This article details the2009–10 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round.[1]
This table shows the path of all 174 teams involved in the qualifying phase and play-off round, including the 15 losing teams from theChampions League third qualifying round which joined at the play-off round (marked by CL).[2] 38 teams qualified for thegroup stage to join the 10 losing teams from theChampions League play-off round.
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| Winners of play-off round advanced togroup stage |
The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 22 June 2009. Clubs were separated into seeded and unseeded teams based on theirclub coefficient; teams with acoefficient of at least 1.332 were seeded.[3] In the draw, teams were split into five groups, each containing four or five seeded and unseeded teams.[4]
| Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded |
| Group 4 | Group 5 | ||||
| Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | ||
The first legs were played on 2 July, and the second legs were played on 9 July 2009.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sutjeska  | 2–3[a] |  MTZ-RIPO Minsk | 1–1 | 1–2 (a.e.t.) |
Lahti  | 4–3 |  Dinamo Tirana | 4–1 | 0–2 |
Grevenmacher  | 0–6[a] |  Vėtra | 0–3 | 0–3 |
NSÍ  | 1–6[a] |  Rosenborg | 0–3 | 1–3 |
Haladás  | 2–2 (a) |  Irtysh | 1–0 | 1–2 |
Sligo Rovers  | 2–3 | Vllaznia | 1–2 | 1–1 |
Olimpi Rustavi  | 4–0 | B36 | 2–0 | 2–0 |
Anorthosis Famagusta  | 7–1 | Käerjéng 97 | 5–0 | 2–1 |
Slaven Belupo  | 1–0 |  Birkirkara | 1–0 | 0–0 |
Zimbru Chișinău  | 3–2 | Okzhetpes | 1–2 | 2–0 |
Lisburn Distillery  | 1–11 | Zestaponi | 1–5 | 0–6 |
Helsingborgs IF  | 4–2 |  Mika | 3–1 | 1–1 |
| Valletta | 5–2 |  Keflavík | 3–0 | 2–2 |
Dinaburg  | 2–1 |  Nõmme Kalju | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| Budućnost Podgorica | 1–2 |  Polonia Warsaw | 0–2 | 1–0 |
| Narva Trans | 1–6[a] |  Rudar Velenje | 0–3 | 1–3 |
Motherwell  | 3–1 |  Llanelli | 0–1 | 3–0 |
| Banants | 1–2[a] |  Široki Brijeg | 0–2 | 1–0 |
Spartak Trnava  | 5–2 |  Inter Baku | 2–1 | 3–1 |
| Dinamo Minsk | 3–2 |  Renova | 2–1 | 1–1 |
Randers  | 7–0 | Linfield | 4–0 | 3–0 |
| Simurq | 0–4 |  Bnei Yehuda | 0–1 | 0–3 |
| Fram | 4–2[a] | The New Saints | 2–1 | 2–1 |
The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 22 June 2009, immediately after the first qualifying round draw. Clubs were separated into seeded and unseeded teams based on theirclub coefficient. Teams with a coefficient of at least 1.958 were seeded, exceptLahti, the lowest ranked of the teams from Finland. As the draw for the second qualifying round took place before the first qualifying round was completed, the teams were seeded assuming the seeded side in the previous round would be victorious.[3]
| Seeded | Unseeded | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The first legs were played on 14 and 16 July, and the second legs were played on 23 July 2009.
Both the first and second legs betweenBnei Yehuda andDinaburg and betweenRapid Wien andVllaznia were under investigation by UEFA and German authorities for possible match-fixing.[5]
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosenborg | 0–1 | Qarabağ | 0–0 | 0–1 |
| Zimbru Chișinău | 0–1[a] |  Paços de Ferreira | 0–0 | 0–1 |
Juvenes/Dogana  | 0–5[a] | Polonia Warsaw | 0–1 | 0–4 |
Sturm Graz  | 3–2 | Široki Brijeg | 2–1 | 1–1 |
Basel  | 7–1 |  FC Santa Coloma | 3–0 | 4–1 |
| Honka | 3–0 | Bangor City | 2–0 | 1–0 |
| Žilina | 3–0 | Dacia Chișinău | 2–0 | 1–0 |
| Anorthosis Famagusta | 3–4 | Petrovac | 2–1 | 1–3 (a.e.t.) |
