2011–12 UEFA Europa League qualifying (third and play-off round matches)
European football competition
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Third qualifying round
Summary
The first legs were played on 26 and 28 July, and the second legs were played on 4 August 2011.
- Order of legs reversed after original draw.
- Greek club Olympiacos Volos, 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.[1] UEFA decided to replace them in the play-off round with Differdange 03 from Luxembourg, who had lost to Olympiacos Volos in the previous round.[2]
Matches
Atlético Madrid  | 2–1 |  Strømsgodset |
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Atlético Madrid won 4–1 on aggregate.
Westerlo  | 0–2 |  Young Boys |
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Young Boys won 5–1 on aggregate.
Ventspils  | 1–2 |  Red Star Belgrade |
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Red Star Belgrade won 9–1 on aggregate.
Alania Vladikavkaz  | 1–1 |  Aktobe |
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2–2 on aggregate; Alania Vladikavkaz won 4–2 on penalties.
AEK Larnaca won 5–2 on aggregate.
Željezničar  | 0–2 |  Maccabi Tel Aviv |
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Maccabi Tel Aviv won 8–0 on aggregate.
AZ  | 2–0 |  Jablonec |
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AZ won 3–1 on aggregate.
Olimpija Ljubljana  | 1–1 |  Austria Wien |
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Austria Wien won 4–3 on aggregate.
Bursaspor won 5–2 on aggregate.
| Aalesund | 4–0 |  IF Elfsborg |
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Aalesund won 5–1 on aggregate.
Gaziantepspor  | 0–1 |  Legia Warsaw |
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Legia Warsaw won 1–0 on aggregate.
Hapoel Tel Aviv won 5–2 on aggregate.
Rennes won 7–2 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; Spartak Trnava won 5–4 on penalties.
Vitória de Guimarães  | 2–1 |  Midtjylland |
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Vitória de Guimarães won 2–1 on aggregate.
Varaždin  | 1–2 |  Dinamo București |
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Dinamo București won 4–3 on aggregate.
Karpaty Lviv won 5–1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate; Thun won on away goals.
KR  | 1–4 |  Dinamo Tbilisi |
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| Dinamo Tbilisi | 2–0 | KR |
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Dinamo Tbilisi won 6–1 on aggregate.
| ADO Den Haag | 1–0 |  Omonia |
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Omonia won 3–1 on aggregate.
| Red Bull Salzburg | 1–0 |  Senica |
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Red Bull Salzburg won 4–0 on aggregate.
Qarabağ  | 1–0 | Club Brugge |
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Club Brugge won 4–2 on aggregate.
Differdange 03 won on walkover as Olympiacos Volos were disqualified.[note 6]
Mainz 05  | 1–1 | Gaz Metan Mediaș |
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2–2 on aggregate; Gaz Metan Mediaș won 4–3 on penalties.
| Bnei Yehuda | 1–0 | Helsingborgs IF |
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Helsingborgs IF won 3–1 on aggregate.
Stoke City  | 1–0 | Hajduk Split |
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Stoke City won 2–0 on aggregate.
Rabotnicki  | 1–2 | Anorthosis Famagusta |
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Rabotnicki won 3–2 on aggregate.
| Sarajevo | 0–2 | Sparta Prague |
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Sparta Prague won 7–0 on aggregate.
Sligo Rovers  | 0–2 |  Vorskla Poltava |
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Vorskla Poltava won 2–0 on aggregate.
Heart of Midlothian won 5–2 on aggregate.
0–0 on aggregate; Śląsk Wrocław won 4–3 on penalties.
| Nacional | 3–0 | BK Häcken |
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Nacional won 4–2 on aggregate.
| Brøndby | 4–2 | Ried |
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4–4 on aggregate; Ried won on away goals.
PAOK won 5–0 on aggregate.
Fulham won 2–0 on aggregate.
Play-off round
Summary
The first legs were played on 18 August, and the second legs were played on 25 August 2011.
- Order of legs reversed after original draw.
- 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.[62]
- 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.[63]
Matches
Maccabi Tel Aviv won 4–2 on aggregate.
| Atlético Madrid | 2–0 | Vitória de Guimarães |
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Atlético Madrid won 6–0 on aggregate.
| Shamrock Rovers | 1–1 | Partizan |
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Shamrock Rovers won 3–2 on aggregate.
Metalist Kharkiv won 4–0 on aggregate.
Beşiktaş won 3–2 on aggregate.
AEK Larnaca won 2–1 on aggregate.
| Vorskla Poltava | 2–1 | Dinamo București |
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Vorskla Poltava won 5–3 on aggregate.
Anderlecht won 4–3 on aggregate.
| Slovan Bratislava | 1–0 |  Roma |
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| Roma | 1–1 | Slovan Bratislava |
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Slovan Bratislava won 2–1 on aggregate.
Paris Saint-Germain won 6–0 on aggregate.
| Legia Warsaw | 2–2 | Spartak Moscow |
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| Spartak Moscow | 2–3 | Legia Warsaw |
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Legia Warsaw won 5–4 on aggregate.
Ekranas  | 1–0 | Hapoel Tel Aviv |
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Hapoel Tel Aviv won 4–1 on aggregate.
