London, November 9:

Bayern Munich were held to 2-2 by a late equaliser from visiting Bolton in the UEFA Cup group stage on Thursday.

Bolton’s Kevin Nolan collected a quick throw-in and hooked the ball over Bayern defenders Lucio and Christian Lell before tapping to Kevin Davies, who scored past Bayern goalkeeper Oliver Khan in the 82nd minute.

Lukas Podolski had scored twice for four-time European champion Bayern, who are in the UEFA Cup after 10 years of Champions League soccer because they finished fourth in the German league last season.

Other winners from Thursday’s 16 games included Tottenham, Everton, Panathinaikos, Villarreal, Spartak Moscow, Sparta Prague, Zenit St Petersburg and Helsingborg, while 1991 European champion Red Star Belgrade lost 3-0 at Greek side Aris.

Ricardo Gardner scored Bolton’s opener in the eighth minute after taking a loose ball in the box. The ball bounced up and went in off the post. Podolski scored in the 30th and 49th, both set up by Franck Ribery.

Bolton were playing their first European match with new manager Gary Megson, who took over on October 25.

Red Star — who lost in injury-time to Bayern 3-2 in the first round — conceded goals in the 89th and 90th minutes against Aris. Athanassios Papazoglu scored twice and Sergio Kolce added the other.

Tottenham beat Hapoel Tel Aviv 2-0, on goals from Robbie Keane and Dimitar Berbatov.

Spurs, a two-time UEFA Cup champions, lost 2-1 at home to Getafe in their opening group match. They have since replaced coach Martin Jol with Juande Ramos, who guided Sevilla to consecutive UEFA Cup titles.

In other Group G game, Aalborg scored an 86th-minute goal through Mattias Lindstrom to draw Anderlecht 1-1.

Fiorentina routed Swedish side Elfsborg 6-1 in Group C. Martin Jorgensen scored twice and Christian Vieri, Marco Donadel, Per Kroldrup and Samuel Di Carmine also found the net.

Karol Kisel scored two goals, including the winner, in Sparta Prague’s 3-2 victory at Toulouse.

Roman Pavlyuchenko netted the 63rd-minute penalty kick in Spartak Moscow’s 2-1 win over Bayer Leverkusen. Santos Mozart converted another penalty in the 77th. Paul Freier scored an injury-time goal for Leverkusen.

Villarreal won their first group game with a 2-1 win over Mlada Boleslav off goals from Sanit Carzorla and Nihat Kahveci.

Mikel Arteta scored a penalty kick in the 83rd minute and Victor Anichebe added another six minutes later for Everton to win 2-0 at FC Nuremberg in Group A.

Russian league leader Zenit defeated Larissa 3-2 in the other group game, Fatih Teke scoring the winner in the 78th by glancing in a cross from Alejandro Dominguez.

Henrik Larsson scored for Helsingborg in their 3-2 win at Galatasaray in Group H. Christoffer Andersson and Razak Omotoyossi added the other goals for the Swedish team. Bordeaux beat Austria Vienna 2-1 in the other group match with an 88th-minute penalty kick from Brazilian forward Wendel.