2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup

The 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup was the last UEFA Intertoto Cup football tournament, the 14th to be organised by UEFA and the third since the competition's format was given a major overhaul. Fifty teams were invited, with the eleven winners after the third round then advancing to the second qualifying round of the 2008–09 UEFA Cup. The draw took place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on 21 April 2008. Based on the subsequent progress of the eleven co-winners in their UEFA Cup efforts, Braga is declared the outright winner of the Intertoto Cup.

UEFA Intertoto Cup
Tournament details
Dates21 June 2008 – 27 July 2008
Teams50[1]
Final positions
Champions Braga
and 10 others (see below)
Tournament statistics
Matches played78
Goals scored186 (2.38 per match)
The regions in a map

Association team allocation

50 teams participated in the 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup from 50 UEFA associations. Below is the scheme for the 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup. The rankings throughout are based on the 2007 UEFA coefficients.

First round: (28 teams)

  • 28 from associations 23–36, 38–50 and 53

Second round: (28 teams)

  • 14 winners from the First Round
  • 14 from associations 9–22

Third round: (22 teams)

  • 14 winners from the Second Round
  • 8 from associations 1–8

First round

First leg matches were played on 21 and 22 June 2008 and second leg matches were played on 28 and 29 June 2008.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Southern-Mediterranean region[2]
Besa 1–1 (a) Ethnikos Achnas[lower-alpha 1] 0–0 1–1
Čelik 4–4 (a) Grbalj 3–2 1–2
Rijeka 0–2 Renova[3] 0–0 0–2
Hibernians 0–3 Gorica 0–3 0–0
Central-East region[2]
Zhetysu 3–6 Budapest Honvéd[lower-alpha 2] 1–2 2–4
Mika 2–2 (a) Tiraspol 2–2 0–0
Neftchi Baku 3–3 (a) Nitra 2–0 1–3
Cracovia 1–5 Shakhtyor Soligorsk 1–2 0–3
Etzella Ettelbruck 2–2 (a) Lokomotivi Tbilisi 0–0 2–2
Northern region[2]
Ekranas 4–0 Narva Trans 1–0 3–0
HB Tórshavn 1–4 Elfsborg 1–4 0–0
Bohemians 9–3 Rhyl 5–1 4–2
Lisburn Distillery 3–6 TPS Turku 2–3 1–3
Riga 3–2 Fylkir 1–2 2–0

First leg
Besa 0–0 Ethnikos Achnas
Report
Referee: Alan Black (Northern Ireland)
Čelik 3–2 Grbalj
Karić  30'
Hadžić  59' (pen.)
Novaković  77'		 Report Kasalica  7'
Pavicević  90+2'
Bilino Polje, Zenica
Rijeka 0–0 Renova
Report
Referee: Hubert Siejewicz (Poland)
Hibernians 0–3 Gorica
Report Xuereb  34' (o.g.)
Cvijanović  56'
Velikonja  58'
Hibernians Ground, Paola
Referee: Ovidiu Alin Hategan (Romania)
Mika 2–2 Tiraspol
Veranyan  18'
Hakobyan  41'		 Report Sidorenko  61' (pen.)
Serghei Namaşco  79'
Referee: Ninoslav Spasić (Serbia)
Neftchi Baku 2–0 Nitra
Sadygov  7'
Sadiqov  10'		 Report
Tofik Bakhramov Stadium, Baku
Cracovia 1–2 Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Nowak  25' Lyavonchyk  68'
Bychanok  72'
Referee: Joseph Attard (Malta)
Etzella Ettelbruck 0–0 Lokomotivi Tbilisi
Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania)
Ekranas 1–0 Narva Trans
Bička  88' (pen.)
Referee: Gabriele Rossi (San Marino)
HB Tórshavn 1–4 Elfsborg
C. Jacobsen  16' Kurbegović  12'
Mobaeck  26', 55'
Sjöhage  50'
Referee: Calum Murray (Scotland)
Bohemians 5–1 Rhyl
J. Byrne  51'
O. Heary  59'
Brennan  63' (pen.)
Fenn  71'
Crowe  80'		 Report Connolly  25'
Referee: Jöuni Hietala (Finland)
Lisburn Distillery 2–3 TPS Turku
Armour  42', 90+' (pen.) Pertot  68', 88'
Ääritalo  76'
Referee: Luc Wouters (Belgium)
Riga 1–2 Fylkir
Novikov  76' Gíslason  26'
Gravesen  70' (pen.)
Referee: Svein Edvartsen (Norway)
Zhetysu 1–2 Budapest Honvéd
Mikhailov  60' Report Hercegfalvi  66'
Bojtor  75'
Referee: Vlado Svilokos (Croatia)

