This article details the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League group stage.

The group stage featured 48 teams: the 38 winners of the play-off round, and the 10 losing teams from the Champions League play-off round.^[1]

The teams were drawn into twelve groups of four, and played each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays were 15 September, 29 September, 20 October, 3 November, 30 November–1 December, and 14–15 December 2011.^[2]

The top two teams in each group advanced to the round of 32, where they were joined by the eight third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage.^[3]

Contents 1 Seeding 2 Tie-breaking criteria 3 Groups 3.1 Group A 3.2 Group B 3.3 Group C 3.4 Group D 3.5 Group E 3.6 Group F 3.7 Group G 3.8 Group H 3.9 Group I 3.10 Group J 3.11 Group K 3.12 Group L 4 References 5 External links

Seeding

The draw for the group stage was held at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco on 26 August 2011 at 13:00 CEST (UTC+02:00).^[4]

Teams were seeded into four pots based on their 2011 UEFA club coefficients.^[5] Pot 1 held teams ranked 18–49, Pot 2 held teams ranked 51–85, Pot 3 held teams ranked 89–154, while Pot 4 held teams ranked 155–302 and unranked teams.

Key to colours
Qualified for the round of 32

Pot 1 Team Coeff Tottenham Hotspur 78.157 PSV Eindhoven 74.025 Atlético Madrid 70.465 Sporting CP 68.319 Braga 62.319 Schalke 04 61.887 Dynamo Kyiv 60.776 Paris Saint-Germain 51.735 Copenhagen CL 51.110 AZ 43.025 Anderlecht 42.400 Twente CL 41.025

Pot 2 Team Coeff Fulham 40.157 Beşiktaş 37.010 Hapoel Tel Aviv 36.400 Metalist Kharkiv 34.276 Standard Liège 32.400 Rubin Kazan CL 31.941 Club Brugge 31.400 AEK Athens 30.833 Steaua București 29.164 Udinese CL 27.110 Athletic Bilbao 24.465 Lazio 23.110

Pot 3 Team Coeff Red Bull Salzburg 22.140 Maccabi Haifa CL 21.400 Zürich CL 18.980 Odense CL 18.610 Lokomotiv Moscow 18.441 PAOK 17.333 Birmingham City 17.157 Stoke City 17.157 Rennes 16.735 Austria Wien 16.640 Rapid București 16.164 Hannover 96 13.887

Pot 4 Team Coeff Vorskla Poltava 10.276 Wisła Kraków CL 10.183 Vaslui 10.164 Sion (replaced by Celtic)† 9.480 Sturm Graz CL 8.640 Maccabi Tel Aviv 5.900 Slovan Bratislava 5.899 Legia Warsaw 5.183 Maribor 4.224 AEK Larnaca 3.624 Malmö FF CL 2.825 Shamrock Rovers 2.741

^CL Losing teams from the Champions League play-off round

^† Celtic lodged protests over the eligibility of a number of the Sion players who participated in the two legs of the play-off round, which Sion won 3–1 aggregate (first leg: 0–0; second leg: 3–1). The UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body accepted the protests and decided to award both matches to Celtic by forfeit (3–0). As a consequence, Celtic qualified for the UEFA Europa League group stage.^[6]

For the group stage draw, teams from the same national association could not be drawn against each other. Moreover, the draw was controlled for teams from the same association in order to split the teams evenly for maximum television coverage. For example, if there were two teams from the same association, each team was drawn into a different set of groups (A–F, G–L); if there were four teams from the same association, each team was drawn into a different subset of groups (A–C, D–F, G–I, J–L).

The fixtures were decided after the draw. On the first four matchdays, when matches were played only on Thursdays, six groups played their matches at 19:00 CET/CEST, while the other six groups played their matches at 21:05 CET/CEST, with the two sets of groups (A–F, G–L) alternating between each matchday. On the final two matchdays, when matches were played on both Wednesdays and Thursdays, the two sets of groups were divided into four smaller subsets (A–C, D–F, G–I, J–L), with each subset of groups playing on a different day and time. There are other restrictions, e.g., teams from the same city (e.g. Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham) do not play at home on the same matchday (UEFA tries to avoid teams from the same city play at home on the same day), and Russian teams do not play at home on the last matchday due to cold weather.

Tie-breaking criteria

If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria would be applied to determine the rankings:^[3]

1. higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
2. superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
3. higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
4. higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
5. If, after applying criteria 1) to 4) to several teams, two teams still have an equal ranking, the criteria 1) to 4) will be reapplied to determine the ranking of these teams;
6. superior goal difference from all group matches played;
7. higher number of goals scored from all group matches played;
8. higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons.

Groups

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 32

Times up to 29 October 2011 (matchdays 1–3) are CEST (UTC+02:00), thereafter (matchdays 4–6) times are CET (UTC+01:00).

