UEFA Cup seedings. eight groups of five teams, each team will play two home and two away games.
Pot 1: Milan (Ita), Sevilla (Spa), Valencia (Spa), Benfica (Por), Schalke 04 (Ger), Cska Moscow (Rus), Tottenham (Eng), Hamburg (Ger).
Pot 2: VfB Stuttgart (Ger), Ajax (Ned), Olympiakos (Gre), Deportivo La Coruna (Spa), Brugge (Bel), Spartak Moscow (Rus), Paris Saint-Germain (Fra), Heerenveen (Ned)
Pot 3: Rosenborg (Nor), Udinese (Ita), Feyenoord (Ned), Braga (Por), Slavia Prague (Cze), Manchester City (Eng), Galatasaray (Tur), Sampdoria (Ita)
Pot 4: Hertha Berlin (Ger), Partizan (Srb), Nancy (Fra), Portsmouth (Eng), Aston Villa (Eng), Racing Santander (Spa), Copenhagen (Den), Dinamo Zagreb (Cro)
Pot 5: Saint-Etienne (Fra), Wolfsburg (Ger), Standard Liege (Bel), Twente (Ned), Nijmegen (Ned), Metalist Kharkiv (Ukr), Lech Poznan (Pol), Msk Zilina (Svk)
we cannot be drawn with other Italian teams, so the best possible draw for us would be
Pot 1: Milan
Pot 2: Heerenveen
Pot 3: Braga
Pot 4: Nancy
Pot 5: any team
we should hope to avoid teams like Man City, Ajax, Deportivo, Galatasaray