Champions League Matchday 3: Sporting CP vs Marseille facts
Monday, October 13, 2025
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Previous meetings, club facts and key stats ahead of the UEFA Champions League Matchday 3 game.
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Sporting CP and Marseille renew acquaintances on Matchday 3 of the UEFA Champions League with both sides on three points after two games of the league phase.
Last match
The teams have met twice in UEFA competition, Marseille winning 4-1 at home – Leonardo Balerdi scoring their third goal – and 2-0 in Lisbon in the 2022/23 group stage, Pedro Gonçalves one of two Sporting players sent off in the latter fixture.
Sporting CP have won six of their last eight home matches against French teams (L2), beating Lille 2-0 in Lisbon on Matchday 1 last season.
Marseille have won three of their last four games against Portuguese teams (L1), as many as in their previous 15 fixtures. They beat Benfica 4-2 on penalties in the last contest, in the 2023/24 UEFA Europa League quarter-finals (1-2 a, 1-0 h).
The Lions are making their 12th appearance in the Champions League proper, and a fourth in five seasons.
Sporting were 23rd in last season's league phase (W3 D2 L3), bowing out against Borussia Dortmund in the knockout phase play-offs (0-3 h, 0-0 a).
This is Marseille's 12th Champions League campaign, but only a third in the last 12 seasons. They have not progressed to the knockout rounds since reaching the quarter-finals in 2011/12.
OM were not involved in UEFA competition in 2024/25 having reached the Europa League semi-finals in 2023/24.
Key stats
A 4-1 defeat of Kairat Almaty on Matchday 1 means Sporting have lost only two of their last ten home European matches (W5 D3).
However, Sporting were beaten 2-1 at Napoli in their last fixture and have won only one of their last eight Champions League games (D2 L5).
Luis Suárez's penalty in Naples was the Lisbon club's 100th goal in the Champions League proper.
A 4-0 home win against Ajax on Matchday 2 was Marseille's biggest victory in the Champions League proper since a 7-0 triumph at Žilina in November 2010.
OM went down 2-1 at Real Madrid in their first fixture – one of 19 defeats in their last 23 matches in the Champions League proper (W4).
Marseille have lost only two of their last eight games in the group stage/league phase of UEFA competition (W4 D2).
The French club have scored 99 goals in the Champions League, Matchday 1 to final.
Marseille's last draw in the Champions League proper was 0-0 at Arsenal in November 2011. Their record since is W6 L20.