligible to compete, with the place instead going to the club which did apply.
   The cup bills itself as providing both an opportunity for clubs who otherwise wouldn't get the chance to enter the UEFA Cup and as an opportunity for sports lotteries (or pools) to continue during the summer. This reflects its background, which was as a tournament solely for football pools. In 1995 the tournament came under official UEFA sanctioning and UEFA Cup qualification places were granted. Initially two were provided; this was increased to three after one year; but in 2006 it was again increased to the current total of eleven.

History

The Intertoto Cup was the idea of the later FIFA vice president and founder of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Ernst B. Thommen, and the Austrian coach, Karl Rappan, who coached the Swiss national team at the 1938 World Cup and the Austrian national team at the 1954 World Cup. Following the threat of bans of English and Scottish teams from all UEFA competitions Other clubs have built upon their success in the UI Cup, following it up with great campaigns in the UEFA Cup. Furthermore UEFA reject this assertion that the tournament is disruptive. They point out that in the 2004-05 season two of the three 2004 Intertoto Cup winners went on to qualify for the Champions League. For the first time since the 1960s, there's provision for an actual trophy — whichever sides go furthest in the UEFA Cup will each be awarded a trophy. The first winners were Newcastle United, who won the 2006 tournament outright by going further in the 2006-07 UEFA Cup than the other ten qualifiers.
Only one team from each national association will be allowed to enter. However, should one or more nations not take up their place, the possibility has been left open for nations to have a second entrant. Seedings and entry are determined by each association. Teams from the weakest federations enter at the first round stage, while those from mid-level federations enter in the second round, and those from the strongest federations enter in the third round.

Winners

2006-2007

Listed are all eleven teams that won the third round matches, qualifying them for the UEFA Cup. The outright winners (determined by their UEFA Cup performance) are in bold. 20072006

Year	Winners
Atlético Madrid	Blackburn Rovers	Lens	Oţelul Galaţi
Sampdoria	Hamburg SV	Hammarby IF	Rapid Vienna
Aalborg BK	Tobol Kostanay	UD Leiria
Newcastle United	FC Twente	Odense	Ethnikos Achna FC
Auxerre	Kayserispor	Grasshoppers	Marseille
Hertha Berlin	Ried	NK Maribor

1995-2005

The results shown are the aggregate total over two legs. 2005RC LensOlympique de Marseille2004FC Schalke 04Villarreal CF2003Villarreal CFAC Perugia2002Fulham FCVfB Stuttgart2001Paris Saint-Germain FCTroyes AC2000Celta de VigoVfB Stuttgart1999Juventus FCWest Ham United FC1998Werder BremenBologna FC1997Olympique LyonnaisAuxerre1996En Avant GuingampSilkeborg IF1995FC Girondins de Bordeaux

Winners		Runners-Up
Hamburger SV		Valencia CF	1-0
CFR Cluj	4-2
Deportivo de La Coruña	5-3
Lille OSC		UD Leiria	2-0
FC Slovan Liberec	3-1
Atlético Madrid	2-2 (3-1 on penalties)
FC Schalke 04		SV Pasching	2-0
SC Heerenveen	2-1
VfL Wolfsburg	3-0
Málaga CF		Villarreal CF	2-1
Bologna FC	5-3
Lille OSC	2-1
Aston Villa FC		FC Basel	5-2
Brescia Calcio	1-1 (away goals)
Newcastle United FC	4-4 (away goals)
Udinese Calcio		SK Sigma Olomouc	6-4
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg	4-3
Auxerre	3-1
Montpellier HSC		Hamburger SV	2-2 (3-0 on penalties)
Stade Rennais FC	4-2
FC Metz	3-2
Valencia CF		SV Salzburg	4-1
FK Vojvodina	2-1
Ruch Chorzów	3-0
SC Bastia		Halmstads BK	2-1
Montpellier HSC	4-2
Duisburg	2-0
Karlsruher SC		Standard Liège	3-2
SC Rotor Volgograd	2-2 (away goals)
HNK Segesta	2-2 (away goals)
RC Strasbourg		FC Tirol Innsbruck	7-2
Karlsruher SC	4-2

1967-94

During this time there were no competition winners, as only group stages were contested.

