Champions League: Even after Madrid goal fest, BVB stay unmatched | OneFootball

There were plenty of goals to see on Tuesday in the first Champions League semi-final. Real Madrid beat Bayern Munich 5:4, even though Bayern had at one point trailed 2:5. The two teams alone produced five goals in the first half. And yet one Champions League record involving BVB remains unique.

Reaching double figures in goals in a single match seems to be something special, at least in games in the Champions League, which was founded in the 1992/93 season. While the nine goals scored on Tuesday at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu have certainly been seen before, there have been only four matches in the entire history of the Champions League with more than nine goals.

kicker lists in a slideshow all the matches that, like the one between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, produced nine goals. The football magazine counts ten such games. The first came in 2000, when PSG beat Rosenborg Trondheim 7:2. Other examples included Werder Bremen’s 2:7 defeat at Olympique Lyon, Villarreal’s 6:3 win over Aalborg BK, and Bayer Leverkusen’s 2:7 loss against PSG.

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BVB win over Legia still remains the CL record match

There has only been one match in Champions League history with ten goals. In 2020, Bayern beat Barcelona 8:2 on neutral ground in Lisbon, where the final tournament made necessary by the coronavirus pandemic was held. That match was the only one with at least nine goals that took place in the knockout stage.

There have been two Champions League matches with eleven goals. One was Monaco’s 8:3 win over Deportivo La Coruna, when Dado Prso scored four times for Monaco, and the other was Bayern’s 9:2 victory over Dinamo Zagreb, which happened in September 2024.

Borussia Dortmund and Legia Warsaw therefore still hold the record for the most goals in a single Champions League match, having treated the crowd at Signal Iduna Park in November 2016 to twelve moments of either joy or frustration after a goal. Those twelve goals between BVB and the Polish capital club remain the record in the Champions League. Dortmund’s scorers that day were Reus twice, Kagawa twice, as well as Passlack, Sahin and Dembelé, plus an own goal by Legia Warsaw.

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