Deadline passed
Since the conclusion of the second round last November, clubs were allowed to add new players to their squads provided they had been registered by last Monday. With the passing of that deadline, no players other than those now registered will be able to play in this season's competition.
Famous faces
Barthez has been brought in to bolster Olympique de Marseille's challenge, marking a return to the club where he lifted the European Cup in 1993. Finidi, a winner of the blue-riband event with AFC Ajax in 1995, has joined RCD Mallorca while Ravanelli, a European champion with Juventus FC in 1996, has left British football to aid AC Perugia's challenge.
Trio stay silent
All but three of the 32 teams involved in the third round, which will be played over two legs on 26 February and 3 March, have taken advantage of the transfer window to add new names to their squad list. Interestingly, the trio who made no changes, Liverpool FC, Valencia CF and SL Benfica, are among the favourites to go all the way to the final in Gothenburg on 19 May.
| UEFA Cup - New player registrations | | Club Brugge KV (BEL) | Boško Balaban, Victor Simoes de Oliveira, Jonathan Blondel | | PFC Levski Sofia (BUL) | Georgi Markov, Daniel Borisov, Kostadin Vidolov | | FK Teplice (CZE) | Jirí Kowalík, Jirí Masek, Tomáš Kuchar, Emil Rilke | | Brøndby IF (DEN) | Asbjørn Sennels | | Newcastle United FC (ENG) | Lee Bowyer, Michael Bridges, Jamie McClen + 11 other 'B' list players | | Liverpool FC (ENG) | None | | RCD Mallorca (ESP) | Eduardo Moya, Finidi George, Miguel Moyá Rumbo | | Valencia CF (ESP) | None | | FC Barcelona (ESP) | David García Haro | | Villarreal CF (ESP) | Sebastián Battaglia | | Olympique de Marseille (FRA) | Fabien Barthez, Laurent Batlles, Demetrius Ferreira | | AJ Auxerre (FRA) | Attila Farkas, Baptiste Martin | | FC Girondins de Bordeaux (FRA) | Kodjo Afanou, Sylvain Franco | | FC Sochaux-Montbéliard (FRA) | Won Kwang Cho, Ahmed Sadir Farag | | Panathinaikos FC (GRE) | Loukas Vintra, Ilias Kotsios | | Debreceni VSC (HUN) | Csaba Bernáth | | FC Internazionale (ITA) | Francisco Farinós | | AS Roma (ITA) | Denis Boshnjaku, Daniele Corvia, Alessio Cerci | | Parma AC (ITA) | Marco Amelia, Daniele Degano, Liborio Fabrizio Cammarata, Manuele Sorti | | AC Perugia (ITA) | Eusebio Di Francesco, Salvatore Fresi, Fabrizio Ravanelli, Gabriele Goretti | | PSV Eindhoven (NED) | Eric Addo | | Rosenborg BK (NOR) | Roar Husby, Alexander Tettey, Christian Sæther Moen | | Vålerenga IF (NOR) | Daniel Fredheim-Holm, Runar Normann | | SL Benfica (POR) | None | | Groclin Groclin Grodzisk Wielkopolski (POL) | Robert Górski, Michal Stasiak, Adrian Sikora | | FC Spartak Moskva (RUS) | Alexey Zuev, Luke Awona Zoah, Dusan Petkovic, Kamaloutdin Akhmedov, Oleg Ivanov | | Celtic FC (SCO) | Stephen Pearson, Danny Milosevic | | Besiktas JK (TUR) | Adrian Ilie, Ali Cansun Begeçarslan | | Galatasaray SK (TUR) | Ömer Erdogan, Necati Ates, Murat Erdogan | | Gençlerbirligi SK (TUR) | Senol Erol, Damir Yüksel | | Gaziantepspor (TUR) | Sedat Agçay, Yusuf Simsek, Hakan Bayraktar | | FC Dnipro Dnipropetrosvk (UKR) | Dmytro Semochko, Vyacheslav Kernozenko |
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