Rangers returned to the UEFA Champions League group stage following a 12-year absence and a humiliating financial crisis, advancing through the playoff round by winning 1-0 at PSV Eindhoven. (More Football News)
Rangers will take its place in Thursday's group-stage d⛎raw thanks to Croatia forward Antonio Colak's 60th-minute goal in the second leg to seal a 3-2 win on aggregate score. A decade ago, Rangers was liquidated as a club and restarted in the fourth tier of Scottish fo🌞otball.
Now it joins city rival Celtic, which got direct entry as the Scottish league winner, i☂n the lucrative Champions League that is worth tens of millions of euros (dollar🗹s) to each. Copenhagen also advanced Wednesday by holding Turkish champion Trabzonspor to a 0-0 draw after winning the home leg 2-1 last week.
Dinamo Zagreb became the last team to qualify aft꧒er beating Nor⛦wegian club Bodø/Glimt 4-1 after extra time in Croatia. Substitute Josip Drmic scored the decisive goal in the 117th minute and then set up another for Petar Bockaj three minutes later.
Dinamo had led 2-1 after 90 minutes to level the aggregate score after Glimt won 1-0 in Norway last week. UEFA abolished the away-goals rule last year, which would have sent the Norwegian champion through for a first Champions Lea💦gue appearance.
