Champions League Matchday 4: Bodø/Glimt vs Lille facts

Bodø/Glimt will once again be banking on their home European form as Lille come to Norway on Matchday 4 still seeking their first UEFA Champions League points of the season.

Previous meetings

This is the sides' first fixture.

Bodø/Glimt have never beaten a French club. They drew 1-1 at Nice in the league phase of the 2024/25 UEFA Europa League and lost 0-1 at home to Monaco on Matchday 4 of last season's Champions League.

Lille's only previous match against Norwegian opposition was a 2-1 home win against Brann on Matchday 1 of the 2025/26 Europa League. This is their first game in Norway.

Club history

Bodø/Glimt

This is Bodø/Glimt's fifth Champions League campaign – all since 2021.

Bodø/Glimt made their debut in the Champions League proper last season, eventually losing to Sporting CP in the round of 16 (3-0 h, 0-5 a aet) after beating Inter in the knockout phase play-offs (3-1 h, 2-1 a). They were the third Norwegian side to feature in the competition proper, after Rosenborg (11 times) and Molde (once), and the first since Rosenborg in 2007/08.

Lille

This is Lille's ninth appearance in the Champions League and a fourth in eight seasons. The last two have continued into the round of 16, most recently in 2024/25 when they lost 2-3 on aggregate against Borussia Dortmund.

Les Dogues also reached the same stage of the 2025/26 Europa League, going out 0-3 on aggregate against eventual champions Aston Villa. They had finished 18th in the league phase before beating Crvena Zvezda 2-1 on aggregate in the knockout phase play-offs.

Links and trivia

Jens Petter Hauge twice played against Lille for Milan in the 2020/21 Europa League (0-3 h, 1-1 a).

Fellow Bodø/Glimt forward Joel Mvuka arrived from Ligue 1 side Lorient in August. His record against Lille is W1 L2.

Lille winger Osame Sahraoui played for Norwegian club Vålerenga between 2019 and 2023, coming up against Bodø/Glimt on six occasions (D2 L4).

Bodø/Glimt have won their last four home games in the Champions League proper – against Manchester City, Inter (both 3-1) and Sporting CP (3-0) last season and Borussia Dortmund (1-0) on Matchday 2 of the current campaign.

The Norwegian club have won their last six home European games.

Bodø/Glimt have scored first in each of their last five home games in the Champions League proper.

None of Bodø/Glimt's 15 matches in the Champions League proper has finished goalless, and none of their last 35 in European competition overall.

A 3-4 loss at Napoli last time out means Bodø/Glimt's last ten Champions League fixtures, Matchday 1 to final, have produced 39 goals, an average of 3.9 per game.

Six players have appeared in all 15 of Bodø/Glimt's games in the Champions League proper: Hauge, Patrick Berg, Sondre Brunstad Fet, Nikita Haikin, Andreas Helmersen and Fredrik Sjøvold.

Beaten 2-4 at home by Galatasaray last time out, Lille have lost their last five European matches, a club record.

That was also the French side's fourth successive loss in the Champions League proper, equalling their club record set in the 2012/13 group stage.

Lille have not kept a clean sheet in their last 11 Champions League matches, also a club record.

Les Dogues have conceded in their last 13 away Champions League games.

None of Lille's last 16 away group stage/league phase matches ended in a draw (W6 L10).

Lille have won only two of the 20 away matches in the Champions League proper in which they conceded first (D3 L15).

Lille's last ten Champions League games, Matchday 1 to final, have produced 39 goals, an average of 3.9 per game.

Lille's Ngal'Ayel Mukau turns 22 on 3 November, the day of the match.