2007–08 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds

The qualifying rounds for the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League began on 17 July 2007. In total, there were three qualifying rounds which provided 16 clubs to join the group stage.

Teams

Key to colours
Qualify for the group stage
Eliminated in the Third qualifying round; Advanced to the UEFA Cup first round

Third qualifying round
Team	Coeff.
Liverpool	112.618
Arsenal	104.618
Valencia	99.374
Sevilla	87.374
Benfica	67.107
Ajax	65.995
Werder Bremen	63.640
Celtic	62.064
Lazio	51.808
Anderlecht	41.594
Dynamo Kyiv	38.726
Sparta Prague	37.851
Fenerbahçe	36.791
AEK Athens	36.415
Dinamo București	34.255
Spartak Moscow	27.920
Toulouse	17.706
Zürich	9.869

Second qualifying round
Team	Coeff.
Steaua București	55.255
Rangers	47.064
Shakhtar Donetsk	44.726
Beşiktaş	43.791
Levski Sofia	38.112
Slavia Prague	32.851
Rosenborg	31.509
Red Star Belgrade	19.256
Copenhagen	19.129
Genk	15.594
Debrecen	11.675
Red Bull Salzburg	9.104
Beitar Jerusalem	6.338
Zagłębie Lubin	5.609

First qualifying round
Team	Coeff.
Dinamo Zagreb	17.533
APOEL	6.492
Domžale	5.272
IF Elfsborg	4.478
Sarajevo	4.190
Ventspils	3.860
Žilina	3.575
Derry City	3.145
FH	2.650
Kaunas	2.420
Tampere United	2.420
Sheriff Tiraspol	2.365
Olimpi Rustavi	2.035
Pobeda	1.925
BATE Borisov	1.540
Tirana	1.265
Levadia Tallinn	1.210
Pyunik	1.155
Khazar Lankaran	1.045
Astana	0.770
Linfield	0.715
The New Saints	0.660
HB	0.550
F91 Dudelange	0.550
Marsaxlokk	0.550
Rànger's	0.000
Murata	0.000
Zeta	0.000

First qualifying round

The draw was held on 29 June 2007 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Michele Centenaro, UEFA's head of club competitions.

Seeding

Seeded		Unseeded
Dinamo Zagreb APOEL Domžale IF Elfsborg Sarajevo Ventspils Žilina	Derry City FH Kaunas Tampere United Sheriff Tiraspol Olimpi Rustavi Pobeda	BATE Borisov Tirana Levadia Tallinn Pyunik Khazar Lankaran Astana Linfield	The New Saints HB F91 Dudelange Marsaxlokk Rànger's Murata Zeta

Summary

The first leg matches were held on 17 July and 18 July, while the second legs were played on 24 July and 25 July 2007.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Khazar Lankaran	2–4	Dinamo Zagreb	1–1	1–3 (a.e.t.)
APOEL	2–3	BATE Borisov	2–0	0–3 (a.e.t.)
Sheriff Tiraspol	5–0	Rànger's	2–0	3–0
FH	4–1	HB	4–1	0–0
The New Saints	4–4 (a)	Ventspils	3–2	1–2
Pobeda	0–1	Levadia Tallinn	0–1	0–0
Olimpi Rustavi	0–3	Astana	0–0	0–3
Zeta	5–4	Kaunas	3–1	2–3
Murata	1–4	Tampere United	1–2	0–2
F91 Dudelange	5–7	Žilina	1–2	4–5
Linfield	0–1	IF Elfsborg	0–0	0–1
Derry City	0–2	Pyunik	0–0	0–2
Marsaxlokk	1–9	Sarajevo	0–6	1–3
Domžale	3–1	Tirana	1–0	2–1

Matches

17 July 2007

15:00

Khazar Lankaran	1–1	Dinamo Zagreb
Ramazanov 58'	Report	Etto 63'

Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium, Baku^{[note 1]}

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Meir Levi (Israel)

24 July 2007

20:15

Dinamo Zagreb	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Khazar Lankaran
Vugrinec 56' Mandžukić 99' Tadić 116'	Report	Juninho 16'

Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb

Attendance: 9,240

Referee: Bernardino González Vázquez (Spain)

Dinamo Zagreb won 4–2 on aggregate.

