The remaining 36 two-game series for places in the group stage of the Europa League concluded on Thursday.
At Minsk, Belarus:
Two successful penalty kicks from Carl Hoefkens (5', 32') carried Club Brugge to a 3-2 road win in game two over Dinamo Minsk and a 5-3 aggregate win for the two-match series.
At Baku, Azerbaijan:
Lucas Barrios scored the only goal of the match (90'+1) as Borussia Dortmund defeated Qarabag FK 1-0 on the road in game two and closed out the Azerbaijani club on aggregate, 5-0.
At Aktobe, Kazakhstan:
Despite dropping a 2-1 decision on the road in game two, AZ Alkmaar still won their two-game series with FK Aktobe 3-2 on aggregate. Pontus Wernbloom scored the series-winning goal at 10 minutes.
At Funchal, Portugal:
FC BATE Borisov, with goals courtesy of Aleksandr Pavlov (52') and Maksim Skavysh (90'+2), defeated CS Maritimo 2-1 on the road in game two and won the two-game series 5-1 on aggregate.
At Moscow:
Silvio scored at 17 minutes as Lausanne-Sport gained a 1-1 road draw in game two with Lokomotiv Moscow, squaring the two-game series at 2-2 on aggregate to force what turned out to be 30 scoreless minutes of overtime. In the penalty-kick shootout, Silvio, Abdul Carrupt, Rodrigo Tosi, and Fabio Celestini each converted a spot kick as the Swiss second-division club won the shootout 4-3 on advance to the group stage.
At Mogilev, Belarus:
With a goal during stoppage time of each half----Nilmar (45'+1) and Marco Ruben (90'+1), Villarreal defeated hosts FC Dnepr Mogilev 2-1 in game two and handily took the two-game series 7-1 on aggregate.
At Helsinki, Finland:
Ricardo Quaresma (15'), Guti (67'), Necip Uysal (77'), and Filip Holosko (90'+3) each tallied once as Besiktas spanked HJK Helsinki 4-0 in game two on the road and took the two-match series 6-0 on aggregate.
At Vienna, Austria:
Carlos Ruiz scored at 42 minutes as Aris Thessaloniki FC gained a 1-1 road draw in match two with Austria Vienna, good enough for the Greek club to take the two-game series 2-1 on aggregate.
At Kharkiv, Ukraine:
Goals from Marko Devic (66') and Cleiton Xavier (71') enabled FC Metalist Kharkiv to gain a 2-2 home draw in game two with AC Omonia, good enough for the Ukrainian club to win their two-game series 3-2 on aggregate.
At Brondby, Denmark:
Sporting, thanks to goals from Evaldo (45'), Nuno Coelho (75'), and Yannick Djalo (90'+1), overturned their 2-0 home defeat of last week with a 3-0 road win over Brondby IF, taking out the Danish club 3-2 on aggregate.
At Nicosia, Cyprus:
After Ailton Almeida scored at 41 minutes for APOEL FC to give the Cypriot club a 1-0 home decision in game two with Getafe, squaring the two-game set at 1-1 on aggregate, Cata Diaz scored the series-winning goal in overtime (98') as the Spanish club took out APOEL 2-1 on aggregate.
At Bucharest, Romania:
Ante Vukusic scored the lone goal of the match (88') as Hajduk Split gained a 1-1 road draw with Unirea Urziceni in game two and won their two-game series 5-2 on aggregate.
At Lovech, Bulgaria:
With Yannick Mbengogo (53') and Peter Czvitkovics (81') providing the scoring, Debreceni VSC blanked PFC Litex Lovech 2-1 on the road in game two and won their two-game series 4-1 on aggregate.
At Zurich, Switzerland:
After Veroljub Salatic scored at 77 minutes to enable Grasshoppers to get the measure of visiting Steaua Bucharest 1-0 in game two to square the two-game series at 1-1 on aggregate to force what would be 30 scoreless overtime minutes, the Romanian club, thanks to successful conversions from Bogdan Stancu, Romeo Surdu, Stanislav Angelov, and Iasmin Latovlevici, won the penalty-kick shootout 4-3.
At Trabzon, Turkey:
Thanks to goals late in the contest from Giray Kacar (OG-83') and Dirk Kuyt (88'), Liverpool defeated Trabzonspor 2-1 on the road in game two and won their two-match series 3-1 on aggregate.
At Sofia, Bulgaria:
After a scoreless opening contest in Sweden, Daniel Mladenov (49') and Garra Dembele (51') each scored a goal some two minutes apart early in the second half as Levski Sofia overcame a one-goal deficit and defeated visiting AIK 2-1 in game two and won the two-game series by that same score on aggregate.
At Eindhoven, Netherlands:
Balazs Dzsudzsak scored twice (73', PK-90') as PSV Eindhoven easily overturned their 1-0 road loss of last week in Russia by stomping on visiting FC Sibir Novosibirsk 5-0 in game two and won their two-game series 5-1 on aggregate.
