Celtic Glasgow missed the move into the league of the Champions League. The Scottish champion failed in Kazakhstan on Qairat Almaty.
After a 0-0 in the first leg, the second leg was 0-0 after extra time. For Celtic, Adam Idah and Luke McGowan awarded the first two attempts in penalty shootout. Valeri Gromyko missed Almaty’s first penalty, after which Kazakhstan’s master converted all the attempts. Daizen Maeda then competed for the fifth penalty for the Scots, but goalkeeper Temirlan Anarbekov also parried a third penalty that evening.
Almaty is in the Champions League for the first time, in the past the club always failed in the qualification competitions. The competition will be drawn on Thursday. For Celtic, after three Champions League participants, only participation in the Europa League, which will be drawn on Friday.
Celtics daizen Maeda (right) in the duel with Cairats Alyaksandr Martynovich
Kazakhstan has only been a member of the UEFA since 2002
The Football Association from Kazakhstan was founded in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union and was initially a member of the Asian Association. In 2002 the move to UEFA took place.
The Almaty receives 18.62 million euros alone as a entry fee. For each win there is 2.1 million euros, for each draw 700,000 euros. There are further bonuses when the co-rounds are reached, for which at least 24th place in the total table would be necessary. Additional payments in the single -digit million range are also safe via another pot of the UEFA.