2012–13 UEFA Europa League knockout phase

The knockout phase of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League began on 14 February with the round of 32 and concluded on 15 May 2013 with the final at Amsterdam Arena in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Times up to 30 March 2013 (round of 16) are CET (UTC+1), thereafter (quarter-finals and beyond) times are CEST (UTC+2).

Round and draw dates

All draws are held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[1]

Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Round of 32	20 December 2012, 14:00	14 February 2013	21 February 2013
Round of 16		7 March 2013	14 March 2013
Quarter-finals	15 March 2013, 13:00	4 April 2013	11 April 2013
Semi-finals	12 April 2013, 12:00	25 April 2013	2 May 2013
Final		15 May 2013 at Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam

Matches may also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.

Format

The knockout phase involves 32 teams: the 24 teams that finished in the top two in each group in the group stage and the eight teams that finished in third place in the Champions League group stage.^[2]

Each tie in the knockout phase, apart from the final, is played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that has the higher aggregate score over the two legs progresses to the next round. In the event that aggregate scores finish level, the away goals rule is applied, i.e. the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs progresses. If away goals are also equal, then thirty minutes of extra time are played, divided into two fifteen-minutes halves. The away goals rule is again applied after extra time, i.e. if there are goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score is still level, the visiting team qualifies by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals are scored during extra time, the tie is decided by penalty shootout. In the final, the tie is played as a single match. If scores are level at the end of normal time in the final, extra time is played, followed by penalties if scores remain tied.

The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:

• 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 is 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 against each other.

Qualified teams

Key to colours
Seeded in round of 32 draw
Unseeded in round of 32 draw

Group	Winners	Runners-up
A	Liverpool	Anzhi Makhachkala
B	Viktoria Plzeň	Atlético Madrid
C	Fenerbahçe	Borussia Mönchengladbach
D	Bordeaux	Newcastle United
E	Steaua București	Stuttgart
F	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Napoli
G	Genk	Basel
H	Rubin Kazan	Internazionale
I	Lyon	Sparta Prague
J	Lazio	Tottenham Hotspur
K	Metalist Kharkiv	Bayer Leverkusen
L	Hannover 96	Levante

Champions League group stage third-placed teams

Group	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
E	Chelsea	6	3	1	2	16	10	+6	10
H	CFR Cluj	6	3	1	2	9	7	+2	10
B	Olympiacos	6	3	0	3	9	9	0	9
G	Benfica	6	2	2	2	5	5	0	8
C	Zenit Saint Petersburg	6	2	1	3	6	9	−3	7
F	BATE Borisov	6	2	0	4	9	15	−6	6
A	Dynamo Kyiv	6	1	2	3	6	10	−4	5
D	Ajax	6	1	1	4	8	16	−8	4

Ranking rules: 1. Points; 2. Goal difference; 3. Goals scored; 4. Away goals scored; 5. Wins; 6. Away wins; 7. Club coefficient.^[3]

Bracket

Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
Napoli	0	0	0
Viktoria Plzeň	3	2	5			Viktoria Plzeň	0	1	1
BATE Borisov	0	0	0			Fenerbahçe	1	1	2
Fenerbahçe	0	1	1									Fenerbahçe	2	1	3
Stuttgart	1	2	3									Lazio	0	1	1
Genk	1	0	1			Stuttgart	0	1	1
B. Mönchengladbach	3	0	3			Lazio	2	3	5
Lazio	3	2	5															Fenerbahçe	1	1	2
Bayer Leverkusen	0	1	1															Benfica	0	3	3
Benfica	1	2	3			Benfica	1	3	4
Dynamo Kyiv	1	0	1			Bordeaux	0	2	2
Bordeaux	1	1	2									Benfica	3	1	4
Anzhi Makhachkala	3	1	4									Newcastle United	1	1	2
Hannover 96	1	1	2			Anzhi Makhachkala	0	0	0
Newcastle United	0	1	1			Newcastle United	0	1	1
Metalist Kharkiv	0	0	0																					Benfica	1
Tottenham Hotspur	2	1	3																					Chelsea	2
Lyon	1	1	2			Tottenham (a.e.t.) (a)	3	1	4
Internazionale	2	3	5			Internazionale	0	4	4
CFR Cluj	0	0	0									Tottenham Hotspur	2	2	4(1)
Basel	2	1	3									Basel (p)	2	2	4(4)
Dnipropetrovsk	0	1	1			Basel	2	0	2
Zenit St. P'burg (a)	2	1	3			Zenit St. Petersburg	0	1	1
Liverpool	0	3	3															Basel	1	1	2
Ajax	2	0	2(2)															Chelsea	2	3	5
Steaua București (p)	0	2	2(4)			Steaua București	1	1	2
Sparta Prague	0	1	1			Chelsea	0	3	3
Chelsea	1	1	2									Chelsea	3	2	5
Levante	3	1	4									Rubin Kazan	1	3	4
Olympiacos	0	0	0			Levante	0	0	0
Atlético Madrid	0	1	1			Rubin Kazan (a.e.t.)	0	2	2
Rubin Kazan	2	0	2

