2015–16 UEFA Europa League play-off round

The 2015–16 UEFA Europa League play-off round began on 20 August and ended on 27 August 2015. A total of 44 teams competed in the play-off round to decide 22 of the 48 places in the group stage of the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League.[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
Play-off round 7 August 2015, 13:00[3] 20 August 2015 27 August 2015

Matches could also be 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, divided into two fifteen-minutes halves. 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 by draw. 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 formed "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]

Seeding

A total of 44 teams played in the play-off round: the 29 winners of the third qualifying round, and the 15 losers of the Champions League third qualifying round.[3] The draw was held on 7 August 2015.[4][5] (Note: The numbers for each team were pre-assigned by UEFA so that the draw could be held in one run for all groups with 10 teams and another run for all groups with 12 teams.)

Group 1 Group 2
Seeded Unseeded Seeded Unseeded

Athletic Bilbao[†] (1)
Viktoria Plzeň[CL] (2)
Steaua București[CL] (3)
Legia Warsaw[†] (4)
Belenenses[†] (5)

Rosenborg[†] (6)
Zorya Luhansk[†] (7)
Žilina[†] (8)
Vojvodina[†] (9)
Rheindorf Altach[†] (10)

Ajax[CL] (1)
PAOK[†] (2)
Young Boys[CL] (3)
Standard Liège[†] (4)
Saint-Étienne[†] (5)

Qarabağ[CL] (6)
Molde[CL] (7)
Jablonec[†] (8)
Brøndby[†] (9)
Milsami Orhei[CL] (10)

Group 3 Group 4
Seeded Unseeded Seeded Unseeded

Rubin Kazan[†] (1)
Red Bull Salzburg[CL] (2)
Fenerbahçe[CL] (3)
Bordeaux[†] (4)
Lech Poznań[CL] (5)
Slovan Liberec[†] (6)

Hajduk Split[†] (7)
Atromitos[†] (8)
Dinamo Minsk[†] (9)
Videoton[CL] (10)
Rabotnički[†] (11)
Kairat[†] (12)

Borussia Dortmund[†] (1)
AZ[†] (2)
Sparta Prague[CL] (3)
Panathinaikos[CL] (4)
Southampton[†] (5)
Krasnodar[†] (6)

HJK[CL] (7)
Thun[†] (8)
Astra Giurgiu[†] (9)
Midtjylland[CL] (10)
Odd[†] (11)
Gabala[†] (12)

Notes
  1. † Winners of the third qualifying round.
  2. CL Losers of the Champions League third qualifying round.

Summary

The first legs were played on 20 August, and the second legs were played on 27 August 2015.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Rheindorf Altach 0–1 Belenenses 0–1 0–0
Žilina 3–3 (a) Athletic Bilbao 3–2 0–1
Steaua București 1–3 Rosenborg 0–3 1–0
Zorya Luhansk 2–4 Legia Warsaw 0–1 2–3
Viktoria Plzeň 5–0 Vojvodina 3–0 2–0
Milsami Orhei 1–2 Saint-Étienne 1–1 0–1
Ajax 1–0[D] Jablonec 1–0 0–0
Young Boys 0–4 Qarabağ 0–1 0–3
Molde 3–3 (a) Standard Liège 2–0 1–3
PAOK 6–1 Brøndby 5–0 1–1
Bordeaux 2–2 (a) Kairat 1–0 1–2
Lech Poznań 4–0 Videoton 3–0 1–0
Dinamo Minsk 2–2 (3–2 p) Red Bull Salzburg 2–0 0–2 (a.e.t.)
Rabotnički 1–2 Rubin Kazan 1–1 0–1
Slovan Liberec 2–0 Hajduk Split 1–0 1–0
Atromitos 0–4 Fenerbahçe 0–1 0–3
Gabala 2–2 (a)[D] Panathinaikos 0–0 2–2
Southampton 1–2 Midtjylland 1–1 0–1
Astra Giurgiu 3–4 AZ 3–2 0–2
Odd 5–11 Borussia Dortmund 3–4 2–7
Krasnodar 5–1 HJK 5–1 0–0
Sparta Prague 6–4[D] Thun 3–1 3–3
Notes
  1. ^ a b c
    Order of legs reversed after original draw.

Matches
Rheindorf Altach 0–1 Belenenses
Report Caeiro 13'
Attendance: 4,572[6]
Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)
Belenenses 0–0 Rheindorf Altach
Report
Attendance: 5,940[6]

Belenenses won 1–0 on aggregate.

