UEFA Cup Draw

Okay, boys and girls, here are the eight groups resulting from Tuesday's draw for the UEFA Cup group stage at Nyon, Switzerland:

GROUP A:
AJ Auxerre
Rangers FC
Partizan Belgrade
Livorno
Maccabi Haifa

GROUP B:
Bayer Leverkusen
Club Brugge
Besiktas
Dinamo Bucharest
Tottenham Hotspur

GROUP C:
Sevilla
AZ Alkmaar
Slovan Liberec
Grasshoppers
Sporting Braga

GROUP D:
Parma
Lens
SC Heerenveen
Osasuna
Odense

GROUP E:
Feyenoord Rotterdam
FC Basel
Wisla Krakow
Blackburn Rovers
AS Nancy Lorraine

GROUP F:
Ajax Amsterdam
Sparta Prague
RCD Espanyol de Barcelona
FK Austria Vienna
Zulte Waregem

GROUP G:
Panathinaikos
Paris Saint-Germain FC
Rapid Bucharest
Hapoel Tel-Aviv
Mlada Boleslav

GROUP H:
Newcastle United
Celta Viga
Palermo
Fenerbahce
Eintracht Frankfurt

Group stage action starts on October 19, with each team playing one game aginst each of the other teams in its group. The top three finishers in each group would advance to the knockout stage, beginning with the round of 32, in which they would be joined by the third-place finishers in the UEFA Champions League group stage.