At Tel Aviv, Israel:
Despite dropping a 4-3 decision on the road to MAccabi Tel-Aviv in game two, Paris Saint-Germain won their two-game series 5-4 on aggregate, thanks to their 2-0 home win of last week, and goals in this road contest from Guillame Hoarau (PK-40'), Ludovic Giuly (64'), and Nene (PK-90'+3)
At Simferopol, Ukraine:
With goals courtesy of Arturo Vidal (PK-50') and Gonzalo Castro (90'+3), Bayer Leverkusen defeated SC Tavriya Simferopol 3-1 on the road in game two and won their two-game series 6-1 on aggregate.
At Ghent, Belgium:
Thanks to goals from Yaya Soumahoro (34') and Elimane Coulibaly (61'), KAA Gent overturned their 1-0 road setback of last week by defeating visiting Feyenoord Rotterdam 2-0 in game two and won their two-match set 2-1 on aggregate.
At Athens, Greece:
Pape Bouba Diop's goal at 23 minutes enabled AEK Athens to gain a 1-1 home draw in game two with Dundee United, enough for the Greek club to win their two-game series 2-1 on aggregate.
At Stuttgart, Germany:
With qualification for the group stage in jeopardy, VfB Stuttgart, thanks to goals from Timo Gebhart (56') and Christian Gentner (64'), erased a game-two two-goal deficit at home to gain a 2-2 draw with Slovan Bratislava and won their two-game series 3-2 on aggregate.
At Poznan, Poland:
A 0-0 home stalemate in game two with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk carried KKS Lech Poznan to a 1-0 aggregate win for the two-match series.
At Utrecht, Netherlands:
Ricky van Wolfswinkel's hat trick (PK-12', PK-19', 46') helped FC Utrecht erase the two-goal aggregate deficit after game one as they spanked visiting Celtic 4-0 in game two to take out the Bhoys 4-2 on aggregate.
At Wrexham, Wales:
Giuseppe Aquaro (11') and Christian Tiboni (80') provided the goalpower that carried CSKA Sofia to a 2-2 road draw in game two with The New Saints, enough to carry the Bulgarian club to a 5-2 aggregate win in the two-match series.
At Lviv, Ukraine:
Artem Fedetsky scored the series-winning goal in second-half stoppage time (90'+3) as FC Karpaty Lviv gained a 1-1 home draw with Galatasaray in game two, and with the score at 2-2 on aggregate, won the two-game series on away goals.
At Maribor, Slovenia:
Despite dropping game two 3-2 on the road, Palermo still won their two-game series with NK Maribor 5-3 on aggregate. Abel Hernandez scored both goals for the Sicilian club at 62 and 68 minutes.
At Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France:
With the two-game series having gone scoreless through the first game-and-a-half, Yohan Cabaye (PK-69') and Aurelien Chedjou (80') provided the scoring that carried LOSC Lille Metropole to both a 2-0 game-two and aggregate win over FC Vaslui.
At Boras, Sweden:
Edinson Cavani provided both goals (29', 38') as Napoli defeated IF Elfsborg 2-0 on the road in game two and won their two-game series 3-0 on aggregate.
At Turin, Italy:
Alessandro Del Piero scored the only goal of the match at 53 minutes as Juventus defeated visiting SK Sturm Graz in game two 1-0 and won their two-game series 3-1 on aggregate.
At Birmingham, England:
Rapid Vienna, with goals courtesy of Atdhe Nuhiu (52'), Mario Sonnleitner (78'), and Rene Gartler (81') each providing a tally, defeated Aston Villa 3-2 on the road in game two and won their two-match series 4-3 on aggregate.
At Motherwell, Scotland:
Peter Utaka provided the game's lone score at 28 minutes as Odense BK took game two 1-0 on the road and won their two-game series with Motherwell 3-1 on aggregate.
At Istanbul, Turkey:
After Emre Belozoglu scored at 50 minutes for Fenerbahce, enabling the Yellow Canaries to gain a 1-0 home decision in game two with PAOK FC to deadlock the two-game series 1-1 on aggregate, the Greek club won the series in overtime as Zlatan Muslimovic scored at the 112 minute mark enabling the visitors to take the series 2-1 on aggregate.
At Manchester, England:
Manchester City, with Shaun Wright-Phillips (43') and Dedryck Boyata (59') providing the scoring, blanked visiting FC Timisoara 2-0 in game two and won their two-game series 3-0 on aggregate.
At Zagreb, Croatia:
Two penalty kicks from Sammir (45'+2, 84') carried Dinamo Zagreb to a 2-1 home win in match two with Gyori ETO FC and a 4-1 aggregate win for the two-game series.
At Porto, Portugal:
Let's hear it for Hulk! His hat trick (36', PK-59', 63') carried FC Porto to a 4-2 game-two win over visiting KRC Genk and a 7-2 aggregate win.
The winners of these two-games series, along with Atletico Madrid who won the final this past may, CSKA Moscow, who wrapped up their two-game series on Tuesday, and the ten teams that lost their UEFA Champions League playoff round series (RSC Anderlecht, Sampdoria, Sevilla, Sparta Prague, Zenit Saint Petersburg, FC Sheriff, BSC Young Boys, Red Bull Salzburg, Rosenborg BK, and Dynamo Kiev) will take part in the Europa League group stage draw on Friday in Monaco.
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