UEFA Champions League: Who made their debut this week?
Friday, October 16, 2026
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We keep track of every player making their first UEFA Champions League appearance in the 2026/27 campaign.
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Players making their first-ever appearance in Europe’s premier club competition will from this season have the occasion marked with a new UEFA Champions League Debut Patch.
The Debut Patch is a new initiative introduced by UEFA in collaboration with Topps to recognise and celebrate players making their bow in the Champions League. It will be incorporated into the Champions League Starball badge worn on a player’s jersey sleeve.
Here, we keep track of every player to sport the Debut Patch this season after making their maiden appearances in the tournament.
Matchday 2
AEK Athens (L3-1 vs Shakhtar)
None
Arsenal (W3-0 vs Lille)
None
Aston Villa (W6-0 vs Fenerbahçe)
Johan Manzambi
Atleti (W2-0 vs Man Utd)
None
B. Dortmund (L1-0 vs Bodø/Glimt)
Samuele Inácio
Barcelona (W4-1 vs Galatasaray)
None
Bayern München (D3-3 vs Viking)
None
Bodø/Glimt (W1-0 vs B. Dortmund)
None
Club Brugge (L4-3 vs Inter)
None
Como (L3-2 vs Feyenoord)
Kaiki Bruno
Jesús Rodríguez
Mattia Liberali
Fenerbahçe (L6-0 vs Aston Villa)
None
Feyenoord (W3-2 vs Como)
Gaoussou Diarra
Jerayno Schaken
Galatasaray (L4-1 vs Barcelona)
None
Inter (L4-3 vs Club Brugge)
None
LASK (L6-3 vs Liverpool)
Samuel Adeniran
Daniel Elfadli
Yvan Dibango
Naël Kane
Leipzig (W1-0 vs PSV)
Rocco Reitz
Rômulo Cardoso
Lens (L2-0 vs Sporting CP)
Yacine Titraoui
Saud Abdulhamid
Lille (L3-0 vs Arsenal)
Calvin Verdonk
Soriba Diaoune
Maxima Goffi
Liverpool (W6-3 vs LASK)
Luke Chambers
Man City (L4-2 vs Paris)
None
Man Utd (L2-0 vs Atleti)
Carlos Baleba
Ayden Heaven
Napoli (L3-1 vs Villarreal)
Giovane
Paris (W4-2 vs Man City)
None
Porto (L3-2 vs Real Betis)
Samu
Oskar Pietuszewski
PSV (L1-0 vs Leipzig)
Mikkel Bro Hansen
Ayoni Santos
Real Betis (W3-2 vs Porto)
Cucho Hernández
Abde Ezzalzouli
Ángel Ortiz
Real Madrid (W4-3 vs Roma)
None
Roma (L4-3 vs Real Madrid)
Konstantinos Koulierakis
S. Bratislava (L3-0 vs Stuttgart)
Roman Čerepkai
Alasana Yirajang
Sabah (W2-0 vs Slavia Praha)
Steve Solvet
Shakhtar (W3-1 vs AEK Athens)
Luca Meirelles
Slavia Praha (L2-0 vs Sabah)
Ange N'Guessan
Mubarak Suleiman
Sporting CP (W2-0 vs Lens)
Nestory Irankunda
Pedro Lima
Jesse Derry
Kaique Pereira
Stuttgart (W3-0 vs S. Bratislava)
Lorenz Assignon
Viking (D3-3 vs Bayern München)
Viljar Vevatne
Villarreal (W3-1 vs Napoli)
Carlos Romero
Matchday 1
Kervin Arriaga
Alberto Brignoli
