2013–14 UEFA Europa League qualifying

The qualifying phase of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League was played from 2 July to 8 August, to define 29 entrants in the competition's play-off round, who would then in turn compete for a place in the group stage.^[1]

All times were CEST (UTC+2).

Round and draw dates

All draws were held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[2]

Round	Draw date and time	First leg	Second leg
First qualifying round	24 June 2013, 13:00 & 14:30[3]	4 July 2013	11 July 2013
Second qualifying round		18 July 2013	25 July 2013
Third qualifying round	19 July 2013, 13:00[4]	1 August 2013	8 August 2013
Play-off round	9 August 2013, 13:00[5]	22 August 2013	29 August 2013

Matches might have been played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.

Format

In the qualifying phase and 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.^[1]

In the draws for each round, 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. 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. For these draws (or in any cases where the result of a tie in the previous round was not known at the time of the draw), the seeding was carried out under the assumption that the team with the higher coefficient of an undecided tie advanced to this round, which means if the team with the lower coefficient was to advance, it simply took 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.^[1]

Teams

A total of 169 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),^[6] grouped by their starting rounds.^[7]

Key to colours
Winners of the play-off round (and lucky losers) advanced to the group stage

Play-off round Team Coeff Tottenham Hotspur 69.592 Dynamo Kyiv 68.951 Braga 62.833 Fiorentina 42.829 Spartak Moscow 40.766 AZ 39.445 APOEL[CL-CR][†] 35.366 Beşiktaş[‡] 34.900 PAOK[CL-LR][&] 28.800 Red Bull Salzburg[CL-LR] 28.075 Genk 26.880 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 23.951 Real Betis 17.605 Partizan[CL-CR] 17.425 Eintracht Frankfurt 15.922 Feyenoord 13.945 Nordsjælland[CL-LR] 12.640 Nice 11.800 Sheriff Tiraspol[CL-CR] 11.533 Atromitos 8.300 IF Elfsborg[CL-CR] 8.125 Maccabi Tel Aviv[CL-CR][&] 8.075 Molde[CL-CR] 7.835 Grasshopper[CL-LR] 7.285 Zulte Waregem[CL-LR] 6.880 Apollon Limassol 6.366 St. Gallen 5.785 Dinamo Tbilisi[CL-CR] 5.333 Esbjerg 5.140 Pasching 5.075 FH[CL-CR] 4.083 Skënderbeu[CL-CR] 2.833 Nõmme Kalju[CL-CR] 1.191

Third qualifying round Team Coeff VfB Stuttgart 59.922 Sevilla 55.105 Udinese 42.829 Club Brugge 36.880 Saint-Étienne 26.800 Zürich 16.785 Swansea City 16.592 Bursaspor 14.900 Rapid Wien 13.075 Metalurh Donetsk 12.451 Estoril 11.833 Vitesse 9.945 Kuban Krasnodar 9.266 Asteras Tripolis 7.800 Randers 7.140 Motherwell 7.038 Jablonec 6.745 Hapoel Ramat Gan 4.575

Second qualifying round Team Coeff Rubin Kazan 58.266 Standard Liège 45.880 Hapoel Tel Aviv 29.575 Sparta Prague 29.245 Lech Poznań 23.650 Trabzonspor 21.400 AaB 19.640 Anorthosis Famagusta 17.366 Utrecht 13.945 Maccabi Haifa 13.575 Sturm Graz 11.575 Omonia 10.366 Chornomorets Odesa 9.951 Debrecen 9.850 Hajduk Split 8.916 Red Star Belgrade 8.425 Slovan Liberec 7.745 Thun 7.285 Śląsk Wrocław 7.150 Skoda Xanthi 6.800 Shakhtyor Soligorsk 5.175 IFK Göteborg 5.125 Rijeka 4.916 Minsk 4.675 Petrolul Ploiești 4.604 Pandurii Târgu Jiu 4.604 Senica 4.341 Piast Gliwice 4.150 BK Häcken 4.125 Hibernian 4.038 Lokomotiva Zagreb 3.916 Strømsgodset 3.835 Honka 3.701 Olimpija Ljubljana 3.691 St Johnstone 3.538 Beroe Stara Zagora 3.450 Dila Gori 3.333 Široki Brijeg 3.316 Jagodina 3.175 Trenčín 2.841 Hødd 2.835 Derry City 2.475

