Women's Champions League Matchday 2: Benfica vs Bayern München facts

Benfica and Bayern München both have points to their name ahead of their UEFA Women's Champions League Matchday 2 fixture in Lisbon – the fifth meeting between the sides.

Benfica claimed three points at Juventus on Matchday 1, a Marit Bratberg Lund double (40pen 61) earning a 2-1 win – a reversal of the scoreline in the Portuguese side’s equivalent league phase opener last season.

Bayern had to settle for a 2-2 draw at home to Manchester City on 22 September. The hosts went 2-0 up through Giulia Gwinn (11) and a Kerstin Casparij own goal (28), but City responded with two goals of their own to salvage a draw.

Last match

Bayern are unbeaten in their four encounters with Benfica, all matches taking place in the group stage of successive Women’s Champions League seasons. After a goalless draw in their first meeting on Matchday 1 of the 2021/22 campaign, Bayern were 4-0 winners in Munich on Matchday 6, Gwinn and Klara Bühl on target.

Bayern won both fixtures the following year, triumphing 3-2 in Portugal – Nycole Raysla opening the scoring for the hosts – and 2-0 in Germany with Bühl getting both goals in the second half.

Benfica have contested two other fixtures against German opponents, beating Frankfurt 1-0 at home and drawing 1-1 away in the 2023/24 group stage.

The four fixtures against Benfica are Bayern's only games with Portuguese teams.

Benfica

Benfica made their Women's Champions League debut in 2020/21, 2026/27 marking their fifth group stage/league phase participation in the last six seasons. Their best result was reaching the quarter-finals in 2023/24 – the only team from Portugal to do so.

The Portuguese side finished 16th in last season's league phase on two points, drawing 1-1 at home against Twente and Paris Saint-Germain but losing their other four fixtures.

Bayern München

This is Bayern's 13th Women's Champions League appearance, their first coming in 2009/10. It is the 12th season in a row in which they have taken part and they have featured in every group stage/league phase since the competition was reformatted in 2021/22, a record they share with Barcelona, Chelsea, OL Lyonnes and Real Madrid.

Last season, Bayern reached the semi-finals for the third time. They were eliminated in the last four by eventual winners Barcelona (1-1 h, 2-4 a), after beating Manchester United in the quarter-finals (3-2 a, 2-1 h). They had finished fourth in the inaugural league phase with a record of W4 D1 L1.

Key stats

Benfica's Matchday 1 victory ended a run of seven European games without a win (D2 L5).

The Portuguese side have lost only one of their last six home Women's Champions League group stage/league phase matches at home (W2 D3).

Benfica have not kept a clean sheet in their last nine games in UEFA competition.

Bayern have lost just two of their last 15 group stage/league phase matches (W8 D5).

The German outfit have won only two of their last eight away European games (D2 L4).

Only two of Bayern's 81 UEFA women's competition matches have ended goalless.

Bayern have set a new club record by scoring in 12 successive Women's Champions League matches.

Bayern's Pernille Harder has scored 49 goals in the Women's Champions League/ UEFA Women's Cup; only Ada Hegerberg (69), Anja Mittag (51) and Eugénie Le Sommer (50) have ever reached 50.

Harder (14) also needs one goal to move level with Lea Schüller (15) as Bayern's record European scorer.