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
PAOK	6	3	3	0	10	6	+4	12
Rubin Kazan	6	3	2	1	11	5	+6	11
Tottenham Hotspur	6	3	1	2	9	4	+5	10
Shamrock Rovers	6	0	0	6	4	19	−15	0

15 September 2011 19:00	PAOK	0–0	Tottenham Hotspur	Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki Attendance: 24,645[7] Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)
		Report

15 September 2011 19:00	Shamrock Rovers	0–3	Rubin Kazan	Tallaght Stadium, Dublin[8] Attendance: 6,920[9] Referee: Zsolt Szabó (Hungary)
		Report	Martins  3' Noboa  50' Gökdeniz  60'

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29 September 2011 17:00	Rubin Kazan	2–2	PAOK	Central Stadium, Kazan Attendance: 14,350[10] Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)
	Natkho  52' Dyadyun  66'	Report	Athanasiadis  23' Fotakis  81'

29 September 2011 21:05	Tottenham Hotspur	3–1	Shamrock Rovers	White Hart Lane, London Attendance: 24,782[11] Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (Lithuania)
	Pavlyuchenko  60' Defoe  62' Giovani  66'	Report	Rice  50'

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20 October 2011 21:05	Tottenham Hotspur	1–0	Rubin Kazan	White Hart Lane, London Attendance: 24,058[12] Referee: Manuel De Sousa (Portugal)
	Pavlyuchenko  33'	Report

20 October 2011 21:05	PAOK	2–1	Shamrock Rovers	Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki Attendance: 12,776[13] Referee: Tony Asumaa (Finland)
	Lazăr  12' Vieirinha  63'	Report	Sheppard  48'

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3 November 2011 18:00	Rubin Kazan	1–0	Tottenham Hotspur	Central Stadium, Kazan Attendance: 21,250[14] Referee: Florian Meyer (Germany)
	Natkho  55'	Report

3 November 2011 19:00	Shamrock Rovers	1–3	PAOK	Tallaght Stadium, Dublin Attendance: 6,100[15] Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)
	Dennehy  51'	Report	Salpingidis  7', 38' Fotakis  36'

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30 November 2011 18:00	Rubin Kazan	4–1	Shamrock Rovers	Central Stadium, Kazan Attendance: 15,740[16] Referee: Harald Lechner (Austria)
	Valdez  10', 51' Natkho  36' Martins  62'	Report	Oman  12'

30 November 2011 21:05	Tottenham Hotspur	1–2	PAOK	White Hart Lane, London Attendance: 26,229[17] Referee: Bas Nijhuis (Netherlands)
	Modrić  38' (pen.)	Report	Salpingidis  6' Athanasiadis  14'

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15 December 2011 19:00	PAOK	1–1	Rubin Kazan	Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki Attendance: 15,625[18] Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)
	Vieirinha  16' (pen.)	Report	Valdez  48'

15 December 2011 19:00	Shamrock Rovers	0–4	Tottenham Hotspur	Tallaght Stadium, Dublin Attendance: 8,500[18] Referee: Stephan Studer (Switzerland)
		Report	Pienaar  29' Townsend  38' Defoe  45' Kane  90+1'

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Standard Liège	6	4	2	0	9	1	+8	14
Hannover 96	6	3	2	1	9	7	+2	11
Copenhagen	6	1	2	3	5	9	−4	5
Vorskla Poltava	6	0	2	4	4	10	−6	2

15 September 2011 19:00	Hannover 96	0–0	Standard Liège	AWD-Arena, Hanover Attendance: 42,500[19] Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (Macedonia)
		Report

15 September 2011 19:00	Copenhagen	1–0	Vorskla Poltava	Parken Stadium, Copenhagen Attendance: 10,420[20] Referee: Stanislav Todorov (Bulgaria)
	Nordstrand  54' (pen.)	Report

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29 September 2011 21:05	Vorskla Poltava	1–2	Hannover 96	Butovsky Vorskla Stadium, Poltava Attendance: 11,000[21] Referee: Kristinn Jakobsson (Iceland)
	Kurylov  50'	Report	Abdellaoue  32' Pander  44'

29 September 2011 21:05	Standard Liège	3–0	Copenhagen	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège Attendance: 13,368[22] Referee: Anastassios Kakos (Greece)
	Seijas  57' Felipe  72' Kanu  79'	Report

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20 October 2011 21:05	Standard Liège	0–0	Vorskla Poltava	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège Attendance: 13,496[23] Referee: Simon Lee Evans (Wales)
		Report

20 October 2011 21:05	Hannover 96	2–2	Copenhagen	AWD-Arena, Hanover Attendance: 43,100[24] Referee: Laurent Duhamel (France)
	Pander  29' Pinto  82'	Report	N'Doye  68' Santin  89'

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3 November 2011 19:00	Vorskla Poltava	1–3	Standard Liège	Butovsky Vorskla Stadium, Poltava Attendance: 8,000[25] Referee: Libor Kovařik (Czech Republic)
	Kurylov  5'	Report	Seijas  17' Kanu  45+4' Tchité  74'

3 November 2011 19:00	Copenhagen	1–2	Hannover 96	Parken Stadium, Copenhagen Attendance: 27,853[26] Referee: Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands)
	N'Doye  67'	Report	Schlaudraff  71' Stindl  74'

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30 November 2011 21:05	Standard Liège	2–0	Hannover 96	Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège Attendance: 18,104[27] Referee: Antonio Damato (Italy)
	Tchité  26' Cyriac  59'	Report

30 November 2011 21:05	Vorskla Poltava	1–1	Copenhagen	Butovsky Vorskla Stadium, Poltava Attendance: 3,000[28] Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)
	N'Doye  31' (o.g.)	Report	N'Doye  37'

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15 December 2011 19:00	Hannover 96	3–1	Vorskla Poltava	AWD-Arena, Hanover Attendance: 42,000[18] Referee: Leontios Trattou (Cyprus)
	Rausch  25' Konan Ya  33' Sobiech  78'	Report	Bezus  45+1' (pen.)