First qualifying round Team Coeff Rosenborg 16.835 Žilina 15.841 Levski Sofia 11.950 Videoton 7.850 Ventspils 6.658 Tromsø[‡] 6.335 Aktobe 6.191 Dinamo Minsk 6.175 St Patrick's Athletic 5.975 Qarabağ 5.708 Vojvodina 5.425 Malmö FF 5.125 Sarajevo 5.066 Astra Giurgiu 4.604 KR 4.583 F91 Dudelange 4.425 Inter Turku 4.201 Dacia Chișinău 4.033 Levadia Tallinn 3.941 Linfield 3.866 Honvéd 3.850 Valletta 3.791 Differdange 03 3.675 Liepājas Metalurgs 3.658 Gefle IF 3.625 Pyunik 3.600 Zrinjski Mostar 3.566 Inter Baku 3.458 Skonto 3.408 Sūduva 3.300 Vaduz 3.200 Flora 3.191 Khazar Lankaran 2.958 HB 2.816 Rudar Pljevlja 2.800 TPS 2.701 Breiðablik 2.583 Botev Plovdiv 2.450 Domžale 2.441 Glentoran 2.366 Metalurg Skopje 2.300 Milsami Orhei 2.283 Celje 2.191 Torpedo Kutaisi 2.083 Teteks 2.050 Irtysh 1.941 Jeunesse Esch 1.925 Crusaders 1.866 FC Santa Coloma 1.850 Chikhura Sachkhere 1.833 Žalgiris 1.800 Mariehamn 1.701 Mika 1.600 ÍBV 1.583 Čelik Nikšić 1.550 Hibernians 1.541 Sliema Wanderers 1.541 Tiraspol 1.533 Drogheda United 1.475 Narva Trans 1.441 Gandzasar Kapan 1.350 Kruoja Pakruojis 1.300 Astana 1.191 Teuta 1.083 Laçi 1.083 Víkingur Gøta 1.066 Mladost Podgorica 1.050 Turnovo 1.050 UE Santa Coloma 0.850 Kukësi 0.833 ÍF 0.566 Prestatyn Town 0.516 Airbus UK Broughton 0.516 Bala Town 0.516 La Fiorita 0.383 Libertas 0.383

Notes

1. ^CL-CR Losers of the Champions League third qualifying round (Champions Route).
2. ^CL-LR Losers of the Champions League third qualifying round (League Route).
3. ^† On 25 June 2013, Fenerbahçe were banned by UEFA from the 2013–14 UEFA club competitions because of the 2011 Turkish sports corruption scandal.^[8][9] 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.^[10][11][12] 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.^[13][14] 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,^[15] and was won by APOEL.^[16]
4. ^‡ On 25 June 2013, Beşiktaş were banned by UEFA from the 2013–14 UEFA club competitions because of the 2011 Turkish sports corruption scandal.^[8][9] 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.^[10] 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.^[17] UEFA decided to replace Beşiktaş in the Europa League group stage with Tromsø, who were eliminated by Beşiktaş in the play-off round.^[18]
5. ^& On 14 August 2013, Metalist Kharkiv were disqualified from the 2013–14 UEFA club competitions because of previous match-fixing.^[19] 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.^[20] 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.

First qualifying round

Seeding

A total of 76 teams played in the first qualifying round.^[21] The draw was held on 24 June 2013.^[22]

