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No jeopardy but loads of fun - Champions League sets new goals record
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Phil Foden scored a hat-trick in Manchester City's 5-1 win over AEK Athens
By
Alex Brotherton
BBC Sport journalist
Published
13 minutes ago
More teams, more games - and more goals.
Since the current Champions League format was introduced at the start of the 2024-25 season, Europe's elite club competition has delivered all of the above and more. Especially the goals part.
Already trending upwards over the past two campaigns, there has been a genuine goals boom in this year's competition. The 187 goals scored so far have come at an average of 4.16 per game - the highest in Champions League history.
"Look how many goals have been scored, it's phenomenal. The attackers are being clinical," ex-Manchester United and England winger Ashley Young said on BBC Radio 5 Live. "The attackers are being clinical."
Former Liverpool defender Stephen Warnock described the volume of goals as "incredible" - so how unusual is it?
What the stats say
Ready for lots of numbers?
Not only is the current goals-per-game percentage the highest ever in the Champions League, it is the third highest in European Cup history - behind only 1959-60 (4.19) and 1955-56 (4.38).
While 40 goals were scored across nine games on Tuesday, last week was even more spectacular. Last Wednesday saw the third highest-scoring day in Champions League history (46 goals), bettered only by the final league-phase matchdays of 2024-25 and 2025-26, when 18 matches took place.
The 78 goals scored across Tuesday and Wednesday last week made matchday two the highest scoring in history. That was nine more than the total scored on matchday one this season (69) - which, at the time, was the second highest-scoring matchday since the new league phase was introduced in 2024-25.
Will we see the record fall again this week? It's already halfway there.