The winners of the draw taken on 8 June 2000: Lierse SK and Rayo Vallecano.
Sweden, as the outright winner in UEFA's Fair Play competition ranking for the 1999/2000 campaign, have earned the right to enter an additional team for the 2000/2001 UEFA Cup. This means a place in the First Qualifying Phase for IFK Norrköping, winner of the Swedish national association's domestic Fair Play award.
Two other national associations will also earn the right to enter an additional team. As from last year, the two entrants will be decided in a draw involving all national associations who ended the season with a Fair Play rating of 8 or more. This season, no fewer than 14 national associations will go into the draw to be held at 16.00 on Thursday 8 June in the Sodehotel at La Woluwe, close to Brussels Airport. The draw will take place immediately prior to the Press Conference at which the match officials for the first 13 EURO 2000[tm] matches will be announced.
The 12 national associations who are not lucky in the draw will share a financial prize which totals 150,000 Swiss francs. This means there will be 12,500 francs for each association.
Germany just made into the Fair Play reckoning. Prior to May, their Fair Play ranking was 7.99, but due to the Fair Play performance in the only match involving a German team in May, FC Bayern München's clash with Real Madrid CF in the UEFA Champions League, their rating rose to 8.008. Thus, Bayern's Fair Play performance has given SpVgg Unterhaching, Bayern's Munich rivals, who helped Bayern to the Bundesliga title with their last day defeat of Bayer 04 Leverkusen, the chance to play in the UEFA Cup.
The other clubs aspiring to join IFK Norrköping on the UEFA Cup trail are the following:
The Fair Play representatives from Switzerland and the Ukraine will be confirmed once their domestic competitions have been finalised.
Pos Association Total Points Matches played 1 Sweden 8.279 55 2 Republic of Ireland 8.258 49 3 Finland 8.203 48 4 Ukraine 8.191 59 5 Denmark 8.176 45 6 Scotland 8.149 54 7 England 8.117 110 8 Russia 8.112 63 9 Belgium 8.106 51 10 Iceland 8.100 34 11 Spain 8.089 134 12 Wales 8.071 34 13 Norway 8.059 64 14 Switzerland 8.023 54 15 Germany 8.008 110 16 Belarus 7.993 39 17 Slovakia 7.990 59 18 Portugal 7.974 71 19 Moldova 7.972 29 20 Latvia 7.967 35 21 Estonia 7.965 34 22 Czech Republic 7.922 76 23 Hungary 7.911 53 24 Poland 7.897 60 25 France 7.886 117 26 Armenia 7.883 29 27 Netherlands 7.851 78 28 Georgia 7.844 33 29 Yugoslavia 7.831 48 30 Lithuania 7.813 34 31 Greece 7.790 69 32 Croatia 7.785 53 33 Israel 7.742 45 34 Turkey 7.735 62 35 Italy 7.688 127 36 Azerbaijan 7.662 27 37 Bosnia-Herzegovina 7.634 36 38 Romania 7.606 43 39 Albania 7.592 25 40 Austria 7.584 50 41 FYR Macedonia 7.510 34 42 Bulgaria 7.508 30 43 Slovenia 7.412 48 44 Faroe Islands 8.085 21 45 Luxembourg 7.809 21 46 Northern Ireland 7.731 23 47 San Marino 7.657 5 48 Liechtenstein 7.603 11 49 Malta 7.599 23 50 Cyprus 7.458 24 51 Andorra 7.457 16
Includes all UEFA competition matches played from 1 June 1999 up to 31 May 2000.
Over the past 12 months a total of 1,276 matches were played in all UEFA competitions, representing an average of 25 matches for each national association. The clubs and national teams of the associations ranked from 44 to 51 have played less than 25 matches. These associations are therefore not included in the ranking.
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Taken from: UEFA
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