#Final#

(Parc des Princes Stadium, Paris, France, May 6, 1998)
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Inter Milan (Italy) 3, Lazio Rome (Italy) 0

Inter Milan wins 1998 UEFA Cup title.

THE TOURNAMENT
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  The UEFA Cup was a 101-team tournament involving the top 
  finishers in each of the European professional soccer 
  leagues.  It is second in prestige to the Champions League, 
  and has been played every year since 1958.

  Certain countries had more representantives in the 
  competition due to the UEFA system of ranking national 
  leagues.  

  The tournament started with a preliminary qualifying 
  round involving 40 teams from the lowest seeded leagues 
  in Europe.  The winners advanced to a second qualifying 
  round of 36 teams.

  All 18 qualifiers advanced to the first-round, which 
  included 27 teams automatically qualified from the top
  ranked European Leagues, plus 16 teams eliminated from 
  the Champions League, and three teams from the Intertoto 
  Cup.

  The UEFA Cup final will be decided in one match, instead 
  of the usual two-leg affair.