17 July 2007

19:00

APOEL	2–0	BATE Borisov
Michael 42' Machlas 61'	Report

GSP Stadium, Nicosia

Attendance: 10,971

Referee: Olivier Thual (France)

24 July 2007

18:00

BATE Borisov	3–0 (a.e.t.)	APOEL
Stasevich 14' Platonaw 74' Bliznyuk 104'	Report

City Stadium, Borisov

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Willie Collum (Scotland)

BATE Borisov won 3–2 on aggregate.

18 July 2007

18:00

Sheriff Tiraspol	2–0	Rànger's
Kuchuk 45+7' Gorodețchi 79'	Report

Sheriff Stadium, Tiraspol

Attendance: 8,800

Referee: István Vad (Hungary)

24 July 2007

18:00

Rànger's	0–3	Sheriff Tiraspol
	Report	Balima 68' Kajkut 77' Suvorov 89'

Estadi Comunal d'Andorra la Vella, Andorra la Vella

Attendance: 280

Referee: Fariz Yusifov (Azerbaijan)

Sheriff Tiraspol won 5–0 on aggregate.

18 July 2007

22:00

FH	4–1	HB
Bjarnason 14' Vilhjálmsson 16', 58' Ólafsson 52'	Report	Nielsen 44' (o.g.)

Kaplakriki, Hafnarfjörður

Attendance: 1,422

Referee: Alan Black (Northern Ireland)

25 July 2007

20:00

HB	0–0	FH
	Report

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 655

Referee: Petteri Kari (Finland)

FH won 4–1 on aggregate.

17 July 2007

21:30

The New Saints	3–2	Ventspils
Wilde 14' Baker 54' Hogan 90'	Report	Rimkus 26', 89'

Latham Park, Newtown^{[note 3]}

Attendance: 649

Referee: Joseph Attard (Malta)

25 July 2007

17:00

Ventspils	2–1	The New Saints
Ndeki 17' Kačanovs 53'	Report	Naylor 90+2'

Olimpiskais Stadions, Ventspils

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Johannes Valgeirsson (Iceland)

4–4 on aggregate; Ventspils won on away goals.

18 July 2007

17:00

Pobeda	0–1	Levadia Tallinn
	Report	Nahk 53'

Stadion Goce Delčev, Prilep

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Karen Nalbandyan (Armenia)

25 July 2007

17:30

Levadia Tallinn	0–0	Pobeda
	Report

Kadriorg Stadium, Tallinn

Attendance: 2,297

Referee: Mihály Fábián (Hungary)

Levadia Tallinn won 1–0 on aggregate.

17 July 2007

13:15

Olimpi Rustavi	0–0	Astana
	Report

Poladi Stadium, Rustavi

Attendance: 2,900

Referee: Marcin Borski (Poland)

24 July 2007

13:30

Astana	3–0	Olimpi Rustavi
Kuchma 12' Tlekhugov 55' Zhalmagambetov 84'	Report

Central Stadium, Kostanay^{[note 4]}

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Veaceslav Banari (Moldova)

Astana won 3–0 on aggregate.

17 July 2007

20:30

Zeta	3–1	Kaunas
Korać 34' (pen.) Tumbasević 36' Stjepanović 59'	Report	Kvaratskhelia 68'

City Stadium, Podgorica^{[note 5]}

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

24 July 2007

19:00

Kaunas	3–2	Zeta
Beniušis 6' Kvaratskhelia 16' Kšanavičius 20'	Report	Stjepanović 34' Ćetković 89'

Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: Richard Havrilla (Slovakia)

Zeta won 5–4 on aggregate.

17 July 2007

21:00

Murata	1–2	Tampere United
Protti 43'	Report	Niemi 68', 88'

Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle

Attendance: 2,686

Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (Macedonia)

25 July 2007

18:00

Tampere United	2–0	Murata
Petrescu 7' Niemi 21'	Report

Tampere Stadium, Tampere

Attendance: 5,638

Referee: Luc Wilmes (Luxembourg)

Tampere United won 4–1 on aggregate.

