Champions League Matchday 4: Ajax vs Galatasaray facts

Ajax will look to ignite their UEFA Champions League season as a buoyant Galatasaray come to Amsterdam for the second season in succession on Matchday 4.

Last match

The teams met for the first time on Matchday 8 of last season's UEFA Europa League, Kian Fitz-Jim getting Ajax's winner in a 2-1 victory in Amsterdam despite Victor Osimhen's added-time consolation for the visitors.

Ajax have won 12 of their 14 games against Turkish teams (D1 L1) – keeping nine clean sheets – including the last four and are unbeaten at home (W7 D1).

Galatasaray are without a win in their last eight matches against Dutch teams (D2 L6) and have never won away to an Eredivisie side (D1 L6), conceding 20 goals in those seven fixtures.

Ajax

This is Ajax's 19th appearance in the Champions League proper – a Dutch record they share with PSV Eindhoven – and a first since 2022/23.

The Amsterdammers were 12th in the league phase of the 2024/25 Europa League, eventually losing to Eintracht Frankfurt in the last 16 (1-2 h, 1-4 a).

Galatasaray

This is Galatasaray's 19th participation in the Champions League proper – more than every other Turkish club combined – but only a second in six seasons. That last campaign, in 2023/24, ended in the group stage – as had Gala's previous four forays into the competition.

The Istanbul club lost 2-4 on aggregate to Young Boys in last season's play-offs, going on to finish 14th in the league phase of the Europa League before being eliminated by AZ Alkmaar in the knockout phase play-offs (1-4 a, 2-2 h).

Key stats

Ajax and Benfica are the only sides to have lost their first three games, the Dutch club going down 1-5 at Chelsea on Matchday 3.

Ajax's 11 goals conceded in the first three matches is the joint-most in the league phase along with Eintracht Frankfurt.

Ajax have lost their last six European games and seven of the last eight in the Champions League group stage/league phase (W1).

Ajax have scored 397 European Cup goals.

A 1-0 home win against Liverpool on Matchday 2 ended Galatasaray's seven-game run without a European victory (D4 L3). They were also 3-1 victors against Bodø/Glimt in Istanbul on Matchday 3 and are aiming to win three successive matches in the Champions League proper for the first time since 2012/13.

Galatasaray have lost only two of their last 11 European group stage/league phase matches (W5 D4).

The Turkish team are without a win in ten away European games (D3 L7).

Osimhen has scored in seven consecutive European games, nine goals in total.