Bayern vs Paris facts

Bayern München welcome Paris Saint-Germain to Germany holding a slender advantage in the UEFA Champions League round of 16 thanks to a 1-0 first-leg win in the French capital.

The teams have become familiar UEFA Champions League foes in recent years, with this their fourth pairing in six seasons. The first instalment of this tie ended 1-0 to the German champions with the winner coming in the 53rd minute from former Paris winger Kingsley Coman, who had also headed the only goal of the 2020 UEFA Champions League final between the sides in Lisbon. Bayern held on at the Parc des Princes despite losing France defender Benjamin Pavard to a second yellow card in the closing stages.

That 2020 success was Bayern's sixth European Cup, although the French outfit gained a measure of revenge the following season by ending the German club's trophy defence in the last eight.

Bayern became the first club to win all six games in their UEFA Champions League section on three occasions this season as they finished eight points clear in Group C. Paris also remained unbeaten but lost out to Benfica for first place in Group H thanks to a late flurry of goals for the Portuguese side on Matchday 6.

Both teams have plenty of recent knockout experience. Bayern are in the round of 16 for the 15th season running, while Paris have now progressed from the group stage for 11 consecutive campaigns.

Previous meetings

Paris edged through on away goals in the teams' 2020/21 quarter-final, doing the damage in the first leg in Munich. Kylian Mbappé struck after just three minutes with Marquinhos doubling the lead before the half-hour and, though former Paris forward Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (37) and Thomas Müller (60) replied, Mbappé's second goal of the evening (68) gave the visitors victory.

Choupo-Moting got the only goal of the second leg at the Parc des Princes but the French side held on to go through. That was Bayern's first away win against Paris, their first four such fixtures having all ended in defeat.

A 59th-minute header from Coman proved enough to separate the sides at Lisbon's Estádio do SL Benfica on 23 August 2020, giving Bayern their sixth European Cup and ensuring Paris's first final appearance ended in defeat.

The teams now have six wins apiece against their opponents. All eight of their matches before that 2020 final had come in the UEFA Champions League group stage – and all but one of those contests were won by the home side.

In the 2017/18 group stage, Paris were 3-0 winners at the Parc des Princes – Neymar scoring the home side's final goal – before a 3-1 Bayern success in Munich in which Mbappé scored for Paris.

In the first group stage in 2000/01 – a campaign that culminated in Bayern winning the competition for the fourth time – home substitute Laurent Leroy's 90th-minute strike gave Paris a 1-0 victory at the Parc des Princes. However, Bayern turned the tables in Munich, goals from Hasan Salihamidžić (3) – now the club's sporting director – and substitute Paulo Sérgio (89) securing a 2-0 success.

In 1997/98 Bayern ran out 5-1 winners in the first game in Germany, Giovane Elber and Carsten Jancker each scoring twice and Thomas Helmer getting the other with Marco Simone scoring Paris's consolation. Paris were 3-1 victors in France, their goals coming from Franck Gava (17), Florian Maurice (73) and Leroy (75); Markus Babbel had levelled for Bayern.

The French club came out on top twice in 1994/95, George Weah and Daniel Bravo earning a 2-0 home win and Weah, again, claiming the only goal in Germany – the only away victory either team had managed in this fixture before each did so in 2020/21. There have now been three successive away wins in the fixture.

Form guide

Bayern

Bayern are in the UEFA Champions League proper for the 26th time, one behind joint record holders Real Madrid and Barcelona, and the 15th season in a row.

The Munich club, who claimed the last of their six European Cups in 2020, have won their group in each of the last five seasons and 19 times overall, two short of Barcelona's competition record; they have featured in the knockout rounds every season since 2007/08, when they were in the UEFA Cup, and have not failed to progress beyond the initial group stage since 2002/03.

In 2021/22 Bayern won all six group games for the second time to finish first in Group E ahead of Benfica, Barcelona and Dynamo Kyiv. They then eased past Salzburg in the round of 16 (1-1 a, 7-1 h) but, for the second year running, were eliminated in the quarter-finals, going out to Villarreal (0-1 a, 1-1 h).

Bayern have not failed to reach the UEFA Champions League semi-finals three seasons running since 2008/09.

Julian Nagelsmann's team claimed the Bundesliga title in 2021/22, Bayern's record-extending tenth successive league championship and 32nd overall.

