PSV Eindhoven vs Shakhtar Donetsk facts

PSV Eindhoven take on Shakhtar Donetsk on UEFA Champions League Matchday 5 with a single point between the teams in the table.

PSV are on five points and are unbeaten in three games since losing 3-1 at Juventus on Matchday 1; they have since drawn 1-1 at home to Sporting CP and at Paris Saint-Germain before a 4-0 win against Girona in Eindhoven on Matchday 4.

Shakhtar also claimed their first win of this season's competition in their last fixture, beating Young Boys 2-1; they had drawn 0-0 at Bologna on Matchday 1 before defeats at home to Atalanta (0-3) and at Arsenal (0-1).

This is the first game between the sides.

Form guide

PSV

Record vs Ukrainian clubs: W5 D3 L6 F14 A17
Home record vs Ukrainian clubs: W2 D2 L3

PSV's last games against a team from Ukraine came in the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League group stage, when they won 2-0 at Chornomorets Odesa but lost 0-1 at home.

That defeat in Eindhoven made it three losses in PSV's last four games against Ukrainian clubs; the away win is their only success in five (D1 L3).

A 2-1 win against Dynamo Kyiv in the 2000/01 Champions League first group stage is PSV's only home victory in their last six games against Ukrainian teams (D2 L3).

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.

The victories against Lens last season and Girona this are PSV's only successes in 13 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.

Shakhtar

Record vs Dutch clubs: W2 D1 L5 F10 A20
Away record vs Dutch clubs: W1 D0 L3

Shakhtar's last four games with Dutch clubs have all come against Feyenoord, most recently in the 2022/23 Europa League round of 16, when a 1-1 home draw preceded a 7-1 away loss – the joint-heaviest margin of defeat in the competition.

The Pitmen's only victories against Eredivisie opposition came in their previous fixtures against Feyenoord, 2-1 away and 3-1 at home in the 2017/18 Champions League group stage.

That win in Rotterdam is the only one of Shakhtar's four games in Netherlands they have not lost, with 11 goals conceded in those three defeats.

The Ukrainian side are making an eighth successive appearance in the Champions League proper, and a 19th overall. They have featured in all but one of the last 15 seasons.

The Pitmen have failed to progress to the knockout rounds in each of the last six campaigns.

In 2023/24, Shakhtar were third in Group H, bowing out with a decisive 5-3 defeat at Porto on Matchday 6.

That sent them into the Europa League but Marseille proved too strong in their knockout round play-off, winning 3-1 in France after a 2-2 first-leg draw.

Shakhtar's most successful Champions League campaign came in 2010/11, when they reached the quarter-finals before losing 6-1 on aggregate to eventual champions Barcelona.

A 3-2 win at Antwerp on Matchday 2 last season is one of only two victories in Shakhtar's last 13 away games in the Champions League proper (D3 L8).

Victory at Antwerp is also one of only two in Shakhtar's last 14 European away matches – a sequence that includes ten defeats.

Under Marino Pušić, who was appointed in October, Shakhtar won their 15th Ukrainian Premier League in 2023/24 and also lifted the Ukrainian Cup for a record 14th time; it was their ninth domestic double.

Links and trivia

Pušić was head coach of Twente in 2018/19 and also worked as an assistant at the Dutch club in 2017/18 as well as NAC Breda, AZ Alkmaar and Feyenoord.

Lassina Traoré was an Ajax player between 2019 and 2021, scoring nine goals in 22 Eredivisie games.

Traoré's Ajax team-mates included Sergiño Dest and Noa Lang.

International team-mates:
Adamo Nagalo & Lassina Traoré (Burkina Faso)

Latest news

PSV

On Saturday Ricardo Pepi's hat-trick helped PSV to a 5-0 home win against Groningen.

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 2 November in a game they led twice.

That is one of just two Eredivisie defeats in PSV's last 63 matches (W53 D8), the other a 3-1 reverse at NEC Nijmegen on 30 March that was their only league loss in 2023/24.

The Eindhoven club have scored in their last 63 Eredivisie matches – a total of 198 goals – surpassing their own league record of 54 between October 2014 and March 2016.

PSV have won 18 of their last 20 league games.

Pepi scored in both games as the United States defeated Jamaica 1-0 away and 4-2 at home in the CONCACAF Nations League quarter-finals. He has six goals in four matches for club and country.

Ismael Saibari was on target in Morocco's 5-1 win in Gabon on 15 November and the 7-0 home win against Lesotho three days later in CAF Africa Cup of Nations qualifying.

Matteo Dams made his Belgium Under-21 debut by playing both legs of the UEFA European Championship play-off defeat by Czechia (0-2 h, 1-1 a) on 15 and 19 November.

Hirving Lozano was a late substitute on Saturday, his first appearance since suffering a muscle injury on 5 September.

Luuk de Jong missed the weekend win with a muscle problem.

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

Joey Veerman (out since 28 September, groin) and Adamo Nagalo (25 October, shoulder) have both been sidelined.

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

Shakhtar

Shakhtar were 6-0 winners at home to Inhulets Petrove on Saturday, making it five successive victories in all competitions.

The Pitmen have won nine of their 13 league games this season (D2 L2).

Shakhtar are six games unbeaten in all competitions, winning five – the exception a 1-1 draw against Dynamo Kyiv on 27 October.

Artem Bondarenko, who opened the scoring on Saturday, and Georgiy Sudakov are Shakhtar's joint-top scorers in all competitions this season with eight goals.

Bondarenko is the top scorer in the Ukrainian league with eight goals.

Yukhym Konoplia set up Ukraine's second goal in their 2-1 UEFA Nations League win in Albania on 19 November.