18 July 2007

19:00

F91 Dudelange	1–2	Žilina
Di Gregorio 45' (pen.)	Report	Jež 48' (pen.) Lietava 73'

Stade Jos Nosbaum, Dudelange

Attendance: 1,221

Referee: Alexander Gonchar (Russia)

25 July 2007

20:00

Žilina	5–4	F91 Dudelange
Devátý 8' Lietava 11' Štyvar 29', 75' Vomáčka 66'	Report	Di Gregorio 40' Hammami 49' Guthleber 71' Lukić 82'

Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina

Attendance: 5,822

Referee: Paolo Paraty da Silva (Portugal)

Žilina won 7–5 on aggregate.

17 July 2007

20:45

Linfield	0–0	IF Elfsborg
	Report

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 2,009

Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)

25 July 2007

19:00

IF Elfsborg	1–0	Linfield
M. Svensson 32'	Report

Borås Arena, Borås

Attendance: 1,023

Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

IF Elfsborg won 1–0 on aggregate.

18 July 2007

21:45

Derry City	0–0	Pyunik
	Report

Brandywell Stadium, Derry

Attendance: 2,285

Referee: Stelios Trifonos (Cyprus)

25 July 2007

17:00

Pyunik	2–0	Derry City
Avetisyan 28' Ghazaryan 67'	Report

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 5,300

Referee: Robert Krajnc (Slovenia)

Pyunik won 2–0 on aggregate.

18 July 2007

20:00

Marsaxlokk	0–6	Sarajevo
	Report	Raščić 5', 9' Obuća 20', 65' Maksimović 42' Bučan 87'

Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 321

Referee: Mario Vlk (Slovakia)

24 July 2007

20:00

Sarajevo	3–1	Marsaxlokk
Mešić 42' Šaraba 60' Turković 76'	Report	Frendo 65'

Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium, Sarajevo

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Stanislav Todorov (Bulgaria)

Sarajevo won 9–1 on aggregate.

18 July 2007

20:15

Domžale	1–0	Tirana
Janković 44'	Report

Sports Park, Domžale

Attendance: 824

Referee: Martin Atkinson (England)

25 July 2007

20:30

Tirana	1–2	Domžale
K. Duro 74'	Report	Ljubijankić 30', 77'

Qemal Stafa Stadium, Tirana

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Mechalis Germanakos (Greece)

Domžale won 3–1 on aggregate.

Second qualifying round

The draw was held on 29 June 2007 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Michele Centenaro, UEFA's head of club competitions.

Seeding

Seeded		Unseeded
Steaua București Rangers Shakhtar Donetsk Beşiktaş Levski Sofia Slavia Prague Rosenborg	Red Star Belgrade Copenhagen Dinamo Zagreb^[†] Genk Debrecen Red Bull Salzburg BATE Borisov^[†]	Beitar Jerusalem Zagłębie Lubin Domžale^[†] IF Elfsborg^[†] Sarajevo^[†] Ventspils^[†] Žilina^[†]	Pyunik^[†] FH^[†] Zeta^[†] Tampere United^[†] Sheriff Tiraspol^[†] Astana^[†] Levadia Tallinn^[†]

Notes

^† Winners of the previous qualifying round whose identity was not known at the time of the draw. Teams in italics defeated a team with a higher coefficient in the previous qualifying round, thus effectively taking the coefficient of their defeated opponent in the draw for this round.

Summary

The first leg matches were played on 31 July and 1 August, while the second legs were played on 7 August and 8 August 2007.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pyunik	1–4	Shakhtar Donetsk	0–2	1–2
Red Star Belgrade	2–2 (a)	Levadia Tallinn	1–0	1–2
Rangers	3–0	Zeta	2–0	1–0
Debrecen	0–1	IF Elfsborg	0–1	0–0
Zagłębie Lubin	1–3	Steaua București	0–1	1–2
Genk	2–2 (a)	Sarajevo	1–2	1–0
Ventspils	0–7	Red Bull Salzburg	0–3	0–4
Astana	2–10	Rosenborg	1–3	1–7
FH	2–4	BATE Borisov	1–3	1–1
Copenhagen	2–1	Beitar Jerusalem	1–0	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Žilina	0–0 (3–4 p)	Slavia Prague	0–0	0–0 (a.e.t.)
Tampere United	2–0	Levski Sofia	1–0	1–0
Domžale	2–5	Dinamo Zagreb	1–2	1–3
Beşiktaş	4–0	Sheriff Tiraspol	1–0	3–0

