Champions League Matchday 4: Feyenoord vs Inter facts

Feyenoord and Inter each have three points ahead of their Matchday 4 meeting in Netherlands as both look to climb the league phase standings in the UEFA Champions League.

Previous meetings

The sides have only met in two two-legged European ties, each winning on aggregate once. Feyenoord triumphed in the 2001/02 UEFA Cup semi-final (1-0 a, 2-2 h) and Inter prevailed in the 2024/25 Champions League round of 16 (2-0 a, 2-1 h). Marcus Thuram scored in both those games in 2025, Lautaro Martínez on target in Rotterdam and Hakan Çalhanoğlu converting a penalty in Milan, where Jakub Moder got Feyenoord's sole reply.

Feyenoord have lost only two of their 14 home matches against Italian clubs (W8 D4). They were 3-2 winners at home to Como on Matchday 2, their only points in this season's competition.

The Dutch club are unbeaten in their six Champions League group stage/league phase home matches against Italian visitors (W4 D2).

A 2-0 win at Ajax on Matchday 1 last season means Inter are unbeaten in 14 games against Dutch clubs (W10 D4), since that 0-1 home loss against Feyenoord in 2002.

Inter are unbeaten in all 13 Champions League matches against Dutch clubs (W10 D3).

The win at Ajax made it nine away matches unbeaten against Dutch opposition for Inter (W5 D4).

Club history

Feyenoord

This is Feyenoord's eighth Champions League campaign, and a third in four seasons. They reached the knockout stages for the first time on their last appearance, in 2024/25, going out to Inter Milan in the round of 16.

The Dutch club were 29th in the league phase of the 2025/26 Europa League (W2 L6).

Inter

This is the Nerazzurri's 20th appearance in the Champions League and a ninth in succession.

Champions League runners-up in 2023 and 2025, Inter were tenth in the 2025/26 league phase (W5 L3), losing to debutants Bodø/Glimt in the knockout phase play-offs (1-3 a, 1-2 h).

Links and trivia

Feyenoord forward Nacho Ferri and Inter goalkeeper Josep Martínez both represented Valencian club Alzira at youth level.

The 0-1 loss at Real Betis last time out was Feyenoord's ninth in 12 European matches (W3).

None of Feyenoord's last 59 home UEFA matches finished goalless, since a 0-0 draw against Blackburn Rovers in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup group stage.

Feyenoord have never lost a home Champions League match in which they led at half-time (W7 D1) and have never won one in which they trailed at the break (D1 L9).

The Rotterdammers have conceded the first goal in their last six games in the Champions League proper.

There have been goals in Feyenoord's last 44 UEFA competition matches.

Inter ended a run of four successive Champions League defeats, their longest losing run in the competition, with a 1-0 win against Shakhtar Donetsk on Matchday 3.

None of Inter's last 18 league phase games finished in a draw (W12 L6).

Inter have scored in their last ten away Champions League matches.

Cristian Chivu's Champions League record as Inter coach is W6 L7.

Lautaro Martínez is Inter's leading scorer in the Champions League proper (27). He scored and set up a goal in a 2-3 defeat at Real Madrid on this day in 2020.

Çalhanoğlu has scored 12 goals in the Champions League proper, one short of the Turkish record held jointly by Hakan Şükür and Burak Yılmaz.

John Stones scored twice in Manchester City's 4-0 win at Feyenoord in September 2017.