UEFA Europa League 2011-12

The 2011–12 UEFA Europa League is the third season of the competition since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup. It began on 30 June 2011 with the first legs of the first qualifying round, and will end on 9 May 2012 with the final to be held at Stadionul Național in Bucharest, Romania. As part of a trial that started in the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League, two extra officials – one on each goal line – are being used in all matches of the competition. Porto are the defending champions.
==Association team allocation==
A total of 194 teams from 53 UEFA associations are participating in the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League. Associations are allocated places according to their 2010 UEFA league coefficient, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2005–06 to 2009–10.
Below is the qualification scheme for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League:
*Associations 1–6 each have three teams qualify
*Associations 7–9 each have four teams qualify
*Associations 10–51 each have three teams qualify, except Liechtenstein (one team)
*Associations 52–53 each have two teams qualify
*The top three associations of the 2010–11 UEFA Fair Play ranking each gain an additional berth
*Moreover, 33 teams eliminated from the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League
The title holder would have been given an additional entry if they did not qualify for the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League or Europa League through domestic performance; however, this additional entry will not be necessary as Porto, winners of the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League, qualified for the Champions League through domestic performance.
===Association ranking===
{| class="wikitable"	 	 	 	
Rank	Association 	Coeff.	Teams	Notes
1 	England 	81.856	3 	+1(FP)+2(UCL)
2 	Spain 	79.757	3 	+1(UCL)
3 	Italy 	64.338	3 	+1(UCL)
4 	Germany 	64.207	3 	
5 	France 	53.740	3 	
6 	Russia 	43.791	3 	+1(UCL)
7 	Ukraine 	39.550	4 	+1(UCL)
8 	Romania 	39.491	4 	+1(UCL)
9 	Portugal 	38.296	4 	+1(UCL)
10 	Netherlands 	36.546	3 	+2(UCL)
11 	Turkey 	34.450	3 	+2(UCL)
12 	Greece 	29.899	3 	+2(UCL)
13 	Switzerland 	28.375	3 	+1(UCL)
14 	Belgium 	27.900	3 	+1(UCL)
15 	Denmark 	27.350	3 	+2(UCL)
16 	Scotland 	25.791	3 	+1(UCL)
17 	Bulgaria 	22.000	3 	+1(UCL)
18 	Czech Republic	21.975	3 	+1(UCL)
;Notes
*(FP): Additional fair play berth (Norway, England, Sweden)
*(UCL): Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League
===Distribution===
The winners of the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League, Porto, would have been guaranteed a place in the group stage; however, as they qualified for the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League, this title holder spot reserved for them was vacated. As a result, the following changes to the default allocation system were made to compensate for the vacant title holder spot in the group stage:
*The domestic cup winners of associations 16 and 17 (Scotland and Bulgaria) are moved from the third qualifying round to the play-off round. 
*The domestic cup winners of associations 28 and 29 (Belarus and Republic of Ireland) are promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
*The domestic cup winners of associations 52 and 53 (Malta and San Marino) and the domestic league runners-up of associations 33 and 34 (Latvia and Moldova) are promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.
 	Teams entering in this round	Teams advancing from previous round	Teams transferred from Champions League
First qualifying round (50 teams) 	
*18 domestic league runners-up from associations 35–53 (except Liechtenstein)
*29 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 22–51 (except Liechtenstein)
*3 teams which qualified via Fair Play rankings	 	
Second qualifying round (80 teams)	
*24 domestic cup winners from associations 30–53
*16 domestic league runners-up from associations 19–34
*6 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 16–21
*6 domestic league fourth-placed teams from associations 10–15
*3 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 7–9	
*25 winners from the first qualifying round	
Third qualifying round (70 teams) 	
*12 domestic cup winners from associations 18–29
*3 domestic league runners-up from associations 16–18
*6 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 10–15
*3 domestic league fourth-placed teams from associations 7–9
*3 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 4–6 (League Cup winners for France)
*3 domestic league sixth-placed teams from associations 1–3 (League Cup winners for England)	
*40 winners from the second qualifying round	
Play-off round (76 teams) 	
*17 domestic cup winners from associations 1–17
*3 domestic league third-placed teams from associations 7–9
*3 domestic league fourth-placed teams from associations 4–6
*3 domestic league fifth-placed teams from associations 1–3	
*35 winners from the third qualifying round	
*15 losers from the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round
Group stage (48 teams) 	 	
*38 winners from the play-off round	
*10 losers from the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League play-off round
Knockout phase (32 teams) 	 	
*12 group winners from the group stage
*12 group runners-up from the group stage	
*8 third-placed teams from the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League group stage
===Redistribution rules===
A Europa League place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the Europa League, or qualifies for the Europa League by more than one method. When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules:
* When the domestic cup winners (considered as the "highest-placed" qualifiers within the national association) also qualify for the Champions League, their Europa League place is vacated, and the remaining Europa League qualifiers are moved up one place, with the final place (with the earliest starting round) taken by the domestic cup runners-up, provided they do not already qualify for the Champions League or the Europa League. Otherwise, this place is taken by the highest-placed league finishers that have not yet qualified for the Europa League.