Matches

31 July 2007

17:00

Pyunik	0–2	Shakhtar Donetsk
	Report	Hladkyy 45' Brandão 48'

Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Stefan Messner (Austria)

8 August 2007

19:00

Shakhtar Donetsk	2–1	Pyunik
Brandão 40' Hladkyy 49'	Report	Ghazaryan 31'

RSC Olimpiyskiy, Donetsk

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: João Lopes Ferreira (Portugal)

Shakhtar Donetsk won 4–1 on aggregate.

1 August 2007

20:15

Red Star Belgrade	1–0	Levadia Tallinn
Koroman 35'	Report

Red Star Stadium, Belgrade

Attendance: 18,886

Referee: Bernhard Brugger (Austria)

8 August 2007

17:00

Levadia Tallinn	2–1	Red Star Belgrade
Malov 43' Nahk 67'	Report	Burzanović 37'

Kadriorg Stadium, Tallinn

Attendance: 3,600

Referee: Carlos Megía Dávila (Spain)

2–2 on aggregate; Red Star Belgrade won on away goals.

31 July 2007

21:05

Rangers	2–0	Zeta
Weir 55' McCulloch 73'	Report

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow

Attendance: 36,145

Referee: Georgios Kasnaferis (Greece)

7 August 2007

20:05

Zeta	0–1	Rangers
	Report	Beasley 81'

City Stadium, Podgorica^{[note 5]}

Attendance: 9,000

Referee: Paolo Dondarini (Italy)

Rangers won 3–0 on aggregate.

31 July 2007

20:45

Debrecen	0–1	IF Elfsborg
	Report	Mobaeck 65'

Stadion Oláh Gábor Út, Debrecen

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Sten Kaldma (Estonia)

8 August 2007

19:00

IF Elfsborg	0–0	Debrecen
	Report

Borås Arena, Borås

Attendance: 11,952

Referee: Claudio Circhetta (Switzerland)

IF Elfsborg won 1–0 on aggregate.

31 July 2007

20:45

Zagłębie Lubin	0–1	Steaua București
	Report	Goian 55'

Stadion Zagłębia, Lubin

Attendance: 7,300

Referee: Selçuk Dereli (Turkey)

8 August 2007

19:30

Steaua București	2–1	Zagłębie Lubin
Nicoliță 37' Zaharia 83'	Report	Stasiak 29'

Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest

Attendance: 16,287

Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)

Steaua București won 3–1 on aggregate.

31 July 2007

20:30

Genk	1–2	Sarajevo
Cornelis 28'	Report	Raščić 15' Muharemović 86'

Cristal Arena, Genk

Attendance: 11,090

Referee: Igor Egorov (Russia)

8 August 2007

19:30

Sarajevo	0–1	Genk
	Report	Mikulić 58'

Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium, Sarajevo

Attendance: 32,000

Referee: Alexandru Tudor (Romania)

2–2 on aggregate; Sarajevo won on away goals.

1 August 2007

18:00

Ventspils	0–3	Red Bull Salzburg
	Report	Aufhauser 20', 27', 83' (pen.)

Skonto Stadium, Riga^{[note 6]}

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Ruud Bossen (Netherlands)

8 August 2007

20:30

Red Bull Salzburg	4–0	Ventspils
Aufhauser 9' Dudić 48' Ilić 77' Leitgeb 90+2'	Report

Red Bull Arena, Salzburg

Attendance: 11,665

Referee: Espen Berntsen (Norway)

Red Bull Salzburg won 7–0 on aggregate.

