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	The Format
	The Structure

	UEFA has redesigned the UEFA Cup for 1999-200 season merging the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and
	UEFA Cup under the name UEFA Cup. The new cup was designed as a 145-team competition.
	After San Marino's acception to the competition in 2000-2001 the cup became a 146-team
	competition.
	When UEFA has introduced the new UEFA Cup competition, the system was announced together
	with the new UCL as a whole set of changes.
	Here I will try to simplify the team selection criteria, starting rounds, and the seedings.

	The teams can qualify to UEFA Cup in several ways:
	1 -   1 - The last UEFA Cup winner qualifies as the Title Holder. If they qualified to play
		at UCL, this entry is not used.
	2 - 112 - Teams selected from the cup and league competition of the countries ranked
		1 through 48.
	3 -   2 - The league winners of the countries ranked 49 through 50.
	4 -   1 - The cup winner of Liechtenstein.
	5 -   3 - Fair Play winners
	6 -   3 - UEFA Intertoto Cup winners.
	7 -  16 - UCL Qualification Round 3 losers.
	8 -   8 - UCL League Stage 1 third place teams.

	The 112 teams at Line 2 are selected as follows:
	Countries ranked 1 through 6 can send 3 teams each
		Team-1, Team-2, Team-3
	Countries ranked 7 through 8 can send 4 teams each
		Team-1, Team-2, Team-3, Team-4
	Countries ranked 9 through 15 can send 2 teams each
		Team-1, Team-2
	Countries ranked 16 through 21 can send 3 teams each
		Team-1, Team-2, Team-3
	Countries ranked 22 through 48 can send 2 teams each
		Team-1, Team-2

	Each country's selection is done after the UCL teams are selected. Any team selected for
	UCL can not be selected as one of the 112 teams. The teams selected for UCL are erased
	from the league standings of the countries.
	If the cup winner of a country has not qualified to UCL, they are allocated as Team-1 and
	the rest of the teams are allocated from the league standings.
	If the cup winner has qualified to UCL, then the other cup finalist gets an entry if that
	team has not qualified to the UCL. The rest of the allocation is filled from the league
	standings. In this case the losing finalists are not set up as Team-1, but their rank in the
	standings define the Team-1, Team-2, etc.
	If both finalists have qualified to UCL, then whole entries are allocated from the league
	standings.
	
	Fair Play teams:
	3 Fair Play teams are selected from the Fair Play competition standings of each country.
	The teams to be selected for fair Play are the teams which didn't qualify to UCL or UEFA Cup
	in another way.
	The Schedule

	All rounds are played in two-legged cup format.

	Qualifying Round: 84 teams
		78 teams selected from Line 2
			32 Team-1 from countries ranked 17 through 48
			40 Team-2 from countries ranked  9 through 48
			 6 Team-3 from countries ranked 16 through 21
		 2 League winners from countries ranked 49 through 50
		 1 Cup winner from Liechtenstein
		 3 Fair Play competition winners
	First Round: 96 teams
		42 QR winners
		54 new teams
			 1 Title Holder
			34 Teams selected from Line 2
				16 Team-1 from countries ranked 1 through 16
				 8 Team-2 from countries ranked 1 through  8
				 8 Team-3 from countries ranked 1 through  8
				 2 Team-4 from countries ranked 7 through  8
			 3 UEFA Intertoto Cup winners
			16 UCL Qualification Round 3 losers
	Second Round: 48 teams
		48 R1 winners
	Third Round: 32 teams
		24 R2 winners
		 8 UCL League Stage 1 - third place

	Depending upon the Title Holder's condition an adjustment may be needed.
	If the Title Holder is playing at UCL, there will be a void at First Round. This void is
	filled with Team-1 of country ranked 17. This results an odd number for Qualifying Round,
	Team-1 of the country ranked 18 also start at First Round leaving 82 teams for the
	Qualification Round.
	The Seeding and the Draw Procedure

	UEFA Team Rankings are used to decide the seeded teams.
	Until the Quarter-Finals a team is seeded for each tie.
	The teams are placed in so-called Geographical groups so that no team can play a team from
	their own country, until no other choice is available.
	After the groups are decided the seeded teams in a group are put in one pot and unseeded
	teams are put into another. One team from each pot is drawn to decide the tie.
	After a tie is decided these two teams are placed in one pot and another draw is made to
	decide the home team.
	of the teams are watched for the earlier rounds. The teams are placed in groups where they
	are in the same geographical area with the other group teams.

	Same procedure is followed until the Quarter-Finals.
	No seeding is done starting with the Quarter-Finals.