UCL 2024 Арсенал - Бавария match facts

Arsenal's first UEFA Champions League quarter-final since 2010 pits them against Bayern München, the team who ended their last campaign in the competition in emphatic style.

Bayern have won seven of the teams' 12 contests – the last three all by a 5-1 scoreline, including the most recent tie in the round of 16 seven seasons ago.

The Gunners came through a penalty shoot-out against Porto in this season's round of 16 to reach the last eight for the first time in 14 years, while Bayern are making a record 22nd Champions League quarter-final appearance and a 12th in 13 years having beaten Lazio in the previous round.

Mikel Arteta's Arsenal were first in Group B before edging past Porto, ending a run of seven successive defeats in the Champions League round of 16. Bayern also won their section in the autumn and then overturned a first-leg deficit to beat Lazio 3-1 on aggregate in their first knockout tie.

Previous meetings

Arsenal wins 3
Bayern wins 7
Draws 2
Arsenal goals 13
Bayern goals 27

The last of the teams' 12 fixtures before this tie came in the 2016/17 round of 16, when Bayern won 5-1 in both Munich and London.

Arjen Robben's 11th-minute opener in the first leg in Munich was cancelled out on the half-hour by Alexis Sánchez but Bayern produced a clinical second-half showing, taking control of the tie thanks to goals from Robert Lewandowski (53), Thiago Alcántara (56, 63) and Thomas Müller (88).

Theo Walcott's 20th-minute strike gave Arsenal a glimmer of hope in the north London return but a red card for Laurent Koscielny for conceding the penalty from which Lewandowski levelled (55) turned the tide, Bayern running away with it in the final quarter of the match with strikes from Robben (68), Douglas Costa (78) and Arturo Vidal (80, 85).

That made it three successive 5-1 victories for Bayern against Arsenal, who had gone down by that scoreline in Germany in the 2015/16 group stage. Arsenal had beat Bayern 2-0 in north London with Olivier Giroud and Mesut Özil on target but goals from Müller (2), David Alaba and Robben earned an emphatic home win in Munich. Giroud again scored for Arsenal.

All of the teams' meetings have come since 2000/01, Bayern eliminating Arsenal in the round of 16 in 2004/05, 2012/13 and 2013/14.

Arsenal, with a side featuring current manager Arteta, drew 1-1 at Fußball Arena München in the 2013/14 round of 16 second leg when Lukas Podolski, returning to his former club, equalised within two minutes of Bastian Schweinsteiger putting the hosts ahead. Arsenal went out of the competition having lost 2-0 at home, with Toni Kroos (54) and Müller (88) on the scoresheet.

The previous season's contest at Arsenal Stadium was won 3-1 by Bayern, Kroos (7) and Müller (21) again scoring. Podolski's 55th-minute goal gave Arsenal hope, but Mario Mandžukić (77) restored the visitors' two-goal advantage.

Giroud and Koscielny scored as the Gunners won 2-0 in Germany but Bayern advanced on away goals. Arteta played 90 minutes in each leg.

The other two meetings in London ended in a 1-0 Arsenal win in the 2004/05 round of 16 second leg thanks to Thierry Henry's goal, although they lost the tie 3-2 on aggregate, and a 2-2 draw in the 2000/01 second group stage. Bayern subsequently won 1-0 in Germany.

Form guide

Arsenal

Record vs German clubs: W18 D6 L16 F67 A64
Home record vs German clubs: W12 D1 L7

This is Arsenal's first fixture against a German club since the 2019/20 UEFA Europa League group stage, when they won 3-0 at Eintracht Frankfurt on Matchday 1 but lost 2-1 at home on Matchday 5.

That made it six defeats in Arsenal's last nine home matches against German teams.

The win in Frankfurt is one of only two in Arsenal's last seven games against Bundesliga clubs, a sequence that includes five defeats. They have managed six victories in their last 18 matches against clubs from Germany (D2 L10).