1 August 2007

15:00

Astana	1–3	Rosenborg
Kuchma 30'	Report	Koné 6', 67' Iversen 63'

Central Stadium, Kostanay^{[note 4]}

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Serge Gumienny (Belgium)

8 August 2007

20:45

Rosenborg	7–1	Astana
Koné 1', 33' Iversen 7' Traoré 17', 50', 53' Sapara 62'	Report	Suchkov 22'

Lerkendal Stadion, Trondheim

Attendance: 12,827

Referee: Mark Courtney (Northern Ireland)

Rosenborg won 10–2 on aggregate.

1 August 2007

21:00

FH	1–3	BATE Borisov
Ólafsson 4'	Report	Likhtarovich 31' Rodionov 50' Bliznyuk 61'

Kaplakriki, Hafnarfjörður

Attendance: 1,587

Referee: Jacek Granat (Poland)

8 August 2007

18:00

BATE Borisov	1–1	FH
D. Platonaw 90+3'	Report	T. Guðmundsson 33' (pen.)

City Stadium, Borisov

Attendance: 5,300

Referee: Fritz Stuchlik (Austria)

BATE Borisov won 4–2 on aggregate.

31 July 2007

20:15

Copenhagen	1–0	Beitar Jerusalem
Allbäck 9'	Report

Parken Stadium, Copenhagen

Attendance: 21,336

Referee: Eduardo Iturralde González (Spain)

7 August 2007

20:15

Beitar Jerusalem	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Copenhagen
Yitzhaki 60'	Report	Allbäck 97'

Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem

Attendance: 16,800

Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)

Copenhagen won 2–1 on aggregate.

1 August 2007

20:00

Žilina	0–0	Slavia Prague
	Report

Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina

Attendance: 9,600

Referee: Martin Ingvarsson (Sweden)

8 August 2007

20:45

Slavia Prague	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Žilina
	Report
Penalties
Volešák Tavares Krajčík Suchý Necid Vlček	4–3	Štrba Štyvar Jež Vladavić Devátý Vomáčka

Stadion Evžena Rošického, Prague

Attendance: 11,222

Referee: Duarte Gomes (Portugal)

0–0 on aggregate; Slavia Prague won 4–3 on penalties.

31 July 2007

18:00

Tampere United	1–0	Levski Sofia
Petrescu 15'	Report

Tampere Stadium, Tampere

Attendance: 8,126

Referee: Dougie McDonald (Scotland)

7 August 2007

19:30

Levski Sofia	0–1	Tampere United
	Report	Niemi 40'

Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia

Attendance: 11,704

Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer (Germany)

Tampere United won 2–0 on aggregate.

1 August 2007

20:30

Domžale	1–2	Dinamo Zagreb
Žeželj 87'	Report	Šokota 7' Modrić 50' (pen.)

Sports Park, Domžale

Attendance: 2,787

Referee: Thomas Einwaller (Austria)

7 August 2007

20:15

Dinamo Zagreb	3–1	Domžale
Vukojević 18' Šokota 22' Sammir 60'	Report	Zahora 27'

Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb

Attendance: 14,550

Referee: Johan Verbist (Belgium)

Dinamo Zagreb won 5–2 on aggregate.

1 August 2007

20:00

Beşiktaş	1–0	Sheriff Tiraspol
İbrahim Toraman 73'	Report

BJK İnönü Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 17,871

Referee: Peter Sippel (Germany)

8 August 2007

19:00

Sheriff Tiraspol	0–3	Beşiktaş
	Report	Bobô 58', 69' Koray 90'

Sheriff Stadium, Tiraspol

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Iain Brines (Scotland)

Beşiktaş won 4–0 on aggregate.

Third qualifying round

The draw was held on 3 August 2007 in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw was conducted by UEFA General Secretary David Taylor and Giorgio Marchetti, UEFA's director of professional football.

Seeding

Seeded		Unseeded
Liverpool Arsenal Valencia Sevilla Benfica Ajax Werder Bremen Celtic	Steaua București^[†] Lazio Rangers^[†] Shakhtar Donetsk^[†] Beşiktaş^[†] Anderlecht Dynamo Kyiv Tampere United^[†]	Sparta Prague Fenerbahçe AEK Athens Dinamo București Slavia Prague^[†] Spartak Moscow Rosenborg^[†] Red Star Belgrade^[†]	Copenhagen^[†] Toulouse Dinamo Zagreb^[†] Sarajevo^[†] IF Elfsborg^[†] Zürich Red Bull Salzburg^[†] BATE Borisov^[†]

Notes

^† Winners of the previous qualifying round whose identity was not known at the time of the draw. Teams in italics defeated a team with a higher coefficient in the previous qualifying round, thus effectively taking the coefficient of their defeated opponent in the draw for this round.

