The 2012–13 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase decided the 62 teams that would participate in the final play-off round of qualifying.

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

All draws were held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[1]

Matches may also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.

Each tie was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. In the event that aggregate score finished level, the away goals rule would be applied, i.e., the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs advanced. If away goals were also equal, then thirty minutes of extra time would be played, divided into two fifteen-minutes halves. The away goals rule would again be applied after extra time, i.e., if there were goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team would advance by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, the tie would be decided by penalty shootout.^[2]

In the draws for each round, teams were seeded based on their 2012 UEFA club coefficients,^[3] with the teams divided into seeded and unseeded pots. A seeded team was drawn against an unseeded team, with the order of legs in each tie decided randomly. Due to the limited time between matches, the draws for the second and third qualifying rounds took place before the results of the previous round were known. The seeding in these draws (or in any cases where the results of a tie in the previous round were not known at the time of draw) was carried out under the assumption that the higher-ranked teams of the previous round would advance to this round, which means if a lower-ranked team were to advance, it would simply take the seeding of its defeated opponent. 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 168 teams involved in the qualifying phase and play-off round, grouped by their starting rounds (including 14 losing teams from the Champions League third qualifying round which entered the play-off round).^[4] The 31 winners of the play-off round qualified for the group stage to join the 7 automatic qualifiers and the 10 losing teams from the Champions League play-off round.

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Play-off round Team Coeff Sporting CP 82.069 CSKA Moscow 80.566 PSV Eindhoven 76.103 Bordeaux 58.835 Stuttgart 55.037 Metalist Kharkiv 52.526 AZ 44.103 Club BruggeCL-LR 35.480 Hapoel Tel Aviv 31.400 Lazio 29.996 Trabzonspor 19.810 Newcastle United 16.882 Levante 16.837 PartizanCL-CR 14.350 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 14.026 VasluiCL-LR 13.764 Dinamo București 13.264 FeyenoordCL-LR 12.603 Sheriff TiraspolCL-CR 9.849 DebrecenCL-CR 7.950 Atromitos 7.420 Heart of Midlothian 7.228 MotherwellCL-LR 6.728 Midtjylland 6.505 Lokeren 6.480 Luzern 6.360 Slovan LiberecCL-CR 5.570 Śląsk WrocławCL-CR 5.483 HJKCL-CR 5.326 EkranasCL-CR 4.875 MoldeCL-CR 3.935 F91 DudelangeCL-CR 2.716 Neftchi BakuCL-CR 2.241

Third qualifying round Team Coeff Internazionale 104.996 Liverpool 90.882 Marseille 85.835 Athletic Bilbao 47.837 Hannover 96 31.037 PAOK 27.920 Steaua București 26.764 Sparta Prague 25.570 Heerenveen 20.103 Genk 16.480 Bursaspor 13.310 Marítimo 12.569 Rapid Wien 12.225 Dynamo Moscow 11.066 Omonia 9.099 Arsenal Kyiv 9.026 Dundee United 6.228 Horsens 5.505

Second qualifying round Team Coeff APOEL 33.599 Anorthosis 17.099 Young Boys 16.860 Viktoria Plzeň 14.070 Gent 12.480 Legia Warsaw 11.983 Levski Sofia 11.850 Red Star Belgrade 10.850 Metalurh Donetsk 10.526 CSKA Sofia 10.350 Anzhi Makhachkala 9.566 Vitesse Arnhem 9.103 Mladá Boleslav 9.070 Rapid București 8.764 Slovan Bratislava 7.974 Hajduk Split 7.774 Asteras Tripolis 7.420 Bnei Yehuda 7.400 Eskişehirspor 6.810 Ried 6.725 AIK 5.680 AGF 5.505 Aalesund 5.435 Maccabi Netanya 5.400 Servette 5.360 Admira Wacker Mödling 5.225 Ruch Chorzów 4.983 Spartak Trnava 4.974 Tromsø 4.935 Slaven Belupo 4.774 Vojvodina 4.350 St Johnstone 4.228 Naftan Novopolotsk 4.141 Shakhtyor Soligorsk 4.141 Inter Turku 3.826 Videoton 3.450 Široki Brijeg 2.933 Skonto 2.924 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 2.850 Sligo Rovers 2.725 Dila Gori 1.733 Milsami Orhei 1.599 Žalgiris Vilnius 1.375

First qualifying round Team Coeff Twente 57.103 Lech Poznań 22.483 Rosenborg 20.935 Elfsborg 10.180 Kalmar FF 7.180 Aktobe 5.066 St. Patrick's Athletic 4.975 Stabæk 4.935 Gomel 4.641 Metalurgi Rustavi 4.233 Sarajevo 4.183 Bohemians 3.975 Senica 3.974 Osijek 3.774 FH 3.566 Levadia Tallinn 3.533 Pyunik 3.441 Dacia Chișinău 3.349 Baku 3.241 Borac Banja Luka 3.183 Liepājas Metalurgs 3.174 Bangor City 3.049 Differdange 03 2.966 Honvéd 2.950 Sūduva Marijampolė 2.875 Jagodina 2.850 MYPA 2.826 Tirana 2.783 Olimpija Ljubljana 2.674 Renova 2.633 Inter Baku 2.491 Rudar Pljevlja 2.375 KuPS 2.326 Shkëndija 2.133 Birkirkara 2.116 EB/Streymur 2.033 Khazar Lankaran 1.991 MTK Budapest 1.950 Metalurg Skopje 1.883 Šiauliai 1.875 Zimbru Chișinău 1.849 JJK 1.826 Flamurtari Vlorë 1.783 Cliftonville 1.766 Torpedo Kutaisi 1.733 FC Santa Coloma 1.700 Llanelli 1.549 Crusaders 1.516 Jeunesse Esch 1.466 Celje 1.424 Daugava Daugavpils 1.424 Mura 05 1.424 Zeta 1.375 ÍBV 1.316 Narva Trans 1.283 Floriana 1.116 Hibernians 1.116 Ordabasy 1.066 Þór Akureyri 1.066 Zhetysu 1.066 Nõmme Kalju 1.033 NSÍ Runavík 1.033 Portadown 1.016 Grevenmacher 0.966 Gandzasar 0.941 Čelik Nikšić 0.875 Eschen/Mauren 0.800 Teuta Durrës 0.783 Víkingur Gøta 0.783 UE Santa Coloma 0.700 Cefn Druids 0.549 Shirak 0.441 La Fiorita 0.183 Libertas 0.183

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• ^CL-CR Losing teams from the Champions League third qualifying round (Champions Route)
• ^CL-LR Losing teams from the Champions League third qualifying round (League Route)