UEFA Cup 2006-07
Poster of the final.
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| Tournament details | |
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| Teams | 80 (competition proper) 131 (qualifying) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |
 Sevilla (2nd title)
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| Runners-up |
Espanyol
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| Tournament statistics | |
| Top scorer(s) |
 Walter Pandiani(11 goals) |
The 2006–07 UEFA Cup was the 36th UEFA Cup, Europe's second tier club football tournament. On 16 May 2007, at Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Sevilla won their second consecutive UEFA Cup, defeating Espanyol 3–1 on penalties after the match finished 2–2 after extra time. Sevilla became the first side to win the competition two years in a row since Real Madrid achieved this feat in 1985 and 1986.
Walter Pandiani of Espanyol was the top goalscorer of this UEFA Cup edition with 11 goals scored.
A total of 131 teams from 52 UEFA associations participated in the 2006–07 UEFA Cup. Associations were allocated places according to their 2005 UEFA league coefficient, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2000–01 to 2004–05.
Below is the qualification scheme for the 2006–07 UEFA Cup:
The title holder would have been given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League or Europa League through domestic performance; however, this additional entry was not necessary as Sevilla, winners of the 2005–06 UEFA Cup, qualified for the UEFA Cup through domestic performance. This means that the following changes to the default allocation system were made to compensate for the vacant title holder spot in the group stage:
16 losers from 2006-07 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
The 2006 Serie A scandal resulted in major changes to the clubs that originally qualified in Italy. Originally, Roma took the cup winners' place as losing finalists in the 2006 Coppa Italia, as the winners, Internazionale finished in the top four in the league and qualified for the Champions League. The other two UEFA Cup places initially went to Lazio and Chievo.
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