2014–15 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round

The qualifying phase and play-off round of the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League will be played from 1 July to 27 August 2014, to decide 10 of the 32 places in the group stage.

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Round and draw dates[]

All draws were held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

Round	Draw date and time	First leg	Second leg
First qualifying round	23 June 2014, 12:00	1–2 July 2014	8–9 July 2014
Second qualifying round	23 June 2014, 12:00	15–16 July 2014	22–23 July 2014
Third qualifying round	18 July 2014, 12:00	29–30 July 2014	5–6 August 2014
Play-off round	8 August 2014, 12:00	19–20 August 2014	26–27 August 2014

Format[]

In the qualifying phase and play-off round, each tie is played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scores more goals on aggregate over the two legs advances to the next round. If the aggregate score is level, the away goals rule is applied, i.e., the team that scores more goals away from home over the two legs advances. If away goals are also equal, then thirty minutes of extra time is played, divided into two fifteen-minute 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 advances by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals are scored during extra time, the tie is decided by penalty shoot-out.

In the draws for each round, teams are seeded based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season, with the teams divided into seeded and unseeded pots. A seeded team is 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 take place before the results of the previous round are known. For these draws (or in any cases where the result of a tie in the previous round is not known at the time of the draw), the seeding is carried out under the assumption that the team with the higher coefficient of an undecided tie advances to this round, which means if the team with the lower coefficient is to advance, it simply takes 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 are purely for convenience of the draw and for ensuring that teams from the same association are not drawn against each other, and do not resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition.

Teams[]

There are two routes which the teams are separated into during qualifying:

Champions Route, which include all domestic champions which do not automatically qualify for the group stage.
League Route (also called the Non-champions Path or the Best-placed Path), which include all domestic non-champions which do not automatically qualify for the group stage.

A total of 55 teams (40 in Champions Route, 15 in League Route) are involved in the qualifying phase and play-off round. The 10 winners of the play-off round (5 from Champions Route, 5 from League Route) advance to the group stage to join the 22 automatic qualifiers. The 15 losers of the third qualifying round enter the Europa League play-off round, and the 10 losers of the play-off round enter the Europa League group stage.

Below are the participating teams (with their 2014 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by their starting rounds.

Key to colours
Winners of the play-off round advance to the group stage
Losers of the play-off round enter the Europa League group stage
Losers of the third qualifying round enter the Europa League play-off round
Losers of the first and second qualifying round are eliminated

Play-off round
Team	Coeff
League Route
Arsenal	112.949
Porto	105.459
Bayer Leverkusen	70.328
Napoli	61.387
Athletic Bilbao	54.542

Third qualifying round
Team	Coeff
Champions Route
Red Bull Salzburg	46.185
APOEL	37.650
AaB	5.260
League Route
Zenit Saint Petersburg	73.899
Lille	45.300
Copenhagen	45.260
Standard Liège	38.260
Beşiktaş	32.840
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	32.193
Panathinaikos	30.220
Feyenoord	13.362
Grasshoppers	9.645
AEL Limassol	7.650

Second qualifying round
Team	Coeff
Champions Route
Steaua București	39.451
Celtic	36.813
BATE Borisov	33.725
Sparta Prague	28.870
Dinamo Zagreb	23.925
Ludogorets Razgrad	18.125
Maccabi Tel Aviv	17.875
Sheriff Tiraspol	17.075
Maribor	16.200
Legia Warsaw	15.275
Partizan	14.825
Debrecen	10.325
Slovan Bratislava	8.700
Aktobe	8.150
Ventspils	7.750
Qarabağ	7.575
HJK	7.435
Dinamo Tbilisi	6.975
Malmö FF	6.265
KR	5.350
F91 Dudelange	4.975
Strømsgodset	4.855
The New Saints	4.850
St Patrick's Athletic	4.775
Skënderbeu Korçë	4.600
Rabotnički	4.550
Valletta	4.466
Zrinjski Mostar	4.000
Cliftonville	3.225
Žalgiris Vilnius	3.050
Sutjeska Nikšić	2.450

First qualifying round
Team	Coeff
Champions Route
Levadia Tallinn	4.575
HB	3.175
FC Santa Coloma	2.166
Banants	1.325
La Fiorita	0.699
Lincoln Red Imps	0.000

First qualifying round[]

Seeding[]

A total of six teams played in the first qualifying round. The draw was held on 23 June 2014.

