Champions League group stage number crunching

Key facts

• Barcelona, Porto and Real Madrid making 22nd group appearances of a possible 26
• 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
• Lionel Messi became the first player to 50 career group goals last season and overtook Cristiano Ronaldo as all-time top scorer at this stage
  
• Iker Casillas is set for his 19th group campaign
  
• Debutants RB Leipzig and Qarabağ take number of clubs to have played in the group stage to 137
• Qarabağ are first Azerbaijani group stage participants, meaning 33 of UEFA's 55 associations have been represented

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

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

Most points (2 points for a win in 1992/93, 1993/94 & 1994/95)
272: Real Madrid
259: Barcelona (265 if 3 points for a win throughout)

Most goals
304: Real Madrid
284: Barcelona

Most qualifications from group stage
21: Real Madrid

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

Most first-place group stage finishes
18: Barcelona

Most unbeaten group stage campaigns
10: Barcelona

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
21: Borussia Dortmund (2016/17)

Most total goals for and against involving single team
33: Legia Warszawa (2016/17)

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)

Most goals in a single group game
12: Borussia Dortmund 8-4 Legia Warszawa (2016/17)

Biggest margin of victory
8-0: Liverpool 8-0 Beşiktaş (2007/08), Real Madrid 8-0 Malmö (2015/16)

Highest-scoring draw
4-4: Hamburg 4-4 Juventus (2000/01)

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

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
83: Spain*
80: England*
70: Germany*, Italy*

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

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

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

Most goals
57: Lionel Messi
51: Cristiano Ronaldo
39: Ruud van Nistelrooy

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

*includes 2017/18
**finished second but not one of the two best runners-up that qualified