Champions League Matchday 4: Tottenham vs Copenhagen facts
Thursday, October 30, 2025
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Previous meetings, club facts and key stats ahead of the UEFA Champions League Matchday 4 game.
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Tottenham Hotspur are defending their unbeaten record in the 2025/26 UEFA Champions League as winless Copenhagen come to north London on Matchday 4.
Last match
This is the teams' first meeting.
Tottenham’s only previous match against Danish opponents was a 3-2 home defeat of Aalborg in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup group stage.
The Danish side lost 1-2 at home and 0-1 away to Chelsea in last season's UEFA Conference League round of 16 to make it four successive defeats against Premier League opponents.
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. It was Tottenham's first trophy since 2008 and followed their UEFA Cup triumphs in 1972 and 1984.
Copenhagen's last appearance in the Champions League proper came in 2023/24, their second successive campaign. Overall, this is their seventh group stage/league phase participation, more than any other Danish team.
In 2024/25, the Danish club reached the Conference League round of 16, where they were beaten 1-3 on aggregate by eventual champions Chelsea.
Key stats
Tottenham head coach Thomas Frank was born in Frederiksværk in Denmark, and had spells in charge of Denmark's youth national sides and Brøndby before moving to England in 2016.
Tottenham are unbeaten in 21 home European games (W17 D4).
The Lilywhites have lost only one of their last 15 European matches (W8 D6), with the penalty shoot-out defeat by Paris Saint-Germain in August's UEFA Super Cup counted as a draw.
Tottenham have lost only two of their last 13 games in the Champions League group stage/league phase (W7 D4) and are unbeaten in seven (W3 D4).
Spurs have kept four clean sheets in their last six European fixtures, most recently at Monaco on Matchday 3 (0-0).
Copenhagen have won only two of their previous 21 away matches in the Champions League proper (D4 L15), suffering a 2-0 Matchday 2 defeat at Qarabağ.
The Danish side have won only two of their last 15 Champions League group stage/league phase matches (D6 L7), losing the last two; they were beaten 4-2 at home by Borussia Dortmund on Matchday 3.