Galatasaray To Host Olympiakos In Their First Match In Uefa Cup Group Stage

ISTANBUL - Turkish soccer team Galatasaray are set face Greece's Olympiakos in their first game in UEFA Cup group stage campaign to start on Thursday.
The game will kick off at 9:15 p.m. local time. Spanish Eduardo Iturralde Gonzalez, Juan Carlos Yuste Jimenez and Jon Nunez Fernandez will referee the match.
Portugal's Benfica, Germany's Hertha Berlin and Ukraine's Metalist Kharkiv are Galatasaray's other rivals in Group B.
UEFA Cup group stage will end 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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