The 2012–13 UEFA Europa League play-off round was the last of four rounds of matches prior to the tournament's

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, and decided 31 of the 48 teams that would participate in the group stage. All times are

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Round and draw dates

All draws were held at UEFA headquarters in

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

Format

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

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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

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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

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. In the draws for each round, teams were seeded based on their 2012

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s, 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

Seeding

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

Notes *Note 1: Order of legs reversed after original draw.

First leg

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played their home match at Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow instead of their regular stadium,

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, due to security issues involving the city of Makhachkala and the autonomous republic of

Dagestan Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North C ...

. *Note 3: Neftchi Baku played their home match at

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instead of their regular stadium,

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. *Note 4: Ekranas played their home match at

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instead of their regular stadium,

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. *Note 5:

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played their home match at

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instead of their regular stadium,

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, as it had greater capacity. *Note 6:

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played their home match at Stade Municipal de Differdange,

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instead of their regular stadium,

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. *Note 7:

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played their home match at Városi Stadion,

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instead of their regular stadium,

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. *Note 8:

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played their home match at

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instead of their regular stadium,

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. *Note 9:

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played their home match at

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instead of their regular stadium, Stadionul Municipal,

. *Note 10: Mura 05 played their home match at

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instead of their regular stadium,

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. *Note 11:

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played their home match at

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instead of their regular stadium,

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Second leg

''Stuttgart won 3–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Marítimo won 3–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk won 6–4 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Neftchi Baku won 4–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Athletic Bilbao won 9–3 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Molde won 4–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Hapoel Tel Aviv won 7–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''AIK won 2–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Rosenborg won 3–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''PSV won 14–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Young Boys won 3–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Sparta Prague won 4–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Steaua București won 5–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Metalist Kharkiv won 4–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Genk won 3–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''2–2 on aggregate. Viktoria Plzeň won on away goals.'' ---- ''Club Brugge won 7–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Marseille won 2–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''0–0 on aggregate. Videoton won 4–2 on penalties.'' ---- ''Bordeaux won 3–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''3–3 on aggregate. Partizan won on away goals.'' ---- ''Internazionale won 4–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Hannover 96 won 10–4 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Levante won 3–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Rapid Wien won 4–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Anzhi Makhachkala won 6–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Newcastle United won 2–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Lazio won 5–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Twente won 5–4 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Liverpool won 2–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Sporting CP won 6–1 on aggregate.'' Notes *Note 12:

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played their home match at

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instead of their regular stadium,

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, Gori.

References

External links

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