Seeded	Unseeded
Levadia Tallinn HB FC Santa Coloma	Banants La Fiorita Lincoln Red Imps

Matches[]

The first legs were played on 1 and 2 July, and the second legs were played on 8 July 2014.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
FC Santa Coloma	3–3 (a)	Banants	1–0	2–3
Lincoln Red Imps	3–6	HB	1–1	2–5
La Fiorita	0–8	Levadia Tallinn	0–1	0–7

First leg[]

1 July 2014 20:00	FC Santa Coloma	1–0	Banants	Estadi Comunal, Andorra la Vella Attendance: 323 Referee: Jens Maae (Denmark)
	Pujol 5'	Report

1 July 2014 20:30	La Fiorita	0–1	Levadia Tallinn	Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle Attendance: 438 Referee: Dejan Jakimovski (Macedonia)
		Report	Tamm 90+3'

2 July 2014 20:00	Lincoln Red Imps	1–1	HB	Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar Attendance: 1,821 Referee: Alexandre Boucaut (Belgium)
	J. Chipolina 18' (pen.)	Report	Hanssen 71'

Second leg[]

8 July 2014 16:00	Banants	3–2	FC Santa Coloma	Football Academy Stadium, Yerevan Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Nikolay Yordanov (Bulgaria)
	R. Hovsepyan 29', 56' (pen.) Mashumyan 47'	Report	Ildefons Lima 20' Casals 90+4'

3–3 on aggregate. FC Santa Coloma won on away goals.

8 July 2014 18:00	Levadia Tallinn	7–0	La Fiorita	Kadrioru staadion, Tallinn Attendance: 1,455 Referee: Chris Reisch (Luxembourg)
	Kulinitš 7' Subbotin 30', 72' El-Hussieny 48' Artjunin 75', 90+2' Tipurić 85'	Report

Levadia Tallinn won 8–0 on aggregate.

8 July 2014 20:00	HB	5–2	Lincoln Red Imps	Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn Attendance: 1,068 Referee: Vadims Direktorenko (Latvia)
	Hanssen 11', 81' Jensen 25' Edmundsson 34' Benjaminsen 88'	Report	Cabrera 50' J. Duarte 77'

HB won 6–3 on aggregate.

Second qualifying round[]

Seeding[]

A total of 34 teams played in the second qualifying round: 31 teams which entered in this round, and the three winners of the first qualifying round. The draw was held on 23 June 2014.

Group 1		Group 2		Group 3
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
BATE Borisov Maccabi Tel Aviv Sheriff Tiraspol Maribor Aktobe	Dinamo Tbilisi Skënderbeu Korçë Zrinjski Mostar Sutjeska Nikšić FC Santa Coloma^[†]	Celtic Sparta Prague Partizan Debrecen Slovan Bratislava Ventspils	Malmö FF KR The New Saints Levadia Tallinn^[†] Cliftonville HB^[†]	Steaua București Dinamo Zagreb Ludogorets Razgrad Legia Warsaw Qarabağ HJK	F91 Dudelange Strømsgodset St Patrick's Athletic Rabotnički Valletta Žalgiris Vilnius

Notes

^† Winners of the first qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw.

Matches[]

The first legs were played on 15 and 16 July, and the second legs were played on 22 and 23 July 2014.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
BATE Borisov	1–1 (a)	Skënderbeu Korçë	0–0	1–1
FC Santa Coloma	0–3^[A]	Maccabi Tel Aviv	0–1	0–2
Dinamo Tbilisi	0–4	Aktobe	0–1	0–3
Zrinjski Mostar	0–2	Maribor	0–0	0–2
Sheriff Tiraspol	5–0	Sutjeska Nikšić	2–0	3–0
Sparta Prague	8–1	Levadia Tallinn	7–0	1–1
Malmö FF	1–0	Ventspils	0–0	1–0
Slovan Bratislava	3–0	The New Saints	1–0	2–0
KR	0–5^[B]	Celtic	0–1	0–4
Cliftonville	0–2	Debrecen	0–0	0–2
Partizan	6–1	HB	3–0	3–1
Legia Warsaw	6–1	St Patrick's Athletic	1–1	5–0
Rabotnički	1–2	HJK	0–0	1–2
Dinamo Zagreb	4–0	Žalgiris Vilnius	2–0	2–0
Ludogorets Razgrad	5–1	F91 Dudelange	4–0	1–1
Valletta	0–5	Qarabağ	0–1	0–4
Strømsgodset	0–3	Steaua București	0–1	0–2

Notes

^ Order of legs reversed after original draw, due to the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict.
^ Order of legs reversed after original draw.

