LOSC

UEFA Champions League statistics
• LOSC have won just two of their ten UEFA Champions League home games to date, winning three times away.

International duty
• Seven LOSC players were on senior duty during the international break: Mickaël Landreau, Rio Mavuba (France), Marko Baša (Montenegro), Idrissa Gueye (Senegal), Salomon Kalou (Ivory Coast), Aurélien Chedjou and Ryan Mendes (Cameroon).

• Kalou scored as Ivory Coast beat Gueye's Senegal 4-2 in 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying.

Summer transfers
• In
Salomon Kalou (Chelsea FC)
Marvin Martin (FC Sochaux-Montbéliard)
Ryan Mendes (Le Havre AC)
Steeve Elana (Stade Brestois 29)
Djibril Sidibé (ES Troyes AC)
Viktor Klonaridis (AEK Athens FC)
Jerry Vandam (SM Caen)
Omar Wade (Boluspor Kulübü)*

*not in UEFA Champions League squad

• Out
Eden Hazard (Chelsea FC)
Mauro Cetto (US Città di Palermo)
Jugurtha Domrane (R. Mouscron-Péruwelz)
Vincent Enyeama (Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC, loan)
Pape Souaré (Stade de Reims Champagne, loan)
Arnaud Souquet (R. Mouscron-Péruwelz, loan)
Alexandre Oukidja (R. Mouscron-Péruwelz, loan)

• Martin became LOSC's most expensive ever signing after his €10m switch from Sochaux.

Miscellaneous
• LOSC moved into their new stadium over the summer, the 50,000-seater Grand Stade Lille Métropole. It is 2km from their former home, the 18,000-capacity Stade Lille Métropole.

BATE

UEFA Champions League statistics
• Four of BATE's nine goals in qualifying came in second-half added time.

• Aleksandr Hleb has made 82 appearances in UEFA club competition, a Belarus record. BATE captain Dmitri Likhtarovich and former FC Dinamo Minsk and FC Dynamo Kyiv midfielder Valentin Belkevich are one behind.

• Vitali Rodionov is Belarus' top scorer in UEFA club competition with 15 goals.

• Andrei Gorbunov, Artem Radkov, Maksim Bordachev and Marko Simić played all 540 minutes of qualifying.

International duty
• Denis Polyakov, Bordachev, Radkov, Renan Bressan and Rodionov were in the Belarus party that lost 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers away to Georgia (1-0) and France (3-1).

• Vadim Kurlovich set up the only goal of Belarus' victory against San Marino on 10 September in their final UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying fixture.

Summer transfers
• In
Roman Vasilyuk (FC Minsk)
Aleksandr Hleb (PFC Krylya Sovetov Samara)
Mikhail Sivakov (SV Zulte Waregem)

• Out
Kirill Aleksiyan (FC Brest)

Miscellaneous
• Since starting the season in March with back-to-back defeats, including a 2-0 loss to FC Gomel in the Belarusian Super Cup, BATE are 13 games unbeaten away from home. They have won ten, drawn three.

• Vasilyuk, the Belarusian Premier League's record goalscorer, took his tally to 190 at Gomel on 2 September.