Second leg
Ethnikos Achnas 1–1 Besa
Manousakis  57' Leçi  90+'
Referee: Karen Nalbandyan (Armenia)

Ethnikos Achnas 1–1 Besa on aggregate. Besa won on away goals rule.

Grbalj 2–1 Čelik
Pavicević  51'
Kasalica  75'		 Hadžić  18'
Referee: Sándor Andó-Szabó (Hungary)

Grbalj 4–4 Čelik on aggregate. Grbalj won on away goals rule.

Renova 2–0 Rijeka
Iseni  5', 46'
Gradski Stadion, Skopje

Renova won 2–0 on aggregate.

Gorica 0–0 Hibernians
report

Gorica won 3–0 on aggregate.

Budapest Honvéd 4–2 Zhetysu
Genito  26'
Smiljanić  45+'
Guie Guie  53'
Bojtor  90+'		 Kiselyov  52', 74'
Referee: Veaceslav Banari (Moldova)

Budapest Honvéd won 6–3 on aggregate.

Tiraspol 0–0 Mika
Referee: Dimitrios Kalopoulos (Greece)

Tiraspol 2–2 Mika on aggregate. Tiraspol won on away goals rule.

Nitra 3–1 Neftchi Baku
Semeník  21', 83'
Čeman  46'		 Report José Carlos  84'
Referee: Novo Panić (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Nitra 3–3 Neftchi Baku on aggregate. Neftchi Baku won on away goals rule.

Shakhtyor Soligorsk 3–0 Cracovia
Kavalchuk  71' (pen.)
Krot  90+'
Nikiforenka  90+'
Referee: Akmalkhan Kholmatov (Kazakhstan)

Shakhtyor Soligorsk won 5–1 on aggregate.

Lokomotivi Tbilisi 2–2 Etzella Ettelbruck
Chirikashvili  28'
Aleksidze  30'		 Da Luz  21'
F. Leweck  81' (pen.)
Referee: Pavle Radovanović (Montenegro)

Lokomotivi Tbilisi 2–2 Etzella Ettelbruck on aggregate. Etzella Ettelbruck won on away goals rule.

Narva Trans 0–3 Ekranas
Bička  35'
Trakys  37'
Matović  79'
Referee: Pavel Olšiak (Slovakia)

Ekranas won 4–0 on aggregate.

Elfsborg 0–0 HB Tórshavn
Referee: Anthony Buttimer (Ireland)

Elfsborg won 4–1 on aggregate.

Rhyl 2–4 Bohemians
Connolly  37', 41' O'Donnell  29'
J. Byrne  32' (pen.)
McGuinness  34'
Singh  42'
Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

Bohemians won 9–3 on aggregate.

TPS Turku 3–1 Lisburn Distillery
Ääritalo  42'
Paatelainen  75'
One  86'		 G. Browne  84' (pen.)
Referee: Paulius Malžinskas (Lithuania)

TPS Turku won 6–3 on aggregate.

Fylkir 0–2 Riga
Kalonas  7', 73'
Referee: Pol van Boekel (Netherlands)

Riga won 3–2 on aggregate.

