Picture : Erling Haaland scored his 36th Champions League goal for Manchester City !
2026-27 Champions League Statistics: League Stage, Round 1 (September 8)
Borussia Dortmund 3-2 Villarreal
*Serhou Guirassy is the first ever player to score a brace and an own goal in the same match in the history of the Champions League.
There are 16 instances of a player scoring a goal and an own goal in the same UCL match.
*Guirassy has made this unique “feat” in his 100th competitive match for Borussia Dortmund (62 goals in total for the club).
*Guirassy has now scored more Champions League goals for Borussia Dortmund (19) than Robert Lewandowski (17), doing it in three fewer games.
Porto 0-2 Manchester City
*Erling Haaland’s brace restored his average of one goal per game in the Champions League (59 goals in 59 matches) that he lost in the last season.
No other player in the competition’s history (with a minimum of 10 matches) has averaged a goal per game.
*Haaland scored his 36th Champions League goal for Manchester City, equalling Sergio Agüero as joint-most for the Citizens in the competition. But the Norwegian has played 24 fewer games.
*Manchester City have not lost any of their last 8 Champions League opening matches (7 wins, 1 draw).
Their last defeat of this kind dates back to September 19, 2018, against Lyon (1-2).
Real Madrid 2-1 Inter
*Real Madrid equalled their own all-time continental record scoring in 44 consecutive home matches in European competitions.
The two streaks are nearly back-to-back: since September 27, 2011, Real Madrid have scored in 88 of their 89 home matches in Europe.
The only game in which they failed to score was a 0–3 loss to CSKA Moscow in December 2018.
*Inter are now winless in their last 14 away games against Spanish opponents in the Champions League (4 draws, 10 losses).
*Real Madrid have won a33 their last 5 matches against Inter, including two in 2020-21 (3-2 and 2-0) and two in 2021-22 (1-0 and 2-0).
*Kylian Mbappé has now scored the same number of Champions League goals as Raul (71).
Only four players have scored more goals in the competition’s history.
AEK Athens 1-0 LASK
*AEK have won a Champions League match for the first time since almost 20 years ago (November 21, 2006, vs Milan).
They did it by following the exact same script: a 1–0 victory secured by a direct free-kick goal from a foreign player (the Brazilian Júlio César back then; the Romanian Răzvan Marin now).
Club Brugge 2-3 Aston Villa
*John McGinn became Aston Villa’s all-time top goal-scorer in major European competitions (12 goals), overtaking Ollie Watkins (11).
Peter Withe is the third on club podium (9 goals).
*Yann Sommer (Club Brugge) became only the second goalkeeper to have played for five different teams in the Champions League, following Morgan De Sanctis.
Lille 2-3 Betis
*This is the first match in the Champions League (since 1992) to feature 4 headed goals in a row (Ueda 12′, Bartra 33′, Alexsandro 36′, Bartra 49′).
Troy Parrott (Betis), who scored the last goal by foot, brought an end to this historic streak.
*Isco became the first ever player to play in the Champions League with 5 different clubs from the same country (Spain).
He played for Valencia (2010-11), Málaga (2012-13), Real Madrid (2013-21), Sevilla (2022-23), and now started the campaign with Betis.
Hernán Crespo, Stéphane Dalmat, Hatem Ben Arfa, Burak Yilmaz, and Raheem Sterling have played with 4 different clubs from the same country.
*Betis have won an away match in the European Cup/Champions League for the 2nd time in their history.
The only precedent was a 1-0 win against Anderlecht in Brussels on September 28, 2005.
*This match saw a clash between the youngest coach of the 2026-27 Champions League (Davide Ancelotti, Lille, 37 years) and the oldest (Manuel Pellegrini, Betis, 72 years).
*Pellegrini became the third coach who has managed 4 teams from the same country in Champions League matches (Villarreal, Madrid, Málaga, and Betis).
He is accompanied in this with two Italians:
Carlo Ancelotti (Parma, Juventus, Milan, and Napoli),
Luciano Spalletti (Roma, Inter, Napoli, and Juventus).
*Pellegrini became the second-oldest (72 years and 357 days) to win a Champions League match, behind:
Mircea Lucescu (75 years and 132 days, with Dynamo Kyiv, beat Ferencváros in December 2020).
*Olivier Giroud (Lille) has become the oldest French player in history (39 years and 343 days) to play a European match, surpassing Bruno Ferrero, who played for Fola Esch against Beroe in the Cup Winners’ Cup on September 22, 1973 (at 39 years and 302 days).