Chelsea vs Dortmund facts

Chelsea welcome Borussia Dortmund to Stamford Bridge facing a first-leg deficit as their UEFA Champions League round of 16 tie concludes in west London.

The first leg – the first ever meeting between the teams – was settled by a solo strike from Dortmund's Karim Adeyemi three minutes past the hour, giving the German side the edge as they look to reach a second quarter-final in three seasons.

Dortmund are in the last 16 for the eighth time in 11 seasons, while this is Chelsea's eighth successive UEFA Champions League campaign to have stretched into the knockout rounds.

While Dortmund were second in Group G behind Chelsea's domestic rivals Manchester City, drawing half of their six games, Chelsea recovered from taking only one point from their first two fixtures to finish three clear at the top of Group E thanks to four successive victories.

This is one of only two round of 16 ties in which the clubs' paths had never previously crossed, Club Brugge-Benfica the other.

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Chelsea

This is Chelsea's fourth successive UEFA Champions League campaign and 19th overall, taking them level with Arsenal and behind only Manchester United (24) among English clubs. They have twice won the trophy, in 2012 and, under former Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel, in 2021.

All but one of Chelsea's 19 UEFA Champions League campaigns have extended into the knockout rounds – the sole exception in 2012/13, when they became the only holders to fail to survive the initial group stage, although they had the consolation of going on to win the UEFA Europa League.

Chelsea's 2021/22 campaign was ended in the quarter-finals by Real Madrid. Having finished second in Group H behind Juventus, the Blues beat LOSC Lille home (2-0) and away (2-1) in the round of 16 but bowed out in the last eight against the eventual winners (1-3 h, 3-2 a aet) having let slip a three-goal lead in the second leg.

This season, the Blues opened with a 1-0 defeat at Dinamo Zagreb, a result that prompted the departure of Tuchel. His replacement Graham Potter began his reign with a 1-1 draw at home to Salzburg before Chelsea embarked on a run of four straight wins, including home (3-0) and away (2-0) against AC Milan and, on Matchday 6, a 2-1 home victory against Dinamo that was their 100th in the UEFA Champions League – making them only the sixth club to reach a century.

The first leg of this tie was only Chelsea's seventh defeat in their last 37 UEFA Champions League matches (W23 D7).

Chelsea have won ten of their last 18 European matches at Stamford Bridge (D5 L3), last season's reverse against Madrid ending a run of six straight victories, all with clean sheets.

The London club were third in the Premier League in 2021/22, their highest finish since 2018/19, and finished as runners-up to Liverpool in both the FA Cup and the English League Cup, losing both goalless finals in a penalty shoot-out. They did, however, win both the UEFA Super Cup – beating Villarreal on penalties in Belfast in August – and, for the first time, the FIFA Club World Cup, Kai Havertz scoring the extra-time winner from the penalty spot in the final against Palmeiras of Brazil.

Chelsea's record in the UEFA Champions League round of 16 is W10 L6. After four successive losses at this stage they beat Atlético de Madrid in 2020/21 (1-0 a, 2-0 h) and LOSC Lille last season.

Chelsea's last games against a German club before this tie came in the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League round of 16, when they lost 3-0 at home and 4-1 away against eventual winners Bayern München.

That was Chelsea's first aggregate loss in two-legged knockout contests against German clubs having won the previous three, including beating Eintracht Frankfurt in the semi-finals of their victorious 2018/19 UEFA Europa League campaign, the Blues going through on penalties after two 1-1 draws.

The 2020 defeat by Bayern ended Chelsea's unbeaten home run against German visitors; they had won six of the first nine encounters.

The Blues have won eight of the 14 UEFA competition ties in which they had a first-leg deficit to overturn at Stamford Bridge, but lost the most recent, against Paris Saint-Germain at this stage of the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League (1-2 a, 1-2 h). They have won all three of the ties in which they lost the away first leg 1-0, most recently against Steaua București in the round of 16 of their victorious UEFA Europa League campaign in 2012/13 (3-1 h). In all three cases, they won the second leg by a two-goal margin.

Chelsea's record in seven UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W3 L4:
1-4 v Liverpool, 2006/07 UEFA Champions League semi-final
5-6 v Manchester United, 2007/08 UEFA Champions League final
4-3 v Bayern München, 2011/12 UEFA Champions League final
4-5 v Bayern München, 2013 UEFA Super Cup
4-3 v Eintracht Frankfurt, 2018/19 UEFA Europa League semi-final
4-5 v Liverpool, 2019 UEFA Super Cup
6-5 v Villarreal, 2021 UEFA Super Cup

Dortmund

This is Dortmund's 17th participation in the UEFA Champions League proper, and a club-record seventh in succession. European champions in 1997, they were beaten by Bayern München in the 2013 final.

In 2021/22 Dortmund finished third in their section behind Ajax and Sporting CP, the first time they had failed to reach the knockout rounds since 2017/18. BVB won three of their six games but defeats in the other three left them on nine points, behind Sporting on head-to-head record.

Under coach Marco Rose, Dortmund moved across to the UEFA Europa League but their campaign proved short-lived, eventual runners-up Rangers eliminating them in the knockout play-offs (2-4 h, 2-2 a).

Dortmund finished second in the Bundesliga to Bayern for the third time in four seasons in 2021/22 and in May replaced Rose with Edin Terzić, who had preceded him as interim head coach between December 2020 and June 2021.

Terzić oversaw a group campaign in which Dortmund again picked up nine points from their six games – the fewest of all 16 qualified teams. Five of those were gained at home thanks to a 3-0 win against Copenhagen and draws against Sevilla (1-1) and Manchester City (0-0). A 2-1 loss in Manchester was their sole defeat.

The Matchday 4 win at Sevilla is one of only eight Dortmund victories in their last 28 European away matches (D6 L14), although all of those wins have come in their last 20 (D2 L10).

Dortmund beat Sevilla 5-4 on aggregate in the 2020/21 round of 16 (3-2 a, 2-2 h), making their record at this stage W4 L3.

BVB have lost seven of their 15 matches at this stage of the UEFA Champions League (W6 D2). Dortmund were unbeaten in their first two away matches in the UEFA Champions League round of 16 (W1 D1), but had lost four in a row before their 2021 win at Sevilla.

The first leg was only Dortmund's fourth win in their last 17 knockout phase matches in UEFA competition (D4 L9), the success at Sevilla their only away victory in that sequence.

This season's goalless draw against Manchester City ended the German club's eight-game losing streak against English clubs. The first leg of this tie was Dortmund's first win against Premier League opposition since a 2-1 victory at Tottenham in the 2015/16 UEFA Europa League round of 16 second leg; their record in between those two wins was D2 L8.

Dortmund have lost on six of their last seven trips to England and ten of their 15 games away to English clubs overall (W4 D1).

BVB lost 2-1 away and at home to City in the 2020/21 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals. That made their record in two-legged knockout ties against English clubs W3 L4; they have lost the last three.

Dortmund lost the last tie in which they recorded a home first-leg win, against Paris in the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League round of 16 (2-1 h, 0-2 a). That was the 19th UEFA competition tie in which they won the first home leg, and only the second aggregate defeat. The successes include three ties in which the home first leg finished 1-0, all against British clubs: Celtic in the 1992/93 UEFA Cup second round (2-1 a), Motherwell in the 1994/95 UEFA Cup first round (2-0 a) and Manchester United in the semi-final of their victorious UEFA Champions League campaign in 1996/97 (1-0 a).

Dortmund's record in UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W2 L2:
6-5 v Auxerre, 1992/93 UEFA Cup semi-final
3-1 v Rangers, 1999/2000 UEFA Cup third round
2-4 v Club Brugge, 2003/04 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round
3-4 v Udinese, 2008/09 UEFA Cup first round

Links and trivia

Christian Pulišić joined Dortmund in February 2015 aged 16, making his first-team debut the following January. He went on to make 127 appearances for the club, scoring 19 goals and winning the German Cup in 2016/17, before signing for Chelsea in 2019.

Have also played in Germany:
Denis Zakaria (Borussia Mönchengladbach 2017–22)
Kai Havertz (Bayer Leverkusen 2010–20)

Zakaria suffered a serious knee injury in Mönchengladbach's 2-1 home Bundesliga defeat by Dortmund on 7 March 2020 and was sidelined for eight months. His goal gave Mönchengladbach a 1-0 home win against BVB on 25 September 2021.

Have played in England:
Emre Can (Liverpool 2014–18)
Sébastien Haller (West Ham 2019–21)
Anthony Modeste (Blackburn 2012 loan)
Felix Passlack (Norwich 2018/19 loan)
Jude Bellingham (Birmingham 2010–20)
Donyell Malen (Arsenal 2015–17)
Jamie Bynoe-Gittens (Reading 2013–18, Manchester City 2018–20)

Can scored Liverpool's goal in a 2-1 home Premier League defeat against Chelsea on 8 November 2014.

Malen scored one goal and set up another as Arsenal's Under-23s beat their Chelsea counterparts 4-1 in the Premier League 2 on 24 February 2017.

Have played together:
Noni Madueke & Donyell Malen (PSV Eindhoven 2019–21)
Kai Havertz & Julian Brandt (Bayer Leverkusen 2014–19)
Raheem Sterling & Emre Can (Liverpool 2014/15)
Thiago Silva & Thomas Meunier (Paris Saint-Germain 2016–20)

International team-mates:
Ben Chilwell, Reece James, Mason Mount, Raheem Sterling, Ruben Loftus-Cheek & Jude Bellingham (England)
Kai Havertz & Niklas Süle, Nico Schlotterbeck, Mats Hummels, Emre Can, Mahmoud Dahoud, Julian Brandt, Marco Reus, Karim Adeyemi, Youssoufa Moukoko (Germany)
Christian Pulišić & Giovanni Reyna (United States)
Denis Zakaria & Gregor Kobel (Switzerland)
João Félix & Raphaël Guerreiro (Portugal)

Raphaël Guerreiro and Hakim Ziyech were direct opponents as the former's Portugal lost 1-0 to Morocco in the 2022 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals.

Haller scored in the shoot-out as Eintracht Frankfurt lost 4-3 on penalties against Chelsea in the 2018/19 UEFA Europa League semi-final; Loftus-Cheek had scored the Blues' goal in the match with César Azpilicueta missing his spot kick in the shoot-out.

Chelsea's new winter signing Mykhailo Mudryk scored his first UEFA Champions League goal – and also provided two assists – in Shakhtar Donetsk's 4-1 win in Germany against Dortmund's Bundesliga rivals Leipzig on Matchday 1.

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Chelsea

UEFA Champions League squad changes

In: João Félix, Enzo Fernández, Mykhailo Mudryk
Out: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Jorginho

The Blues signed Mudryk from Shakhtar Donetsk and Fernández from Benfica, while João Félix joined on loan from Atlético de Madrid for the rest of the season.

Chelsea also brought in David Datro Fofana (Molde), Benoît Badiashile (Monaco), Andrey Santos (Vasco da Gama) – who has returned to the Brazilian club on loan – Noni Madueke (PSV Eindhoven) and Malo Gusto (Lyon, remains on loan at Lyon until summer 2023) in January. None feature in Chelsea's UEFA Champions League squad.

A UEFA Europa League winner with Chelsea in 2018/19 and a UEFA Champions League winner two seasons later, also adding the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup in 2021, Jorginho left the Blues after four-and-a-half years, moving across London to sign for Arsenal.

Chelsea were without a win in six games in all competitions (D3 L3), losing three in a row without scoring, before Saturday's 1-0 home defeat of Leeds.

Wesley Fofana scored the only goal, his first in the Premier League on his 42nd appearance. Fofana was also the 13th Chelsea player to score in the English top flight this season, fewer only than leaders Arsenal (14).

A 1-0 home Premier League victory against Crystal Palace on 15 January is the Blues' only other win in their last 12 matches (D4 L6).

Chelsea have managed just three wins in their last 16 Premier League matches, losing seven.

The Blues have failed to find the net in ten of their last 16 matches.

Chelsea have only five goals in their last 12 matches, and have scored more than once in only one of their last 16 fixtures, managing only seven goals in total in that sequence.

The London club were knocked out of both the League Cup (0-2) and FA Cup (0-4) by Manchester City, in the third round of each competition.

The FA Cup defeat by City was the first time Chelsea had failed to reach the last 32 of the competition since 1997/98. The London club have lost the final in each of the last three seasons.

January signing Fernández played all seven games, starting the last five, as Argentina won the 2022 FIFA World Cup, when he also picked up the FIFA Young Player Award.

Hakim Ziyech also featured in every match as Morocco became the first African side to reach the World Cup semi-finals, eventually finishing fourth. Mateo Kovačić also started all seven matches for third-placed Croatia.

Wesley Fofana came on as a half-time substitute in the 1-0 home loss against Southampton on 18 February, his first appearance since Matchday 3 on 5 October, when he suffered a knee injury.

Kovačić was out between 15 January and 18 February with a calf problem, and had not subsequently played due to illness before starting on Saturday. Denis Zakaria returned as a second-half substitute in a 2-0 loss at Tottenham on 26 February having been kept out by a thigh problem since 12 January; he also came on on Saturday.

Reece James (tight hamstring) and Mason Mount (lower abdomen) both sat out the weekend win.

Thiago Silva is expected to be out for up to eight weeks after suffering knee ligament damage at Tottenham.

César Azpilicueta was taken off with concussion against Southampton and has not played since.

Christian Pulišić has been sidelined since suffering a knee injury in a 1-0 Premier League defeat at home to Manchester City on 5 January.

N'Golo Kanté, whose last appearance came on 14 August, underwent surgery on a hamstring injury in October.

Edouard Mendy suffered a fractured finger in training in early January and has not played since the subsequent operation.

Armando Broja is not expected to play again this season after rupturing an anterior cruciate ligament in a friendly against Aston Villa on 11 December.

Dortmund

UEFA Champions League squad changes

In: Jamie Bynoe-Gittens*, Mahmoud Dahoud, Sébastien Haller, Julian Ryerson
Out: Thorgan Hazard, Abdoulaye Kamara

In January BVB signed Union Berlin's Ryerson on a deal until 2026, while Hazard moved to PSV Eindhoven on loan until the end of the season.

Edin Terzić's team lost their last two games in November before the FIFA World Cup break, but have won all ten matches in 2023.

On Friday they were 2-1 winners at home to Leipzig, equalling the club record of eight straight Bundesliga victories set in their title-winning campaign in 2011/12.

Dortmund had never before won their first nine games in a calendar year.

Marco Reus opened the scoring from the penalty spot against Leipzig, his 159th Dortmund goal taking him level with Michael Zorc as the club's all-time top scorer.

BVB have scored 24 goals in their last nine Bundesliga games, finding the net at least twice in eight of those, the exception a 1-0 win at Hoffenheim on 25 February.

Four days after the first leg win against Chelsea, BVB prevailed 4-1 at home to Hertha Berlin, Donyell Malen scoring his first league goal of the season.

The win against Hertha made Jude Bellingham the youngest player ever to reach 50 Bundesliga wins, aged 19 years 235 days.

Julian Brandt had scored in four successive league games before drawing a blank on Friday. He already has eight Bundesliga goals this season – one short of his career best.

On 8 February Dortmund reached the quarter-finals of the German Cup with a 2-1 win at Bundesliga rivals Bochum, Emre Can opening the scoring with his first goal of the season. He got the second goal on Friday, his first Bundesliga strike in 2022/23.

BVB will visit holders Leipzig in the last eight on 5 April.

Ryerson missed the Hoffenheim game because of an eye problem but played 90 minutes on Friday.

Karim Adeyemi, who scored the first-leg winner against Chelsea and the opener against Hertha, has not played since suffering a hamstring injury while setting up the second goal for Malen.

Youssoufa Moukoko, who had signed a new contract until 2026 on 21 January, has been out since 11 February with an ankle injury.

On 20 February Dortmund announced that Dahoud will leave the club at the end of the season.