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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	20 December 2012, 14:00	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	12 April 2013, 12:00	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

Europa League group stage winners and runners-up

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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14 February 2013

18:00

Zenit Saint Petersburg	2–0	Liverpool
Hulk 69' Semak 72'	Report

Petrovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg

Attendance: 19,748^[4]

Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)

14 February 2013