Europa League Playoff Round Starts

The playoff round for group stage places in the 2009-10 Europa League commenced on Thursday as the 38 two-match sets got started. The games will be listed with the host clubs listed first. There will be links to stats on the individual games where the winners (as well as the visiting clubs in non-scoreless draws, due to the away goals rules). In the case of a scoreless draw, a link will placed on that score.

Kosice 3-3 AS Roma

Baki 1-3 FC Basel 1893

Teplice 1-2 Hapoel Tel-Aviv

FC BATE Borisov 0-1 PFC Litex Lovech

Bnei Yehuda Tel-Aviv FC 0-1 PSV Eindhoven

Trabzonspor 1-3 Toulouse FC

EA Guingamp 1-5 Hamburg

PFC CSKA Sofia 0-0 FC Dinamo Moscow

NAC Breda 1-3 Villarreal CF

PAOK FC 1-1 SC Heerenveen

FC Metalluhr Donetsk 2-2 FK Austria Vienna

SK Sturm Graz 1-1 FC Metalist Kharkiv

SK Rapid Vienna 1-0 Aston Villa

Steaua Bucharest 3-0 Saint Patrick's Athletic

Dinamo Bucharest vs. FC Slovan Liberec:
Match abandoned at Bucharest, Romania with the visiting club from the Czech Republic leading 2-0.

Personal note: This is another episode from the "People Are No Damned Good" Department.

Slavia Prague 3-0 Red Star Belgrade

Sivasspor 3-0 Shakhtar Donetsk

FC Twente 3-1 FK Qarabag

SC Vaslui 2-1 AEK Athens

Partizan Belgrade 1-1 MSK Zilina

FK Sarajevo 1-1 CFR 1907 Cluj

FC Sion 2-0 Fenerbahce

Brondby IF 2-1 Hertha Berlin

KKS Lech Poznan 1-0 Club Brugge

Lazio 3-0 IF Elfsborg

KRC Genk 1-2 Lille

Ajax Amsterdam 5-0 SK Slovan Bratislava

NK Maribor 0-2 Sparta Prague

SL Benfica 4-0 FC Vorskla Poltava

Galatasaray 5-0 FC Levadia Tallinn

Genoa 3-1 Odensk BK

Fulham 3-1 FC Amkar Perm

NK Dinamo Zagreb 4-0 Hearts

Werder Bremen 6-3 FK Aktobe

Everton 4-0 SK Sigma Olomouc

Staebek IF 0-3 Valencia

CD Nacional 4-3 Zenit Saint Petersburg

Athletic Bilbao 3-2 Tromso IL