Arsenal's record in two-legged ties against German clubs is W3 L5. They have lost the last four – all against Bayern – and five of the last six, the exception a 6-2 aggregate success against Werder Bremen in the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup quarter-finals (2-0 h, 4-2 a).

Arsenal's record in European Cup quarter-finals is W2 L5:
2009/10 Barcelona L 3-6 (2-1 h, 1-4 a)
2008/09 Villarreal W 4-1 (1-1 a, 3-0 h)
2007/08 Liverpool L 3-5 (1-1 h, 2-4 a)
2005/06 Juventus W 2-0 (2-0 h, 0-0 a)
2003/04 Chelsea L 2-3 (1-1 a, 1-2 h)
2000/01 Valencia L 2-2 away goals (2-1 h, 0-1 a)
1971/72 Ajax L 1-3 (1-2 a, 0-1 h)

This is Arsenal's 20th Champions League campaign – second only to Manchester United's 25 among English clubs – but a first since 2016/17, their 19th in a row, all under Arsène Wenger.

In that 2016/17 campaign, the Gunners lost in the round of 16 for the seventh season running, going down 5-1 away and at home against Bayern.

Arsenal's most successful European campaign in recent years came in 2018/19 when, with Unai Emery in charge, they reached the Europa League final only to lose 4-1 to London rivals Chelsea in Baku.

In 2022/23, now coached by Arteta, Arsenal finished first in their Europa League section to earn direct passage to the round of 16, where they lost on penalties to Sporting CP (1-1 a, 2-2 h).

This season, after marking their return to the Champions League with a 4-0 home win against PSV Eindhoven, Arsenal went down 2-1 at Lens on Matchday 2 but won the next three, against Sevilla (2-1 a, 2-0 h) and Lens (6-0 h) – in the latter match, Arsenal became the first side to have five different scorers in the first half of a Champions League game. They concluded Group B with a 1-1 draw in Eindhoven.

The London club were beaten 1-0 at Porto in the round of 16 first leg but won at home by the same scoreline and then went through 4-2 on penalties.

Arsenal have won 11 of their last 14 home European matches, losing only one.

However, the Gunners had lost five successive home knockout games in the Champions League – conceding 15 goals while scoring only three – prior to beating Porto. Their previous home knockout victory was a 3-0 second-leg defeat of AC Milan in the 2011/12 round of 16, a tie they lost 4-3 on aggregate.

Bayern

Record vs English clubs: W27 D18 L16 F111 A78
Away record vs English clubs: W9 D9 L9

Bayern's 2022/23 European campaign was ended by Manchester City, who were 4-1 aggregate winners in their Champions League quarter-final (0-3 a, 1-1 h).

Bayern already have two wins against English opposition in 2023/24, beating Manchester United 4-3 in Munich on Matchday 1 and 1-0 in Manchester on Matchday 6.

The German side have suffered three defeats in their last nine away games against English clubs (W4 D2).

Three of Bayern's four victories in that nine-match sequence have come in London – at Arsenal in the 2016/17 round of 16 second leg (5-1), Tottenham in the 2019/20 group stage (7-2) and Chelsea in the round of 16 first leg in the same campaign (3-0).

Despite losing to Manchester City at this stage of last season's Champions League, Bayern have won six of their last eight two-legged ties against English clubs; their overall record is W11 L7. A 3-1 aggregate loss to Liverpool in the 2018/19 round of 16 (0-0 a, 1-3 h) is their only other defeat since losing to Chelsea in the 2004/05 quarter-finals (2-4 a, 3-2 h).

Last season's loss at City ended Bayern's six-game unbeaten away run in knockout games against English clubs (W4 D2).