* When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the Europa League through league position, their place through the league position is vacated, and the Europa League qualifiers that finish lower in the league are moved up one place, with the final place taken by the highest-placed league finishers that have not yet qualified for the Europa League.
* A place vacated by the League Cup winners is taken by the highest-placed league finishers that have not yet qualified for the Europa League.
* A Fair Play place is taken by the highest-ranked team in the domestic Fair Play table that has not yet qualified for the Champions League or the Europa League.
===Teams===
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
* TH: Title holders
* CW: Cup winners
* CR: Cup runners-up
* LC: League Cup winners
* Nth: League position
* P-: End-of-season European competition play-offs (winners or position)
* FP: Fair play
* UCL: Relegated from the Champions League
** GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
** PO: Losers from the play-off round
** Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
Round of 32 	Round of 32 	Round of 32 	Round of 32
Manchester City (UCL GS) 	Trabzonspor (UCL GS) 	Manchester United (UCL GS)	Ajax (UCL GS)
Valencia (UCL GS) 	Olympiacos (UCL GS) 	PortoTH (UCL GS) 	Viktoria Plzeň (UCL GS)
Group stage 	Group stage 	Group stage 	Group stage
Zürich (UCL PO) 	Odense (UCL PO) 	Maccabi Haifa (UCL PO) 	Wisła Kraków (UCL PO)
Malmö FF (UCL PO) 	Rubin Kazan (UCL PO) 	Copenhagen (UCL PO) 	Twente (UCL PO)
Udinese (UCL PO) 	Sturm Graz (UCL PO) 	 	
Play-off round 	Play-off round 	Play-off round 	Play-off round
Tottenham Hotspur (5th) 	Lokomotiv Moscow (5th) 	Anderlecht (3rd) 	Standard Liège (UCL Q3)
Birmingham City (LC) 	Metalist Kharkiv (3rd) 	Nordsjælland (CW) 	Slovan Bratislava (UCL Q3)
Sevilla (5th) 	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (4th)	Celtic (CW) 	Zestafoni (UCL Q3)
Athletic Bilbao (6th) 	Steaua București (CW) 	CSKA Sofia (CW) 	Litex Lovech (UCL Q3)
Lazio (5th) 	Rapid București (4th) 	Ekranas (UCL Q3) 	Trabzonspor (UCL Q3)
Roma (6th) 	Sporting CP (3rd) 	Shamrock Rovers (UCL Q3) 	Partizan (UCL Q3)
Schalke 04 (CW) 	Braga (4th) 	Panathinaikos (UCL Q3) 	Maribor (UCL Q3)
Hannover 96 (4th) 	PSV Eindhoven (3rd) 	Dynamo Kyiv (UCL Q3) 	HJK Helsinki (UCL Q3)
Paris Saint-Germain (4th) 	Beşiktaş (CW) 	Rangers (UCL Q3) 	
Sochaux (5th) 	AEK Athens (CW) 	Vaslui (UCL Q3) 	
Spartak Moscow (4th) 	Sion (CW) 	Rosenborg (UCL Q3) 	
Third qualifying round 	Third qualifying round 	Third qualifying round 	Third qualifying round
Stoke City (CR) 	Vitória Guimarães (5th) 	Levski Sofia (2nd) 	Helsingborg (CW)
Atlético Madrid (7th) 	AZ (4th) 	Mladá Boleslav (CW) 	Red Star Belgrade (2nd)