First leg[]

15 July 2014 18:30	Valletta	0–1	Qarabağ	Ta' Qali National Stadium, Ta' Qali Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Adrien Jaccottet (Switzerland)
		Report	Chumbinho 18'

15 July 2014 18:45	Slovan Bratislava	1–0	The New Saints	Štadión Pasienky, Bratislava Attendance: 4,838 Referee: Pavle Radovanović (Montenegro)
	Čikoš 52'	Report

15 July 2014 19:00	BATE Borisov	0–0	Skënderbeu Korçë	Borisov Arena, Barysaw Attendance: 12,671 Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria)
		Report

15 July 2014 19:00	Sheriff Tiraspol	2–0	Sutjeska Nikšić	Sheriff Stadium, Tiraspol Attendance: 6,351 Referee: Clayton Pisani (Malta)
	Mureșan 71' Isa 87'	Report

15 July 2014 19:30	Zrinjski Mostar	0–0	Maribor	Stadion pod Bijelim Brijegom, Mostar Attendance: 5,100 Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain)
		Report

15 July 2014 20:00	FC Santa Coloma	0–1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Estadi Comunal, Andorra la Vella Attendance: 494 Referee: Lasha Silagava (Georgia)
		Report	Prica 64'

15 July 2014 20:00	Rabotnički	0–0	HJK	Philip II Arena, Skopje Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Tamás Bognár (Hungary)
		Report

15 July 2014 20:45	Sparta Prague	7–0	Levadia Tallinn	Generali Arena, Prague Attendance: 10,152 Referee: Arnold Hunter (Northern Ireland)
	Lafata 22', 44', 45+4' (pen.), 57', 60' Tipurić 55' (o.g.) Přikyl 84'	Report

15 July 2014 20:45	Cliftonville	0–0	Debrecen	Solitude, Belfast Attendance: 1,750 Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)
		Report

15 July 2014 20:45	Partizan	3–0	HB	Stadion Partizana, Belgrade Attendance: 11,758 Referee: Sven Bindels (Luxembourg)
	Lazović 14', 64' Škuletić 71'	Report

15 July 2014 20:45	Dinamo Zagreb	2–0	Žalgiris Vilnius	Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb Attendance: 4,211 Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)
	Soudani 58' Antolić 70'	Report

15 July 2014 21:00	KR	0–1	Celtic	KR-völlur, Reykjavík Attendance: 1,520 Referee: Andreas Pappas (Greece)
		Report	McGregor 84'

16 July 2014 19:00	Dinamo Tbilisi	0–1	Aktobe	Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi Attendance: 10,100 Referee: Paweł Raczkowski (Poland)
		Report	Danilo Neco 51'

16 July 2014 19:00	Malmö FF	0–0	Ventspils	Swedbank Stadion, Malmö Attendance: 8,831 Referee: Antti Munukka (Finland)
		Report

16 July 2014 19:00	Ludogorets Razgrad	4–0	F91 Dudelange	Ludogorets Arena, Razgrad Attendance: 4,104 Referee: Richard Trutz (Slovakia)
	Dani Abalo 35' Bezjak 43' Anicet 65' Espinho 68'	Report

16 July 2014 19:30	Strømsgodset	0–1	Steaua București	Marienlyst Stadion, Drammen Attendance: 5,056 Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)
		Report	Iancu 49'

16 July 2014 20:45	Legia Warsaw	1–1	St Patrick's Athletic	Pepsi Arena, Warsaw Attendance: 11,075 Referee: Marius Avram (Romania)
	Radović 90+1'	Report	Fagan 38'

Second leg[]

22 July 2014 17:30	Sutjeska Nikšić	0–3	Sheriff Tiraspol	Stadion kraj Bistrice, Nikšić Attendance: 1,450 Referee: Alexander Harkam (Austria)
		Report	Benson 5' Luvannor 35' Isa 54'

Sheriff Tiraspol won 5–0 on aggregate.

22 July 2014 18:00	Levadia Tallinn	1–1	Sparta Prague	Kadrioru staadion, Tallinn Attendance: 1,150 Referee: Antonio Damato (Italy)
	Teever 68'	Report	Mareček 38'

Sparta Prague won 8–1 on aggregate.

22 July 2014 18:00	F91 Dudelange	1–1	Ludogorets Razgrad	Stade Jos Nosbaum, Dudelange Attendance: 842 Referee: Tobias Welz (Germany)
	Turpel 81'	Report	Bezjak 51'

Ludogorets Razgrad won 5–1 on aggregate.

22 July 2014 18:30	Qarabağ	4–0	Valletta	Tofiq Bəhramov adına Respublika Stadionu, Baku Attendance: 23,350 Referee: Sergei Tsinkevich (Belarus)
	Reynaldo 15' Chumbinho 48' Dias 57' George 80'	Report

Qarabağ won 5–0 on aggregate.

22 July 2014 19:30	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–0	FC Santa Coloma	Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca^[C] Attendance: 100 Referee: Ioannis Anastasiou (Cyprus)
	Zahavi 62' (pen.) Ben Haim 90'	Report

Maccabi Tel Aviv won 3–0 on aggregate.

