Champions League

Three Greek teams debuted this week for this season in Europe, and they all scored narrow home wins over theoretically inferior opponents.

On Wednesday PAOK hosted Borac Banja Luka for the Champions League and won 3-2 at Toumba. Kostas Koulierakis scored twice in the first half, but between his goals he conceded a penalty for a freak handball that Sebastian Herrera scored from.

Former Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho was unveiled as the new coach of Fenerbahçe on June 2 night, tasked with winning the club a first league title since 2014 after six runner-up finishes.

"I promise you that from this moment I belong to your family," Mourinho told thousands of fans at Şükrü Saraçoğlu Stadium on Istanbul's Anatolian side.

 Galatasaray clinched the Turkish league title on Sunday, edging city rival Fenerbahçe with a record total of 102 points.

Galatasaray needed just a point in its final game at Konyaspor, and won 3-1 with talismanic striker Mauro Icardi scoring twice to raise his league-leading total to 25.

PAOK players celebrate with the Greek Super League cup after becoming champions, in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Sunday. PAOK will enter the qualifying rounds of the Champions League next season after beating fellow Thessaloniki club Aris 2-1 to win the country's championship for the fourth time.

Olympiakos became on Thursday the second Greek club ever to reach a European final, as it defeated Aston Villa for the second time in as many games, this time with a 2-0 score in Piraeus, to set up an appointment with Fiorentina at the Europa Conference League final, to take place on May 29 in Athens.

The terrorist group known as the "Islamic State" has issued a threat against the upcoming quarter-finals of the Champions League. The ominous warning was delivered through a propaganda publication, Al-Azaim, affiliated with the "Islamic State - Khorasan Province".

BELGRADE - Serbian football powerhouse Red Star Belgrade have sacked head coach Barak Bakhar following Wednesday's 2-1 Eternal Derby defeat to arch-rivals Partizan.

Bakhar will be succeeded by former Red Star boss Vladan Milojevic.

The Turkish Football Federation has permanently banned the former president of a Turkish football team who punched a referee on the field moments after a game.

The federation late on Dec. 14 said it banned Faruk Koca, who has resigned as president of MKE Ankaragücü, for punching referee Halil Umut Meler on Dec. 11 night.

BERN - Red Star Belgrade lost 2-0 to Swiss side Young Boys in a UEFA Champions League Group G Matchday 5 game in Bern on Tuesday evening.

Red Star paid the price for wasting about half a dozen clear-cut chances, losing all hopes of a Europa League knock-out stage berth next spring.

Olympiakos is the only team in the Super League to have three wins in as many rounds of games, after downing visiting Lamia on Sunday, while AEK and Panathinaikos bounced back from their Champions League elimination to score road wins.