# 2011–12 UEFA Europa League play-off round

This article details the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League play-off round.
All times are CEST (UTC+02:00).

## Round and draw dates

All draws held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
| Round | Draw date and time | First leg | Second leg |
| Play-off round | 5 August 2011 13:30 | 18 August 2011 | 25 August 2011 |

## Play-off round
### Teams

Below are the 76 teams involved in the play-off round (including 26 teams entering at this stage, 35 winners from the third qualifying round and 15 losing teams from the Champions League third qualifying round). 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 |
| Sevilla | 93.465 |
| Roma | 85.110 |
| Tottenham Hotspur | 78.157 |
| PSV Eindhoven | 74.025 |
| Atlético Madrid | 70.465 |
| Sporting CP | 68.319 |
| Braga | 62.319 |
| Schalke 04 | 61.887 |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 60.776 |
| Panathinaikos | 57.833 |
| Rangers | 56.028 |
| Spartak Moscow | 51.941 |
| Paris Saint-Germain | 51.735 |
| AZ | 43.025 |
| Anderlecht | 42.400 |
| Fulham | 40.157 |
| Celtic | 39.528 |
| Beşiktaş | 37.010 |
| Hapoel Tel Aviv | 36.400 |
| Metalist Kharkiv | 34.276 |
| Standard Liège | 32.400 |
| Club Brugge | 31.400 |
| AEK Athens | 30.833 |
| Sparta Prague | 30.170 |
| Steaua București | 29.164 |
| Athletic Bilbao | 24.465 |
| Lazio | 23.110 |
| Dinamo București | 22.164 |
| Red Bull Salzburg | 22.140 |
| Rosenborg | 19.375 |
| Lokomotiv Moscow | 18.441 |
| PAOK | 17.333 |
| Birmingham City | 17.157 |
| Stoke City | 17.157 |
| Rennes | 16.735 |
| Austria Wien | 16.640 |
| Rapid București | 16.164 |
| Partizan | 15.850 |
| Young Boys | 14.980 |
| Nacional | 14.319 |
| Hannover 96 | 13.887 |
| Sochaux | 12.735 |
| Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 12.276 |
| Bursaspor | 12.010 |
| Trabzonspor | 12.010 |
| Vitória de Guimarães | 11.319 |
| Helsingborgs IF | 10.825 |
| Karpaty Lviv | 10.776 |
| CSKA Sofia | 10.575 |
| Vorskla Poltava | 10.276 |
| Vaslui | 10.164 |
| Sion | 9.480 |
| Red Star Belgrade | 9.350 |
| Alania Vladikavkaz | 8.941 |
| Litex Lovech | 8.575 |
| Heart of Midlothian | 7.528 |
| Nordsjælland | 7.110 |
| Omonia | 6.124 |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 5.900 |
| Slovan Bratislava | 5.899 |
| Legia Warsaw | 5.183 |
| Gaz Metan Mediaș | 5.164 |
| Thun | 4.980 |
| Maribor | 4.224 |
| Ried | 4.140 |
| Rabotnicki | 4.041 |
| Aalesund | 3.875 |
| HJK | 3.793 |
| AEK Larnaca | 3.624 |
| Ekranas | 3.541 |
| Spartak Trnava | 3.399 |
| Dinamo Tbilisi | 3.391 |
| Śląsk Wrocław | 3.183 |
| Zestaponi | 2.891 |
| Shamrock Rovers | 2.741 |
| Differdange 03 | 1.274 |

#### Notes

* $^{CL-CR}$ Losing teams from the Champions League third qualifying round (Champions Route)
* $^{CL-LR}$ Losing teams from the Champions League third qualifying round (League Route)

### Seeding

The draw for the play-off round was held on 5 August 2011.
| Group 1 | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 3 | Group 4 | Group 4 |
| Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded |
| Atlético Madrid Panathinaikos Beşiktaş Metalist Kharkiv Partizan | Sochaux Vitória de Guimarães Alania Vladikavkaz Maccabi Tel Aviv Shamrock Rovers | Roma Paris Saint-Germain Anderlecht Dinamo București Rosenborg | Bursaspor Vorskla Poltava Olympiacos Volos Slovan Bratislava AEK Larnaca | Tottenham Hotspur Spartak Moscow Hapoel Tel Aviv Athletic Bilbao PAOK | Trabzonspor Karpaty Lviv Heart of Midlothian Legia Warsaw Ekranas | Sporting CP Rangers Fulham Steaua București Lokomotiv Moscow | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk CSKA Sofia Nordsjælland Maribor Spartak Trnava |
| Group 5 | Group 5 | Group 6 | Group 6 | Group 7 | Group 7 | | |
| Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | | |
| PSV Eindhoven Dynamo Kyiv Celtic Lazio Birmingham City Rapid București | Nacional Sion Litex Lovech Ried Rabotnicki Śląsk Wrocław | Sevilla AZ Club Brugge Sparta Prague Red Bull Salzburg Stoke City | Hannover 96 Vaslui Omonia Thun Aalesund Zestaponi | Braga Schalke 04 Standard Liège AEK Athens Rennes Austria Wien | Young Boys Helsingborgs IF Red Star Belgrade Gaz Metan Mediaș HJK Dinamo Tbilisi | | |

