2012–13 UEFA Europa League play-off round

The 2012–13 UEFA Europa League play-off round was the last of four rounds of matches prior to the tournament's group stage, and decided 31 of the 48 teams that would participate in the group stage.

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Round and draw dates[edit]

All draws were held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[1]

Round	Draw date and time	First leg	Second leg
Play-off round	10 August 2012, 13:30	23 August 2012	30 August 2012

Matches could also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.

Format[edit]

Each tie was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. In the event that aggregate score finished level, the away goals rule would be applied, i.e., the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs advanced. If away goals were also equal, then thirty minutes of extra time would be played, divided into two fifteen-minutes halves. The away goals rule would again be applied after extra time, i.e., if there were goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team would advance by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, the tie would be decided by penalty shootout.^[2]

In the draws for each round, teams were seeded based on their 2012 UEFA club coefficients,^[3] with the teams divided into seeded and unseeded pots. A seeded team was drawn against an unseeded team, with the order of legs in each tie decided randomly. Due to the limited time between matches, the draws for the second and third qualifying rounds took place before the results of the previous round were known. The seeding in these draws (or in any cases where the results of a tie in the previous round were not known at the time of draw) was carried out under the assumption that the higher-ranked teams of the previous round would advance to this round, which means if a lower-ranked team were to advance, it would simply take the seeding of its defeated opponent. Prior to the draws, UEFA may form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee, but they were purely for convenience of the draw and for ensuring that teams from the same association were not drawn against each other, and did not resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition.

Play-off round[edit]

Seeding[edit]

Group 1		Group 2		Group 3
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Internazionale AZ APOEL Newcastle United Partizan	Vaslui Anzhi Makhachkala Atromitos Tromsø Neftchi Baku	Liverpool Athletic Bilbao Club Brugge Heerenveen Dila Gori^†	Marítimo Debrecen Heart of Midlothian HJK Molde	Marseille Metalist Kharkiv Hannover 96 Trabzonspor Young Boys	Dinamo București Sheriff Tiraspol Midtjylland Śląsk Wrocław Videoton
Group 4		Group 5		Group 6
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Sporting CP Bordeaux Hapoel Tel Aviv Sparta Prague Levante	Feyenoord Red Star Belgrade Motherwell Horsens F91 Dudelange	CSKA Moscow Twente Lazio Rosenborg Viktoria Plzeň	Bursaspor Legia Warsaw Lokeren AIK Mura 05	PSV Eindhoven Stuttgart PAOK Steaua București Genk Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Rapid Wien Dynamo Moscow Luzern Slovan Liberec Ekranas Zeta

Notes

^† Winners of the previous round whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, due to the abandonment of the second leg between Dila Gori and Anorthosis (Dila Gori was later declared as the winner, thus effectively taking the coefficient of Anorthosis, who has a higher coefficient, in the draw for this round)

Matches[edit]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Anzhi Makhachkala	6–0	AZ	1–0	5–0
Neftchi Baku	4–2⁵⁶	APOEL	1–1	3–1
Atromitos	1–2	Newcastle United	1–1	0–1
Tromsø	3–3 (a)	Partizan	3–2	0–1
Vaslui	2–4	Internazionale	0–2	2–2
Heart of Midlothian	1–2	Liverpool	0–1	1–1
Athletic Bilbao	9–3	HJK	6–0	3–3
Marítimo	3–0	Dila Gori	1–0	2–0
Molde	4–1	Heerenveen	2–0	2–1
Debrecen	1–7	Club Brugge	0–3	1–4
Sheriff Tiraspol	1–2	Marseille	1–2	0–0
Trabzonspor	0–0 (2–4p)	Videoton	0–0	0–0 (a.e.t.)
Midtjylland	2–3	Young Boys	0–3	2–0
Śląsk Wrocław	4–10	Hannover 96	3–5	1–5
Dinamo București	1–4	Metalist Kharkiv	0–2	1–2
Horsens	1–6	Sporting CP	1–1	0–5
F91 Dudelange	1–7⁵⁶	Hapoel Tel Aviv	1–3	0–4
Feyenoord	2–4	Sparta Prague	2–2	0–2
Motherwell	0–3	Levante	0–2	0–1
Red Star Belgrade	2–3	Bordeaux	0–0	2–3
Lokeren	2–2 (a)	Viktoria Plzeň	2–1	0–1
Mura 05	1–5⁵⁶	Lazio	0–2	1–3
AIK	2–1	CSKA Moscow	0–1	2–0
Legia Warsaw	2–3	Rosenborg	1–1	1–2
Bursaspor	4–5	Twente	3–1	1–4 (a.e.t.)
Ekranas	0–5⁵⁶	Steaua București	0–2	0–3
Slovan Liberec	4–6	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2–2	2–4
Stuttgart	3–1	Dynamo Moscow	2–0	1–1
PAOK	2–4	Rapid Wien	2–1	0–3
Luzern	2–3	Genk	2–1	0–2
Zeta	0–14	PSV Eindhoven	0–5	0–9

Notes

Note 1: Order of legs reversed after original draw.

First leg[edit]

22 August 2012

18:15

Stuttgart	2–0	Dynamo Moscow
Ibišević 72', 90+1'	Report

Mercedes-Benz Arena, Stuttgart

Attendance: 20,353^[4]

Referee: William Collum (Scotland)

23 August 2012