Football: Champions League playoffs teams revealed

ANKARA

 Europe's top tier international club level football tournament UEFA Champions League third qualifying round ended on Wednesday night, with 11 teams proceeding to the playoff round.

In addition to Ukrainian giants Shakhtar Donetsk, Kazakhstan's Astana, Scottish club Celtic, Russian CSKA Moscow, Belarus' BATE, Swiss club Basel, Serbian side Partizan, Swedish team Malmo, Belgian side Club Brugge, Israel's Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Albanian team Skenderbeu are in the playoff stage.

Turkish side Fenerbahce were handed defeat by Shakhtar Donetsk on 3-0 aggregate. The scorers for Shakhtar Donetsk were Ukrainian forward Olexandr Gladkiy, Croatian right-back Darijo Srna and Brazilian midfielder Alex Teixeira. Near the end of the game Fenerbahce's Danish center-back Simon Kjaer was brandished his second yellow card after a foul and was sent off.

Fenerbahce are heading out to the second tier UEFA Europa League's playoffs.

Results:

Astana (Kazakhstan) - HJK (Finland): 4-3 (0-0)

Qarabag (Azerbaijan) - Celtic (Scotland): 0-0 (0-1)

Sparta Prague (Czech Republic) - CSKA Moscow (Russia): 2-3 (2-2)

BATE (Belarus) - Videoton (Hungary): 1-0 (1-1)

Basel (Switzerland) - Lech Poznan (Poland): 1-0 (3-1)

Partizan (Serbia) - Steaua Bucharest (Romania): 4-2 (1-1)

Malmo (Sweden) - Salzburg (Austria): 3-0 (0-2)

Club Brugge (Belgium) - Panathinaikos (Greece): 3-0 (1-2)

Viktoria Plzen (Czech Republic) - Maccabi Tel-Aviv (Israel): 0-2 (2-1)

Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine) - Fenerbahce (Turkey): 3-0 (0-0)

Skenderbeu (Albania) - Milsami (Moldova): 2-0 (2-0)