PSV Eindhoven vs Girona facts

PSV Eindhoven will look for their first win of the league phase of the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League at the fourth attempt as they welcome Girona, who claimed their debut victory in the competition last time out.

The Dutch champions went down 3-1 at Juventus in their opening fixture but have since drawn 1-1 both at home to Sporting CP and at Paris Saint-Germain. Girona conceded a 90th-minute own goal to lose 1-0 in Paris in their first-ever European match and were beaten 3-2 at home by PSV's Eredivisie rivals Feyenoord in their second, before a 2-0 win against Slovan Bratislava in Spain on Matchday 3.

This is the sides' first meeting, and only Girona's second game against Dutch opponents.

Form guide

PSV Eindhoven

Record vs Spanish clubs: W7 D14 L17 F40 A60
Home record vs Spanish clubs: W5 D9 L5

PSV were paired with Spanish opposition in last season's group stage, drawing 2-2 at home to Sevilla on Matchday 2 before a 3-2 away win on Matchday 5.

That made it three games unbeaten against Liga clubs (W2 D1) after seven defeats in their previous nine matches (W1 D1).

PSV won three of their first four home games against Spanish visitors, drawing the other, but have only two victories in the subsequent 15 (D8 L5) and one of the last nine (D4 L4).

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 before losing 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 12 Champions League home matches (D7 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.

Girona

The 2-3 home defeat against Feyenoord on Matchday 2 was Girona's first experience of Dutch opposition.

Girona are the 14th Spanish side to feature in the Champions League proper – one short of Germany's competition record.

Indeed, this is the first time Girona have taken part in UEFA competition. Leipzig, in 2017, are the only previous club to have made their European debut in the Champions League proper, an honour Girona have shared with Brest this season.

Girona are one of five clubs to be making their Champions League debuts in 2024/25, along with Aston Villa, Bologna, Brest and Slovan Bratislava.

Míchel guided Girona to third place in last season's La Liga table on 81 points, 14 behind champions Real Madrid and only four adrift of runners-up Barcelona. Atlético de Madrid were fourth, five points behind Girona.

That was also Los Blanquivermells' highest league placing in what was only their fourth season in the Spanish top flight; they had finished tenth in both 2017/18 and 2022/23 and 18th in 2018/19, when they were relegated.

Links and trivia

Have played in Spain:
Sergiño Dest (Barcelona 2020–22)
Luuk de Jong (Sevilla 2019–21, Barcelona 2021/22 loan)

Have played in Netherlands:
Daley Blind (Ajax 1998–2014, 2018–23, Groningen 2010 loan)
Donny van de Beek (Ajax 2008–20)
Arnaut Danjuma (PSV Eindhoven youth 2008–16, NEC Nijmegen 2016–18)

Blind, Van de Beek and Danjuma are all Netherlands internationals.

Blind's record against PSV is W8 D5 L8.

Peter Bosz was Van de Beek's coach at Ajax in 2016/17.

Paulo Gazzaniga was in the Tottenham side that beat PSV 2-1 in the 2018/19 Champions League group stage.

Latest news

PSV

PSV's ten-game winning start to the Eredivisie season, in which they scored 35 goals and conceded only six, was ended by a 3-2 loss at Ajax on Saturday in a game they led twice.

That was just PSV's second Eredivisie defeat in their last 61 matches (W51 D8), the other a 3-1 reverse at NEC Nijmegen on 30 March that was their only league loss in 2023/24.

A 6-0 victory against Zwolle in Eindhoven on 26 October meant that PSV had started the Eredivisie season with ten successive victories for the fourth time – after 1987/88, 2018/19 and 2023/24 – claiming outright the record they had shared with Ajax.

The Eindhoven club have scored in their last 61 Eredivisie matches – a total of 190 goals – surpassing their own league record of 54 between October 2014 and March 2016.*

PSV have won 16 of their last 18 league games.

Jerdy Schouten has been out since going off at half-time in a 2-1 win at AZ Alkmaar on 19 October with a muscle injury.

Joey Veerman (out since 28 September, groin) and Hirving Lozano (5 September, muscle) have both been sidelined.

Sergiño Dest has been out since suffering a knee injury in May.

Girona

Girona were 4-3 winners at home to Leganés on Saturday, their sixth victory in 16 games in 2024/25, losing seven.

Having won only two of their first ten games of the season, Girona have been victorious in four of the last six (L2).

A 4-0 victory at Extremadura in the Copa del Rey first round on 30 October was only Girona's second away win of the season (D2 L4).

Oriol Romeu came on as a substitute at the weekend having not played since suffering a thigh injury in a 1-1 draw at Celta Vigo on 29 September.

Alejandro Francés sat out the weekend win after going off with a hamstring injury in a 1-0 loss at Las Palmas on 26 October while Arnaut Danjuma was also absent having been replaced early at Extremadura with a similar problem.

Cristian Portu underwent surgery on his right ankle on 14 October and is expected to be out for a month.

Viktor Tsygankov has been out since coming off in the first half of the game against Feyenoord on 2 October with a hamstring injury.

Yaser Asprilla has not played since 10 October due to a sprained ankle while Jhon Solis (out since 17 October, muscle), Pau López (18 October, hand), Abel Ruiz (20 October, abductor) and Iván Martín (22 October, adductor) have all been sidelined.

Jastin García injured his shoulder on 31 July in a pre-season friendly against Toulouse and has not played since.