2011–12 UEFA Europa League#Secomd qualifying round

A total of 194 teams from 53 UEFA associations participated in the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League. Associations are allocated places according to their 2010 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2005–06 to 2009–10.{{cite web|url=https://kassiesa.net/uefa/data/method4/crank2010.html|title=UEFA Country Ranking 2010|publisher=Bert Kassies}}

Below is the qualification scheme for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League:{{cite web |title=Regulations of the UEFA Europa League 2011/12 |url=https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/Regulations/competitions/Regulations/01/62/69/60/1626960_DOWNLOAD.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110626034322/http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/Regulations/competitions/Regulations/01/62/69/60/1626960_DOWNLOAD.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 June 2011|publisher=Union of European Football Associations |location=Nyon |access-date=1 June 2011 |date=March 2011}}

• Associations 1–6 each have three teams qualify
• Associations 7–9 each have four teams qualify
• Associations 10–51 each have three teams qualify, except Liechtenstein, which have one team qualify (as Liechtenstein only have a domestic cup and no domestic league)
• Associations 52–53 each have two teams qualify
• The top three associations of the 2010–11 UEFA Fair Play ranking each gain an additional berth
• Moreover, 33 teams eliminated from the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League are transferred to the Europa League

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• (FP): Additional fair play berth (Norway, England, Sweden){{cite news | url = https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/0250-0c50f8282fd8-8f62a47f01f5-1000--fair-play-bonus-for-norway-england-and-sweden/ | title = Fair Play bonus for Norway, England and Sweden |publisher=UEFA | date = 16 May 2011 }}
• (UCL): Additional teams transferred from the UEFA Champions League

Since the winners of the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League, Porto, qualified for the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League through domestic performance, the title holder spot reserved for them in the group stage was vacated. As a result, the following changes to the default allocation system were made to compensate for the vacant title holder spot in the group stage:{{cite web | url = https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/0250-0c50f82cc102-d161b6bb0901-1000--2011-12-uefa-europa-league-access-list/ | title = 2011/12 UEFA Europa League access list |publisher=UEFA | date=20 June 2011}}

• The domestic cup winners of associations 16 and 17 (Scotland and Bulgaria) were promoted from the third qualifying round to the play-off round.
• The domestic cup winners of associations 28 and 29 (Belarus and Republic of Ireland) were promoted from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
• The domestic cup winners of associations 52 and 53 (Malta and San Marino) and the domestic league runners-up of associations 33 and 34 (Latvia and Moldova) were promoted from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.

A Europa League place is vacated when a team qualifies for both the Champions League and the Europa League, or qualifies for the Europa League by more than one method. When a place is vacated, it is redistributed within the national association by the following rules:

• When the domestic cup winners (considered as the "highest-placed" qualifiers within the national association) also qualify for the Champions League, their Europa League place is vacated, and the remaining Europa League qualifiers are moved up one place, with the final place (with the earliest starting round) taken by the domestic cup runners-up, provided they do not already qualify for the Champions League or the Europa League. Otherwise, this place is taken by the highest-placed league finishers that have not yet qualified for the Europa League.
• When the domestic cup winners also qualify for the Europa League through league position, their place through the league position is vacated, and the Europa League qualifiers that finish lower in the league are moved up one place, with the final place taken by the highest-placed league finishers that have not yet qualified for the Europa League.
• A place vacated by the League Cup winners is taken by the highest-placed league finishers that have not yet qualified for the Europa League.
• A Fair Play place is taken by the highest-ranked team in the domestic Fair Play table that has not yet qualified for the Champions League or the Europa League.

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:{{cite web|url=http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/01f2-0e78a92bc11b-6610b928c079-1000--2011-12-list-of-participants/|title=2011/12 UEFA Europa League list of participants |publisher=UEFA|date=26 August 2011}}{{cite web|url=https://kassiesa.net/uefa/qual2011.html|title=Qualification for European Cup Football 2011/2012|publisher=Bert Kassies|access-date=15 May 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120529202747/http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/qual2011.html|archive-date=29 May 2012|url-status = dead}}

• TH: Title holders
• CW: Cup winners
• CR: Cup runners-up
• LC: League Cup winners
• Nth: League position
• P-W: End-of-season European competition play-offs winners
• FP: Fair play
• UCL: Relegated from the Champions League
• GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
• PO: Losers from the play-off round
• Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round

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{{Cnote2|Note IRL|Republic of Ireland (IRL): Because Sporting Fingal, the fourth-placed team of the 2010 League of Ireland Premier Division, returned its domestic license prior to the start of the 2011 season, St Patricks Athletic, the fifth-placed team of the league, claimed the Europa League spot in the first qualifying round.{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/league-of-ireland/league-in-new-crisis-as-fingal-go-to-wall-26685453.html|title=League in new crisis as Fingal go to wall|publisher=independent.ie|access-date=14 February 2011|date=11 February 2011}}}}