Summary

The first leg matches were played on 14 August and 15 August, while the second legs were played on 28 August and 29 August 2007. Winners in this round qualified for the group stage, while the losing clubs entered the first round of the UEFA Cup. Due to the death of Antonio Puerta, the second leg of Sevilla's game against AEK Athens was postponed until 3 September.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
BATE Borisov	2–4	Steaua București	2–2	0–2
Tampere United	0–5	Rosenborg	0–3	0–2
Spartak Moscow	2–2 (3–4 p)	Celtic	1–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Werder Bremen	5–3	Dinamo Zagreb	2–1	3–2
Red Bull Salzburg	2–3	Shakhtar Donetsk	1–0	1–3
Ajax	1–3	Slavia Prague	0–1	1–2
Valencia	5–1	IF Elfsborg	3–0	2–1
Sarajevo	0–4	Dynamo Kyiv	0–1	0–3
Fenerbahçe	3–0	Anderlecht	1–0	2–0
Rangers	1–0	Red Star Belgrade	1–0	0–0
Toulouse	0–5	Liverpool	0–1	0–4
Benfica	3–1	Copenhagen	2–1	1–0
Lazio	4–2	Dinamo București	1–1	3–1
Sparta Prague	0–5	Arsenal	0–2	0–3
Zürich	1–3	Beşiktaş	1–1	0–2
Sevilla	6–1	AEK Athens	2–0	4–1

Matches

15 August 2007

19:00

BATE Borisov	2–2	Steaua București
Radzkow 39' Bliznyuk 90+2'	Report	Goian 60' Dică 85'

City Stadium, Borisov

Attendance: 5,300

Referee: Matteo Trefoloni (Italy)

29 August 2007

19:30

Steaua București	2–0	BATE Borisov
Zaharia 12' Neaga 54'	Report

Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest

Attendance: 24,254

Referee: Pieter Vink (Netherlands)

Steaua București won 4–2 on aggregate.

15 August 2007

18:00

Tampere United	0–3	Rosenborg
	Report	Koppinen 19' Koné 20', 81'

Tampere Stadium, Tampere

Attendance: 16,800

Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

29 August 2007

21:40

Rosenborg	2–0	Tampere United
Sapara 45' Ya Konan 48'	Report

Lerkendal Stadion, Trondheim

Attendance: 14,123

Referee: Alain Hamer (Luxembourg)

Rosenborg won 5–0 on aggregate.

15 August 2007

18:00

Spartak Moscow	1–1	Celtic
Pavlyuchenko 42'	Report	Hartley 21'

Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)

29 August 2007

20:45

Celtic	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Spartak Moscow
McDonald 27'	Report	Pavlyuchenko 45'
Penalties
Caldwell Nakamura Vennegoor of Hesselink Riordan Żurawski	4–3	Mozart Titov Pavlyuchenko Șoavă Kalynychenko

Celtic Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 57,644

Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)

2–2 on aggregate; Celtic won 4–3 on penalties.

15 August 2007

20:30

Werder Bremen	2–1	Dinamo Zagreb
Almeida 46' Jensen 85'	Report	Balaban 45+1'

Weserstadion, Bremen

Attendance: 25,474

Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)

29 August 2007

20:30

Dinamo Zagreb	2–3	Werder Bremen
Vukojević 21' Modrić 40' (pen.)	Report	Diego 15' (pen.), 70' (pen.) Sanogo 38'

Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb

Attendance: 34,175

Referee: Terje Hauge (Norway)

Werder Bremen won 5–3 on aggregate.

