Champions League Matchday 2: Atalanta vs Club Brugge facts
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
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Previous meetings, club facts and key stats ahead of the UEFA Champions League Matchday 2 game.
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Atalanta begin their home UEFA Champions League campaign against the side that ended their interest in last season's competition as Club Brugge come to Bergamo on Matchday 2.
Last match
The sides' only meetings came in last season's knockout phase play-offs, Club Brugge winning 2-1 at home and 3-1 away to progress 5-2 on aggregate.
Atalanta have lost all four matches against Belgian teams, also going out to Mechelen in the semi-finals of the 1987/88 Cup Winners’ Cup (1-2 a, 1-2 h).
Club Brugge ended a 15-match winless run against Italian teams by beating Atalanta last season but are without a victory in 11 group stage/league phase matches against Serie A side (D5 L6) since a 1-0 Champions League win at AC Milan in October 2003.
Atalanta are taking part in the Champions League proper for the fifth time – all since 2019 – in 2025/26.
The Bergamo club were ninth in last season's league phase (W4 D3 L1) before losing to Club Brugge in the knockout phase play-offs.
This is Club Brugge's 12th Champions League group stage campaign – level with Anderlecht's Belgian record – and an eighth in ten seasons.
Twenty-fourth in last season's league phase (W3 D2 L3), Club Brugge beat Atalanta before going out to Aston Villa in the round of 16 (1-3 h, 0-3 a).
Key stats
The 4-0 loss at Paris Saint-Germain on Matchday 1 equalled Atalanta's biggest away European defeat.
Atalanta have lost their last three European matches. They have never lost four in a row.
Atalanta have won only two of their last 12 home Champions League games (D5 L5).
Berat Djimsiti could become the first Albanian player to make 30 appearances in the Champions League proper.
Club Brugge have won all five Champions League matches this season. They were 4-2 victors against Salzburg in the third qualifying round, winning 1-0 away and 3-2 at home, before easing past Rangers in the play-offs (3-1 a, 6-0 h).
The 4-1 win against Monaco on Matchday 1 made it 16 goals in the Belgian side's last four games. They have scored in 30 of their last 33 European contests.
Club Brugge have lost only three of their last 16 European group stage/league phase matches (W9 D4).
Nicolo Tresoldi has opened the scoring in Club Brugge’s last two Champions League matches.