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    Jose Mourinho's Fenerbahce crash out of UCL qualifying

    By ESPN News Services,

    4 hours ago

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    Jose Mourinho's hopes of leading Fenerbahce into the revamped Champions League ended Tuesday when the Turkish team were knocked out in the third qualifying round by Lille .

    Lille advanced as the 3-2 winners after two legs as Canada striker Jonathan David converted a penalty in the 118th minute to secure a 1-1 draw after extra time.

    Fenerbahce scored in the first minute of second-half stoppage time through Bafodé Diakité 's own-goal to go 1-0 ahead in the second leg in Istanbul and take the match to extra time. Lille won the first leg 2-1.

    Mourinho was hired in June on an $11 million annual salary to try to win Fenerbahce's first Turkish league title since 2014. He was attempting to get his new team into the revamped 36-team league stage of the Champions League, which he won with Porto in 2004 and Inter Milan in 2010.

    Fenerbahce, who secured a 1-0 win against Adana Demispor in their Turkish Super Lig opener on Saturday, will now drop into the second-tier Europa League.

    Mourinho guided former club Roma to the final of the Europa League in 2022-23, losing to Sevilla on penalties.

    Information from The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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