Bayern's European Cup quarter-final record is W20 L13:
2022/23 Manchester City L 1-4 (0-3 a, 1-1 h)
2021/22 Villarreal L 1-2 (0-1 a, 1-1 h)
2020/21 Paris Saint-Germain L 3-3 away goals (2-3 h, 1-0 a)
2019/20 Barcelona W 8-2 (n)
2017/18 Sevilla W 2-1 (2-1 a, 0-0 h)
2016/17 Real Madrid L 3-6 (1-2 h, 2-4 a aet)
2015/16 Benfica W 3-2 (1-0 h, 2-2 a)
2014/15 Porto W 7-4 (1-3 a, 6-1 h)
2013/14 Manchester United W 4-2 (1-1 a, 3-1 h)
2012/13 Juventus W 4-0 (2-0 h, 2-0 a)
2011/12 Marseille W 4-0 (2-0 a, 2-0 h)
2009/10 Manchester United W 4-4 away goals (2-1 h, 2-3 a)
2008/09 Barcelona L 1-5 (0-4 a, 1-1 h)
2006/07 AC Milan L 2-4 (2-2 a, 0-2 h)
2004/05 Chelsea L 5-6 (2-4 a, 3-2 h)
2001/02 Real Madrid L 2-3 (2-1 h, 0-2 a)
2000/01 Manchester United W 3-1 (1-0 a, 2-1 h)
1999/00 Porto W 3-2 (1-1 a, 2-1 h)
1998/99 Kaiserslautern W 6-0 (2-0 h, 4-0 a)
1997/98 Borussia Dortmund L 0-1 (0-0 h, 0-1 a)
1994/95 IFK Göteborg W 2-2 away goals (0-0 h, 2-2 a)
1990/91 Porto W 3-1 (1-1 h, 2-0 a)
1989/90 PSV Eindhoven W 3-1 (2-1 h, 1-0 a)
1987/88 Real Madrid L 3-4 (3-2 h, 0-2 a)
1986/87 Anderlecht W 7-2 (5-0 h, 2-2 a)
1985/86 Anderlecht L 2-3 (2-1 h, 0-2 a)
1981/82 Universitatea Craiova W 3-1 (2-0 a, 1-1 h)
1980/81 Baník Ostrava W 6-2 (2-0 h, 4-2 a)
1976/77 Dynamo Kyiv L 1-2 (1-0 h, 0-2 a)
1975/76 Benfica W 5-1 (0-0 a, 5-1 h)
1974/75 Ararat Yerevan W 2-1 (2-0 h, 0-1 a)
1973/74 CSKA Sofia W 5-3 (4-1 h, 1-2 a)
1972/73 Ajax L 2-5 (0-4 a, 2-1 h)

This is Bayern's 22nd appearance in the Champions League quarter-finals – a competition record, two more than Real Madrid.

Bayern have lost more European Cup quarter-finals than any other club, the 13 defeats including the last three.

The Munich side have featured in the Champions League in every season since 2008/09, reaching the knockout rounds in each one of those campaigns.

Overall, this is Bayern's 27th campaign in the Champions League proper, level with Porto and fewer only than Barcelona and Real Madrid (both 28).

Bayern are unbeaten in a record 40 Champions League group matches (W36 D4) and had won 17 successive group games, also a competition best, before being held 0-0 at home by Copenhagen on Matchday 5 this season.

Bayern followed an opening 4-3 win at home against Manchester United with a 2-1 victory in Copenhagen and then beat Galatasaray in both Istanbul (3-1) and Munich (2-1) before their winning run was ended by the Danish champions. They concluded their campaign with a 1-0 victory at Old Trafford.

Thomas Tuchel's side then went down 1-0 at Lazio in the round of 16 first leg but turned round the tie with a 3-0 victory in Munich in which Harry Kane scored twice.

Kane has six goals in this season's competition, level with Atlético de Madrid's Antoine Griezmann, Erling Haaland of Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbappé as the competition's top scorer ahead of the quarter-finals.

In 2022/23, under Julian Nagelsmann, the Munich club became the first team to win all six games in the group stage on three occasions. They finished ahead of Inter Milan, Barcelona and Viktoria Plzeň in Group C before ousting Paris in the round of 16 (1-0 a, 2-0 h) only, with Tuchel having succeeded Nagelsmann, to come up short against eventual champions City in the quarter-finals.

