2008 UEFA Cup Final

2008 UEFA Cup Final

Zenit Saint Petersburg Rangers 2 0
Event	2007–08 UEFA Cup
Date	14 May 2008
Venue	City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester
Player of the Match	Andrey Arshavin (Zenit)
Referee	Peter Fröjdfeldt
Attendance	43,878
Weather	Sunny 16 °C (61 °F) 43% humidity
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The 2008 UEFA Cup Final was a football match that took place on 14 May 2008 at the City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester, England. It was the 37th annual final of the UEFA Cup, UEFA's second-tier tournament.

The match was contested between Russian Premier League side Zenit Saint Petersburg and Scottish Premiership side Rangers, with the former winning the match 2–0 with goals from Igor Denisov and Konstantin Zyryanov, making them only the second Russian club to win the tournament after CSKA Moscow in 2005.

Swedish referee Peter Fröjdfeldt officiated the game and the man of the match award was won by Zenit's Andrey Arshavin.

Match

Details

15 May 2008 19:45 BST	Zenit St Petersburg	2–0	Rangers	City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Attendance: 43,878 Referee: Peter Fröjdfeldt
	Denisov  72' Zyryanov  90+4'	Report

Zenit Saint Petersburg

Rangers

GK 16 Vyacheslav Malafeev 90+2' RB 22 Aleksandr Anyukov CB 4 Ivica Križanac CB 15 Roman Shirokov LB 11 Radek Šírl RM 18 Konstantin Zyryanov CM 44 Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (c) LM 27 Igor Denisov 72' RW 20 Viktor Fayzulin 90+3' LW 10 Andrey Arshavin CF 9 Fatih Tekke Substitutes: GK 1 Kamil Čontofalský DF 5 Kim Dong-jin 90+3' MF 2 Vladislav Radimov MF 25 Fernando Ricksen MF 57 Aleksei Ionov MF 88 Oleksandr Horshkov FW 7 Alejandro Domínguez Manager: Dick Advocaat

GK 13 Neil Alexander RB 21 Kirk Broadfoot 90+4' CB 3 David Weir CB 24 Carlos Cuéllar LB 5 Saša Papac 77' DM 7 Brahim Hemdani 80' CM 6 Barry Ferguson (c) CM 8 Kevin Thomson RW 28 Steven Whittaker 86' LW 35 Steven Davis CF 19 Jean-Claude Darcheville Substitutes: GK 16 Graeme Smith DF 30 Christian Dailly MF 11 Charlie Adam MF 39 Amdy Faye FW 9 Kris Boyd 86' FW 10 Nacho Novo 77' FW 27 Lee McCulloch 80' Manager: Walter Smith

Man of the Match: Andrey Arshavin (Zenit Saint Petersburg) Assistant referees: Stefan Wittberg (Sweden) Henrik Andrén (Sweden) Fourth official: Martin Ingvarsson (Sweden)

Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shoot-out if scores still level Seven named substitutes Maximum of three substitutions

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