Paris SG 5-4 Bayern Munich in the first leg was the highest scoring European Cup semi-final match since Eintracht Frankfurt beat Rangers 6-3 in 1959-60. Across both legs, in major European competition the most goals in any semi-final was in that Frankfurt – Rangers tie (16), which ended 12-4 on aggregate to the German side.
In UEFA Champions League history, only one team has ever scored five goals in a knockout match and then been eliminated in that tie, which was Manchester City against Monaco in the last 16 in 2016-17 (5-3 first leg, 1-3 second leg, out on away goals rule).
Although Bayern Munich have overturned a first leg deficit four times out of 16 previous ties in the UEFA Champions League (since 1992-93), they’ve been in the last 16 stage (three times) and quarter-finals (once). They’ve lost the first leg in five previous semi-finals and been eliminated each time.
Paris SG have lost more away games against Bayern Munich (5) than against any other opponent in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League. Of teams they have faced more than once away from home across the two competitions, only against Manchester City (100% – 3/3) and Real Madrid (75% – 3/4) do they have a higher loss percentage than at Bayern (71% – 5/7).
The two leading scorers in the UEFA Champions League this season are Paris SG (43 goals) and Bayern Munich (42). The record for goals scored in a European Cup campaign (all-time since 1955) is 45 by Barcelona in 1999-00.
Only Real Madrid (18) have qualified for more European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals than Bayern Munich, who are looking to reach their 12th here (currently level with Milan on 11). Paris SG, meanwhile, could become the French side with the most European Cup/Champions League final appearances (3) – they are currently level with Marseille and Reims (2 each).
Paris Saint-Germain have allowed 50+ touches in their own box in each of their last two UEFA Champions League games (50 for Liverpool, 52 for Bayern Munich) – in their first 13 games this season, the average touches by opponents in PSG’s box was just 17.
Bayern Munich have scored 20 goals in five knockout games in the 2025-26 UEFA Champions League, with that average of four goals per game the highest ever since 1992-93. Paris SG have scored 22 in their seven games, with only PSG themselves last season scoring more in the knockout stages in a season (24).
24.2% of the total time of match delays in the first leg between Paris SG and Bayern Munich was waiting for kick-off following goals; the highest percentage in a UEFA Champions League match this season.
Bayern Munich players made 40 off-ball runs ahead of the ball in the first leg against Paris SG; their most in a UEFA Champions League match this season. 11 of those were by midfielder Aleksander Pavlovic, which was also the most by a Bayern player in a single game in this edition.
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has been involved in 15 goals in the UEFA Champions League this season (10 goals, 5 assists), a record by a Paris SG player in one campaign. He’s scored seven knockout stage goals, with only three players scoring more in a season for any club – Cristiano Ronaldo in 2013-14 (8) and 2016-17 (10), Lionel Messi in 2011-12 (8) and Karim Benzema in 2021-22 (10).
Harry Kane has scored 13 UEFA Champions League goals for Bayern Munich this season, just two shy of the record for goals in a major European season for the club, set by Jürgen Klinsmann in the 1995-96 UEFA Cup (15) and Robert Lewandowski in the 2019-20 Champions League (15). He’s also scored in his last six appearances in the competition – the longest ever run by an Englishman in the European Cup (since 1955).
Since the last 16 stage was introduced in 2003-04, PSG’s Khvicha Kvaratskhelia this season is just the fourth player to score or assist in six consecutive UEFA Champions League knockout appearances in one season, after Kaka in 2006-07 for Milan, Edin Dzeko in 2017-18 for Roma and Ousmane Dembélé in 2024-25 for PSG. None of those did it in seven in a row.
Bayern Munich pair Joshua Kimmich and Aleksander Pavlovic made a combined 24 line-breaking passes in last week’s fixture, more than the four Paris SG midfielders who appeared in the match combined (17 – Vitinha, Neves, Zaïre-Emery, Ruiz). Indeed, it was the only time this season that a midfielder playing against Paris SG has made more line-breaking passes than Vitinha (7) in the match, with both Kimmich (14) and Pavlovic (10) doing so.
13 of Désiré Doué’s 17 UEFA Champions League goal involvements for Paris SG have come in the knockout stages (7 goals, 6 assists) – no other has player has 10+ goals and assists outside the group stages before turning 21, and of players with 500+ minutes in the knockout stages, only Raphinha (every 59 mins) and Ivica Olic (63 mins) average a goal or assist more regularly than Doué (72 mins).
