2011–12 UEFA Europa League

The UEFA Europa League 2011/12 was the 41st edition of the second most important competition for European football clubs, which was held up to the 2008/09 season under the name " UEFA Cup ". The contest took this season 194 clubs from all 53 national associations of UEFA part.

The season began with the first leg of the first qualifying round on 30 June 2011 and ended with the final on May 9, 2012 in the Arena Naţională in Bucharest. There Atlético Madrid continued in the all-Spanish final against Athletic Bilbao 3-0 and won the title. Scorer of the competition was - as last season - the Colombian Radamel Falcao, this time with Atlético Madrid with twelve gates.

  • 4.1 Group A
  • 4.2 Group B
  • 4.3 Group C
  • 4.4 Group D
  • 4.5 Group E
  • 4.6 Group F
  • 4.7 Group G
  • 4.8 Group H
  • 4.9 Group I
  • 4:10 Group J
  • 4:11 Group K
  • 4:12 Group L

Participant

Participants qualified through the national league and cup competitions in the UEFA member associations. Automatically eligible to start was only the title holder of the previous year, if he had not qualified for the higher Champions League. However, this was the case this season, as defending champion FC Porto was allowed to start as Portuguese champions 2010/11 directly for the Champions League. All other participants were determined through qualifying rounds, emerged as losers in the Champions League qualifier or after the first round as the third-placed Champions League group stage in the competition.

Mode

First held 2011 three qualifying rounds between early July and early August. The fourth and final qualifying round is called for better marketing "Play -off round ", these games find the end of August 2011. When a team goes into the qualification depends on the placement of the association in the national championship as well as the positioning of the home association in the UEFA five year ranking 2010. In each qualifying round will be divided based on their club coefficient (KK ) in half and placed in unseeded clubs, purely national pairings are excluded.

In the ensuing group stage 48 teams will be distributed on the basis of the club coefficient on four Lostöpfe and then divided by lottery into twelve groups of four teams each. Each group plays similar to the UEFA Champions League, a full series of round-trip games from, so the group stage contains six games.

The table first and second group stage to reach the finals, third and fourth placed teams will be eliminated. Still run the 8 group Third from the group stage of the UEFA Champions League These 24 teams. Thus 32 teams reach the knockout phase, in which the enemy will be drawn separately for each round, which compete in each round-trip game against each other until the two finalists have been chosen. Earliest in the second round two representatives of a nation must meet. The final is decided in a single game on May 9, 2012 in the Arena Naţională in Bucharest.

Qualification

First qualifying round

  • Draw: on June 20, 2011 in Nyon
  • First leg: 30 June 2011
  • Second leg matches: 7 July 2011
  • Participation: 50 teams, including three were fair play qualifiers: Norway Aalesunds FK (winner of the Fair Play rankings )
  • England Fulham FC (second )
  • Sweden BK Hacken ( third party )

Second qualifying round

  • Draw: 20 June 2011 ( as the first round ) in Nyon
  • First leg: 14 July 2011
  • Second leg matches: 21 July 2011
  • Participation: 80 Teams, including the 25 winning teams of the first qualifying round

Third qualifying round

  • Draw: on July 15, 2011 in Nyon
  • First leg: 28 July 2011
  • Second leg matches: 4 August 2011
  • Participation: 70 Teams, including the 40 winning teams of the second qualifying round.

1 Leg already on 26 July 2011 as Hapoel Tel Aviv also had home advantage.

Play-off

The fourth and final qualifying round is called for better marketing " play-off ".

  • Draws: 5 August 2011 in Nyon
  • First leg: 18 August 2011
  • Second leg matches: 25 August 2011
  • Participation: 76 Teams, including the 35 winning teams of the third qualifying round and 15 losers in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League 2011 /12.

Group stage

The draw was held in Monaco on 26 August 2011. The 48 qualified for the group stage teams ( including ten losers of the play-offs for the UEFA Champions League 2011/12 ) were divided based on their club coefficient on four Lostöpfe of twelve teams, and from each Lostopf a team in one of the twelve groups ( A to L) dissolved; Teams in the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

The group stage is played on the following dates:

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Group I

Group J

Group K

Group L

Round of

Among the 24 teams that had qualified through the group stage, the third group 8 of the Champions League were added. These were Manchester City, Manchester United, Olympiakos Piraeus, FC Valencia, FC Porto, Ajax, Trabzonspor and Viktoria Plzen. For the draw of the sixteenth finals, which took place on 16 December 2011 the group winners and the four best third out of the Champions League were set; them the rest of the teams were drawn against. It encounters were excluded between teams in the same group or the same national association. The first legs took place on February 14th and 16th 2012, the return legs on February 22 and 23, 2012.

Second round

The draw for the first knockout round pairings also took place on 16 December 2011 was played on 8 and 15 March 2012.

Quarterfinals

The draw for the quarter-final pairings took place on 16 March 2011, was played on 29 March and 5 April 2012.

Semifinal

The draw for the semi-finals also took place on 16 March 2011, was played on 19 and 26 April 2012.

This year's semi-final was the second " Iberian semi-final " in a row. Stood in the preseason against three Portuguese and one Spanish team, this time it was the other way around.

