Champions League group stage number crunching

Key facts

• Barcelona, Porto and Real Madrid making 21st group appearances
• Madrid hold records for most points, goals and qualifications
• Five teams have won all six games in a group campaign, but only Madrid have done it twice
• Cristiano Ronaldo overtook Lionel Messi as all-time top group scorer last season, now on 49
• Iker Casillas moved ahead of Xavi Hernández with most group appearances last season
• Debutants Leicester and Rostov take number of clubs to have played in the group stage to 135
  

ALL STATISTICS ARE FOR GROUP GAMES ONLY SINCE 1992/93, NOT INCLUDING SECOND GROUP STAGE (1999/2000–2002/03)

Most group campaigns by club
21: Barcelona*, FC Porto*, Real Madrid*
20: Bayern München*, Manchester United

Most points (2 points for a win in 1992/93, 1993/94 & 1994/95)
260: Real Madrid
244: Barcelona 244 (250 if 3 points for a win throughout)

Most goals
288: Real Madrid
264: Barcelona

Most qualifications from group stage
20: Real Madrid

Most consecutive qualifications from group stage
19: Real Madrid (since 1997/98)

Most first-placed group stage finishes
17: Barcelona

Most unbeaten group stage campaigns
10: Barcelona

Barcelona: Prolific in the 2011/12 group stage©Getty Images

Single season records:
Most wins
6: AC Milan (1992/93), Paris Saint-Germain (1994/95), Spartak Moskva (1995/96), Barcelona (2002/03), Real Madrid (2011/12 & 2014/15)

Most draws
6: AEK Athens (2002/03)

Most goals scored
20: Manchester United (1998/99), Barcelona (2011/12), Real Madrid (2013/14)

Fewest goals conceded
1: AC Milan (1992/93), Ajax (1995/96), Juventus (1996/97 & 2004/05), Valencia (2005/06), Liverpool (2005/06), Chelsea (2005/06), Manchester United (2010/11), Monaco (2014/15), Paris Saint-Germain (2015/16)

Biggest group-winning points margin
11: Spartak Moskva (1995/96), Barcelona (2002/03), Real Madrid (2014/15)

Six points were all Zenit needed in 2013/14©AFP/Getty Images

Fewest points to qualify (3 points for a win)
6: FC Zenit (2013/14)

Most points without going through
12: Paris Saint-Germain** (1997/98), Napoli (2013/14)

League stats:
Most group stage club campaigns
79: Spain*
75: England*
67: Italy*

Most different national representatives
13: Spain
11: Germany
10: England*, France

Nations never represented
22: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Estonia, Faroe Islands, FYR Macedonia, Georgia, Gibraltar, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, San Marino, Wales

Iker Casillas, back for an 18th group campaign©AFP/Getty Images

Player stats:
Most appearances
81: Iker Casillas
80: Xavi Hernández
77: Raúl González

Most goals
49: Cristiano Ronaldo
47: Lionel Messi
39: Ruud van Nistelrooy

Most goals in a single season
11: Cristiano Ronaldo (2015/16)

*includes 2016/17
**finished second but not one of the two best runners-up that qualified