2011–12 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round

This article details the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round.

All times are CEST (UTC+02:00).

Round and draw dates

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

Round Draw date and time First leg Second leg
First qualifying round 20 June 2011 13:00[2] 30 June 2011 7 July 2011
Second qualifying round 14 July 2011 21 July 2011
Third qualifying round 15 July 2011 13:30[3] 28 July 2011 4 August 2011
Play-off round 5 August 2011 13:30[4] 18 August 2011 25 August 2011

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

Format

Each tie is played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that has the higher aggregate score over the two legs progresses to the next round. In the event that aggregate scores finish level, the away goals rule is applied, i.e., the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs progresses. If away goals are also equal, then thirty minutes of extra time are played, divided into two fifteen-minute halves. The away goals rule is again applied after extra time, i.e., if there are goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score is still level, the visiting team qualifies by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals are scored during extra time, the tie is decided by penalty shootout.[5]

In the draw for each round, teams are seeded based on their 2011 UEFA club coefficients,[6] with the teams divided into seeded and unseeded pots. A seeded team is 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 take place before the results of the previous round are known. The seeding in each draw is carried out under the assumption that all of the highest-ranked clubs of the previous round are victorious. If a lower-ranked club is victorious, it simply takes the place of its defeated opponent in the next round. Prior to the draw, UEFA may form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee, but they are purely for convenience of the draw and do not resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition, while ensuring that teams from the same association are not drawn against each other.

Teams

Below are the 176 teams involved in the qualifying phase and play-off round, grouped by their starting rounds (including 15 losing teams from the Champions League third qualifying round which enter the play-off round).[7] The 38 winners of the play-off round qualified for the group stage to join the 10 losing teams from the Champions League play-off round.

