UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying play-offs

The highest ranked second placed team from the groups qualified automatically for the tournament, while the remainder entered the playoffs.

As a result, a total of eight matches played by each team count toward the purpose of the second-placed ranking table.

The draw for the play-offs was held on 13 October 2011 in Kraków, Poland, to determine the four pairings as well as the order of the home and away ties.

[3] After the controversy caused by the UEFA play-offs during 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying – which was originally to be an unseeded draw, but was later altered by FIFA to a seeded one – UEFA stated from the outset that the draw for the play-offs would be seeded.

Each nation's coefficient was generated by calculating:[4] The seedings were as follows:[5] Croatia won 3–0 on aggregate and qualified for UEFA Euro 2012.