IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Nuno Mendes was again the Player of the Game in Barcelona, his clash with Lamine Yamal was powerful !
Champions League statistics: league stage, round 2 (October 1)
Barcelona vs Paris St. Germain 1-2
*PSG became the first team in the history of major European competitions to win 3 consecutive away matches against Barcelona.
*PSG have already scored 38 goals in 2025 in the Champions League, a record tied for a club in a calendar year in the competition alongside Manchester United in 2003.
*PSG won 8 of the 15 games in which they conceded the first goal in 2025 in all competitions, a record in the club's history for a single calendar year.
*PSG has won 6 of their last 7 away matches in the Champions League (losing 1).
*The list of European super-clubs beaten by PSG in official international matches in 2025 now includes:
Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Inter, Bayern, Atlético Madrid, Real Madrid, Barcelona.
*Barcelona have scored in each of their last 45 matches in all competitions, achieving the best scoring streak in their history, surpassing the 44 matches between November 1942 and February 1944.
The streak began after a 0-1 loss against Leganés on 15 December 2024.
The record in Spanish football is held by Zidane's Real Madrid, who scored in 73 consecutive matches between 2016 and 2017.
*Hansi Flick conceded his only 2nd defeat as a coach in the Champions League group/league stage, following the defeat against Monaco on 19 September 2024.
*It is also Flick’s just 2nd home defeat as a coach in the Champions League, following the defeat with Bayern Munich against PSG on 7 April 2021.
*Gonçalo Ramos scored his 17th goal as a substitute for PSG in competitive matches, a record for a player in the club’s history, ahead of Kylian Mbappé (16).
Borussia Dortmund vs Athletic Bilbao 4-1
*Athletic Bilbao suffered 5 defeats in their last 6 matches in all competitions (plus 1 draw).
*Dortmund’s Serhou Guirassy has scored 16th goal in his 20 Champions League games. Only Erling Haaland scored more (25) in his first 20 UCL games (Ruud Van Nistelrooy and Roberto Soldado also 16).
Monaco vs Manchester City 2-2
*Manchester City’s Erling Haaland has played his 50th Champions League game and, with a brace vs Monaco, extended to 52 his goal tally in the competition.
It’s much more than any other player scored in his first 50 games (including European Cup era). The next are:
Alfredo Di Stéfano 44, Eusébio 44, Ruud Van Nistelrooy 40, Harry Kane 34. (Messi amassed 31 and Cristiano Ronaldo only 12 goals in first 50 games).
Haaland remains the only player with more than 3 appearances and an average of more than one goal per game in the history of the European Cup/Champions League.
Arsenal vs Olympiakos 2-0
*Arsenal have won all 6 last Group Stage/League Phase games in the Champions League: their longest such streak in 20 years.
*Gabriel Martinelli has scored in back-to-back Champions League games for the first time.
Napoli vs Sporting Lisbon 2-1
*Napoli’s Kevin De Bruyne has provided more assists (27, including two in this game) in UCL across the last 10 seasons than any other player.
The next are: Kylian Mbappé 24, Neymar 23, Angel Di María 22, Joshua Kimmich 22, Vinicius 21.
Bayer Leverkusen vs PSV Eindhoven 1-1
*Christian Kofane became Bayer Leverkusen's youngest-ever goal-scorer in the Champions League (19 years 67 days).
Villarreal vs Juventus 2-2
*Juventus have drawn both of their first two matches in a Champions League season (also 4-4 vs Borussia Dortmund in the first matchday) for the first time since 2013-14 (vs Copenhagen and Galatasaray).
*Francisco Conceição (Juventus) became just the 2nd player born since 2002 to have scored in each of the last 4 Champions League seasons, along with Karim Adeyemi.
*Federico Gatti’s overhead kick goal for Juventus is the first Champions League goal scored such way since Rafael Leao’s for Milan in November 2023.
Qarabag vs Copenhagen 2-0
*Qarabag’s Abdellah Zoubir has scored in the main stage of European competitions in 8th consecutive season.
Only 5 other players did so: Kylian Mbappé, Harry Kane, Mohamed Salah, Lautaro Martinez and Antoine Griezmann.
Union Saint-Gilloise vs Newcastle 0-4
*This is the 5th Newcastle away win in European competitions with a margin of 4+ goals.
Curiously, 3 of these 5 victories came on Belgian territory, including:
5-0 vs Antwerp in 1994 (UEFA Cup),
4-0 vs Lokeren in 2001 (Intertoto Cup).
*Anthony Gordon scored 2 penalties, becoming the third Englishman to do so in a Champions League match, after Wayne Rooney in October 2011 (vs Otelul, 2) and Harry Kane in September 2024 (vs Dinamo Zagreb, 3).
*Gordon is the first player to score 2 penalties for an English side in a Champions League game since Jorginho vs Malmö in October 2021.
*Nick Woltemade became the first Newcastle player in club’s history to score on both his first Premier League start and first Champions League start.