Champions League Matchday 4: Bodø/Glimt vs Monaco facts

Bodø/Glimt and Monaco will both look for their first league phase victory in this season's UEFA Champions League when they meet in Norway on Matchday 4.

Last match

This is the teams' first meeting.

Bodø/Glimt's only previous match against a French team was a 1-1 draw at Nice on Matchday 8 of last season's UEFA Europa League.

Monaco have also played only one game against Norwegian opponents – a 1-0 loss at Viking in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup group stage.

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).

Monaco 

This is Monaco's 11th appearance in the Champions League proper – last season was their first since 2018/19.

The French club finished 17th in the 2024/25 league phase (W4 D1 L3) before being eliminated by Benfica in the knockout phase play-offs (0-1 h, 3-3 a).

Monaco parted company with coach Adi Hütter on 9 October, naming Union Saint-Gilloise's Sébastien Pocognoli as his replacement three days later.

Key stats

A 3-1 loss at Galatasaray on Matchday 3 ended Bodø/Glimt's five-match unbeaten run in the group stage/league phase of European competitions (W2 D3).

That was the Norwegian side's sixth defeat in their last ten European games (W2 D2); they have won one of the last eight (D2 L5).

Bodø/Glimt have lost only two of their last 13 home European games (W10 D1).

Glimt have scored two or more goals in ten of their last 15 group stage/league phase games. They have found the net in 18 of their last 19 European matches.

Monaco have won only one of their last nine Champions League matches (D3 L5) and none of the most recent six (D3 L3), drawing the last two – 2-2 at home to Manchester City and 0-0 with Tottenham.

The Ligue 1 side have lost their last three away league phase matches by three-goal margins, most recently 1-4 at Club Brugge on Matchday 1.

Aged 17 years 80 days, Monaco's George Ilenikhena could become the youngest African player to reach 15 Champions League appearances, surpassing Nwankwo Kanu (19 years 260 days).