IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Harry Kane became the 3rd players to score 20+ goals for 2 different clubs in the European Cup/Champions League (21 for Tottenham, 20 for Bayern Munich).
Champions League statistics: league stage, round 1 (September 17)
Liverpool vs Atlético Madrid 3-2
*For the first time ever three English teams have beaten three Spanish sides in a single UCL group/league stage matchday.
*Liverpool are the first non-Dutch side with four Dutch players (Virgil van Dijk, Cody Gakpo, Ryan Gravenberch and Jeremie Frimpong) in the starting line-up of a UCL game since Barcelona in April 2003 (Patrick Kluivert, Marc Overmars, Frank de Boer and Michael Reiziger).
*This is the earliest Liverpool have ever led by 2 goals in a Champions League game (5 minutes 32 seconds).
*Mohamed Salah is just the third player to score and assist within the first 6 minutes of a Champions League match, after Mariano Bombarda and Karim Benzema.
*Atlético Madrid have conceded 2 goals in the first 6 minutes of a game for the first time in the Diego Simeone era and for the first time in the Champions League.
*Marcos Llorente is the player who has scored the joint-most goals (4) at Anfield against Liverpool in the UCL games (along with Karim Benzema, both scored 2 braces).
*Virgil van Dijk has now scored 25 headed goals for Liverpool in all competitions; 6 more than any other defender across Europe's big-five leagues since van Dijk's Liverpool debut in January 2018.
*Jan Oblak became the first goalkeeper and the 3rd player overall in the Atletico history to reach 500 appearances in all competitions, behind only Koke (688) and Adelardo (550).
*Rio Ngumoha (Liverpool) became the 2nd youngest (17 years 19 days) English player in the history of the Champions League, behind only Jack Wilshere who debuted in the competition with Arsenal in 2008 at 16 years 329 days.
Paris St. Germain vs Atalanta 4-0
*PSG are the first defending champions to win by 4+ goals in their opening match in the Champions League since Bayern Munich defeated Atlético Madrid on 21 October 2020 (also 4-0).
*Gonçalo Ramos scored his 16th goal after coming on as a substitute for Paris Saint-Germain, equalling Kylian Mbappé as the club's all-time leading substitute goal-scorer in all competitions.
*PSG have missed 4 of their last 8 penalties in all competitions, excluding penalty shootouts (Bradley Barcola).
Curiously, in all these cases, the name of the opposing team began with A:
Vitinha vs Arsenal on 7 May 2025,
Gonçalo Ramos vs Auxerre on 17 May 2025,
Ousmane Dembélé vs Angers on 22 August 2025.
Bayern vs Chelsea 3-1
*Bayern started their Champions League season with a win for the 22nd consecutive time, extending their record in the history of the competition.
The streak began after losing in their debut in the 2002-03 season (2-3 against Deportivo)
*Harry Kane became the 3rd players to score 20+ goals for 2 different clubs in the European Cup/Champions League (21 for Tottenham, 20 for Bayern Munich), after:
Cristiano Ronaldo (105 for Real Madrid, 21 for Manchester United),
Neymar (22 for PSG, 21 for Barcelona).
*Kane is the third English player to score a brace against an English team in a Champions League match (and the only one to do so while playing for a non-English club), after:
Frank Lampard with Chelsea against Liverpool in 2009,
Raheem Sterling with Manchester City against Tottenham in 2019.
*Manuel Neuer became Bayern's oldest player in the Champions League (39 years 174 days), overtaking Lothar Matthäus (38 years 353 days).
Ajax vs Inter 0-2
*Inter have won their first seasonal Champions League match for the first time since 2018-19 (against Tottenham); since then they recorded 4 draws and 2 defeats.
*Marcus Thuram has scored twice in a Champions League game for the first time since October 2020 (against Real Madrid).
*Marcus Thuram is only the 2nd Inter player to score a brace by header in a Champions League match, after Hernán Crespo on 12 November 2002 (who also did so against Ajax in an away match).
*Two corners delivered by the same player (Hakan Çalhanoğlu) and finished by the same scorer (Thuram) last happened in a Champions League match on 17 September 2013 (Motta scored a brace after two Lavezzi corners for Olympiacos vs PSG).
*Ajax conceded two goals from corners in a single game in all competitions for the first time since December 2019 (2 vs Telstar in the national Cup).
Slavia Prague vs Bodo/Glimt 2-2
*This is just the third Champions League game in the last 10 seasons in which both sides had 10+ shots on target, after RB Leipzig vs Besiktas in 2017 and Salzburg vs Bayern in 2020.
*Bodo/Glimt's debutted in Champions League like no other team has ever done before: overcoming a two-goal deficit away from home.