Group 1		Group 2		Group 3		Group 4
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Ventspils St Patrick's Athletic KR Inter Turku Gefle IF	Glentoran Žalgiris Narva Trans Víkingur Gøta Airbus UK Broughton	Videoton Qarabağ F91 Dudelange Vaduz Flora	Metalurg Skopje Milsami Orhei Chikhura Sachkhere Mladost Podgorica Kukësi	Levski Sofia Sarajevo Dacia Chișinău Pyunik Khazar Lankaran	Teteks Irtysh Sliema Wanderers Teuta Libertas	Botev Plovdiv[‡] Vojvodina Astra Giurgiu Zrinjski Mostar Rudar Pljevlja	Domžale Mika Hibernians Astana UE Santa Coloma
Group 5		Group 6		Group 7
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Tromsø Malmö FF Linfield Liepājas Metalurgs Inter Baku Breiðablik	Celje FC Santa Coloma Mariehamn Drogheda United ÍF Prestatyn Town	Rosenborg Dinamo Minsk Levadia Tallinn Skonto HB TPS	Jeunesse Esch Crusaders ÍBV Tiraspol Kruoja Pakruojis Bala Town	Žilina Aktobe Honvéd Valletta Differdange 03 Sūduva	Torpedo Kutaisi Čelik Nikšić Gandzasar Kapan Laçi Turnovo La Fiorita

Notes

1. ^‡ Bulgaria's third entrant in the Europa League was unconfirmed at the time of the draws for the first and second qualifying rounds. For these draws, UEFA used the coefficient of CSKA Sofia (8.450), the original entrant. After the draw, it was confirmed that the berth was given to Botev Plovdiv.

Summary

The first legs were played on 2, 3 and 4 July, and the second legs were played on 9, 10 and 11 July 2013.

Inter Turku lodged a protest after losing the second leg to Víkingur Gøta,^[23][24] and two match officials were later banned for life by UEFA for attempted match-fixing.^[25]

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Víkingur Gøta	2–1	Inter Turku	1–1	1–0
Žalgiris	4–3	St Patrick's Athletic	2–2	2–1
Airbus UK Broughton	1–1 (a)	Ventspils	1–1	0–0
Narva Trans	1–8	Gefle IF	0–3	1–5
KR	3–0	Glentoran	0–0	3–0
Chikhura Sachkhere	1–1 (a)	Vaduz	0–0	1–1
Milsami Orhei	1–0	F91 Dudelange	1–0	0–0
Metalurg Skopje	0–2	Qarabağ	0–1	0–1
Videoton	2–2 (a)[a]	Mladost Podgorica	2–1	0–1
Flora	1–1 (a)	Kukësi	1–1	0–0
Teteks	1–2	Pyunik	1–1	0–1
Teuta	3–3 (a)	Dacia Chișinău	3–1	0–2
Sarajevo	3–1[a]	Libertas	1–0	2–1
Sliema Wanderers	1–2	Khazar Lankaran	1–1	0–1
Levski Sofia	0–2	Irtysh	0–0	0–2
Hibernians	3–7	Vojvodina	1–4	2–3
Astana	0–6	Botev Plovdiv	0–1	0–5
UE Santa Coloma	1–4	Zrinjski Mostar	1–3	0–1
Domžale	0–3	Astra Giurgiu	0–1	0–2
Rudar Pljevlja	2–1	Mika	1–0	1–1
Breiðablik	4–0[a]	FC Santa Coloma	4–0	0–0
Drogheda United	0–2	Malmö FF	0–0	0–2
Inter Baku	3–1[a]	Mariehamn	1–1	2–0
ÍF	0–5	Linfield	0–2	0–3
Prestatyn Town	3–3 (4–3 p)	Liepājas Metalurgs	1–2	2–1 (a.e.t.)
Tromsø	3–2[a]	Celje	1–2	2–0
Tiraspol	1–1 (2–4 p)	Skonto	0–1	1–0 (a.e.t.)
Crusaders	3–9	Rosenborg	1–2	2–7
ÍBV	2–1	HB	1–1	1–0
Jeunesse Esch	3–2	TPS	2–0	1–2
Bala Town	2–3	Levadia Tallinn	1–0	1–3
Kruoja Pakruojis	0–8	Dinamo Minsk	0–3	0–5
La Fiorita	0–4	Valletta	0–3	0–1
Laçi	1–3	Differdange 03	0–1	1–2
Gandzasar Kapan	2–4	Aktobe	1–2	1–2
Čelik Nikšić	1–13	Honvéd	1–4	0–9
Torpedo Kutaisi	3–6	Žilina	0–3	3–3
Sūduva	4–4 (4–5 p)[a]	Turnovo	2–2	2–2 (a.e.t.)

