Champions League Matchday 2: Aston Villa vs Fenerbahçe facts

Aston Villa will attempt to make it four wins from four against Fenerbahçe when the teams meet in Birmingham on UEFA Champions League Matchday 2.

Previous meetings

Villa have won all three matches between the sides, all without conceding, Jadon Sancho's goal earning a 1-0 away victory on Matchday 7 of last season's UEFA Europa League.

The English side also won 4-0 at home and 2-0 away in the 1977/78 UEFA Cup first round.

Villa have won five of their seven matches against Turkish sides (D1 L1), including all three at home – although this is their first fixture at Villa Park since beating Trabzonspor 2-1 in the 1994/95 UEFA Cup second round second leg, a tie they lost on away goals (2-2 aggregate).

A 2-1 second leg win at Nottingham Forest in last season's Europa League knockout phase play-offs second leg – they lost 2-4 on aggregate – was only Fenerbahçe's second in their last 11 games against English clubs (D2 L7).

Fenerbahçe are without a win in their last five Champions League matches, qualifying included, against Premier League opponents (D1 L4). This is their first fixture since losing 0-3 at home and 0-2 away to Arsenal in the 2013/14 play-off round.

Form guide

Aston Villa

This is Villa's second Champions League campaign; they reached the quarter-finals on debut in 2024/25, losing 4-5 on aggregate against eventual winners Paris Saint-Germain.

Unai Emery's team lifted the Europa League in 2025/26, finishing second in the league phase (W7 L1) before beating LOSC Lille (3-0 aggregate), Bologna (7-1) and fellow English side Nottingham Forest (4-1) to reach the final, where they defeated Freiburg 3-0 in Istanbul.

Villa were beaten 2-1 by Paris in the UEFA Super Cup on 12 August.

Fenerbahçe

Fenerbahçe have reached the Champions League proper for the first time since making their sixth appearance in 2008/09; they have since lost nine times in qualifying.

In that last appearance 18 years ago, the Turkish team were fourth in a section including Porto, Arsenal and Dynamo Kyiv, collecting two points from six games (D2 L4).

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Marco Asensio scored eight goals in 21 games during a loan spell at Villa in the second half of 2024/25.

Romelu Lukaku has eight goals in his last seven games against Aston Villa, for Everton and Chelsea.

A 3-2 victory at Club Brugge on Matchday 1 means Villa have won 12 of their last 14 European games (L2).

Emery's team are also unbeaten in their last 13 home European matches (D1), keeping nine clean sheets, winning the ten most recent.

Villa have lost only three of their last 22 European group stage/league phase matches (W17 D2).

The Villans have failed to score in only one of their last 22 UEFA matches – and have hit three or more goals in five of the last seven.

Villa's Johan Manzambi could make his Champions League debut on his 21st birthday.

The 1-1 home draw against Roma on Matchday 1 stretched Fenerbahçe's unbeaten European run to eight games (W5 D3).

Fenerbahçe are unbeaten in this season's Champions League (W4 D2), beating Górnik Zabrze of Poland 2-1 on aggregate in the second qualifying round (1-0 h, 1-1 a) and Austria's Sturm Graz 3-0 in the third (2-0 h, 1-0 a) before overcoming Lyon in the play-offs (1-1 h, 2-1 a).

However, in the Champions League proper Fenerbahçe are without a win in their last eight matches (D3 L5).

Fenerbahçe have been losing at half-time in eight of their last ten matches in the Champions League proper.

Lukaku has scored 49 goals in UEFA club competition; no Belgian has reached 50.