Turkey's Galatasaray football club to play in UEFA Group B

Turkey's Galatasaray football club to play Portugal's Benfica, Greece's Olympiakos, Germany's Hertha Berlin and Ukraine's Metalist Kharkiv the next phase of the UEFA Cup elimination.

 

Galatasaray will compete in Group B which kicks off on Oct. 23 and ends on Dec. 18. Three teams from each group will advance to the knockout stages.

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2008-09 UEFA Cup group stage draw is as follows:

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       ÂGROUP A

       ÂSchalke 04 (Germany)

       ÂParis St Germain (France)

       ÂManchester City (England)

       ÂRacing Santander (Spain)

       ÂTwente Enschede (Netherlands)

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       ÂGROUP B

       ÂBenfica (Portugal)

       ÂOlympiakos Piraeus (Greece)

       ÂGalatasaray (Turkey)

       ÂHertha Berlin (Germany)

       ÂMetalist Kharkiv (Ukraine)

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       ÂGROUP C

       ÂSevilla (Spain)

       ÂVfB Stuttgart (Germany)

       ÂSampdoria (Italy)

       ÂPartizan Belgrade (Serbia)

       ÂStandard Liege (Belgium)

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       ÂGROUP D

       ÂTottenham Hotspur (England)

       ÂSpartak Moscow (Russia)

       ÂUdinese (Italy)

       ÂDinamo Zagreb (Croatia)

       ÂNEC Nijmegen (Netherlands)

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       ÂGROUP E

       ÂAC Milan (Italy)

       ÂHeerenveen (Netherlands)

       ÂBraga (Portugal)

       ÂPortsmouth (England)

       ÂVfL Wolfsburg (Germany)

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       ÂGROUP F

       ÂHamburg SV (Germany)

       ÂAjax Amsterdam (Netherlands)

       ÂSlavia Prague (Czech Republic)

       ÂAston Villa (England)

       ÂZilina (Slovakia)

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       ÂGROUP G

       ÂValencia (Spain)

       ÂClub Bruges (Belgium)

       ÂRosenborg Trondheim (Norway)

       ÂFC Copenhagen (Denmark)

       ÂSt Etienne (France)

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       ÂGROUP H

       ÂCSKA Moscow (Russia)

       ÂDeportivo Coruna (Spain)

       ÂFeyenoord (Netherlands)

       ÂAS Nancy (France)

       ÂLech Poznan (Poland)