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.
Liverpool could not defend their title as they automatically qualified for the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League and also reached the knockout stage.
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Association team allocation
A total of 145 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:
Associations 1–6 each enter three teams
Associations 7–8 each enter four teams
Associations 9–15 each enter two teams
Associations 16–21 each enter three teams
Associations 22–49 each enter two teams, with the exception of Liechtenstein who enter one.
Associations 50-51 each enter one team
The top three associations of the 2000–2001 UEFA Fair Play ranking each gain an additional berth
16 teams eliminated from the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds
8 teams eliminated from the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League group stage are transferred to the UEFA Cup
3 winners of the Intertoto Cup
The winner of the 2000–01 UEFA Cup (not used due to Liverpool's qualification to Champions League)
Association ranking
Notes
(FP): Additional fair play berth (Finland, Slovakia, Belarus)
(UCL): Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
(IT): Additional teams from Intertoto Cup
Redistribution rules
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:
When the domestic cup winners (considered as the "highest-placed" qualifier within the national association) also qualify for the Champions League, their UEFA Cup place is vacated, and the remaining UEFA Cup qualifiers are moved up one place, with the final place (with the earliest starting round) taken by the domestic cup runners-up, provided they do not already qualify for the Champions League or the UEFA Cup. Otherwise, this place is taken by the highest-placed league finisher which do not qualify for the UEFA Cup yet.
When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the UEFA Cup through league position, their place through the league position is vacated, and the UEFA Cup qualifiers which finish lower in the league are moved up one place, with the final place taken by the highest-placed league finisher which do not qualify for the UEFA Cup yet.
A place vacated by the League Cup winners is taken by the highest-placed league finisher which do not qualify for the UEFA Cup yet.
A Fair Play place is taken by the highest-ranked team in the domestic Fair Play table which do not qualify for the Champions League or UEFA Cup yet.
Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
CW: Cup winners
CR: Cup runners-up
LC: League Cup winners
Nth: League position
P-W: End-of-season European competition play-off winners
FP: Fair play
IT: Intertoto Cup winners
CL: Relegated from the Champions League
GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition was as follows. Matches were scheduled for Thursdays apart from the final, which took place on a Wednesday, though exceptionally could take place on Tuesdays or Wednesdays due to scheduling conflicts.
Qualifying round
The first legs were played on 9 August, and the second legs were played on 23 August 2001.
First round
The first round featured the 41 winners of the qualifying round, joined by 36 directly qualified teams, the 16 losers of the Champions League third qualifying round and the 3 winners for the Intertoto Cup. The first legs were played on 11, 18, 19 and 20 September, and the second legs were played on 25 and 27 September 2001.
The matches scheduled for 12 September were postponed due to the September 11 attacks. Most of the postponed fixtures were rescheduled for 20 September, with all matches observing a moment of silence.
Second round
The second round featured the 48 winners of the first round. The first legs were played on 16 and 18 October, and the second legs were played on 30 October and 1 November 2001.
Final phase
In the final phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.
The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:
In the draws for the third and fourth rounds, teams were seeded and divided into groups containing an equal number of seeded and unseeded teams. In each group, the seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the first team drawn hosting the first leg. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there were no seedings and teams from the same association could be drawn against each other.
Third round
The draw for the third round was held on 2 November 2001, 13:00 CET.
The first legs were played on 20 and 22 November, and the second legs were played on 4 and 6 December 2001.
Fourth round
The draw for the fourth round was held on 12 December 2001, 12:00 CET.
The first legs were played on 19 and 21 February, and the second legs were played on 28 February 2002.
Quarter-finals
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 12 December 2001, 12:00 CET, immediately after the fourth round draw.
The first legs were played on 14 March, and the second legs were played on 21 March 2002.
Semi-finals
The draw for the semi-finals was held on 22 March 2002, 13:00 CET.
The first legs were played on 4 April, and the second legs were played on 11 April 2002.
Final
The final was played on 8 May 2002 at Feijenoord Stadion in Rotterdam, Netherlands.