The draw for the UEFA Cup group stage has been held at UEFA headquarters in Switzerland.

Each club will play two matches at home and two away on the following dates: 20 October, 3 November, 24 November, 30 November/1 December, 14/15 December.

The top three teams from each group advance to the last 32 where they are joined by the eight third-placed clubs from the UEFA Champions League group stage. At this point, the two-match format is used with the exception of the final, to be played at the Philips Stadion in Eindhoven on 10 May next year.

Group A
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
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