Final

The victory in the final Atlético Madrid set a new record for European competitions: first 12 games were won in a row. Previously held Atlético Madrid and FC Barcelona ( UEFA Champions League 2002/ 03) the record with 11 consecutive wins.

Top scorers

Subsequently, the scorers of this Europa League season are listed (without qualification). The list is sorted according to their number of hits and the same number of goals alphabetically.

2011–12 UEFA Champions League UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking Fulham F.C. CS Fola Esch Cliftonville FC Finland FC Koper UE Santa Coloma Andorra Paksi SE JK Narva Trans FK Rad Albania Ulisses FC AZAL PFK FC Minsk FC Dinamo Tbilisi FC Milsami FC Lusitanos FC Spartak Trnava FK Metalurg Skopje Bulgaria Israel Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. Gaziantepspor ADO Den Haag Llanelli A.F.C. Floriana F.C. FC Shakhtyor Salihorsk FK Ventspils FK BAUMIT Jablonec Bohemian F.C. FC Midtjylland Anorthosis Famagusta FC FC Vaduz FK Rudar Pljevlja Dundee United F.C. EB/Streymur Portugal KVC Westerlo FC Thun AZ Alkmaar Bursaspor Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. France Italy FK Senica 1. FSV Mainz 05 Helsingborgs IF Sligo Rovers F.C. Shamrock Rovers F.C. FC Sochaux-Montbéliard RSC Anderlecht FC Sion S.S. Lazio Birmingham City F.C. PSV Eindhoven FC Vaslui FC Zestafoni Sevilla FC A.E.K. Athens F.C. SC Braga White Hart Lane HDI-Arena Parken Stadium Stade Maurice Dufrasne Oleksiy Butovskyi Vorskla Stadium Bloomfield Stadium Philips-Stadion Polish Army Stadium Letzigrund Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium Britannia Stadium AFAS-Stadion Metalist Oblast Sports Complex Swedbank Stadion Jan Breydel Stadium Ljudski vrt Stadio Friuli Celtic Park Stade de la Route de Lorient Maccabi Haifa F.C. Kiryat Eliezer Stadium GSP Stadium Odense Boldklub Stadion Miejski in Kraków Craven Cottage Constant Vanden Stock Stadium Manchester United F.C. Valencia CF Wolfgang Stark Thibaut Courtois Juan Francisco Torres Arda Turan Diego Ribas da Cunha Eduardo Salvio Diego Simeone Argentina Gorka Iraizoz Fernando Amorebieta Andoni Iraola Ander Iturraspe Ander Herrera Gaizka Toquero Iker Muniain Fernando Llorente Markel Susaeta Marcelo Bielsa 2002–03 UEFA Champions League Dmitri Sychev Ricky van Wolfswinkel Andrew Johnson (English footballer) Ola Toivonen 1971–72 UEFA Cup 1972–73 UEFA Cup 1973–74 UEFA Cup 1974–75 UEFA Cup 1975–76 UEFA Cup 1976–77 UEFA Cup 1977–78 UEFA Cup 1978–79 UEFA Cup 1979–80 UEFA Cup 1980–81 UEFA Cup 1981–82 UEFA Cup 1982–83 UEFA Cup 1983–84 UEFA Cup 1984–85 UEFA Cup 1985–86 UEFA Cup 1986–87 UEFA Cup 1987–88 UEFA Cup 1988–89 UEFA Cup 1989–90 UEFA Cup 1990–91 UEFA Cup 1991–92 UEFA Cup 1992–93 UEFA Cup 1993–94 UEFA Cup 1994–95 UEFA Cup 1995–96 UEFA Cup 1996–97 UEFA Cup 1997–98 UEFA Cup 1998–99 UEFA Cup 1999–2000 UEFA Cup 2000–01 UEFA Cup 2001–02 UEFA Cup 2002–03 UEFA Cup 2003–04 UEFA Cup 2004–05 UEFA Cup 2005–06 UEFA Cup 2006–07 UEFA Cup 2007–08 UEFA Cup 2008–09 UEFA Cup 2011–12 Albanian Superliga 2011–12 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2011–12 A PFG 2011–12 Premier League 2012 Meistriliiga 2012 Veikkausliiga 2011–12 Ligue 1 2011–12 Umaglesi Liga 2011–12 Superleague Greece 2012 League of Ireland 2011–12 Serie A 2012 Kazakhstan Premier League 2011–12 Prva HNL 2012 A Lyga 2011–12 Luxembourg National Division 2011–12 Maltese Premier League 2011–12 Montenegrin First League 2011–12 Eredivisie 2011–12 IFA Premiership 2012 Tippeligaen 2011–12 Ekstraklasa 2011–12 Primeira Liga 2011–12 Liga I 2011–12 Russian Premier League 2011–12 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio 2011–12 Scottish Premier League 2012 Allsvenskan 2011–12 Slovenian PrvaLiga 2011–12 Gambrinus liga 2011–12 Ukrainian Premier League 2011–12 Welsh Premier League 2012 Belarusian Premier League 2011–12 Cypriot First Division
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