Palermo (CR) 	Bursaspor (3rd) 	Sparta Prague (2nd) 	Legia Warsaw (CW)
Mainz 05 (5th) 	PAOK (P-2nd) 	Ried (CW) 	Hajduk Split (2nd)
Rennes (6th) 	Young Boys (3rd) 	Hapoel Tel Aviv (CW) 	Gomel (CW)
Alania Vladikavkaz (CR) 	Club Brugge (4th) 	Omonia (CW) 	Sligo Rovers (CW)
Karpaty Lviv (5th) 	Brøndby (3rd) 	Strømsgodset (CW) 	
Dinamo București (6th) 	Heart of Midlothian (3rd) 	Senica (2nd) 	
Second qualifying round 	Second qualifying round 	Second qualifying round 	Second qualifying round
Vorskla Poltava (6th) 	Maccabi Tel Aviv (3rd) 	Željezničar (CW) 	Vaduz (CW)
Gaz Metan Mediaș (7th) 	Bnei Yehuda (4th) 	Sarajevo (2nd) 	Aktobe (2nd)
Nacional (6th) 	Anorthosis (3rd) 	Sūduva Marijampolė (2nd) 	Levadia Tallinn (2nd)
ADO Den Haag (P-W) 	AEK Larnaca (4th) 	Tauras Tauragė (4th) 	Tirana (CW)
Gaziantepspor (4th) 	Vålerenga (2nd) 	Ventspils (CW) 	Mika (CW)
Olympiakos Volou (P-4th) 	Žilina (3rd) 	Liepājas Metalurgs (3rd) 	Llanelli (CW)
Thun (5th) 	Örebro (3rd) 	Iskra-Stal (CW) 	Rudar Pljevlja (CW)
Westerlo (CR) 	Vojvodina (3rd) 	Sheriff Tiraspol (2nd) 	EB/Streymur (CW)
Midtjylland (4th) 	Śląsk Wrocław (2nd) 	Domžale (CW) 	Crusaders (2nd)
Dundee United (4th) 	Split (3rd) 	Kecskemét (CW) 	Differdange 03 (CW)
Lokomotiv Sofia (4th) 	Shakhtsyor Salihorsk (2nd) 	Gagra (CW) 	Sant Julià (CW)
Jablonec (3rd) 	Bohemians (2nd) 	Khazar Lankaran (CW) 	Floriana (CW)
Red Bull Salzburg (2nd) 	TPS (CW) 	FH (CW) 	Juvenes/Dogana (CW)
Austria Wien (3rd) 	KuPS (2nd) 	Metalurg Skopje (CW) 	
First qualifying round 	First qualifying round 	First qualifying round 	First qualifying round
Tromsø (3rd) 	Koper (3rd) 	Shakhter Karagandy (CR) 	Glentoran (3rd)
Spartak Trnava (4th) 	Olimpija Ljubljana (4th) 	Narva Trans (3rd) 	Cliftonville (4th)
Elfsborg (4th) 	Paks (2nd) 	Nõmme Kalju (4th) 	Fola Esch (2nd)
Rad (4th) 	Ferencváros (3rd) 	Flamurtari Vlorë (2nd) 	Käerjéng 97 (3rd)
Jagiellonia Białystok (4th)	Dinamo Tbilisi (2nd) 	Vllaznia Shkodër (3rd) 	Lusitanos (3rd)
Varaždin (CR) 	Metalurgist Rustavi (3rd) 	Banants (2nd) 	UE Santa Coloma (4th)
Minsk (3rd) 	Qarabağ (3rd) 	Ulisses (3rd) 	Birkirkara (3rd)
St Patrick's Athletic (5th)	AZAL Baku (4th) 	The New Saints (2nd) 	Tre Penne (2nd)
Honka (4th) 	ÍBV (3rd) 	Neath (P-W) 	Aalesund (FP)
Široki Brijeg (4th) 	KR (4th) 	Budućnost Podgorica (2nd) 	Fulham (FP)
Banga Gargždai (CR) 	Renova (3rd) 	Zeta (4th) 	Häcken (FP)
Daugava Daugavpils (4th) 	Rabotnički (4th) 	NSÍ Runavík (3rd) 	
Milsami Orhei (3rd) 	Irtysh Pavlodar (3rd) 	ÍF Fuglafjørður (4th) 	
;Notes
*TH Title holders: Porto qualified for the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League group stage as the champions of the 2010–11 Primeira Liga. They finished third in their group and thus advanced to the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League knockout phase.