PAOK  | 2–0 | Karpaty Lviv |
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PAOK won 3–1 on aggregate.
| Trabzonspor | Cancelled[note 11] | Athletic Bilbao |
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Athletic Bilbao won on walkover as Trabzonspor were promoted to the Champions League.[note 11]
Heart of Midlothian  | 0–5 | Tottenham Hotspur |
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Tottenham Hotspur won 5–0 on aggregate.
Maribor won 3–2 on aggregate.
CSKA Sofia  | 1–1 | Steaua București |
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Steaua București won 3–1 on aggregate.
| Sporting CP | 2–1 | Nordsjælland |
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Sporting CP won 2–1 on aggregate.
| Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 1–0 | Fulham |
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Fulham won 3–1 on aggregate.
Lokomotiv Moscow won 3–1 on aggregate.
Celtic won 6–0 on aggregate.
| Śląsk Wrocław | 1–3 | Rapid București |
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| Rapid București | 1–1 | Śląsk Wrocław |
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Rapid București won 4–2 on aggregate.
| Litex Lovech | 1–2 | Dynamo Kyiv |
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| Dynamo Kyiv | 1–0 | Litex Lovech |
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Dynamo Kyiv won 3–1 on aggregate.
| Rabotnicki | 1–3 | Lazio |
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Lazio won 9–1 on aggregate.
Birmingham City won 3–0 on aggregate.
| Ried | 0–0 | PSV Eindhoven |
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PSV Eindhoven won 5–0 on aggregate.
| Thun | 0–1 | Stoke City |
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Stoke City won 5–1 on aggregate.
AZ won 7–2 on aggregate.
| Vaslui | 2–0 | Sparta Prague |
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| Sparta Prague | 1–0 | Vaslui |
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Vaslui won 2–1 on aggregate.
| Red Bull Salzburg | 1–0 | Omonia |
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2–2 on aggregate; Red Bull Salzburg won on away goals.
| Zestaponi | 3–3 | Club Brugge |
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| Club Brugge | 2–0 | Zestaponi |
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Club Brugge won 5–3 on aggregate.
| Hannover 96 | 2–1 | Sevilla |
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| Sevilla | 1–1 | Hannover 96 |
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Hannover 96 won 3–2 on aggregate.
HJK  | 2–0 | Schalke 04 |
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| Schalke 04 | 6–1 | HJK |
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Schalke 04 won 6–3 on aggregate.
| AEK Athens | 1–0 | Dinamo Tbilisi |
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| Dinamo Tbilisi | 1–1 (a.e.t.) | AEK Athens |
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AEK Athens won 2–1 on aggregate.
Rennes  | 4–0 | Red Star Belgrade |
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Rennes won 6–1 on aggregate.
| Austria Wien | 3–1 | Gaz Metan Mediaș |
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| Gaz Metan Mediaș | 1–0 | Austria Wien |
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Austria Wien won 3–2 on aggregate.
| Braga | 0–0 | Young Boys |
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2–2 on aggregate; Braga won on away goals.
| Standard Liège | 1–0 | Helsingborgs IF |
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Standard Liège won 4–1 on aggregate.
Notes
- Željezničar played their home match at Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium, Sarajevo as it has a greater capacity than their own Stadion Grbavica.
- Metalurgi Rustavi played their home match at Boris Paichadze National Stadium, Tbilisi as it has a greater capacity than their own Poladi Stadium.
- St Patrick's Athletic played their home match at Tallaght Stadium, Tallaght, as it has a greater capacity than their own Richmond Park.
- Qarabağ played their home match at Tofiq Bahramov Stadium, Baku as their own Guzanli Olympic Complex Stadium did not meet the UEFA criteria.
- Differdange 03 played their home match at Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City as their own Stade du Thillenberg did not meet the UEFA criteria.
- Greek club Olympiacos Volos, 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.[1] 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.[2]
- Paks played their home match at Stadion Sóstói, Székesfehérvár as their own Stadion PSE did not meet the UEFA criteria.
- Lokomotiv Sofia played their home match at Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia as their own Lokomotiv Stadium did not meet the UEFA criteria.
- BK Häcken played their home match at Ullevi, Gothenburg as their own Rambergsvallen did not meet the UEFA criteria.
- RNK Split played their home match at Stadion Hrvatski vitezovi, Dugopolje as their own Stadion Park mladeži did not meet the UEFA criteria.
- 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.[62]
- Trabzonspor were due to play their home match at Türk Telekom Arena, Istanbul as their own Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium needed maintenance work after the 2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival.
- Steaua București played their home match at Stadionul Dr. Constantin Rădulescu, Cluj-Napoca as they have left their own Stadionul Steaua prior to the season.
- CSKA Sofia played their home match at Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia as their own Balgarska Armiya Stadium did not meet the UEFA criteria.
- 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.[63]
- Rapid București played their home match at Stadionul Dan Păltinișanu, Timișoara as they have left their own Stadionul Giulești-Valentin Stănescu prior to the season.
- Vaslui played their home match at Stadionul Ceahlăul, Piatra Neamț as their own Stadionul Municipal did not meet UEFA criteria.
- Zestaponi played their home match on Boris Paichadze National Stadium, Tbilisi as it has a greater capacity than their own David Abashidze Stadium.
- Gaz Metan Mediaș played their home match at Stadionul Dr. Constantin Rădulescu, Cluj-Napoca as their own Stadionul Gaz Metan did not meet the UEFA criteria.