The play-off round of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League was played from 22 to 29 August 2013, to decide 31 of the 48 places in the group stage.
[2] Matches may also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.
If away goals were also equal, then thirty minutes of extra time was played.
If no goals were scored during extra time, the tie was decided by penalty shoot-out.
Prior to the draws, UEFA may form "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.
Below were the participating teams (with their 2013 UEFA club coefficients),[4] grouped by their starting rounds.
Beşiktaş Feyenoord Rapid Wien Kuban Krasnodar Zulte Waregem Tromsø Pandurii Târgu Jiu Dila Gori Dynamo Kyiv
Genk Swansea City Nice Atromitos Apollon Limassol Aktobe Petrolul Ploiești
Sevilla Standard Liège Red Bull Salzburg Eintracht Frankfurt Nordsjælland IF Elfsborg Śląsk Wrocław Qarabağ Minsk Žalgiris VfB Stuttgart Spartak Moscow
Real Betis Chornomorets Odesa Maccabi Tel Aviv Jablonec St. Gallen Rijeka Skënderbeu Rubin Kazan Fiorentina Saint-Étienne Trabzonspor Sheriff Tiraspol Molde Grasshopper Vojvodina Esbjerg Kukësi Tottenham Hotspur Udinese Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Partizan Maccabi Haifa Estoril Slovan Liberec Thun Dinamo Tbilisi Pasching Astra Giurgiu Nõmme Kalju The first legs were played on 22 August, and the second legs were played on 29 August 2013.
Maccabi Tel Aviv won on walkover after PAOK were promoted to the Champions League.