22 July 2014 19:45	The New Saints	0–2	Slovan Bratislava	Corbett Sports Stadium, Rhyl Attendance: 1,140 Referee: Jakob Kehlet (Denmark)
		Report	Milinković 74', 89'

Slovan Bratislava won 3–0 on aggregate.

22 July 2014 20:00	Skënderbeu Korçë	1–1	BATE Borisov	Stadiumi Skënderbeu, Korçë Attendance: 6,200 Referee: Ante Vučemilović-Šimunović Jr. (Croatia)
	Radaš 67'	Report	Khagush 29'

1–1 on aggregate. BATE Borisov won on away goals

22 July 2014 20:00	HB	1–3	Partizan	Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn Attendance: 1,150 Referee: Dimitar Meckarovski (Macedonia)
	Wardum 35'	Report	Ninković 49' Lazović 75' Grbić 90+1'

Partizan won 6–1 on aggregate.

22 July 2014 20:15	Žalgiris Vilnius	0–2	Dinamo Zagreb	LFF stadionas, Vilnius Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Artyom Kuchin (Kazakhstan)
		Report	Soudani 46' Šimunić 49'

Dinamo Zagreb won 4–0 on aggregate.

22 July 2014 20:30	Debrecen	2–0	Cliftonville	Nagyerdei Stadion, Debrecen Attendance: 9,457 Referee: Vlado Glodjović (Serbia)
	Mihelič 55' Sidibe 79'	Report

Debrecen won 2–0 on aggregate.

22 July 2014 20:45	Celtic	4–0	KR	BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh^[D] Attendance: 39,099 Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia)
	Van Dijk 13', 20' Pukki 27', 71'	Report

Celtic won 5–0 on aggregate.

23 July 2014 17:00	Aktobe	3–0	Dinamo Tbilisi	Aktobe Central Stadium, Aktobe Attendance: 12,100 Referee: Aliyar Ağayev (Azerbaijan)
	Antonov 75' Zyankovich 82' Aimbetov 90+4'	Report

Aktobe won 4–0 on aggregate.

23 July 2014 18:00	Ventspils	0–1	Malmö FF	Ventspils Olimpiskais Stadions, Ventspils Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)
		Report	Thelin 19'

Malmö FF won 1–0 on aggregate.

23 July 2014 18:00	HJK	2–1	Rabotnički	Sonera-stadion, Helsinki Attendance: 10,153 Referee: Neil Doyle (Republic of Ireland)
	Lod 22' Moren 26'	Report	Vujčić 47'

HJK won 2–1 on aggregate.

23 July 2014 19:30	Steaua București	2–0	Strømsgodset	Arena Națională, Bucharest Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Eitan Shemeulevitch (Israel)
	Râpă 72' Stanciu 84'	Report

Steaua București won 3–0 on aggregate.

23 July 2014 20:00	Maribor	2–0	Zrinjski Mostar	Ljudski vrt, Maribor Attendance: 7,500 Referee: Sergei Lapochkin (Russia)
	Vršič 45' Ibraimi 57' (pen.)	Report

Maribor won 2–0 on aggregate.

23 July 2014 20:45	St Patrick's Athletic	0–5	Legia Warsaw	Tallaght Stadium, Dublin Attendance: 5,500 Referee: Andreas Ekberg (Sweden)
		Report	Radović 25', 82' Żyro 69' Saganowski 87' Byrne 90+2' (o.g.)

Legia Warsaw won 6–1 on aggregate.

Notes

^ Due to the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, the UEFA Emergency Panel decided that Israeli clubs must play their home legs outside of the country in the second qualifying round.
^ The match was played at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh as Celtic's home stadium, Celtic Park, Glasgow, was used for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Third qualifying round[]

Seeding[]

A total of 30 teams played in the third qualifying round:

Champions Route: three teams which entered in this round, and the 17 winners of the second qualifying round.
League Route: ten teams which entered in this round.

The draw was held on 18 July 2014.

Champions Route				League Route
Group 1		Group 2		League Route
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Red Bull Salzburg Celtic^[†] BATE Borisov^[†] Dinamo Zagreb^[†] Sheriff Tiraspol^[†]	Legia Warsaw^[†] Debrecen^[†] Slovan Bratislava^[†] Qarabağ^[†] AaB	Steaua București^[†] APOEL Sparta Prague^[†] Ludogorets Razgrad^[†] Maccabi Tel Aviv^[†]	Maribor^[†] Partizan^[†] Aktobe^[†] Malmö FF^[†] HJK^[†]	Zenit Saint Petersburg^[‡] Lille Copenhagen Standard Liège Beşiktaş	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk^[‡] Panathinaikos Feyenoord Grasshoppers AEL Limassol

Notes

^† Winners of the second qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw. Teams in italics defeated a team with a higher coefficient in the second qualifying round, thus effectively taking the coefficient of their defeated opponent in the draw for the third qualifying round.
^‡ Due to the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, the UEFA Emergency Panel decided that Russian and Ukrainian clubs may not be drawn against each other in the third qualifying round.

