Women's Champions League Matchday 1: OH Leuven vs Roma facts
Friday, September 18, 2026
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Previous meetings, club facts and key stats ahead of the UEFA Women's Champions League Matchday 1 game.
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Belgian champions OH Leuven take on their Italian counterparts Roma at Den Dreef on Matchday 1 of the UEFA Women's Champions League.
Last match
The sides drew 1-1 at the same stadium on Matchday 4 last season, Jada Conijnenberg converting a 71st-minute penalty for debutants OH Leuven after Evelyne Viens had given Roma an 18th-minute lead. The draw provided Roma's first point of the league phase.
That November 2025 fixture is the only time either club has faced opponents from the other's country.
On their European debut in 2025/26, OH Leuven picked up six points in the league phase – enough to finish in 12th place and earn a spot in the knockout phase play-offs. They were then eliminated 1-7 on aggregate by defending champions Arsenal (0-4 h, 1-3 a).
This season, the Belgian champions progressed to their second successive league phase after overcoming TSC (4-0) and Fenerbahçe (1-1, 4-2 pens) in the second qualifying round and Czarni (4-1 a, 2-1 h) in the third.
This is Roma's fifth consecutive appearance in the group stage/league phase after first qualifying in 2022/23, when they reached the quarter-finals. Having come through qualifying last season, they finished 14th in the league phase with the record W1 D1 L4.
They qualified automatically for this season's league phase having won the Italian title for the third time in four years.
Key stats
OH Leuven are winless in four league phase matches (D2 L2).
Roma have won only one of their last nine away games at this stage (D2 L6) and are without a victory in five (D1 L4).
The Italian side's Matchday 1 record is W2 D1 L1.
Roma have won only two of their last ten group stage/league phase matches (D1 L7) although they were victorious in the most recent, 6-1 at home against St. Pölten on Matchday 6 last season.
Roma's Frederikke Thøgersen could become only the third Danish player to reach 50 appearances in the Women's Champions League/UEFA Women's Cup after Pernille Harder (67 before Matchday 1) and Nanna Christiansen (63).