15 December 2011 19:00	Copenhagen	0–1	Standard Liège	Parken Stadium, Copenhagen Attendance: 9,722[29] Referee: Hüseyin Göçek (Turkey)
		Report	Batshuayi  31'

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
PSV Eindhoven	6	5	1	0	13	5	+8	16
Legia Warsaw	6	3	0	3	7	9	−2	9
Hapoel Tel Aviv	6	2	1	3	10	9	+1	7
Rapid București	6	1	0	5	5	12	−7	3

15 September 2011 19:00	Hapoel Tel Aviv	0–1	Rapid București	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv Attendance: 7,700[30] Referee: Hannes Kaasik (Estonia)
		Report	Herea  55'

15 September 2011 19:00	PSV Eindhoven	1–0	Legia Warsaw	Philips Stadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 13,000[31] Referee: István Vad (Hungary)
	Mertens  21'	Report

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29 September 2011 21:05	Legia Warsaw	3–2	Hapoel Tel Aviv	Pepsi Arena, Warsaw Attendance: 20,150[32] Referee: Saïd Ennjimi (France)
	Ljuboja  67' Komorowski  72' (pen.) Radović  89'	Report	Tamuz  34' Lala  79'

29 September 2011 21:05	Rapid București	1–3	PSV Eindhoven	Stadionul Național, Bucharest1 Attendance: 21,320[33] Referee: Fredy Fautrel (France)
	Alexa  28'	Report	Bouma  43' Toivonen  89' Matavž  90+2'

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20 October 2011 21:05	Rapid București	0–1	Legia Warsaw	Stadionul Național, Bucharest1 Attendance: 13,726[34] Referee: Fernando Teixeira Vitienes (Spain)
		Report	Radović  73'

20 October 2011 21:05	Hapoel Tel Aviv	0–1	PSV Eindhoven	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv Attendance: 9,468[35] Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)
		Report	Wijnaldum  70' (pen.)

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3 November 2011 19:00	Legia Warsaw	3–1	Rapid București	Pepsi Arena, Warsaw Attendance: 30,786[36] Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)
	Radović  53', 69' Kucharczyk  90+3'	Report	Teixeira  65'

3 November 2011 19:00	PSV Eindhoven	3–3	Hapoel Tel Aviv	Philips Stadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 23,500[37] Referee: Stuart Attwell (England)
	Wijnaldum  12' Toivonen  59' Strootman  87'	Report	Damari  10' Tamuz  33', 47'

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30 November 2011 21:05	Rapid București	1–3	Hapoel Tel Aviv	Stadionul Național, Bucharest1 Attendance: 4,529[38] Referee: Zsolt Szabó (Hungary)
	Deac  43' (pen.)	Report	Igiebor  12' Tamuz  39' (pen.) Tuama  45+1'

30 November 2011 21:05	Legia Warsaw	0–3	PSV Eindhoven	Pepsi Arena, Warsaw Attendance: 28,786[39] Referee: Fırat Aydınus (Turkey)
		Report	Żewłakow  32' (o.g.) Mertens  59' (pen.) Labyad  68'

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15 December 2011 19:00	Hapoel Tel Aviv	2–0	Legia Warsaw	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv Attendance: 5,500[40] Referee: Thomas Einwaller (Austria)
	Tuama  33' Yadin  76'	Report

15 December 2011 19:00	PSV Eindhoven	2–1	Rapid București	Philips Stadion, Eindhoven Attendance: 27,000[41] Referee: Simon Lee Evans (Wales)
	Manolev  75' Matavž  79'	Report	Pancu  90+2'

Notes

• Note 1: Rapid București played their home matches at Stadionul Național, Bucharest as they have left their own Stadionul Giuleşti-Valentin Stănescu prior to the season.

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sporting CP	6	4	0	2	8	4	+4	12
Lazio	6	2	3	1	7	5	+2	9
Vaslui	6	1	3	2	5	8	−3	6
Zürich	6	1	2	3	5	8	−3	5

15 September 2011 19:00	Zürich	0–2	Sporting CP	Letzigrund, Zürich Attendance: 10,400[42] Referee: Pol van Boekel (Netherlands)
		Report	Insúa  4' Van Wolfswinkel  21'

15 September 2011 19:00	Lazio	2–2	Vaslui	Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 13,913[43] Referee: Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands)
	Cissé  35' (pen.) Sculli  71'	Report	Wesley  59', 63' (pen.)

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29 September 2011 21:05	Vaslui	2–2	Zürich	Stadionul Ceahlăul, Piatra Neamţ2 Attendance: 3,000[44] Referee: Menashe Masiah (Israel)
	Wesley  62' (pen.) Temwanjera  77'	Report	Alphonse  32' Mehmedi  78'

29 September 2011 21:05	Sporting CP	2–1	Lazio	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Attendance: 33,725[45] Referee: Serge Gumienny (Belgium)
	Van Wolfswinkel  21' Insúa  45+2'	Report	Klose  40'

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20 October 2011 21:05	Sporting CP	2–0	Vaslui	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Attendance: 28,106[46] Referee: Clément Turpin (France)
	Evaldo  43' Fernández  70'	Report

20 October 2011 21:05	Zürich	1–1	Lazio	Letzigrund, Zürich Attendance: 10,800[47] Referee: Pawel Gil (Poland)
	Nikci  23'	Report	Sculli  22'

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3 November 2011 19:00	Vaslui	1–0	Sporting CP	Stadionul Ceahlăul, Piatra Neamţ2 Attendance: 4,000[48] Referee: Kristinn Jakobsson (Iceland)
	Zmeu  30'	Report

3 November 2011 19:00	Lazio	1–0	Zürich	Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 13,414[49] Referee: Michael Koukoulakis (Greece)
	Brocchi  62'	Report

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1 December 2011 21:05	Sporting CP	2–0	Zürich	Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon Attendance: 25,309[50] Referee: Peter Rasmussen (Denmark)
	Van Wolfswinkel  15' Bojinov  58'	Report