Notes:

1. Order of legs reversed after original draw.

Matches

Main article: 2013–14 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round matches

Second qualifying round

Seeding

A total of 80 teams played in the second qualifying round:^[21] 42 teams which entered in this round, and the 38 winners of the first qualifying round. The draw was held on 24 June 2013.^[22]

Group 1		Group 2		Group 3		Group 4
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Sparta Prague Thun Skoda Xanthi Aktobe[†] Sarajevo[†]	BK Häcken Linfield[†] Chikhura Sachkhere[†] Kukësi[†] Hødd	AaB Maccabi Haifa Omonia Hajduk Split Ventspils[†]	Astra Giurgiu[†] Dila Gori Turnovo[†] Khazar Lankaran[†] Jeunesse Esch[†]	Rubin Kazan Slovan Liberec Śląsk Wrocław Malmö FF[†] Pandurii Târgu Jiu	Hibernian Levadia Tallinn[†] Skonto[†] Jagodina Rudar Pljevlja[†]	Hapoel Tel Aviv Debrecen Žalgiris[†] Rijeka Petrolul Ploiești	Víkingur Gøta[†] Strømsgodset Prestatyn Town[†] Pyunik[†] Beroe Stara Zagora
Group 5		Group 6		Group 7		Group 8
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Lech Poznań Žilina[†] Red Star Belgrade Vojvodina[†] Shakhtyor Soligorsk	Milsami Orhei[†] Honvéd[†] Honka Olimpija Ljubljana ÍBV[†]	Standard Liège Chornomorets Odesa Tromsø[†] Dinamo Minsk[†] IFK Göteborg	KR[†] Dacia Chișinău[†] Lokomotiva Zagreb Inter Baku[†] Trenčín	Trabzonspor Rosenborg[†] Botev Plovdiv[†][‡] Qarabağ[†] Minsk	Piast Gliwice Valletta[†] Zrinjski Mostar[†] St Johnstone Derry City	Anorthosis Famagusta Utrecht Irtysh[†] Sturm Graz Mladost Podgorica[†]	Senica Differdange 03[†] Gefle IF[†] Široki Brijeg Breiðablik[†]

Notes

1. ^† Winners of the first qualifying round whose identity was not known at the time of the draw. Teams in italics defeated a team with a higher coefficient in the first qualifying round, thus effectively taking the coefficient of their defeated opponent in the draw for the second qualifying round.
2. ^‡ Bulgaria's third entrant in the Europa League was unconfirmed at the time of the draws for the first and second qualifying rounds. For these draws, UEFA used the coefficient of CSKA Sofia (8.450), the original entrant. After the draw, it was confirmed that the berth was given to Botev Plovdiv.

