Champions League Matchday 5: Olympiacos vs Real Madrid facts

Olympiacos will once again try to record their first win of the UEFA Champions League season at home to a Real Madrid side out to bounce back from their first defeat in the 2025/26 competition.

Last match

Olympiacos have one win in the sides' eight fixtures, to four Madrid victories, prevailing 2-1 in the group stage in December 2005.

The Greek club held Madrid 0-0 in Piraeus in the teams' last fixture, on Matchday 4 of the 2007/08 Champions League, making their home record against Madrid W1 D3.

Madrid had won 4-2 in Spain, one of three victories in the last five fixtures between the clubs (D1 L1).

Olympiacos have won one of their last 13 matches against Spanish teams (D3 L9). A 6-1 reverse at Barcelona on Matchday 3 made it four losses in six games (D2).

However, Olympiacos have been beaten in only two of their 16 matches against Spanish teams in Greece (W6 D8).

Madrid have lost only one of their last 13 games against Greek teams (W6 D6) – that 2005 reverse at Olympiacos. Their last four matches have all involved Olympiacos.

Madrid are winless in their seven away matches against Greek sides (D2 L5). They have failed to win any of their nine games in Greece (D3 L6) – their highest number of matches in a single country without a victory, which includes the 1970/71 European Cup Winners' Cup final against Chelsea (1-1 aet, 1-2 replay).

Olympiacos

This is Olympiacos' 21st appearance in the Champions League proper – but a first since 2020/21. That ended in the group stage, for the fifth successive Champions League campaign.

The Greek side lost to Bodø/Glimt in last season's UEFA Europa League round of 16, having finished seventh in the league phase.

Real Madrid

Madrid are in the Champions League proper for the 30th time, a competition record they share with Barcelona. They have qualified for the knockout rounds in all 29 campaigns.

A team coached by Carlo Ancelotti were 11th in last season's league phase (W5 L3), eventually losing 1-5 on aggregate to Arsenal in the quarter-finals.

Key stats

Olympiacos are unbeaten in their last nine home European games (W5 D4), drawing 1-1 against PSV Eindhoven on Matchday 4.

The Greek club have won only two of their last 24 Champions League group stage/league phase games, losing 18, and none of the last nine (D2 L7), since a 1-0 victory at home against Marseille on 21 October 2020.

Olympiacos have scored 149 goals in the Champions League proper.

Madrid lost 1-0 at Liverpool on Matchday 4, ending a run of six successive league phase wins.

Madrid's last 63 group stage/league phase games have all featured at least one goal, since a 0-0 draw at Paris Saint-Germain in October 2015.