1 December 2011 21:05	Vaslui	0–0	Lazio	Stadionul Ceahlăul, Piatra Neamţ2 Attendance: 7,000[51] Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)
		Report

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14 December 2011 19:00	Zürich	2–0	Vaslui	Letzigrund, Zürich Attendance: 6,200[52] Referee: Maksim Layushkin (Russia)
	Margairaz  69' Buff  90'	Report

14 December 2011 19:00	Lazio	2–0	Sporting CP	Stadio Olimpico, Rome Attendance: 8,295[53] Referee: Mike Dean (England)
	Kozák  42' Sculli  55'	Report

Notes

• Note 2: Vaslui played their home matches at Stadionul Ceahlăul, Piatra Neamţ as their own Stadionul Municipal did not meet UEFA criteria.

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Beşiktaş	6	4	0	2	13	7	+6	12
Stoke City	6	3	2	1	10	7	+3	11
Dynamo Kyiv	6	1	4	1	7	7	0	7
Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	0	2	4	8	17	−9	2

15 September 2011 19:00	Dynamo Kyiv	1–1	Stoke City	Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv Attendance: 14,500[54] Referee: Ovidiu Haţegan (Romania)
	Vukojević  90+1'	Report	Jerome  55'

15 September 2011 19:00	Beşiktaş	5–1	Maccabi Tel Aviv	BJK İnönü Stadium, Istanbul Attendance: 17,936[55] Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov (Russia)
	Almeida  3', 28' Aurélio  51' Korkmaz  53' Edú  88'	Report	Kahat  48'

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29 September 2011 21:05	Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–1	Dynamo Kyiv	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv Attendance: 13,835[56] Referee: Marijo Strahonja (Croatia)
	Micha  44'	Report	Brown  9'

29 September 2011 21:05	Stoke City	2–1	Beşiktaş	Britannia Stadium, Stoke-on-Trent Attendance: 23,551[57] Referee: Antony Gautier (France)
	Crouch  15' Walters  78' (pen.)	Report	Hilbert  14'

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20 October 2011 21:05	Stoke City	3–0	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Britannia Stadium, Stoke-on-Trent Attendance: 22,756[58] Referee: Anastassios Kakos (Greece)
	Jones  12' Jerome  24' Shotton  32'	Report

20 October 2011 21:05	Dynamo Kyiv	1–0	Beşiktaş	Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, Kyiv Attendance: 13,500[59] Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)
	Harmash  90+4'	Report

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3 November 2011 19:00	Maccabi Tel Aviv	1–2	Stoke City	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv Attendance: 10,368[60] Referee: Duarte Gomes (Portugal)
	Colautti  90'	Report	Whitehead  51' Crouch  64'

3 November 2011 19:00	Beşiktaş	1–0	Dynamo Kyiv	BJK İnönü Stadium, Istanbul Attendance: 24,183[61] Referee: Tommy Skjerven (Norway)
	Korkmaz  68'	Report

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1 December 2011 21:05	Stoke City	1–1	Dynamo Kyiv	Britannia Stadium, Stoke-on-Trent Attendance: 23,774[62] Referee: Florian Meyer (Germany)
	Jones  81'	Report	Upson  27' (o.g.)

1 December 2011 21:05	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2–3	Beşiktaş	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv Attendance: 9,420[63] Referee: Serge Gumienny (Belgium)
	Yeini  59' Lugasi  70'	Report	Quaresma  45+1', 90+2' Toraman  47'

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14 December 2011 19:00	Dynamo Kyiv	3–3	Maccabi Tel Aviv	Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, Kiev Attendance: 3,850[64] Referee: Daniel Stålhammar (Sweden)
	Yeini  12' (o.g.) Husyev  17', 80'	Report	Vered  49' Atar  62' Dabour  75'

14 December 2011 19:00	Beşiktaş	3–1	Stoke City	BJK İnönü Stadium, Istanbul Attendance: 26,118[65] Referee: Marcin Borski (Poland)
	Fernandes  59' (pen.) Pektemek  74' Edu  82'	Report	Fuller  29'

Group F

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Athletic Bilbao	6	4	1	1	11	8	+3	13
Red Bull Salzburg	6	3	1	2	11	8	+3	10
Paris Saint-Germain	6	3	1	2	8	7	+1	10
Slovan Bratislava	6	0	1	5	4	11	−7	1

Tiebreakers

• Red Bull Salzburg and Paris Saint-Germain are ranked by their head-to-head records (decided by away goals), as shown below.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	AG	Pts
Red Bull Salzburg	2	1	0	1	3	3	0	1	3
Paris Saint-Germain	2	1	0	1	3	3	0	0	3

15 September 2011 19:00	Slovan Bratislava	1–2	Athletic Bilbao	Štadión Pasienky, Bratislava Attendance: 6,328[66] Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)
	Guédé  34'	Report	Susaeta  13' Muniain  40'

15 September 2011 19:00	Paris Saint-Germain	3–1	Red Bull Salzburg	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 23,039[67] Referee: Luca Banti (Italy)
	Nenê  35' (pen.) Bodmer  44' Ménez  67'	Report	Sekagya  87'

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29 September 2011 21:05	Red Bull Salzburg	3–0	Slovan Bratislava	Red Bull Arena, Wals-Siezenheim Attendance: 7,500[68] Referee: Alexandru Dan Tudor (Romania)
	Leonardo  60' Zárate  76' Švento  90+5'	Report