Bayern kicked off this season with a 2-0 win at Inter Milan on Matchday 1, completing another perfect group stage campaign – for the third time in four seasons – with victory against the Nerazzurri in Munich by the same scoreline. They also beat Barcelona 2-0 at home and 3-0 away and Viktoria Plzeň 5-0 at home and 4-2 away.

That 3-2 loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the 2020/21 round of 16 first leg ended Bayern's run of eight successive home UEFA Champions League victories and is one of only two of their last 17 matches in the competition in Munich they have not won, the other last season's draw against Villarreal.

Bayern's round of 16 record is W14 L4. A 2018/19 defeat by Liverpool (0-0 a, 1-3 h) is the only one of their last 11 last-16 ties they have failed to win.

The 2020/21 defeat by Paris ended Bayern's run of seven successive victories against French clubs in knockout ties, a sequence that included three finals. They have won seven of their nine ties against Ligue 1 opponents.

Bayern have won 11 of their last 13 games against French clubs, home and away; the exceptions were the 3-0 defeat in Paris in September 2017 and the first-leg loss in the 2020/21 quarter-finals.

Bayern's record at home to Ligue 1 visitors is W11 D2 L4. The 2021 defeat against Paris ended a run of four successive victories against French clubs in Munich, Bayern having not won in four (D2 L2) before that sequence.

Bayern have lost only one of their 27 UEFA ties in which they won the away first leg, going out to Inter Milan in the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League round of 16 (1-0 a, 2-3 h). That was the most recent of six ties in which they had triumphed 1-0 in the away first leg, the previous two having been in successive ties during their triumphant 2000/01 campaign – against Manchester United in the quarter-finals (2-1 h) and Real Madrid in the semis (2-1 h). The most recent of their 26 aggregate wins was against Lazio at this stage of the 2020/21 competition (4-1 a, 2-1 h).

Bayern's record in six UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W5 L1:
4-3 v Åtvidaberg, 1973/74 European Cup first round
9-8 v PAOK, 1983/84 UEFA Cup second round
5-4 v Valencia, 2000/01 UEFA Champions League final
3-1 v Real Madrid, 2011/12 UEFA Champions League semi-final
3-4 v Chelsea, 2011/12 UEFA Champions League final
5-4 v Chelsea, 2013 UEFA Super Cup

Paris

This is Paris's 15th UEFA Champions League campaign – one short of Lyon's French record – and an 11th in succession, also one shy of Lyon's unbroken run of appearances from 2000/01 to 2011/12. They have now reached the knockout rounds in all of their last 11 seasons in the competition, last failing to progress beyond the group stage in 2004/05.

In 2021/22, a team coached by Mauricio Pochettino finished second behind Manchester City in Group A, collecting 11 points from their six games, and looked set to reach a third successive quarter-final when they beat Real Madrid 1-0 at home in the round of 16 first leg and doubled that advantage in the return – Mbappé scoring both goals – only to concede three times in the final half-hour in Spain to bow out.

The French club's most successful UEFA Champions League campaign came in 2019/20, when they reached the final but lost 1-0 to Bayern in Lisbon.

Paris claimed their tenth Ligue 1 title in 2021/22, matching St-Étienne's 41-year-old national record, and have taken the title in eight of the last ten campaigns.

Pochettino was replaced as coach in the summer by Christophe Galtier, who guided LOSC Lille to the league title ahead of Paris in 2020/21 and also led Nice to last season's French Cup final with a round of 16 penalty shoot-out victory over Paris at the Parc des Princes en route.

Galtier's new side won four of their six Group H games, beating Juventus 2-1 home and away and Maccabi Haifa 3-1 away and 7-2 at home. They also drew 1-1 twice with Benfica, who struck five times in the final half-hour on Matchday 6 to take first place ahead of Paris on away goals scored.

Paris have been victorious in 12 of their last 25 away UEFA Champions League fixtures (D5 L8), but their Matchday 6 win at Juventus this season was only their second success in their last eight (D3 L3).

This season's four wins have made it nine victories in the Parisians' last 20 European matches (D5 L6).

Paris's round of 16 record is W6 L4; last season's defeat by Real Madrid made it four losses in their last six ties at this stage.