Matches[]

The first legs were played on 29 and 30 July, and the second legs were played on 5 and 6 August 2014.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Route
Qarabağ	2–3	Red Bull Salzburg	2–1	0–2
Debrecen	2–3	BATE Borisov	1–0	1–3
Slovan Bratislava	2–1	Sheriff Tiraspol	2–1	0–0
AaB	2–1	Dinamo Zagreb	0–1	2–0
Legia Warsaw	4–4 (a)	Celtic	4–1	0–3^[E]
Aktobe	3–4	Steaua București	2–2	1–2
Maribor	3–2	Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–0	2–2
HJK	2–4	APOEL	2–2	0–2
Sparta Prague	4–4 (a)	Malmö FF	4–2	0–2
Ludogorets Razgrad	2–2 (a)	Partizan	0–0	2–2
League Route
AEL Limassol	1–3	Zenit Saint Petersburg	1–0	0–3
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	0–2	Copenhagen	0–0	0–2
Feyenoord	2–5	Beşiktaş	1–2	1–3
Grasshoppers	1–3	Lille	0–2	1–1
Standard Liège	2–1	Panathinaikos	0–0	2–1

Notes

^ UEFA awarded Celtic a 3–0 win due to Legia Warsaw fielding suspended player Bartosz Bereszyński in the second leg. The original match had ended in a 2–0 win for Legia Warsaw.

First leg[]

29 July 2014 19:30	Sparta Prague	4–2	Malmö FF	Generali Arena, Prague Attendance: 12,833 Referee: Halis Özkahya (Turkey)
	Lafata 22', 51', 70' Kováč 52'	Report	Forsberg 17' Kiese Thelin 27'

29 July 2014 20:15	Slovan Bratislava	2–1	Sheriff Tiraspol	Štadión Pasienky, Bratislava Attendance: 6,711 Referee: Stephan Studer (Switzerland)
	Žofčák 42' (pen.) Mészáros 85'	Report	Ricardinho 74'

29 July 2014 20:30	Debrecen	1–0	BATE Borisov	Nagyerdei Stadion, Debrecen Attendance: 10,191 Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)
	Sidibe 56' (pen.)	Report

30 July 2014 17:00	Aktobe	2–2	Steaua București	Aktobe Central Stadium, Aktobe Attendance: 12,200 Referee: Hüseyin Göçek (Turkey)
	Korobkin 58' Arzumanyan 87'	Report	Keserü 44' Prepeliță 78'

30 July 2014 17:30	Qarabağ	2–1	Red Bull Salzburg	Tofiq Bəhramov adına Respublika Stadionu, Baku Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Serhiy Boyko (Ukraine)
	Dias 2' Reynaldo 86'	Report	Soriano 77'

30 July 2014 18:00	HJK	2–2	APOEL	Sonera-stadion, Helsinki Attendance: 10,189 Referee: Paweł Gil (Poland)
	Savage 11', 45+1' (pen.)	Report	De Vincenti 71' Sheridan 74'

30 July 2014 18:00	AEL Limassol	1–0	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca Attendance: 6,700 Referee: Marijo Strahonja (Croatia)
	Gikiewicz 64'	Report

30 July 2014 18:00	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	0–0^[F]	Copenhagen	NSC Olimpiyskiy, Kiev^[G] Attendance: 23,410 Referee: Andre Marriner (England)
		Report

30 July 2014 19:00	Grasshoppers	0–2	Lille	Letzigrund, Zürich Attendance: 7,700 Referee: Aleksei Eskov (Russia)
		Report	Corchia 29' Mendes 49'

30 July 2014 20:00	Ludogorets Razgrad	0–0	Partizan	Ludogorets Arena, Razgrad Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Kenn Hansen (Denmark)
		Report

30 July 2014 20:00	Feyenoord	1–2	Beşiktaş	De Kuip, Rotterdam Attendance: 44,000 Referee: Luca Banti (Italy)
	Te Vrede 90+5' (pen.)	Report	Pektemek 13' Koyunlu 71'

30 July 2014 20:00	Standard Liège	0–0	Panathinaikos	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège Attendance: 18,483 Referee: Carlos Clos Gómez (Spain)
		Report

30 July 2014 20:15	AaB	0–1	Dinamo Zagreb	Nordjyske Arena, Aalborg Attendance: 9,438 Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)
		Report	Brozović 49'

30 July 2014 20:30	Maribor	1–0	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Ljudski vrt, Maribor Attendance: 8,120 Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)
	Bohar 90+4'	Report

30 July 2014 20:45	Legia Warsaw	4–1	Celtic	Pepsi Arena, Warsaw Attendance: 22,265 Referee: Pol van Boekel (Netherlands)
	Radović 10', 36' Żyro 84' Kosecki 90+1'	Report	McGregor 8'

Notes

^ The match was delayed for 15 minutes before the start of the second half due to fan violence.
^ The match was played at NSC Olimpiyskiy, Kiev instead of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk's home stadium, Dnipro-Arena, Dnipropetrovsk, due to the pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine.

