Picture : Raphinha has now 8 goals in his opening 5 appearances for Barcelona this season, scoring in each of them.
2026-27 Champions League Statistics: League Stage, Round 1 (September 9)
Liverpool 2-1 Atlético Madrid
*This is Atlético de Madrid’s 6th consecutive defeat in away games against English clubs. They had never before suffered such a streak against teams from a single country.
Their last victory in England was over four years ago: 1–0 vs Manchester United at Old Trafford in March 2022.
*Atletico Madrid have never won a Champions League group stage/league phase game against an English team (4 draws, 7 losses).
*Arsenal are unbeaten on match-day 1 in their last 10 European campaigns (8 wins, 2 draws).
*Marcos Llorente scores his 5th goal vs Arsenal at Anfield, becoming the outright top-scoring visiting player at the stadium in the Champions League era, ahead of Karim Benzema (4, for Real Madrid).
Llorente has scored half of his Champions League goals (5 of 10) at Anfield.
Paris St. Germain 6-1 Slovan Bratislava
*Ferran Torres is the first ever PSG player to score a hat-trick on his Champions League debut for the club.
This is Ferran Torres’s first Champions League hat-trick.
*For the first time, a non-Spanish club has seen Spanish players score 4 goals in a single Champions League match: a hat-trick from Ferran Torres and a goal from Fabián Ruiz.
*Ousmane Dembélé has recorded 2 goals and 2 assists. Only two PSG players had achieved this before in the Champions League before—and it happened in the same game: Leo Messi and Kylian Mbappé, against Maccabi Haifa (7-2) on October 25, 2022.
*PSG became the first French club to score 6+ goals in a European Cup/Champions League season opener since Monaco did so against AEK Athens on September 18, 1963 (7 goals).
Sporting Lisbon 3-1 Galatasaray
*Rodrigo Zalazar is the Sporting’s third player to score from direct free kick in the Champions League, following:
André Cruz (vs Real Madrid, 12.09.2000)
Miguel Veloso (vs Barcelona, 26.11.2008)
Napoli 0-1 Arsenal
*Only Bayern Munich have enjoyed a longer winning run of Champions League group games (17 in 2000-2023) than Arsenal’s ongoing run of 13 that started in 2024.
Barcelona 5-1 Feyenoord
*Barcelona have scored 5 goals in 4 of their first 5 official matches of the 2026-27 season.
They have an ongoing streak of scoring 5+ goals in 3 consecutive matches (after 5-2 vs Rayo and 5-0 vs Valencia).
Their last such run was in March 2017: 6-1 vs Sporting Gijon, 5-0 vs Celta, 6-1 vs PSG.
*Barça started the season by scoring 22 goals in their first 5 matches; last time they were as prolific in 1950-51: 23 goals after first 5 matches (all in La Liga).
*Raphinha has now 8 goals in his opening 5 appearances for Barcelona this season, scoring in each of them.
The last player to score in Barça’s first 5 matches of a season was César Rodríguez in 1950.
*Karim Adeyemi has scored on both their La Liga and Champions League debuts for Barça. The last player of the club to do so was David Villa in 2010.
*Adeyemi has now scored in the Champions League with clubs from three different countries: RB Salzburg (Austria), Borussia Dortmund (Germany), and Barcelona (Spain).
Only one other German player had achieved this: Lukas Podolski, with Bayern (Germany), Arsenal (England), and Galatasaray (Turkey).
*Lamine Yamal now has 23 goal involvements in the Champions League (12 goals, 11 assists); the outright most by a teenager in the competition’s history, overtaking Kylian Mbappé’s 20.
*It took Gabriel Jesus just 2 minutes 14 seconds on the pitch to open his goal-scoring account for Barcelona in the Champions League.
Only one player required less time from his debut for the club in the competition: Malcom (1 minute 53 seconds, in 2018, vs Inter).
The next in this ranking are:
Cristian Tello (2 minutes 24 seconds, in 2012, vs Bayer Leverkusen)
Maxi López (2 minutes 49 seconds, in 2005, vs Chelsea)
Stuttgart 3-1 Viking
*Ermedin Demirovic’s hat-trick, achieved in the first 32 minutes, is the 5th quickest from the start of a game in Champions League history.
Players to score 3 goals in a shorter starting space are:
Robert Lewandowski (23′ for Barcelona vs RB Salzburg in 2022)
Marco Simone (25′ for Milan vs Rosenborg in 1996)
Kylian Mbappé (29′ for Real Madrid vs Olympiacos in 2025)
Vangelis Pavlidis (30′ for Benfica vs Barcelona in 2025)
*Demirović became the first Stuttgart player to score a hat-trick in the Champions League/European Cup.
The German club had previously recorded 5 hat-tricks in other European competitions: 2 in the Intertoto Cup and 3 in the UEFA Cup.