29 September 2011 21:05	Athletic Bilbao	2–0	Paris Saint-Germain	San Mamés Stadium, Bilbao Attendance: 23,487[69] Referee: Bas Nijhuis (Netherlands)
	Gabilondo  20' Susaeta  45+1'	Report

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20 October 2011 21:05	Athletic Bilbao	2–2	Red Bull Salzburg	San Mamés Stadium, Bilbao Attendance: 22,566[70] Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)
	Llorente  69' (pen.), 75' (pen.)	Report	Wallner  30' Leonardo  36'

20 October 2011 21:05	Slovan Bratislava	0–0	Paris Saint-Germain	Štadión Pasienky, Bratislava Attendance: 7,238[71] Referee: Lee Probert (England)
		Report

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3 November 2011 19:00	Red Bull Salzburg	0–1	Athletic Bilbao	Red Bull Arena, Wals-Siezenheim Attendance: 10,350[72] Referee: Stanislav Todorov (Bulgaria)
		Report	Herrera  37'

3 November 2011 19:00	Paris Saint-Germain	1–0	Slovan Bratislava	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 32,046[73] Referee: Mark Courtney (Northern Ireland)
	Pastore  63'	Report

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1 December 2011 21:05	Athletic Bilbao	2–1	Slovan Bratislava	San Mamés Stadium, Bilbao Attendance: 28,314[74] Referee: Hannes Kaasik (Estonia)
	de Marcos  15' Susaeta  75'	Report	Šebo  39'

1 December 2011 21:05	Red Bull Salzburg	2–0	Paris Saint-Germain	Red Bull Arena, Wals-Siezenheim Attendance: 8,304[75] Referee: Liran Liany (Israel)
	Jantscher  20' Švento  90+4'	Report

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14 December 2011 19:00	Slovan Bratislava	2–3	Red Bull Salzburg	Štadión Pasienky, Bratislava Attendance: 4,586[76] Referee: Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)
	Lačný  3', 6'	Report	Jantscher  19' (pen.) Leonardo  24' Had  52' (o.g.)

14 December 2011 19:00	Paris Saint-Germain	4–2	Athletic Bilbao	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 37,114[77] Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)
	Pastore  21' Bodmer  41' Pérez  85' (o.g.) Hoarau  90' (pen.)	Report	Aurtenetxe  3' López  55'

Group G

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Metalist Kharkiv	6	4	2	0	15	6	+9	14
AZ	6	1	5	0	10	7	+3	8
Austria Wien	6	2	2	2	10	11	−1	8
Malmö FF	6	0	1	5	4	15	−11	1

Tiebreakers

• AZ and Austria Wien are tied on their head-to-head records as shown below, so AZ are ranked ahead of Austria Wien because of their higher overall goal difference in the group.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	AG	Pts
AZ	2	0	2	0	4	4	0	2	2
Austria Wien	2	0	2	0	4	4	0	2	2

15 September 2011 21:05	AZ	4–1	Malmö FF	AFAS Stadion, Alkmaar Attendance: 11,905[78] Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)
	Altidore  21' Elm  32' (pen.) Maher  39' Holman  49'	Report	Larsson  72' (pen.)

15 September 2011 21:05	Austria Wien	1–2	Metalist Kharkiv	Generali Arena, Vienna Attendance: 9,100[79] Referee: Mike Dean (England)
	Jun  7'	Report	Gueye  56' Xavier  79' (pen.)

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29 September 2011 19:00	Metalist Kharkiv	1–1	AZ	Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv Attendance: 37,122[80] Referee: Marcin Borski (Poland)
	Taison  76'	Report	Altidore  26'

29 September 2011 19:00	Malmö FF	1–2	Austria Wien	Swedbank Stadion, Malmö Attendance: 10,802[81] Referee: Pawel Gil (Poland)
	Ranégie  82'	Report	Barazite  17' A. Grünwald  36'

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20 October 2011 19:00	Malmö FF	1–4	Metalist Kharkiv	Swedbank Stadion, Malmö Attendance: 8,466[82] Referee: Fırat Aydınus (Turkey)
	Hamad  22'	Report	Cristaldo  32' Fininho  45' Edmar  57' Devich  73'

20 October 2011 19:00	AZ	2–2	Austria Wien	AFAS Stadion, Alkmaar Attendance: 15,321[83] Referee: Alexandru Dan Tudor (Romania)
	Hlinka  80' (o.g.) Wernbloom  83'	Report	Marcellis  19' (o.g.) Gorgon  29'

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3 November 2011 21:05	Metalist Kharkiv	3–1	Malmö FF	Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv Attendance: 25,883[84] Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)
	Taison  46', 56' Fininho  90'	Report	Ranégie  66'

3 November 2011 21:05	Austria Wien	2–2	AZ	Generali Arena, Vienna Attendance: 10,450[85] Referee: Tony Chapron (France)
	Ortlechner  58' Barazite  60'	Report	Elm  19' (pen.) Wernbloom  44'

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30 November 2011 19:00	Malmö FF	0–0	AZ	Swedbank Stadion, Malmö Attendance: 7,632[86] Referee: Mark Courtney (Northern Ireland)
		Report

30 November 2011 19:00	Metalist Kharkiv	4–1	Austria Wien	Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv Attendance: 25,810[87] Referee: Cristian Balaj (Romania)
	Devich  16' Edmar  40' Gueye  60' Sosa  90'	Report	Mader  19'

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15 December 2011 21:05	AZ	1–1	Metalist Kharkiv	AFAS Stadion, Alkmaar Attendance: 13,268[88] Referee: Carlos Clos Gómez (Spain)
	Maher  37'	Report	Devich  37'

