UEFA Champions League: 2024/25 league phase in numbers
Friday, January 31, 2025
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UEFA.com pores over the pick of the facts, stats and landmarks from the inaugural league phase of the UEFA Champions League.
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Statistics do not include qualifying unless stated.
1 Debutants Bologna, Brest and Girona earned their first Champions League wins. Brest defeated Sturm Graz in their opening fixture and Girona bested Slovan Bratislava on Matchday 3, while Bologna had to wait until their penultimate match for a victory, defeating Borussia Dortmund 2-1.
2 Morgan Rogers became the first player to score two goals in the opening five minutes of a Champions League match during Aston Villa's 4-2 victory over Celtic. Paris’ turnaround win against Manchester City was the first time the French club have conceded the first two goals and won in this competition.
3 Harry Kane is the only player to score a hat-trick of penalties in the Champions League, three of his four goals coming from the spot in Bayern's 9-2 win over GNK Dinamo. Feyenoord scored three goals in three consecutive matches in this competition for the first time since the 1971/72 season.
4 Christian Pulišić became the first United States international to score four goals in a single edition of the Champions League. Antoine Griezmann became the fourth French international to reach 100 appearances in the competition after Karim Benzema, Thierry Henry, and Patrice Evra.
5 Barcelona’s 5-4 victory over Benfica was the first match in Champions League history to finish by that scoreline. Manchester City scored five or more goals in a Champions League match for the 11th time, which is more than any other English side.
6 Only six clubs stayed in the same position in the league phase table from Matchday 7 to Matchday 8.
9 Jonathan David became the highest-scoring Canadian in Champions League history after his double against Atleti increased his tally in the competition to six, surpassing the previous record set by Tomasz Radzinski. David subsequently added three more to his tally to claim the single-season record, including one during Lille's 6-1 victory over Feyenoord on Matchday 8 – the first ever Champions League match in which they scored more than three goals.
10 The record for most hat-tricks in a Champions League season has already been tied after just the league phase of the current campaign. Ten trebles have been struck, matching the record set from group stage to final in 2019/20.
11 Vincent Kompany's managerial debut in the Champions League produced the joint-second highest-scoring game in competition history. Only Borussia Dortmund's 8-4 victory over Legia Warszawa in November 2016 saw more than the 11 goals scored between Bayern and GNK Dinamo.
17 At 17 years and 68 days old, Lamine Yamal became the second youngest scorer in Champions League history against Monaco. Record holder and Barcelona team-mate Ansu Fati was 28 days younger when he converted against Inter in 2019.
18 Endrick became the youngest player to start for Real Madrid in the Champions League, taking the field at 18 years and 73 days old in the 1-0 defeat at Lille. The previous record was held by Raúl González, who was just five days older when he started against Ajax in September 1995.
19 Robert Lewandowski is now tied with Cristiano Ronaldo for the most Champions League penalties scored, converting his 18th and 19th against Benfica. Liverpool have not lost a UEFA competition match against a German team at Anfield, extending their unbeaten run to 19 against Leverkusen. Luis Díaz, who scored a treble in the 4-0 win, became the second Colombian international to score a Champions League hat-trick.
24 Nine different nations are represented across the 24 knockout phase teams. Two of those teams have reached the knockout phase for the first time in the Champions League era: Brest and Aston Villa. The Premier League club won the European Champion Clubs' Cup in 1982, but are playing their first season in this competition since it was relaunched in 1992/93.
25 PSV's 3-2 victory over Liverpool was the first ever Champions League match to see five first-half goals after a goalless opening 25 minutes.
35 Harry Kane surpassed former international team-mate Wayne Rooney as the top English scorer in Champions League history on Matchday 1. Finishing with six league phase goals, Kane is now five goals clear of the previous record of 30. Virgil van Dijk earned his 35th win upon completing a half-century of Champions League appearances for Liverpool, the joint-highest in club history through 50 games.
