The 2009 UEFA Cup Final will be the final match of the 2008-09 UEFA Cup, the 38th season of the UEFA Cup, UEFA's second tier club football tournament. It will also be the last final to be held under the UEFA Cup name, since the competition will be rebranded as the UEFA Europa League effective with the 2009-10 season. The match will be contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Werder Bremen.
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The 2009 UEFA Cup Final will be the final match of the 2008-09 UEFA Cup, the 38th season of the UEFA Cup, UEFA's second tier club football tournament. It will also be the last final to be held under the UEFA Cup name, since the competition will be rebranded as the UEFA Europa League effective with the 2009-10 season. The match will be contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Werder Bremen.
The match will be played at the ?ükrü Saraco?lu Stadium, home ground of Fenerbahçe, in Istanbul, Turkey on 20 May 2009
FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club, playing in the city of Donetsk, the capital of Donetsk region.
Werder Bremen is a German sports club best known for its football team playing in Bremen, in the northwest German federal state of the same name. The club was founded on 4 February 1899 as Fußballverein Werder by a group of sixteen vocational high school students who had won a prize of sports equipment to set them on their way. They took their name from the seldom used regional German word for "river peninsula", describing the riverside field they first played football on.
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