IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Antoine Griezmann became the first player in Atletico Madrid's history to score 200 goals for the club in all competitions (in 454 matches).
Champions League statistics: league stage, round 2 (September 30)
Marseille vs Ajax 4-0
*Marseille recorded their biggest win in the Champions League since 3 November 2010 (7-0 against Zilina).
*Marseille have scored 4+ goals in 6 of their last 7 competitive matches at the Stade Vélodrome!
*Two French clubs won their first home match of a Champions League season (also Paris SG vs Atalanta 4-0) for the first time in history.
*Ajax started a European tournament:
with 2 losses (also 0-2 vs Inter) for the first time since the 2012-13 Champions League;
without scoring in first 2 games for the first time since since the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League.
*Ajax’s 0-2 deficit after just 11 minutes 56 seconds is the 2nd fastest in their European history, after 26 February 1958 (0-2 within 9 minutes against Vasas, the final score 0-4).
*Marseille scored 2 goals in the first 12 minutes of play in a Champions League match for the first time since 3 November 2009 (against Zurich within 11 minutes).
*Marseille led by 3 goals after 26 minutes of play in a Champions League match at the Stade Vélodrome for the 2nd time in history, after the one against Club Brugge on 9 December 1992 (also after 26 minutes).
*Igor Paixão became:
the 2nd Brazilian player to score 2 goals in the first 12 minutes of a Champions League match, after Rodrygo (Real Madrid, against Galatasaray on 6 November 2019).
the fastest player in history to score 2 goals in a Champions League match for Marseille (surpasing Andre-Pierre Gignac’s brace against Zilina on 3 November 2010 after 21 minutes).
*Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, at the age of 36 years 104 days, became:
the second-oldest African goalscorer in the Champions League behind Didier Drogba (36 years 259 days);
the oldest Marseille goal-scorer in European Cup history, ahead of Jean Tigana (35 years 137 days, against Lech Poznan in the European Cup on 7 November 1990).
*Aubameyang became the first player to provide 2 assists for Marseille in a Champions League match since Morgan Amalfitano against Borussia Dortmund (3-2) on 6 December 2011.
Galatasaray vs Liverpool 1-0
*Victor Osimhen became the first Nigerian player in the Champions League to score:
for 3 different sides (Lille, Napoli, Galatasaray);
10 goals (Obafemi Martins was the competition’s top scorers among his countrymen before him, 9 goals).
*Liverpool keep a terrible history visiting Turkish teams in European competitions: 1 win (achieved 15 years ago), 1 draw and 5 defeats in 7 away games.
Bodo/Glimt vs Tottenham 2-2
*Bodo/Glimt's Jens Petter Hauge became:
the first player in Champions League to score for a Norwegian club against an English opponent since Miika Koppinen in September 2007 (for Rosenborg vs Chelsea);
the first Norwegian player to score twice for a Norwegian club in a Champions League match since Steffen Iversen did so for Rosenborg in 2007 against Valencia.
Chelsea vs Benfica 1-0
*Chelsea's starting XI, averaged exactly 24 years, became their youngest ever for a Champions League match.
*New Benfica’s coach José Mourinho keeps his winless record in away games against his former club Chelsea across all competitions: 2 draws and 4 losses in 6 visits.
Inter vs Slavia Prague 3-0
*Lautaro Martínez, double scorer in this game, became the first player to score for Inter in 7 different UCL seasons.
*Cristian Chivu became the 4th coach in Inter’s history to win his first 2 Champions League matches, after Roberto Mancini (2004-05), Claudio Ranieri (2011-12) and Luciano Spalletti (2018-19).
Pafos vs Bayern 1-5
*Harry Kane:
has scored 2+ goals in 5 consecutive matches;
has now scored 17 goals in just 9 games for Bayern across all competitions this season;
has 2+ goal involvements in every of last 8 games for Bayern.
*Michael Olise has contributed 3 goals (1 scored, 2 assisted) in a Champions League match for the 2nd time (2 goals and 1 assist on December 2024 vs Shakhtar).
*Manuel Neuer has equalled Iker Casillas’ record as the goalkeeper with the most wins in Champions League history (101).
Atalanta vs Club Brugge 2-1
*Atalanta’s Honest Ahanor becomes the youngest Italian ever (aged 17 years 219 days) to start a Champions League game, as well as the first player to start a match for an Italian club in the competition’s history.
Atlético Madrid vs Eintracht Frankfurt 5-1
*Atlético Madrid have scored in each of their last 10 Champions League matches, equalling their best scoring streak in the competition, previously achieved on three occasions (2008, 2014 and 2016).
*Atletico scored 5+ goals in 2 back-to-back competitive goals (also 5-2 vs Real Madrid) for the 3rd consecutive calendar year.
In May 2023: 5-2 vs Valladolid and 5-1 vs Cádiz.
In November 2024: 6-0 vs Sparta Prague, 5-0 vs Valladolid.
*Atlético Madrid had 5 different goal-scorers (Raspadori, Le Normand, Griezmann, Simeone and Julián Alvarez) in a Champions League match for the second time (after game against Malmö on 22 October 2014 where Griezmann was also one of 5 scorers).
*Antoine Griezmann became the first player in Atletico Madrid's history to score 200 goals for the club in all competitions (in 454 matches).
*Griezmann became the 4th French scorer with 50+ goals in major European competitions, after Karim Benzema (92), Kylian Mbappé (61) and Thierry Henry (59).
*Julián Álvarez scored a Panenka-style penalty; the last Atlético Madrid player to do so in the UCL was Luis Suárez in 2021 (vs Milan).
*Julian Alvarez had 8 goal involvements in last 3 games for Atletico: 3 goals vs Rayo Vallecano, 2 goals vs Real Madrid, 1 goal and 2 assists vs Eintracht.
*Eintracht Frankfurt's Bundesliga and UCL games this season so far (7 in total) keep an amazing average rate, exactly 6 goals per game.
Kairat vs Real Madrid 0-5
*Real Madrid have last won a Champions League game by a margin of 5+ goals on 19 October 2021 against Shakhtar Donetsk, also away from home (5-0).
*Real Madrid became the second team in Champions League history to score each of their first 3 goals in an edition from penalty, after RB Salzburg in 2021-22.
*For the 2nd time this year, Real Madrid went 2 back-to-back competitive game with 5 goals scored in one of them and 5 conceded in another (including 2-5 loss vs Atletico).
In January 2025, they lost 2-5 to Barcelona and then won immediately over Celta 5-2.
The previous such case befor these two is dated back to April 1986: 3-5 vs Real Sociedad and 5-1 vs Köln).
*Vinicius Junior became the 2nd youngest player (25 years 80 days) to reach 70 matches in the Champions League, behind Iker Casillas (24 years 277 days).
*Thibaut Courtois is the 2nd Real Madrid goalkeeper to assist a goal in the history of the UEFA Champions League, after Santiago Cañizares against Olympiakos in October 1997.
*It was Courtois’ 2nd assist in UCL; the first was for Chelsea vs Qarabag in 2017.
Over the last 10 UCL seasons, he is the only goalkeeper to do it in multiple games.