Champions League Matchday 7: Kairat Almaty vs Club Brugge facts
Monday, January 12, 2026
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Previous meetings, club facts and key stats ahead of the UEFA Champions League Matchday 7 game.
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Kairat Almaty and Club Brugge meet for the first time on Matchday 7 with both sides' UEFA Champions League prospects hanging in the balance.
The champions of Kazakhstan come into this penultimate league phase fixture in 36th place in the table having taken one point from their first six matches. Club Brugge are 31st at kick-off on four points.
Last match
This is the teams' first meeting, with neither having previously faced opposition from the other's country.
The nations have two wins apiece in fixtures between clubs from Belgium and Kazakhstan.
Kairat are in the Champions League proper for the first time. Astana, in 2015/16, are the only side from Kazakhstan to feature, drawing four of their six games (L2).
This is only Kairat's third Champions League campaign. They lost in the first qualifying round in 2005/06 and in the second qualifying round in 2021/22.
Kairat's only participation in a UEFA group stage/league phase was in the 2021/22 UEFA Conference League, when they finished bottom of their section (D2 L4).
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 on aggregate to Aston 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.
Kairat's 0-1 loss against Olympiacos on Matchday 6 made it nine European matches without a win (D3 L6).
That was only Kairat's second defeat in their seven home Champions League fixtures this season (W4 D1), with five clean sheets.
The Kazakhstan club have never won a game in a UEFA group stage/league phase (D3 L9) – they are aiming to become the first Kazakhstan club to record a victory in the Champions League proper.
A 0-3 home defeat against Arsenal on Matchday 6 means Club Brugge are winless in five Champions League matches (D1 L4), conceding 15 goals. They have let in three in each of the last three games.
The Belgian side have lost all three away league phase matches this season, conceding nine goals and scoring only one, and are without a win in six (D1 L5).
This is Club Brugge's 150th European Cup match. They are the second Belgian club to reach the landmark after Anderlecht (200).