*Republic of Ireland (IRL): Because Sporting Fingal, the fourth-placed team of the 2010 League of Ireland, returned its domestic license prior to the start of the 2011 season, St Patricks Athletic, the fifth-placed team of the league, claimed the Europa League spot in the first qualifying round.
*Kazakhstan (KAZ): Because Lokomotiv Astana, the winners of the 2010 Kazakhstan Cup, did not exist for at least three years and could not obtain a UEFA license, the second-placed team of the league, Aktobe, moved up to enter the second qualifying round, and the cup runners-up, Shakhter Karagandy, claimed the vacant Europa League spot in the first qualifying round.
*Lithuania (LTU): Because Žalgiris Vilnius, the third-placed team of the 2010 A Lyga, did not obtain a UEFA license for the 2011–12 European competitions, Tauras Tauragė, the fourth-placed team of the league, claimed the Europa League spot in the second qualifying round.
*Romania (ROU): Because Politehnica Timişoara, the 2010–11 Liga I runners-up, were denied a domestic licence for the 2011–12 season, Vaslui, the third-placed team of the league, claimed the Champions League spot in the third qualifying round for non-champions, instead of entering the Europa League play-off round. Subsequently, Rapid București and Dinamo București, the fourth- and sixth-placed teams of the league, moved up to enter the play-off round and the third qualifying round respectively, and Gaz Metan Mediaș, the seventh-placed team of the league, claimed the vacant Europa League spot in the second qualifying round.
*Turkey (TUR): Fenerbahçe, the 2010–11 Süper Lig champions, was banned by the Turkish Football Federation on 24 August 2011 from participating in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League due to the ongoing investigation into match-fixing. UEFA decided to replace them in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League with Trabzonspor, the league runners-up, who had lost in the Champions League third qualifying round and were participating in the Europa League play-off round at that time. They finished third in their group and thus advanced to the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League knockout phase.
==Round and draw dates==
All draws held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland unless stated otherwise.
Phase 	Round 	Draw date 	First leg 	Second leg
Qualifying 	First qualifying round 	20 June 2011 	30 June 2011 	7 July 2011
Qualifying 	Second qualifying round	20 June 2011 	14 July 2011 	21 July 2011
Qualifying 	Third qualifying round 	15 July 2011 	28 July 2011 	4 August 2011
Play-off 	Play-off round 	5 August 2011 	18 August 2011 	25 August 2011
Group stage 	Matchday 1 	26 August 2011(Monaco)	15 September 2011 	15 September 2011
Group stage 	Matchday 2 	26 August 2011(Monaco)	29 September 2011 	29 September 2011
Group stage 	Matchday 3 	26 August 2011(Monaco)	20 October 2011 	20 October 2011
Group stage 	Matchday 4 	26 August 2011(Monaco)	3 November 2011 	3 November 2011
Group stage 	Matchday 5 	26 August 2011(Monaco)	30 November–1 December 2011 	30 November–1 December 2011
Group stage 	Matchday 6 	26 August 2011(Monaco)	14–15 December 2011 	14–15 December 2011
Knockout phase	Round of 32 	16 December 2011 	16 February 2012 	23 February 2012
Knockout phase	Round of 16 	16 December 2011 	8 March 2012 	15 March 2012
Knockout phase	Quarter-finals 	16 March 2012 	29 March 2012 	5 April 2012
Knockout phase	Semi-finals 	16 March 2012 	19 April 2012 	26 April 2012
Knockout phase	Final 	16 March 2012 	9 May 2012 at National Stadium, Bucharest	9 May 2012 at National Stadium, Bucharest
Matches in the qualifying, play-off, and knockout rounds may also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.
==Qualifying rounds==
In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams were be divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2011 UEFA club coefficients, and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
===First qualifying round===
The draw for the first and second qualifying rounds was held on 20 June 2011. The first legs were played on 30 June, and the second legs were played on 7 July 2011.
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===Second qualifying round===
The first legs were played on 14 July, and the second legs were played on 21 July 2011.
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===Third qualifying round===
The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 15 July 2011. The first legs were played on 26 and 28 July, and the second legs were played on 4 August 2011.