15 August 2007

20:30

Red Bull Salzburg	1–0	Shakhtar Donetsk
Zickler 10' (pen.)	Report

Red Bull Arena, Salzburg

Attendance: 23,690

Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

29 August 2007

18:00

Shakhtar Donetsk	3–1	Red Bull Salzburg
Lucarelli 9' Castillo 79' (pen.) Brandão 87'	Report	Meyer 5'

RSC Olimpiyskiy, Donetsk

Attendance: 26,000

Referee: Laurent Duhamel (France)

Shakhtar Donetsk won 3–2 on aggregate.

15 August 2007

20:30

Ajax	0–1	Slavia Prague
	Report	Kalivoda 75' (pen.)

Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Florian Meyer (Germany)

29 August 2007

20:30

Slavia Prague	2–1	Ajax
Vlček 23', 87'	Report	Suárez 34'

Stadion Evžena Rošického, Prague

Attendance: 17,330

Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)

Slavia Prague won 3–1 on aggregate.

14 August 2007

22:00

Valencia	3–0	IF Elfsborg
Vicente 6' Silva 58' Morientes 70'	Report

Mestalla Stadium, Valencia

Attendance: 46,320

Referee: Robert Małek (Poland)

29 August 2007

20:45

IF Elfsborg	1–2	Valencia
Alexandersson 31'	Report	Helguera 4' Villa 90'

Borås Arena, Borås

Attendance: 13,148

Referee: Yuri Baskakov (Russia)

Valencia won 5–1 on aggregate.

15 August 2007

20:00

Sarajevo	0–1	Dynamo Kyiv
	Report	Shatskikh 13'

Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium, Sarajevo

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)

29 August 2007

18:00

Dynamo Kyiv	3–0	Sarajevo
Bangoura 3' Milošević 75' (o.g.) Rebrov 90+2' (pen.)	Report

Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv

Attendance: 16,100

Referee: Stuart Dougal (Scotland)

Dynamo Kyiv won 4–0 on aggregate.

15 August 2007

20:00

Fenerbahçe	1–0	Anderlecht
Alex 32'	Report

Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 37,919

Referee: Howard Webb (England)

29 August 2007

20:30

Anderlecht	0–2	Fenerbahçe
	Report	Kežman 4' Alex 73'

Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 20,722

Referee: Massimo Busacca (Switzerland)

Fenerbahçe won 3–0 on aggregate.

14 August 2007

21:00

Rangers	1–0	Red Star Belgrade
Novo 90'	Report

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow

Attendance: 35,364

Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)

28 August 2007

20:00

Red Star Belgrade	0–0	Rangers
	Report

Red Star Stadium, Belgrade

Attendance: 40,104

Referee: Lucílio Batista (Portugal)

Rangers won 1–0 on aggregate.

15 August 2007

16:30

Toulouse	0–1	Liverpool
	Report	Voronin 43'

Stadium Municipal, Toulouse

Attendance: 30,380

Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Greece)

28 August 2007

21:05

Liverpool	4–0	Toulouse
Crouch 19' Hyypiä 49' Kuyt 87', 90+1'	Report

Anfield, Liverpool

Attendance: 43,118

Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)

Liverpool won 5–0 on aggregate.

14 August 2007

21:15

Benfica	2–1	Copenhagen
Rui Costa 25', 85'	Report	Hutchinson 35'

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 55,722

Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)

29 August 2007

20:45

Copenhagen	0–1	Benfica
	Report	Katsouranis 17'

Parken Stadium, Copenhagen

Attendance: 39,711

Referee: Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands)

Benfica won 3–1 on aggregate.

14 August 2007

20:45

Lazio	1–1	Dinamo București
Mutarelli 54'	Report	Dănciulescu 22'

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 35,172

Referee: Tom Henning Øvrebø (Norway)

28 August 2007

21:00

Dinamo București	1–3	Lazio
Bratu 27'	Report	Rocchi 47' (pen.), 66' Pandev 53'

Stadionul Național, Bucharest

Attendance: 40,164

Referee: Manuel Mejuto González (Spain)

Lazio won 4–2 on aggregate.

15 August 2007

20:45

Sparta Prague	0–2	Arsenal
	Report	Fàbregas 72' Hleb 90+2'

Generali Arena, Prague

Attendance: 19,856

Referee: Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain)

29 August 2007

21:05

Arsenal	3–0	Sparta Prague
Rosický 7' Fàbregas 82' Eduardo 89'	Report

Emirates Stadium, London

Attendance: 58,462

Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)

Arsenal won 5–0 on aggregate.

