Mourinho won the Uefa Cup and the Champions League in successive seasons at Porto, launching his ultra-successful managerial career and attracting the interest of Chelsea.

Manchester United would have breathed the biggest sigh of relief after they were given possibly the easiest group of any of the English sides that were included in the draw for the first stage of the Champions League. El Arbi Hillel Soudani scored twice and assisted on another to seal the Croatian club’s place in the group stage.

There are five more qualifying games on Wednesday night, the winners of which over the two legs will join Dinamo Zagreb, Malmo FF, Valencia, Shakhtar and Maccabi Tel Aviv in the group stages of the Champions League.

Jokanovic was a Chelsea player between 2000 and 2002. Thus even if Maccabi Tel Aviv loses all its Group Stage matches, the team will earn at least NIS 80 million ($20 million).

Tel Aviv has guaranteed itself a massive payday worth over NIS 80 million, NIS 54 million from UEFA prize money alone, with the club set to make around another NIS 30 million from ticket sales, sponsorships and merchandising.

Title-holder Barcelona was handed a favorable draw with Bayer Leverkusen, Roma and BATE Borisov in the Champions League on Thursday.

In Group A, PSG will face Real Madrid, Sweden’s Malmo and Shakhtar Donetsk. However, they would have been delighted that the top seed they were given was Memphis Depay’s former side PSV Eindhoven.

Europe’s four highest-ranked leagues meet in the group of Juventus, Manchester City, Sevilla and Borussia Moenchengladbach.