It was a busy day in the Europa League as the playoff round ground to a close, with the exception of one match that will be completed tomorrow.
UEFA Europa League 2013: Stuttgart falls against Rijeka, Tottenham and Swansea advance
While teams like Tottenham, Swansea and Sevilla moved on, Stuttgart and Udinese were among the teams knocked out of the Europa League today.
Daniel Kopatsch
Croatian side Rijeka pulled off a sizable upset defeating German side Stuttgart. With the match tied on aggregate and away goals Rijeka’s Goran Mujanovic scored four minutes into stoppage time to give his team the victory and move them on to the group stages.
Udinese were finished off by Czech club Liberec and Spartak Moscow were thumped by St. Gallen.
AZ Alkmaar’s match against Atromitos was abandoned early in the second half after a small fire broke out in the AFAS Stadion. The match resumed Thursday and AZ held on to advance on away goals.
Real Betis and Sevilla both advanced with Sevilla pulling off the biggest aggregate victory over the round, defeating Slask Wroclaw 9-1. Premier League clubs Tottenham and Swansea City both moved on to the group stages as well.
Here’s a full list of all the day’s results:
FK Rubin Kazan 3-0 (5-0) Molde
Spartak Moscow 2-4 (3-5) St Gallen
Dila Gori 0-3 (0-4) Rapid Vienna
Dynamo Kiev 5-1 (8-3) Aktobe Lento
FC Astra Ploiesti 1-1 (1-3) Maccabi Haifa
FC Nordsjaelland 0-1 (1-2) Elfsborg
VfB Stuttgart 2-2 (3-4) Rijeka
Trabzonspor 3-1 (5-1) FK Kukesi
Apoel Nicosia 1-2 (2-3) Zulte-Waregem
AZ Alkmaar 0-2 (3-3) Atromitos - AZ advances on away goals
Liberec 1-1 (4-2) Udinese
Sheriff Tiraspol 2-1 (3-2) Vojvodina
St Etienne 0-1 (3-5) Esbjerg
Besiktas 2-0 (3-2) Tromso
Petrolul Ploiesti 2-1 (3-6) Swansea City
FC Thun 3-0 (3-1) Partizan Belgrade
Nice 1-0 (1-2) Apollon Limassol
Racing Genk 5-2 (7-2) FH Hafnarfjordur
Skenderbeu 1-0 (1-1) Chornomorets - Chornomorets advances on penalties 7-6
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2-0 (5-1) Nomme Kalju
Eintracht Frankfurt 2-1 (4-1) FK Qarabag
FC Pasching 1-2 (1-4) Estoril
Standard Liege 3-1 (5-1) Minsk
VMFD Zalgiris 0-2 (0-7) SV Salzburg
Slask Wroclaw 0-5 (1-9) Sevilla
Feyenoord Rotterdam 1-2 (1-3) Kuban Krasnodar
Fiorentina 0-1 (2-2) Grasshoppers - Fiorentina advances on away goals
Tottenham Hotspur 3-0 (8-0) Dinamo Tbilisi
Braga 0-2 aet (1-3) Pandurii Targu-Jiu
Real Betis 6-0 (8-1) Jablonec
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