Summary

The first legs were played on 16 and 18 July, and the second legs were played on 25 July 2013.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sparta Prague	2–3[a]	BK Häcken	2–2	0–1
Kukësi	3–2[a]	Sarajevo	3–2	0–0
Thun	5–1	Chikhura Sachkhere	2–0	3–1
Skoda Xanthi	2–2 (a)	Linfield	0–1	2–1 (a.e.t.)
Hødd	1–2	Aktobe	1–0	0–2
Dila Gori	3–0	AaB	3–0	0–0
Maccabi Haifa	10–0	Khazar Lankaran	2–0	8–0
Hajduk Split	3–2	Turnovo	2–1	1–1
Ventspils	5–1	Jeunesse Esch	1–0	4–1
Astra Giurgiu	3–2	Omonia	1–1	2–1
Skonto	2–2 (a)	Slovan Liberec	2–1	0–1
Levadia Tallinn	0–4[a]	Pandurii Târgu Jiu	0–0	0–4
Śląsk Wrocław	6–2	Rudar Pljevlja	4–0	2–2
Malmö FF	9–0	Hibernian	2–0	7–0
Jagodina	2–4	Rubin Kazan	2–3	0–1
Strømsgodset	5–2	Debrecen	2–2	3–0
Petrolul Ploiești	7–0	Víkingur Gøta	3–0	4–0
Rijeka	8–0	Prestatyn Town	5–0	3–0
Žalgiris	3–1	Pyunik	2–0	1–1
Beroe Stara Zagora	3–6	Hapoel Tel Aviv	1–4	2–2
Honka	2–5	Lech Poznań	1–3	1–2
Red Star Belgrade	2–0	ÍBV	2–0	0–0
Shakhtyor Soligorsk	2–2 (2–4 p)	Milsami Orhei	1–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Vojvodina	5–1	Honvéd	2–0	3–1
Olimpija Ljubljana	3–3 (a)	Žilina	3–1	0–2
Tromsø	2–1[a]	Inter Baku	2–0	0–1
Chornomorets Odesa	3–2	Dacia Chișinău	2–0	1–2
IFK Göteborg	1–2	Trenčín	0–0	1–2
Dinamo Minsk	4–4 (a)	Lokomotiva Zagreb	1–2	3–2
KR	2–6	Standard Liège	1–3	1–3
Zrinjski Mostar	1–3	Botev Plovdiv	1–1	0–2
Qarabağ	4–3	Piast Gliwice	2–1	2–2 (a.e.t.)
Rosenborg	1–2	St Johnstone	0–1	1–1
Trabzonspor	7–2	Derry City	4–2	3–0
Valletta	1–3	Minsk	1–1	0–2
Mladost Podgorica	3–2[a]	Senica	2–2	1–0
Anorthosis Famagusta	3–4	Gefle IF	3–0	0–4
Breiðablik	1–0[a]	Sturm Graz	0–0	1–0
Irtysh	3–4	Široki Brijeg	3–2	0–2
Differdange 03	5–4	Utrecht	2–1	3–3

Notes:

1. Order of legs reversed after original draw.

Matches

Main article: 2013–14 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round matches

Third qualifying round

Seeding

A total of 58 teams played in the third qualifying round:^[26] 18 teams which entered in this round, and the 40 winners of the second qualifying round. The draw was held on 19 July 2013.^[27]

Group 1		Group 2		Group 3
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Udinese Club Brugge Trabzonspor[†] Maccabi Haifa[†] Astra Giurgiu[†] Chornomorets Odesa[†]	Red Star Belgrade[†] Śląsk Wrocław[†] Ventspils[†] Dinamo Minsk[†] Trenčín[†] Široki Brijeg[†]	Rubin Kazan[†] Lech Poznań[†] Zürich Swansea City Breiðablik[†] Vitesse	Slovan Liberec[†] Randers Aktobe[†] Malmö FF[†] Petrolul Ploiești[†] Žalgiris[†]	Sevilla Hapoel Tel Aviv[†] Dila Gori[†] Differdange 03[†] Metalurh Donetsk Kuban Krasnodar	Hajduk Split[†] Motherwell Tromsø[†] Kukësi[†] Pandurii Târgu Jiu[†] Mladost Podgorica[†]
Group 4		Group 5
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
VfB Stuttgart Saint-Étienne Gefle IF[†] Žilina[†] Rapid Wien Strømsgodset[†]	Asteras Tripolis Jablonec Qarabağ[†] Milsami Orhei[†] Rijeka[†] Botev Plovdiv[†]	Standard Liège[†] BK Häcken[†] St Johnstone[†] Bursaspor Estoril	Thun[†] Skoda Xanthi[†] Vojvodina[†] Minsk[†] Hapoel Ramat Gan

Notes

1. ^† Winners of the second qualifying round whose identity was not known at the time of the draw. Teams in italics defeated a team with a higher coefficient in the second qualifying round, thus effectively taking the coefficient of their defeated opponent in the draw for the third qualifying round.