15 December 2011 21:05	Austria Wien	2–0	Malmö FF	Generali Arena, Vienna Attendance: 9,350[18] Referee: Antti Munukka (Finland)
	Liendl  62' Barazite  80'	Report

Group H

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Club Brugge	6	3	2	1	12	9	+3	11
Braga	6	3	2	1	12	6	+6	11
Birmingham City	6	3	1	2	8	8	0	10
Maribor	6	0	1	5	6	15	−9	1

Tiebreakers

• Club Brugge and Braga are ranked by their head-to-head records, as shown below.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Club Brugge	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1	4
Braga	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	1

15 September 2011 21:05	Club Brugge	2–0	Maribor	Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges Attendance: 16,668[89] Referee: Fırat Aydınus (Turkey)
	Odjidja  7' Dirar  24'	Report

15 September 2011 21:05	Birmingham City	1–3	Braga	St Andrew's, Birmingham Attendance: 21,747[90] Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Germany)
	King  71'	Report	Barbosa  6', 88' Lima  59'

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29 September 2011 19:00	Braga	1–2	Club Brugge	Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga Attendance: 9,145[91] Referee: Tommy Skjerven (Norway)
	Barbosa  53'	Report	Akpala  71' Donk  90+1'

29 September 2011 19:00	Maribor	1–2	Birmingham City	Ljudski vrt, Maribor Attendance: 10,000[92] Referee: Tom Harald Hagen (Norway)
	Volaš  29'	Report	Burke  64' Elliott  79'

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20 October 2011 19:00	Maribor	1–1	Braga	Ljudski vrt, Maribor Attendance: 8,500[93] Referee: Stephan Studer (Switzerland)
	Ibraimi  14'	Report	Elderson  44'

20 October 2011 19:00	Club Brugge	1–2	Birmingham City	Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges Attendance: 23,936[94] Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)
	Akpala  3'	Report	Murphy  26' Wood  90+9'

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3 November 2011 21:05	Braga	5–1	Maribor	Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga Attendance: 7,185[95] Referee: Leontios Trattou (Cyprus)
	Lima  4' Alan  7' Elderson  38' Paulo Vinícius  85' Mérida  90+1'	Report	Volaš  62'

3 November 2011 21:05	Birmingham City	2–2	Club Brugge	St Andrew's, Birmingham Attendance: 26,849[96] Referee: Marcin Borski (Poland)
	Beausejour  55' King  74' (pen.)	Report	Meunier  39' Akpala  44'

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30 November 2011 19:00	Maribor	3–4	Club Brugge	Ljudski vrt, Maribor Attendance: 8,000[97] Referee: Libor Kovařik (Czech Republic)
	Volaš  11', 68' Donk  51' (o.g.)	Report	Dirar  74' Volaš  77' (o.g.) Akpala  82' Donk  90'

30 November 2011 19:00	Braga	1–0	Birmingham City	Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga Attendance: 9,957[98] Referee: Markus Strömbergsson (Sweden)
	Viana  51'	Report

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15 December 2011 21:05	Club Brugge	1–1	Braga	Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges Attendance: 18,383[18] Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (Macedonia)
	Vleminckx  50'	Report	Ewerton  65'

15 December 2011 21:05	Birmingham City	1–0	Maribor	St Andrew's, Birmingham Attendance: 21,436[99] Referee: Sascha Kever (Switzerland)
	Rooney  24'	Report

Group I

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Atlético Madrid	6	4	1	1	11	4	+7	13
Udinese	6	2	3	1	6	7	−1	9
Celtic	6	1	3	2	6	7	−1	6
Rennes	6	0	3	3	5	10	−5	3

15 September 2011 21:05	Udinese	2–1	Rennes	Stadio Friuli, Udine Attendance: 8,383[100] Referee: Cristian Balaj (Romania)
	Di Natale  39' Armero  83'	Report	Hadji  18'

15 September 2011 21:05	Atlético Madrid	2–0	Celtic	Vicente Calderón Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 24,868[101] Referee: Peter Rasmussen (Denmark)
	Falcao  3' Diego  68'	Report

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29 September 2011 19:00	Celtic	1–1	Udinese	Celtic Park, Glasgow Attendance: 28,476[102] Referee: Bülent Yıldırım (Turkey)
	Ki Sung-Yueng  3' (pen.)	Report	Abdi  88' (pen.)

29 September 2011 19:00	Rennes	1–1	Atlético Madrid	Stade de la Route de Lorient, Rennes Attendance: 24,299[103] Referee: Hüseyin Göçek (Turkey)
	Montaño  55'	Report	Juanfran  86'

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20 October 2011 19:00	Rennes	1–1	Celtic	Stade de la Route de Lorient, Rennes Attendance: 21,825[104] Referee: Robert Małek (Poland)
	Cha Du-Ri  30' (o.g.)	Report	Ledley  70'

20 October 2011 19:00	Udinese	2–0	Atlético Madrid	Stadio Friuli, Udine Attendance: 10,026[105] Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)
	Benatia  88' Floro Flores  90+3'	Report

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3 November 2011 21:05	Celtic	3–1	Rennes	Celtic Park, Glasgow Attendance: 28,578[106] Referee: Bruno Paixão (Portugal)
	Stokes  30', 43' Hooper  82'	Report	Mangane  2'

3 November 2011 21:05	Atlético Madrid	4–0	Udinese	Vicente Calderón Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 18,300[107] Referee: István Vad (Hungary)
	Adrián  6', 12' Diego  36' Falcao  67'	Report

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30 November 2011 19:00	Rennes	0–0	Udinese	Stade de la Route de Lorient, Rennes Attendance: 17,428[108] Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)
		Report

