UEFA Cup Draw

**OwlsFan** · 04/10/2005, 12:16 PM

UEFA Cup Draw

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Group A

AS Monaco
Slavia Prague
Hamburg
CSKA Sofia
Viking Stavanger

Group B

Lokomotiv Moscow
Espanyol
Palermo
Brondby
Maccabi Petah-Tikva

Group C

Hertha Berlin
Lens
Sampdoria
Steaua Bucharest
Halmstad

Group D

AZ Alkmaar
Middlesbrough
FC Dnipro
Grasshopper Zurich
Litex Lovech

Group E

AS Roma
Basel
C Zvezda
Strasbourg
Tromso

Group F

CSKA Moscow
Marseille
Heerenveen
Levski Sofia
Dinamo Bucharest

Group G

Vfb Stuttgart
PAOK Salonika
Shakhtar Donetsk
Rennes
Rapid Bucharest

Group H

Besiktas
Sevilla
Bolton
St Petersburg
Vitoria Guimaraes

Pity for Cork City. They missed out on one of the best groups there with Monaco and Hamburg.

**Dublin12** · 04/10/2005, 12:19 PM

It certainly is the poor mans champions league though.

**pineapple stu** · 04/10/2005, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by OwlsFan

Pity for Cork City. They missed out on one of the best groups there with Monaco and Hamburg.

They wouldn't have been in that group necessarily. They'd have been bottom seeds, whereas Prague are second seeds, so the whole draw would have been rejigged. Add in a bit of chaos theory, and there's no point speculating as to what might have been.