Second round

The first leg was held on 5 and 6 July 2008, while the second leg was held on 12 and 13 July 2008.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Southern-Mediterranean region[2]
Chernomorets Burgas 3–1 Gorica 1–1 2–0
Grbalj 2–3 Sivasspor 2–2 0–1
Grasshopper Zürich 5–1 Besa 2–1 3–0
Renova 1–3 Bnei Sakhnin 1–2 0–1
OFK Beograd 2–3 Panionios 1–0 1–3
Central-East region[2]
Germinal Beerschot[4] 1–2 Neftchi Baku 1–1 0–1
Saturn Moscow Oblast 8–1 Etzella Ettelbruck 7–0 1–1
Tiraspol 1–3 Tavriya Simferopol 0–0 1–3
Sturm Graz 2–0 Shakhtyor Soligorsk 2–0 0–0
Teplice[lower-alpha 3] 3–3 (a) Budapest Honvéd 1–3 2–0
Northern region[2]
TPS Turku 1–4 Odense 1–2 0–2
Hibernian 0–4 Elfsborg 0–2 0–2
Ekranas 1–7 Rosenborg 1–3 0–4
Riga 2–2 (a) Bohemians 1–0 1–2

First leg
Chernomorets Burgas 1–1 Gorica
Michel  63' report Osterc  57'
Referee: Asaf Kenan (Israel)
Grbalj 2–2 Sivasspor
Francišković  23', 34' Mehmet  14', 39' (pen.)
Referee: Jorge Sousa (Portugal)
Grasshopper Zürich 2–1 Besa
Lulić  66', 79' Fortunat  83'
Referee: Jiří Jech (Czech Republic)
Renova 1–2 Bnei Sakhnin
Angelovski  65' Khalaila  41' (pen.)
Rabah  64'
Gradski Stadion, Skopje
Referee: Markus Strömbergsson (Sweden)
OFK Beograd 1–0 Panionios
Kaluđerović  69'
Referee: Manuel Gräfe (Germany)
Germinal Beerschot 1–1 Neftchi Baku
Malki  18' Report Adamia  31'
Referee: Dejan Filipovic (Serbia)
Saturn Moscow Oblast 7–0 Etzella Ettelbruck
Kirichenko  2', 35', 70', 71'
Angbwa  13'
Topić  18'
Ivanov  65'
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Stelios Trifonos (Cyprus)
Tiraspol 0–0 Tavriya Simferopol
Referee: Tsvetan Georgiev (Bulgaria)
Sturm Graz 2–0 Shakhtyor Soligorsk
Feldhofer  38'
Kienzl  55'
Referee: Libor Kovařik (Czech Republic)
Teplice 1–3 Budapest Honvéd
Lukáš  58' Hercegfalvi  35'
Abraham  81'
Abass  90+'
Referee: Hannes Kaasik (Estonia)
TPS Turku 1–2 Odense
One  37' Fall  5'
Sørensen  84'
Referee: Andrejs Sipailo (Latvia)
Hibernian 0–2 Elfsborg
Bajrami  17'
Augustsson  65'
Referee: Abby Toussaint (Luxembourg)
Ekranas 1–3 Rosenborg
Varnas  14' Strand  12'
Lago  35'
Koné  67'
Referee: Adrian McCourt (Northern Ireland)
Riga 1–0 Bohemians
Leonov  45'
Referee: Robert Krajnc (Slovenia)

Second leg
Gorica 0–2 Chernomorets Burgas
report Remzi  54' (pen.)
Michel  86'
Nova Goirca Sports Park, Nova Gorica
Referee: Marcin Borski (Poland)

Chernomorets Burgas won 3–1 on aggregate.

Sivasspor 1–0 Grbalj
Diallo  83'
Referee: Igor Ishchenko (Ukraine)

Sivasspor won 3–2 on aggregate.

Besa 0–3 Grasshopper Zürich
Šabanović  54', 68'
Zuber  86'
Referee: Augustus Constantin (Romania)

Grasshopper Zürich won 5–1 on aggregate.

Bnei Sakhnin 1–0 Renova
B. Ganayem  17'
Referee: István Vad II. (Hungary)

Bnei Sakhnin won 3–1 on aggregate.

Panionios 3–1 OFK Beograd
Barkoglou  25'
Choutos  45+', 63' (pen.)		 William  55'
Referee: Sascha Kever (Switzerland)

Panionios won 3–2 on aggregate.

