IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Kylian Mbappé, with his penalty brace, has reached 50 goals for Real Madrid in all competitions taking 64 matches.
Champions League statistics: league stage, round 1 (September 16)
*There are 4 debuting teams in the Champions League 2025-26: Union St. Gilloise, Kairat, Bodø/Glimt, Pafos.
Juventus vs Borussia Dortmund 4-4
*It’s only the second game in Champions League history with 8 goals scored in the 2nd half, after Bayern Munich vs Dinamo Zagreb (9-2) on September 2024.
*It’s 5th game in UCL history ended a 4-4 draw, after:
Hamburgo vs Juventus (13 September 2000),
Chelsea vs Liverpool (14 April 2009),
Bayer Leverkusen vs Roma (20 October 2015),
Chelsea vs Ajax (5 November 2019).
Real Madrid vs Marseille 2-1
*Real Madrid became the first club to reach 700 Champions League goals.
*Real Madrid never lost at home in 15 games against French teams in European competitions. This is most for any team hosting opponents from one country without losing.
The next in this ranking are:
Bayern Munich vs Portuguese rivals (12 games),
Manchester United vs Portuguese rivals (11 games),
Barcelona vs Portuguese rivals (11 games).
*For the second time in the their UCL history, Real Madrid won a game while coming down one man short at the even score (1-1). They also did so on 27 November 2013 against Galatasaray.
*Dani Carvajal is the first Real Madrid player to be sent off by VAR in a Champions League match.
He is the first Real Madrid player to be sent off at Santiago Bernabéu in a Champions League during this decade (the last was in 2020 Sergio Ramos, vs Manchester City).
*Kylian Mbappé, with his penalty brace, has reached 50 goals for Real Madrid in all competitions taking 64 matches: only one club’s player in XXI century took fewer games (54) for this: Cristiano Ronaldo in 2010.
In the whole Real Madrid history, 8 players reached 50 goals faster than Mbappé.
*Mbappé is the 2nd player who turned a 0-1 defeat into a 2-1 victory in the Champions League thanks to two penalty goals, after Dimitri Payet (Marseille) against Olympiacos in 2020.
*Mbappé has now scored the most goals (57) in the history of the European Cup/Champions League among players never to have won the competition.
*Franco Mastantuono became the youngest player (18 years 33 days) to start a Champions League match for Real Madrid, beating Endrick's previous record set in November 2024 vs Lille (18 years 73 days), and the second youngest Argentinian todo so, after Lionel Messi in 2004 (17 years 166 days).
Only José Rodríguez (17 years 354 days) played in European competition for Real Madrid at a younger age, but he did so as a substitute (against Ajax in 2012-13).
*Geronimo Rulli is the visiting goalkeeper with the most saves (13) made at the Santiago Bernabéu in a Champions League match.
He equals the record held by Maarten Stekelenburg, who also made 13 saves for Ajax on 15 September 2010.
Benfica vs Qarabag 2-3
*Benfica had never lost a Champions League match after having a 2-goal lead until 2025, when it has already happened twice (also on 21 January vs Barcelona, 4-5 after 4-2 lead).
*Georgy Sudakov (Benfica) provided two assists in the first 16 minutes of the match: the last to achieve this in the Champions League was Marcelo (Real Madrid, against Galatasaray on 6 November 2019).
*Qarabag’s impressive comeback made them the first Azerbaijani team to win a Champions League match (main stage).
Tottenham vs Villarreal 1-0
*Tottenham are now unbeaten in their last 21 home games in UEFA competitions.
*Luiz Junior's own goal is the earliest own goal (4 minutes into the game) by a goalkeeper in the UCL history.
Athletic Bilbao vs Arsenal 0-2
*Athletic became the first Spanish team to start a Champions League game with all 11 players unexperienced there before since Real Madrid in September 1995 (counting only UCL itself, since 1992).
*Arsenal became the first team in European Cup/Champions League history to win 6 consecutive games against Spanish opponents: during this run, they beat also Sevilla (twice), Girona and Real Madrid (twice).
*Gabriel Martinelli opened the scoring for Arsenal just 36 seconds after coming off the bench: the Gunners’ fastest ever substitute goal in the Champions League.
PSV Eindhoven vs Union Saint-Gilloise 1-3
*Union Saint-Gilloise became the first Belgian club to win on their debut in the European Cup/Champions League since RWD Molenbeek against Viking on 17 September 1975.
*Union Saint-Gilloise had 10 Champions League debutants in their starting line-up, with only goalkeeper Kjell Scherpen already having played in the tournament (6 games for Sturm Graz in 2024-25).
*PSV conceded 2+ goals before halftime in 3 consecutive Champions League games for the second time in club history, after previously doing so in March-April 1993 (also 3 games in a row).
*Ruben van Bommel (PSV) scored his first Champions League goal almost exactly 25 years after his father Mark van Bommel did so (against Manchester United on 26 September 2000).