UEFA Cup: All four Spanish teams come through first round
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Spanish soccer fans woke to welcome headlines Friday as all four of their teams made it through the first round of the UEFA Cup. Zaragoza beat Sigma Olomouc of the Czech Republic; Athletic de
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Rangers clinched a place in the lucrative group stages of the UEFA Cup with penalties deciding their first round match against CS Maritimo.
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Spain clinched first place in its group with a 76-68 victory Saturday, leaving Serbia-Montenegro in danger of failing to reach the quarterfinals.
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Newcastle won 4-0 at Sochaux in European soccer&#39;s UEFA Cup to advance to the round of 32, while Sporting Lisbon, Schalke and Dnipro also progressed.
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Real Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Liverpool and AS Monaco advanced to the second round of the European Champions League on Wednesday night, completing the 16-team field.
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ROME, September 30 (UEFA Cup) - A wonderful first half display enabled Lazio to ease their way into the group stage of the UEFA Cup on Thursday night.
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Newcastle drew 1-1 against visiting Sporting Lisbon to finish atop its group in European soccer&#39;s UEFA Cup, while two-time champion Parma won its final match to advance to the next stage of the competition.
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Fiorentina, Atalanta, Messina and Livorno all won their first-round matches of the Italian Cup on Sunday, stepping closer to qualification for the next round.
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The defending Champions League winner, A.C. Milan, was given a relatively easy draw for the group stage of this seasonâs tournament.
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Blackburn, Newcastle, Tottenham and Rangers will feature in the draw for the Uefa Cup group stage on Tuesday.
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It has not gone unnoticed in Spain that the four goals Real Madrid put past Roma in the Champions League on Tuesday equalled their tally in five league matches after one of their worst starts to a domestic campaign for many years.
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Newcastle recorded their first win over French opposition in UEFA competition with a convincing 4-0 victory over Sochaux to progress to the Cup knock-out phase.
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Things are getting pretty tight in Group B, after Dynamo Kiev and Real Madrid played out a 2-2 draw in Ukraine. The Spanish giants came from two goals down to earn their point, after goals from Yussuf and Verpakovskis for Kiev.
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Middlesbrough have ensured that they won Group E with an easy 3-0 win at home to Partizan Belgrade. Steve McClaren&#39;s side had already qualified to the last 32 of the Uefa Cup after winning their first two matches against Egaleo and Lazio.
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Having produced only one European Cup  finalist in the last 19 seasons, England can suddenly claim  pre-eminence in the game's elite club competition with four  teams through to the first knockout round.
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Tottenham make hard work of beating Slavia Prague in the first leg of their Uefa Cup last-32 tie.
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Newcastle, Tottenham, Blackburn and Glasgow Rangers all reached the UEFA Cup last 32 but French giants Paris Saint Germain saw their season hit a new low after a 4-2 defeat by Hapoel Tel-Aviv.