The first-leg win at Bayern in the quarter-finals two seasons ago ended Paris's run of three successive defeats in Germany; their overall record there is W4 D2 L6.

The 3-1 defeat at Bayern on Matchday 6 of the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League ended Paris's seven-match unbeaten run against German clubs, home and away (W5 D2). Their overall record since then is W5 D1 L5.

The 2020 final defeat by Bayern is Paris's sole reverse in knockout ties against German clubs (W5). They had beaten Borussia Dortmund (1-2 a, 2-0 h) and Leipzig (3-0 n) in the 2019/20 round of 16 and semi-final respectively having defeated Wolfsburg in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup round of 32 (2-0 h, 3-1 a) and Bayer Leverkusen in the 2013/14 UEFA Champions League round of 16 (4-0 a, 2-1 h) before overcoming Bayern in 2020/21.

Paris have suffered only six previous home first-leg defeats in UEFA competition, and lost every tie, suffering a second-leg loss on each occasion, most recently against Manchester City in the 2020/21 semi-finals (1-2 h, 0-2 a). Two of those defeats came after a 1-0 home first-leg loss; against Juventus in the 1989/90 UEFA Cup second round (1-2 a) and AC Milan in the 1994/95 UEFA Champions League semi-finals (0-2 a).

Paris's record in one UEFA penalty shoot-out is W0 L1:
3-4 v Rangers, 2001/02 UEFA Cup third round

Links and trivia

Coman was born in Paris, joining the club's academy in 2004. He made his first-team debut against Sochaux in February 2013 to become, aged 16 years 250 days, the club's youngest-ever player. Coman signed for Juventus in July 2014 having made only four appearances for Paris's senior side.

Choupo-Moting was a Paris player between August 2018 and 5 October 2020, when he joined Bayern. He won two Ligue 1 titles and the 2019/20 Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue with Paris, scoring nine goals in 51 games for the club in all competitions; his last appearance was as a late substitute in the 2020 UEFA Champions League final defeat by Bayern.

Renato Sanches was a Bayern player between 2016 and 2019, scoring two goals in 53 games for the club in all competitions. He won the Bundesliga twice and the 2018/19 German Cup.

Juan Bernat joined Paris from Bayern, where he played from 2014 to 2018, winning four Bundesliga titles and one German Cup with the Bavarian outfit.

Neymar scored once in Spain (3-0) and twice in Germany (2-3) as Barcelona beat Bayern in the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League semi-finals. Thomas Müller was on target in the second leg in Munich, with Manuel Neuer also featuring in the tie for Bayern.

Neymar has scored four UEFA Champions League goals in total against Bayern – the only clubs he has registered more against in the competition are Celtic and Paris themselves (seven goals each).

A Sergio Ramos double past Neuer helped Real Madrid to a 4-0 win at Bayern in the 2013/14 UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg; Müller was also in the home team.

Nagelsmann was in charge of the Leipzig team beaten 3-0 by Paris in the UEFA Champions League semi-final in Lisbon on 18 August 2020.

Have also played in Germany:
Nordi Mukiele (Leipzig 2018–22)
Achraf Hakimi (Borussia Dortmund 2018–20 loan)

Nagelsmann was Mukiele's coach at Leipzig from 2019 to 2021.

Have also played in France:
Sadio Mané (Metz 2011–12)
Benjamin Pavard (LOSC Lille 2005–16)
Dayot Upamecano (Valenciennes 2013–15)
Mathys Tel (Rennes 2020–22)
Bouna Sarr (Lyon 2005–09, Metz 2009–2015, Marseille 2015–20)

Lucas Hernández was born in Marseille but has never played club football in France, moving to Spain aged four and joining Atlético de Madrid's youth set-up in 2007 at the age of 11.

Have played together:
Dayot Upamecano & Nordi Mukiele (Leipzig 2018–21)

International team-mates:
Lucas Hernández, Benjamin Pavard, Dayot Upamecano, Kingsley Coman & Presnel Kimpembe, Kylian Mbappé (France)
João Cancelo & Danilo, Vitinha, Renato Sanches, Nuno Mendes (Portugal)
Noussair Mazraoui & Achraf Hakimi (Morocco)

Kimmich scored past Gianluigi Donnarumma in Germany's 1-1 UEFA Nations League draw away to Italy on 4 June 2022. He and Müller were also on target against the Italy goalkeeper in the home reverse fixture, a 5-2 win, ten days later.