36 Erling Haaland recorded the highest top speed of any player in the league phase, clocking 36.6 km/h. A fearsome prospect for defenders, the Manchester City forward edged out Paris full-back Achraf Hakimi (36.5 km/h) and team-mate Matheus Nunes (36.3 km/h). Of the 36 competitors in the league phase, 34 recorded a win.
40 Jude Bellingham became the youngest player to reach 40 appearances in the Champions League. Lining up at 21 years and 164 days old against Atalanta, Bellingham also hit his 11th goal.
41 The most Champions League appearances with a Belgian club now belong to Hans Vanaken, who marked his 41st Club Brugge outing with a victory over Sturm Graz. The previous record was held by Olivier Deschacht, who made 40 appearances for Anderlecht.
44 Mohamed Salah exceeded Didier Drogba's total of 44 to become the top African scorer in Champions League history when he struck Liverpool's second in the 2-0 win over Bologna.
45 Erling Haaland reached 45 Champions League goals in record time after scoring twice against Feyenoord on his 44th appearance in the competition. Ruud van Nistelrooy (56) and Lionel Messi (64) come closest to the Manchester City marksman.
50 Kylian Mbappé became the second youngest player to hit 50 Champions League goals. Reaching the milestone at 25 years and 356 days old, only former Paris team-mate Lionel Messi (24 years and 284 days) hit his half-century younger than Mbappé.
56 Thomas Müller moved level with Ruud van Nistelrooy in the list of all-time top scorers in the Champions League after hitting his 56th against Slovan Bratislava on Matchday 8. Only Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski, Karim Benzema, and Raúl González have scored more.
67 Matchday 5 was the highest-scoring matchweek in Champions League history. Eighteen games produced 67 goals to best the previous record of 63, set during the opening round of fixtures in 2000/01. That old benchmark was also exceeded as the league phase reached its crescendo on Matchday 8, with 64 goals across the 18 simultaneous games.
86 Completing a dramatic comeback win against Shakhtar, PSV became the first side to win a Champions League game despite trailing by two goals after 86 minutes.
90 None of Paris' last 90 UEFA competition matches have ended scoreless. Their last 0-0 came against Real Madrid in October 2015.
100 Robert Lewandowski became only the third player to score 100 goals in the Champions League, bringing his century up against Brest on Matchday 5. Elsewhere, Antoine Griezmann and Koke became the first players to reach 100 Champions League appearances in the same game. Atleti marked the occasion with their largest ever away win in UEFA club competition – scoring six unanswered goals at Sparta Praha.
101 Joshua Kimmich covered more distance than any other player in the league phase, racking up 101.5 kilometres across eight appearances.
153 Vangelis Pavlidis scored the 153rd Champions League hat-trick as Benfica were defeated by Barcelona, making him only the fifth player to hit a treble and end the match on the losing side. Incidentally, he was also only the fifth player to score a hat-trick against Barcelona in the Champions League and only the second Greek player to manage three in a single game in this competition.
300 Bayern became the second club to make 300 Champions League appearances as they triumphed away at Shakhtar on Matchday 6; only Real Madrid had reached that total previously. Crvena Zvezda have now scored more than 300 goals in this competition, including qualifying. They are the first Serbian side to do so, with second-placed FK Partizan scoring 163.
470 Goals flew in at a record rate during the inaugural league phase, the 470 scored across 144 games equating to an average of 3.26 per match, which is the highest ever in a Champions League league phase/group stage. The previous high of 3.21 per match was set during the 2019/20 season.
1982 Aston Villa repeated their 1-0 victory over Bayern in a rematch of the 1982 UEFA European Cup final on Matchday 2. Jhon Durán’s stunning winner also meant that Bayern's record unbeaten run in the league phase/group stage stopped at 41 matches.
2016 Lewandowski (9) and Raphinha (8) are the first Barcelona pair to each score six or more goals in a Champions League campaign since Luis Suárez (8) and Lionel Messi (6) in 2015/16. Lewandowski finished as the league phase's joint-top scorer, while Barcelona ranked as the highest-scoring team after hitting 28 goals.