IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - MEN'S UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE


Picture : Jules Koundé became the first Barcelona player to score 2 headed goals in a single Champions League match.
It was the first brace in his professional career.

Champions League statistics: league stage, round 6 (December 9)

Kairat vs Olympiacos 0-1

*Kazakhstan clubs are still winless in Champions League (12 matches in total: 5 draws, 7 losses).

*Olympiacos won their first Champions League match since 21 October 2020 (against Marseille), ending a run of 10 consecutive games without a victory in the competition (2 draws, 8 losses).

Bayern vs Sporting Lisbon 3-1

*Bayern extended to 37 games their unbeaten run at home in the group stage/league phase of the Champions League (35 wins, 2 draws). The run is going on since 2013.

*Bayern have scored at least 3 goals in 18 of their 23 official matches this season. 

*Lennart Karl became the first player to score in 3 Champions League games in a row (also vs Club Brugge and vs Arsenal) before turning 18 (at the age of 17 years 290 days).
Karl surpassed Kylian Mbappé, who achieved it at 18 years 113 days.

Barcelona vs Eintracht Frankfurt 2-1

*Barcelona have conceded goals in each of their last 9 UCL games: their joint-worst run without keeping a clean sheet, alomg with another 9-match  between October 2023 and September 2024.

*Barcelona made a comeback to win from losing position for 7th time this season (in all competitions), and for the 4th time consecutively (also vs Alavés, vs Atlético abd vs Betis).

*Barcelona have conceded the opening goal in each of their last five matches (also vs Chelsea in 5th UCL match-day).

*Jules Koundé became the first Barcelona player to score 2 headed goals in a single Champions League match.
It was the first brace in his professional career.

*Koundé took exactly 3 minutes to make his feat. He is one of only 2 defenders to score 2 goals within 3 minutes in a Champions League match. Another one did so while playing for Barcelona, too: Ronald Koeman against Spartak Moscow in 1994 (he took 2 minutes 42 seconds for his brace).

*Lamine Yamal assisting for the 2nd of Kounde’s goal has the most goal involvements (7 goals, 7 assists) by a player aged 18 or younger in Champions League history, surpassing Kylian Mbappé's statistics. 

Monaco vs Galatasaray 1-0

*Folarin Balogun became the first player to score in 3 consecutive matches with Monaco in Champions League after Radamel Falcao (from November to December 2017).

Atalanta vs Chelsea 2-1

*Chelsea are winless in 5 consecutive Champions League away games for the first time since 2012. 

*Charles De Ketelaere provided his eighth assist: now joint-third assistant in UCL among Belgian players, alongside Dries Mertens, with only Kevin De Bruyne (27) and Eden Hazard (10) ahead.

Inter vs Liverpool 0-1

*Inter ended a 18-game unbeaten home run in UCL, which was the longest active in the competition. 

*Inter have lost 2 consecutive Champions League games (also 1-2 vs Atletico); they last did so between December 2021 and February 2022 (vs Real Madrid and vs Liverpool).

PSV Eindhoven vs Atlético Madrid 2-3

*PSV have suffered 6 home losses in all competitions in 2025: their joint most in a single calendar year over the last 50 years (also 6 home defaets in 2013). 

*PSV players have scored 6 goals as substitutes in this Champions League season (Ricardo Pepi and Couhaib Driouech, 3 each), more than any other team. 

*Alexander Sørloth has scored his first Champions League goal for Atlético Madrid (in 13 appearances). 
He last scored in the competition 5 years ago (with RB Leipzig against İstanbul Başakşehir).

Tottenham vs Slavia Prague 3-0

*Tottenham have won all 3 of their Champions League home games this season by an aggregate score of 8-0.

*Tottenham have kept 4 consecutive home clean sheets in the European Cup/Champions League for the first time in their history.

Union Saint-Gilloise vs Marseille 2-3

*Marseille came from behind away to win in the Champions League for only 2nd time in their history, after 6 December 2011, in Dortmund vs Borussia (also 2-3).

*Marseille started a Champions League match with 11 foreign players for the first time ever (based on sporting nationality).

*Marseille have conceded at least one goal in the first 15 minutes of each of their last 4 matches in all competitions, for the first time in their history since January-February 1949 (also 4 such games in a row).

*Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is just the second player aged 36+ to be directly involved in 7+ goals in a single Champions League campaign, after Robert Lewandowski last season (11).

*Igor Paixão is the first Marseille player to score 4 goals in a single Champions League season since André Ayew in 2011-12 (also 4).


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