Filipe Relvas
Mijat Gaćinović
Aboubakary Koita
Răzvan Marin
Harold Moukoudi
Stavros Pilios
Lazaros Rota
Barnabás Varga
Milán Vitális
Zini
None
Alysson
George Hemmings
João Gomes
Zion Suzuki
None
Joane Gadou
Konstantinos Karetsas
Kauã Prates
None
None
Ola Brynhildsen
Julian Faye Lund
Joshua Kitolano
Han-beom Lee
Freddie Potts
Cheveyo Tsawa
Jan Virgili
Lucas Da Cunha
Assane Diao
Tasos Douvikas
Marc-Oliver Kempf
Luis Milla
Máximo Perrone
Samuele Ricci
Ivan Smolčić
Bartuğ Elmaz
Archie Brown
İsmail Yüksek
Levent Mercan
Mert Müldür
Oğuz Aydın
Tjark Ernst
Nacho Ferri
Javi López
Mika Mármol
Sem Steijn
Oussama Targhalline
Luciano Valente
Tobias van den Elshout
Charles Vanhoutte
Shaqueel van Persie
Tsuyoshi Watanabe
Aleksei Batrakov
Deniz Gül
Renato Nhaga
Lesley Ugochukwu
None
Andrés Andrade
George Bello
Melayro Bogarde
Florian Flecker
Sascha Horvath
Kasper Jørgensen
Lukas Jungwirth
Sasa Kalajdzic
Christoph Lang
Xavier Mbuyamba
João Victor Tornich
Moses Usor
Ezechiel Banzuzi
Tidiam Gomis
Brajan Gruda
Kyllian Antonio
Andrija Bulatović
Ismaëlo Ganiou
Junior Kadile
Robin Risser
Souleymane Sagnan
Mezian Soares Mesloub
Matthieu Udol
Dilane Bakwa
Nathan Ngoy
Başar Önal
Berke Özer
Romain Perraud
Gaëtan Perrin
Jérémy Jacquet
Lewis Koumas
Víctor Muñoz
Iliman Ndiaye
Harry Amass
Patrick Dorgu
Shea Lacey
Bryan Mbeumo
Leny Yoro
Costantino Favasuli
None
Alberto Costa
Seko Fofana
Francisco Moura
Gabriel Veiga
Martim Fernandes
Nehuén Pérez
Borja Sainz
William Gomes
Sven Mijnans
Kodai Sano
Facundo Bernal
Nelson Deossa
Álvaro Fidalgo
Pablo Fornals
Valentín Gómez
Troy Parrott
Álvaro Vallés
Carlos Espí
Yan Diomande
Wesley França
Manu Koné
Gianluca Mancini
Niccolò Pisilli
Rodrigo Mora
Sahmkou Camara
Suleiman Camara
Rahim Ibrahim
Svetozar Marković
Alexej Maroš
Cristian Martínez
Peter Pokorný
Sandro Cruz
Rahman Dashdamirov
Du Queiroz
Erivaldo Almeida
Aleksey Isaev
Abdulakh Khaibulaev
Ivan Lepinjica
Orphé Mbina
Aden McCarthy
Joy-Lance Mickels
Christian Nwachukwu
Kaheem Parris
Stas Pokatilov
Tymoteusz Puchacz
Umarali Rakhmonaliev
Akim Zedadka
Alisson Santana
Gleiker Mendoza
Isaque
Kauã Elias
Lucas Ferreira
Emmanuel Ayaosi
Toumani Diakité
Samuel Isife
Mikuláš Konečný
Oskar Kubiak
Wiktor Nowak
Danijel Šturm
Sergi Altimira
Silas Andersen
Issa Doumbia
Flávio Gonçalves
Ramon Hendriks
Bilal El Khannouss
Finn Jeltsch
Dženan Pejčinović
Grischa Prömel
Kristoffer Askildsen
Vetle Auklend
Joe Bell
Henrik Bjørdal
Erik Botheim
Peter Christiansen
Jesper Daland
Henrik Falchener
Herman Haugen
Kristoffer Haugen
Henrik Heggheim
Simen Kvia-Egeskog
Tobias Moi
Arild Østbø
Gianni Stensness
Zlatko Tripić
Alex Freeman
Nathan Saliba