30 November 2011 19:00	Celtic	0–1	Atlético Madrid	Celtic Park, Glasgow Attendance: 33,257[109] Referee: Eric Braamhaar (Netherlands)
		Report	Arda  30'

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15 December 2011 21:05	Udinese	1–1	Celtic	Stadio Friuli, Udine Attendance: 8,644[18] Referee: Michael Koukoulakis (Greece)
	Di Natale  45+1'	Report	Hooper  29'

15 December 2011 21:05	Atlético Madrid	3–1	Rennes	Vicente Calderón Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 13,154[18] Referee: Kristinn Jakobsson (Iceland)
	Falcao  38' (pen.) Domínguez  43' Arda  79'	Report	Mandjeck  86'

Group J

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Schalke 04	6	4	2	0	13	2	+11	14
Steaua București	6	2	2	2	9	11	−2	8
Maccabi Haifa	6	2	0	4	10	12	−2	6
AEK Larnaca	6	1	2	3	4	11	−7	5

15 September 2011 21:05	Maccabi Haifa	1–0	AEK Larnaca	Kiryat Eliezer Stadium, Haifa Attendance: 9,250[110] Referee: Libor Kovařik (Czech Republic)
	Ghadir  54'	Report

15 September 2011 21:05	Steaua București	0–0	Schalke 04	Stadionul Dr. Constantin Rădulescu, Cluj-Napoca3 Attendance: 12,390[111] Referee: Michael Koukoulakis (Greece)
		Report

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29 September 2011 19:00	Schalke 04	3–1	Maccabi Haifa	Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen Attendance: 49,070[112] Referee: Manuel De Sousa (Portugal)
	Fuchs  8', 66' Jurado  82'	Report	Vered  35'

29 September 2011 19:00	AEK Larnaca	1–1	Steaua București	GSP Stadium, Nicosia4 Attendance: 4,058[112] Referee: Mark Courtney (Northern Ireland)
	Mrdaković  59'	Report	M. Costea  65'

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20 October 2011 19:00	AEK Larnaca	0–5	Schalke 04	GSP Stadium, Nicosia4 Attendance: 5,344[113] Referee: Luca Banti (Italy)
		Report	Holtby  23' Huntelaar  35', 88' Höwedes  40' Draxler  87'

20 October 2011 19:00	Maccabi Haifa	5–0	Steaua București	Kiryat Eliezer Stadium, Haifa Attendance: 12,000[114] Referee: Daniel Stålhammar (Sweden)
	Amashe  10', 20' Katan  38' (pen.) Twatiha  72' Vered  79'	Report

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3 November 2011 21:05	Schalke 04	0–0	AEK Larnaca	Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen Attendance: 52,077[115] Referee: Hannes Kaasik (Estonia)
		Report

3 November 2011 21:05	Steaua București	4–2	Maccabi Haifa	National Arena, Bucharest Attendance: 31,233[116] Referee: Kevin Blom (Netherlands)
	L. Tatu  13' F. Costea  28' Tănase  64', 84'	Report	Meshumar  36' Katan  40'

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1 December 2011 19:00	AEK Larnaca	2–1	Maccabi Haifa	GSP Stadium, Nicosia4 Attendance: 3,132[117] Referee: Andre Marriner (England)
	Gonzalo García  14' Pintado  51'	Report	Buljat  75'

1 December 2011 19:00	Schalke 04	2–1	Steaua București	Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen Attendance: 53,123[118] Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)
	Papadopoulos  25' Raúl  57'	Report	Rusescu  33'

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14 December 2011 21:05	Maccabi Haifa	0–3	Schalke 04	Kiryat Eliezer Stadium, Haifa Attendance: 11,234[119] Referee: Fredy Fautrel (France)
		Report	Buljat  7' (o.g.) Marica  84' Wiegel  90+2'

14 December 2011 21:05	Steaua București	3–1	AEK Larnaca	National Arena, Bucharest Attendance: 50,051[120] Referee: Saïd Ennjimi (France)
	Rusescu  55' (pen.) Nikolić  70', 85'	Report	Pintado  61'

Notes

• Note 3: Steaua București played their home match against Schalke 04 at Stadionul Dr. Constantin Rădulescu, Cluj-Napoca as the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying Group D match between Romania and France left the grass at the National Arena in an unplayable state.^[121]
• Note 4: AEK Larnaca played their home matches at GSP Stadium, Nicosia as their own GSZ Stadium did not meet UEFA criteria.

Group K

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Twente	6	4	1	1	14	7	+7	13
Wisła Kraków	6	3	0	3	8	13	−5	9
Fulham	6	2	2	2	9	6	+3	8
Odense	6	1	1	4	9	14	−5	4

15 September 2011 21:05	Wisła Kraków	1–3	Odense	Stadion im. Henryka Reymana, Kraków Attendance: 12,920[122] Referee: Sascha Kever (Switzerland)
	Kirm  54'	Report	Johansson  35' Utaka  80' Falk  90+2'

15 September 2011 21:05	Fulham	1–1	Twente	Craven Cottage, London Attendance: 14,110[123] Referee: Antonio Damato (Italy)
	Johnson  19'	Report	De Jong  40'

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29 September 2011 19:00	Twente	4–1	Wisła Kraków	De Grolsch Veste, Enschede Attendance: 20,000[124] Referee: Duarte Gomes (Portugal)
	De Jong  32' Janko  45+1', 57' Janssen  80'	Report	Biton  9'

29 September 2011 19:00	Odense	0–2	Fulham	TRE-FOR Park, Odense Attendance: 7,969[125] Referee: Maksim Layushkin (Russia)
		Report	Johnson  36', 88'