 
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==Play-off round==
The draw for the play-off round was held on 5 August 2011. The first legs were played on 18 August, and the second legs were played on 25 August 2011.
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;Notes
*Order of legs reversed after original draw.
*Greek club Olympiakos Volou, who had reached the play-off round, were excluded from the competition by UEFA on 11 August 2011 for their involvement in the Koriopolis match-fixing scandal. UEFA decided to replace them in the play-off round with Differdange 03 from Luxembourg, who had lost to Olympiakos Volou in the previous round.
*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.
*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.
==Group stage==
The group stage features 48 teams, which were allocated into pots based on their 2011 UEFA club coefficients, and then drawn into twelve groups of four. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other. The draw was held on 26 August 2011 in Monaco.
In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays are 15 September, 29 September, 20 October, 3 November, 30 November–1 December, and 14–15 December 2011. The group winners and runners-up will advance to the round of 32, where they will be joined by the 8 third-placed teams from the group stage of the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League.
If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings (in descending order):
#higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
#superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
#higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
#higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
#If, after applying criteria 1) to 4) to several teams, two teams still have an equal ranking, the criteria 1) to 4) will be reapplied to determine the ranking of these teams;
#superior goal difference from all group matches played;
#higher number of goals scored from all group matches played;
#higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.
A total of 24 national associations are represented in this group stage (including Scotland after Celtic were reinstated into the Europa League over Sion), with England having the most teams, with four.
Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 32
===Group A===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
PAOK 	6	3	3	0	10	6 	+4 	12
Rubin Kazan 	6	3	2	1	11	5 	+6 	11
Tottenham Hotspur	6	3	1	2	9 	4 	+5 	10
Shamrock Rovers 	6	0	0	6	4 	19	−15	0
===Group B===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Standard Liège 	6	4	2	0	9	1 	+8 	14
Hannover 96 	6	3	2	1	9	7 	+2 	11
Copenhagen 	6	1	2	3	5	9 	−4	5
Vorskla Poltava	6	0	2	4	4	10	−6	2
===Group C===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
PSV Eindhoven 	6	5	1	0	13	5 	+8	16
Legia Warsaw 	6	3	0	3	7 	9 	−2	9
Hapoel Tel Aviv	6	2	1	3	10	9 	+1	7
Rapid București	6	1	0	5	5 	12	−7	3
===Group D===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Sporting CP	6	4	0	2	8	4	+4	12
Lazio 	6	2	3	1	7	5	+2	9
Vaslui 	6	1	3	2	5	8	−3	6
Zürich 	6	1	2	3	5	8	−3	5
===Group E===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Beşiktaş 	6	4	0	2	13	7 	+6	12
Stoke City 	6	3	2	1	10	7 	+3	11
Dynamo Kyiv 	6	1	4	1	7 	7 	0 	7
Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	0	2	4	8 	17	−9	2
===Group F===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Athletic Bilbao 	6	4	1	1	11	8 	+3	13
Red Bull Salzburg 	6	3	1	2	11	8 	+3	10
Paris Saint-Germain	6	3	1	2	8 	7 	+1	10
Slovan Bratislava 	6	0	1	5	4 	11	−7	1
===Group G===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Metalist Kharkiv	6	4	2	0	15	6 	+9 	14
AZ 	6	1	5	0	10	7 	+3 	8
Austria Wien 	6	2	2	2	10	11	−1 	8
Malmö FF 	6	0	1	5	4 	15	−11	1
===Group H===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Club Brugge 	6	3	2	1	12	9 	+3	11
Braga 	6	3	2	1	12	6 	+6	11
Birmingham City	6	3	1	2	8 	8 	0 	10
Maribor 	6	0	1	5	6 	15	−9	1
===Group I===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Atlético Madrid	6	4	1	1	11	4 	+7	13
Udinese 	6	2	3	1	6 	7 	−1	9
Celtic 	6	1	3	2	6 	7 	−1	6
Rennes 	6	0	3	3	5 	10	−5	3
===Group J===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Schalke 04 	6	4	2	0	13	2 	+11	14
Steaua București	6	2	2	2	9 	11	−2 	8
Maccabi Haifa 	6	2	0	4	10	12	−2 	6
AEK Larnaca 	6	1	2	3	4 	11	−7 	5
===Group K===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Twente 	6	4	1	1	14	7 	+7	13
Wisła Kraków	6	3	0	3	8 	13	−5	9
Fulham 	6	2	2	2	9 	6 	+3	8
Odense 	6	1	1	4	9 	14	−5	4
===Group L===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Anderlecht 	6	6	0	0	18	5 	+13	18
Lokomotiv Moscow	6	4	0	2	14	11	+3 	12
AEK Athens 	6	1	0	5	8 	15	−7 	3
Sturm Graz 	6	1	0	5	5 	14	−9 	3
== Knockout phase ==
In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The draw for the round of 32 and round of 16 will be held on 16 December 2011. The draws for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final (to determine the "home" team) will be held on 16 March 2012.
