Champions League Matchday 6: Union SG vs Marseille facts

Union Saint-Gilloise and Marseille are both on six points ahead of their meeting in Belgium on UEFA Champions League Matchday 6 having each claimed their second wins of the league phase in their last fixtures.

Last match

This is the teams' first meeting.

Union SG are unbeaten in their three games against French opposition, drawing twice with Toulouse in the 2023/24 UEFA Europa League group stage (1-1 h, 0-0 a) and beating Nice 2-1 at home in the league phase of the same competition last season.

Marseille are unbeaten in their six encounters with Belgian opposition, recording three wins and three draws while keeping five clean sheets. This is their first fixture since beating KV Oostende 4-2 on aggregate (4-2 h, 0-0 a) in the 2017/18 Europa League third qualifying round.

Union SG

This is Union SG's debut in the Champions League proper. They are the eighth Belgian team to appear.

Les Unionistes featured in the Europa League group stage/league phase in each of the last three seasons. In 2024/25 they were 21st in the league phase before losing 2-3 on aggregate to Ajax in the knockout phase play-offs.

The Belgian side appointed David Hubert as coach on 13 October, Sébastien Pocognoli having departed for Monaco the previous day.

Marseille

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

Union SG have managed just two wins in their last ten home European fixtures (D3 L5), losing the most recent three without scoring including 0-4 against both Newcastle and Inter this season.

The Belgian champions ended a three-game losing Champions League sequence with a 1-0 win at Galatasaray on Matchday 5; they had also won 3-1 at PSV Eindhoven in their first game.

Promise David's winner in Istanbul was Union SG's 50th goal in UEFA competition.

A 2-1 comeback win at home to Newcastle on Matchday 5, in which Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored both Marseille goals, was the French club's 49th European Cup victory.

A 0-1 home loss against Atalanta on Matchday 4 made it 21 defeats in Marseille's last 26 matches in the Champions League proper (W5).

The French club have lost four of their last six European games (W2).

Marseille are without a win in seven away European fixtures (D1 L6), losing the last five.

OM have lost 12 of their last 13 away games in the Champions League proper (W1).