# 2013–14 UEFA Europa League play-off round

The play-off round of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League was played from 22 to 29 August 2013, to decide 31 of the 48 places in the group stage.
All times were CEST (UTC+2).

## Round and draw dates

All draws were held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
| Round | Draw date and time | First leg | Second leg |
| Play-off round | 9 August 2013, 13:00 | 22 August 2013 | 29 August 2013 |
Matches may also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.

## Format

In the play-off round, 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. If the aggregate score was level, the away goals rule was 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 was played. The away goals rule was again applied after extra time, i.e., if there were goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team advanced by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, the tie was decided by penalty shoot-out.
Teams were seeded based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season, 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. 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.

## Teams

A total of 62 teams were involved in the qualifying phase and play-off round (including 15 losers of the Champions League third qualifying round which entered the play-off round). The 31 winners of the play-off round advanced to the group stage to join the 7 automatic qualifiers and 10 losers of the Champions League play-off round.
Below were the participating teams (with their 2013 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by their starting rounds.
* Key to colours
* Winners of the play-off round (and lucky losers) advanced to the group stage
Play-off round :
* Play-off round
* Team
* Coeff
* Tottenham Hotspur
* 69.592
* Dynamo Kyiv
* 68.951
* Braga
* 62.833
* VfB Stuttgart
* 59.922
* Rubin Kazan
* 58.266
* Sevilla
* 55.105
* Standard Liège
* 45.880
* Fiorentina
* 42.829
* Udinese
* 42.829
* Spartak Moscow
* 40.766
* AZ
* 39.445
* APOEL
* 35.366
* Beşiktaş
* 34.900
* PAOK
* 28.800
* Red Bull Salzburg
* 28.075
* Genk
* 26.880
* Saint-Étienne
* 26.800
* Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
* 23.951
* Trabzonspor
* 21.400
* Real Betis
* 17.605
* Partizan
* 17.425
* Swansea City
* 16.592
* Eintracht Frankfurt
* 15.922
* Feyenoord
* 13.945
* Maccabi Haifa
* 13.575
* Rapid Wien
* 13.075
* Nordsjælland
* 12.640
* Estoril
* 11.833
* Nice
* 11.800
* Sheriff Tiraspol
* 11.533
* Chornomorets Odesa
* 9.951
* Kuban Krasnodar
* 9.266
* Atromitos
* 8.300
* IF Elfsborg
* 8.125
* Maccabi Tel Aviv
* 8.075
* Molde
* 7.835
* Slovan Liberec
* 7.745
* Grasshopper
* 7.285
* Thun
* 7.285
* Śląsk Wrocław
* 7.150
* Zulte Waregem
* 6.880
* Jablonec
* 6.745
* Apollon Limassol
* 6.366
* Tromsø
* 6.335
* Aktobe
* 6.191
* St. Gallen
* 5.785
* Qarabağ
* 5.708
* Vojvodina
* 5.425
* Dinamo Tbilisi
* 5.333
* Esbjerg
* 5.140
* Pasching
* 5.075
* Rijeka
* 4.916
* Minsk
* 4.675
* Astra Giurgiu
* 4.604
* Pandurii Târgu Jiu
* 4.604
* Petrolul Ploiești
* 4.604
* FH
* 4.083
* Dila Gori
* 3.333
* Skënderbeu
* 2.833
* Žalgiris
* 1.800
* Nõmme Kalju
* 1.191
* Kukësi
* 0.833

