2007–08 UEFA Champions League group stage

The 2007–08 UEFA Champions League group stage matches took place between 18 September and 12 December 2007.^[1]

Teams

Seeding was determined by the UEFA coefficients.^[2] The 32 teams were allocated into four pots based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season, with the title holders being placed in Pot 1 automatically. They were drawn into eight groups of four containing one team from each of the four seeding pots, with the restriction that teams from the same national association could not be drawn against each other. Clubs from the same association were paired up to split the matchdays between Tuesday and Wednesday. For the nations with three or four clubs in the group stage, the following clubs were paired (so that the clubs from the same pair would play on different days): Milan and Internazionale, Roma and Lazio, Barcelona and Real Madrid, Valencia and Sevilla, Arsenal and Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United, Benfica and Sporting CP, Werder Bremen and VfB Stuttgart. Additionally, winner of the qualifier between Sevilla and AEK Athens was paired with Olympiacos.^[3]

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 16
Third-placed teams entered the UEFA Cup round of 32

Pot 1
Team	Notes	Coeff.
Milan	^[TH]	133.808
Barcelona		119.374
Liverpool	^[Q3]	112.618
Internazionale		107.808
Arsenal	^[Q3]	104.618
Real Madrid		104.374
Chelsea		99.618
Manchester United		99.618

Pot 2
Team	Notes	Coeff.
Valencia	^[Q3]	99.374
Lyon		95.706
Porto		89.107
Sevilla / AEK Athens	^[Q3]^[†]	87.374
PSV Eindhoven		81.995
Roma		78.808
Benfica	^[Q3]	67.107
Werder Bremen	^[Q3]	63.640

Pot 3
Team	Notes	Coeff.
Celtic	^[Q3]	62.064
Schalke 04		60.640
VfB Stuttgart		58.640
Steaua București	^[Q3]	55.255
CSKA Moscow		53.920
Sporting CP		52.107
Lazio	^[Q3]	51.808
Marseille		51.706

Pot 4
Team	Notes	Coeff.
Rangers	^[Q3]	47.064
Shakhtar Donetsk	^[Q3]	44.726
Beşiktaş	^[Q3]	43.791
Olympiacos		42.415
Dynamo Kyiv	^[Q3]	38.726
Fenerbahçe	^[Q3]	36.791
Slavia Prague	^[Q3]	32.851
Rosenborg	^[Q3]	31.509

Notes

^TH Champions League title holders (automatic top seed of pot 1)
^Q3 Winners of the third qualifying round
^† Due to the death of Antonio Puerta, the second leg of Sevilla's third qualifying round tie against AEK Athens was postponed until 3 September, while the draw was held on 30 August. Due to the seeding criteria, both clubs were included in the draw interchangeably and their seeding was determined by the higher of the two teams' coefficients (Sevilla: 87.374, AEK Athens: 36.415). Eventually, Sevilla qualified for the group stage with a 6–1 win on aggregate against AEK Athens.

Tie-breaking criteria

Based on paragraph 6.05 in the regulations for the current season, if two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:^[4]

higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
superior goal difference from all group matches played;
higher number of goals scored in all group matches played;
higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

Groups

Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	POR	LIV	MAR	BES
1	Porto	6	3	2	1	8	7	+1	11	Advance to knockout stage	—	1–1	2–1	2–0
2	Liverpool	6	3	1	2	18	5	+13	10	Advance to knockout stage	4–1	—	0–1	8–0
3	Marseille	6	2	1	3	6	9	−3	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup	1–1	0–4	—	2–0
4	Beşiktaş	6	2	0	4	4	15	−11	6		0–1	2–1	2–1	—

Source: RSSSF

18 September 2007

20:45

Marseille	2–0	Beşiktaş
Rodriguez 76' Cissé 90+1'	Report

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 35,676

Referee: Matteo Trefoloni (Italy)

18 September 2007

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Porto	1–1	Liverpool
L. González 8' (pen.)	Report	Kuyt 17'

Estádio do Dragão, Porto

Attendance: 41,208

Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)

3 October 2007

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Liverpool	0–1	Marseille
	Report	Valbuena 77'

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 41,355

Referee: Konrad Plautz (Austria)

3 October 2007

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Beşiktaş	0–1	Porto
	Report	Quaresma 90+2'

BJK İnönü Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 19,795

Referee: Pieter Vink (Netherlands)

24 October 2007

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Beşiktaş	2–1	Liverpool
Hyypiä 13' (o.g.) Bobô 82'	Report	Gerrard 85'

BJK İnönü Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 25,837

Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)

24 October 2007

20:45

Marseille	1–1	Porto
Niang 70'	Report	L. González 79' (pen.)