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20 October 2011 19:00	Odense	1–4	Twente	TRE-FOR Park, Odense Attendance: 8,036[126] Referee: David Fernández Borbalán (Spain)
	Fall  71'	Report	Brama  13' Bajrami  31' Chadli  65' De Jong  82'

20 October 2011 19:00	Wisła Kraków	1–0	Fulham	Stadion im. Henryka Reymana, Kraków Attendance: 16,377[127] Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)
	Biton  60'	Report

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3 November 2011 21:05	Twente	3–2	Odense	De Grolsch Veste, Enschede Attendance: 20,000[128] Referee: Ovidiu Alin Hategan (Romania)
	Høegh  35' (o.g.) Landzaat  37' Fer  82'	Report	Fall  11', 62'

3 November 2011 21:05	Fulham	4–1	Wisła Kraków	Craven Cottage, London Attendance: 20,319[129] Referee: Halis Özkahya (Turkey)
	Duff  5' Johnson  30', 57' Sidwell  79'	Report	Kirm  9'

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1 December 2011 19:00	Odense	1–2	Wisła Kraków	TRE-FOR Park, Odense Attendance: 5,824[130] Referee: Laurent Duhamel (France)
	Falk  51'	Report	Biton  20' Małecki  28'

1 December 2011 19:00	Twente	1–0	Fulham	De Grolsch Veste, Enschede Attendance: 25,250[131] Referee: Marijo Strahonja (Croatia)
	Janko  89'	Report

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14 December 2011 21:05	Wisła Kraków	2–1	Twente	Stadion im. Henryka Reymana, Kraków Attendance: 15,500[132] Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov (Russia)
	Garguła  12' Genkov  46'	Report	de Jong  40'

14 December 2011 21:05	Fulham	2–2	Odense	Craven Cottage, London Attendance: 15,757[133] Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)
	Dempsey  27' Frei  31'	Report	Andreasen  64' Fall  90+3'

Group L

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Anderlecht	6	6	0	0	18	5	+13	18
Lokomotiv Moscow	6	4	0	2	14	11	+3	12
AEK Athens	6	1	0	5	8	15	−7	3
Sturm Graz	6	1	0	5	5	14	−9	3

Tiebreakers

• AEK Athens and Sturm Graz are ranked by their head-to-head records, as shown below.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
AEK Athens	2	1	0	1	4	3	+1	3
Sturm Graz	2	1	0	1	3	4	−1	3

15 September 2011 21:05	Sturm Graz	1–2	Lokomotiv Moscow	UPC-Arena, Graz Attendance: 13,356[134] Referee: Bruno Paixão (Portugal)
	Szabics  14'	Report	Obinna  28' Sychev  29'

15 September 2011 21:05	Anderlecht	4–1	AEK Athens	Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 11,480[135] Referee: Carlos Clos Gómez (Spain)
	Suárez  16', 40', 84' Jovanović  33'	Report	Leonardo  36'

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29 September 2011 18:00	Lokomotiv Moscow	0–2	Anderlecht	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow Attendance: 11,485[136] Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)
		Report	Suárez  11' Mbokani  71'

29 September 2011 19:00	AEK Athens	1–2	Sturm Graz	Olympic Stadium, Athens Attendance: 10,074[137] Referee: Lee Probert (England)
	Standfest  50' (o.g.)	Report	Burgstaller  87' Haas  90+2'

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20 October 2011 18:00	Lokomotiv Moscow	3–1	AEK Athens	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow Attendance: 8,279[138] Referee: Pol van Boekel (Netherlands)
	Sychev  47', 71' (pen.) Caicedo  90+3'	Report	Sialmas  89'

20 October 2011 19:00	Sturm Graz	0–2	Anderlecht	UPC-Arena, Graz Attendance: 14,297[139] Referee: Alan Kelly (Republic of Ireland)
		Report	Gillet  66' Suárez  75'

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3 November 2011 21:05	AEK Athens	1–3	Lokomotiv Moscow	Olympic Stadium, Athens Attendance: 4,042[140] Referee: William Collum (Scotland)
	Leonardo  61' (pen.)	Report	Glushakov  50' Maicon  72' Ignatyev  80'

3 November 2011 21:05	Anderlecht	3–0	Sturm Graz	Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 15,460[141] Referee: Menashe Masiah (Israel)
	Gillet  23' Suárez  74' De Sutter  81'	Report

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1 December 2011 18:00	Lokomotiv Moscow	3–1	Sturm Graz	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow Attendance: 12,423[142] Referee: Deniz Aytekin (Germany)
	Maicon  62' Sychev  72' (pen.) Glushakov  89'	Report	Kainz  63'

1 December 2011 19:00	AEK Athens	1–2	Anderlecht	Olympic Stadium, Athens Attendance: 3,703[143] Referee: Robert Małek (Poland)
	Sialmas  19'	Report	Gillet  4', 36'

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14 December 2011 21:05	Sturm Graz	1–3	AEK Athens	UPC-Arena, Graz Attendance: 13,681[144] Referee: Alexandru Deaconu (Romania)
	Kainz  59'	Report	Manolas  10' Burns  43' Klonaridis  77'

14 December 2011 21:05	Anderlecht	5–3	Lokomotiv Moscow	Constant Vanden Stock Stadium, Brussels Attendance: 14,069[18] Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)
	Kljestan  33' Fernando  39' Wasilewski  57' Suárez  61' Gillet  78'	Report	Ignatyev  21' Sychev  69' (pen.), 89'

References

External links

• 2011–12 UEFA Europa League, UEFA.com