Women's Champions League Matchday 2: Manchester City vs Real Madrid facts

Matchday 2 brings a first UEFA Women's Champions League meeting in over four years for Manchester City and Real Madrid, who face off in England after each taking a point from their first fixtures of the league phase.

English champions City recovered from an early two-goal deficit on Matchday 1, goals from Beth Mead (45) and Carlotta Wamser (86) helping them to a 2-2 draw at Bayern München, Khadija Shaw having had a second-half penalty saved.

Felicia Schröder scored in just the second minute for Real Madrid in their league phase opener against Paris Saint-Germain in Spain, the game ultimately finishing 1-1.

Last match

The previous three meetings between the clubs came in the early rounds of the 2021/22 and 2022/23 editions. Real Madrid won 2-1 on aggregate in round 2 of the former campaign – a 1-1 draw in Spain followed by a 1-0 away win in Manchester – and 1-0 in a round 1 final the following season.

City's only two victories in 11 matches against Spanish clubs (D3 L6) have come at home against Barcelona, 2-1 in the second leg of a 2020/21 quarter-final (2-4 agg), and more recently a 2-0 triumph in the 2024/25 group stage. They lost the reverse fixture of that campaign 0-3 in Spain, their most recent encounter against Spanish opponents.

Overall, City's record against Spanish visitors in England is W2 D1 L2.

Madrid's 2-0 win against Arsenal in the first leg of a 2024/25 quarter-final – a tie they lost 2-3 on aggregate – is their only success in their last nine encounters with English teams (D2 L6). They have lost their last five in England, since the 1-0 round 2 second-leg win at City in September 2021 (2-1 aggregate), the most recent visit a 1-2 loss at Arsenal on Matchday 4 of last season's league phase.

Manchester City

This is City’s first league phase participation, having last featured under the previous format in 2024/25. On that occasion, they lost to fellow English club Chelsea in the quarter-finals (2-0 h, 0-3 a) after finishing second in Group D behind Barcelona and ahead of Hammarby and St. Pölten.

The English champions reached the semi-finals in their first two Champions League campaigns, losing to eventual champions OL Lyonnes on both occasions – 2-3 in 2016/17 (1-3 h, 1-0 a) and 0-1 in 2017/18 (0-0 h, 0-1 a).

Real Madrid

Madrid, who made their Women's Champions League debut in 2021/22 and have been ever-presents in the group stage/league phase since, have been knocked out in the quarter-finals by the eventual champions in the last two seasons; they lost 2-3 on aggregate to Arsenal in 2024/25 and 2-12 against Spanish rivals Barcelona last season (2-6 h, 0-6 a). Madrid had finished seventh in the inaugural league phase before the win against Paris FC in the knockout phase play-offs.

Madrid navigated their way past Ajax 4-1 on aggregate in this season's third qualifying round (2-0 a, 2-1 h). They are the only team to have reached the group stage/league phase via the qualifying route in all six editions since the format was introduced in 2021/22.

Key stats

City have won their last five home European matches without conceding.

The Manchester club have lost only two of their last 11 games in UEFA competition (W8 D1).

The English champions have scored two or more goals in nine of their last 11 European fixtures.

Only one of City's 43 UEFA women's competition matches ended goalless.

Madrid have lost just three of their last 15 European matches (W9 D3).

Las Blancas have lost just two of their last 12 games in the group stage/league phase (W7 D3).

Madrid have scored in 14 of their last 15 UEFA competition matches.

Schröder has scored in all three of Madrid's matches in the 2026/27 Women's Champions League.