Second leg[]

5 August 2014 19:30	BATE Borisov	3–1	Debrecen	Borisov Arena, Barysaw Attendance: 12,788 Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)
	A. Valadzko 39' Rodionov 66' Krivets 90+4'	Report	Sidibe 20' (pen.)

BATE Borisov won 3–2 on aggregate.

5 August 2014 20:00	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–2	Maribor	Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca^[H] Attendance: 752 Referee: Martin Strömbergsson (Sweden)
	Ben Haim 42' Ben Basat 54'	Report	Ibraimi 36', 55'

Maribor won 3–2 on aggregate.

5 August 2014 20:00	Panathinaikos	1–2	Standard Liège	Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, Athens Attendance: 14,227 Referee: Michael Oliver (England)
	Arslanagic 17' (o.g.)	Report	Mbombo 36' M'Poku 42'

Standard Liège won 2–1 on aggregate.

5 August 2014 20:30	Lille	1–1	Grasshoppers	Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Villeneuve-d'Ascq Attendance: 24,882 Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)
	Balmont 19'	Report	Abrashi 33'

Lille won 3–1 on aggregate.

6 August 2014 18:00	Zenit Saint Petersburg	3–0	AEL Limassol	Petrovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg Attendance: 15,417 Referee: Alexandru Tudor (Romania)
	Rondón 55' Danny 88' Kerzhakov 90' (pen.)	Report

Zenit Saint Petersburg won 3–1 on aggregate.

6 August 2014 18:30	APOEL	2–0	HJK	GSP Stadium, Nicosia Attendance: 14,271 Referee: Liran Liany (Israel)
	Sheridan 17' De Vincenti 43' (pen.)	Report

APOEL won 4–2 on aggregate.

6 August 2014 19:00	Sheriff Tiraspol	0–0	Slovan Bratislava	Sheriff Stadium, Tiraspol Attendance: 8,753 Referee: István Vad (Hungary)
		Report

Slovan Bratislava won 2–1 on aggregate.

6 August 2014 19:00	Malmö FF	2–0	Sparta Prague	Swedbank Stadion, Malmö Attendance: 19,322 Referee: Ruddy Buquet (France)
	Rosenberg 35', 55'	Report

4–4 on aggregate. Malmö won on away goals.

6 August 2014 19:30	Steaua București	2–1	Aktobe	Arena Națională, Bucharest Attendance: 24,386 Referee: Miroslav Zelinka (Czech Republic)
	Chipciu 3' Stanciu 39'	Report	Kapadze 85'

Steaua București won 4–3 on aggregate.

6 August 2014 19:30	Beşiktaş	3–1	Feyenoord	Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadı, Istanbul Attendance: 40,489 Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)
	Ba 28', 80', 86'	Report	Manu 74'

Beşiktaş won 5–2 on aggregate.

6 August 2014 20:00	Copenhagen	2–0	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Telia Parken, Copenhagen Attendance: 18,875 Referee: Duarte Gomes (Portugal)
	Cornelius 36' Kadrii 52'	Report

Copenhagen won 2–0 on aggregate.

6 August 2014 20:30	Red Bull Salzburg	2–0	Qarabağ	Red Bull Arena, Wals-Siezenheim Attendance: 20,716 Referee: Bobby Madden (Scotland)
	Hinteregger 18', 34'	Report

Red Bull Salzburg won 3–2 on aggregate.

6 August 2014 20:45	Dinamo Zagreb	0–2	AaB	Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb Attendance: 8,235 Referee: Yevhen Aranovskiy (Ukraine)
		Report	Jacobsen 36', 85'

AaB won 2–1 on aggregate.

6 August 2014 20:45	Celtic	3–0 Awarded	Legia Warsaw	BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh^[I] Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni (Italy)
		Report	Żyro 36' Kucharczyk 61'

4–4 on aggregate. Celtic won on away goals. The second leg originally ended 0–2 but Legia Warsaw were later ruled to have forfeited the match after fielding suspended player Bartosz Bereszyński as a substitute, and Celtic were therefore awarded the second leg 3–0.