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 46,458

Referee: Manuel Mejuto González (Spain)

6 November 2007

20:45 (19:45 UTC+0)

Liverpool	8–0	Beşiktaş
Crouch 19', 89' Benayoun 32', 53', 56' Gerrard 69' Babel 79', 81'	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 41,143

Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)

6 November 2007

20:45 (19:45 UTC+0)

Porto	2–1	Marseille
Sektioui 27' López 78'	Report	Niang 47'

Estádio do Dragão, Porto

Attendance: 42,217

Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)

28 November 2007

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Beşiktaş	2–1	Marseille
Tello 27' Bobô 88'	Report	Taiwo 65'

BJK İnönü Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 19,448

Referee: Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain)

28 November 2007

20:45 (19:45 UTC+0)

Liverpool	4–1	Porto
Torres 19', 78' Gerrard 84' (pen.) Crouch 87'	Report	López 33'

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 41,095

Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)

11 December 2007

20:45

Marseille	0–4	Liverpool
	Report	Gerrard 4' Torres 11' Kuyt 48' Babel 90+1'

Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Attendance: 53,097

Referee: Terje Hauge (Norway)

11 December 2007

20:45 (19:45 UTC+0)

Porto	2–0	Beşiktaş
L. González 44' Quaresma 62'	Report

Estádio do Dragão, Porto

Attendance: 39,608

Referee: Peter Fröjdfeldt (Sweden)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	CHE	SCH	ROS	VAL
1	Chelsea	6	3	3	0	9	2	+7	12	Advance to knockout stage	—	2–0	1–1	0–0
2	Schalke 04	6	2	2	2	5	4	+1	8	Advance to knockout stage	0–0	—	3–1	0–1
3	Rosenborg	6	2	1	3	6	10	−4	7	Transfer to UEFA Cup	0–4	0–2	—	2–0
4	Valencia	6	1	2	3	2	6	−4	5		1–2	0–0	0–2	—

Source: RSSSF

18 September 2007

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Chelsea	1–1	Rosenborg
Shevchenko 53'	Report	Koppinen 24'

Stamford Bridge, London

Attendance: 24,973

Referee: Laurent Duhamel (France)

18 September 2007

20:45

Schalke 04	0–1	Valencia
	Report	Villa 63'

Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen

Attendance: 53,951

Referee: Jan Wegereef (Netherlands)

3 October 2007

20:45

Valencia	1–2	Chelsea
Villa 9'	Report	J. Cole 21' Drogba 71'

Mestalla Stadium, Valencia

Attendance: 34,935

Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)

3 October 2007

20:45

Rosenborg	0–2	Schalke 04
	Report	Jones 62' Kurányi 89'

Lerkendal Stadion, Trondheim

Attendance: 21,361

Referee: Grzegorz Gilewski (Poland)

24 October 2007

20:45

Rosenborg	2–0	Valencia
Koné 53' Riseth 61'	Report

Lerkendal Stadion, Trondheim

Attendance: 21,119

Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)

24 October 2007

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Chelsea	2–0	Schalke 04
Malouda 4' Drogba 47'	Report

Stamford Bridge, London

Attendance: 40,910

Referee: Peter Fröjdfeldt (Sweden)

6 November 2007

20:45

Valencia	0–2	Rosenborg
	Report	Iversen 31', 58'

Mestalla Stadium, Valencia

Attendance: 29,725

Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)

6 November 2007

20:45

Schalke 04	0–0	Chelsea
	Report

Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen

Attendance: 53,951

Referee: Massimo Busacca (Switzerland)

28 November 2007

20:45

Rosenborg	0–4	Chelsea
	Report	Drogba 8', 20' Alex 40' J. Cole 73'

Lerkendal Stadion, Trondheim

Attendance: 21,582

Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)

28 November 2007

20:45

Valencia	0–0	Schalke 04
	Report

Mestalla Stadium, Valencia

Attendance: 29,232

Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)

11 December 2007

20:45 (19:45 UTC+0)

Chelsea	0–0	Valencia
	Report

Stamford Bridge, London

Attendance: 41,139

Referee: Grzegorz Gilewski (Poland)

11 December 2007

20:45

Schalke 04	3–1	Rosenborg
Asamoah 12' Rafinha 19' Kurányi 36'	Report	Koné 23'

Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen

Attendance: 53,951

Referee: Mike Riley (England)

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	RMA	OLY	BRM	LAZ
1	Real Madrid	6	3	2	1	13	9	+4	11	Advance to knockout stage	—	4–2	2–1	3–1
2	Olympiacos	6	3	2	1	11	7	+4	11	Advance to knockout stage	0–0	—	3–0	1–1
3	Werder Bremen	6	2	0	4	8	13	−5	6	Transfer to UEFA Cup	3–2	1–3	—	2–1
4	Lazio	6	1	2	3	8	11	−3	5		2–2	1–2	2–1	—

Source: RSSSF

18 September 2007

20:45

Real Madrid	2–1	Werder Bremen
Raúl 16' Van Nistelrooy 74'	Report	Sanogo 17'

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 63,500

Referee: Howard Webb (England)

18 September 2007

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Olympiacos	1–1	Lazio
Galletti 55'	Report	Zauri 77'

Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus

Attendance: 171^{[note 2]}

Referee: Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands)

3 October 2007