Champions League Matchday 2: Bodø/Glimt vs Tottenham facts

Bodø/Glimt's first home game in the UEFA Champions League proper pits them against the side that ended their European campaign in 2024/25 as Tottenham Hotspur return to Norway.

Last match

The only meetings between the teams were in last season’s UEFA Europa League semi-finals, Tottenham winning 3-1 at home and 2-0 away on their way to lifting the trophy.

That second-leg defeat made it five losses from five games against Premier League opponents for Bodø/Glimt with three goals scored and 12 conceded.

Tottenham have won all six matches against Norwegian teams, scoring 22 goals – including ten from three games in Norway – and conceding only four.

Bodø/Glimt

This is Bodø/Glimt's fourth Champions League campaign – all since 2021. They have reached the competition proper for the first time, the third Norwegian team to do so after Rosenborg (11 times) and Molde (once) and the first since Rosenborg in 2007/08.

Bodø/Glimt entered this season's Champions League in the play-offs, beating Sturm Graz 6-2 on aggregate (5-0 h, 1-2 a).

Bodø/Glimt claimed their fourth Norwegian title in 2024 – all in the last five years.

Tottenham 

Spurs are making their seventh appearance in the Champions League proper and a sixth in ten seasons. Their last four participations have all stretched into the knockout rounds.

A team coached by Ange Postecoglou claimed Spurs' third UEFA Cup/Europa League in 2024/25, a Brennan Johnson goal enough to defeat Manchester United in an all-English final in Bilbao. It was Tottenham's first trophy since 2008 and followed their UEFA Cup triumphs in 1972 and 1984.

Spurs lost 3-4 on penalties to Paris Saint-Germain after a 2-2 draw in the UEFA Super Cup on 13 August.

Key stats

Bodø/Glimt have won ten of their last 12 home European games (L2).

Glimt have scored three or more goals in 12 of their last 19 home European matches.

The Norwegian side have lost five of their last eight European games (W2 D1), although they recovered from 0-2 down to draw 2-2 at Slavia Praha on Matchday 1.

Tottenham have lost only one of their last 13 games in UEFA competition (W8 D4).

Spurs have lost only two of their last 11 Champions League group stage/league phase matches (W7 D2).

Having beaten Villarreal 1-0 on Matchday 1, Tottenham are aiming to start a Champions League campaign with successive wins for only the second time after 2017/18.

Tottenham have kept four clean sheets in their last six European matches.