Champions League Matchday 6: Club Brugge vs Arsenal facts

Arsenal take the last perfect record in the 2025/26 UEFA Champions League to Club Brugge, whose promising start to the league phase has stalled ahead of the teams' Matchday 6 meeting in Belgium.

Last match

This is the teams' first fixture.

Club Brugge have won only one of their last 18 matches against English teams (D3 L14), conceding three goals in losing each of the last three – most recently home (1-3) and away (0-3) against Aston Villa in last season's round of 16.

That made it six defeats in their last seven games against Premier League clubs, the exception a 1-0 home win against Villa on Matchday 4 in 2024/25.

Club Brugge won six of their first seven home games against English visitors (D1); last season's victory against Villa is their only success in the subsequent eight (D2 L5).

Arsenal are unbeaten in their last nine matches against Belgian teams (W7 D2), most recently taking four points off Standard Liège in the 2019/20 UEFA Europa League group stage (4-0 h, 2-2 a).

That away draw made the Gunners' record in Belgium W3 D1 L1, the sole defeat 0-1 at Winterslag on their first visit, in the 1981/82 UEFA Cup second round first leg.

Club Brugge

This is Club Brugge's 12th Champions League group stage campaign – level with Anderlecht's Belgian record – and an eighth in ten seasons.

Twenty-fourth in last season's league phase (W3 D2 L3), Club Brugge went out 1-6 to Villa in the round of 16.

The Belgian side parted company with coach Nicky Hayen on 8 December, appointing their former player Ivan Leko as his replacement.

Arsenal

Having not featured in the Champions League proper between 2016/17 and 2023/24, Arsenal are making their third successive appearance.

The Gunners reached the semi-finals last season – their best run in the competition since 2008/09 – before a 1-3 aggregate defeat by eventual champions Paris Saint-Germain.

Key stats

A 3-0 Matchday 5 loss at Sporting CP means Club Brugge are without a win in four Champions League games (D1 L3), conceding 12 goals.

The Belgian side have lost only two of their last 19 home European matches (W12 D5) and are unbeaten in five in the league phase of the Champions League (W3 D2).

Club Brugge have scored 16 goals in their four home Champions League fixtures this season.

Nicolo Tresoldi has found the net in Club Brugge's last three home European matches.

A 3-1 home victory against Bayern München – who also had maximum points after four games – on Matchday 5 means Arsenal are the only team to record five wins in this season's league phase.

On the only previous time Arsenal started a Champions League campaign with five wins, in 2005/06, they went on to reach the final.

Arsenal have won their last nine league phase matches, conceding only three goals – Bayern's Matchday 5 strike is the only one they have let in this season.

The Gunners have lost only two of their last 27 group stage/league phase matches (W21 D4).

Arsenal have kept 11 clean sheets in their last 16 group stage/league phase games.

The London club have scored 396 European Cup goals.

Gabriel Martinelli has scored in his last four Champions League appearances.