IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG), IFFHS World Goalkeeper 2021, has won 6 of his 7 penalty shootouts during his professional career (club + international).
Statistics on Champions’ League: Round of 16, 2nd leg (March 11)
Liverpool vs Paris St. Germain 0-1, pen. 1-4
*In the first edition under the new Champions League format, the top team in the group stage (Liverpool) was eliminated in the round of 16.
The best team in the Champions League group stage has last failed in the round of 16 in the 2017-18 season: Tottenham (16 out of 18 points in the group stage) eliminated by Juventus.
*Liverpool were eliminated from a major European knockout tie for the first time ever after winning the first leg away from home, progressing from all such 39 ties before last night.
After Liverpool’s failure, teams with the most European knockout wins after a first-leg away victory that never lost a tie in such position are: Juventus (44 out of 44), Anderlecht (29 out of 29), Dynamo Kyiv (28 out of 28).
*PSG had 9 European qualifiers in which they lost the first leg at home; they were eliminated in the first 7 such occasions and qualified in the last two, including 2023-24’s tie vs Barcelona (2-3 loss at home, then 4-1 away win).
*PSG became the first French club to win a knockout stage tie in the Champions League against an English team since Lyon against Manchester City on 15 August 2020.
*A French club has last won against an English team away in the Champions League on 2 December 2020 (PSG against Manchester United at Old Trafford).
Before the new PSG win, French clubs suffered 10 defeats in a row on English soil in the competition.
*PSG has won last 4 away matches in the Champions League: their best away run in the competition since December 2018 - October 2019 (also 4).
*PSG have won 4 of their last 5 penalty shootouts across all competitions, while Liverpool have lost their first across their last 5.
*PSG won their first ever penalty shootout in the European Cup/Champions League.
They had before only one such experience in European competitions: loss in 2001-02 UEFA Cup vs Glasgow Rangers.
*Liverpool, on the 4th occasion, lost a shootout in the European Cup/Champions League for the first time, after beating Roma (1983-84) and Milan (2004-05) in the finals, Chelsea (2006-07) in the semifinal.
*It was their 6th shootout in all European competitions (other two are the lost one in 2014-15 Europa League vs Besiktas and the victorious in 2019 Super Cup vs Chelsea).
*Overall, PSG managed to overcome the team that has one of best percentages of winning shootouts. Liverpool won 20 of 27 (74%) shootouts in all competitions in their history.
*PSG is the second French team to qualify in the European Cup/Champions League after to a penalty shootout, along with Bordeaux who did it vs Dnipro in March 1985.
Since then, the French clubs had 4 successive eliminations, including qualifying stages.
*Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG) has won 6 of his 7 penalty shootouts during his professional career (club + international).
His only loss was against Nice in the Round of 16 of the French Cup on 31 January 2022.
*PSG became the first team that committed no fouls in the first half of a Champions League match.
*Alisson (Liverpool) made 16 saves across both legs (excluding penalty shootout); the most by a goalkeeper in a Champions League knockout tie since Manuel Neuer for Bayern Munich v Real Madrid in the 2016-17 quarter-finals (also 16).
*Curtis Jones is just the second Englishman to miss an attempt in a Champions League penalty shootout, along with John Terry (Chelsea) in the 2008 final.
Inter vs Feyenoord 2-1
*Feyenoord have both scored and conceded a penalty goal in a single Champions League match for the 2nd time ever, after previously doing so against Juventus in September 1997.
Inter never before had a Champions League match with a penalty awarded for each team.
*Inter's historic streak has ended: the “Rossoneri” have committed a penalty in a knockout match for the first time in the Champions League era.
They avoided it in all their previous 45 such games, between 1999 and 2025. It was the largest such run in the competitions.
Manchester United avoided penalties against in 34 consecutive UCK knockout stage games (between 1997 and 2008), Barcelona in 27 (between 2010 and 2015), Bayern in 27 (between 2017 and 2023).
*Hakan Çalhanoglu (Inter) became the first Turkish player in Champions League history to both score and assist 10+ goals in the competition.
He is also the third Turkish player to score 10+ Champions League goals, after Burak Yilmaz (13) and Hakan Sükür (13).
Bayer Leverkusen vs Bayern 0-2
*Bayern Munich are the only team to have reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League in every of last 6 seasons (since 2019-20).
They have reached the quarter-finals in 13 of the last 14 seasons only failing to do so in 2019 (eliminated in the round of 16 by Liverpool).
*For the third time in UCL history, a one-nation knockout tie brings the aggregate victory of 5+ goal margin.
Bayern themselves beat Kaiserslautern in 1999 by 6-0 aggregate score, and PSG demolished Brest by 10-0 in February 2025.
*Harry Kane became the second Englishman with 50+ goals and assists combined in Champions League history (39 goals, 11 assists), along with David Beckham (16 goals, 36 assists).
*Kane is the first ever Englishman to score 10 goals in a single European Cup/Champions League campaign.
He beat the Dennis Viollet’s national record: 9 goals in 1956-57 with Manchester United.
Regarding all European competitions, two English players managed scored more, both in UEFA Cup: Stanley Bowles 11 with QPR in 1976-77 and Alan Shearer 11 with Newcastle in 2004-05.
Barcelona vs Benfica 3-1
*After 13 consecutive years (2008-2020) reaching the UCL quarterfinals, Barcelona had 3 disastrous seasons when they failed to do so (2021-2023), but are now once again establishing themselves among the elite with 2 new consecutive seasons among the top 8 in Europe.
*Lamine Yamal has become the youngest player (17 years 241 days) to both score and assist in the same Champions League game.
He surpassed Breel Embolo's previous record for Basel against Ludogorets Razgrad in 2014 (17 years 263 days).
The next in this ranking are:
Ansu Fati (17 years, 355 days),
Jude Bellingham (18 years, 78 days).
*Yamal has equalled Julian Draxler's record for the most appearances in the knockout rounds of the Champions League before turning 18 (6).
He can break it in the quarter-finals.
*Yamal is now the 2nd youngest scorer in Champions League knockout matches, after another Barcelona’s talent Bojan Krkic who scored against Schalke in 2008 at 17 years 217 days.
*From the other side, Nicolas Otamendi (Benfica) became the 3rd oldest goalscorer (37 years 27 days) in UCL knockout stages, after Ryan Giggs (37 years 148 days) and Edin Dzeko (37 years 54 days).