PSV Eindhoven vs Sporting CP facts

PSV Eindhoven will rely on their home form to kick-start their UEFA Champions League campaign as a Sporting CP side who won their opening fixture come to the Netherlands.

The Dutch champions were beaten 3-1 at Juventus on Matchday 1 while Sporting defeated LOSC Lille 2-0 in Lisbon.

Previous meetings

2019/20 UEFA Europa League group stage
PSV 3-2 Sporting
Sporting 4-0 PSV
PSV were victorious in Eindhoven on Matchday 1 thanks to strikes from Donyell Malen (19) and Timo Baumgartl (48) either side of a Sebastián Coates own goal (25) despite Bruno Fernandes (38pen) and Pedro Mendes (82) replying for Sporting.

However, the Lions sealed their place in the knockout stages, and confirmed PSV's elimination, with a Matchday 5 win in Lisbon, Fernandes scoring twice more (16, 64pen) and Luiz Phellype (9) and Jérémy Mathieu (43) also on target.

Form guide

PSV

Record vs Portuguese clubs: W4 D7 L6 F23 A27
Home record vs Portuguese clubs: W3 D4 L1

PSV last faced Portuguese opponents in the 2021/22 Champions League play-offs, losing 1-2 at Benfica in the away first leg and on aggregate.

That goalless second leg against Benfica made it three draws in PSV's last six games at home to Portuguese visitors (W2 L1).

This is PSV's 18th appearance in the Champions League proper – level with Ajax's Dutch record – and a second in succession.

The Eindhoven club returned to the group stage last season for the first time since 2018/19, finishing second behind Arsenal in Group B only to lose out to eventual finalists Borussia Dortmund in the round of 16 (1-1 h, 0-2 a).

That was PSV's first knockout appearance since 2015/16, and just the fifth time they had progressed beyond the initial Champions League group stage.

A 1-0 home victory against Lens on Matchday 4 last season ended PSV's 15-game run without a win (D6 L9) in the group stage, since a 2-1 defeat of CSKA Moskva on Matchday 6 in 2015/16.

Victory against Lens is also PSV's only success in 11 Champions League home matches (D6 L4) since that defeat of CSKA.

Having finished second in the Eredivisie for three successive seasons, in 2023/24 PSV claimed their first league title since 2017/18. Peter Bosz's side won 29 of their 34 league games, losing only one, their final tally of 91 points eclipsing Ajax's record of 89 set in 1997/98.

Sporting CP

Record vs Dutch clubs: W12 D3 L5 F42 A33
Away record vs Dutch clubs: W5 D1 L4

Sporting were beaten 1-5 at home and 2-4 away by Ajax in the 2021/22 Champions League group stage, making it three defeats by Eredivisie opponents in their last four games.

The Lions won ten of their first 11 games against Dutch clubs, home and away, but that 2019 win against PSV is one of only two in their subsequent nine matches (D3 L4).

Sporting won four of their first five away games against Dutch clubs (L1), but have one victory and three defeats in the last five.

The Lions are making their 11th appearance in the Champions League proper, and a third in four seasons.

The most recent came in 2022/23, when the Lions finished third in their section behind Tottenham and Eintracht Frankfurt.

Sporting have lost ten of their last 15 away matches in the Champions League; a 3-0 win at Frankfurt on Matchday 1 two seasons ago is one of only three in their last 17 away games in the competition proper (D3 L11).

Second in their Europa League section behind eventual champions Atalanta in 2023/24, Rúben Amorim's side beat Young Boys 4-2 on aggregate in the knockout round play-offs only to again lose out to Atalanta in the round of 16 (2-3 agg).

Sporting have lost just three of their last 12 away European games (W4 D5).

Sporting claimed their 20th league title – and a second in four years, having not lifted the crown between 2001/02 and 2020/21 – last season.

Links and trivia

Have played in Netherlands:
Jeremiah St. Juste (Heerenveen 2014–17, Feyenoord 2017–19)
Marcus Edwards (Excelsior 2018/19)

Have played together:
Sergiño Dest & Francisco Trincão (Barcelona 20/21)

Rick Karsdorp and St. Juste were briefly team-mates at Feyenoord in August 2019.

International team-mates:
Zeno Debast & Johan Bakayoko (Belgium)

Latest news

PSV 

PSV have won all seven Eredivisie games in 2024/25, scoring 25 goals and conceding only four. A Ricardo Pepi double earned a 2-0 win at Willem II on Saturday.

The Eindhoven club have scored in their last 57 Eredivisie matches – a total of 178 goals – surpassing their own league record of 54 between October 2014 and March 2016.

PSV have won 13 of their last 14 league games.

A 3-1 reverse at NEC Nijmegen on 30 March was PSV's only league loss in 2023/24 and their only Eredivisie defeat in their last 57 matches (W48 D8).

Hirving Lozano suffered a muscle injury during a 1-1 friendly draw against Genk on 5 September and has not played since while Richy Ledezma has missed the last two games.

Sergiño Dest has not played since suffering a knee injury in May.

Fredrik Oppegård has been out since a 7-1 win at Almere City on 24 August.

Sporting

Sporting have seven wins in seven league games this season, with 25 goals scored and only two conceded. They have kept clean sheets in the last five, winning 3-0 at Estoril on Friday.

Sporting have won their last ten league games and 18 of the last 19.

Ten of those goals have been scored by Viktor Gyökeres. Before drawing a blank on Friday the Swede had scored in nine successive games for club and country and has 14 goals and five assists in his 11 appearances in 2024/25.

Pedro Gonçalves has five goals and five assists in seven games this season.

Gonçalo Inácio returned as a substitute on Friday having not played since going off early on Matchday 1 with a sprained ankle while Pedro Gonçalves and Marcus Edwards (both muscle) have not played since the win against Lille.

Eduardo Quaresma also returned as a late substitute on Friday having missed the previous three games with a sprained ankle.

Jeremiah St. Juste sustained a thigh injury in pre-season.