Round of 32

The first legs were played on 14 February, and the second legs were played on 21 February 2013.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
BATE Borisov	0–1	Fenerbahçe	0–0	0–1
Internazionale	5–0	CFR Cluj	2–0	3–0
Levante	4–0	Olympiacos	3–0	1–0
Zenit Saint Petersburg	3–3 (a)	Liverpool	2–0	1–3
Dynamo Kyiv	1–2	Bordeaux	1–1	0–1
Bayer Leverkusen	1–3	Benfica	0–1	1–2
Newcastle United	1–0	Metalist Kharkiv	0–0	1–0
Stuttgart	3–1	Genk	1–1	2–0
Atlético Madrid	1–2	Rubin Kazan	0–2	1–0
Ajax	2–2 (2–4p)	Steaua București	2–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Basel	3–1	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2–0	1–1
Anzhi Makhachkala	4–2	Hannover 96	3–1	1–1
Sparta Prague	1–2	Chelsea	0–1	1–1
Borussia Mönchengladbach	3–5	Lazio	3–3	0–2
Tottenham Hotspur	3–2	Lyon	2–1	1–1
Napoli	0–5	Viktoria Plzeň	0–3	0–2

First leg

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Notes

• Note 1: Anzhi Makhachkala played their home match at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow instead of their regular stadium, Dynamo Stadium, Makhachkala, due to security issues involving the city of Makhachkala and the autonomous republic of Dagestan.^[20]
• Note 2: BATE Borisov played their home match at Neman Stadium, Grodno instead of their regular stadium, Haradski Stadium, Barysaw.

Second leg

Rubin Kazan won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Internazionale won 5–0 on aggregate.

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Newcastle United won 1–0 on aggregate.

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Stuttgart won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Basel won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Lazio won 5–3 on aggregate.

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Tottenham Hotspur won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Fenerbahçe won 1–0 on aggregate.

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Levante won 4–0 on aggregate.

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3–3 on aggregate. Zenit Saint Petersburg won on away goals.

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Bordeaux won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Benfica won 3–1 on aggregate.

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2–2 on aggregate. Steaua București won 4–2 on penalties.

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Anzhi Makhachkala won 4–2 on aggregate.

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Chelsea won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Viktoria Plzeň won 5–0 on aggregate.

Notes

• Note 3: Rubin Kazan played their home match at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow instead of their regular stadium, Tsentralnyi Stadion, Kazan.
• Note 4: The Fenerbahçe v BATE Borisov match was played behind closed doors due to the punishment handed to Fenerbahçe by UEFA following incidents at their group stage match against Borussia Mönchengladbach on 6 December 2012.^[36]

Round of 16

The first legs were played on 7 March, and the second legs were played on 14 March 2013.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Viktoria Plzeň	1–2	Fenerbahçe	0–1	1–1
Benfica	4–2	Bordeaux	1–0	3–2
Anzhi Makhachkala	0–1	Newcastle United	0–0	0–1
Stuttgart	1–5	Lazio	0–2	1–3
Tottenham Hotspur	4–4 (a)	Internazionale	3–0	1–4 (a.e.t.)
Levante	0–2	Rubin Kazan	0–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Basel	2–1	Zenit Saint Petersburg	2–0	0–1
Steaua București	2–3	Chelsea	1–0	1–3

First leg

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Notes

• Note 5: Anzhi Makhachkala played their home match at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow instead of their regular stadium, Dynamo Stadium, Makhachkala, due to security issues involving the city of Makhachkala and the autonomous republic of Dagestan.^[20]

Second leg

Rubin Kazan won 2–0 on aggregate.

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Basel won 2–1 on aggregate.

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4–4 on aggregate. Tottenham Hotspur won on away goals.

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Fenerbahçe won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Benfica won 4–2 on aggregate.

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Newcastle United won 1–0 on aggregate.

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Lazio won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Chelsea won 3–2 on aggregate.

Notes

• Note 6: Rubin Kazan played their home match at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow instead of their regular stadium, Tsentralnyi Stadion, Kazan.
• Note 7: The Fenerbahçe v Viktoria Plzeň match was played behind closed doors due to the punishment handed to Fenerbahçe by UEFA following incidents at their round of 32 match second leg against BATE Borisov on 21 February 2013.^[51]
• Note 8: The Lazio v Stuttgart match was played behind closed doors due to the punishment handed to Lazio by UEFA following incidents at their round of 32 match second leg against Borussia Mönchengladbach on 21 February 2013.^[52]

Quarter-finals

The first legs were played on 4 April, and the second legs were played on 11 April 2013.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Chelsea	5–4	Rubin Kazan	3–1	2–3
Tottenham Hotspur	4–4 (1–4p)	Basel	2–2	2–2 (a.e.t.)
Fenerbahçe	3–1	Lazio	2–0	1–1
Benfica	4–2	Newcastle United	3–1	1–1

First leg

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Second leg

Chelsea won 5–4 on aggregate.

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4–4 on aggregate. Basel won 4–1 on penalties.

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Fenerbahçe won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Benfica won 4–2 on aggregate.

Notes

• Note 9: Rubin Kazan played their home match at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow instead of their regular stadium, Tsentralnyi Stadion, Kazan.
• Note 10: The Lazio v Fenerbahçe match was played behind closed doors due to the punishment handed to Lazio by UEFA following incidents at their round of 32 match second leg against Borussia Mönchengladbach on 21 February 2013.^[52]

Semi-finals

The first legs were played on 25 April, and the second legs were played on 2 May 2013.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Fenerbahçe	2–3	Benfica	1–0	1–3
Basel	2–5	Chelsea	1–2	1–3

First leg

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Second leg

Benfica won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Chelsea won 5–2 on aggregate.

Final

The final was played on 15 May 2013 at the Amsterdam Arena in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

References

External links

• 2012–13 UEFA Europa League, UEFA.com