Lionel Messi captained Argentina to victory in the 2022 FIFA World Cup final on 18 December against a France side featuring Upamecano and substitute Coman. Messi scored twice in the 3-3 draw, with club colleague Mbappé hitting a hat-trick for France. Both players also found the net in the ensuing penalty shoot-out, but Coman had his effort saved as Argentina ran out 4-2 winners on spot kicks to lift the trophy for the third time.

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Bayern 

UEFA Champions League squad changes

In: Daley Blind, João Cancelo, Yann Sommer
Out: Benjamin Ballis, Justin Janitzek, Gabriel Marušić, Jakob Thomas Mayer, Marcel Sabitzer

In January Bayern signed free agent Blind on a six-month deal, Sommer from Mönchengladbach until 2025 and Manchester City's João Cancelo on loan until the end of the season. Marcel Sabitzer joined Manchester United on loan until the end of the season.

Bayern's record in all competitions in 2023 is W6 D3 L1. They were 3-0 winners at home to Union Berlin on 26 February and recorded a 2-1 away victory at Stuttgart on Saturday.

Bayern have now scored 100 Bundesliga away goals against Stuttgart; it is the first time in the competition's history a club has scored a century of goals away to one team.

Thomas Müller set up Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting's winner on Saturday. It was his 300th goal involvement in the Bundesliga (141 goals, 159 assists), making him only the second player to reach that mark since 2004/05, after former team-mate Robert Lewandowski (367 total; 312 goals, 55 assists).

Choupo-Moting has 15 goals in his last 18 Bayern games.

With his goal against Union Berlin Choupo-Moting became the third player to have scored against all 18 current Bundesliga teams, after Robert Lewandowski and Vedad Ibišević.

Kingsley Coman has scored five goals in his last five Bayern games.

Jamal Musiala has already scored 11 league goals this season, as many as in the last two seasons put together. He is Bayern's leading Bundesliga scorer in 2022/23, one ahead of Choupo-Moting.

The Bavarian club were unbeaten in 20 matches in all competitions (W16 D4) before losing 3-2 in the Bundesliga at Borussia Mönchengladbach on 18 February. Bayern played with ten men for more than 80 minutes after Dayot Upamecano's early red card.

That was their second defeat of the season, after a 1-0 league loss at Augsburg on 17 September; their record otherwise is W25 D7.

Julian Nagelsmann's team were on a ten-match winning run before three 1-1 Bundesliga draws at the start of 2023, at Leipzig and at home to Köln and Frankfurt.

On 1 February Bayern reached the quarter-finals of the German Cup with a 4-0 win at Bundesliga rivals Mainz. They will be at home to Freiburg on 4 April.

Müller made his 430th league appearance for Bayern against Union Berlin, surpassing Oliver Kahn (429). Only goalkeeper Sepp Maier (473) has now played more Bundesliga games for Bayern than Müller's 431.

Leroy Sané suffered an ankle injury in training on 27 February, coming on as a second-half substitute on Saturday.

Sadio Mané, who had not played since 8 November after surgery to repair a tendon in his right fibula, returned as a substitute against Union Berlin. He also came on at Stuttgart.

Noussair Mazraoui is yet to play in 2023 due to heart inflammation following illness but returned to team training on 23 February.

Manuel Neuer has been out since 9 December because of a lower leg fracture that required surgery.

Lucas Hernández has been out since 22 November with a knee injury.

Bouna Sarr, who had been sidelined since 13 September because of knee surgery, was an unused substitute in five successive games although he was not involved at the weekend.

João Cancelo was named in the 2022 FIFA FIFPRO World 11, which was announced on 27 February.

Arijon Ibrahimovic (2025), Josip Stanišić (2026) and Sven Ulreich (2024) all signed new contracts during the winter break.

Coman (six appearances), Upamecano (five), Hernández (one) and Benjamin Pavard (one) were all part of the France squad that reached the final of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, where substitute Coman missed a penalty in the shoot-out defeat by Argentina.

Paris

UEFA Champions League squad changes

In: Ilyes Housni*, Timothée Pembélé
Out: Ayman Kari, Keylor Navas, Pablo Sarabia
*B list

Navas joined Nottingham Forest on loan in January, while Sarabia also moved to England, signing for Wolverhampton Wanderers. Kari will spend the rest of the season at Lorient.

