Champions League semi-final first leg
Paris St-Germain vs Bayern Munich (20:00 BST)
Return leg in Munich next Wednesday
PSG v Bayern Munich (20:00 BST)
Bayern have already claimed the Bundesliga title. PSG are six points clear in France with four games to go.
But all eyes are on tonight and who will take an advantage into next Wednesday's second leg in Munich.
PSG v Bayern Munich (20:00 BST)
Paris is ready.
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Hello and welcome to our live text of the Champions League semi-final first leg between PSG and Bayern Munich. It doesn't really get much bigger than this, does it?
Holders PSG are looking to go back-to-back, but to do that, they must go through the six-time champions Bayern.
What a game this promises to be.
Let's get into it!
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Paris SG and Bayern Munich have faced each other 15 times in the UEFA Champions League, and nine times across the last nine campaigns. Since the start of the 2017-18 edition, only Real Madrid v Manchester City has been played more times in the competition (13) than this fixture (9).
Bayern Munich have won each of their last five games against Paris SG in the UEFA Champions League, including one earlier this season (2-1 last November). This is already the longest winning streak a team has achieved against Paris SG in major European competition (5).
Paris SG have lost 60% of their games against Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League (9/15 – W6), with this their highest loss percentage against any opponent they’ve faced 3+ times in the competition. Indeed, their nine total defeats against Bayen are their most against any side in the Champions League.
Bayern Munich manager Vincent Kompany has won both of his UEFA Champions League meetings with Luis Enrique’s Paris SG (1-0 in November 2024 and 2-1 in November 2025). If Bayern win here, Kompany will have the most victories of any manager against Luis Enrique in the competition (3).
With a victory here, Paris SG boss Luis Enrique would become the fastest to 50 wins of any manager in UEFA Champions League history (currently 49 wins in 76 games). The current record is held by Pep Guardiola, who achieved his 50th victory in his 80th game (Bayern Munich 2-0 Dinamo Zagreb in December 2015).
Paris SG have scored 2+ goals in each of their last eight knockout stage games in the UEFA Champions League; the joint-longest run in the competition’s history. The only other team to do so in eight in a row was Barcelona between April 2015 and April 2016, who were also managed by Luis Enrique.
Bayern Munich and Paris SG are the joint-top scorers in the UEFA Champions League this season (38 goals), as well as having the two highest goals per game averages (3.2 for Bayern and 2.7 for Paris SG). Both sides also rank joint-first for goals scored following high turnovers, netting six times each after recovering the ball in advanced areas.
Paris SG have applied high-intensity pressure to 58% of their opponent’s touches made in the middle third of the pitch in the UEFA Champions League this season, the highest percentage of any team. Indeed, Warren Zaïre-Emery has the most high-intensity pressures in the middle third of any midfielder on the remaining four teams in this edition (265).
Paris SG’s Vitinha has completed 1,370 passes in the UEFA Champions League this season, the highest total by a player in a single edition on record (since 2003-04). The Portuguese midfielder has also completed 100+ passes in eight different games this season, with only Xavi in 2010-11 (9) doing so in more in a single campaign on record (since 2003-04).
Harry Kane’s 12 goals this season are already the most by an English player in a European Cup/UEFA Champions League campaign. Kane has scored in each of his last four knockout stage games in the competition, and could equal the longest streak by a Bayern Munich player in the Champions League (5 by Robert Lewandowski between 2016 and 2018).
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has been directly involved in 13 goals in the UEFA Champions League this season (8 goals, 5 assists), just one shy of the most by a Paris SG player in a single edition, achieved by Ousmane Dembélé in 2024-25 (14 – 8 goals, 6 assists).
If Luis Díaz scores or assists in this game (6 goals, 3 assists so far), it will be the first time that three Bayern Munich players have reached 10+ goal involvements in a UEFA Champions League campaign (Harry Kane on 13 and Michael Olise on 10).
On a per 90 basis (min. 500 minutes played), the three defenders with the most attacking sequence involvements in the UEFA Champions League this season are made up of Paris SG duo Nuno Mendes (7.6) and Achraf Hakimi (7.5), followed by Bayern Munich’s Josip Stanisic (6.6).
Bayern Munich’s Joshua Kimmich has made more defensive line-breaking passes than any other player in the UEFA Champions League this season (19). However, Paris SG have six different players with at least 10 (Vitinha, Dembélé, Mendes, Kang-In, Kvaratskhelia & Hakimi), where Kimmich is the only Bayern player in double figures.
Should Marquinhos appear for Paris SG in this game, he will equal Roberto Carlos (120) for the most appearances by a Brazilian player in European Cup/UEFA Champions League history, and joint second-most by a South American player, only trailing Lionel Messi (163).
