Champions League Matchday 4: LASK vs Slovan Bratislava facts

After registering their first-ever win in the UEFA Champions League proper, LASK have the chance of a second as the league phase's bottom side Slovan Bratislava visit Austria on Matchday 4.

Previous meetings

This is the first meeting between the sides.

LASK's only previous match against Slovakian opposition was a 7-0 home win against DAC Dunajská Streda in the 2020/21 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round.

Slovan have lost all four away matches against Austrian clubs – conceding 14 goals – and have won two and lost six of their eight games against Austrian opposition overall. They have lost their last three and five of the last six, most recently going down 1-4 away and 0-1 at home against Sturm Graz in the 2023/24 UEFA Conference League knockout phase play-offs.

Club history

LASK

This is only LASK's third European Cup campaign. They lost 2-5 on aggregate against Górnik Zabrze in the 1965/66 preliminary round and beat Basel 5-2 on aggregate in the 2019/20 third qualifying round before going down 1-3 to Club Brugge in the play-off round (0-1 h, 1-2 a).

LASK are the fifth Austrian club to feature in the Champions League proper, after Salzburg, Sturm Graz, Rapid Wien and Austria Wien.

Slovan Bratislava 

Slovan are in the Champions League proper for the second time. They made their debut in 2024/25, when they finished 35th in the league phase having lost all eight games.

The Bratislava club lost in the third qualifying round of the Champions League and then the Europa League qualifying play-offs in 2025/26, finishing 29th in the league phase of the Conference League.

This season, the Slovakian side took part in Champions League qualifying for the 13th time and the eighth in a row, successfully negotiating it for only the second time.

Links and trivia

Slovan Bratislava defender Kevin Wimmer is a former LASK player, making his senior breakthrough at the Austrian club and appearing 31 times in 2011/12 before joining Köln.

Wimmer and current LASK midfielder Robert Ljubičić were club-mates at SK Rapid in 2021/22.

Having lost their first two league phase games, LASK won 3-2 at Sporting CP on Matchday 3 for their first victory in the Champions League proper.

That was only LASK's second win in 15 European games (D4 L9) and their first in 11 group stage/league phase fixtures in UEFA competition.

LASK have conceded the first goal in all three of their league phase matches.

The Austrian club have not kept a clean sheet in eight European games, equalling a club record set between 1963 and 1980.

A 0-4 Matchday 3 loss at Roma means Slovan have lost all 11 games in the Champions League proper and all six away from home.

Those 11 games produced 48 goals at an average of 4.4 per game.

Slovan have conceded the first goal in ten of their 11 league phase games and have trailed at half-time in ten of them.

One of three sides still searching for their first Champions League points of the season after three matches along with Porto and Lille, Slovan's 13 goals conceded is the most in the 2026/27 league phase.

Five players have appeared in all 11 Slovan games in the Champions League proper: Kenan Bajrić, Tigran Barseghyan, César Blackman, Nino Marcelli and Dominik Takáč.