Defeat at Lazio in this season's round of 16 first leg was only Bayern's third in their last 33 away Champions League matches (W24 D6); they have won 22 of the last 27 outside Munich.

Tuchel's team responded to their Champions League elimination by winning Bayern's 11th successive Bundesliga title, pipping Borussia Dortmund on the final day of the season.

The six-time European champions – who claimed their fifth European Cup in 2013 at Wembley, the venue for this season's final – have been eliminated in the last eight in the last three seasons but have reached the quarter-finals or better in 11 of their last 12 Champions League campaigns, the exception the last-16 elimination by Liverpool in 2018/19.

Links and trivia

Kane spent a season in Arsenal's academy aged eight in 2001/02, going on to break through at their local rivals Tottenham Hotspur, for whom he scored a club-record 280 goals in 435 games in all competitions before joining Bayern last summer.

Kane is the record scorer in north London derbies, his 19 appearances in the fixture yielding 14 goals – and three assists – with the record W7 D5 L7.

Kane also had loan spells at Leyton Orient (2011) Millwall (2012), Norwich City (2012/13) and Leicester City (2013) in England.

Serge Gnabry was on the books at Arsenal between 2011 and 2016, when he returned to Germany to join Werder Bremen, signing for Bayern the following year. He made 18 first-team appearances in all competitions for the Gunners, scoring once.

Have also played in England:
Leroy Sané (Manchester City 2016–20)
Eric Dier (Tottenham 2014–24)
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (Stoke City 2017/18)

Sané's record against Arsenal with City was W5 D1 L1, the wins including a 3-0 success in the 2017/18 English League Cup final. He scored three goals in those seven games.

Dier was on the winning side five times in his 15 appearances against Arsenal for Tottenham, losing six. His only goal in the fixture came in one of those defeats, a 4-2 Premier League loss at the Arsenal Stadium on 2 December 2018.

Having moved to England at the age of seven, Jamal Musiala was in the Southampton academy in 2010/11 before moving to Chelsea, where he stayed until signing for Bayern in 2019.

Tuchel was Chelsea manager between January 2021 and September 2022, winning the Champions League in 2020/21 with Kai Havertz scoring the only goal of the final against Manchester City. Tuchel's record against Arsenal with Chelsea was W1 L2.

Have played together:
Gabriel Jesus & Leroy Sané (Manchester City 2017–20)
Oleksandr Zinchenko & Leroy Sané (Manchester City 2016–20)
Jurriën Timber & Noussair Mazraoui (Ajax 2020–22)

International team-mates:
Kai Havertz & Manuel Neuer, Thomas Müller, Leon Goretzka, Joshua Kimmich, Jamal Musiala, Leroy Sané, Serge Gnabry, Aleksandar Pavlović (Germany)
Bukayo Saka, Declan Rice, Eddie Nketiah, Aaron Ramsdale & Harry Kane, Eric Dier (England)
David Raya & Bryan Zaragoza (Spain)
William Saliba & Kingsley Coman, Dayot Upamecano (France)

Kane scored in England's 2-0 win against Havertz's Germany at Wembley in the UEFA EURO 2020 round of 16.

In the EURO 2020 quarter-finals, Kane got two goals as England beat Zinchenko's Ukraine 4-0 in Rome.

Kane was also on target in England's 1-1 UEFA Nations League draw against Germany, again featuring Havertz, on 7 June 2022 and scored in the subsequent 3-3 draw on 26 September – a match in which Havertz struck twice.

Kane and Saka got England's goals in a 2-0 EURO 2024 qualifying win against Zinchenko's Ukraine on 26 March 2023.

Sané scored in Germany's 4-1 friendly loss against Takehiro Tomiyasu's Japan on 9 September 2023.

Müller and Sané scored to give Germany a 2-1 friendly win against a France side featuring Saliba in another friendly on 12 September 2023.