{{Cnote2|Note KAZ|Kazakhstan (KAZ): Because Lokomotiv Astana, the winners of the 2010 Kazakhstan Cup, did not exist for at least three years and could not obtain a UEFA license, the second-placed team of the league, Aktobe, moved up to enter the second qualifying round, and the cup runners-up, Shakhter Karagandy, claimed the vacant Europa League spot in the first qualifying round.{{cite web|url=http://www.caravan.kz/article/27947|title=Невыездной "Локомотив"|publisher=caravan.kz|date=21 April 2011}}}}

{{Cnote2|Note LTU|Lithuania (LTU): Because Žalgiris, the third-placed team of the 2010 A Lyga, did not obtain a UEFA license for the 2011–12 European competitions, Tauras Tauragė, the fourth-placed team of the league, claimed the Europa League spot in the second qualifying round.{{cite web|url=http://www.lff.lt/lt/article/uefa_nesuteike_zalgiriui_isimties_del_zaidimo_europos_lygoje|title=EFA nesuteikė "Žalgiriui" išimties dėl žaidimo Europos lygoje|publisher=lff.lt|date=31 March 2011|access-date=15 May 2011|archive-date=1 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110601095231/http://www.lff.lt/lt/article/uefa_nesuteike_zalgiriui_isimties_del_zaidimo_europos_lygoje|url-status=dead}}}}

{{Cnote2|Note ROU|Romania (ROU): Because Politehnica Timișoara, the 2010–11 Liga I runners-up, were denied a domestic licence for the 2011–12 season, Vaslui, the third-placed team of the league, claimed the Champions League spot in the third qualifying round for non-champions, instead of entering the Europa League play-off round. Subsequently, Rapid București and Dinamo București, the fourth- and sixth-placed teams of the league, moved up to enter the play-off round and the third qualifying round respectively, and Gaz Metan Mediaș, the seventh-placed team of the league, claimed the vacant Europa League spot in the second qualifying round.{{cite web|title=Timișoara si Bistrita nu au primit licenta si sunt retrogradate|url=http://www.onlinesport.ro/stiri/fotbal/fotbal-intern/liga-1/poli-timisoara/75710/timisoara-si-bistrita-nu-au-primit-licenta-si-sunt-retrogradate.htm|publisher=Onlinesport.ro|access-date=31 May 2011|language=Romanian|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120529190506/http://www.onlinesport.ro/stiri/fotbal/fotbal-intern/liga-1/poli-timisoara/75710/timisoara-si-bistrita-nu-au-primit-licenta-si-sunt-retrogradate.htm|archive-date=29 May 2012|url-status = dead}}}}

{{Cnote2|Note TUR|Turkey (TUR): Fenerbahçe, the 2010–11 Süper Lig champions, was banned by the Turkish Football Federation on 24 August 2011 from participating in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League due to the ongoing investigation into match-fixing.{{cite news|title=Fenerbahce withdrawn from Europe because of match-fix probe|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14656932.stm|publisher=BBC|access-date=24 August 2011|date=25 August 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.tff.org/default.aspx?pageID=471&ftxtID=13258|title=Fenerbahçe is out from UEFA Champions League for this season|publisher=Turkish Football Federation|date=24 August 2011}} UEFA decided to replace them in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League with Trabzonspor, the league runners-up, who had lost in the Champions League third qualifying round and were participating in the Europa League play-off round at that time. They finished third in their group and thus advanced to the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League knockout phase.}}

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All draws held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland unless stated otherwise.

Matches in the qualifying, play-off, and knockout rounds may also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.

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In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2011 UEFA club coefficients,{{cite web|url=https://kassiesa.net/uefa/data/method4/trank2011.html|title=UEFA Team Ranking 2011|publisher=Bert Kassies}}{{cite web|url=https://kassiesa.net/uefa/history/seedel2011.html|title=Seeding in the Europa League 2011/2012|publisher=Bert Kassies}} and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.

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The group stage features 48 teams, which were allocated into pots based on their 2011 UEFA club coefficients, and then drawn into twelve groups of four. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other. The draw was held on 26 August 2011 in Monaco.{{cite web | url = https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/01f4-0e796286be81-dfe40a88c465-1000--spurs-draw-shamrock-atletico-handed-tough-test/ | title = Spurs draw Shamrock, Atlético handed tough test |publisher=UEFA | date = 26 August 2011 }}

In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays are 15 September, 29 September, 20 October, 3 November, 30 November – 1 December, and 14–15 December 2011. The group winners and runners-up advanced to the round of 32, where they were joined by the 8 third-placed teams from the group stage of the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League.

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings (in descending order):

1. higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
2. superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
3. higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
4. higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
5. If, after applying criteria 1) to 4) to several teams, two teams still have an equal ranking, the criteria 1) to 4) will be reapplied to determine the ranking of these teams;
6. superior goal difference from all group matches played;
7. higher number of goals scored from all group matches played;
8. higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

A total of 24 national associations are represented in this group stage (including Scotland after Celtic were reinstated into the Europa League over Sion), with England having the most teams, with four.{{cite web | url = http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/newsid=1667671.html | title = Europa League draw to be made |publisher=UEFA | date = 26 August 2011 }}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} This was also the first time an Irish side were represented in the group stage.

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In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.

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 with each other.

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Excluding qualifying rounds and play-off round.

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• 2011–12 UEFA Champions League
• 2012 UEFA Super Cup

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