Key to colours
Qualified for the group stage
Play-off round
Team Coeff
Spain Sevilla 93.465
Italy Roma 85.110
England Tottenham Hotspur 78.157
Netherlands PSV Eindhoven 74.025
Portugal Sporting CP 68.319
Portugal Braga 62.319
Germany Schalke 04 61.887
Ukraine Dynamo KyivCL 60.776
Greece PanathinaikosCL 57.833
Scotland RangersCL 56.028
Russia Spartak Moscow 51.941
France Paris Saint-Germain 51.735
Belgium Anderlecht 42.400
Scotland Celtic 39.528
Turkey Beşiktaş 37.010
Ukraine Metalist Kharkiv 34.276
Belgium Standard LiègeCL 32.400
Greece AEK Athens 30.833
Romania Steaua București 29.164
Spain Athletic Bilbao 24.465
Italy Lazio 23.110
Norway RosenborgCL 19.375
Russia Lokomotiv Moscow 18.441
England Birmingham City 17.157
Romania Rapid București 16.164
Serbia PartizanCL 15.850
Germany Hannover 96 13.887
France Sochaux 12.735
Ukraine Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 12.276
Turkey TrabzonsporCL 12.010
Bulgaria CSKA Sofia 10.575
Romania VasluiCL 10.164
Switzerland Sion 9.480
Bulgaria Litex LovechCL 8.575
Denmark Nordsjælland 7.110
Slovakia Slovan BratislavaCL 5.899
Slovenia MariborCL 4.224
Finland HJK HelsinkiCL 3.793
Lithuania EkranasCL 3.541
Georgia (country) ZestafoniCL 2.891
Republic of Ireland Shamrock RoversCL 2.741
Third qualifying round
Team Coeff
Spain Atlético Madrid 70.465
Netherlands AZ 43.025
Israel Hapoel Tel Aviv 36.400
Belgium Club Brugge 31.400
Czech Republic Sparta Prague 30.170
Italy Palermo 26.110
Romania Dinamo București 22.164
Greece PAOK 17.333
England Stoke City 17.157
France Rennes 16.735
Switzerland Young Boys 14.980
Bulgaria Levski Sofia 14.575
Germany Mainz 05 13.887
Czech Republic Mladá Boleslav 13.170
Turkey Bursaspor 12.010
Portugal Vitória Guimarães 11.319
Sweden Helsingborg 10.825
Ukraine Karpaty Lviv 10.776
Denmark Brøndby 10.110
Serbia Red Star Belgrade 9.350
Russia Alania Vladikavkaz 8.941
Scotland Heart of Midlothian 7.528
Croatia Hajduk Split 6.224
Cyprus Omonia 6.124
Poland Legia Warsaw 5.183
Austria Ried 4.140
Belarus Gomel 3.216
Slovakia Senica 2.899
Norway Strømsgodset 2.875
Republic of Ireland Sligo Rovers 1.991
Second qualifying round
Team Coeff
Austria Red Bull Salzburg 22.140
Austria Austria Wien 16.640
Cyprus Anorthosis 14.624
Slovakia Žilina 14.399
Portugal Nacional 14.319
Ukraine Vorskla Poltava 10.276
Moldova Sheriff Tiraspol 9.549
Netherlands ADO Den Haag 8.025
Bulgaria Lokomotiv Sofia 7.575
Turkey Gaziantepspor 7.010
Greece Olympiakos Volou 6.833
Scotland Dundee United 6.528
Israel Bnei Yehuda 6.400
Denmark Midtjylland 6.110
Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv 5.900
Belgium Westerlo 5.400
Czech Republic Jablonec 5.170
Romania Gaz Metan Mediaș 5.164
Latvia Ventspils 4.983
Switzerland Thun 4.980
Norway Vålerenga 4.875
Kazakhstan Aktobe 3.874
Serbia Vojvodina 3.850
Republic of Ireland Bohemians 3.741
Cyprus AEK Larnaca 3.624
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo 3.324
Estonia Levadia Tallinn 3.258
Croatia Split 3.224
Belarus Shakhtsyor Salihorsk 3.216
Poland Śląsk Wrocław 3.183
Iceland FH 2.991
Latvia Liepājas Metalurgs 2.983
Sweden Örebro 2.825
Bosnia and Herzegovina Željezničar 2.824
Moldova Iskra-Stal 2.549
Lithuania Sūduva Marijampolė 2.541
Liechtenstein Vaduz 2.300
Finland TPS 2.293
Albania Tirana 2.274
Lithuania Tauras Tauragė 2.041
Finland KuPS 1.793
Montenegro Rudar Pljevlja 1.775
Hungary Kecskemét 1.700
Andorra Sant Julià 1.700
Faroe Islands EB/Streymur 1.533
Azerbaijan Khazar Lankaran 1.483
Georgia (country) Gagra 1.391
Republic of Macedonia Metalurg Skopje 1.291
Luxembourg Differdange 03 1.274
Armenia Mika 1.266
Slovenia Domžale 1.224
Wales Llanelli 1.058
Northern Ireland Crusaders 0.949
San Marino Juvenes/Dogana 0.683
Malta Floriana 0.483
First qualifying round
Team Coeff
England Fulham 40.157
Sweden Elfsborg 8.825
Norway Tromsø 4.375
Republic of Ireland St Patrick's Athletic 4.241
Azerbaijan Qarabağ 4.233
Poland Jagiellonia Białystok 4.183
Republic of Macedonia Rabotnički 4.041
Norway Aalesund 3.875
Slovakia Spartak Trnava 3.399
Georgia (country) Dinamo Tbilisi 3.391
Finland Honka 3.293
Croatia Varaždin 3.224
Belarus Minsk 3.216
Georgia (country) Metalurgist Rustavi 2.891
Serbia Rad 2.850
Sweden Häcken 2.825
Bosnia and Herzegovina Široki Brijeg 2.824
Montenegro Budućnost Podgorica 2.525
Iceland KR 2.491
Wales The New Saints 2.308
Republic of Macedonia Renova 2.291
Slovenia Koper 2.224
Malta Birkirkara 1.733
Hungary Ferencváros 1.700
Hungary Paks 1.700
Northern Ireland Glentoran 1.699
Moldova Milsami Orhei 1.549
Lithuania Banga Gargždai 1.541
Latvia Daugava Daugavpils 1.483
Slovenia Olimpija Ljubljana 1.474
Northern Ireland Cliftonville 1.449
Albania Flamurtari Vlorë 1.274
Albania Vllaznia Shkodër 1.274
Estonia Narva Trans 1.258
Azerbaijan AZAL Baku 1.233
Kazakhstan Irtysh Pavlodar 1.124
Kazakhstan Shakhter Karagandy 1.124
Montenegro Zeta 1.025
Armenia Banants 1.016
Estonia Nõmme Kalju 1.008
Iceland ÍBV 0.991
Faroe Islands NSÍ Runavík 0.783
Armenia Ulisses 0.766
San Marino Tre Penne 0.683
Wales Neath 0.558
Luxembourg Käerjéng 97 0.524
Andorra Lusitanos 0.450
Andorra UE Santa Coloma 0.450
Faroe Islands ÍF Fuglafjørður 0.283
Luxembourg Fola Esch 0.274

CL Losing teams from the Champions League third qualifying round

First qualifying round

Second qualifying round

Third qualifying round

Play-off round

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