6 August 2014 20:45	Partizan	2–2	Ludogorets Razgrad	Stadion Partizana, Belgrade Attendance: 18,504 Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)
	Škuletić 30', 35'	Report	Marcelinho 19', 21'

2–2 on aggregate. Ludogorets Razgrad won on away goals.

Notes

^ Due to the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, the UEFA Emergency Panel decided that Israeli clubs must play their home legs outside of the country in the third qualifying round.
^ The match was played at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh as Celtic's home stadium, Celtic Park, Glasgow, was used for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Play-off round[]

Seeding[]

A total of 20 teams play in the play-off round:

Champions Route: the ten Champions Route winners of the third qualifying round.
League Route: five teams which enter in this round, and the five League Route winners of the third qualifying round.

The draw was held on 8 August 2014.

Champions Route		League Route
Seeded	Unseeded	Seeded	Unseeded
Red Bull Salzburg^[†] Steaua București^[†] APOEL^[†] Celtic^[†] BATE Borisov^[†]	Ludogorets Razgrad^[†] Maribor^[†] Slovan Bratislava^[†] Malmö FF^[†] AaB^[†]	Arsenal Porto Zenit Saint Petersburg^[†] Bayer Leverkusen Napoli	Athletic Bilbao Lille^[†] Copenhagen^[†] Standard Liège^[†] Beşiktaş^[†]

Notes

^† Winners of the third qualifying round.

Matches[]

The first legs were played on 19 and 20 August, and the second legs were played on 26 and 27 August 2014.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Champions Route
Maribor	2–1	Celtic	1–1	1–0
Red Bull Salzburg	2–4	Malmö FF	2–1	0–3
AaB	1–5	APOEL	1–1	0–4
Steaua București	1–1 (5–6 p)	Ludogorets Razgrad	1–0	0–1 a.e.t
Slovan Bratislava	1–4	BATE Borisov	1–1	0–3
League Route
Beşiktaş	0–1	Arsenal	0–0	0–1
Standard Liège	0–4	Zenit Saint Petersburg	0–1	0–3
Copenhagen	2–7	Bayer Leverkusen	2–3	0–4
Lille	0–3	Porto	0–1	0–2
Napoli	2–4	Athletic Bilbao	1–1	1–3

First leg[]

19 August 2014 20:45	Red Bull Salzburg	2-1	Malmö FF	Red Bull Arena, Wals-Siezenheim Attendance: 29,110 Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)
	Schiemer 16' Soriano 54'	Report	Forsberg 90'

19 August 2014 20:45	Steaua București	1-0	Ludogorets Razgrad	Arena Națională, Bucharest Attendance: 35,342 Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)
	Chipciu 88'	Report

19 August 2014 20:45	Beşiktaş	0-0	Arsenal	Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadı, [Istanbul Attendance: 41,531 Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)
		Report

19 August 2014 20:45	Copenhagen	2-3	Bayer Leverkusen	Telia Parken, Copenhagen Attendance: 18,221 Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)
	M. Jørgensen 9' Amartey 13'	Report	Kießling 5' Bellarabi 31' Son Heung-min 42'

19 August 2014 20:45	Napoli	1-1	Athletic Bilbao	San Paolo, Naples Attendance: 49,872 Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)
	Higuaín 68'	Report	Muniain 41'

20 August 2014 20:45	Maribor	1–1	Celtic	Ljudski vrt, Maribor Attendance: 11,025 Referee: Pavel Královec (Czech Republic)
	Bohar 14'	Report	McGregor 6'

20 August 2014 20:45	AaB	1–1	APOEL	Nordjyske Arena, Aalborg Attendance: 9,663 Referee: Martin Atkinson (England)
	Thomsen 16'	Report	Vinícius 54'

20 August 2014 20:45	Slovan Bratislava	1–1	BATE Borisov	Štadión Pasienky, Bratislava Attendance: 8,461 Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)
	Vittek 80'	Report	Jablonský 44' (o.g.)

20 August 2014 20:45	Standard Liège	0–1	Zenit Saint Petersburg	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège Attendance: 14,435 Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)
		Report	Shatov 16'

20 August 2014 20:45	Lille	0–1	Porto	Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Villeneuve-d'Ascq Attendance: 33,853 Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)
		Report	Herrera 61'

Second leg[]

26 August 2014 18:00	Zenit Saint Petersburg	3–0	Standard Liège	Petrovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg Attendance: 16,017 Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)
	Rondón 30' Hulk 54' (pen.), 58'	Report

Zenit Saint Petersburg won 4–0 on aggregate.

26 August 2014 20:45	Celtic	0–1	Maribor	Celtic Park, Glasgow Attendance: 55,415 Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)
		Report	Tavares 75'

Maribor won 2–1 on aggregate.