Žilina 3–2 Athletic Bilbao
Paur 66'
William 77', 90+4'		 Report Merino 16'
Sola 33'
Attendance: 10,175[6]
Athletic Bilbao 1–0 Žilina
Elustondo 24' Report
Attendance: 38,688[6]

3–3 on aggregate. Athletic Bilbao won on away goals.

Steaua București 0–3 Rosenborg
Report Mikkelsen 61'
Helland 67'
Jensen 90+3'
Attendance: 21,204[6]
Referee: Luca Banti (Italy)
Rosenborg 0–1 Steaua București
Report Popa 54'
Attendance: 14,640[6]

Rosenborg won 3–1 on aggregate.

Zorya Luhansk 0–1 Legia Warsaw
Report Kucharczyk 48'
Attendance: 16,000[6]
Legia Warsaw 3–2 Zorya Luhansk
Brzyski 16'
Guilherme 62'
Duda 90+5' (pen.)		 Report Khomchenovskyi 39'
Malinovskyi 66'
Attendance: 23,163[6]
Referee: Tobias Welz (Germany)

Legia Warsaw won 4–2 on aggregate.

Viktoria Plzeň 3–0 Vojvodina
Kopic 25', 82'
Vaněk 51'		 Report
Attendance: 10,769[6]
Vojvodina 0–2 Viktoria Plzeň
Report Đurić 19' (o.g.)
Ďuriš 60'
Attendance: 7,617[6]

Viktoria Plzeň won 5–0 on aggregate.

Milsami Orhei 1–1 Saint-Étienne
Bud 56' Report Hamouma 40'
Attendance: 6,072[6]
Referee: Paweł Gil (Poland)
Saint-Étienne 1–0 Milsami Orhei
Corgnet 15' Report
Attendance: 22,456[6]

Saint-Étienne won 2–1 on aggregate.

Ajax 1–0 Jablonec
Milik 54' (pen.) Report
Attendance: 30,898[6]
Referee: Tony Chapron (France)
Jablonec 0–0 Ajax
Report
Attendance: 6,040[6]
Referee: Kenn Hansen (Denmark)

Ajax won 1–0 on aggregate.

Young Boys 0–1 Qarabağ
Report Almeida 67'
Attendance: 6,700[6]
Qarabağ 3–0 Young Boys
Almeida 4' (pen.)
Reynaldo 43'
Ismayilov 61'		 Report
Attendance: 29,620[6]

Qarabağ won 4–0 on aggregate.

Molde 2–0 Standard Liège
Høiland 24'
Elyounoussi 28'		 Report
Attendance: 3,940[6]
Standard Liège 3–1 Molde
Knockaert 26'
Santini 48'
Trebel 90+5'		 Report Hussain 42'
Attendance: 12,568[6]

3–3 on aggregate. Molde won on away goals.

PAOK 5–0 Brøndby
Mak 17', 80', 82'
Pelkas 36'
Rodrigues 51'		 Report
Attendance: 20,106[6]
Brøndby 1–1 PAOK
Rashani 27' Report Costa 21'
Attendance: 6,630[6]

PAOK won 6–1 on aggregate.

Bordeaux 1–0 Kairat
Khazri 27' Report
Attendance: 24,795[6]
Kairat 2–1 Bordeaux
Guilbert 1' (o.g.)
Kuat 66'		 Report Crivelli 76'
Attendance: 23,800[6]

2–2 on aggregate. Bordeaux won on away goals.

Lech Poznań 3–0 Videoton
Linetty 11'
Thomalla 57'
Trałka 68'		 Report
Attendance: 14,133[6]
Videoton 0–1 Lech Poznań
Report Kędziora 57'
Attendance: 2,815[6]

Lech Poznań won 4–0 on aggregate.

Dinamo Minsk 2–0 Red Bull Salzburg
Rassadkin 57'
Adamović 90+3'		 Report
Attendance: 9,952[6]
Red Bull Salzburg 2–0 (a.e.t.) Dinamo Minsk
Minamino 11'
Soriano 58'		 Report
Penalties
Hinteregger
Soriano
Minamino
Atanga
Berisha 		2–3 Bećiraj
Karytska
Begunov
Palitsevich
Attendance: 7,849[6]

2–2 on aggregate. Dinamo Minsk won 3–2 on penalties.

