Young Boys vs Inter facts

Young Boys are in need of an upturn in results as Inter Milan come to Switzerland on Matchday 3 of the UEFA Champions League.

The Swiss champions are one of eight teams to have lost their first two games, conceding eight goals at home to Aston Villa (0-3) and away at Barcelona (0-5). Inter, meanwhile, opened with a goalless draw at Manchester City before a 4-0 home defeat of Crvena Zvezda.

This is the clubs' first meeting, and Inter's first game against Swiss opponents in more than 20 years.

Form guide

Young Boys

Record vs Italian clubs: W4 D1 L5 F15 A19
Home record vs Italian clubs: W3 D1 L1

Young Boys lost 1-0 at Atalanta before a 3-3 home draw in the 2021/22 Champions League group stage in their most recent games against Italian opponents.

That made it four games without a win against Serie A sides (D1 L3), since a 2-1 defeat of Juventus on Matchday 6 of the 2018/19 Champions League that is their sole success in their last seven matches against Italian clubs (D1 L5) having won their first three.

YB won their first three home matches against Italian visitors but are without a victory in the last two (D1 L1).

YB are in the Champions League proper for the fourth time – all in the last seven seasons.

In 2023/24, the Swiss side finished third in their section behind Manchester City and Leipzig but ahead of Crvena Zvezda thanks to a 2-0 home win against the Serbian side on Matchday 5; they had drawn 2-2 in Belgrade, losing their other four games.

Young Boys therefore moved across into the UEFA Europa League but their campaign lasted only one tie, losing to Sporting CP in the knockout round play-offs (1-3 h, 1-1 a).

The Bern club started this season in the Champions League play-offs, winning 3-2 at home to Galatasaray and sealing a place in the league phase with a 1-0 win in Istanbul.

The Swiss club have lost five of their last eight European home matches – as many as in their previous 24 games – winning the other three.

YB won their sixth Swiss Super League title in seven years in 2023/24, their 17th championship overall.

Inter

Record vs Swiss clubs: W4 D3 L1 F15 A5
Away record vs Swiss clubs: W1 D3 L0

Inter have not played a team from Switzerland since beating Basel 5-2 on aggregate in the 2004/05 Champions League third qualifying round (1-1 a, 4-1 h).

That made it three wins in four games against Swiss clubs, since a 0-1 loss at home to Lugano in the 1995/96 UEFA Cup first round that completed a 1-2 aggregate defeat.

That remains Inter's only loss to a Swiss club, although a 2-0 success at Neuchâtel Xamax in the 1997/98 UEFA Cup first round (4-0 aggregate) is their sole victory in Switzerland.

This is the Nerazzurri's 18th appearance in the Champions League, and a seventh in succession.

Runners-up to Manchester City in the 2023 final, losing 1-0 in Istanbul – Inter's most successful Champions League campaign since lifting the trophy in 2010 – Simone Inzaghi's side were second behind Real Sociedad in Group D in 2023/24 but were then edged out by Atlético de Madrid in the round of 16 (1-0 h, 1-2 a, 2-3 pens).

That was the second time in the last three seasons than Inter's campaign had foundered in the last 16.

Inter have managed only eight victories in their last 23 away Champions League games (D7 L8) although they have won six of the last 14.

Champions of Europe in 1964, 1965 and 2010, Inter claimed their 20th Serie A title in 2023/24, finishing 19 points clear of runners-up AC Milan. It was their first championship since 2021 and only a second in the past 14 seasons.

Links and trivia

Inter's Swiss international goalkeeper Yann Sommer played for Basel (2003–14) and Grasshoppers (2009/10 loan) in his home country.

Cedric Itten was in the Basel academy when Sommer played for the first team.

Federico Dimarco spent 2017/18 at Swiss club Sion.

Darian Males was on Inter's books between 2020 and joining Young Boys in 2023 but never played for the first team. His sole appearance in Italian football came in the Coppa Italia while on loan at Genoa in 2021.

Ebrima Colley was an Atalanta player between 2019 and 2024, making five Serie A appearances. He also had loan spells at Verona (2020/21) and Spezia (2021/22).

Colley and Dimarco were Verona team-mates in 2020/21.

Latest news

Young Boys

YB parted company with Patrick Rahmen on 8 October; Under-21 coach Joël Magnin has replaced him on an interim basis.

The Swiss champions have already lost five league games this season. They did not suffer their fifth league defeat last season until 3 March.

The Matchday 1 defeat at home to Aston Villa ended YB's seven-game unbeaten run in all competitions (W4 D3). They have now lost four of their last six matches including three in a row before Saturday's 2-1 victory at home to Luzern.

Saidy Janko has not played this season due to a muscle injury.

Patric Pfeiffer has been out since suffering a hamstring injury on his Young Boys debut on 17 August; he damaged the medial ligament in his right knee in training on 9 October.

Banhie Zoukrou suffered a hip injury in training on 16 October and missed Saturday's win.

Alan Virginius made his debut for France's Under-21 side in a 3-0 2025 UEFA European Championship qualifying win in Cyprus on 11 October.

Inter

On Sunday, Lautaro Martínez's second-half strike was enough to give Inter a 1-0 win at Roma.

That was Martínez's 133rd goal for the club in all competitions, equalling Stefano Nyers' Inter record for a non-Italian.

Marcus Thuram scored a hat-trick in Inter's 3-2 win at home to Torino on 5 October.

The Nerazzurri have conceded nine goals in eight games, having let in just 22 in the whole of 2023/24. Sunday was Inter's first clean sheet in Serie A since a 4-0 win against Atalanta on 30 August.

Nicolò Barella played 90 minutes at Roma having missed three games with a thigh injury.

Kristjan Asllani missed Sunday's win after a knock in training while Hakan Çalhanoğlu (thigh) and Francesco Acerbi (muscular) had to be replaced in the first half.

Tajon Buchanan is yet to play this season with a knee injury.

Piotr Zieliński scored Poland's goal in a 3-1 UEFA Nations League defeat in Portugal on 12 October and also found the net in a 3-3 draw with Croatia three days later before picking up a thigh injury that ruled him out of Inter's weekend win.

On 14 October Davide Frattesi scored in Italy's 4-1 win against Israel, Kristjan Asllani got the only goal as Albania won in Georgia and Hakan Çalhanoğlu scored a penalty in Türkiye's 4-2 victory in Iceland.

Denzel Dumfries equalised for Netherlands in a 1-1 draw in Hungary on 11 October.

Marko Arnautović scored twice as Austria defeated Norway 5-1 on 13 October.

Martínez scored in Argentina's 3-0 FIFA World Cup qualifying win against Bolivia on 15 October.