diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index c35b68b8f..6bf80900f 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -1509,7 +1509,7 @@ def _download_n_results(self, query, n):
 class YoutubePlaylistIE(InfoExtractor):
 	"""Information Extractor for YouTube playlists."""
 
-	_VALID_URL = r'(?:https?://)?(?:\w+\.)?youtube\.com/(?:(?:course|view_play_list|my_playlists|artist|playlist)\?.*?(p|a|list)=|user/.*?/user/|p/|user/.*?#[pg]/c/)(?:PL|EC)?([0-9A-Za-z-_]+)(?:/.*?/([0-9A-Za-z_-]+))?.*'
+	_VALID_URL = r'(?:(?:https?://)?(?:\w+\.)?youtube\.com/(?:(?:course|view_play_list|my_playlists|artist|playlist)\?.*?(p|a|list)=|user/.*?/user/|p/|user/.*?#[pg]/c/)(?:PL|EC)?|PL|EC)([0-9A-Za-z-_]+)(?:/.*?/([0-9A-Za-z_-]+))?.*'
 	_TEMPLATE_URL = 'http://www.youtube.com/%s?%s=%s&page=%s&gl=US&hl=en'
 	_VIDEO_INDICATOR_TEMPLATE = r'/watch\?v=(.+?)&([^&"]+&)*list=.*?%s'
 	_MORE_PAGES_INDICATOR = r'yt-uix-pager-next'