The 2012–13 UEFA Europa League play-off round was the last of four rounds of matches prior to the tournament's
group stage
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# One or more competitions held at a single venue and concentr ...
, and decided 31 of the 48 teams that would participate in the group stage.
All times are
CEST (
UTC+2
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As standard time (year-round)
Principal cities: Pretoria, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Por ...
).
Round and draw dates
All draws were held at UEFA headquarters in
Nyon
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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
away goals rule
The away goals rule is a method of tiebreaking in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. Under the away goals rule, if the total goals scored by each team are equal, the team that ...
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
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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
penalty shootout
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.
In the draws for each round, teams were seeded based on their 2012
UEFA club coefficient
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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
Summary
The draw for the play-off round was held on 10 August 2012.
The first legs were played on 22 and 23 August, and the second legs were played on 28 and 30 August 2012.
Matches
''VfB Stuttgart won 3–1 on aggregate.''
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''Anzhi Makhachkala won 6–0 on aggregate.''
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''Neftçi won 4–2 on aggregate.''
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''3–3 on aggregate; Partizan won on away goals.''
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''Steaua București won 5–0 on aggregate.''
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''Newcastle United won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Molde won 4–1 on aggregate.''
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''Marseille won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''AIK won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Rosenborg won 3–2 on aggregate.''
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''Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk won 6–4 on aggregate.''
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''Metalist Kharkiv won 4–1 on aggregate.''
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''Twente won 5–4 on aggregate.''
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''Genk won 3–2 on aggregate.''
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''0–0 on aggregate; Videoton won 4–2 on penalties.''
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''Hapoel Tel Aviv won 7–1 on aggregate.''
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''Sparta Prague won 4–2 on aggregate.''
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''Young Boys won 3–2 on aggregate.''
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''Club Brugge won 7–1 on aggregate.''
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''2–2 on aggregate; Viktoria Plzeň won on away goals.''
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''Rapid Wien won 4–2 on aggregate.''
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''Internazionale won 4–2 on aggregate.''
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''Liverpool won 2–1 on aggregate.''
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''Hannover 96 won 10–4 on aggregate.''
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''Levante won 3–0 on aggregate.''
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''Athletic Bilbao won 9–3 on aggregate.''
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''Marítimo won 3–0 on aggregate.''
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''Sporting CP won 6–1 on aggregate.''
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''Bordeaux won 3–2 on aggregate.''
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''Lazio won 5–1 on aggregate.''
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''PSV Eindhoven won 14–0 on aggregate.''
Notes
References
External links
2012–13 UEFA Europa League UEFA.com
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UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds