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NYON, Switzerland (AP) _ European soccer's governing body disqualified Partizan Belgrade from the UEFA Cup on Thursday following crowd trouble during a qualifying match against Zrinjski. Twenty-eight police officers were injured, one seriously, when Partizan's Serbian supporters fought with Zrinjski's Bosnian-Croat fans in a first-round qualifying match on July 19 in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Partizan, which won the first-leg match 6-1, was also fined 50,000 Swiss francs (C$43,485). The club has three days to appeal the decision. Subject to an appeal, Zrinjski ...

LONDON (AP) _ Sevilla will host Tottenham in the first leg of the UEFA Cup quarter-finals Thursday in a match between two former champions. Sevilla beat Middlesbrough in last year's final, while Tottenham won the trophy in 1972 and '84. Bayer Leverkusen, the only other team in the last eight that has won the UEFA Cup, will play at Osasuna in another quarter-final match. Also, Espanyol hosts Benfica and AZ ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) _ The winners of Europe's major domestic cup competitions could gain berths into the Champions League. UEFA said Thursday it was considering the option as part of the planned reform of its premier club competition. Cup winners currently gain entry into the lower-level UEFA Cup. ``Perhaps we can move certain cup winners into the Champions League,'' said William Gaillard, the special adviser to UEFA president Michel Platini. ...

NYON, Switzerland (AP) _ UEFA president Michel Platini will write to all 53 European soccer associations to urge them to combat violence. Platini, who was elected president of European soccer's governing body in January, has been trying to clamp down on violence on the field and in the stands since he took office. Last week, he met with government and police experts from around the continent, reiterating his plea for ...

Feyenoord and Paris Saint-Germain _ two clubs whose last UEFA Cup matches were marred by violence _ reached the round of 32 in Europe's second-tier competition on Wednesday, and were joined by Ajax, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Celta Vigo and Fenerbahce. Both Feyenoord and PSG claimed their first victories in the group stage. Feyenoord downed Wisla Krakow 3-1 in Group F and PSG beat Panathinaikos 4-0 at home in Group G ...

Alan Curbishley is interested in replacing Alan Pardew as West Ham's manager. A day after West Ham fired Pardew, Curbishley, who had a successful 15 years as coach at Charlton, said on Tuesday he would listen to whatever the east London club had to offer. ``West Ham want to talk to me and I would love to know what they have to say,'' Curbishley wrote in his column in the ...

Gibraltar was granted provisional membership of UEFA on Friday by European soccer's governing body in a move opposed by Spain. The decision came two days after FIFA rejected Gibraltar's application for membership on the world governing body. UEFA said it ``had no choice'' but to admit the Gibraltar Football Association after a ruling by world sport's highest tribunal. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled this month in favour of ...

Defending titlist Sevilla and four-time European champion Ajax are part of a handful of clubs that can qualify for the third round of the UEFA Cup this week. Sevilla can advance with a win over Grasshoppers in Zurich on Wednesday in Group C. Ajax will secure a place in the top three if it beats Group F leader Espanyol in Amsterdam on Thursday. English clubs Newcastle, Tottenham and Blackburn already ...

British clubs Rangers, Newcastle, Tottenham and Blackburn advanced to the third round of the UEFA Cup on Thursday with a game to spare. Rangers became the first club to advance with a 2-2 draw against Auxerre in Group A. Newcastle beat Celta Vigo 2-1 in Group H, Blackburn drew 0-0 with Feyenoord in Group H and Tottenham beat Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 in Group B. The first three clubs in the ...

Violence that broke out when Paris Saint-Germain fans ganged up on a Hapoel Tel Aviv supporter _ culminating in a shooting death _ shows the need to crack down on racism and anti-Semitism among soccer fans, the Paris mayor said Friday. The brawl Thursday night ended with a plainclothes police officer shooting into the crowd to protect the Hapoel fan, killing one person and injuring another, police said. ``The seriousness ...

British clubs are thriving in the UEFA Cup. Four of the eight group leaders are British _ Rangers, Blackburn, Tottenham and Newcastle. All four have won their first two group games, and a victory Thursday would put all of them into the knockout round. The UEFA Cup has been a relief for Rangers manager Paul LeGuen, whose club has slipped a whopping 15 points behind rival Celtic in the Scottish ...

Newcastle won 1-0 at Palermo in the second round of the UEFA Cup group stage on Thursday to end the Sicilian club's three-match winning streak. Albert Luque headed in a cross by James Milner in the 37th minute for Newcastle, which improved to six points atop Group H after two games. Eighteen-year-old Newcastle goalkeeper Tim Krul made his club debut after Steve Harper failed a late fitness test, providing two ...

Blackburn manager Mark Hughes said striker Benni McCarthy was racially abused by an opponent during Thursday's 2-1 UEFA Cup win at Wisla Krakow. Hughes the club will complain to European soccer's governing body on behalf of the South Africa international. ``Benni was upset by a number of personal comments directed at him by one of their players,'' Hughes said after the match in Poland. ``It happened right throughout the game. Benni, to his credit, did not react to ...

Defending champion Sevilla was held to a 0-0 draw by Slovan Liberec in its opening group game in the UEFA Cup on Thursday while English teams swept all three of their games. Blackburn won 2-1 at Poland's Wisla Krakow, Tottenham posted a 2-0 victory at Besiktas and Newcastle beat another Turkish club, Fenerbahce, 1-0. Sevilla's failure to win in the Czech Republic means that Louis van Gaal's AZ Alkmaar, which ...

 Sevilla continues defence of its UEFA Cup title at Czech club Slovan Liberec on Thursday, hoping to bounce back from a 3-1 Spanish league loss to European champion FC Barcelona. Sevilla, which is fourth in the Spanish league, aims to recapture the form that saw it beat Greek team Atromitos 4-0 in the previous round of the UEFA Cup. The Spanish club is in Group C with 2004-05 semifinalist AZ ...

Panathinaikos FC have been ordered to play their next UEFA club competition match behind closed doors after crowd disturbances marred the home leg of their UEFA Cup first-round tie against FC Metalurh Zaporizhya. Match delegates reported that fireworks were lit at the Pampeloponnisiako stadium and that plastic bottles were thrown at a Metalurh player when he was substituted after 88 minutes. In addition, a fan invaded the pitch after ...

UEFA announced that the City of Manchester stadium will hold next season's UEFA Cup final.

Defending champion Sevilla was the big winner in Tuesday's draw for the group stage of the UEFA Cup. The Spanish team was drawn against AZ Alkmaar, Slovan Liberec, Grasshoppers and Braga in Group C _ one of eight groups of five. Each is set to play two home games and two away. Sevilla will open at Slovan Liberec on Oct. 19, then host Braga on Nov. 23, go to Grasshoppers ...