1960s								1967-68	1968-69	1969-70
1970s	1970-71	1971-72	1972-73	1973-74	1974-75	1975-76	1976-77	1977-78	1978-79	1979-80
1980s	1980-81	1981-82	1982-83	1983-84	1984-85	1985-86	1986-87	1987-88	1988-89	1989-90
1990s	1990-91	1991-92	1992-93	1993-94	1994-95

1961-67

The results shown are the aggregate total over two legs unless otherwise noted.

Season			Results
1966–67	Eintracht Frankfurt	Inter Bratislava	4-3
1965–66	Lokomotive Leipzig	IFK Norrköping	4-1
1964–65	Polonia Bytom	SC Leipzig	5-4
1963–64	Slovnaft Bratislava	Polonia Bytom	1-0*
1962–63	Slovnaft Bratislava	Calcio Padova	1-0*
1961–62	Ajax Amsterdam	Feijenoord Rotterdam	4-2*
* - Single match finals (although 1962-63 has been unofficially reported as over two legs)

Slovnaft Bratislava is the same club as Inter Bratislava (renamed), while SC Leipzig were renamed Lokomotive Leipzig.

Winners by nation

From 2006 onwards, the final round was no longer termed as the 'Final', but instead simply as the 'Third Round'. In addition, there were eleven winners compared to three under the old system. The club which progressed furthest in the UEFA Cup were declared overall winners. The Third Round winners and losers from 2006 are included in this table. FranceGermanySpain

Nation		Winners	Runners-Up	Winning Clubs	Runner-Up Clubs
15	5	Auxerre (2), Bastia, Bordeaux, Guingamp, Lens (2), Lille, Lyon, Marseille (2), Montpellier, PSG, Strasbourg, Troyes	Auxerre, Lille, Metz, Montpellier, Rennes
10	4	Frankfurt, Hamburg (2), Hertha, Karlsruhe, Schalke 04 (2), Stuttgart (2), Werder Bremen	Duisburg, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Wolfsburg
6	5	Celta Vigo, Malaga, Valencia, Villarreal (2), Atlético de Madrid	Atlético de Madrid, Deportivo, Valencia, Villarreal (2)
	Italy	5	3	Bologna, Juventus, Perugia, Udinese, Sampdoria	Bologna, Brescia, Padova
	England	5	1	Aston Villa, Fulham, Newcastle, West Ham, Blackburn	Newcastle
	Denmark	3		Aalborg, Odense, Silkeborg
	Austria	2	3	Rapid Vienna, SV Ried	FC Wacker, Pasching, Salzburg
	Netherlands	2	3	Ajax, Twente	Feyenoord, Heerenveen, Utrecht
	Czechoslovakia	2	1	Inter Bratislava (2)	Inter Bratislava
	Romania	1	3	Oţelul Galaţi	CFR Cluj, Farul Constanţa, Gloria Bistriţa
	Sweden	1	3	Hammarby	Halmstads, IFK Norrköping, Kalmar FF
	Poland	1	2	Polonia Bytom	Polonia Bytom, Ruch Chorzów
	East Germany	1	1	Lokomotive Leipzig	Lokomotive Leipzig
	Portugal	1	1	Leiria	Leiria
	Switzerland	1	1	Grasshopper-Club Zürich	Basel
	Turkey	1	1	Kayserispor	Trabzonspor
	Cyprus	1		Ethnikos Achna FC
	Kazakhstan	1		Tobol Kostanay
	Slovenia	1		NK Maribor
	Russia		4		FC Moskva, Rotor Volgograd, Rubin Kazan, Zenit Petersburg
	Belgium		3		Gent (2), Standard Liége
	Serbia		2		Vojvodina, Hajduk Kula
	Czech Republic		2		Sigma Olomouc, Slovan Liberec
	Greece		2		Larisa, OFI Crete
	Moldova		2		Dacia Chişinău, FC Tiraspol
	Ukraine		2		Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Chornomorets Odessa
	Bulgaria		1		Cherno More Varna
	Croatia		1		Segesta
	Israel		1		Maccabi Petah Tikva
	Lithuania		1		FK Vėtra
	Norway		1		Lillestrøm
	Scotland		1		Hibernian

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