NYON - Turkish soccer team Galatasaray will face Portugal's Benfica, Greece's Olympiakos, Germany's Hertha Berlin and Ukraine's Metalist Kharkiv in the next phase of the UEFA Cup after a draw made Tuesday.
Galatasaray will compete in Group B which kicks off on October 23rd and ends on December 18th. Three teams from each group will advance to the knockout stages.
2008-09 UEFA Cup group stage draw is as follows:
GROUP A
Schalke 04 (Germany)
Paris St Germain (France)
Manchester City (England)
Racing Santander (Spain)
Twente Enschede (Netherlands)
GROUP B
Benfica (Portugal)
Olympiakos Piraeus (Greece)
Galatasaray (Turkey)
Hertha Berlin (Germany)
Metalist Kharkiv (Ukraine)
GROUP C
Sevilla (Spain)
VfB Stuttgart (Germany)
Sampdoria (Italy)
Partizan Belgrade (Serbia)
Standard Liege (Belgium)
GROUP D
Tottenham Hotspur (England)
Spartak Moscow (Russia)
Udinese (Italy)
Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia)
NEC Nijmegen (Netherlands)
GROUP E
AC Milan (Italy)
Heerenveen (Netherlands)
Braga (Portugal)
Portsmouth (England)
VfL Wolfsburg (Germany)
GROUP F
Hamburg SV (Germany)
Ajax Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Slavia Prague (Czech Republic)
Aston Villa (England)
Zilina (Slovakia)
GROUP G
Valencia (Spain)
Club Bruges (Belgium)
Rosenborg Trondheim (Norway)
FC Copenhagen (Denmark)
St Etienne (France)
GROUP H
CSKA Moscow (Russia)
Deportivo Coruna (Spain)
Feyenoord (Netherlands)
AS Nancy (France)
Lech Poznan (Poland)
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