Rabotnički 1–1 Rubin Kazan
Ristevski 85' Report Karadeniz 68'
Attendance: 10,000[6]
Referee: István Vad (Hungary)
Rubin Kazan 1–0 Rabotnički
Carlos Eduardo 35' Report
Attendance: 4,231[6]

Rubin Kazan won 2–1 on aggregate.

Slovan Liberec 1–0 Hajduk Split
Pokorný 79' Report
Attendance: 8,530[6]
Hajduk Split 0–1 Slovan Liberec
Report Šural 23'
Attendance: 33,000[6]

Slovan Liberec won 2–0 on aggregate.

Atromitos 0–1 Fenerbahçe
Report Van Persie 90'
Attendance: 3,328[6]
Fenerbahçe 3–0 Atromitos
Fernandão 7', 78'
Harbunow 59' (o.g.)		 Report
Attendance: 33,121[6]
Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

Fenerbahçe won 4–0 on aggregate.

Gabala 0–0 Panathinaikos
Report
Attendance: 10,950[6]
Panathinaikos 2–2 Gabala
Berg 34'
Nano 78'		 Report Dodô 6', 60'
Attendance: 13,956[6]

2–2 on aggregate. Gabala won on away goals.

Southampton 1–1 Midtjylland
Rodriguez 56' (pen.) Report Sparv 45'
Attendance: 28,890[6]
Midtjylland 1–0 Southampton
Rasmussen 28' Report
Attendance: 9,481[6]
Referee: Liran Liany (Israel)

Midtjylland won 2–1 on aggregate.

Astra Giurgiu 3–2 AZ
Boldrin 25'
Alibec 41'
Dandea 45+3'		 Report Henriksen 11'
Janssen 13'
Attendance: 3,712[6]
AZ 2–0 Astra Giurgiu
Van der Linden 80'
Mühren 85'		 Report
Attendance: 9,679[6]

AZ won 4–3 on aggregate.

Odd 3–4 Borussia Dortmund
Samuelsen 1'
Nordkvelle 20'
Ruud 22'		 Report Aubameyang 34', 76'
Kagawa 47'
Mkhitaryan 85'
Attendance: 12,436[6]
Borussia Dortmund 7–2 Odd
Mkhitaryan 25'
Reus 27', 32', 57'
Kagawa 40', 90'
Gündoğan 51'		 Report Halvorsen 19'
Berg 64'
Attendance: 64,200[6]

Borussia Dortmund won 11–5 on aggregate.

Krasnodar 5–1 HJK
Ojala 8' (o.g.)
Mamayev 10' (pen.)
Smolov 57' (pen.)
Wánderson 62'
Gazinsky 64'		 Report Jallow 18'
Attendance: 15,425[6]
HJK 0–0 Krasnodar
Report
Attendance: 2,953[6]

Krasnodar won 5–1 on aggregate.

Sparta Prague 3–1 Thun
Costa 43'
Dočkal 45+1', 90+4'		 Report Sutter 5'
Attendance: 12,448[6]
Thun 3–3 Sparta Prague
Ferreira 33', 81'
Munsy 50'		 Report Dočkal 10'
Hušbauer 21'
Costa 71'
Attendance: 6,024[6]
Referee: Ruddy Buquet (France)

Sparta Prague won 6–4 on aggregate.

Notes
  1. Rheindorf Altach played their home match at Tivoli-Neu, Innsbruck, instead of their regular stadium Cashpoint-Arena, Altach.
  2. Zorya Luhansk played their home match at Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv, instead of their regular stadium Avanhard Stadium, Luhansk, due to war in Eastern Ukraine.
  3. Milsami Orhei played their home match at Zimbru Stadium, Chișinău, instead of their regular stadium CSR Orhei, Orhei.
  4. Dinamo Minsk played their home match at OSK Brestskiy, Brest, instead of their temporary stadium Traktor Stadium, Minsk.
  5. Rubin Kazan played their home match at Central Stadium, Kazan, instead of their regular stadium Kazan Arena, Kazan, which was hosting the 2015 World Aquatics Championships.
  6. Gabala played their home match at Bakcell Arena, Baku, instead of their regular stadium City Stadium, Qabala.

References
  1. "Regulations of the UEFA Europa League 2015/16 Season" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  2. "Match and draw calendar 2015/16". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  3. "UEFA Europa League play-off draw lineup". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 7 August 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  4. "Draws – Play-off round". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  5. "UEFA Europa League play-off draw results". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 7 August 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  6. "Summary UEFA Europa League - Play-off". Soccerway. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
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