3rd qualifying round continues in UEFA Champions League

ISTANBUL

The first leg of UEFA Champions League third qualifying round kicked off with five matches on Tuesday.

In an away match at Salonika, Greek host team PAOK drew Ajax of the Netherlands 2-2.

Belgium’s Club Brugge hosted Ukraine’s Dynamo Kiev to beat the guest team 1-0.

The first leg matches will conclude on Wednesday with five games.

Turkish top-tier football league runners-up Istanbul Basaksehir will face Greece's Olympiacos at the Basaksehir Fatih Terim Stadium in Istanbul.

Tuesday's results are as follows:

PAOK (Greece) - Ajax (the Netherlands): 2-2

APOEL (the Greek Cypriot side) - Qarabag (Azerbaijan): 1-2

Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) - Ferencvaros (Hungary): 1-1

Club Brugge (Belgium) - Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine): 1-0

Crvena Zvezda (Serbia) - Kobenhavn (Denmark): 1-1

Wednesday's matches are as follows:

Krasnodar (RUS) - Porto (POR)

Basaksehir (TUR) - Olympiacos (GRE)

Basel (SUI) - LASK (AUT)

CFR Cluj (ROU) - Celtic (SCO)

Maribor (SVN) - Rosenborg (NOR)