26 August 2014 20:45	APOEL	4–0	AaB	GSP Stadium, Nicosia Attendance: 18,746 Referee: William Collum (Scotland)
	Vinícius 29' De Vincenti 44' Aloneftis 64' Sheridan 75'	Report

APOEL won 5–1 on aggregate.

26 August 2014 20:45	BATE Borisov	3–0	Slovan Bratislava	Borisov Arena, Barysaw Attendance: 12,970 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)
	Gordeichuk 41' Krivets 84' Rodionov 85'	Report

BATE Borisov won 4–1 on aggregate.

26 August 2014 20:45	Porto	2–0	Lille	Estádio do Dragão, Porto Attendance: 45,208 Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway)
	Brahimi 49' Martínez 69'	Report

Porto won 3–0 on aggregate.

27 August 2014 20:45	Malmö FF	3–0	Red Bull Salzburg	Swedbank Stadion, Malmö Attendance: 20,361 Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)
	Rosenberg 11' (pen.), 84' Eriksson 19'	Report

Malmö FF won 4–2 on aggregate.

27 August 2014 20:45	Ludogorets Razgrad	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Steaua București	Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia Attendance: 16,995 Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)
	Wanderson 90'	Report
		Penalties
	Moți Wanderson Hamza Caiçara Marcelinho Dyakov Espinho	6–5	Keserü Pârvulescu Szukała Popa Varela Prepeliță Râpă

1–1 on aggregate. Ludogorets Razgrad won 6–5 on penalties.

27 August 2014 20:45	Arsenal	1–0	Beşiktaş	Emirates Stadium, London Attendance: 59,946 Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)
	Sánchez 45+1'	Report

Arsenal won 1–0 on aggregate.

27 August 2014 20:45	Bayer Leverkusen	4–0	Copenhagen	BayArena, Leverkusen Attendance: 23,321 Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)
	Son Heung-min 2' Çalhanoğlu 7' Kießling 31' (pen.), 65'	Report

Bayer Leverkusen won 7–2 on aggregate.

27 August 2014 20:45	Athletic Bilbao	3–1	Napoli	San Mamés, Bilbao Attendance: 49,017 Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)
	Aduriz 61', 69' Ibai 74'	Report	Hamšík 47'

Athletic Bilbao won 4–2 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers[]

There were 212 goals in 90 matches in the qualifying phase and play-off round, for an average of 2.36 goals per match.

Rank	Player	Team	Goals	Minutes played
1	David Lafata	Sparta Prague	8	262'
2	Miroslav Radović	Legia Warsaw	5	358'
3	Markus Rosenberg	Malmö FF	4	540'
4	Stefan Kießling	Bayer Leverkusen	3	163'
	Levi Hanssen	HB	3	270'
	Demba Ba	Beşiktaş	3	298'
	Danko Lazović	Partizan	3	305'
	Cillian Sheridan	APOEL	3	329'
	Tomas De Vincenti	APOEL	3	330'
	Petar Škuletić	Partizan	3	343'
	Ibrahima Sidibe	Debrecen	3	353'
	Michał Żyro	Legia Warsaw	3	354'
	Agim Ibraimi	Maribor	3	519'
	Callum McGregor	Celtic	3	540'

Source:

External links[]

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[cnote_†_grp_1] † Winners of the first qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw.

[cnote_A] Order of legs reversed after original draw, due to the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict.

[cnote_B] Order of legs reversed after original draw.

[cnote_C] Due to the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, the UEFA Emergency Panel decided that Israeli clubs must play their home legs outside of the country in the second qualifying round.

[cnote_D] The match was played at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh as Celtic's home stadium, Celtic Park, Glasgow, was used for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

[cnote_†_grp_2] † Winners of the second qualifying round, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw. Teams in italics defeated a team with a higher coefficient in the second qualifying round, thus effectively taking the coefficient of their defeated opponent in the draw for the third qualifying round.

[cnote_‡_grp_2] ‡ Due to the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, the UEFA Emergency Panel decided that Russian and Ukrainian clubs may not be drawn against each other in the third qualifying round.

[cnote_E] UEFA awarded Celtic a 3–0 win due to Legia Warsaw fielding suspended player Bartosz Bereszyński in the second leg. The original match had ended in a 2–0 win for Legia Warsaw.

[cnote_F] The match was delayed for 15 minutes before the start of the second half due to fan violence.

[cnote_G] The match was played at NSC Olimpiyskiy, Kiev instead of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk's home stadium, Dnipro-Arena, Dnipropetrovsk, due to the pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine.

[cnote_H] Due to the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, the UEFA Emergency Panel decided that Israeli clubs must play their home legs outside of the country in the third qualifying round.

[cnote_I] The match was played at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh as Celtic's home stadium, Celtic Park, Glasgow, was used for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

[cnote_†_grp_3] † Winners of the third qualifying round.

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