This will be the first ever knockout stage tie between teams from Norway (Bodø/Glimt) and Portugal (Sporting CP) in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, and the first in any major European competition since the last 32 of the 2003-04 UEFA Cup (Rosenborg eliminated by Benfica).

Bodø/Glimt have won both of their previous two games against Portuguese sides in European competition, with both of those coming in last season’s UEFA Europa League (3-2 v FC Porto and 2-1 v Braga).

Sporting CP have only faced a Norwegian opponent away from home in Europe on three previous occasions, winning at Lyn in 1971 (3-0 in the Cup Winners’ Cup) and Rosenborg in 2019 (2-0 in the UEFA Europa League), but losing at Viking in 1999 (0-3 in the UEFA Cup).

With wins in their last two, Sporting CP can equal their longest winning run in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League (3), achieved on three previous occasions (October-November 2008, October-November 2021 and September-October 1962).

Bodø/Glimt are on a four-game winning streak in the UEFA Champions League – in the 21st century, only four teams from outside of Europe’s big five leagues (England, Spain, Germany, France, Italy) have won five consecutive games in the competition: Ajax in 2021 (6), FC Porto in 2018 (5), Zenit St Petersburg in 2015 (5) and Shakhtar Donetsk in 2011 (5).

Of European Cup/UEFA Champions League campaigns in which they have played 5+ matches, Sporting CP’s win percentage this season (63% - 5/8) is their highest in a single edition.

Bodø/Glimt could equal the UEFA Champions League record for most consecutive games played with the same starting XI (currently on four), with Auxerre in 2002-03 the only previous side to do so in five in a row.

Kasper Høgh (4 goals, 3 assists) and Jens Petter Hauge (6 goals, 1 assist) both have seven goal involvements in the UEFA Champions League this season; the joint-most for a Norwegian team in a single edition, along with John Carew for Rosenborg in 1999-2000 (7 – 5 goals, 2 assists).

Sporting CP’s Geovany Quenda – who scored and assisted in his last game in the competition (v Club Brugge) – already has the most goal involvements by a Portuguese teenager in the UEFA Champions League (5 – 2 goals, 3 assists), despite being yet to turn 19.

Bodø/Glimt’s Jens Petter Hauge has completed 27 dribbles and produced 20 carries ending in a shot or chance created in the UEFA Champions League this season; coming into the round of 16 fixtures, he’s one of only three players with 20+ in both, along with Vinícius Júnior and Michael Olise.