Summary

The first legs were played on 1 August, and the second legs were played on 8 August 2013.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Chornomorets Odesa	3–1	Red Star Belgrade	3–1	0–0
Široki Brijeg	1–7	Udinese	1–3	0–4
Ventspils	0–3	Maccabi Haifa	0–0	0–3
Dinamo Minsk	0–1	Trabzonspor	0–1	0–0
Śląsk Wrocław	4–3	Club Brugge	1–0	3–3
Trenčín	3–5	Astra Giurgiu	1–3	2–2
Swansea City	4–0	Malmö FF	4–0	0–0
Petrolul Ploiești	3–2	Vitesse	1–1	2–1
Slovan Liberec	4–2	Zürich	2–1	2–1
Aktobe	1–1 (2–1 p)	Breiðablik	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Randers	1–4	Rubin Kazan	1–2	0–2
Žalgiris	2–2 (a)	Lech Poznań	1–0	1–2
Sevilla	9–1	Mladost Podgorica	3–0	6–1
Hajduk Split	0–2	Dila Gori	0–1	0–1
Kukësi	2–1	Metalurh Donetsk	2–0	0–1
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	3–2	Hapoel Tel Aviv	1–1	2–1
Tromsø	1–1 (4–3 p)	Differdange 03	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)
Motherwell	0–3	Kuban Krasnodar	0–2	0–1
Saint-Étienne	6–0	Milsami Orhei	3–0	3–0
Jablonec	5–2	Strømsgodset	2–1	3–1
Qarabağ	3–0	Gefle IF	1–0	2–0
Rijeka	3–2	Žilina	2–1	1–1
Asteras Tripolis	2–4	Rapid Wien	1–1	1–3
Botev Plovdiv	1–1 (a)	VfB Stuttgart	1–1	0–0
Estoril	1–0	Hapoel Ramat Gan	0–0	1–0
Vojvodina	5–2	Bursaspor	2–2	3–0
Skoda Xanthi	2–4	Standard Liège	1–2	1–2
BK Häcken	1–3	Thun	1–2	0–1
Minsk	1–1 (3–2 p)	St Johnstone	0–1	1–0 (a.e.t.)

Matches

Main article: 2013–14 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round matches

Play-off round

Seeding

A total of 62 teams played in the play-off round:^[28] 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.^[29]

Group 1		Group 2		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 5		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[a]	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[b]	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[c]	PAOK	Canc.[c]	Canc.[c]
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[b]	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

Notes:

1. 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).
2. Order of legs reversed after original draw.
3. On 14 August 2013, Metalist Kharkiv were disqualified from all 2013–14 UEFA club competitions because of previous match-fixing.^[19] 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.^[20] 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

Main article: 2013–14 UEFA Europa League play-off round matches

Statistics

There were 720 goals in 274 matches in the qualifying phase and play-off round, for an average of 2.63 goals per match.^[30]

Top goalscorers Rank Player Team Goals Minutes played 1 Paulo Henrique Trabzonspor 7 518 2 Gheorghe Grozav Petrolul Ploiești 6 385 Rayo Maccabi Haifa 6 479 Omar Er Rafik Differdange 03 6 568 5 Omer Damari Hapoel Tel Aviv 5 320 Leon Benko Rijeka 5 422 Marco Paixão Śląsk Wrocław 5 432 Reynaldo Qarabağ 5 535 9 Jacob Mulenga Utrecht 4 180 Louis Schaub Rapid Wien 4 271 Salomón Rondón Rubin Kazan 4 424 Waldemar Sobota Śląsk Wrocław 4 496 Petar Škuletić Vojvodina 4 516 Tomáš Majtán Žilina 4 536 Source:[31]

Top assists Rank Player Team Assists Minutes played 1 Franck Tabanou Saint-Étienne 5 332 Andreas Wittwer Thun 5 540 2 Bořek Dočkal Rosenborg 4 256 Ivan Rakitić Sevilla 4 283 Geoffrey Mujangi Bia Standard Liège 4 321 Marat Khairullin Aktobe 4 750 6 Filip Holender Honvéd 3 195 Michu Swansea City 3 307 Jairo Sevilla 3 313 Ibrahima Baldé Kuban Krasnodar 3 339 Adrian Mierzejewski Trabzonspor 3 442 Waldemar Sobota Śląsk Wrocław 3 496 Eric Pereira Pandurii Târgu Jiu 3 503 Róbert Pich Žilina 3 514 Shimon Abuhatzira Maccabi Haifa 3 516 Olcan Adın Trabzonspor 3 540 Guilherme Petrolul Ploiești 3 540 Enver Alivodić Vojvodina 3 718 Source:[32]