Shakhtar Donetsk vs Bayern München facts

Shakhtar Donetsk face the team that inflicted their heaviest UEFA Champions League defeat when they take on Bayern München at the Arena AufSchalke in Gelsenkirchen.

Shakhtar – who conceded seven goals in their last game against Bayern – have four points in this season's competition, their sole victory a 2-1 home success against Young Boys on Matchday 4; the 3-2 loss at PSV Eindhoven last time out, a game in which they held a two-goal advantage until the 87th minute, is one of three defeats.

Bayern have lost both away games this season but have nine points having won all their home games, defeating Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in Munich on Matchday 5.

Previous meetings

2014/15 Champions League round of 16
Shakhtar 0-0 Bayern
Bayern 7-0 Shakhtar
After a goalless first leg in Lviv, Pep Guardiola's Bayern turned on the style in Munich, helped by Oleksandr Kucher's third-minute red card – the quickest in Champions League history. Thomas Müller converted the subsequent penalty and made it 4-0 seven minutes after half-time following goals from Jérôme Boateng and Franck Ribéry. Further strikes by Holger Badstuber, Robert Lewandowski and Mario Götze rounded off an emphatic defeat for a Shakhtar side coached by Mircea Lucescu.

Form guide

Shakhtar

Record vs German clubs: W10 D8 L10 F34 A53
Home record vs German clubs: W3 D7 L3

Shakhtar's last fixtures against a Bundesliga team came in the 2022/23 group stage when they won 4-1 at Leipzig on Matchday 1 but lost 0-4 in Warsaw on Matchday 6.

That made it three defeats by German opposition in four games, Shakhtar having lost 0-6 at home and 0-4 away to Borussia Mönchengladbach in the 2020/21 group stage, the defeat in Kyiv their heaviest at home in Europe.

After victories in their first two home games against teams from Germany, a 3-0 defeat of Wolfsburg in Kyiv in the 2019/20 UEFA Europa League round of 16 is Shakhtar's only success in their last 11 (D7 L3) – although they beat Werder Bremen 2-1 after extra time in Istanbul in the last UEFA Cup final in 2009.

The Ukrainian side are making an eighth successive appearance in the Champions League proper, and a 19th overall. They have featured in all but one of the last 15 seasons.

The Pitmen have failed to progress to the knockout rounds in each of the last six campaigns.

In 2023/24, Shakhtar were third in Group H behind Barcelona and Porto despite winning three of their six games. They lost the others, including a decisive 5-3 defeat in Portugal on Matchday 6.

That sent them into the Europa League where Marseille proved too strong in their knockout round play-off (2-2 h, 1-3 a).

Shakhtar's most successful Champions League campaign came in 2010/11, when they reached the quarter-finals before losing 6-1 on aggregate to eventual champions Barcelona.

The Matchday 4 defeat of Young Boys was only the Pitmen's ninth in their last 29 home European games (D12 L8).

Shakhtar have nine wins in their last 41 matches in the Champions League proper, home and away (D14 L18).

Under Marino Pušić, who had been appointed in October, Shakhtar won their 15th Ukrainian Premier League in 2023/24. They also lifted the Ukrainian Cup for a record 14th time, a ninth domestic double.

Bayern

Record vs Ukrainian clubs: W8 D2 L4 F26 A13
Away record vs Ukrainian clubs: W2 D2 L3

Their 2015 games against Shakhtar aside, Bayern's other 12 games with Ukrainian clubs have all come against Dynamo Kyiv.

Their most recent fixtures came in the 2021/22 group stage, Bayern winning 5-0 in Munich and 2-1 in Kyiv to make it three successive victories against teams from Ukraine.

That 2021 victory at Dynamo was only Bayern's second away win against a Ukrainian club and a first in four games (D2 L1), since a 4-1 success at Dynamo on Matchday 6 of the 1994/95 Champions League.

Bayern have featured in the Champions League proper in every season since 2008/09, reaching the knockout rounds in each one of those campaigns.

This is Bayern's 28th campaign in the Champions League proper, level with Porto and fewer only than Barcelona and Real Madrid (both 29).

A 0-1 defeat at Aston Villa on Matchday 2 this season ended Bayern's record unbeaten run of 41 Champions League group/league phase matches (W37 D4).

After winning five of their six games in the 2023/24 group stage, Bayern edged past Lazio (3-1 aggregate) and Arsenal (2-2 a, 1-0 h) before that late semi-final turnaround in Madrid.

The six-time European champions have reached the quarter-finals or better in 12 of their last 13 Champions League campaigns, the exception a last-16 elimination by Liverpool in 2018/19.

A 4-1 loss at Barcelona on Matchday 3 was only Bayern's sixth in 37 away Champions League matches (W24 D7) but the first time they had lost three away European games in a row.

A side coached by Thomas Tuchel were third behind Bayer Leverkusen and Stuttgart in the 2023/24 Bundesliga. It was the first time Bayern had failed to win the title since 2011/12 and their lowest league placing since 2010/11, when they were also third.

Tuchel was replaced by Vincent Kompany in the summer.

Links and trivia

Has played in Germany
Bartol Franjić (Wolfsburg 2022/23 loan, Darmstadt 2023/24 loan)

Have played together:
Bartol Franjić & Josip Stanišić (Croatia Under-21)

Harry Kane opened the scoring against Ukraine in England's 2-0 UEFA EURO 2024 qualifying victory on 26 March 2023. He had also struck twice in England's 4-0 victory EURO 2020 quarter-final victory.

Joshua Kimmich scored for Germany against Ukraine in a 3-3 friendly draw on 12 June 2023.

Latest news

Shakhtar

Shakhtar claimed a 3-1 victory against Vorskla Poltava on Thursday, with goals from Newertton, Georgiy Sudakov and Lassina Traoré.

On 1 December the Pitmen conceded an added-time equaliser to draw 1-1 with Rukh Lviv having taken the lead through Mykola Matviyenko's third goal of the season.

Sudakov and Artem Bondarenko are joint-top scorers in the Ukrainian Premier League on eight goals.

Sudakov is Shakhtar's top scorer in all competitions with nine.

Shakhtar have won only ten of their 15 league matches this season (D3 L2).

The defeat at PSV on Matchday 5 ended Shakhtar's five-game winning run in all competitions and is their only loss in nine (W6 D2).

Bayern

After seven successive victories, all without conceding, Vincent Kompany's team were winless in two before beating Heidenheim 4-2 in Munich on Saturday.

Substitute Jamal Musiala scored twice, making it 12 in 19 appearances this season to match his total for 2023/24. He has ten goals in his last 12 games for club and country.

On 30 November Musiala rescued a late 1-1 draw at Borussia Dortmund, before Bayern lost 1-0 at home against holders Bayer Leverkusen in the last 16 of the German Cup three days later – their first domestic defeat this season and the fifth season running in which they have been eliminated before the quarter-finals.

Manuel Neuer was sent off against Leverkusen after 17 minutes – the first red card of his career in his 867th game.

Harry Kane has 14 goals in this season's Bundesliga and 23 in 24 games for club and country this season.

Kane has not played since suffering a hamstring injury against Dortmund.

Alphonso Davies and Kingsley Coman both suffered hamstring strains on Saturday, the latter having to be replaced himself having come on as a substitute.

João Palhinha has been out since mid-November after suffering an adductors injury in training with Portugal.

Josip Stanišić (out since 19 August, knee) is back in training.

New signing Hiroki Ito (out since 28 July, broken metatarsal) suffered a setback and needed another operation on 5 November.