Neftchi Baku 1–0 Germinal Beerschot
Allahverdiyev  57' Report
Tofik Bakhramov Stadium, Baku
Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)

Neftchi Baku won 2–1 on aggregate.

Etzella Ettelbruck 1–1 Saturn Moscow Oblast
Da Luz  70' Kovel  77'
Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg
Attendance: 300
Referee: René Rogalla (Switzerland)

Saturn Moscow Oblast won 8–1 on aggregate.

Tavriya Simferopol 3–1 Tiraspol
Ljubenović  10'
Homenyuk  45+'
Gigiadze  51'		 Bulat  90+'
Lokomotiv Stadium, Simferopol
Referee: Anders Hermansen (Denmark)

Tavriya Simferopol won 3–1 on aggregate.

Shakhtyor Soligorsk 0–0 Sturm Graz
Referee: Martin Atkinson (England)

Sturm Graz won 2–0 on aggregate.

Budapest Honvéd 0–2 Teplice
Jun  68'
Rosa  71'
Referee: Garðar Hinriksson (Iceland)

Budapest Honvéd 3–3 Teplice on aggregate. Budapest Honvéd advanced on away goals rule.

Odense 2–0 TPS Turku
Fall  21', 52'
Fionia Park, Odense
Referee: Igor Zakharov (Russia)

Odense won 4–1 on aggregate.

Elfsborg 2–0 Hibernian
M. Florén  20'
Bajrami  80'
Referee: Marijo Strahonja (Croatia)

Elfsborg won 4–0 on aggregate.

Rosenborg 4–0 Ekranas
Konan Ya  16'
Iversen  48'
Koné  52', 90+'
Referee: Babak Guliyev (Azerbaijan)

Rosenborg won 7–1 on aggregate.

Bohemians 2–1 Riga
McGuinness  21'
Brennan  90' (pen.)		 Chirkin  65'
Referee: Brage Sandmoen (Norway)

Bohemians 2–2 Riga on aggregate. Riga advanced on the away goals rule.

Third round

The first leg was held on 19 and 20 July 2008, while the second leg was held on 26 and 27 July 2008. The 11 winners entered the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Southern-Mediterranean region[2]
Bnei Sakhnin 1–3 Deportivo La Coruña[5] 1–2 0–1
Panionios 0–2 Napoli 0–1 0–1
Sivasspor 0–5 Braga 0–2 0–3
Grasshopper Zürich 4–0 Chernomorets Burgas 3–0 1–0
Central-East region[2]
Saturn Moscow Oblast 1–3 Stuttgart 1–0 0–3 (aet)
Neftchi Baku 2–3 Vaslui 2–1 0–2
Rennes 1–1 (10–9 p) Tavriya Simferopol 1–0 0–1 (aet)
Sturm Graz 2–1 Budapest Honvéd 0–0 2–1
Northern region[2]
NAC Breda 1–2 Rosenborg 1–0 0–2
Odense 2–3 Aston Villa 2–2 0–1
Elfsborg 1–0 Riga 1–0 0–0

First leg
Bnei Sakhnin 1–2 Deportivo La Coruña
B. Ganayem  59' Lafita  54'
Riki  57'
Attendance: 3,000
Panionios 0–1 Napoli
Bogliacino  31'
Attendance: 5,000
Sivasspor 0–2 Braga
Linz  45+'
Moisés  78'
Referee: Dougie McDonald (Scotland)
Grasshopper Zürich 3–0 Chernomorets Burgas
Salatić  21'
Zárate  41'
Šabanović  80'
Referee: Damien Ledentu (France)
Saturn Moscow Oblast 1–0 Stuttgart
Kirichenko  4'
Attendance: 11,000
Referee: Peter Rasmussen (Denmark)
Neftchi Baku 2–1 Vaslui
Herasymyuk  28'
Sadiqov  84'		 Report Genchev  29'
Tofik Bakhramov Stadium, Baku
Referee: Igor Egorov (Russia)
Rennes 1–0 Tavriya Simferopol
Fanni  90+'
Stade de la Route de Lorient, Rennes
Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)
Sturm Graz 0–0 Budapest Honvéd
Attendance: 5,850
NAC Breda 1–0 Rosenborg
Amoah  19'
Referee: Levan Paniashvili (Georgia)
Odense 2–2 Aston Villa
Sidwell  25' (o.g.)
Møller Christensen  90'		 Carew  7'
Laursen  76'
Fionia Park, Odense
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Andrea De Marco (Italy)
Elfsborg 1–0 Riga
Avdić  18'
Referee: Oleh Oriekhov (Ukraine)

