There were few surprises in the Europa League qualifiers on Thursday - and an unsavoury incident during Kukesi v Legia Warsaw.

Jonas Hofmann scored the only goal of the game as Borussia Dortmund won 1-0 at Wolfsberger AC - not to be confused with their Bundesliga rivals VfL Wolfsburg.

Other favourites such as Athletic Bilbao (2-0 winners over Inter Baku) and Bordeaux (3-0 winners over AEK Larnaca) got their first-leg ties off to smooth starts, but Sampdoria were humbled 4-0 at home to Vojvodina.

FK Kukesi fans threw stones at visiting Legia Warsaw players as their match was abandoned. Legia midfielder Ondrej Duda was struck by a stone and fell to the grass in Tirana.

Medical staff bandaged his head on the pitch. The Polish side said on Twitter that they expected to be awarded the victory in the tournament's third qualifying round after the incident.

On the British front, West Ham saw a 2-0 lead disintegrate after the sending-off of James Collins as they draw 2-2 with Astra Giurgiu at Upton Park.

Southampton cruised past Vitesse Arnhem 3-0 while Aberdeen - whose 65 travelling fans endured the longest trip in the history of UEFA competitions at 5,495km - lost 2-1 at Kairat Almaty of Kazakhstan, albeit with a valuable away goal to take to Scotland.

Results:

Kairat Almaty 2 - 1 Aberdeen

Elfsborg 2 - 1 Odd

Ballklubb AIK 1 - 3 Atromitos

Altach 2 - 1 Vitoria de Guimaraes

Apollon Limassol 1 - 1 FK Qabala

FC Krasnodar 2 - 0 Slovan Bratislava

Liberec 2 - 1 Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona

PAOK Thessaloniki FC 1 - 0 Spartak Trnava

Sturm Graz 2 - 3 Rubin Kazan

AZ Alkmaar 2 - 0 Istanbul Basaksehir

FC Zurich 0 - 1 Dinamo Minsk

Thun 0 - 0 FC Vaduz

Zilina 2 - 0 Vorskla

Broendby IF 0 - 0 Omonia Nicosia

Debrecen 2 - 3 Rosenborg

Rabotnicki 1 - 0 Trabzonspor

Tirgu Mures 0 - 3 Saint-Etienne

Bordeaux 3 - 0 AEK Larnaca

Sporting Charleroi 0 - 2 Zorya

Standard Liege 2 - 1 Zeljeznicar

Athletic Bilbao 2 - 0 Inter Baku

West Ham United 2 - 2 Astra Giurgiu

Belenenses 2 - 1 IFK Gothenburg

Hajduk Split 2 - 0 Stroemsgodset

Sampdoria 0 - 4 Vojvodina

Southampton 3 - 0 Vitesse

Wolfsberger AC 0 - 1 Borussia Dortmund

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