2015–16 UEFA Europa League play-off round
A total of 44 teams competed in the play-off round to decide 22 of the 48 places in the group stage of the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League.[2] Matches could also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.If away goals were also equal, then thirty minutes of extra time was played, divided into two fifteen-minutes halves.If no goals were scored during extra time, the tie was decided by penalty shoot-out.For these draws (or in any cases where the result of a tie in the previous round was not known at the time of the draw), the seeding was carried out under the assumption that the team with the higher coefficient of an undecided tie advanced to this round, which means if the team with the lower coefficient was to advance, it simply took the seeding of its defeated opponent.Prior to the draws, UEFA formed "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee, but they were purely for convenience of the draw and for ensuring that teams from the same association were not drawn against each other, and did not resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition.