The UEFA Champions League unbeatables

Juventus face Olympiacos on Wednesday hoping to stretch their unbeaten home run in the UEFA Champions League to 20 matches – but they are still a little way short of the record and allowed one of the longer streaks to continue on matchday one.

Longest home unbeaten runs in UEFA Champions League
29 Bayern München 04/03/1998–02/04/2002
24 Arsenal 14/09/2004–15/04/2009
23 Manchester United 27/09/2005–03/11/2009
22 Barcelona 18/09/2013–12/09/2017*
21 Chelsea 12/09/2006 –08/12/2009, Barcelona 24/11/2009–10/04/2013, Real Madrid 27/09/2011–09/12/2014

*still going

• Bayern's record run took them to the 1999 final and 2001 title. Indeed, it was Bayern who inflicted Juve's last home UEFA Champions League reverse, 2-0 in a quarter-final second leg on 10 April 2013, the only time in this competition the Turin side have lost at their new stadium. Bayern also won 4-1 in Juve's last UEFA Champions League game at Stadio delle Alpi on 8 December 2009.

• The last time anyone other than Bayern won away at Juventus in this competition was when Deportivo La Coruña prevailed 1-0 in a round of 16 second leg on 9 March 2004.

• Barcelona are the only team with two separate 21-game unbeaten home runs in this competition, the 21st and 22nd matches of their current sequence both against Juve (0-0 on 19 April and 3-0 on 12 September).

Most successive games without a defeat in UEFA Champions League
25 Manchester United 19/09/2007–05/05/2009
19 Ajax 14/09/1994–20/03/1996, Bayern München 14/03/2001–02/04/2002
16 Barcelona 08/03/2011–03/04/2012, Manchester United 04/03/1998–29/09/1999 & 23/10/2001–23/10/2002

• Unsurprisingly, the longest unbeaten runs have generally yielded titles – United in 1999 and 2008, Ajax in 1995, Bayern in 2001 and Barcelona in 2011.

Most successive away games without a defeat in UEFA Champions League
16 Manchester United 19/09/2007–16/02/2010
14 Ajax 28/09/1994–19/03/1997
11 Barcelona 01/10/2008–31/03/2010, Real Madrid 28/09/2010–27/03/2012
10 Bayern München 23/10/2012–01/04/2014

• Runs do not include finals at neutral venues (eg Manchester United in 2008 or Ajax in 1995)

Longest run of consecutive wins in UEFA Champions League
10 Bayern München 02/04/2013–27/11/2013, Real Madrid 23/04/2014–18/02/2015
9 Barcelona 18/09/2002–18/02/2003 & 21/10/2014–06/05/2015
8 Borussia Dortmund 04/12/1996–01/10/1997

Longest run of consecutive home wins in UEFA Champions League
16 Bayern München 17/09/2014–15/02/2017
15 Barcelona 17/09/2014–08/03/2017
12 Manchester United 13/09/2006–29/04/2008
11 Real Madrid 03/04/2013–09/12/2014
10 Juventus 20/03/1996–10/12/1997

Longest run of consecutive away wins in UEFA Champions League
7 Ajax 22/11/1995–19/03/1997, Bayern München 19/02/2013–19/02/2014
6 Barcelona 12/04/2011–14/02/2012, Manchester United 15/04/2009–16/02/2010
5 Chelsea 16/09/2003– 06/04/2004, Real Madrid 29/04/2014–18/02/2015

• All statistics refer to group stage to final only (final counting as neither home nor away)

For more, download the official UEFA Champions League stats handbook