### Notes

* $^{CL-CR}$ Losers of the Champions League third qualifying round (Champions Route).
* $^{CL-LR}$ Losers of the Champions League third qualifying round (League Route).
* $^†$ On 25 June 2013, Fenerbahçe were banned by UEFA from the 2013–14 UEFA club competitions because of the 2011 Turkish sports corruption scandal. They appealed the ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and on 18 July 2013 it was ruled that the ban should be temporarily lifted and they should be included in the qualifying round draws of the Champions League, until the final decision to be made before the end of August 2013. Fenerbahçe competed in the Champions League qualifying rounds and lost in the play-off round. On 28 August 2013, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld UEFA's ban, meaning Fenerbahçe were banned from the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League. A draw was held on 30 August 2013, 09:00, in Monaco, to select a team to replace Fenerbahçe in the Europa League group stage among the teams eliminated in the play-off round, and was won by APOEL.
* $^‡$ On 25 June 2013, Beşiktaş were banned by UEFA from the 2013–14 UEFA club competitions because of the 2011 Turkish sports corruption scandal. They appealed the ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and on 18 July 2013 it was ruled that the ban should be temporarily lifted and they should be included in the qualifying round draws of the Europa League, until the final decision to be made before the end of August 2013. Beşiktaş competed in the Europa League play-off round and won. On 30 August 2013, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld UEFA's ban, meaning Beşiktaş were banned from the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League. UEFA decided to replace Beşiktaş in the Europa League group stage with Tromsø, who were eliminated by Beşiktaş in the play-off round.
* $^&$ On 14 August 2013, Metalist Kharkiv were disqualified from the 2013–14 UEFA club competitions because of previous match-fixing. UEFA decided to replace Metalist Kharkiv in the Champions League play-off round with PAOK, who were eliminated by Metalist Kharkiv in the third qualifying round. Thus, Maccabi Tel Aviv, the opponent of PAOK in the Europa League play-off round, qualified directly for the Europa League group stage. PAOK also qualified for the Europa League group stage after losing in the Champions League play-off round.

## Seeding

A total of 62 teams played in the play-off round: 18 teams which entered in this round, the 29 winners of the third qualifying round, and the 15 losers of the Champions League third qualifying round. The draw was held on 9 August 2013.
| Group 1 | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 3 |
| Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded |
| Braga APOEL Beşiktaş Feyenoord Rapid Wien | Kuban Krasnodar Zulte Waregem Tromsø Pandurii Târgu Jiu Dila Gori | Dynamo Kyiv AZ Genk Swansea City Nice | Atromitos Apollon Limassol Aktobe Petrolul Ploiești FH | Sevilla Standard Liège Red Bull Salzburg Eintracht Frankfurt Nordsjælland | IF Elfsborg Śląsk Wrocław Qarabağ Minsk Žalgiris |
| Group 4 | Group 4 | Group 5 | Group 5 | Group 6 | Group 6 |
| Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded |
| VfB Stuttgart Spartak Moscow PAOK Real Betis Chornomorets Odesa | Maccabi Tel Aviv Jablonec St. Gallen Rijeka Skënderbeu | Rubin Kazan Fiorentina Saint-Étienne Trabzonspor Sheriff Tiraspol | Molde Grasshopper Vojvodina Esbjerg Kukësi | Tottenham Hotspur Udinese Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Partizan Maccabi Haifa Estoril | Slovan Liberec Thun Dinamo Tbilisi Pasching Astra Giurgiu Nõmme Kalju |