| St Patrick's Athletic | 2–1 | Valletta | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| Omonia | 8–1 | HB | 4–0 | 4–1 |
| HIT Gorica | 1–2 | Lahti | 1–0 | 0–2 |
Sigma Olomouc  | 3–1 | Fram | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| Legia Warsaw | 4–0 | Olimpi Rustavi | 3–0 | 1–0 |
| Falkirk | 1–2 |  Vaduz | 1–0 | 0–2 (a.e.t.) |
| IF Elfsborg | 3–0 | Haladás | 3–0 | 0–0 |
| Rapid Wien | 8–0 | Vllaznia | 5–0 | 3–0 |
| Naftan Novopolotsk | 2–2 (a) |  Gent | 2–1 | 0–1 |
| Liepājas Metalurgs | 3–4 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 2–1 | 1–3 |
| Differdange 03 | 1–3 | Rijeka | 1–0 | 0–3 |
| Sūduva | 1–2 | Randers | 0–1 | 1–1 |
| Vėtra | 3–2 | HJK | 0–1 | 3–1 |
| Milano | 2–12 | Slaven Belupo | 0–4 | 2–8 |
| Dinamo Minsk | 1–4 | Tromsø | 0–0 | 1–4 |
| KR | 3–1 |  AEL | 2–0 | 1–1 |
| Brøndby | 4–2 | Flora | 0–1 | 4–1 |
| AaB | 1–3 | Slavija | 0–0 | 1–3 |
Steaua București  | 4–1 | Újpest | 2–0 | 2–1 |
Metalurh Donetsk  | 5–1 | MTZ-RIPO Minsk | 3–0 | 2–1 |
| Crusaders | 3–5[a] | Rabotnicki | 1–1 | 2–4 |
| Bnei Yehuda | 5–0 | Dinaburg | 4–0 | 1–0 |
NAC Breda  | 8–0 | Gandzasar Kapan | 6–0 | 2–0 |
Cherno More  | 4–0 | Iskra-Stal | 1–0 | 3–0 |
Sevojno  | 1–1 (a) | Kaunas | 0–0 | 1–1 |
| Flamurtari | 2–8 | Motherwell | 1–0 | 1–8 |
| Zestaponi | 3–4 | Helsingborgs IF | 1–2 | 2–2 (a.e.t.) |
| Skonto | 1–2 | Derry City | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Sliema Wanderers | 0–3 | Maccabi Netanya | 0–0 | 0–3 |
| Tobol | 1–3 |  Galatasaray | 1–1 | 0–2 |
| Rudar Velenje | 0–5 | Red Star Belgrade | 0–1 | 0–4 |
| Sarajevo | 2–1 | Spartak Trnava | 1–0 | 1–1 |
The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 17 July 2009. Clubs were separated into seven groups of seeded and unseeded teams based on theirclub coefficient; teams with a coefficient of at least 7.826 were seeded.[6] As the draw for the third qualifying round took place before the second qualifying round was completed, the teams were seeded assuming the seeded side in the previous round would be victorious. As a result,Qarabağ,Petrovac andSlavija were also seeded as they beat teams who would have been seeded.[3]
| Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded |
| Group 5 | Group 6 | Group 7 | |||||
| Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | ||
The first legs were played on 28 and 30 July, and the second legs were played on 4 and 6 August 2009.
The first leg betweenFenerbahçe andHonvéd and the second leg betweenInterblock andMetalurh Donetsk were under investigation by UEFA and German authorities for possible match-fixing.[5]
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helsingborgs IF | 3–3 (4–5p)[a] | Sarajevo | 2–1 | 1–2 (a.e.t.) |
| Fredrikstad | 3–7 | Lech Poznań | 1–6 | 2–1 |
| Rijeka | 1–4 | Metalist Kharkiv | 1–2 | 0–2 |
Roma  | 10–2[a] | Gent | 3–1 | 7–1 |
| Vaslui | 3–1 | Omonia | 2–0 | 1–1 |
| Slavija | 1–5 | Košice | 0–2 | 1–3 |
| IFK Göteborg | 2–4 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 1–3 | 1–1 |
| PSV Eindhoven | 2–0 | Cherno More | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Metalurh Donetsk | 5–0 | Interblock | 2–0 | 3–0 |
| Vålerenga | 2–2 (a) | PAOK | 1–2 | 1–0 |
| Rapid Wien | 4–3[a] | APOP Kinyras | 2–1 | 2–2 (a.e.t.) |
| Honka | 1–3 | Qarabağ | 0–1 | 1–2 |
| Vaduz | 0–3 | Slovan Liberec | 0–1 | 0–2 |
| St Patrick's Athletic | 3–3 (a) |  Krylia Sovetov Samara | 1–0 | 2–3 |
| Randers | 1–4 |  Hamburger SV | 0–4 | 1–0 |
| Tromsø | 4–1 | Slaven Belupo | 2–1 | 2–0 |
| Brøndby | 3–3 (a) | Legia Warsaw | 1–1 | 2–2 |