In the draw for the round of 32, the twelve group winners and the four better third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage (based on their match record in the group stage) are seeded, and the twelve group runners-up and the other four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage are unseeded. A seeded team will be drawn against an unseeded team, with the seeded team hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association cannot be drawn against each other. In the draws for the round of 16 onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association may be drawn with each other.
;Qualified teams
Key to colours
Seeded in round of 32 draw
Unseeded in round of 32 draw
Seeding TBD
Group	Winners 	Runners-up
A 	PAOK 	Rubin Kazan
B 	Standard Liege 	Hannover 96
C 	PSV Eindhoven 	Legia Warsaw
D 	Sporting CP 	Lazio
E 	Beşiktaş 	Stoke City
F 	Athletic Bilbao 	Red Bull Salzburg
G 	Metalist Kharkiv	AZ
H 	Club Brugge 	Braga
I 	Atlético Madrid 	Udinese
J 	Schalke 04 	Steaua București
K 	Twente 	Wisła Kraków
L 	Anderlecht 	Lokomotiv Moscow
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Group 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
A 	Manchester City 	6 	3 	1 	2 	9 	6 	+3 	10
C 	Manchester United 	6 	2 	3 	1 	11 	8 	+3 	9
F 	Olympiacos 	6 	3 	0 	3 	8 	6 	+2 	9
E 	Valencia 	6 	2 	2 	2 	12 	7 	+5 	8
G 	Porto 	6 	2 	2 	2 	7 	7 	0 	8
D 	Ajax 	6 	2 	2 	2 	6 	6 	0 	8
B 	Trabzonspor 	6 	1 	4 	1 	3 	5 	−2 	7
H 	Viktoria Plzeň 	6 	1 	2 	3 	4 	11 	−7 	5
=== Round of 32 ===
The first legs were played on 14 and 16 February, and the second legs were played on 22 and 23 February 2012.
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=== Round of 16 ===
The first legs were be played on 8 March, and the second legs will be played on 15 March 2012.
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=== Quarter-finals ===
The first legs were be played on 29 March, and the second legs will be played on 5 April 2012.
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=== Semi-finals ===
The first legs will be played on 19 April, and the second legs will be played on 26 April 2012.
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=== Final ===
The 2012 UEFA Europa League Final will be played on 9 May 2012 at the Stadionul Național in Bucharest, Romania.
==Statistics==
===Top goalscorers===
Rank	Player 	Team 	Goals	Minutes played
1 	Matías Suárez 	Anderlecht 	6 	418'
2 	Andrew Johnson 	Fulham 	5 	411'
3 	Dmitri Sychev 	Lokomotiv Moscow	4 	339'
3 	Joseph Akpala 	Club Brugge 	4 	345'
3 	Miroslav Radović	Legia Warsaw 	4 	404'
3 	Guillaume Gillet	Anderlecht 	4 	437'
3 	Toto Tamuz 	Hapoel Tel Aviv 	4 	441'
3 	Dalibor Volaš 	Maribor 	4 	445'
9 	12 players 	 	3 	
===Top assists===
Rank	Player 	Team 	Assists	Minutes played
1 	Giorgos Georgiadis	PAOK 	4 	268'
1 	José Ernesto Sosa 	Metalist Kharkiv	4 	346'
1 	Ola John 	Twente 	4 	362'
4 	Cleiton Xavier 	Metalist Kharkiv	3 	347'
5 	35 players 	 	2 	
==See also==
*2011–12 UEFA Champions League
*2012 UEFA Super Cup
==External links==
*UEFA Europa League (official website)
 
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