Dates | 9 August 2001 – 8 May 2002 |
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Final positions | |
Champions | Feyenoord (2nd title) |
Runners-up | Borussia Dortmund |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 204 |
Goals scored | 552 (2.71 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Pierre van Hooijdonk (8 goals) |
The 2001–02 UEFA Cup was won by Feyenoord at their home ground in the final against Borussia Dortmund. It was the second time they won the competition.
A total of 146 teams from 51 UEFA associations participated in the 2001–02 UEFA Cup. Associations are allocated places according to their 2000 UEFA league coefficient.
Below is the qualification scheme for the 2001–02 UEFA Cup:
A UEFA Cup place is vacated when a team qualify for both the Champions League and the UEFA Cup, or qualify for the UEFA Cup by more than one method. When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules:<
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
Marítimo won 2–0 on aggregate.
1 Only one leg was played, in a neutral venue in Warsaw, Poland, due to security concerns in Russia.
2 PSG won 3–0 because there was a blackout in Bucharest at that time and the match was stopped immediately in favour of the visitors.