## Summary

The first legs were played on 22 August, and the second legs were played on 29 August 2013.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Kuban Krasnodar | 3–1 | Feyenoord | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| Zulte Waregem | 3–2 | APOEL | 1–1 | 2–1 |
| Rapid Wien | 4–0 | Dila Gori | 1–0 | 3–0 |
| Tromsø | 2–3 | Beşiktaş | 2–1 | 0–2 |
| Pandurii Târgu Jiu | 2–1 | Braga | 0–1 | 2–0 (a.e.t.) |
| Apollon Limassol | 2–1 | Nice | 2–0 | 0–1 |
| Aktobe | 3–8 | Dynamo Kyiv | 2–3 | 1–5 |
| Swansea City | 6–3 | Petrolul Ploiești | 5–1 | 1–2 |
| Atromitos | 3–3 (a) | AZ | 1–3 | 2–0 |
| FH | 2–7 | Genk | 0–2 | 2–5 |
| IF Elfsborg | 2–1 | Nordsjælland | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| Sevilla | 9–1 | Śląsk Wrocław | 4–1 | 5–0 |
| Red Bull Salzburg | 7–0 | Žalgiris | 5–0 | 2–0 |
| Qarabağ | 1–4 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 0–2 | 1–2 |
| Minsk | 1–5 | Standard Liège | 0–2 | 1–3 |
| Jablonec | 1–8 | Real Betis | 1–2 | 0–6 |
| Rijeka | 4–3 | VfB Stuttgart | 2–1 | 2–2 |
| Chornomorets Odesa | 1–1 (7–6 p) | Skënderbeu | 1–0 | 0–1 (a.e.t.) |
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | w/o | PAOK | Canc. | Canc. |
| St. Gallen | 5–3 | Spartak Moscow | 1–1 | 4–2 |
| Molde | 0–5 | Rubin Kazan | 0–2 | 0–3 |
| Vojvodina | 2–3 | Sheriff Tiraspol | 1–1 | 1–2 |
| Kukësi | 1–5 | Trabzonspor | 0–2 | 1–3 |
| Esbjerg | 5–3 | Saint-Étienne | 4–3 | 1–0 |
| Grasshopper | 2–2 (a) | Fiorentina | 1–2 | 1–0 |
| Maccabi Haifa | 3–1 | Astra Giurgiu | 2–0 | 1–1 |
| Udinese | 2–4 | Slovan Liberec | 1–3 | 1–1 |
| Dinamo Tbilisi | 0–8 | Tottenham Hotspur | 0–5 | 0–3 |
| Estoril | 4–1 | Pasching | 2–0 | 2–1 |
| Nõmme Kalju | 1–5 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 1–3 | 0–2 |
| Partizan | 1–3 | Thun | 1–0 | 0–3 |
* ↑ Following the completion of the play-offs, APOEL were drawn as the lucky loser to advance to the group stage (replacing the spot vacated by Fenerbahçe).
* 1 2 Order of legs reversed after original draw.
* 1 2 3 On 14 August 2013, Metalist Kharkiv were disqualified from all 2013–14 UEFA club competitions because of previous match-fixing. UEFA decided to replace Metalist Kharkiv in the Champions League play-off round with PAOK, who were eliminated by Metalist Kharkiv in the third qualifying round of the Champions League. PAOK therefore vacated their place in the Europa League, and Maccabi Tel Aviv, the opponent drawn against PAOK in the Europa League play-off round, qualified directly for the Europa League group stage.

## Matches

Dynamo Kyiv won 8–3 on aggregate.
Kuban Krasnodar won 3–1 on aggregate.
Eintracht Frankfurt won 4–1 on aggregate.
Real Betis won 8–1 on aggregate.
Tottenham Hotspur won 8–0 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; AZ won on away goals.
Standard Liège won 5–1 on aggregate.
Maccabi Haifa won 3–1 on aggregate.
Red Bull Salzburg won 7–0 on aggregate.
St. Gallen won 5–3 on aggregate.
Rubin Kazan won 5–0 on aggregate.
Esbjerg won 5–3 on aggregate.
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk won 5–1 on aggregate.
Trabzonspor won 5–1 on aggregate.
Beşiktaş won 3–2 on aggregate.
Pandurii Târgu Jiu won 2–1 on aggregate.
Apollon Limassol won 2–1 on aggregate.
Genk won 7–2 on aggregate.
IF Elfsborg won 2–1 on aggregate.
Swansea City won 6–3 on aggregate.
Maccabi Tel Aviv won on walkover after PAOK were promoted to the Champions League.
Rijeka won 4–3 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate; Chornomorets Odesa won 7–6 on penalties.
Sheriff Tiraspol won 3–2 on aggregate.
Thun won 3–1 on aggregate.
Zulte Waregem won 3–2 on aggregate.
Slovan Liberec won 4–2 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate; Fiorentina won on away goals.
Rapid Wien won 4–0 on aggregate.
Sevilla won 9–1 on aggregate.
Estoril won 4–1 on aggregate.

## Statistics

(totals for all earlier rounds and play-off round)