2012–13 UEFA Europa League
Rank Association Coeff Teams Notes
19 Austria 20.700 3
20 Cyprus 18.124 3 +1 ( UCL )
21 Bulgaria 17.875 3
22 Croatia 16.124 3
23 Belarus 16.083 3 +1 ( UCL )
24 Poland 15.916 3 +1 ( UCL )
25 Slovakia 14.499 3
26 Norway 14.375 3 +1 ( FP ) +1 ( UCL )
27 Serbia 14.250 3 +1 ( UCL )
28 Sweden 14.125 3 +1 ( UCL )
29 Bosnia and Herzegovina 9.124 3
30 Finland 8.966 3 +1 ( FP ) +1 ( UCL )
31 Republic of Ireland 8.708 3
32 Hungary 8.500 3 +1 ( UCL )
33 Moldova 7.749 3 +1 ( UCL )
34 Lithuania 7.708 3 +1 ( UCL )
35 Latvia 7.415 3
36 Georgia 6.957 3
Association team allocation -- Association ranking
For the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League , the associations are allocated places according to their 2011 UEFA country coefficients , which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2006–07 to 2010–11 . [ 7 ] [ 8 ]
The 2012-13 UEFA Europa League was the 42nd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 4th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. The final was played at the Amsterdam Arena in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was contested on 15 May 2013 between Portuguese club Benfica and English club Chelsea, who entered the competition at the Round of 32 after they finished in third place in the group stage of the 2012-13 Champions League. Chelsea won the final 2-1 for their first Europa League title, making them the fourth club - after Juventus, Ajax and Bayern Munich - and the first English club to have won all three major European trophies (UEFA Champions League, Europa League, and the Cup Winners' Cup). For the 2012-13 edition, the following changes were made from the 2011-12 edition: