UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2012/13 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT

Transcription

1 UEFA CHAMPIONS EAGUE / SEASON Olympiacos FC Group B Matchday Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) FC Schalke Contents Previous meetings... Match background... Match facts... Squad list... Head coach...8 Match officials...9 Fixtures and results... Matchbymatch lineups... Group Standings... Competition facts... Team facts... egend...8

2 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) Previous meetings Head to Head None Olympiacos FC Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions eague ate // 9// UEFA Cup ate 8//8 Stage GS GS Stage GS Match Borussia ortmund Olympiacos FC Olympiacos FC Borussia ortmund Match UEFA Champions eague ate //7 //7 Stage GS GS Olympiacos FC Hertha BSC Berlin Match UEFA Champions eague ate 9// 8/9/ Stage GS GS Olympiacos FC SV erder Bremen SV erder Bremen Olympiacos FC Match European Champion Clubs' Cup ate //8 //8 Stage R R Bayer everkusen Olympiacos FC Olympiacos FC Bayer everkusen Match European Champion Clubs' Cup ate //8 7/9/8 Stage R R Olympiacos FC Hamburger SV Hamburger SV Olympiacos FC Match FC Bayern München Olympiacos FC Olympiacos FC FC Bayern München agg: agg: 7 Venue ortmund Piraeus Venue Piraeus Venue Piraeus Bremen Venue everkusen Athens Venue Athens Hamburg Venue Munich Piraeus FC Schalke Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions eague ate // /9/ Stage GS GS Match Panathinaikos FC FC Schalke FC Schalke Panathinaikos FC Venue Athens Gelsenkirchen Goalscorers Grosskreutz 7 Holebas 8, jebbour, Modesto 78; ewandowski Goalscorers udu, Galletti 8(p), Torossidis 87, iogo 88 Goalscorers Stoltidis, 7, Kovačević 7 Hugo Almeida ; Stoltidis 7, Patsatzoglou 8, Kovačević 87 Goalscorers Juan, Schneider 9(p) Kleine 7(og), Giannakopoulos 8, P. jordjević, (p), 7, Zetterberg 87; Eleftheropoulos (og), Schneider 78(p) Goalscorers Magath, Hrubesch, Rolff, Bastrup 8 Von Heesen 7 Goalscorers Hoeness, Rummenigge 7, Janzon (p) Galakos, Ahlström 8; remmler,, Rummenigge 7, Kraus 7 Goalscorers Olisadebe, Konstantinou Vlaović 7, Basinas 8 Record versus clubs from opponents' country Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Home Away Final Total 9 ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET Previous meetings

3 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) Match background FC Schalke 's last UEFA Champions eague foray took them all the way to the semifinals and they will be dreaming of reaching those heights again when they kick off a new campaign with an away game against Olympiacos FC. Schalke lost out to Manchester United FC in the / last four and will be eager to make a positive start in Piraeus. Previous meetings This is the second successive season in which Olympiacos have faced German opposition in the group stage; months ago they beat Borussia ortmund at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on matchday three. The Greek club have enjoyed some remarkable home games against German teams, including a victory over Bayer everkusen in the / UEFA Champions eague first group stage and a defeat by Hamburger SV in the 98/8 European Champion Clubs' Cup second round. In six home competitive fixtures against Bundesliga opponents there have been a total of 9 goals scored, Olympiacos winning four of those matches with two losses. Match background Olympiacos are in their th participation in the UEFA Champions eague and will be hoping to at least match their feats of both 9/ and 7/8 when they reached the round of. ast year's defeat of ortmund followed a home loss to Olympique de Marseille on matchday one. They also beat Arsenal FC in Greece, and have won five of their last six home group games in the competition. They still finished only third in Group F last term. Schalke are making their fifth appearance in the competition; in their four previous campaigns they were defeated on matchday one without scoring a goal, against Olympique yonnais ( away, /), Valencia CF ( home, 7/8), PSV Eindhoven ( away, /) and Panathinaikos FC ( home, /). The German club recovered from that yon loss to win seven of their next nine fixtures with the other two drawn. They finished first in their group before overcoming Valencia and holders FC Internazionale Milano in the knockout rounds but then came unstuck against Manchester United, losing at home and away. Team ties Kyriakos Papadopoulos played for Olympiacos from 7 until. Aged years and 8 days, he became the youngest player to appear in the Greek league against Atromitos FC on ecember 7. Papadopoulos plays with Vassilis Torossidis, José Holebas, Avraam Papadopoulos, imitris Siovas, Giannis Maniatis, Kostas Mitroglou and Giannis Fetfatzidis for the Greece national side. Ciprian Marica scored the second equaliser for FC Shakhtar onetsk in a home draw with Olympiacos in a UEFA Champions eague group stage fixture on 7 September. Ibrahim Afellay scored once past halftime substitute Roy Carroll, his second of the game, in the Netherlands' win against Northern Ireland in a friendly on June. KlaasJan Huntelaar appeared off the bench for the utch. Teemu Pukki also beat Carroll as Finland and Northern Ireland drew in a friendly international on August. Marko Pantelić and Marica were both on the scoresheet when Serbia beat Romania away and at home in qualifying matches for the FIFA orld Cup. Torossidis scored Greece's winner, making it, against a Nigeria team including Chinedu Obasi in the orld Cup group stage. Mitroglou was brought up in Germany and started his career with Vf Borussia Mönchengladbach while Holebas was born in Bavaria and began his career with TSV 8 München. Christian Fuchs scored his only international goal as Austria lost to Greece in November ; Torossidis, Avraam Papadopoulos and Fetfatzidis, a substitute, were in the opposition. Mitroglou scored in Greece's victory over Germany in the semifinals of the 7 UEFA European Under9 Championship in Austria. Siovas was a substitute for Greece while Germany included Benedikt Höwedes. ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET Match background

4 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) Match facts Olympiacos UEFA Champions eague statistics Olympiacos have scored 9 UEFA Champions eague goals, group stage to final. International duty Nine Olympiacos players were on senior duty at the start of September: Vassilis Torossidis, Giannis Maniatis, Kostas Mitroglou, José Holebas, imitris Siovas (Greece), Rafik jebbour (Algeria), Balázs Megyeri (Hungary), jubomir Fejsa (Serbia) and Roy Carroll (Northern Ireland). Mitroglou came off the bench to score Greece's second goal in their FIFA orld Cup qualifying defeat of ithuania. Carroll made his first competitive appearance for Northern Ireland in six years when he started the qualifying defeat in Russia on 7 September, retaining his place for the draw with uxembourg four days later. Siovas made his Greece debut on August in a friendly against Norway, when Mitroglou's first international goal proved decisive in a win. Summer transfers In Pablo Contreras (CS ColoColo) rissa iakité (OGC Nice) Paulo Machado (Toulouse FC) eandro Greco (AS Roma) imitris Siovas (Panionios GSS) Kostas Manolas (AEK Athens FC) Andreas Gianniotis (Ethnikos Gazoros FC)* Panagiotis Vlachodimos (Xanthi FC)* Vassilis Karagounis (Udinese Calcio)* *not in UEFA Champions eague squad Out Kevin Mirallas (Everton FC) Nikos Papadopoulos (Fortuna üsseldorf 89) Vicente Monje (Orduspor) Sifis askalakis (Veria FC) Giorgos Niklitsiotis (PAS Giannina FC) Olof Mellberg (Villarreal CF) Javito (released) Petar Grbić (FC Karpaty viv, loan) Giannis Potouridis (Platanias, loan) Andreas Vassilogiannis (Kerkyra FC, loan) Chumbinho (Atromitos FC, loan) Miscellaneous Avraam Papadopoulos will miss the group stage as he recovers from the left knee injury he suffered in action for Greece against Poland in the opening match of UEFA EURO. Schalke UEFA Champions eague statistics Schalke have scored 9 UEFA Champions eague goals, group stage to final. This is the German club's th game in UEFA competition. International duty Eleven Schalke players were on senior duty during the international break: Benedikt Höwedes, Julian raxler (Germany), Christian Fuchs (Austria), Tranquillo Barnetta (Switzerland), Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Greece), Teemu Pukki (Finland), Ciprian Marica (Romania), KlaasJan Huntelaar (Netherlands), Jefferson Farfán (Peru), Jermaine Jones (United States) and Joel Matip (Cameroon). Farfán scored both goals as Peru won at home to Venezuela in a FIFA orld Cup qualifier on 7 September. ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET Match facts

5 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) Marica was on target in Romania's qualifying triumph over Estonia the same night. Barnetta was sent off minutes from time as Switzerland started their qualifying campaign with a win in Slovenia on 7 September. On September Huntelaar completed the scoring in the Netherlands' qualifying defeat of Hungary. Pukki's third international goal earned Finland a friendly win against the Czech Republic on the same night. Summer transfers In Ibrahim Afellay (FC Barcelona, loan) Tranquillo Barnetta (Bayer everkusen) Roman Neustädter (Vf Borussia Mönchengladbach) Chinedu Obasi (TSG 899 Hoffenheim) Out Raúl González (AlSadd SC) Alexander Baumjohann (. KC Kaiserslautern) Ciprian eac (CFR 97 Cluj) Mario Gavranović (FC Zürich) Peer Kluge (Hertha BSC Berlin) evan Kenia (FC Karpaty viv) Andreas iegel (FC Erzgebirge Aue) Jan Morávek (FC Augsburg) Carlos Zambrano (Eintracht Frankfurt) Tim Hoogland (VfB Stuttgart, loan) Philipp Hofmann (SC Paderborn 7, loan) Edu (SpVgg Greuther Fürth, loan) José Manuel Jurado (FC Spartak Moskva, loan) Anthony Annan (CA Osasuna, loan) Mathias Schober (retired) Hans Sarpei (released) Miscellaneous Schalke host secondtier SV Sandhausen 9 in the German Cup second round on October. Atsuto Uchida, ars Unnerstall and Sead Kolasinac extended their contracts until during the summer. Timo Hildebrand committed to the club until. ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET Match facts

6 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) Squad list Olympiacos FC No. Player Goalkeepers Roy Carroll Aristidis Vlachos Balázs Megyeri efenders Giannis Maniatis François Modesto Paulo Machado Tassos Papazoglou Pablo Contreras José Holebas Kostas Manolas Charalambos ykogiannis Vassilis Torossidis Midfielders 7 Ariel Ibagaza 8 jubomir Fejsa 8 Giannis Fetfatzidis 9 avid Fuster imitris Siovas rissa iakité 7 eandro Greco Kostas Rougalas 9 jamel Abdoun Forwards 9 Marko Pantelić Rafik jebbour Kostas Mitroglou 87 iogo Coach eonardo Jardim Nat. NIR HUN FRA POR CHI ARG SRB ESP MI ITA AG SRB AG BRA POR ob /9/77 //9 //9 //8 9/8/78 //8 /9/88 /9/78 7//8 //9 //9 //8 7//7 /8/88 //9 //8 /9/88 8//8 9/7/8 //9 //8 /9/78 8//8 //88 //87 /8/7 Age QUA Gls Current season UC Gls eague Gls Alltime UC UEFA Gls Gls ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET Squad list

7 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) FC Schalke No. Player Goalkeepers Ralf Fährmann Timo Hildebrand ars Unnerstall 8 Ferdinand Oswald efenders Sergio Escudero Benedikt Höwedes Kyriakos Papadopoulos Christoph Metzelder Atsuto Uchida Christian Fuchs Joel Matip Sead Kolasinac Midfielders ewis Holtby Ibrahim Afellay Marco Höger Jermaine Jones 7 Tranquillo Barnetta 8 Christoph Moritz Rene Klingenburg Julian raxler Roman Neustädter 7 Manuel Torres Forwards 8 Ciprian Marica 7 Jefferson Farfán 9 Chinedu Obasi Teemu Pukki KlaasJan Huntelaar Coach Huub Stevens Nat. ESP JPN AUT CMR NE USA SUI ESP ROU PER N FIN NE NE ob 7/9/88 //79 /7/9 //9 /9/89 9//88 //9 //8 7//88 7//8 8/8/9 //9 8/9/9 //8 /9/89 //8 //8 7//9 9//9 /9/9 8//88 //9 //8 //8 //8 9//9 /8/8 9// Age QUA Gls Current season UC Gls eague Gls Alltime UC UEFA Gls Gls ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET 7 Squad list

8 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) Head coach Olympiacos FC: eonardo Jardim ate of birth: August 97 Nationality: Portuguese Coaching career: A Camacha, G Chaves, SC BeiraMar, SC Braga, Olympiacos FC Played football at an amateur level during his youth and despite taking a passing interest in handball, it was always Jardim's intention to become a coach. As a result he studied physical education at the University of Madeira, and at became the youngest Portuguese coach to obtain a UEFA A licence. Three years later, in, appointed assistant coach at Madeiran club Camacha, where he impressed sufficiently to take charge of firstteam duties two years later. eft to join Chaves midway through 7/8, masterminding rise to the second division 8 months later. Also won promotion at BeiraMar after taking charge in summer 9 and preserved their topflight status the following season before stepping down. Signed a threeyear contract when he succeeded omingos Paciência at Braga in but left after only one having guided the club to a thirdplaced finish, helped by a recordbreaking successive league wins at the turn of the year, and into the UEFA Europa eague round of. Confirmed as the new coach of Olympiacos in June, putting pen to paper on a twoyear contract, to become the fourth former Braga coach to work in Greece, after Carlos Carvalhal (Asteras Tripolis FC), Jesualdo Ferreira (Panathinaikos FC) and Manuel Machado (Aris Thessaloniki FC). FC Schalke : Huub Stevens ate of birth: 9 November 9 Nationality: utch Playing career: SC Fortuna Sittard, PSV Eindhoven Coaching career: Roda JC (twice), FC Schalke, Hertha BSC Berlin,. FC Köln, Hamburger SV, PSV Eindhoven, FC Salzburg An uncompromising defender, Stevens left Fortuna Sittard for PSV in 97, winning three utch titles and the 977/78 UEFA Cup, also picking up 8 caps for the Netherlands before retiring in 98. Initially head of PSV's youth department, Stevens took up his first head coach position with Roda in 99, finishing runnersup to AFC Ajax in 99/9. ured to Schalke in October 99, he led the club to their first European trophy in his first season, winning the 99/97 UEFA Cup. Second place in the Bundesliga in represented the team's highest finish in years and they won the German Cup in the same season. Coached Hertha and won the second division title with Köln before heading home to rejoin Roda. Stevens returned to Germany with Hamburg in February 7, easing their relegation concerns, but was tempted back to another former club, PSV, in summer 8, his sixmonth reign ending with his resignation the following January. That summer he signed a twoyear contract with ambitious Salzburg; his side were unique in winning all six of their games in the inaugural UEFA Europa eague group stage. ismissed by Salzburg in April, having won the Austrian Bundesliga the previous season, he returned to Schalke five months later. ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET 8 Head coach

9 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) Match officials Referee Assistant referees Additional assistant referees Fourth official UEFA elegate UEFA Referee observer avid Fernández Borbalán (ESP) Raúl Cabanero Martínez (ESP), Jesús Calvo Guadamuro (ESP) Fernando Teixeira Vitienes (ESP), César Muñiz Fernández (ESP) José Miranda (ESP) Geir Thorsteinsson (IS) ászló Vagner (HUN) Referee Name avid Fernández Borbalán ate of birth //97 UEFA Champions eague matches UEFA matches avid Fernández started refereeing in the top flight in his native Spain in and was awarded his FIFA badge six years later, moving up to UEFA's Elite evelopment category in January. The Almeria native got his first taste of UEFA competition in August, acting as fourth official at the iverpool FCGrazer AK UEFA Champions eague third qualifying round second leg. Regularly involved as a fourth official in UEFA's two main club competitions thereafter, Fernández also worked as an additional assistant referee at four UEFA Europa eague matches in 9/. The same season he was fourth official at four UEFA Champions eague matches, lastly the FC Girondins de BordeauxOlympique yonnais quarterfinal, and continued to hold that and the additional assistant referee roles in /, the last of his seven UEFA Europa eague games coming as fourth official in FC Porto's final victory against SC Braga in ublin. Having taken charge of the Armenian Cup final in May, he made his UEFA EURO qualifying bow as a referee in the BelarusFrance game the following month. Began the next campaign with the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF before making his UEFA Champions eague refereeing bow on matchday two, ending the campaign with the Copa del Rey final. UEFA Champions eague matches involving teams from the two countries involved in this match No matches found Other matches involving teams from either of the two countries involved in this match ate /7/ Competition UCUP Stage QR Home KS Besa Away Olympiacos FC Venue Tirana ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET 9 Match officials

10 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) Fixtures and results Olympiacos FC ate Competition Opponent /8/ eague Veria FC (A) /9/ eague evadiakos FC (H) /9/ eague PAS Giannina FC (A) 8/9/ UC FC Schalke (H) /9/ eague Panthrakikos FC (H) 9/9/ eague Atromitos FC (A) // UC Arsenal FC (A) // eague Asteras Tripolis FC (H) // eague Xanthi FC (H) // UC Montpellier Hérault SC (A) 7// eague Aris Thessaloniki FC (A) // eague OFI Crete FC (H) // UC Montpellier Hérault SC (H) // eague AEK Athens FC (A) 7// eague Kerkyra FC (H) // UC FC Schalke (A) // eague PAOK FC (A) // eague Platanias (H) // UC Arsenal FC (H) 8// eague Panathinaikos FC (A) // eague Panionios GSS (A) // eague Veria FC (H) // eague evadiakos FC (A) Goalscorers jebbour 9, Modesto Siovas, jebbour 8, 7, Maniatis Mitroglou, jebbour 7 Pos. Clubs Olympiacos FC Panionios GSS Atromitos FC PAOK FC Asteras Tripolis FC Platanias 7 Xanthi FC 8 Panthrakikos FC 9 Panathinaikos FC* Aris Thessaloniki FC OFI Crete FC PAS Giannina FC Veria FC evadiakos FC AEK Athens FC Kerkyra FC Panathinaikos FC have had points deducted ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET Fixtures and results

11 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) FC Schalke ate Competition Opponent 9/8/ Cup. FC Saarbrücken (A) /8/ eague Hannover 9 (A) /9/ eague FC Augsburg (H) /9/ eague SpVgg Greuther Fürth (A) 8/9/ UC Olympiacos FC (A) /9/ eague FC Bayern München (H) /9/ eague. FSV Mainz (H) 8/9/ eague Fortuna üsseldorf 89 (A) // UC Montpellier Hérault SC (H) // eague Vf olfsburg (H) // eague Borussia ortmund (A) // UC Arsenal FC (A) 7// eague. FC Nürnberg (H) // Cup SV Sandhausen (H) // eague TSG 899 Hoffenheim (A) // UC Arsenal FC (H) // eague SV erder Bremen (H) 7// eague Bayer everkusen (A) // UC Olympiacos FC (H) // eague Eintracht Frankfurt (H) 7// eague Hamburger SV (A) // eague Vf Borussia Mönchengladbach (H) // UC Montpellier Hérault SC (A) 8// eague VfB Stuttgart (A) Goalscorers K. Papadopoulos, raxler, 7, Marica, 7 Huntelaar, Holtby K. Papadopoulos, Jones, Huntelaar 7 raxler 8, Holtby 88 Pos Clubs FC Bayern München Eintracht Frankfurt Hannover 9 FC Schalke Borussia ortmund. FC Nürnberg Fortuna üsseldorf 89 SC Freiburg Vf Borussia Mönchengladbach Vf olfsburg SV erder Bremen Bayer everkusen SpVgg Greuther Fürth. FSV Mainz FC Augsburg VfB Stuttgart Hamburger SV TSG 899 Hoffenheim ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET Fixtures and results

12 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) Matchbymatch lineups Group B Standings Club FC Schalke Montpellier Hérault SC Arsenal FC Olympiacos FC Matchday (8/9/) Olympiacos v Schalke Matchday (//) Schalke v Montpellier Arsenal v Olympiacos Matchday (//) Arsenal v Schalke Montpellier v Olympiacos Matchday (//) Schalke v Arsenal Olympiacos v Montpellier Matchday (//) Schalke v Olympiacos Matchday (//) Montpellier v Schalke Olympiacos v Arsenal ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET Matchbymatch lineups

13 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) Group Standings Group A Club FC ynamo Kyiv GNK inamo Zagreb FC Porto Paris SaintGermain FC 8/9/ 8/9/ GNK inamo Zagreb Paris SaintGermain FC FC Porto FC ynamo Kyiv Zagreb Paris Group B Club FC Schalke Montpellier Hérault SC Arsenal FC Olympiacos FC 8/9/ 8/9/ Montpellier Hérault SC Olympiacos FC Arsenal FC FC Schalke Montpellier Piraeus Group C Club RSC Anderlecht Málaga CF FC Zenit St Petersburg AC Milan 8/9/ 8/9/ Málaga CF AC Milan FC Zenit St Petersburg RSC Anderlecht Malaga Milan Group Club Manchester City FC Borussia ortmund AFC Ajax Real Madrid CF 8/9/ 8/9/ Borussia ortmund Real Madrid CF AFC Ajax Manchester City FC ortmund Madrid Group E Club Juventus FC Shakhtar onetsk FC Nordsjælland Chelsea FC 9/9/ 9/9/ FC Shakhtar onetsk Chelsea FC FC Nordsjælland Juventus onetsk ondon Group F Club Valencia CF OSC ille FC BATE Borisov FC Bayern München 9/9/ 9/9/ OSC ille FC Bayern München FC BATE Borisov Valencia CF Villeneuved'Ascq Munich ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET Group Standings

14 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) Group G Club S Benfica FC Barcelona FC Spartak Moskva Celtic FC 9/9/ 9/9/ FC Barcelona Celtic FC FC Spartak Moskva S Benfica Barcelona Glasgow Group H Club CFR 97 Cluj Manchester United FC Galatasaray AŞ SC Braga 9/9/ 9/9/ Manchester United FC SC Braga Galatasaray AŞ CFR 97 Cluj Manchester Braga ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET Group Standings

15 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) Competition facts UEFA Champions eague: id you know? Holders Chelsea FC are hoping to avoid becoming the first defending champions to fail to get through a group stage since the UEFA Champions eague began. (This record, like the others, includes the seasons between 999/ and / that featured a second group stage). In 99/9, FC Barcelona were the reigning European Champion Clubs' Cup holders and lost on aggregate in the second round by PFC CSKA Moskva. No team has successfully defended the UEFA Champions eague trophy with AC Milan (989, 99) the last club to win consecutive European Cups. Milan (99, 99), AFC Ajax (99, 99), Juventus (99, 997) and Manchester United FC (8, 9) have all returned to the UEFA Champions eague final as holders only to lose. S.S. azio goalkeeper Marco Ballotta is the oldest player to compete in the UEFA Champions eague having featured against Real Madrid CF on matchday six in 7/8 aged years and days. Alessandro Costacurta is the oldest outfield player; the Milan defender was years and days when he played against AEK Athens FC in /7. Ryan Giggs is the oldest player to score in the competition, aged 7 years and 89 days, in Manchester United's draw at S Benfica on September. Celestine Babayaro is the youngest player to have appeared; he was years and 87 days when he started for RSC Anderlecht against FC Steaua Bucureşti on November 99. He was sent off in the 7th minute. Peter OforiQuaye is the youngest player to have scored in the UEFA Champions eague, aged 7 years and 9 days. He found the net in Olympiacos FC's defeat at Rosenborg BK on October 997. ionel Messi became the first player to score five goals in a match in Barcelona's 7 win against Bayer everkusen on 7 March. Eight players, including Messi, have scored four times in a game, most recently FC Bayern München's Mario Gomez on matchday eight last season. Barcelona have finished as group winners on occasions, one more than Manchester United and Real Madrid. Five teams have recorded six successive victories in a UEFA Champions eague group stage: Milan (99/9), Paris SaintGermain FC (99/9), FC Spartak Moskva (99/9), Barcelona (/, first group stage) and Real Madrid (/). Fifteen teams have gone through a UEFA Champions eague group stage without picking up a single point, including Villarreal CF, FC Oţelul Galaţi and GNK inamo Zagreb in /. Barcelona scored goals in the / group stage, equalling Manchester United's competition record from 998/99. Barcelona scored 9 times in the 999/ first group stage, a tally matched by Real Madrid last season. inamo Zagreb conceded goals in the / group stage, a new record. The previous highest goals against total was 9, shared by MŠK Žilina (/), ebreceni VSC (9/), FC ynamo Kyiv (7/8) and Ferencvárosi TC in 99/9. No team has ever gone through a UEFA Champions eague group stage without conceding a goal. Milan (99/9), Ajax (99/9), Juventus (99/97 and /), Chelsea (/), iverpool FC (/), Villarreal (/) and Manchester United (/) all let in just one. Before their win against Sporting Clube de Portugal on matchday six of the /7 campaign, Spartak Moskva went games without a victory in the competition. The lowest total for a team qualifying from the group stage is seven points. The first to do it since three points for a win was introduced in 99/9 were egia arszawa that same season before ynamo Kyiv and Bayer everkusen managed it in 999/ and iverpool in /. FC okomotiv Moskva and eventual finalists Juventus both progressed with seven points in /, as did Rangers FC and SV erder Bremen in /. Only two teams have ever won the UEFA Champions eague on home soil: Borussia ortmund (997, final in Munich) and Juventus (99, final in Rome), while Manchester United lost the final in ondon and months later Bayern were beaten in the showpiece in their own stadium, the Fußball Arena München. ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET Competition facts

16 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) Team facts Olympiacos FC Formed: 9 Nickname: Erythrolefki (Red and hites), Thrylos (egend) UEFA club competition honours (runnersup in brackets) None omestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) eague title: 9 () Greek Cup: () Tenyear European record (UEFA Champions eague unless indicated otherwise) /: UEFA Europa eague round of (having transferred from UEFA Champions eague group stage) /: UEFA Europa eague third qualifying round 9/: round of 8/9: UEFA Cup round of (having transferred from UEFA Champions eague third qualifying round) 7/8: round of /7: group stage /: group stage /: UEFA Cup round of (having transferred from UEFA Champions eague group stage) /: group stage /: first group stage Records UEFA club competition Biggest home win : Olympiacos v KS Besa /7/, UEFA Europa eague second qualifying round second leg twice, most recently v FC Nordsjælland //8, UEFA Cup first round second leg Biggest away win : KS Besa v Olympiacos /7/, UEFA Europa eague second qualifying round first leg Heaviest home defeat : Olympiacos v Hamburger SV //8, European Champion Clubs' Cup second round second leg Heaviest away defeat 7: Juventus v Olympiacos //, UEFA Champions eague group stage UEFA Champions eague (group stage to final only) Biggest home win : Olympiacos v Bayer everkusen 9/9/, first group stage Biggest away win : SV erder Bremen v Olympiacos //7, group stage Heaviest home defeat : Olympiacos v Olympique yonnais //, group stage Heaviest away defeat 7: Juventus v Olympiacos (see above for details) ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET Team facts

17 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) FC Schalke Formed: 9 Nickname: S, ie Königsblauen (The Royal Blues), ie Knappen (The Miners) UEFA club competition honours (runnersup in brackets) UEFA Cup: 997 UEFA Intertoto Cup:, omestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) eague title: 7 (98) German Cup: () Tenyear European record (UEFA Champions eague unless indicated otherwise) /: UEFA Europa eague quarterfinals /: semifinals 9/: did not take part in UEFA club competition 8/9: UEFA Cup group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions eague third qualifying round) 7/8: quarterfinals /7: UEFA Cup first round /: UEFA Cup semifinals (having transferred from UEFA Champions eague group stage) /: UEFA Cup round of (having qualified as UEFA Intertoto Cup winners) /: UEFA Cup second round (having qualified as UEFA Intertoto Cup winners) /: UEFA Cupthird round Records UEFA club competition Biggest home win : Schalke v HJK Helsinki /8/, UEFA Europa eague playoff second leg : Schalke v FK Vardar 7/7/, UEFA Intertoto Cup third round first leg Biggest away win : AEK arnaca FC v Schalke //, UEFA Europa eague group stage Heaviest home defeat : Schalke v isla Kraków //, UEFA Cup third round second leg Heaviest away defeat : Manchester City FC v Schalke //7, UEFA Cup inners' Cup semifinal second leg : Club Atlético de Madrid v Schalke 7/8/8, UEFA Champions eague third qualifying round second leg UEFA Champions eague (group stage to final only) Biggest home win twice, most recently v Olympique yonnais //, group stage Biggest away win : RC Mallorca v Schalke //, first group stage Heaviest home defeat twice, most recently v Manchester United FC //, semifinal first leg Heaviest away defeat : Manchester United FC v Schalke //, semifinal second leg ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET 7 Team facts

18 Olympiacos FC FC Schalke Tuesday 8 September.CET (. local time) egend ATIME STATISTICS The alltime record of the competing clubs in UEFA club competition. UEFA club competition: These are the official statistics considered valid for communicating official records in UEFA club competition defined as the European Champion Clubs' Cup, the UEFA Champions eague, the UEFA Cup inners' Cup (9999), the UEFA Europa eague, the UEFA Cup, the UEFA Super Cup (97to date), the UEFA Intertoto Cup and the European/South American Cup (9). Matches in the InterCities Fairs Cup and the 97 Super Cup are included only for information as these were not held under UEFA auspices, while the FIFA Club orld Cup is excluded. :: Match officials The match officials appointed to officiate the fixture. UC: Total matches officiated in the UEFA Champions eague from 99/9 season, group stage to final only. Matches where the official has acted as the fourth official are not included in these statistics. These are the official statistics considered valid for communicating official records. UEFA: Total matches officiated in UEFA club competition including all qualifying round matches. Matches where the official has acted as the fourth official are not included in these statistics. These are the official statistics considered valid for communicating official records. :: Competitions Club competitions UC: UEFA Champions eague ECCC: European Champion Clubs' Cup/UEFA Champions eague UE: UEFA Europa eague UCUP: UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa eague UCC: UEFA Cup inners' Cup SCUP: UEFA Super Cup UIC: UEFA Intertoto Cup ICF: InterCities Fairs Cup :: Competition stages F: Final GS: Group stage GS: First group stage GS: Second group stage KO: First knockout round PR: Preliminary round QF: Quarterfinals QR: Qualifying round QR: First qualifying round QR: Second qualifying round FT: Final tournament EITE: Elite round rdpo: Thirdplace playoff GSFT: Group stage final tournament :: Statistics () : enotes player substituted (*) : enotes player sent off QR: Third qualifying round R: First round R: Second round R: Third round R: Fourth round SF: Semifinals R: round of R: Round of st: first leg nd: second leg PO: Playoff (Rep) : Replay PO FT: Playoff for Final Tournament Prom/rel PO: Promotion/relegation playoff National team competitions EURO: UEFA European Football Championship C: FIFA orld Cup CONFCUP: FIFA Confederations Cup FRIE: Friendly internationals UFRIE: Under friendly internationals U: UEFA European Under Championship U7: UEFA Under7 Championship U: UEFA European Under Championship U9: UEFA Under9 Championship U8: UEFA European Under8 Championship C: FIFA omen's orld Cup CHAMP: UEFA European omen's Championship :: Other abbreviations (aet): Match decided after extra timeno.: Number aetps: Match decided after extra timeo.g.: Own goal and penalty shootout ag: Match decided on away goals (P): Penalty agg: Aggregate : Matches played AP: Appearances Pos.: Position Comp.: Competition : Points : rawn R: Sent off (straight red card) ob: ate of birth Res.: : Goals against sg: Match decided by silver goal : Goals for t: Match decided by toss of a coin gg: Match decided by golden goal : on : ost Y: Booked Nat.: Nationality Y/R: Sent off (two yellow cards) N/A: Not applicable (+) : enotes player introduced (+/) : enotes player introduced and substituted :: Squad list : isciplinary *: Misses next match if booked S: Suspended #: Suspended for at least one match UCQ: Current season total UEFA Champions eague appearances in the qualifying rounds and playoffs only UC: Current season total UEFA Champions eague appearances from group stage onwards prior to current matchday UC: Total appearances in the UEFA Champions eague from 99/9 season, group stage to final only UEFA: Alltime total appearances in UEFA club competition including qualifying :: isclaimer: Although UEFA has taken all reasonable care that the information contained within this document is accurate at the time of publication, no representation or guarantee (including liability towards third parties), expressed or implied, is made as to its accuracy, reliability or completeness. Therefore, UEFA assumes no liability for the use or interpretation of information contained herein. More information can be found in the competition regulations available on ast updated 7/9/ :9:CET 8 egend