### Summary

The first legs were played on 18 August, and the second legs were played on 25 August 2011.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | 4–2 | Panathinaikos | 3–0 | 1–2 |
| Atlético Madrid | 6–0 | Vitória de Guimarães | 2–0 | 4–0 |
| Shamrock Rovers | 3–2 | Partizan | 1–1 | 2–1 (a.e.t.) |
| Metalist Kharkiv | 4–0 | Sochaux | 0–0 | 4–0 |
| Beşiktaş | 3–2 | Alania Vladikavkaz | 3–0 | 0–2 |
| Rosenborg | 1–2 | AEK Larnaca | 0–0 | 1–2 |
| Vorskla Poltava | 5–3 | Dinamo București | 2–1 | 3–2 |
| Bursaspor | 3–4 | Anderlecht | 1–2 | 2–2 |
| Slovan Bratislava | 2–1 | Roma | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| Differdange 03 | 0–6 | Paris Saint-Germain | 0–4 | 0–2 |
| Legia Warsaw | 5–4 | Spartak Moscow | 2–2 | 3–2 |
| Ekranas | 1–4 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 1–0 | 0–4 |
| PAOK | 3–1 | Karpaty Lviv | 2–0 | 1–1 |
| Athletic Bilbao | w/o | Trabzonspor | 0–0 | Canc. |
| Heart of Midlothian | 0–5 | Tottenham Hotspur | 0–5 | 0–0 |
| Maribor | 3–2 | Rangers | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| Steaua București | 3–1 | CSKA Sofia | 2–0 | 1–1 |
| Nordsjælland | 1–2 | Sporting CP | 0–0 | 1–2 |
| Fulham | 3–1 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 3–0 | 0–1 |
| Lokomotiv Moscow | 3–1 | Spartak Trnava | 2–0 | 1–1 |
| Celtic | 6–0 | Sion | 3–0 | 3–0 |
| Śląsk Wrocław | 2–4 | Rapid București | 1–3 | 1–1 |
| Litex Lovech | 1–3 | Dynamo Kyiv | 1–2 | 0–1 |
| Lazio | 9–1 | Rabotnicki | 6–0 | 3–1 |
| Nacional | 0–3 | Birmingham City | 0–0 | 0–3 |
| Ried | 0–5 | PSV Eindhoven | 0–0 | 0–5 |
| Thun | 1–5 | Stoke City | 0–1 | 1–4 |
| Aalesund | 2–7 | AZ | 2–1 | 0–6 |
| Vaslui | 2–1 | Sparta Prague | 2–0 | 0–1 |
| Omonia | 2–2 (a) | Red Bull Salzburg | 2–1 | 0–1 |
| Zestaponi | 3–5 | Club Brugge | 3–3 | 0–2 |
| Hannover 96 | 3–2 | Sevilla | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| HJK | 3–6 | Schalke 04 | 2–0 | 1–6 |
| AEK Athens | 2–1 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 1–0 | 1–1 (a.e.t.) |
| Red Star Belgrade | 1–6 | Rennes | 1–2 | 0–4 |
| Austria Wien | 3–2 | Gaz Metan Mediaș | 3–1 | 0–1 |
| Braga | 2–2 (a) | Young Boys | 0–0 | 2–2 |
| Standard Liège | 4–1 | Helsingborgs IF | 1–0 | 3–1 |
* 1 2 3 4 Order of legs reversed after original draw.
* 1 2 Order of legs reversed after original draw. Also, as a result of match-fixing allegations, Turkish club Fenerbahçe were removed from the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League and were replaced with Trabzonspor on 24 August 2011. As a result, Trabzonspor's second leg against Athletic Bilbao was cancelled, and Athletic Bilbao qualified for the group stage.
* 1 2 3 Order of legs reversed after original draw. Also, Celtic lodged protests over the eligibility of a number of the Sion players who participated in the two legs of the play-off round, which Sion won 3–1 aggregate (first leg: 0–0; second leg: 3–1). The UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body accepted the protests and decided to award both matches to Celtic by forfeit (3–0). As a consequence, Celtic qualified for the UEFA Europa League group stage.

### Matches

Legia Warsaw won 5–4 on aggregate.
Hapoel Tel Aviv won 4–1 on aggregate.
Lokomotiv Moscow won 3–1 on aggregate.
Vaslui won 2–1 on aggregate.
Club Brugge won 5–3 on aggregate.
Schalke 04 won 6–3 on aggregate.
Dynamo Kyiv won 3–1 on aggregate.
Vorskla Poltava won 5–3 on aggregate.
AZ won 7–2 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Red Bull Salzburg won on away goals.
Austria Wien won 3–2 on aggregate.
Maccabi Tel Aviv won 4–2 on aggregate.
Steaua București won 3–1 on aggregate.
Stoke City won 5–1 on aggregate.
Beşiktaş won 3–2 on aggregate.
Anderlecht won 4–3 on aggregate.
PAOK won 3–1 on aggregate.
Sporting CP won 2–1 on aggregate.
Rapid București won 4–2 on aggregate.
Standard Liège won 4–1 on aggregate.
Metalist Kharkiv won 4–0 on aggregate.
Fulham won 3–1 on aggregate.
Hannover 96 won 3–2 on aggregate.
Rennes won 6–1 on aggregate.
Shamrock Rovers won 3–2 on aggregate.
AEK Larnaca won 2–1 on aggregate.
Slovan Bratislava won 2–1 on aggregate.
Paris Saint-Germain won 6–0 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 5–0 on aggregate.
Maribor won 3–2 on aggregate.
Birmingham City won 3–0 on aggregate.
AEK Athens won 2–1 on aggregate.
Athletic Bilbao won on walkover after Trabzonspor were promoted to the Champions League.
Lazio won 9–1 on aggregate.
Celtic won 6–0 on aggregate.
PSV Eindhoven won 5–0 on aggregate.
Atlético Madrid won 6–0 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Braga won on away goals.