On Saturday, despite letting slip a 2-0 lead, Paris were 4-2 winners at home to Nantes, scoring three or more goals for the third match in a row. They have scored 11 times in that run.

Lionel Messi opened the scoring from the penalty spot, his 13th Ligue 1 goal of the season, before an own goal. After Nantes had pulled level, Danilo restored the Paris lead before Kylian Mbappé wrapped up the win in added time.

That was Mbappé's 201st goal for Paris, taking him clear of Edinson Cavani as the club's outright all-time top scorer on his 247th appearance.

Paris ended a run of three successive defeats with a 4-3 home win against LOSC Lille on 19 February, Mbappé scoring twice and Messi getting the winner with an added-time free-kick.

On 26 February, Ligue 1 leaders Paris were 3-0 winners at second-placed Marseille, Mbappé scoring twice either side of another Messi strike.

Messi has 13 goals and 12 assists in Ligue 1 this season.

The first leg against Bayern made it three defeats in a row for Paris for the first time since December 2011. They had been beaten 2-1 at Marseille in the French Cup round of 16 on 8 February and 3-1 at Monaco in Ligue 1 on 11 February.

The defeat by Bayern was Paris's first in their own stadium since a 2-1 reverse against Manchester City in the UEFA Champions League semi-final first leg on 28 April 2021. Their previous 12 defeats in all competitions had all come away from home.

Paris were 2-0 down after 18 minutes at Monaco; it was only the second time they have trailed by two goals inside 20 minutes in the last 11 Ligue 1 seasons, the other a 3-1 loss at Nantes on 18 February 2022.

The Parisians suffered their first defeat of 2022/23 in all competitions on 1 January, going down 3-1 at Lens in Ligue 1. That was their first reverse since a 3-0 loss at Monaco in Ligue 1 on 20 March, ending an unbeaten run of 32 matches (W25 D7). They have lost four of their subsequent 13 games (W8 D1).

Warren Zaïre-Emery, aged 16 years 304 days, became the youngest player to start for Paris in a 3-1 French Cup win at Châteauroux on 6 January, beating Mamadou Sakho's record (17 years 1 day) set in 2007.

Zaïre-Emery became Paris's youngest scorer with his goal in a 3-1 Ligue 1 win at Montpellier on 1 February. He also got their goal at Monaco on 11 February and his appearance against Bayern made him the youngest player to start a UEFA Champions League knockout round game at 16 years 343 days.

On 23 January, Mbappé marked his first start as Paris captain with the club's first ever five-goal haul in a game, in a 7-0 victory away to sixth-tier Pays de Cassel in the last 32 of the French Cup.

Neymar scored Paris's second goal against LOSC but was carried off early in the second half with an ankle injury and has not played since.

Presnel Kimpembe came on late on at Monaco on 11 February, his first appearance since 13 November due to an Achilles injury that ruled him out of the FIFA World Cup. However, he suffered a recurrence at Marseille and is not expected to play again this season.

Renato Sanches has been out since limping off early on in a 2-1 win against Toulouse on 4 February with a hamstring injury.

Nordi Mukiele, who had a hamstring problem of his own, returned at Marseille, his first appearance since 15 January. He also started on Saturday before limping off in the second half.

Achraf Hakimi has not played since limping off against Bayern, also with a hamstring injury.*

Paris captain Marquinhos missed the win against LOSC with a thigh injury, but played 90 minutes at Marseille. He also started on Saturday but was replaced late on due to back pains.

On 1 March, former France striker Just Fontaine, who was Paris's sporting director when they were promoted to Ligue 1 for the first time in 1974, died aged 89 in Toulouse. He still holds the record for most goals at a single World Cup having struck 13 in Sweden in 1958. A moment of silence was observed ahead of Saturday's game at Parc des Princes.

Messi captained Argentina to victory at the 2022 World Cup, playing every minute in all seven matches, scoring seven goals – including at least one in all four knockout games, a unique feat – and providing three assists, and winning the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player.

Two of Messi's goals came in the final victory against France, where Paris team-mate Mbappé became only the second player to score a hat-trick in the World Cup decider. Mbappé finished as the tournament's top scorer on eight goals and has now scored four goals in the World Cup final, more than any other player.