| Vojvodina | 3–5 | Austria Wien | 1–1 | 2–4 |
| CSKA Sofia | 2–1 | Derry City | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| Steaua București | 6–1 | Motherwell | 3–0 | 3–1 |
| Žilina | 2–1 | Hajduk Split | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| Braga | 1–4 | IF Elfsborg | 1–2 | 0–2 |
| Aberdeen | 1–8 | Sigma Olomouc | 1–5 | 0–3 |
| Rabotnicki | 3–7 | Odense | 3–4 | 0–3 |
| Sevojno | 0–4 |  Lille | 0–2 | 0–2 |
| Petrovac | 1–7 | Sturm Graz | 1–2 | 0–5 |
| Fenerbahçe | 6–2 | Honvéd | 5–1 | 1–1 |
| Bnei Yehuda | 2–0 | Paços de Ferreira | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Club Brugge | 4–3 | Lahti | 3–2 | 1–1 |
Athletic Bilbao  | 2–2 (a) | Young Boys | 0–1 | 2–1 |
| KR | 3–5 | Basel | 2–2 | 1–3 |
| Maccabi Netanya | 1–10[a] | Galatasaray | 1–4 | 0–6 |
| Dinamo Tbilisi | 4–5 | Red Star Belgrade | 2–0 | 2–5 |
| Polonia Warsaw | 1–4 | NAC Breda | 0–1 | 1–3 |
| Vėtra | 0–6 |  Fulham | 0–3 | 0–3 |
The draw for the play-off round was held on 7 August 2009. For the draw, clubs were separated into eight groups of seeded and unseeded teams based on theirclub coefficient.[7] Teams with acoefficient of at least 12.890 were seeded.[3]
| Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded |
| Group 5 | Group 6 | Group 7 | Group 8 | ||||
| Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded | Seeded | Unseeded |
The first legs were played on 20 August, and the second legs were played on 25 and 27 August 2009.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAOK | 1–1 (a) | Heerenveen | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| Dinamo Zagreb | 4–2 | Heart of Midlothian | 4–0 | 0–2 |
| Werder Bremen | 8–3 | Aktobe | 6–3 | 2–0 |
| Everton | 5–1 | Sigma Olomouc | 4–0 | 1–1 |
| BATE Borisov | 4–1 | Litex Lovech | 0–1 | 4–0 (a.e.t.) |
| NAC Breda | 2–9 | Villarreal | 1–3 | 1–6 |
| Lech Poznań | 1–1 (3–4p) | Club Brugge | 1–0 | 0–1 (a.e.t.) |
| Fulham | 3–2 | Amkar Perm | 3–1 | 0–1 |
| Galatasaray | 6–1 | Levadia Tallinn | 5–0 | 1–1 |
| Teplice | 2–3 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 1–2 | 1–1 |
| Metalurh Donetsk | 4–5 | Austria Wien | 2–2 | 2–3 (a.e.t.) |
| Twente | 3–1 | Qarabağ | 3–1 | 0–0 |
| Košice | 4–10[a] | Roma | 3–3 | 1–7 |
| CSKA Sofia | 2–1[a] | Dynamo Moscow | 0–0 | 2–1 |
| Genk | 3–6 | Lille | 1–2 | 2–4 |
| Bnei Yehuda | 0–2[a] | PSV Eindhoven | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| Lazio | 3–1 | IF Elfsborg | 3–0 | 0–1 |
| Trabzonspor | 2–3 | Toulouse | 1–3 | 1–0 |
| Partizan | 3–1 | Žilina | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| Baku | 2–8 | Basel | 1–3 | 1–5 |
| Ajax | 7–1 | Slovan Bratislava | 5–0 | 2–1 |
| Sivasspor | 0–5[a] | Shakhtar Donetsk | 0–3 | 0–2 |
| Brøndby | 3–4 | Hertha BSC | 2–1 | 1–3 |
| Athletic Bilbao | 4–3 | Tromsø | 3–2 | 1–1 |
| Sarajevo | 2–3 | CFR Cluj | 1–1 | 1–2 |
| Rapid Wien | 2–2 (a) | Aston Villa | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| Steaua București | 5–1 | St Patrick's Athletic | 3–0 | 2–1 |
| Maribor | 0–3[a] | Sparta Prague | 0–2 | 0–1 |
| Nacional | 5–4 | Zenit Saint Petersburg | 4–3 | 1–1 |
| Genoa | 4–2 | Odense | 3–1 | 1–1 |
| Dinamo București | 3–3 (9–8p) | Slovan Liberec | 0–3[b] | 3–0 (a.e.t.) |
| Guingamp | 2–8 | Hamburger SV | 1–5 | 1–3 |
| Sion | 2–4 | Fenerbahçe | 0–2 | 2–2 |
| Sturm Graz | 2–1 | Metalist Kharkiv | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| Slavia Prague | 4–2 | Red Star Belgrade | 3–0 | 1–2 |
| Benfica | 5–2 | Vorskla Poltava | 4–0 | 1–2 |
| Vaslui | 2–4 | AEK Athens | 2–1 | 0–3 |
| Stabæk | 1–7 | Valencia | 0–3 | 1–4 |