Second leg
Deportivo La Coruña 1–0 Bnei Sakhnin
Valerón  40'
Attendance: 6,000

Deportivo La Coruña won 3–1 on aggregate.

Napoli 1–0 Panionios
Hamšík  65'
Attendance: 54,137

Napoli won 2–0 on aggregate.

Braga 3–0 Sivasspor
Matheus  45'
Linz  57'
Aguiar  70' (pen.)
Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

Braga won 5–0 on aggregate.

Chernomorets Burgas 0–1 Grasshopper Zürich
Bobadilla  53'
Georgi Asparuhov Stadium, Sofia
Referee: Brage Sandmoen (Norway)

Grasshopper Zürich won 4–0 on aggregate.

Stuttgart 3 – 0 (a.e.t.) Saturn Moscow Oblast
Šimák  82'
Marica  107', 110'
Attendance: 12,600
Referee: Bernardino González Vázquez (Spain)

Stuttgart won 3–1 on aggregate.

Vaslui 2–0 Neftchi Baku
Burdujan  30'
Temwanjera  38'		 Report
Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (Austria)

Vaslui won 3–2 on aggregate.

Tavriya Simferopol 1 – 0 (a.e.t.) Rennes
Gigiadze  71'
Penalties
Halyuza
Holaydo
Donets'
Gigiadze
Ljubenović
Zborovskyi
Ilnytskyi
Alunderis
Hajduczek
Kovpak
Dikan
Halyuza 		9–10 Leroy
Pagis
Thomert
Lemoine
Hansson
Sorlin
Fanni
Danzé
Echiéjilé
Dembélé
Douchez
Leroy
Lokomotiv Stadium, Simferopol
Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)

Tavriya Simferopol 1–1 Rennes on aggregate. Rennes won in a penalty shootout.

Budapest Honvéd 1–2 Sturm Graz
Smiljanić  8' Beichler  72'
Haas  77'
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Alan Kelly (England)

Sturm Graz won 2–1 on aggregate.

Rosenborg 2–0 NAC Breda
Stoor  34'
Iversen  50' (pen.)
Referee: Cristian Balaj (Romania)

Rosenborg won 2–1 on aggregate.

Aston Villa 1–0 Odense
A. Young  50'
Attendance: 34,394

Aston Villa won 3–2 on aggregate.

Riga 0–0 Elfsborg
Referee: Aleksey Nikolaev (Russia)

Elfsborg won 1–0 on aggregate.

Winners

Eight of the eleven Intertoto Cup co-winners entered the UEFA Cup by winning their qualifying ties and progressed to the First Round. Five of those eight sides survived the First Round and entered the Group stage. Four of those five qualified for the Round of 32. Only Braga progressed to the Round of 16, making them the overall winners.

The 11 co-winners were:

See also

Notes
  1. Apollon Limassol declined the participation, so Ethnikos Achna will participate instead
  2. FC Fehérvár, Újpest FC and Kaposvári Rákóczi FC declined the participation
  3. 1. FC Brno (4th team of Gambrinus liga) did not apply for the Intertoto Cup.

References
  1. "Intertoto Cup 2008". LinguaSport.com. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  2. 2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup – Result of the draws – Rounds 1, 2 and 3 – House of European Football, 21 april 2008, Nyon
  3. Vardar did not gain a UEFA licence
  4. "Cercle laat Intertoto-ticket aan G.Beerschot" (in Dutch). sporza.be. 2008-05-13. Archived from the original on 2008-05-14. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  5. "El Deportivo no cumplió con su parte, pero estará en la Intertoto" (in Spanish). as.com. 2008-05-18.
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