15 August 2007

20:15

Zürich	1–1	Beşiktaş
Alphonse 90+7'	Report	Delgado 3'

Hardturm, Zürich^{[note 7]}

Attendance: 14,000

Referee: Mike Riley (England)

29 August 2007

19:15

Beşiktaş	2–0	Zürich
Delgado 56', 64'	Report

BJK İnönü Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 22,773

Referee: Peter Fröjdfeldt (Sweden)

Beşiktaş won 3–1 on aggregate.

15 August 2007

20:45

Sevilla	2–0	AEK Athens
Luís Fabiano 48' Kanouté 67'	Report

Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium, Seville

Attendance: 34,852

Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)

3 September 2007^{[note 8]}

20:45

AEK Athens	1–4	Sevilla
Rivaldo 82' (pen.)	Report	Luís Fabiano 31' (pen.), 45' Keita 40' Kerzhakov 53'

Olympic Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 37,777

Referee: Paul Allaerts (Belgium)

Sevilla won 6–1 on aggregate.

Notes

^ Khazar Lankaran played their home match at Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium, Baku as their regular home venue Khazar Lankaran Central Stadium in Lankaran did not meet UEFA criteria.
^ HB played their home match at Tórsvøllur stadium, instead of their regular home venue Gundadalur stadium.
^ The New Saints played their home match at Latham Park in Newtown as their regular home venue Park Hall in Oswestry did not meet UEFA criteria.
^ ^a ^b Astana played their home matches at Central Stadium in Kostanay as their regular home venue Kazhymukan Munaitpasov Stadium in Astana did not meet UEFA criteria.
^ ^a ^b Zeta played their home matches at City Stadium, Podgorica as their regular home venue Stadion Trešnjica in Golubovci did not meet UEFA criteria.
^ Ventspils played their Second round home match at Skonto Stadium in Riga as their regular home venue Olimpiskais Stadions, Ventspils did not meet UEFA criteria.
^ Zürich played their home match at Hardturm as their regular home venue Letzigrund was closed for renovation.
^ The second leg of Sevilla's game against AEK Athens was postponed until 3 September due to the death of Antonio Puerta.^[1]

References

^ "Bayern and Ajax given tough ties". UEFA. 31 August 2007.

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[cnote_†_grp_1] † Winners of the previous qualifying round whose identity was not known at the time of the draw. Teams in italics defeated a team with a higher coefficient in the previous qualifying round, thus effectively taking the coefficient of their defeated opponent in the draw for this round.

[cnote_†_grp_1] † Winners of the previous qualifying round whose identity was not known at the time of the draw. Teams in italics defeated a team with a higher coefficient in the previous qualifying round, thus effectively taking the coefficient of their defeated opponent in the draw for this round.

[Khazar-1] Khazar Lankaran played their home match at Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium, Baku as their regular home venue Khazar Lankaran Central Stadium in Lankaran did not meet UEFA criteria.

[HB-2] HB played their home match at Tórsvøllur stadium, instead of their regular home venue Gundadalur stadium.

[TNS-3] The New Saints played their home match at Latham Park in Newtown as their regular home venue Park Hall in Oswestry did not meet UEFA criteria.

[Astana-4] Astana played their home matches at Central Stadium in Kostanay as their regular home venue Kazhymukan Munaitpasov Stadium in Astana did not meet UEFA criteria.

[Zeta-5] Zeta played their home matches at City Stadium, Podgorica as their regular home venue Stadion Trešnjica in Golubovci did not meet UEFA criteria.

[Ventspils-6] Ventspils played their Second round home match at Skonto Stadium in Riga as their regular home venue Olimpiskais Stadions, Ventspils did not meet UEFA criteria.

[Zürich-7] Zürich played their home match at Hardturm as their regular home venue Letzigrund was closed for renovation.

[Sevilla-9] The second leg of Sevilla's game against AEK Athens was postponed until 3 September due to the death of Antonio Puerta.^[1]

[8] "Bayern and Ajax given tough ties". UEFA. 31 August 2007.

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