ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — The Champions League is heading to Kazakhstan for just the second time, and newcomers from Norway and Cyprus also advanced Tuesday to the elite league phase.

Kairat Almaty goalkeeper Temirlan Anarbekov saved three penalties in the shootout to lift the Kazakh champion over Celtic in the qualifying playoffs after the teams played out a second straight 0-0 draw. Almaty won the shootout 3-2.

Bodo/Glimt of Norway eased past Sturm Graz — winning 6-2 on aggregate despite a 2-1 loss in the return leg in Austria — to bring Champions League games to its stadium inside the Arctic Circle this season.

Unheralded Cypriot champion Pafos stunned Red Star Belgrade, the European champion in 1991, with an 89th-minute goal by Brazilian forward Jajá to draw 1-1 at home and advance

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