UEFA Champions League Scores & Fixtures
Wednesday 28th January
UEFA Champions League Table
- Manchester City, Position 11, Points 13
- Galatasaray, Position 17, Points 10
| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
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| 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 18 | 21 |
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| 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 7 | 13 | 18 |
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| 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 15 |
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| 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 15 |
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| 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 14 |
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| 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 13 |
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| 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 13 |
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| 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 13 |
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| 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 13 |
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10 Sporting CP | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 13 |
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| 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 13 |
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| 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 13 |
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| 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 13 |
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| 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 12 |
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| 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 12 |
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| 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 15 | 4 | 11 |
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17 Galatasaray | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 10 |
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18 Qarabağ | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 15 | -2 | 10 |
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| 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 9 |
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| 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 14 | -4 | 9 |
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| 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 14 | -6 | 9 |
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22 PSV | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 8 |
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| 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -4 | 8 |
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24 Olympiakos | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -5 | 8 |
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| 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -5 | 8 |
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26 Copenhagen | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 17 | -6 | 8 |
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27 Club Brugge | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 17 | -5 | 7 |
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28 Bodø / Glimt | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 14 | -2 | 6 |
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29 Benfica | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 10 | -4 | 6 |
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30 Pafos | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -6 | 6 |
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31 Union Saint-Gilloise | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 17 | -10 | 6 |
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32 Ajax | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 19 | -12 | 6 |
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| 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 19 | -9 | 4 |
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34 Slavia Prague | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 15 | -11 | 3 |
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| 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 15 | -10 | 1 |
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36 Kairat | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 19 | -14 | 1 |
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Key
- Position 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8: 8th Finals
- Position 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24: Play-off
Season so far
UEFA Champions League
Goals scored
Manchester City 13Galatasaray 9Form guide
All competitions
Match Facts
This will be the first meeting between Manchester City and Galatasaray, as well as Pep Guardiola’s first ever game against the Turkish side.
The last English team to beat Galatasaray in the UEFA Champions League was Arsenal in December 2014 (4-1) – since then, the Turkish side are unbeaten in three meetings with English opponents in the competition (W2 D1), including a win over Liverpool earlier this season in the most recent one (1-0 in September 2025).
Manchester City’s only previous meetings against a Turkish side came 57 years ago in the 1968-69 European Cup, with the Citizens being eliminated by Fenerbahçe in the first round (lost 2-1 on aggregate – 0-0 at home, lost 2-1 away).
Manchester City have lost two of their last three UEFA Champions League games (W1), having only lost three of their prior 24 league phase/group stage matches in the competition (W16 D5); the Citizens lost 2-0 to Bayer Leverkusen in their most recent home game but have never lost back-to-back group games at the Etihad Stadium in the competition.
Since the start of last season only Viktoria Plzen (9) and Fenerbahçe (7) have drawn more games across the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League than Galatasaray (6) – they haven’t drawn back-to-back matches in the same Champions League campaign since drawing five straight in 2001-02, however.
All three of the goals Manchester City conceded on MD7 against Bodø/Glimt came from fast breaks, and since the start of last season the Citizens have faced the most shows following a fast break in the UEFA Champions League (25).
Galatasaray manager Okan Buruk won three of his five previous UEFA Champions League games against English opposition (D1 L1), including an away win with Galatasaray against Manchester United in October 2023 (3-2); he also led Istanbul Basaksehir to victory over the Red Devils in November 2020 and Gala to a 1-0 win over Liverpool in this season’s league phase.
The average age of Manchester City’s starting lineups this season (25y 140d) is their youngest in a single UEFA Champions League campaign; they have handed starts to seven different players aged 22 or younger in 2025-26, their most in a single campaign (Savinho, Nico’ O’Reilly, Rico Lewis, Oscar Bobb, Rayan Cherki, Max Alleyne and Abdukodir Khusanov).
Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has scored 35 goals in just 27 home appearances in the UEFA Champions League, netting 21 in 18 at the Etihad Stadium for the Citizens; only Sergio Agüero has netted more times in the competition at the venue (23).
Only Pafos’ Derrick Luckassen (76 and 47) has recorded more clearances and more headed clearances than Galatasaray’s Davinson Sánchez (48 and 29) in this season’s UEFA Champions League – the Colombian’s totals are already the most on record by a player the club in any of their previous 11 campaigns on record (since 2003-04).
